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In the Bulb There Is a Flower

Author: Natalie A. Sleeth, 1930-1992 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Eternal Life; Future; Hope; Memorial; Transformation Lyrics: 1 In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. 2 There’s a song in every silence, seeking word and melody; there’s a dawn in every darkness, bringing hope to you and me. From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. 3 In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; in our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity; In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. Scripture: Ezekiel 37:3-5 Used With Tune: PROMISE

Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise

Author: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 225 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise; sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise: he who on the cross a victim for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits of the holy harvest field, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield; then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine, from the furrows of the grave. 3 Christ is risen, we are risen; shed upon us heavenly grace, rain, and dew, and gleams of glory from the brightness of thy face; that we, with our hearts in heaven, here on earth may fruitful be, and by angel-hands be gathered, and be ever, Lord, with thee. 4 Alleluia! Alleluia! Glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the Saviour, who has gained the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity; Alleluia! Alleluia! to the Triune Majesty. Scripture: John 15:1-8 Used With Tune: LUX EOI

Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, thee

Author: St Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274); James Russell Woodford (1820-1885) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, thee who in thy sacrament art pleased to be; both flesh and spirit in thy presence fail, yet here thy presence we devoutly hail. 2 O blest memorial of our dying Lord, who living bread to us doth here afford; O may our souls for ever feed on thee, and thou, O Christ, for ever precious be. 3 Fountain of goodness, Jesu, Lord and God, cleanse us, unclean, with thy most cleansing blood; increase our faith and love, that we may know the hope and peace which from thy presence flow. 4 O Christ, whom now beneath a veil we see, may what we thirst for soon our portion be: to gaze on thee unveiled, and see thy face, the vision of thy glory and thy grace. Scripture: Zechariah 13:1 Used With Tune: ADORA TE DEVOTE

My hope rests firm on Jesus Christ

Author: Richard Creighton (b. 1975) Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Future hope Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Used With Tune: [My hope rests firm on Jesus Christ]

Christ be the Lord of all our days

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Christ be the Lord of all our days, the swiftly passing years: Lord of our unremembered birth, heirs to the brightness of the earth; Lord of our griefs and fears. 2 Christ be the source of all our deeds, the life our living shares; the fount which flows from worlds above to never-failing springs of love; the ground of all our prayers. 3 Christ be the goal of all our hopes, the end to whom we come; guide of each pilgrim Christian soul which seeks, as compass seeks the pole, our many-mansioned home. 4 Christ be the vision of our lives, of all we think and are; to shine upon our spirits' sight as light of everlasting light, the bright and morning star. Scripture: John 14:6 Used With Tune: CLOTH FAIR

We praise you, Father, for your gift

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Future hope Scripture: Psalm 3:5 Used With Tune: GONFALON ROYAL Text Sources: Community of St Mary's Abbey, West Malling

It is stage by stage to the golden age

Author: Walter Hawkins, 1857- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Children Hope of the future First Line: The future belongs to the children Lyrics: 1 The future belongs to the children, Though much to the past we owe, Though much may be done in the present; We stay when the old people go. The vision God gave to our fathers Is coming to us in our turn; And at the first gleam of its splendor Our hearts are beginning to burn. Refrain: It is stage by stage to the golden age, To the golden age, It is stage by stage to the golden age, Far off we seem to view it; But the good we crave wilt come to the brave Who see God's will and do it. 2 Around us are wrongs and misdoings, And struggle, and suff'ring, and woe; The helpless are needing a champion, The tempted are pressed by the foe; And children are foully neglected, They even are thrust into sin; And the knights of the good Lord Jesus Have many a battle to win. [Refrain] 3 The promise belongs to the children, Saith One who is faithful and true A promise of welfare and blessing, Which God to the young doth renew: Its glimmer is cleaving the darkness; We know that the day is begun; And cloudland is tinged with the glory That tells of the might of the sun. [Refrain] Used With Tune: GOLDEN AGE

Loving Shepherd of thy sheep

Author: Jane Elizabeth Leeson (1809-1881) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 87 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Loving Shepherd of thy sheep, keep thy lamb, in safety keep; nothing can thy power withstand, none can pluck me from thy hand. 2 Loving Saviour, thou didst give thine own life that we might live, and the hands outstretched to bless bear the cruel nails' impress. 3 I would praise thee every day, gladly all thy will obey, like thy blessèd ones above happy in thy precious love. 4 Loving Shepherd, ever near, teach thy lamb thy voice to hear; suffer not my steps to stray from the straight and narrow way. 5 Where thou leadest I would go, walking in thy steps below, till before my Father's throne I shall know as I am known. Scripture: Psalm 23:1-3 Used With Tune: BUCKLAND

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face

Author: Horatius N. Bonar (1808-1889) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 336 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2 Here would I feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would I lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood; here is my robe, my refuge, and my peace — thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord, my God. 4 I have no help but thine; nor do I need another arm save thine to lean upon; it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; my strength is in thy might, thy might alone. 5 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear; the feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but thou art here, nearer than ever, still our shield and sun. 6 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Used With Tune: MAGDA

To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise

Author: William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise in hymns of adoration, to thee bring sacrifice of praise with shouts of exultation: bright robes of gold the fields adorn, the hills with joy are ringing, the valleys stand so thick with corn that even they are singing. 2 And now, on this our festal day, thy bounteous hand confessing, upon thine altar, Lord, we lay the first-fruits of thy blessing: by thee the hungry soul is fed with gifts of grace supernal; thou who dost give us earthly bread, give us the bread eternal. 3 We bear the burden of the day, and often toil seems dreary; but labour ends with sunset ray, and rest comes for the weary: may we, the angel-reaping o'er, stand at the last accepted, Christ's golden sheaves for evermore to garners bright elected. 4 O blessèd is that land of God, where saints abide for ever; where golden fields spread far and broad, where flows the crystal river: the strains of all its holy throng with ours today are blending; thrice blessèd is that harvest-song which never hath an ending. Scripture: Exodus 23:15-16 Used With Tune: GOLDEN SHEAVES