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Sacred Songs

Author: Rev. George Matheson, M.A., D.D.
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh / London, 1891
Language: English
Notes: Hymns are numbered by page numbers they appear in
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1Once o'er that wondrous wayPage Scan
3Tell me a thing that never grows oldPage Scan
5O Thou upon whose ample breastPage Scan
6When the light is in the westPage Scan
8There is no pause to lovingPage Scan
10I asked my God to go beforePage Scan
12Come, let us raise the common songPage Scan
13Thou hast, O Lord, a wondrous planPage Scan
15There are coming changes greatPage Scan
17Lord, I stand amid the nightPage Scan
20Lord, Thou hast spread o'er earth and seaPage Scan
22Thy glory is before mePage Scan
24My Father! in Thy mercy kindPage Scan
27There is a spot beside the seaPage Scan
29She had no selfish end to gainPage Scan
30There is a solitude whose wastePage Scan
32I had a call to a missionPage Scan
35Come and see a new ambitionPage Scan
36Gather us in, Thou Love that fillest allPage Scan
38O Thou that toilest in the nightPage Scan
40The isles, the isles shall waitPage Scan
42The heaven and earth are meetingPage Scan
44Who are these as a cloud that flyPage Scan
46Lights in the upper dwellingPage Scan
47When the day is endingPage Scan
49They are all praying, prayingPage Scan
51There is a glory in the skyPage Scan
52Take my burdened heartPage Scan
53Thou hast been with me in the dark and coldPage Scan
55Saviour divine, my ship of life is leavingPage Scan
57From the sunshine of Thy dwellingPage Scan
58On the wings of the outspread morningPage Scan
60Lend me, O Lord, Thy softening cloudPage Scan
61There is no grief of man can hold so muchPage Scan
64Surely some power has led me wrongPage Scan
66O Lord, the seeds I sow for TheePage Scan
68Three doors there are in the templePage Scan
71There is a secret down in my heartPage Scan
73One day my Father said to mePage Scan
74My Father, Thou hast those whose lovePage Scan
76Father divine, I come to TheePage Scan
78I heard a voice behind mePage Scan
79I sat beneath the stars of nightPage Scan
80The night was dark in the silent skyPage Scan
82There is a life whose vital powerPage Scan
84I had toiled all night; I had toiled in vainPage Scan
86There is a valley paved with tearsPage Scan
87Oh, new-born dayPage Scan
89Oh, not from broken wallsPage Scan
91There is a shadow that calms our caresPage Scan
92Oh Thou that in the temple courtsPage Scan
94Rise, bridal mornPage Scan
95Ye who have published tidings on the mountainsPage Scan
98I wait for Thee at earth's gates of goldPage Scan
99Thy joy is what the world calls painPage Scan
101My voice shalt Thou hear this morningPage Scan
102Thou art coming from the eastPage Scan
103Oh! could I fly awayPage Scan
104Is, then, My service one incessant sigh?Page Scan
106I poured a flood of sorrowPage Scan
107Lord, Thou hast all my frailty madePage Scan
109Lord, at Thy feet my prostrate heart is lyingPage Scan
111I shall look upon Thy glory when Thy presence has gone byPage Scan
113Thy home, O Lord, is everywherePage Scan
115Jesus, Fountain of my daysPage Scan
116Oh, make my clouds Thy chariots to bear my spirit homePage Scan
117Wilt thou not let Me in? The night is coldPage Scan
119What shall I wish for Thee, Light of my heart?Page Scan
121I sent a New-Year wish to a friendPage Scan
123Why is the spring so glad?Page Scan
125Where shall I hide the memories of my pain?Page Scan
128I am sitting on the steps of Thy pavilionPage Scan
130Father, my heart has never foundPage Scan
132Shall I never get back to the days of old?Page Scan
134O Thou upon whose bosom layPage Scan
136Why shouldst thou mark the place?Page Scan
138Thou art burning on, thou ancient treePage Scan
140There is a song of gladnessPage Scan
142I sat in the depth of sorrowPage Scan
144Sometimes I long to walk abroadPage Scan
146There are things I wish to knowPage Scan
148I asked my Father why my lifePage Scan
150I held one day my staff in a streamPage Scan
152Oh, could we see togetherPage Scan
153My name is Love, and love can ne'er be gravenPage Scan
155Lord, in my spirit, one by onePage Scan
157Father, when first I pray to TheePage Scan
158I long, I long for the day to breakPage Scan
161Give us our bread todayPage Scan
163Lord, pay the debts I owePage Scan
165Shine, shine, Father DivinePage Scan
166How shall I tell that Thy SpiritPage Scan
168Couldst thou love Me when suns are settingPage Scan
170We shall meet around the cross, brothersPage Scan
172Make me a captive, LordPage Scan
174I had a wish deep down in my soulPage Scan
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