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What a Friend we have in Jesus

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,695 hymnals Topics: Social and Family Worship - Christian Fellowship and Prayer

May the grace of Christ our Saviour

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 615 hymnals Topics: Doxologies, Benedictions, and Chants

O Jesus, thou art standing

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 669 hymnals Used With Tune: ENDSLEIGH

Author: Joseph Morris Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Jesus Christ is my Creator Lyrics: Jesus Christ is my Creator,— He formed sea and earth and air; Nature’s pillars stand unshaken On his power and constant care. By his fingers for a dwelling Was heaven’s vault sublime upreared: Jesus suffered when to save us He as man on earth appeared. Lofty Angels! God-like spirits, Clad in robes of ‘living light’: He who gave you all your glories, Him you worship day and night, Made his tent in human nature That in Him should man confide: Your Delight, your Source, and Centre Died—for man a Ransom died. Vast encircling Space! whose confines Stretch beyond creation’s pole! Worlds of magnitude appalling In thee unobstructed roll: 3 He in whom thou art containèd, Spread at first and peopled thee, Lay, an infant, in the manger, Died, a man, upon the tree. Countless Stars! through darkness peering; Silent sentinels of night! Worlds are ye of radiant brightness— Points to feeble human sight: He who spake and ye were kindled, And will be, when ye grow dim, Sun of souls, and Noon of heaven— Grief and death enshrouded HIM. Planets! with the Earth concentric, Speeding on your trackless ways,— Speeding in unbroken order From your distant primal days! He whose arm put you in motion— Who your orbits vast designed, Here was born a helpless infant, Here for sin his life resigned. Sun! the unexhausted fountain, Whence flow warmth and genial light, By whom Day to us is given Loaded with untold delight! He who hath with glory charged thee That we may not rudely gaze, Was on Calvary obscured— Well thou dark’nedst with amaze. Moon! who star-attended glidest Through the sky with queenly grace; Shining now in placid splendour, Veiling now with clouds thy face: He who hides thee—brings light to thee From that sun, whose Sun is He, Was eclipsed,—his beams were clouded, On the ignominious tree. Thunder! who within thy cradle Of the sable cloud dost rock: Rolling through expanse of heaven, Shaking earth with fearful shock! He who overawes the nations, In thy mighty noise confessed, Groaned and sighed with troubled spirit, By our guilt and sin oppressed. Lightning wild! thy child the Thunder, Thou dost wrap the world in fire: Sodom perished by thee stricken, Doomed by Heaven’s long-slumbering ire. He who formed thee—could command thee Earth to cleanse and man to slay, Gave Himself an expiation— Saved by death from Death his prey. Tempests! who disclose the caverns, Dungeons drear beneath the seas, Toying with the proudest navies, Hurling down the giant trees: He who curbs your wildest fury, Calms you like to infant’s breath, As a lamb Himself surrendered, Bowed his reverend head in death! Peer of Angels! space outreaching. Stars, sun, moon, thy grandeur show; Thunder, lightning, earthquake, tempest, Less in might sublime than THOU! For thy welfare, haughty Rebel, Thee from error back to bring, Jesus meekly bore thine insults: Weep—repent—believe—and sing! Favorite Welsh Hymns, 1854

Round the Lord in glory seated

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 198 hymnals Used With Tune: GLORIAM

Hark, the voice of Jesus calling

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 505 hymnals

Light of those whose dreary dwelling

Author: C. Wesley Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 356 hymnals Topics: The Kingdom of Christ Christ the Light of the Gentiles

Commencement of Worship.

Author: Joseph Morris Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: He who darts the wingèd lightning Lyrics: He who darts the wingèd lightning,— Walks upon the foaming wave,— Send forth arrows of conviction Here,—exert his power to save: Burst the bars of Satan’s prison: Snatch the firebrand from the flame, Fill the doubting with assurance: Teach the dumb to sing His name!