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The Nearer I Draw to Jesus

Author: Theodore D. C. Miller Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Christian Life and Experience Lyrics: 1 The nearer I draw to Jesus, The brighter the sunbeams shine; The darker the clouds of sorrow, The sooner comes light divine. The pathway most lone and dreary Is often the safest way; Far over the roughest mountains The fairest of valleys lay. 2 The closer I cling to Jesus, The stronger in love I grow; When eyes have grown dim with weeping, The happiest hours I known; When shadows are round my pathway And sorrow doth most abound, I know at the feet of Jesus The bright side is always found. 3 The closer I read my Bible, And learn of a Saviour’s love, The brighter the bow of promise, The brighter the clouds above; More easy the cross I carry, More charming the narrow way That leads o’er the sunless mountains, Where valleys of blessings lay. 4 The nearer I draw to Jesus, The purer my earth-life seems, And up in the sky of beauty The sunshine of glory beams. In pleasure, in pain and sorrow, I’ll cling to the Christ so dear, For when at the feet of Jesus, The bright side is always near. Used With Tune: [The nearer I draw to Jesus]

Jesus, my Truth, my Way

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 159 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Experience Lyrics: 1 JESUS, my Truth, my Way, My sure unerring Light, On Thee my feeble soul I stay, Which Thou wilt lead aright. 2 My Wisdom and my Guide, My Counselor Thou art; O let me never leave Thy side, Nor from Thy paths depart. 3 Thou seest my feebleness; Jesus, be Thou my Power, My Help and Refuge in distress, My Fortress and my Tower. 4 Give me to trust in Thee; Be Thou my sure Abode: My Horn, and Rock, and Buckler be, My Saviour and my God. 5 Myself I cannot save, Myself I cannot keep; But strength in Thee I surely have, Whose eyelids never sleep. 6 My soul to Thee alone Now, therefore, I commend: Thou, Jesus, having loved Thine own, Wilt love me to the end!

What various hindrances we meet

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 534 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy-seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, But wishes to be often there? 2 Prayer makes the darken'd cloud withdraw, Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, Brings ev'ry blessing from above. 3 Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer makes the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

The Lord, who truly knows

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 The Lord, who truly knows The heart of ev'ry saint, Invites us by His holy word To pray and never faint. 2 He bows His gracious ear; We never plead in vain; Yet we must wait till He appear, And pray, and pray again. 3 Though unbelief suggest, Why should we longer wait? He bids us never give Him rest, But be importunate. 4 'Twas thus a widow poor, Without support or friend, Beset the unjust judge's door, And gain'd at last her end. 5 And shall not Jesus hear His children when they cry? Yes, though He may awhile forbear, He'll not their suit deny. 6 Then let us earnest be, And never faint in prayer; He loves our importunity, And makes our cause His care.

We journey through a vale of tears

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 51 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 We journey through a vale of tears, By many a cloud o’ercast; And worldly cares, and worldly fears, Go with us to the last. 2 Not to the last! Thy Word hath said, Could we but read aright-- Poor pilgrim, lift in hope thy head; At eve there shall be light! 3 Only believe, in living faith, His love and power divine; And ere thy sun shall set in death, His light shall round thee shine. 4 When tempest-clouds are dark on high, His bow of love and peace Shines sweetly in the vaulted sky,-- A pledge that storms shall cease. 5 Hold on thy way, with hope unchill'd, By faith and not by sight, And thou shalt own His Word fulfill'd,-- At eve it shall be light.

With tears of anguish I lament

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 147 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 With tears of anguish I lament, Here at Thy feet, my God, My passion, pride, and discontent, And vile ingratitude. 2 Sure there was ne'er a heart so base, So false as mine has been: So faithless to its promises, So prone to every sin! 3 How long, dear Saviour, shall I feel These strugglings in my breast? When wilt Thou bow my stubborn will, And give my conscience rest? 4 Break, sov'reign Grace, oh, break the charm, And set the captive free: Reveal, Almighty God, Thine arm, And haste to rescue me.

Thou Lord of all above

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 Thou Lord of all above, And all below the sky, Before Thy feet I prostrate fall, And for Thy mercy cry. 2 Forgive my follies past, The crimes which I have done; Oh, bid a contrite sinner live, Through Thine incarnate Son. 3 Guilt, like a heavy load, Upon my conscience lies; To Thee I make my sorrows known, And lift my weeping eyes. 4 The burden which I feel, Thou only canst remove; Display, O Lord, Thy pard'ning grace, And Thine unbounded love. 5 One gracious look of Thine Will ease my troubled breast; Oh, let me know my sins forgiven, And I shall then be blest.

Let saints below in concert sing

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 178 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 Let saints on earth in concert sing With those to glory gone: For all the servants of our King, In earth, and heaven, are one. 2 One family--we dwell in Him-- One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream-- The narrow stream of death; 3 One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part of his host have cross'd the flood, And part are crossing now. 4 E'en now to their eternal home Some happy spirits fly; And we are to the margin come, And soon expect to die. 5 E'en now, by faith, we join our hands With those that went before, And greet the ransom'd blessed bands Upon th'eternal shore. 6 Lord Jesus! be our constant guide; And when the word is given, Bid death's cold flood its waves divide, And land us safe in heaven.

God of my life, to Thee I call!

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 173 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 God of my life, to Thee I call! Afflicted at Thy feet I fall; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave not my trembling heart to fail. 2 Friend of the friendless and the faint! Where should I lodge my deep complaint? Where but with Thee, whose open door Invites the helpless and the poor! 3 Did ever mourner plead with Thee, And Thou refuse that mourner’s plea? Does not Thy word still fix'd remain, That none shall seek Thy face in vain! 4 Poor thou I am--despised, forgot, Yet God, my God, forgets me not; And he is safe, and must succeed, For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.

There is an hour when I must part

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Christians their life and experience Lyrics: 1 There is an hour when I must part From all I hold most dear; And life, with its best hopes, will then As nothingness appear. 2 There is an hour when I must sink Beneath the stroke of death; And yield to Him who gave it first, My struggling vital breath. 3 There is an hour when I must stand Before the judgment-seat; And all my sins, and all my foes, In awful vision meet. 4 There is an hour when I must look On one Eternity; And nameless woe, or blissful life, My endless portion be. 5 O Saviour, then in all my need Be near, be near to me! And let my soul, by steadfast faith, Find life and heaven in Thee.