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O God, Beneath Your Guiding Hand

Author: Leonard Bacon Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 289 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 O God, beneath your guiding hand Our exiled fathers crossed the sea; And echoed o'er the wintry strand, Their psalms and prayers in worship free. 2 You heard, well-pleased, the song, the prayer: Your blessing came, and still its power Shall onward through all ages bear The memory of that holy hour. 3 Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God Came with those exiles o'er the waves, And where their pilgrim feet have trod, The God they trusted guards their graves. 4 And here your name, O God of love, Their children's children shall adore, Till these eternal hills remove, And spring adorns the earth no more. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 8 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

How Firm a Foundation

Author: "K" Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,256 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Memorial Day First Line: How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 2 "Fear not, I am with you, O be not dismayed, For I am your God, and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 3 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; For I will be near you, your troubles to bless, And sanctify to you your deepest distress. 4 "The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no, never, no, never forsake." Amen. Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-7 Used With Tune: FOUNDATION Text Sources: Rippon's A Selection of Hymns, 1787; alt.

God of Grace and God of Glory

Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 164 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Labor Day Lyrics: 1 God of grace and God of glory, On your people pour your power; Crown the ancient church's story; Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour. 2 Lo! the hosts of evil round us Scorn the Christ, assail his ways! From the fears that long have bound us Free our hearts to faith and praise. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, For the living of these days, For the living of these days. 3 Cure your children's warring madness, Bend our pride to your control; Shame our wanton, selfish gladness, Rich in things and poor in soul. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, Lest we miss the Kingdom's goal, Lest we miss the Kingdom's goal. 4 Save us from weak resignation To the evils we deplore; Let the search for your salvation Be our glory evermore. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, Serving God whom we adore, Serving God whom we adore. Amen. Scripture: Acts 2:17-18 Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Author: Frederic H. Hedge; Martin Luther Meter: Irregular Appears in 705 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day Lyrics: 1 A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe Does seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, And, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal. 2 Did we in our own strength confide, Our striving would be losing, Were not the right Man on our side, The Man of God's own choosing. You ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is he, The Lord of Hosts his name, From age to age the same, And he must win the battle. 3 And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God has willed His truth to triumph through us; The prince of darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, For lo! his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him. 4 That word above all earthly powers, No thanks to them, is standing; The Spirit and the gifts are ours— We answer his commanding. Let goods and kindred go, This mortal life also; The body they may kill: God's truth is ruling still— His kingdom is forever! Amen. Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: EIN' FESTE BURG

Praise to God, Immortal Praise

Author: Anna L. Barbauld Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 614 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days; Bounteous source of every joy, Let your praise our tongues employ. 2 Flocks that whiten all the plain, Yellow sheaves of ripened grain, Clouds that drop their fattening dews, Suns that temperate warmth diffuse: 3 All that spring with bounteous hand Scatters o'er the smiling land! All that liberal autumn pours From her rich o'erflowing stores— 4 These to you, O God, we owe, Source whence all our blessings flow; And for these our souls shall raise Grateful vows and solemn praise. Amen. Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3 Used With Tune: ORIENTIS PARTIBUS

Sing to the Lord of Harvest

Author: John S. B. Monsell Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 125 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord of harvest, Sing songs of love and praise; With joyful hearts and voices Your alleluias raise. By him the rolling seasons In fruitful order move; Sing to the Lord of harvest A joyous song of love. 2 By him the clouds drop fatness, The deserts bloom and spring, The hills leap up in gladness, The valleys laugh and sing. He blesses from his fullness All things with large increase; He crowns the year with goodness, With plenty and with peace. 3 Bring to his sacred altar The gifts his goodness gave, The golden sheaves of harvest, The souls he died to save. Your hearts lay down before him, When at his feet you fall, And with your lives adore him Who gave his life for all. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 1 Used With Tune: WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN

What Makes a City Great and Strong?

Author: Donald D. Kettring; Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Labor Day Scripture: Micah 6:8 Used With Tune: LEICESTER

The Man Who Once Has Found Abode

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day Lyrics: 1 The man who once has found abode, Within the secret place of God Shall with almighty God abide And in his shadow safely hide. 2 I of the Lord my God will say, "He is my refuge and my stay; To him for safety I will flee, My God, in him my trust shall be. 3 His outspread pinions shall you hide; Beneath his wings shall you abide; His faithfulness assured and true Shall be a shield protecting you. 4 No nightly terrors shall alarm; No deadly shaft by day shall harm, Nor pestilence that walks by night, Nor plagues that waste in noonday light. 6 Because your trust is God alone, Your dwelling place the Highest One, No evil shall upon you come, Nor plague approach your guarded home. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 91 Used With Tune: TALLIS' CANON Text Sources: Para. in The Book of Psalms, 1871; alt., 1972

All Who Love and Serve Your City

Author: Erik Routley Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Labor Day Used With Tune: CHARLESTOWN

Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round

Author: John W. Chadwick Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day Lyrics: 1 Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round Of circling planets singing on their way, Guide of the nations from the night profound Into the glory of the perfect day, Rule in our hearts, that we may ever be Guided and strengthened and upheld by thee. 2 We are of thee, the children of thy love, The brothers of thy well-beloved Son; Descend, O Holy Spirit, like a dove Into our hearts, that we may be as one: As one with thee, to whom we ever tend; As one with him our brother and our friend. 3 We would be one in hatred of all wrong, One in our love of all things sweet and fair, One with the joy that breaketh into song, One with the grief that trembleth into prayer, One in the power that makes thy children free To follow truth, and thus to follow thee. 4 O clothe us with thy heavenly armor, Lord, Thy trusty shield, thy sword of love divine; Our inspiration be thy constant word; We ask no victories that are not thine; Give or withhold, let pain or pleasure be, Enough to know that we are serving thee. Amen. Scripture: Isaiah 40:10-11 Used With Tune: SONG 1