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When I survey the wondrous cross

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2,078 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Church year Passiontide; Church Year Good Friday; Devotion; God Love of; Good Friday; Passiontide; Self-offering; The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A Lyrics: 1 When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast save in the cross of Christ my God; all the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down; did e'er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown! 4 His dying crimson, like a robe, spreads o'er his body on the tree: then am I dead to all the globe, and all the globe is dead to me. 5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-30 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM

All good gifts around us

Author: Matthias Claudius (1740-1815); Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817-1878) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 472 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Creation; Food and Hunger; God Love of; Gratitude; Harvest; Harvest Thanksgiving; Providence; Seasons; Self-offering; Thanksgiving; The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Rogationtide First Line: We plough the fields, and scatter Lyrics: 1 We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land, but it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand: he sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain, the breezes, and the sunshine, and soft, refreshing rain. Refrain: All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above; then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love. 2 He only is the maker of all things near and far; he paints the wayside flower, he lights the evening star; the winds and waves obey him, by him the birds are fed; much more to us, his children, he gives our daily bread. [Refrain] 3 We thank thee then, O Father, for all things bright and good, the seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food. Accept the gifts we offer for all thy love imparts, and, what thou most desirest, our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:13-14 Used With Tune: WIR PFLÜGEN

Let us, with a gladsome mind

Author: John Milton, the elder (c. 1563-1647) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 563 hymnals Topics: Creation and the Environment; Children and All-Age Worship; Creation; God faithfulness of in creation; God in grace and mercy; Praise; Providence Lyrics: 1 Let us, with a gladsome mind, praise the Lord, for he is kind: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 2 Let us blaze his name abroad, for of gods he is the God: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 3 He with all-commanding might filled the new-made world with light: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 4 He the golden-tressèd sun caused all day his course to run: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 5 And the hornèd moon at night 'mid her spangled sisters bright: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 6 All things living he doth feed, his full hand supplies their need: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. 7 Let us, with a gladsome mind, praise the Lord, for he is kind: For his mercies ay endure, ever faithful, ever sure. Scripture: Psalm 136 Used With Tune: MONKLAND

Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy

Author: Joyce Placzek, (Jan Struther) (1901-1953) Meter: 10.11.11.11 Appears in 80 hymnals Topics: Morning; Evening; Children and All-Age Worship; God Presence of; Other Saints and Festivals Joseph of Nazareth; Work Scripture: Mark 6:2-3 Used With Tune: SLANE

Love divine, all loves excelling

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,932 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Children and All-Age Worship; God Love of; Heaven; Jesus coming again; Jesus compassion; Proper 22 Year B; Proper 9 Year C; Sanctification; The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B; The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany Year C; The Third Sunday before Advent Year A; The Third Sunday before Lent Year C Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. 2 Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. 3 Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy grace receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. 4 Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above; pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 5 Finish then thy new creation: pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee; 6 Changed from glory into glory till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. Scripture: Malachi 3:1-4 Used With Tune: LOVE DIVINE

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford (1810-1871) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 753 hymnals Topics: Angels; Children and All-Age Worship; Church nature of; God in judgement and justice; Harvest; Harvest Thanksgiving; Judgement; Proper 11 Year A; Providence; Thanksgiving Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest-home: all be safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come; raise the song of harvest-home! 2 All the world is God's own field, fruit unto his praise to yield; wheat and tares together sown, unto joy or sorrow grown; first the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear: grant, O harvest Lord, that we wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take his harvest home; from his field shall purge away all that doth offend, that day; give his angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast, but the fruitful ears to store in his garner evermore. 4 Then, thou Church Triumphant, come, raise the song of harvest-home; all be safely gathered in, free from sorrow, free from sin, there for ever purified in God's garner to abide: come, ten thousand angels, come, raise the glorious harvest-home! Scripture: Exodus 23:16 Used With Tune: ST GEORGE'S WINDSOR

Lord of all, to thee we raise

Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1835-1917) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 666 hymnals Topics: Beauty; Children and All-Age Worship; Church Universal; Church Worship; Creation; Creation and the Environment; Family and Friends; God Love of; Love for Others; Mothering Sunday; Praise; The Second Sunday before Lent Year A First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, Refrain: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise. 2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: [Refrain] 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, pleasures pure and undefiled: [Refrain] 4 For each perfect gift of thine, to our race so freely given, graces human and divine, flowers of earth and buds of heaven: [Refrain] 5 For thy church which evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: ENGLANDS LANE

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm (1866-1960) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 210 hymnals Topics: Harvest Thanksgiving; Creation and the Environment; Assurance; Blessing; Children and All-Age Worship; Creation; Forgiveness; God faithfulness of in creation; God Presence of; Guidance; Other Saints and Festivals Bartholomew the Apostle; Proper 20 Year A; Proper 21 Year B; Proper 24 Year A; Proper 6 Year C; Providence; Seasons; The Second Sunday of Epiphany Year A First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not, as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided, great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 2 Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 8:22 Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS

No storm can shake my inmost calm

Author: Robert Lowry (1826-1899); Doris Plenn (fl. 1956) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 148 hymnals Topics: Assurance; Children and All-Age Worship; Conflict; God Love of; Music and Song; Suffering; Trust and Confidence First Line: My life flows on in endless song Lyrics: 1 My life flows on in endless song above earth's lamentation: I catch the sweet, though far-off hymn that sings a new creation. Refrain: No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that Rock I'm clinging; since love is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing? 2 Through all the tumult and the strife I hear that music ringing; it finds an echo in my soul; how can I keep from singing? [Refrain] 3 What though my joys and comforts die? The Lord my Saviour liveth! What though the darkness round me close? Songs in the night he giveth. [Refrain] 4 The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing. All things are mine since I am his! How can I keep from singing? [Refrain] Scripture: Job 35:10 Used With Tune: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING Text Sources: After an early Quaker song

God, that madest earth and heaven

Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826); Richard Whateley (1787 - 1863) Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: Angels; Children and All-Age Worship; Evening; Future hope; God Protection of; Heaven; Rest Lyrics: 1 God, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night. 2 Guard us waking, guard us sleeping, and, when we die, may we in thy mighty keeping all peaceful lie: when the last dread call shall wake us, do not thou our God forsake us, but to reign in glory take us with thee on high. Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS