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Wisdom Calls

Author: Carol Bechtel Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: At the crossroads of decision Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-33 Topics: Church Year Christmas; Church Year Easter/Season of Easter; Covenant Faithfulness; Cry to God; God Trust in; God Ways Of; God's Wisdom Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart

Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne, 1880-1931; Eleanor Henrietta Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: Irregular Appears in 159 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:5-7 Topics: Commitment; Confirmation Service; Ordination; Protection; Saints Days and Holy Days St Matthew; Sovereignty of God; The way; Vision Used With Tune: SLANE (1) Text Sources: Gaelic, c. 8th cent.

Bring many names, beautiful and good

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 9.10.11.9 Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:5-7 Lyrics: 1 Bring many names, beautiful and good, celebrate, in parable and story, holiness in glory, living, loving God. Hail and hosanna! bring many names! 2 Strong mother God, working night and day, planning all the wonders of creation, setting each equation genius at play: Hail and hosanna, strong mother God! 3 Warm father God, hugging every child, feeling all the strains of human living, caring and forgiving till we're reconciled: Hail and hosanna, warm father God! 4 Old, aching God, gray with endless care, calmly piercing evil's new disguises, glad of good surprises, wiser than despair: Hail and hosanna, old, aching God! 5 Young, growing God, eager, on the move, saying no to falsehood and unkindness, crying out for justice, giving all you have: Hail and hosanna, young, growing God! 6 Great, living God, never fully known, joyful darkness far beyond our seeing, closer yet than breathing, everlasting home: Hail and hosanna, great, living God! Topics: Celebration of Faith; Consolation; Eternity of God; Joy; Mystery of God's Love; Name/s of God; Providence; Renewal; Suffering Used With Tune: WESTCHASE

Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:7 Topics: Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Transfiguration; Gift of the Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ Life; The Triune God; Wisdom Used With Tune: MADELEINE

Procrastination

Author: Thomas Hastings Appears in 361 hymnals First Line: Delay not, delay not; O sinner, draw near Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Lyrics: 1 Delay not, delay not; O sinner, draw near, The waters of life are now flowing for thee; No price is demanded; the Saviour is here; Redemption is purchased, salvation is free. 2 Delay not, delay not, the Spirit of grace, Long grieved and resisted, may take his sad flight, And leave thee in darkness to finish thy race, To sin in the gloom of eternity's night. 3 Delay not, delay not; the hour is at hand; The earth shall dissolve, and the heavens shall fade, The dead, small and great, in the judgment shall stand, What helper, then, sinner, shall lend thee his aid? Topics: Access to God; Advent of Christ To Judgment; Christ Judge; Delay Used With Tune: EXPOSTULATION

Depth of mercy! can there be

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 811 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Topics: The Christian Life Faith, Penitence and Confession Used With Tune: WEBER

Oh a Song Must Rise (A Song Must Rise)

Author: Paul B. Svenson Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: From the mountains to the valleys Scripture: Proverbs 1-31 Refrain First Line: Oh a song must rise Topics: Response; Christian Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit; Interfaith; Justice; Service Music Gathering; Service Music Offering Used With Tune: [From the mountains to the valleys]

God Is Calling

Author: J. Borthwick; T. S. C. Appears in 422 hymnals First Line: God calling yet! will you not hear? Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Lyrics: 1 God calling yet! will you not hear? Earth's pleasures will you still hold dear, While precious moments sweetly fly, Still your poor soul in slumber lies. Chorus: God is calling, Heed His voice God is calling Come today make Him your choice. 2 God calling yet! will you arise? Can you His loving voice despise, Come do not wait another day, He calls you still will you delay. [Chorus] 3 God calling yet! and shall you give, No heed, but still in bondage live? Waters of life come now partake, He calls you will your heart awake? [Chorus] 4 God calling yet! how can you stay? Yield now your heart without delay; Say now vain world from you I part, I'm yielding now to Him my heart. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [God calling yet! will you not hear?]

Hark, it is the wisdom's voice

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-26 Topics: Domestic circumstances; The Christian life Power of; The Voice of Wisdom

Hear, O Hear the Saviour Calling!

Author: Charles P. Jones Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading? Scripture: Proverbs 1:24-26 Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! What abundant grace Lyrics: 1 Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading? Calling to the burden'd sinner, "Come to Me," I have died for you, and now I'm interceding, Interceding that you may be wholly free? Refrain: Hallelujah! What abundant grace, God bestows upon a sinful race, Full forgiveness and the Spirit's pow'r, Sanctifying us forever more. 2 Hear, O hear the Saviour calling, gently calling, Calling to the sinner gone so far astray; From His lips the kindest accents sweetly falling, Plead to wayward sinners to accept life's way. [Refrain] 3 Hear, O hear the Saviour calling, sweetly calling, Calling to believers to be pure and strong; He has grace sufficient and will keep from falling, Filling us with peace and glory all day long. [Refrain] Hear, hear Him call. Topics: Invitation Used With Tune: [Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading]