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Thy Word, O Lord, like gentle dews

Author: Catherine Winkworth; Carl Bernhard Garve Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: RELEASE Text Sources: and tr. by others

How blessed from the bonds of sin

Author: Jane Borthwick, 1813 - 97; Karl Johann Philipp Spitta, 1801 - 59 Appears in 37 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How blessed from the bonds of sin And earthly fetters free, In singleness of heart and aim Thy servant, Lord, to be! The hardest toil to undertake With joy at thy command, The meanest office to receive With meekness at thy hand! 2 With willing heart and longing eyes To watch before thy gate, Ready to run the weary race, To bear the heavy weight; No voice of thunder to expect, But follow, calm and still, For love can easily divine The One Beloved’s will. 3 Thus may we serve thee, gracious Lord! Thus ever thine alone, Our souls and bodies given to thee, The purchase thou hast won; Through evil or through good report Still keeping by thy side. By life or death, in this poor flesh Let Christ be magnified! 4 How happily the working days In this dear service fly! How rapidly the closing hour, The time of rest, draws nigh! When all the faithful gather home, A joyful company, And ever where the Master is, Shall his blest servants be. Topics: The Church Year Septuagesima to Lent Used With Tune: RELEASE

O Lord, I would delight in thee

Appears in 244 hymnals Used With Tune: BYRD

There Is A Sea

Author: Richard Glover; Lula K. Zahn Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: There is a sea which day by day Lyrics: 1 There is a sea which day by day Receives the rippling rills; And streams that spring from wells of God, Or fall from cedared hills. But what it thus receives, it gives With glad, unsparing hand; A stream more wide, with deeper tide, Flows on to lower land. 2 There is a sea which day by day Receives a fuller tide; But all its store it keeps, nor gives To shore nor sea beside. It’s Jordan’s stream, now turned to brine, Like heavy, molten lead; Its dreadful name doth e’er proclaim, That sea is waste and dead. 3 Which shall it be for you and me Who God’s good gifts obtain? Shall we accept for self alone, Or take, to give again? For He who once was rich indeed Laid all His glory down; That by His grace our ransomed race Should share His wealth and crown. Used With Tune: I SEE THEE STANDING Text Sources: V. 3: Great Songs of the Church by Elmer L. Jorgenson (Louisville: Word and Work, 1921)

Soon will the heavenly Bridegroom come

Author: J. Walther Appears in 20 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Soon will the heavenly Bridegroom come; Ye wedding-guests, draw near,And slumber not in sin when He, The Son of God, is here. With lamps alight and oil in store, let every guest advance, Nor shrink ashamed in trembling awe From His bright countenance. 2 Come, let us haste to meet our Lord, And hail Him with delight, Who saved us by His precious blood And sorrows infinite: Beside Him all the patriarchs old And holy prophets stand, The glorious apostolic choir, The noble martyr-band. 3 As brethren dear they welcome us, And lead us to the throne, Where angels bow their veiléd heads Before the Three in One, Where we, with all the saints of Christ, A white-robed multitude, Shall praise the ascended Lord, who deigns To wear our flesh and blood. 4 His gracious hand will ope for us The gates of paradise, And spread the glories of His heaven Before our dazzled eyes: Our lot will be for aye to share His reign of peace above, And drink with unexhausted joy The river of His love. Topics: The Church Year Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity; Second Coming of Christ Used With Tune: [Soon will the heavenly Bridegroom come]

Wide Open Are Thy Loving Hands

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153; Charles Porterfield Krauth, 1823-1883 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Crucifixion & Death; Lent Used With Tune: RELEASE

Jesu, Great Healer Of Mankind

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 16 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Jesu, great healer of mankind, Who dost our sorrows bear, Let an afflicted parent find An answer to his prayer. 2 I Look for help in Thee alone, To Thee for succor fly; My son is sick, my darling son, And at the point to die. 3 By deep distress a suppliant made, By agony of grief, Most justly might Thy love upbraid My lingering unbelief. 4 But Thou art ready still to run, And grant our heart’s desire: Lord, in Thy healing power come down, Before my child expire. 5 Surely if Thou pronounce the word If Thou the answer give, My dying son shall be restored, And to Thy glory live. 6 Rebuke the fever in this hour, Command it to depart; Now, let me behold Thy power, And give Thee all my heart. 7 O save the father in the son, Restore him, Lord, to me; My heart the miracle shall own, And give him back to Thee. 8 I will, I will obey Thy word, To Thee my all resign, I, and my house will serve the Lord, And live forever Thine. Used With Tune: I SEE THEE STANDING Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749

I Need Your Help, O LORD My God

Author: Helen Otte Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: I need your help, O LORD, my God Topics: Deliverance; Enemies & Persecution; Afflictions; Deliverance; Enemies & Persecution; Refuge Scripture: Psalm 55 Used With Tune: RELEASE

Determined importunity

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Because for me the Saviour prays Topics: The Sinner Penitential Scripture: Luke 13:8 Used With Tune: BYRD