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A blessing on our pastor's head

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #309 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: A blessing on our pastor's head, Lord God, we fervently implore; On him this day a blessing shed, For life, for death, for evermore. For all that Thou in him hast wrought, For all that Thou by him hast done, 329 Our warmest, purest thanks be brought, Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Thy Son. To Thee be give his flower of youth, To Thee his manhood's fruit he gave, The herald of life-giving truth, Dead souls from deathless death to save. Forsake him not in his old age, But while his Master's Cross he bears, Faith be his staff on pilgrimage, A crown of glory his grey hairs. With holier zeal his heart enlarge, Though strength decay, and sight grow dim, That we, the people of his charge, May glorify Thy grace in him. So, when his warfare here shall cease, By suffering perfected in love, His ransom'd soul shall join in peace The Church of the first-born above. Topics: Minister death of; Prayer for an aged minister Languages: English

A child, a youth, a man

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #217 (1854) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: A child, a youth, a man, The whole of life below! Our time a breath, our course a span; Whence come we? whither go? Whence come we?--From the womb Of dark eternity; And thither go we, through the tomb,-- Behold a mystery! 217 For though with worms and dust His mortal relics lie, Death may not hold or harm the just; The spirit cannot die. On angels' wings afar, 'Tis, by a path unknown, Beyond the range of sun or star, Caught up before the throne:-- At rest in Paradise, With Him in bliss to live, Who bought it with so great a price, Heaven could no higher give:-- Till at the trumpet's sound, When soul and body meet, They twain are one again, and found In Christ, a saint complete. By His good Spirit taught, While train'd on earth, may we Be thus by grace to glory brought, And immortality. Topics: Time, life, and man Languages: English

A Child is Born, the Birth Proclaim

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #33 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Lyrics: A child is born,--the birth proclaim, A son is given,--declare his name; Messiah, from the Fall foretold, The Deity in human mould; --That mould from which, God's image lost In Eden at so dire a cost, The new creation shall restore, And guilt efface its lines no more. Hail! to His rising from afar, He is the bright and morning star; His healing beams, ye nations, bless, He is the Sun of Righteousness To save His people from their sins, Jesus His suffering life begins; Ere long as Christ our sacrifice, The Holy and the Just One dies. Again His glorious name record, As David's Son and David's Lord; He mounts the mediatorial throne, To claim earth's kingdoms for his own: Him every eye again shall see Descend in power and majesty, His ransom'd in the clouds to meet, And put all foes beneath his feet. Topics: Christ Birth of; Messiah manifested; Millennial anticipations Languages: English

A child of man, a child of God

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #32 (1854) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: A child of man, a child of God, How wide their states must be! Beneath His sceptre or His rod, His wrath or clemency. 32 Children of Adam, Adam's fall From primal innocence, Brought guilt and judgment on us all, Entail'd through one offence. Train'd in His image from our birth, We sinn'd, ourselves, and fell, Like him, from heirs of heaven on earth, To heirs of death and hell. Transgressors while we thus remain, In our own blood we lie; We must be born, be born again, Or die, for ever die. A child of man, a child of God, How can such union be? A worm created from a clod, Allied to Deity! Lo! love divine, for man undone, Devised the wondrous plan, The Son of God, God's only Son, Became the Son of man. Our path of life and death He trod, That we like Him might be, Though sons of men, the sons of God, Through His humanity. All glory to the Father's love, Who spared not His Son, Aud sent His Spirit from above, To seal what Christ had done. Topics: Sin, its universality Languages: English

A children's temple here we build

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #313 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: A children's temple here we build, And consecrate it, Lord, to Thee; In hope, that with Thy presence fill'd, These humble walls henceforth may be. When Christ, Thy Holy Child, was born, He had not where to lay His head; Though King of kings, He did not scorn The meanness of a manger-bed. He, who the throne of glory shares, Came down, that we, through sovereign love, Might be God's children, and God's heirs, Joint-heirs with Him in bliss above. And is He not to-day the same, And deigns He not to visit there, Where two or three, in His great Name, Are met for worship, praise, and prayer? Ah! yes, where simple souls are taught To know and do His Father's will, Or infants to His arms are brought, He welcomes all, and blesses still. Come, Holy Ghost! while we draw nigh, Such life and power to us afford, That each may "Abba, Father!" cry, And young and old call Jesus, Lord. Topics: Erection of a Sunday School; School, erection of Languages: English

A grain of corn an infant's hand

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #258 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: A grain of corn an infant's hand May plant upon an inch of land, Whence twenty stalks may spring, and yield Enough to stock a little field. The harvest of that field might then Be multiplied to ten times ten, Which sown thrice more, would furnish bread Wherewith an army might be fed. 262 A penny is a little thing Which even the poor man's child may fling Into the treasury of heaven, And make it worth as much as seven. As seven! nay, worth its weight in gold, And that increased a million fold; For lo! a penny tract, if well Applied, may save a soul from hell. That soul can scarce be saved alone,-- It must, it will, its bliss make known; "Come," it will cry, "and you shall see What great things God hath done for me." Hundreds that joyful sound may hear Hear with the heart as well as ear; And these to thousands more proclaim, Salvation in the "Only Name." That "Only Name," above, below, Let Jews, and Turks, and Pagans know; Till every tongue and tribe shall call On "Jesus Christ" as Lord of all! The day of small things God will not Despise, the least are unforgot; An orphan's offering, widow's mite, Are precious in their Maker's sight. Children! who now hosannas raise, Out of whose mouths He perfects praise, 263 Spare from the little you possess, What God will own, accept and bless. Till through the east, the south, the west, Gifts from the north will be so blest, That, in the end, earth's countless throngs Shall sing with us this song of songs:-- "Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain, Power, riches, honour to obtain, Who loved and wash'd us in His blood, And made us kings and priests to God." Topics: Field of the world; Juvenile Missionary Meeting Languages: English

A hundred years ago, not one

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #216 (1854) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: A hundred years ago, not one Of us had sprung to birth; A hundred years to come, and none Can hope to walk this earth. We are, we were not! here our mind Looks round with hopes and fears; This point is Time; before, behind, Eternity appears. 216 'Tis yet, through grace, within our power, To choose what we would be; On the decision of an hour, Depends eternity. This hour! this moment, let us take The narrow upward path; This hour, this moment, all forsake The broad down road to wrath. O Lord, our Shepherd! lest like sheep, Thy children go astray, Feed us with knowledge, guide and keep Our souls in Thy right way. So, when a hundred years are fled, Remembering this day's choice, On earth, though number'd with the dead, In heaven, may we rejoice. Topics: Past and present present, future Languages: English

A race on earth, a race we run

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #147 (1854) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: A race on earth, a race we run, And bold a prize in view, More bright than if we chased the sun Through heaven's eternal blue. 151 Changes we prove, and vanish soon,-- Changes from youth to age,-- Transient as those that shape the moon On her brief pilgrimage. Like constellations on their way, That meet the morning light, We travel up to higher day, We pass through deeper night. Their tasks the heavenly hosts fulfil, Ere long to shine their last; We, if we do our Father's will, Shall shine when they are past. Knit like the social stars in love, Fair as the moon, and clear As yonder sun, enthroned above, Christians through life appear, Topics: Change and progression; Nature and grace progressive; Pilgrimage of life Languages: English

A sure and tried foundation stone

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #296 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: A sure and tried foundation stone, Lord God, in Zion Thou hast laid; Grounded and fix'd on Christ alone, Thy Church shall flourish undismay'd. In vain the gates of hell assail, Impregnable is her defence; The rock of ages cannot fail, Nor winds, nor floods, remove her thence. 316 We build an earthly temple here; Behold the work with favouring eye, And when our hands the top-stone rear, "Grace, grace unto it," be the cry. Then, by the Spirit of Thy might, Come with the Gospel's joyful sound, And here reveal'd in Thine own light, Be Thou by all who seek Thee found. Lord! we have loved Thy dwelling-place, Thy Mercy-seat with men below, Here then, to all who seek Thy face, From age to age Thy goodness show. Topics: Laying foundation stone of a place of worship Languages: English

A world of sinners once was drowned

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #20 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: A world of sinners once was drown'd, A deluge swept them all away; One family alone had found Mercy in that great Judgment Day. Forewarn'd of wrath to come, they fear'd, And, taught by God, prepared an ark, Which o'er the waves in sunshine steer'd, Where all below was dead and dark. Again the Spirit of the Lord Moved on the formless deep and void, And to the Patriarchs sight restored The relics of that world destroyed: A world without a breathing soul, Or sign of life in plant or tree; Stretch'd like a corpse from pole to pole, Untravell'd land, unvoyaged sea! Then from their hiding place they came, And straightway built an altar there; Whence rose to heaven the double flame Of pure burnt sacrifice and prayer. We, in an ark not made with hands, God's own new covenant of peace, Which on the rock of ages stands, Seek refuge till his anger cease. Then, as the cloud-born rainbow smiled On Noah's ransom'd ones, we trace Our heavenly Father reconciled In our incarnate Saviour's face. Topics: Ark of safety; Deluge, escape from Languages: English