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Once More We Come Before Our God

Author: Joseph Hart, 1712-1768 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 183 hymnals First Line: Once more we bow before our God Topics: Public Worship The Occasion Scripture: Luke 11:28 Used With Tune: SOHO

See Israel's Gentle Shepherd Stand

Author: Philip Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 487 hymnals Lyrics: 1 See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand With all-engaging charms; Hark! how He calls the tender lambs, And folds them in His arms. 2 "O let the children come," He cries, "Nor scorn their humble name; For 'twas to bless such souls, as these The Lord of angels came." 3 We bring them, Lord, in thankful hands, And yield them up to Thee; O gentle Saviour, we are Thine, Thine let our children be. Amen. Topics: Family Life Prayers; St. Michael's Day Scripture: Matthew 19:15 Used With Tune: SOHO

How shall the young secure their hearts

Author: Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. Appears in 485 hymnals Used With Tune: SPRING-TIDE

The Word is like a garden, Lord

Author: Edwin Hodder Appears in 157 hymnals Used With Tune: SOHO

Soon With Resistless Arm Shall Death

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Soon with resistless arm shall death Assert its sovereign claim, And summon man to yield his breath To Him whence first it came. 2 Like crowded forest trees we stand, And some are marked to fall: The axe will smite at God’s command, And soon shall smite us all. 3 Green as the bay tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, I have seen; I passed—and they were gone. 4 No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come, No human power our life secure And save us from the tomb. 5 Lord! may we mark the awful truth, Revealed in sacred page— A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 6 Lord! teach me henceforth so to live, And number all my days, That in Thy strength I now may strive To walk in wisdom’s ways. 7 And since the fatal shafts of death Are flying all around, Prepare us to resign our breath, Nor dread the threatened wound. Used With Tune: SOHO Text Sources: Select Portions of the Psalms, from Various Translations by John Kempthorne (London: J. Hatchard, 1810)

There is a Land of Pure Delight

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,418 hymnals Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 Oh, could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy thoughts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love, With unbeclouded eyes! 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o’er, Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. Amen. Topics: Eternity Used With Tune: SOHO