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Messiah, Joy of Every Heart

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 19 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Messiah, joy of every heart, Thou, thou the King of Glory art! The Father’s everlasting Son! Thee it delights Thy Church to own; For all our hopes on Thee depend, Whose glorious mercies never end. 2. Bent to redeem a sinful race, Thou, Lord, with unexampled grace, Into our lower world didst come, And stoop to a poor virgin’s womb; Whom all the heavens could not contain, Our God appeared a child of man! 3. When Thou hadst rendered up Thy breath, And dying drawn the sting of death, Thou didst from earth triumphant rise, And ope the portals of the skies, That all who trust in Thee alone Might follow, and partake Thy throne. 4. Seated at God’s right hand again, Thou dost in all His glory reign, Thou dost, Thy Father’s image, shine, In all the attributes divine; And Thou with judgment clad shalt come To seal our everlasting doom. 5. Wherefore we now for mercy pray; O Savior, take our sins away! Before Thou as our judge appear, In dreadful majesty severe, Appear our advocate with God, And save the purchase of Thy blood. 6. Hallow, and make Thy servants meet, And with Thy saints in glory seat; Sustain and bless us by Thy sway, And keep to that tremendous day, When all Thy church shall chant above, The new eternal song of love. Used With Tune: ADORO TE Text Sources: Hymns for Those That Seek and Those That Have Redemption, 1746

Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire

Author: C. A. von Bogatzky Appears in 38 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire The watchmen of the Church’s youth, Who faced the foe’s envenomed ire, Who witnessed day and night Thy truth, Whose voices loud are ringing still, And bringing hosts to know Thy will. 2 Lord, let our earnest prayers be heard, The prayer Thy Son hath bid us pray, For lo, Thy children’s hearts are stirred In every land in this our day, To cry with fervent soul to Thee, O help us, Lord! so let it be! 3 O haste to help, ere we are lost! Send preachers forth, in spirit strong, Armed with Thy Word, a dauntless host, Bold to attack the rule of wrong; Let them the earth for Thee reclaim, Thy heritage, to know Thy Name. 4 Would there were help within our walls! O let Thy Spirit come again, Before whom every barrier falls, And now once more shine forth as then! O rend the heavens and make us free! Come, Lord, and bring us back to Thee! 5 And let Thy Word have speedy course, Through every land be glorified, Till all the heathen know its force, And fill Thy churches far and wide; Wake Israel from her sleep, O Lord, And spread the conquests of Thy Word! 6 The Church's desert paths restore; Let stumbling-blocks that in them lie Hinder Thy Word henceforth no more: Error destroy, and heresy, And let Thy Church, from hirelings free, Bloom as a garden fair to Thee! Topics: The Church Missions; The Church Missions; Church of Christ; Missions Used With Tune: [Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire]

Through midnight gloom from Macedon

Author: Rev. S. J. Stone Appears in 31 hymnals Used With Tune: BARNBY

I want the spirit of power within

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 69 hymnals Used With Tune: TRISTITIA

Ye That Delight To Serve The Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 45 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ye that delight to serve the Lord, The honors of His name record, His sacred name for ever bless; Where’er the circling sun displays His rising beams, or setting rays, Let lands and seas His power confess. 2 Not time, nor nature’s narrow rounds, Can give His vast dominion bounds, The heav’ns are far below His height: Let no created greatness dare With our eternal God compare, Armed with His uncreated might. 3 He bows His glorious head to view What the bright hosts of angels do, And bends His care to mortal things; His sovereign hand exalts the poor, He takes the needy from the door, And makes them company for kings. 4 When childless families despair, He sends the blessing of an heir, To rescue their expiring name; The mother, with a thankful voice, Proclaims His praises and her joys: Let every age advance His fame. Used With Tune: ADORO TE Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Thus Speaks the Lord to Wicked Men

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thus speaks the Lord to wicked men: My statues why do ye declare? Why take My covenant in mouth, Since ye for wisdom do not care? For ye My holy words profane And cast them from you in disdain. 2 Ye have consented with the thief, Ye have partaken with the vile, Your mouths to evil words ye give, Your tongues proclaim deceit and guile, Ye glory in your brother's shame, Your mother's son do ye defame. 3 Thus have ye done; I silence kept, And this has been your secret thought, That I was wholly as yourselves, To take your evil deeds as nought; I will reprove you and array Your deeds before your eyes this day. 4 Consider this, who God forget, Lest I destroy with none to free; Who offers sacrifice of thanks, He glorifies and honors Me; To him who orders well his way Salvation free I will display. Topics: Evil Character; God of Christ as Judge; Judgment; Warning Scripture: Psalm 50 Used With Tune: ELLERTON

The Mystery of Man

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O solemn thought! O solemn thought! The trumpet sound: I ought Used With Tune: [O solemn thought! O solemn thought! The trumpet sound: I ought]

The Agony

Author: George Herbert, 1593-1632 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Vain man has measured land and sea Lyrics: 1. Vain man has measured land and sea, Fathomed the depths of states and kings, O’er earth and heav’n explored his way: Yet there are two vast spacious things, To measure which doth more behove, Yet few that sound them—sin and love. 2. Who would know sin, let him repair To Calvary: there shall he see A man so pained, that all his hair, His skin, His garments bloody be! Sin is that rack, which forces pain To hunt its food through every vein. 3. Wouldst thou know love? behold the God, The Man, who for thy ransom died: Go taste the sacred fount that flowed Fast-streaming from His wounded side! Love is that liquor most divine, God feels as blood, but I as wine. Used With Tune: ADORO TE Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, by Charles Wesley, 1739, page 27

Great Ruler of the land and sea

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions Sailors and Travellers Used With Tune: ST. CHRYSOSTOM