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An Evening Prayer

Author: C. Maud Battersby; Charles H. Gabriel Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 100 hymnals Scripture: James 1:17-27 First Line: If I have wounded any soul today Topics: Service Music Departing and Vesper Hymns Used With Tune: EVENING PRAYER

Be with Me, Lord, Where'er I Go

Author: John Cennick Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 99 hymnals Scripture: James 1:5 Lyrics: 1 Be with me, Lord, where'er I go; teach me what you would have me do; suggest whate'er I think or say; direct me in the narrow way. 2 Restrain me lest I harbor pride, lest I in my own strength confide; though I am weak, show me anew I have my pow'r, my strength from you. 3 Enrich me always with your love; my kind protector ever prove; Lord, put your seal upon my heart, that I from you may not depart. 4 O may I never do my will, but yours, and only yours, fulfill; let all my time and all my ways be spend and ended to your praise. Topics: Trust and Guidance; Christ--Abiding with believers; Christ--Guidance; Earthly concerns Used With Tune: HUS

Great God! let all our tuneful powers

Author: Heginbotham Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 98 hymnals Scripture: James 1:17 Lyrics: 1 Great God! let all our tuneful powers Awake, and sing thy mighty name; Thy hand rolls on our circling hours,-- The hand from which our being came. 2 Seasons and moons revolving round In beauteous order speak thy praise; And years, with smiling mercy crowned, To thee successive honors raise. 3 Each changing season on our souls Its sweetest, kindest influence sheds; And every period, as it rolls, Showers countless blessings on our heads. 4 Our lives, our health, our friends, we owe All to thy vast, unbounded love; Ten thousand precious gifts below, And hope of nobler joys above. Topics: The Seasons; The God of the Seasons

And now, O Father, mindful of the love

Author: William Bright (1824-1901) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 96 hymnals Scripture: James 1:12 Lyrics: 1 And now, O Father, mindful of the love that bought us, once for all, on Calvary's tree, and having with us him that pleads above, we here present, we here spread forth to thee that only offering perfect in thine eyes, the one true, pure, immortal sacrifice. 2 Look, Father, look on his anointed face, and only look on us as found in him; look not on our misusings of thy grace, our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim: for lo, between our sins and their reward we set the Passion of thy Son our Lord. 3 And then for those, our dearest and our best, by this prevailing presence we appeal: O fold them closer to thy mercy's breast, O do thine utmost for their souls' true weal; from tainting mischief keep them white and clear, and crown thy gifts with strength to persevere. 4 And so we come: O draw us to thy feet, most patient Saviour, who canst love us still; and by this food, so aweful and so sweet, deliver us from every touch of ill: in thine own service make us glad and free, and grant us never more to part with thee. Topics: Atonement; Church year Passiontide; Church Year Good Friday; Discipleship; Family and Friends; Holy Communion; Penitence; Proper 20 Year C; Proper 8 Year A; Sin; The Third Sunday before Advent Year B Used With Tune: UNDE ET MEMORES

As the Sun Doth Daily Rise

Author: J. Masters; Horatio Nelson Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 93 hymnals Scripture: James 1:1-7 Topics: Service Music Call to Worship Used With Tune: INNOCENTS

He Wills That I Should Holy Be

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 92 hymnals Scripture: James 1:1-7 Lyrics: 1 He wills that I should holy be, that holiness I long to feel; that full divine conformity to all my Savior's righteous will. 2 See, Lord, the travail of Thy soul accomplished in the change of mine; and plunge me, ev'ry whit made whole, in all the depths of love divine. 3 On Thee, O God, my soul is stayed, and waits to prove Thine utmost will; the promise by Thy mercy made, Thou canst, Thou wilt, in me fulfill. 4 No more I stagger at Thy pow'r, or doubt Thy truth, which cannot move; hasten the long expected hour, and bless me with Thy perfect love. Topics: The Holy Spirit Holiness and Sactification; Sanctifying Grace Used With Tune: HAMBURG

Not Alone for Mighty Empire

Author: William Pierson Merrill Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 90 hymnals Scripture: James 1:22-27 Lyrics: 1 Not alone for mighty empire Stretching far beyond our view, Not alone for bounteous harvests, Lift we up our hearts to you. Standing in the living present, Memory and hope between, Lord, we would with deep thanksgiving Praise you most for things unseen. 2 Not for battleship and fortress, Not for conquests of the sword, But for conquests of the spirit Give we thanks to you, O Lord; For the priceless gift of freedom, For the home, the church, the school, For the open door to manhood In a land the people rule. 3 For the armies of the faithful, Souls that passed and left no name; For the glory that illumines Patriot lives of deathless fame; For our prophets and apostles, Loyal to the living Word, For all heroes of the spirit, Give we thanks to you, O Lord. 4 God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed, From the strife of class and faction: Make our nation free indeed. Keep her faith in simple manhood Strong as when her life began, Till it find its full fruition In the brotherhood of man. Amen. Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Thanksgiving Day; Other Observances World Peace Used With Tune: GENEVA

From thee all skill and science flow

Author: Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 90 hymnals Scripture: James 1:17 Lyrics: 1 From thee all skill and science flow, all pity, care, and love, all calm and courage, faith and hope: O pour them from above. 2 Impart them, Lord, to each and all, as each and all shall need, to rise, like incense, each to thee, in noble thought and deed. 3 And hasten, Lord, that perfect day when pain and death shall cease, and thy just rule shall fill the earth with health and light and peace. Topics: Healing; Third Sunday Before Lent Year B; Proper 11 Year B Used With Tune: BELGRAVE

Fountain of good, to own Thy love

Author: Philip Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 84 hymnals Scripture: James 1:27 Topics: The Church Almsgiving and Beneficence Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES

For the fruits of his creation

Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 74 hymnals Scripture: James 1:17 Topics: Christ's Lordship The Earth and Harvest Used With Tune: EAST ACKLAM