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Sweet Is the Sunlight After Rain
Author: W. Morley Punshon Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 15 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Sweet is the sunlight after rain,
And sweet the sleep which follows pain;
And sweetly steals the Sabbath rest
Upon the world’s work-wearied breast.
2. Of Heaven the sign, of earth, the calm;
The poor man’s birthright and his balm;
God’s witness of celestial thing;
A sun with healing in its wings.
3. New rising in this gospel time,
And in its sevenfold light sublime,
Blest day of God! we hail its dawn,
To gratitude and worship drawn.
4. O naught of gloom and naught of pride
Should with the sacred hours abide;
At work for God, in loved employ,
We lose the duty in the joy.
5. Breathe on us, Lord! our sins forgive,
And make us strong in faith to live;
Our utmost, sorest need supply,
And make us strong in faith to die. Used With Tune: ARIZONA Text Sources: Sabbath Chimes 1867
Sweet Is the Sunlight After Rain
The Wonders, Lord, Thy Love Has Wrought
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 34 hymnals Lyrics: 1. The wonders, Lord, Thy love has wrought,
Exceed our praise, surmount our thought;
Should I attempt the long detail,
My speech would faint, my numbers fail.
2. No blood of beasts on altars spilt
Can cleanse the souls of men from guilt;
But Thou hast set before our eyes
An all-sufficient sacrifice.
3. Lo! Thine eternal Son appears
To Thy designs He bows His ears,
Assumes a body well prepared,
And well performs a work so hard.
4. Behold, I come, the Savior cries,
With love and duty in His eyes,
“I come to bear the heavy load
Of sins, and do Thy will, My God.
5. “’Tis written in Thy great decree,
’Tis in Thy book foretold of Me,
I must fulfill the Savior’s part;
And lo! Thy law is in My heart!
6. “I’ll magnify Thy holy law,
And rebels to obedience draw,
When on My cross I’m lifted high,
Or to My crown above the sky.
7. The Spirit shall descend and show
What Thou hast done, and what I do;
The wondering world shall learn Thy grace,
Thy wisdom, and Thy righteousness. Used With Tune: ARIZONA Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719
The Wonders, Lord, Thy Love Has Wrought
O Breath of God, breathe on us now
Author: A. H. Vine Appears in 18 hymnals Used With Tune: ARIZONA
O Breath of God, breathe on us now
The World May Boast The Brilliant Light
Author: H. A. César Malan, 1787-1864; Jane E. Arnold Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 The world may boast the brilliant light
Of science, which oft deceives;
But oft, in clouds of error’s night
Her dazzled votaries she leaves.
2 What shall man’s intellect avail,
When God His judgments shall display?
How soon its boasted power shall fail
Before the terrors of that day.
3 Jesus! Thy words alone impart
Eternal truth and sure repose;
No doubts shall overwhelm the heart,
Which Thee and Thy salvation knows.
4 How precious to my thirsting soul
The truths Thy sacred words convey;
Mighty to strengthen and console,
And which shall never pass away.
5 Here will I rest, beneath Thy cross,
Where faith the way of life discerns,
And counting all things else but loss,
My soul eternal wisdom learns. Used With Tune: ARIZONA Text Sources: Lyra Evangelica (London: John F. Shaw,1866)
The World May Boast The Brilliant Light
Great Former of This Various Frame
Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 82 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Great former of this various frame,
Our souls adore Thine awful name;
And bow and tremble while they praise
The Ancient of eternal days.
2. Thou, Lord, with unsurprised survey,
Saw’st nature rising yesterday;
And, as tomorrow, shall Thine eye
See earth and stars in ruin lie.
3. Beyond an angel’s vision bright,
Thou dwell’st in self existent light;
Which shines, with undiminished ray,
While suns and worlds in smoke decay.
4. Our days a transient period run,
And change with every circling sun;
And, in the firmest state we boast,
A moth can crush us into dust.
5. But let the creatures fall around;
Let death consign us to the ground;
Let the last general flame arise,
And melt the arches of the skies:
6. Calm as the summer’s ocean, we
Can all the wreck of nature see,
While grace secures us an abode,
Unshaken as the throne of God. Used With Tune: ARIZONA
Great Former of This Various Frame
Lord of all being
Author: O. W. Holmes (1809-1894); Janet Caw Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Dio, reĝanta en ĉiel', ni vidas Vin en sun' kaj stel' Used With Tune: Arizona
Lord of all being
God, Who in Various Methods Told
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Lyrics: 1. God, who in various methods told
His mind and will to saints of old,
Sent down His Son, with truth and grace,
To teach us in these latter days.
2. Our nation reads the written Word,
That book of life, that sure record:
The bright inheritance of Heav’n
Is by the sweet conveyance giv’n.
3. God’s kindest thoughts are here expressed,
Able to make us wise and blessed;
The doctrines are divinely true,
Fit for reproof and comfort, too.
[The last stanza would, obviously, need updating for a present day use.]
4. Ye British isles, who read His love
In long epistles from above,
(He hath not sent His sacred Word
To every land,) praise ye the Lord. Used With Tune: ARIZONA Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, 1707, number 53
God, Who in Various Methods Told
Tsaroanay tokoa izao
Author: D. O. Jones Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: ARIZONA
Tsaroanay tokoa izao
Fight the good fight with all thy might
Author: Dr. J. S. Monsell, 1811-1875 Appears in 484 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Fight the good fight with all thy might
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.
2 Run the straight race through God's good grace;
Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face,
Life with its path before us lies,
Christ is the way, and Christ the prize.
3 Cast care aside, lean on thy Guide;
His boundless mercy will provide;
Trust, and thy trusting soul shall prove
Christ is its life, and Christ its love.
4 Faint not, nor fear, His arms are near,
He changeth not, and thou art dear;
Only believe, and thou shalt see
That Christ is all in all to thee. Topics: Christian (See also Conflict) Warfare; Warfare, the Christian ; Faith Fight of; The Church and the Kingdom of God Evangelism; Soldiers of Christ Used With Tune: ARIZONA
Fight the good fight with all thy might
Thou Lord of Host, whose guiding hand
Author: Octavius Frothingham, 1822-1895 Appears in 45 hymnals Used With Tune: ARIZONA
Thou Lord of Host, whose guiding hand
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