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God of our fathers, Who didst guide
Author: G. A. Warburton Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: National Lyrics: 1 God of our fathers, Who didst guide
O'er pathless seas and oceans wide,
To these fair shores, thy servants' way,
To Thee our debts of praise we pay.
2 In the perils of the land and sea,
Our fathers were upheld by Thee;
And every passing year has brought
Its tokens of Thy loving thought.
3 Thou knowest how with faith sublime,
They fought for freedom in their time;
Their courage fed by heavenly flame,
Their talisman Thy holy name.
4 Great God, our fathers' God, defend
Our land from all her foes, and send
On us, Thy servants, streams of grace,
And guide our feet in paths of peace.
God of our fathers, Who didst guide
Religious Toleration ought to be defended by Our Rulers
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 50 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions Public and National Blessings and Afflictions First Line: Absurd and vain attempt! to bind Lyrics: 1 Absurd and vain attempt! to bind
With iron chains the free-born mind,
To force conviction, and reclaim
The wand'ring by destructive flame.
2 Bold arrogance! to snatch from heaven
Dominion not to mortals given;
O'er conscience to usurp the throne,
Accountable to God alone.
3 Jesus! thy gentle law of love
Does no such cruelties approve;
Mild as thy self, thy doctrine wields
No arms but what persuasion yields.
4 By proofs divine, and reason strong,
It draws the willing soul along;
And conquests to thy church acquires
By eloquence which heaven inspires.
5 O happy, who are thus compell'd
To the rich feast, by Jesus held!
May we this blessing know, and prize
The light which liberty supplies.
Religious Toleration ought to be defended by Our Rulers
God, the nation's guardian
Author: William Roscoe Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: National Hymn First Line: Great God! beneath whose piercing eye Scripture: Psalm 78:5-6
God, the nation's guardian
Lord, on this sadly-solemn day
Author: S. W. Widney Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: The Christian Nation Fast-Day Lyrics: 1 Lord, on this sadly-solemn day,
We bow our souls--we fast and pray;
Before our eyes our sins appear,
And give us sorrow, shame, and fear.
2 Our private sins of heart and thought,
Our words and deeds with errors fraught,
Obnoxious to thy holiness,
We mourn before thee, and confess.
3 The demon with the poisonous bowl
That kills the body--damns the soul--
O'er bleeding bosoms stalks along,
With maniac laugh and drunken song.
4 In vain they fast, they pray in vain,
Who lift the hands that forget the chain
To bind the body or the soul
A slave to man or to the bowl.
5 Forgive us, Lord; regard us now,
While here we pledge our solemn vow,
To shun the vile oppressor's ways,
And labor fallen man to raise.
Lord, on this sadly-solemn day
From hands that would our land deflower
Author: Louis F. Benson Meter: 8.8.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: National Used With Tune: ELLIOTT Text Sources: Bishop Heber, 1827 (suggested by)
From hands that would our land deflower
Ye Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice
Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Nations Lyrics: 1 Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice;
'Tis comely that with joyful voice
God's saints His Name should praise.
With harp and hymn of gladness sing,
Your gift of sweetest music bring,
To Him a new song raise.
2 For upright is Jehovah's word,
And all the doings of the Lord
In justice have their birth.
In judgment and in deeds of right
The Lord forever takes delight,
With goodness fills the earth.
3 Jehovah speaks, the heavens appear;
He breathes, and, lo, each shining sphere
In splendor stands arrayed.
He rolls the waters heap on heap,
He stores away the mighty deep
In garners for it made.
4 Let all the earth Jehovah fear,
Let all that dwell both far and near
In awe before Him stand;
For lo, He spake and it was done,
And all, with sovereign power begun,
Stood fast at His command.
5 He makes the nations’ counsels vain,
The plans the peoples would maintain
Are thwarted by His hand.
Jehovah’s counsel stands secure,
His purposes of heart endure,
Forevermore they stand.
6 O truly is the nation blest
Whose God, before the world confessed,
Jehovah is alone;
And blest the people is whom He
Has made His heritage to be,
And chosen for His own. Scripture: Psalm 33 Used With Tune: FRANCES
Ye Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice
Psalm 126
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: National deliverance First Line: When God restored our captive state Lyrics:
When God restored our captive state,
Joy was our song, and grace our theme;
The grace beyond our hopes so great
That joy appeared a painted dream.
The scoffer owns thy hand, and pays
Unwilling honors to thy name;
While we with pleasure shout thy praise,
With cheerful notes thy love proclaim.
When we review our dismal fears,
'Twas hard to think they'd vanish so;
With God we left our flowing tears,
He makes our joys like rivers flow.
The man that in his furrowed field
His scattered seed with sadness leaves,
Will shout to see the harvest yield
A welcome load of joyful sheaves.
Scripture: Psalm 126
Psalm 126
God of grace and God of glory
Author: H. E. Fosdick (1878-1969) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 159 hymnals Topics: God's World Nations, Justice, and Peace Used With Tune: UNSER HERRSCHER
God of grace and God of glory
O Lord of Hosts, Who didst upraise
Author: A. C. Benson, 1862- Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: National War; National War; Peace Among Nations Lyrics: 1 O Lord of Hosts, Who didst upraise
Strong captains to defend the right,
In darker years and sterner days,
And armedst Israel for the fight:
Thou madest Joshua true and strong,
And David framed the battle-song.
2 And must we battle yet? Must we,
Who bear the tender name Divine,
Still barter life for victory
Still glory in the crimson sign?
The Crucified between us stands,
And lifts on high His wounded hands.
3 Lord, we are weak and wilful yet,
The fault is in our clouded eyes;
But Thou, through anguish and regret,
Dost make Thy faithless children wise;
Through wrong, through hate, Thou dost approve
The far-off victories of love.
4 And so from out the heart of strife,
Diviner echoes peal and thrill;
The scorned delights, the lavished life,
The pain that serves a nation's will;
Thy comfort stills the mourner's cries,
And love is crowned by sacrifice.
5 As rains that weep the clouds away,
As winds that leave a calm in heaven,
So let the slayer cease to slay;
The passion healed, the wrath forgiven,
Draw nearer, bid the tumult cease,
Redeemer, Saviour, Prince of Peace! Used With Tune: BENSON
O Lord of Hosts, Who didst upraise
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