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My Father! cheering name!

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #428 (1828) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 My Father! cheering name! O may I call thee mine! Give me with humble hope to claim A portion so divine. 2 This can my fears control, And bid my sorrows fly: What real harm can reach my soul Beneath my Father's eye? 3 Whate'er thy will denies, I calmly would resign: For thou art just, and good, and wise: O bend my will to thine! 4 Whate'er thy will ordains, O give me strength to bear; Still let me know, a Father reigns, And trust a Father's care. 4 If anguish rend this frame, And life almost depart: Is not thy mercy still the same, To cheer my drooping heart? 6 Thy ways are little known To my weak erring sight; Yet shall my soul, believing, own, That all thy ways are right. 7 My Father! blissful name! Beyond expression dear: If thou admit my humble claim, I bid adieu to fear.

Sovereign Ruler of the skies

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #429 (1828) Meter: Irregular Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Sovereign Ruler of the skies, Ever gracious, ever wise! All my times are in thy hand, All events at thy command. 2 Thou didst form me in the womb, Thou wilt guide me to the tomb; All my times shall ever be Order'd by thy wise decree: 3 Times of sickness, times of health; Times of penury and wealth; Times of trial and of grief; Times of triumph and relief: 4 Times temptation's power to prove, Times to taste a Saviour's love; All is fix'd--the means and end, As shall please my heavenly Friend. 5 Plagues and deaths around me fly; Till he bids I cannot die; Not a single shaft can hit, Till the God of love sees fit.

Wherefore should man, frail child of clay

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #430 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Wherefore should man, frail child of clay Who, from the cradle to the shroud, Lives but the insect of a day,-- O why should mortal man be proud? 2 His brightest visions just appear, Then vanish, and no ore are found: The stateliest pile his pride can rear, A breath may level with the ground. 3 By doubts perplex'd, in error lost, With trembling step he seeks his way: How vain of wisdom's gift the boast! Of reason's lamp how faint the ray! 4 Follies and crimes, a countless sum, Are crowded in life's little span: How ill, alas, does pride become That erring, guilty creature, man! 5 God of my life! Father divine! Give me a meek and lowly mind; In modest worth O let me shine, And peace in humble virtue find.

Let Pharisees of high esteem

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #431 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Let Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare: All their religion is a dream, If love be wanting there. 2 Love suffers long with patient eye, Nor is provok'd in haste; She lets the present inj'ry die, And long forgets the past. 3 Malice and rage, those fires of hell, She quenches with her tongue; Hopes and believes and thinks no ill, Tho' she endure the wrong. 4 She ne're desires nor seeks to know The scandals of the time; Nor looks with pride on those below, Nor envies those that climb. 5 She lays her own advantage by, To seek her neighbour's good; So God's own Son came down to die, And save us by his blood. 6 Love is the grace that keeps her pow'r In all the realms above; There faith and hope are known no more, But saints for ever love. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13

I Love to Tell the Story

Author: A. Catherine Hankey, 1834-1911 Hymnal: Great Hymns of the Faith #431 (1968) Topics: The Christian Experience Songs of Service Refrain First Line: I love to tell the story! Languages: English Tune Title: [I love to tell the story]

How blest the sacred tie, that binds

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #433 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 How blest the sacred tie, that binds In union sweet, according minds! How swift the heav’nly course they run, Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one! 2 To each the soul of each how dear! What watchful love, what holy fear! How doth the gen'rous flame within Refine from earth, and cleanse from sin! 3 Their streaming eyes together flow, For human guilt and mortal wo; Their ardent pray’rs together rise Like mingling flames in sacrifice. 4 Together both they seek the place, Where God reveals his awful face; How high, how strong, their raptures swell, There's none but kindred souls can tell. 5 Nor shall the glowing flame expire ‘Midst nature’s drooping sick’ning fire: Soon shall they meet in realms above, A heav'n of joy, because of love.

Lo, what a pleasing sight

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #434 (1828) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Lo, what a pleasing sight Are brethren that agree! How blest are all, whose hearts unite In bonds of piety! 2 From those celestial springs, Such streams of comfort flow, As no increase of riches brings, Nor honours can bestow. 3 All in their stations move, And each performs his part, In all the cares of life and love; With sympathizing heart. 4 Form'd for the purest joys, By one desire possest, One aim the zeal of all employs, To make each other blest. 5 No bliss can equal theirs, Where such affections meet; While praise devout, and mingled pray'rs Make their communion sweet. 6 'Tis the same pleasure fills The breast in worlds above; Where joy like morning-dew distils, And all the air is love.

Dear Lord, my best desires fulfil

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #435 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Dear Lord, my best desires fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to thy will; And make thy pleasure mine. 2 Why should I shrink at thy command Whose love forbids my fears? Or tremble at the gracious hand That wipes away my tears? 3 No--let me rather freely yield What most I prize to thee, Who never hast a good withheld, Or wilt withhold, from me. 4 Thy favour, all my journey through, Thou art engag'd to grant; What else I want, or think I do, 'Tis better still to want. 5 Wisdom and mercy guide my way: Shall I resist them both? A poor blind creature of a day, And crush'd before the moth? 6 But ah! my inward spirit cries, Still bind me to thy sway; Else the next cloud that veils my skies Drives all these thoughts away. Scripture: Hebrews 12:7

Lord, Speak to Me

Author: Frances R. Havergal, 1836-1879 Hymnal: Great Hymns of the Faith #435 (1968) Topics: The Christian Experience Songs of Service First Line: Lord, speak to me, that I may speak Languages: English Tune Title: CANONBURY

Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #436 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Christian experience Sanctification and christian graces Lyrics: 1 Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, And nobler speech than angels use; If love be absent, I am found, Like tinkling brass, an empty sound. 2 Were I inspir'd to preach and tell All that is done in heav'n and hell, Or could my faith the world remove, Still I am nothing without love. 3 Should I distribute all my store, To feed the bowels of the poor; Or give my body to the flame, To gain a martyr's glorious name: 4 If love to God, and love to men Be absent, all my hopes are vain; Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal The work of love can e'er fulfil.