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King of the city splendid
Author: G. T. Coster, 1835- Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: City Prayer for the; Prayer For the City ; City Prayer for the; Prayer For the City Lyrics: 1 King of the city splendid,
Eternal in the height,
May all our country's cities
Be holy in Thy sight:
Cleansed from the deeds of darkness
Cities of light.
2 Inspire the sons of labour,
That honest toil may be
Their token, in life's hardness,
Of loyalty to Thee.
That Thou mayst in their hand-work
Love's heart-work see.
3 Teach love to gladden children
Who know not childhood's mirth,
Wronged of their rights no beauty
In their scant reach of earth:
To hope's large sunshine give them
A second birth.
4 Lord, end the spell of passion,
Break Thou the drunkard's lure:
Thou art the one Physician
The human heart to cure;
The wavering will to strengthen,
Foul life make pure.
5 Soon may our country's cities
Thy robe of glory wear:
Each place of toil a temple,
Each house a home of prayer:
Each city's name of beauty
The Lord is There! Used With Tune: CITY OF LIGHT
King of the city splendid
Let all the world in every corner sing
Author: George Herbert, 1593 - 1633 Appears in 177 hymnals Topics: City, Nation, World Lyrics: 1 Let all the world in every corner sing,
'My God and King!'
The heavens are not too high,
His praise may thither fly;
The earth is not too low,
His praises there may grow.
Let all the world in every corner sing,
'My God and King!'
2 Let all the world in every corner sing,
'My God and King!'
The Church with psalms must shout;
No door can keep them out;
But, above all, the heart
Must bear the longest part.
Let all the world in every corner sing,
'My God and King!'
Used With Tune: UNDIQUE GLORIA
Let all the world in every corner sing
I Wanna Be Ready
Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: City of God First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Lyrics: Refrain:
I wanna be ready,
I wanna be ready.
I wanna be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 John said the city was just four-square,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
and he declared he'd meet me there.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
2 I've never been to heaven but I've been told
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
that the streets up there are paved with gold.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
3 If you get there before I do,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
tell all my friends I'm comin' too.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
Scripture: Revelation 21:16-18 Used With Tune: BE READY Text Sources: Negro Spiritual
I Wanna Be Ready
In the Heartbeat of the City
Author: Christopher M. Idle Meter: 8.8.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: City Scripture: Isaiah 62 Used With Tune: OLD YEAVERING
In the Heartbeat of the City
O Day of Peace That Dimly Shines
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: New Heaven and a New Earth The Completion of Creation (The City of God) Lyrics: 1 O day of peace that dimly shines
through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,
guide us to justice, truth, and love,
delivered from our selfish schemes.
May swords of hate fall from our hands,
our hearts from envy find release,
till by God's grace our warring world
shall see Christ's promised reign of peace.
2 Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb,
nor shall the fierce devour the small;
as beasts and cattle calmly graze,
a little child shall lead them all.
Then enemies shall learn to love,
all creatures find their true accord;
the hope of peace shall be fulfilled,
for all the earth shall know the Lord. Scripture: Isaiah 11:6-7 Used With Tune: JERUSALEM
O Day of Peace That Dimly Shines
I Want to Be Ready
Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: New Heaven and a New Earth The Completion of Creation (The City of God) First Line: O John, O John, what did you say Lyrics: Refrain:
I want to be ready,
I want to be ready,
I want to be ready
to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 O John, O John, what did you say?
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
That you'd be there on judgment day.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
(Refrain)
2 John said the city was just foursquare.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
And he declared he'd meet me there.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John.
(Refrain)
3 Now sinners, mind how you step on the cross.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
Your foot might slip and your soul get lost.
Walk in Jerusalem just like John!
(Refrain)
Used With Tune: I WANT TO BE READY Text Sources: Afro-American spiritual
I Want to Be Ready
O God, You Gave Your Servant John
Author: Joy F. Patterson Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Completion of Creation and City of God; City/City of God Lyrics: 1 O Lord, you gave your servant John
a vision of the world to come:
a radiant city filled with light,
where you with us will make your home;
where neither grief nor pain shall dwell,
since former things have passed away,
and where they need no sun nor moon;
your glory lights eternal day.
2 Our cities wear great shrouds of pain;
beneath our gleaming towers of wealth
the homeless crouch in rain and snow,
the poor cry out for strength and health.
Youth’s hope is dimmed by ignorance;
unwilling, workers idled stand;
indifference walks unheeding by
as hunger stretches out its hand.
3 Come, Lord, make real John’s vision fair;
come, dwell with us, make all things new;
we try in vain to save our world
unless our help shall come from you.
Come, strengthen us to live in love;
bid hatred, greed, injustice cease.
Your glory all the light we need,
let all our cities shine forth peace. Used With Tune: CANDLER
O God, You Gave Your Servant John
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
Author: Catherine Cameron Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: City Lyrics: 1 God, who stretched the spangled heavens
Infinite in time and place,
Flung the suns in burning radiance
Through the silent fields of space;
We, your children in your likeness,
Share inventive powers with you;
Great Creator, still creating,
Show us what we yet may do.
2 We have ventured worlds undreamed of
Since the childhood of our race;
Known the ecstasy of winging
Through untraveled realms of space;
Probed the secrets of the atom,
Yielding unimagined power,
Facing us with life’s destruction
Or our most triumphant hour.
3 Proudly rise our modern cities,
Stately buildings, row on row;
Yet their windows, blank, unfeeling,
Stare on canyoned streets below,
Where the lonely drift unnoticed
In the city’s ebb and flow,
Lost to purpose and to meaning,
Scarcely caring where they go.
4 As each far horizon beckons,
May it challenge us anew;
Children of creative purpose,
Serving others, honoring you.
May our dreams prove rich with promise;
Each endeavor well begun;
Great Creator, give us guidance
Till our goals and yours are one. Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
When the Church of Jesus
Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: City First Line: When the church of Jesus Lyrics: 1 When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door
lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
may our prayers, Lord, make us even more aware
that the world we banish is our Christian care.
2 If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
high above this hungry suff'ring world of ours:
lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.
3 Lest the gifts we offer— money, talents, time—
serve to salve our conscience to our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
teach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live. Scripture: Micah 6:6-8 Used With Tune: BJORKLUND MAJOR
When the Church of Jesus
You Are Salt for the Earth, O People
Author: Marty Haugen Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: City of God Refrain First Line: Bring forth the reign of mercy Scripture: Matthew 5:13-15 Used With Tune: BRING FORTH
You Are Salt for the Earth, O People
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