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What Shall I Render to My God? (Watts)

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 293 hymnals First Line: What shall I render to my God Lyrics: 1. What shall I render to my God For all His kindness shown? My feet shall visit Thine abode, My songs address Thy throne. 2. Among the saints that fill Thine house My off’rings shall be paid; There shall my zeal perform the vows My soul in anguish made. 3. How much is mercy Thy delight, Thou ever blessèd God! How dear Thy servants in Thy sight! How precious is their blood! 4. How happy all Thy servants are! How great Thy grace to me! My life, which thou hast made Thy care, Lord, I devote to Thee. 5. Now I am Thine, forever Thine, Nor shall my purpose move Thy hand hath loosed my bonds of pain, And bound me with Thy love. 6. Here in Thy courts I leave my vow, And Thy rich grace record; Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, If I forsake the Lord. Used With Tune: ALBANO Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

When Wounded Sore the Stricken Heart

Author: Cecil F. Alexander Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 104 hymnals First Line: When wounded sore, the stricken heart Lyrics: 1. When wounded sore, the stricken heart Lies bleeding and unbound, One only hand, a piercèd hand, Can salve the sinner’s wound. 2. When sorrow swells the laden breast, And tears of anguish flow, One only heart, a broken heart, Can feel the sinner’s woe. 3. When penitential grief has wept Over some foul dark spot, One only stream, a stream of blood, Can wash away the blot. 4. ’Tis Jesus’ blood that washes white, His hand that brings relief, His heart that’s touched with all our joys, And feels for all our grief. 5. Lift up Thy bleeding hand, O Lord, Unseal that cleansing tide; We have no shelter from our sin But in Thy wounded side. Used With Tune: ST. BERNARD (Richardson)

Brethren, While We Sojourn Here

Author: Joseph Swain Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 241 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Brethren, while we sojourn here, Fight we must, but should not fear; Foes we have, but we’ve a friend, One that loves us to the end. Forward then with courage go, Long we shall not dwell below; Soon the joyful news will come, "Child, your Father calls—Come home!" 2 In the way a thousand snares Lie, to take us unawares; Satan, with malicious art, Watches each unguarded part: But, from Satan’s malice free, Saints shall soon victorious be; Soon the joyful news will come, "Child, your Father calls—Come home!" 3 But, of all the foes we meet, None so oft mislead our feet, None betray us into sin, Like the foes that dwell within. Yet let nothing spoil your peace, Christ will also conquer these; Then the joyful news will come, "Child, your Father calls—Come home!" Used With Tune: MESSIAH Text Sources: Walworth Hymns (London: J. Matthews, 1792)

To Us A Child Is Born From Heav'n

Author: Charles E. De Coetlogon, 1746-1820 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 14 hymnals First Line: To us a child is born from Heav’n Lyrics: 1 To us a child is born from Heav’n; To us the Son of God is giv’n; So Judah’s ancient prophet sings, And Gentiles hail the news he brings. 2 Gentiles in Jesu’s name shall trust, And of His glories make their boast; The government of worlds He made Upon His shoulders shall be laid. 3 His name the Wonderful shall be; His wonders Heav’n and earth shall see: The Counselor of truth and grace, Who leads in paths of righteousness. 4 The mighty God, that glorious name, His works and Word join to proclaim: The everlasting Father, He— And the whole church His family. 5 The Prince of Peace, on David’s throne And nations yet unborn shall own His sovereign and His gracious sway; Glad of the honor to obey. 6 Justice and judgment He’ll maintain— To everlasting ages reign: And His blest empire shall increase, ’Till time, with all its movements, cease. 7 Our faith in grateful triumph boasts These wonders of the Lord of Hosts: And trusts the zeal that formed the plan To perfect what that zeal began. Used With Tune: HAMBURG Text Sources: A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns...Intended as a Supllement to Dr. Watt's Psalms and Tunes by John Dobell (Morristown, NJ: Peter A. Johnson, 1819(

Not Long On Hermon's Holy Height

Author: Theodore C. Pease Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Not long on Hermon’s holy height Lyrics: 1 Not long on Hermon’s holy height The heav’nly vision fills our sight; We may not breathe that purer air, Nor build our tabernacles there. 2 The vision fades, the splendor dies; The saints have sought again the skies; The homely garb the Master wore Is bright with sudden glow no more. 3 If with the Master we would go, Our feet must thread the vale below, Where dark the lonely pathways wind, The golden glory left behind. 4 Where hungry souls ask One to feed, Where wand’rers cry for One to lead, Where helpless hearts in chains are bound— There shall the Master still be found: 5 There, patient bending o’er His task, No raiment white our eyes shall ask, Content while through each cloud we trace The glory of the Master’s face. Used With Tune: HURSLEY Text Sources: The Pilgrim's Hymnal by Charles L. Noyes and Charles L. Ziegler (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1904)

Far Out on the Desolate Billow

Author: Rossiter Worthington Raymond, 1840-1918 Appears in 94 hymnals Refrain First Line: For God is a Friend unfailing Lyrics: 1. Far out on the desolate billow The sailor sails the sea, Alone with the night and the tempest, Where countless dangers be; Yet never alone is the Christian, Who lives by faith and prayer; Refrain For God is a Friend unfailing, And God is everywhere. 2. Far down in the earth’s dark bosom The miner mines the ore; Death lurks in the dark behind him, And hides in the rock before. Yet never alone is the Christian, Who lives by faith and prayer; [Refrain] 3. Forth into the dreadful battle The steadfast soldier goes; No friend, when he lies adying, His eyes to kiss and close. Yet never alone is the Christian, Who lives by faith and prayer; [Refrain] 4. Lord, grant as we sail life’s ocean, Or delve in its mines of woe, Or fight in its terrible conflict, This comfort all to know, That never alone is the Christian, Who lives by faith and prayer; [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Far out on the desolate billow]

Deceived by Subtle Snares of Hell

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 24 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Deceived by subtle snares of hell, Adam, our head, our father, fell; When Satan, in the serpent hid, Proposed the fruit that God forbid. 2. Death was the threatening: death began To take possession of the man; His unborn race received the wound, And heavy curses smote the ground. 3. But Satan found a worse reward: Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord: “Let everlasting hatred be Betwixt the woman’s seed and thee. 4. The woman’s seed shall be my Son; He shall destroy what thou hast done; Shall break thy head, and only feel Thy malice raging at His heel. 5. He spake; and bid four thousand years Roll on; at length His Son appears; Angels with joy descend to earth, And sing the young Redeemer’s birth. 6. Lo, by the sons of hell He dies; But as He hung ’twixt earth and skies, He gave their prince a fatal blow, And triumphed o’er the powers below. Used With Tune: UXBRIDGE Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707, number 107.

Our Day of Praise Is Done

Author: John Ellerton Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 140 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Our day of praise is done; The evening shadows fall; But pass not from us with the sun, True Light that lightenest all. 2. Around the throne on high, Where night can never be, The white robed harpers of the sky Bring ceaseless hymns to Thee. 3. Too faint our anthems here; Too soon of praise we tire; But O the strains, how full and clear, Of that eternal choir! 4. Yet, Lord, to Thy dear will If Thou attune the heart, We in Thine angels’ music still May bear our lower part. 5. ’Tis Thine each soul to calm, Each wayward thought reclaim, And make our life a daily psalm Of glory to Thy name. 6. A little while, and then Shall come the glorious end; And songs of angels and of men In perfect praise shall blend. Used With Tune: SCHUMANN

O Thou Who Hast, in Every Age

Author: Edward H. Dewart Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Thou who hast, in every age, Thy trusting people safely led, On us, who in Thy work engage, Thy Spirit’s guiding influence shed. 2. As moon and stars their beams unite, To gild and gladden every zone, So blend Thy Word and works their light, To make Thy grace and glory known. 3. Though Thou art holy, wise, and great, And we are sinful worms of clay, Thou dost regard our low estate, And bend to listen while we pray. 4. On those who sow in youthful minds The seeds of harvests yet to be, Bestow the living faith, which binds The heart in loyal love to Thee. 5. Protect our youth from every foe, And lead in paths of truth and peace; As they in age and knowledge grow, May faith and holiness increase. 6. So to Thy Church, in wisdom taught, May men of nobler life be given; Until, by holy deed and thought, This world is lifted nearer Heaven. Used With Tune: HURSLEY Text Sources: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book (Toronto, Canada: Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1894), number 927.

Tell It Again

Author: Mary B. Slade Appears in 114 hymnals First Line: Into the tent where a gypsy boy lay Refrain First Line: Tell it again! Tell it again! Lyrics: 1. Into the tent where a gypsy boy lay, Dying alone at the close of the day, News of salvation we carried; said he: Nobody ever has told it to me! Refrain Tell it again! Tell it again! Salvation’s story repeat o’er and o’er. Till none can say of the children of men, Nobody ever has told me before. 2. Did He so love me, a poor little boy? Send unto me the good tidings of joy? Need I not perish? My hand will He hold? Nobody ever the story has told! [Refrain] 3. Bending we caught the last words of his breath, Just as he entered the valley of death: God sent His Son! Whosoever, said He: Then I am sure that He sent Him for me! [Refrain] 4. Smiling he said, as his last sigh he spent, I am so glad that for me He was sent! Whispered, while low sunk the sun in the west, Lord, I believe, tell it now to the rest! [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Into the tent where a gypsy boy lay] Text Sources: Good News, or Songs and Tunes for Sunday Schools, Christian Associations, and Special Meetings, edited by Rigdon M. McIntosh (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1876)