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Faith Means We're Sure

Author: Susan H. Peterson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Faith means we're sure of what we hope to get Lyrics: 1. Faith means we’re sure of what we hope to get; We’re certain of the things that we do not see. By faith we know that God made the world; What’s here now was not made from what was seen. Abel by faith offered God a better sacrifice; And Enoch, too, by faith died not, but from this life did rise. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 2. It was by faith that Noah built the ark, When warned by God of things that were yet to pass. Since he had faith, God did spare his life, And made him an heir of His righteousness. Abraham, too, when God said to leave his home behind, Obeyed and went, though he knew not the land he was to find. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 3. It was by faith that Abr’ham had a son, Then offered him to God as a sacrifice. Faith upheld Moses in Egypt’s land, And faith let a lamb pay the firstborn’s price. By faith the people passed through the sea as on dry land, And faith was why the walls of Jericho just could not stand. Though they are gone, they speak this word: That without faith, none can please the Lord. 4. All these still lived by faith until they died, Receiving not the things that had been made known. They only saw them as from afar; They knew that their country was not their own. God therefore was not ashamed to be named as their Lord; For they believed that He was real and would their faith reward. Oh, give me faith to trust Your Word, That by my life I may please You, Lord. Used With Tune: SAGINA

The Silence of Faith

Author: Horatius Bonar Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: I cannot master time and space Lyrics: 1 I cannot master time and space, Nor bid impetuous ages stay; I cannot alter noon and night, Nor turn the shadows into day. I may not span unmeasured skies, Nor grasp the Pleiads in my hand; The far and near, the great and small I see, but cannot understand. I helpless sit, hemmed in by power And will superior to my own, Encompassed round by laws unseen, Controlled by all, controlling none; Yet I can lean on Him who guides The sky, and sea, and faithful tides. 2 I cannot bid the tomb disgorge The trophies of the tyrant’s power; I cannot charm the spoiler’s hate, Nor flush again one pallid flower. A mortal ’mid the mortal here, I mourn the silent, sad decay Of all that makes this world so fair, But cannot bid one radiance stay. Fain would I loose the chain of ill That fetters this sad, tortured earth, Yet I can but its wrongs and woes Commit to Him who gave it birth. And to the Living One I fly For health and immortality. 3 The current of one human will Is far too strong for me to stem; The rushing flood of a thousand wills, How can I hope to baffle them? I cannot alter right and wrong, Nor change the false into the true; I cannot judge the Judge of all, His thoughts, His ways, His words review. He speaks! I hear! O voice supreme, Beyond all voices sweet, sublime! He the eternal, wise and true, And I bemisted child of time. To Him in foolishness I come, Before Him reverent and dumb. 4 I see the years like billows break Upon the passive strand of time, And as they break, sweep off in turn Man’s works of every age and clime. Who, what am I amid the wreck Of all this beauty, love, and power, O’er which I weep, but whose decay I cannot hinder for an hour? The true is never obsolete, The never old is never stale; I guard the gold of ancient mines, And gather gems, though few and pale; I call them fair—as fair as when They dropped from God’s bright Heav’n for men. Used With Tune: [I cannot master time and space] Text Sources: Hymns of the Nativity, and Other Pieces (London: James Nisbet, 1879)

How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 24 hymnals Lyrics: 1. How shall the young direct their way? What light shall be their perfect guide? Thy Word, O Lord, will safely lead, If in its wisdom they confide. Sincerely I have sought Thee, Lord, O let me not from Thee depart; To know Thy will and keep from sin Thy Word I cherish in my heart. 2. O blessèd Lord, teach me Thy law, Thy righteous judgments I declare; Thy testimonies make me glad, For they are wealth beyond compare. Upon Thy precepts and Thy ways My heart will meditate with awe; Thy Word shall be my chief delight, And I will not forget Thy law. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912, number 322

Modern Christianity

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How vainly do the heathen strive Lyrics: 1. How vainly do the heathen strive To falsify our Master’s word, Who teach us that we may godly live Yet never suffer for our Lord; In ancient times the fact allow, But say, the world is Christian now. 2. Christian the world of drunkards is, The world of whoremongers and thieves, The slaves of foul and fair excess; Whoe’er the Christian rite receives, Led from the font at Satan’s will, Haters of Christ, and Christians still. 3. The devilish, and the sensual crowd, Who as brute beasts their lusts obey, Lovers of pleasure more than God, Who dance, and curse, and fight and play, Monsters of vice, our nature’s shame, All hell assumes the Christian name. 4. Yet still when Antichrist prevails, And Satan sits in Moses’ chair, The Gospel truths are idle tales, No cross, no Holy Ghost is there, The heathen world will Christian seem, And bid us take the rule from them. 5. The temple of the Lord are we, (The synagogue of Satan cry) We need not persecuted be Or cruelly ourselves deny: Come see, ye fools, who sigh and grieve, How much at ease we Christians live. 6. We are the men—of wealth and state, Of pomp, and fashionable ease, Honor, and power, and pleasure wait The silken sons of downy peace; And lo! we glide secure and even Down a broad flowery way—to Heaven. 7. While house to house, and field to field, And living we to living join The gazing crowd obeisance yield And praise the slick and smooth Divine Who saves them all the madman’s care, The drudgery of faith, and prayer. 8. No fanciful enthusiasts we To look for inspiration here, To dream from sin to be set free Or hope to feel the Spirit near, Or know our sins on earth forgiven, Or madly give up all for Heaven! Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 198-9

Object of All Our Knowledge Here

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1. Object of all our knowledge here, Our one Desire, and Hope below, Jesus, the Crucified, draw near, And with Thy sad disciples go: Our thoughts and words to Thee are known, We commune of Thyself alone. 2. How can it be, our reason cries, That God should leave His throne above? Is it for man th’Immortal dies? For man, who tramples on His love? For man, who nailed Him to the tree? O Love! O God! He dies for me! 3. Why then, if Thou for me hast died, Dost Thou not yet Thyself impart? We hoped to feel Thy blood applied, To find Thee risen in our heart, Redeemed from all iniquity, Saved, to the utmost saved, thro’ Thee. 4. Have we not then believed in vain, By Christ unsanctified, unfreed? In us He is not ris’n again, We know not but He still is dead, No life, no righteousness we have, Our hopes seem buried in His grave. 5. Ah! Lord, if Thou indeed art ours, If Thou for us hast burst the tomb, Visit us with Thy quickening powers, Come to Thy mournful followers, come, Thyself to Thy weak members join, And fill us with the life divine. 6. Thee, the great Prophet sent from God, Mighty in deed and word we own; Thou hast on some the grace bestowed, Thy rising in their hearts made known; They publish Thee to life restored, Attesting they have seen the Lord. 7. Alas for us, whose eyes are held! Why cannot we our Savior see? With us Thou art yet still concealed: O might we hear one word from Thee! Speak, and to our unbelief reprove, Our baseness to mistrust Thy love. 8. Fools as we are, and slow of heart, So backward to believe the Word! The Prophets’ only aim Thou art: They sang the sufferings of their Lord, Thy life for ours a ransom given, Thy rising to ensure our Heaven. 9. Ought not our Lord the death to die, And then the glorious life to live? To stoop; and then to go up on high? The pain, and then the joy receive? His blood, the purchase price lay down, Endure the cross, and claim the crown? 10. Ought not the members all to pass The way their Head had passed before? Thro’ sufferings perfected He was, The garment dipped in blood He wore, That we with Him might die, and rise And bear His nature to the skies! Used With Tune: SAGINA (Short) Text Sources: Hymns for Our Lord's Resurrection (London: William Strahan, 1746), number 5

Come, Holy Ghost, All-Quickening Fire

Appears in 36 hymnals First Line: Come, Holy ghost, all-quick'ning fire Used With Tune: [Come, Holy ghost, all-quick'ning fire]

Como contar de Deus o amor (2)

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788); José Ilídio Freire (1892-1987); José Ilídio Freire (1892-1987) Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Como contar de Deus o amor Refrain First Line: Quero adorar ao meu Senhor Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: HC n. 596

That Man Whose Impious Tongue Denies

Author: Harriet Auber Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 That man whose impious tongue denies The God who every want supplies, Or whose unhallowed actions prove He feels nor gratitude nor love, Ranks far beneath the brute, who knows What hand his humble meal bestows. 2 Yet, did not such heavenly grace abound, Such would each son of man be found; For when the Almighty from His throne Looked on the earth, behold not one The narrow path of virtue trod, Or kept the precepts of his God. 3 But He, who with a single breath Could doom a guilty world to death, With mercy’s gently pleading voice, Offers salvation to our choice; Freedom from sin’s debasing chain, And strength fresh conflicts to sustain. 4 O haste we then—with joy embrace This rich, this freely offered grace; Gladly our hearts and voices raise, In loud and grateful songs of praise, And to the listening world proclaim Our great Redeemer’s glorious name. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: Spirit of the Psalms, 1829

A Last Prayer

Author: Helen Hunt Jackson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Father, I scarcely dare to pray Lyrics: 1. Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun. So clear I see that things I thought Were right or harmless were a sin; So clear I see that I have sought, Unconscious, selfish aims to win. 2. So clear I see that I have hurt The souls I might have helped to save; That I have slothful been, inert, Deaf to the calls Thy leaders gave. In outskirts of Thy kingdoms vast Father, the humblest spot give me; Set me the lowliest task Thou hast, Let me repentant work for Thee. Used With Tune: SAGINA

Thus The Great Lord Of Earth And Sea

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 20 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thus the great Lord of earth and sea Spake to His Son, and thus He swore: "Eternal shall Thy priesthood be, And change from hand to hand no more. 2 "Aaron and all his sons must die, But everlasting life is Thine, To save forever those that fly For refuge from the wrath divine. 3 "By Me Melchizedek was made On earth a king and priest at once; And Thou, My heav’nly priest, shall plead, And Thou, My king, shall rule My sons." 4 Jesus the Priest ascends His throne, While counsels of eternal peace, Between the Father and the Son, Proceed with honor and success. 5 Thro’ the whole earth His reign shall spread, And crush the powers that dare rebel; Then shall He judge the rising dead, And send the guilty world to hell. 6 Though while He treads His glorious way, He drinks the cup of tears and blood, The sufferings of that dreadful day Shall but advance Him near to God. Used With Tune: SAGINA Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719