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The Banner of the Cross

Author: Daniel Webster Whittle Appears in 172 hymnals First Line: There's a royal banner given for display Refrain First Line: Marching on, marching on Lyrics: 1. There’s a royal banner given for display To the soldiers of the King; As an ensign fair we lift it up today, While as ransomed ones we sing. Refrain Marching on, marching on, For Christ count everything but loss! And to crown Him King, we’ll toil and sing, ’Neath the banner of the cross! 2. Though the foe may rage and gather as the flood, Let the standard be displayed; And beneath its folds, as soldiers of the Lord, For the truth be not dismayed! [Refrain] 3. Over land and sea, wherever man may dwell, Make the glorious tidings known; Of the crimson banner now the story tell, While the Lord shall claim His own! [Refrain] 4. When the glory dawns—’tis drawing very near, It is hastening day by day— Then before our King the foe shall disappear, And the cross the world shall sway! [Refrain] Used With Tune: [There's a royal banner given for display] Text Sources: The Gospel Choir, by Ira Sankey & James McGranahan (New York: Biglow & Main, 1885)

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Author: Julia Howe Appears in 605 hymnals First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Lyrics: 1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. 2. I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on. 3. I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel, Since God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on. 4. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet; Our God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on. 5. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free; [originally …let us die to make men free] While God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on. 6. He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave; So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave, Our God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on. Used With Tune: JOHN BROWN'S BODY Text Sources: See Notes

Blest Are the Undefiled in Heart

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 83 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest are the undefiled in heart, Whose ways are right and clean; Who never from Thy law depart, But fly from every sin. 2. Blest are the men that keep Thy Word, And practice Thy commands; With their whole heart they seek the Lord, And serve thee with their hands. 3. Great is their peace who love Thy law; How firm their souls abide! Nor can a bold temptation draw Their steady feet aside. 4. Then shall my heart have inward joy, And keep my face from shame, When all Thy statutes I obey, And honor all Thy name. 5. But haughty sinners God will hate, The proud shall die accursed; The sons of falsehood and deceit Are trodden to the dust. 6. Vile as the dross the wicked are; And those that leave Thy ways Shall see salvation from afar, But never taste Thy grace. Used With Tune: DOWNS Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Author: John Fawcett Appears in 2,473 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. 2. Before our Father’s throne We pour our ardent prayers; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one Our comforts and our cares. 3. We share each other’s woes, Our mutual burdens bear; And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear. 4. When we asunder part, It gives us inward pain; But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again. 5. This glorious hope revives Our courage by the way; While each in expectation lives, And longs to see the day. 6. From sorrow, toil and pain, And sin, we shall be free, And perfect love and friendship reign Through all eternity. Used With Tune: DENNIS Text Sources: Hymns Adapted to the Circumstance of Public Worship (Leeds, England: 1782)

The Beautiful Garden of Prayer

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Appears in 113 hymnals First Line: There's a garden where Jesus is waiting Refrain First Line: Oh, the beautiful garden, the garden of prayer! Lyrics: 1. There’s a garden where Jesus is waiting, There’s a place that is wondrously fair, For it glows with the light of His presence. ’Tis the beautiful garden of prayer. Refrain Oh, the beautiful garden, the garden of prayer! Oh, the beautiful garden of prayer! There my Savior awaits, and He opens the gates To the beautiful garden of prayer. 2. There’s a garden where Jesus is waiting, And I go with my burden and care, Just to learn from His lips words of comfort In the beautiful garden of prayer. [Refrain] 3. There’s a garden where Jesus is waiting, And He bids you to come, meet Him there; Just to bow and receive a new blessing In the beautiful garden of prayer. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [There's a garden where Jesus is waiting] Text Sources: Hymns for Today (Fillmore Brothers, 1920)

Beyond the Glittering, Starry Skies

Author: James Fanch Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 100 hymnals First Line: Beyond the glittering starry skies Lyrics: 1. Beyond the glittering starry skies, Far as th’eternal hills, There, in those boundless worlds of light, Our great Redeemer dwells. 2. Legions of angels strong and fair, In countless armies shine, At His right hand with golden harps, To offer songs divine. 3. Hail, Prince! they cry, for ever hail! Whose unexampled love Moved Thee to quit those glorious realms, And royalties above. 4. While He did condescend on earth To suffer rude disdain, They cast their honors at His feet, And waited in His train. 5. Through all His travels here below They did His steps attend! Oft gazed and wondered where at last This scene of love would end. 6. They saw His heart transfixed with wounds, His crimson sweat and gore, They saw Him break the bars of death, Which none e’er brake before. 7. They brought His chariot from above, To bear Him to His throne, Clapped their triumphant wings and cried, The glorious work is done! Used With Tune: WARWICK Text Sources: Gospel Magazine, June 1776

Broad Is the Road

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 481 hymnals First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death Lyrics: 1. Broad is the road that leads to death, And thousands walk together there; But wisdom shows a narrower path, With here and there a traveler. 2. Deny thyself, and take thy cross, Is the Redeemer’s great command; Nature must count her gold but dross, If she would gain this heav’nly land. 3. The fearful soul that tires and faints, And walks the ways of God no more, Is but esteemed almost a saint, And makes his own destruction sure. 4. Lord, let not all my hopes be vain Create my heart entirely new; Which hypocrites could ne’er attain, Which false apostates never knew. Used With Tune: WINDHAM Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 158

Blest Are the Pure in Heart

Author: John Keble Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 414 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest are the pure in heart, For they shall see our God; The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ’s abode. 2. The Lord, who left the heavens Our life and peace to bring, To dwell in lowliness with men Their Pattern and their King. 3. Still to the lowly soul He doth Himself impart; And for His cradle and His throne Chooseth the pure in heart. 4. Lord, we Thy presence seek; May ours this blessing be; Give us a pure and lowly heart, A temple meet for Thee. Used With Tune: FRANCONIA (König) Text Sources: stanzas 2 & 4, Mitre Hymn Book, 1836, alt.

Blessèd Are the Sons of God

Author: Joseph Humphreys Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 206 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blessèd are the sons of God, They are bought with Christ’s own blood; They are ransomed from the grave, Life eternal they shall have: With them numbered may we be, Here and in eternity. 2. They are justified by grace, They enjoy the Savior’s peace; All their sins are washed away, They shall stand in God’s great day; With them numbered may we be, Here and in eternity. 3. They are lights upon the earth, Children of a heavenly birth; One with God, with Jesus one; Glory is in them begun: With them numbered may we be, Here and in eternity. Used With Tune: ROSEFIELD Text Sources: Sacred Hymns for the Use of Religious Societies, by John Cennick (Bristol, England: 1743), part 2

Blest Be the Dear Uniting Love

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 280 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blest be the dear uniting love, That will not let us part! Our bodies may far off remove, We still are one in heart. 2. Joined in one spirit to our Head, Where He appoints we go; And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread, And show His praise below. 3. O may we ever walk in Him, And nothing know beside; Nothing desire, nothing esteem, But Jesus crucified. 4. Closer and closer let us cleave To His beloved embrace; Expect His fullness to receive And grace to answer grace. 5. While thus we walk with Christ in light Who shall our souls disjoin, Souls, which Himself vouchsafes t’unite In fellowship divine! 6. We all are one who Him receive, The same in mind and heart, Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place, Nor life, nor death can part. 7. Partakers of the Savior’s grace, The same in mind and heart, Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place, Nor life, nor death can part. 8. But let us hasten to the day Which shall our flesh restore, When death shall all be done away, And bodies part no more! Used With Tune: EVAN Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol, England: 1742)