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O Love divine, how sweet thou art!

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 379 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O love divine, how sweet thou art! When shall I find my longing heart all taken up by thee? I thirst, I faint, I die to prove the greatness of redeeming love, the love of Christ to me. 2 Stronger his love than death or hell; its riches are unsearchable: the first-born sons of light desire in vain its depth to see; they cannot reach the mystery, the length and breadth and height. *3 God only knows the love of God; O that it now were shed abroad in this poor stony heart! For love I sigh, for love I pine; this only portion, Lord, be mine, be mine this better part. 4 For ever would I take my seat with Mary at the Master's feet: be this my happy choice; my only care, delight, and bliss, my joy, my heaven on earth, be this, to hear the Bridegroom's voice! 5 Thy only love do I require, nothing on earth beneath desire, nothing in heaven above: let earth and heaven, and all things go, give me thine only love to know, give me thine only love. Topics: Lent I Year A; Proper 6 Year A; Proper 11 Year C Scripture: 1 Peter 1:12 Used With Tune: CORNWALL

Glory be to Jesus

Author: Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Meter: 6.5.6.5 Appears in 209 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Glory be to Jesus, who, in bitter pains, poured for me the life-blood from his sacred veins. 2 Grace and life eternal in that blood I find; blest be his compassion, infinitely kind. 3 Blest through endless ages be the precious stream, which from endless torments did the world redeem. 4 Abel's blood for vengeance pleaded to the skies; but the blood of Jesus for our pardon cries. 5 Oft as it is sprinkled on our guilty hearts, Satan in confusion terror-struck departs. 6 Oft as earth exulting wafts its praise on high, angel-hosts rejoicing make their glad reply. 7 Lift ye then your voices; swell the mighty flood; louder still and louder praise the precious blood. Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week; Lent V Year A Scripture: 1 Peter 1:12 Used With Tune: CASWALL Text Sources: Italian

God of mercy, God of grace

Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 200 hymnals Lyrics: 1 God of mercy, God of grace, show the brightness of thy face; shine upon us, Saviour, shine, fill thy church with light divine; and thy saving health extend unto earth's remotest end. 2 Let the people praise thee, Lord; be by all that live adored; let the nations shout and sing glory to their Saviour King; at thy feet their tribute pay, and thy holy will obey. 3 Let the people praise thee, Lord; earth shall then her fruits afford; God to man his blessing give, man to God devoted live; all below, and all above, one in joy and light and love. Topics: Proper 23 Year B Scripture: Leviticus 26 Used With Tune: HEATHLANDS

The Lord will come and not be slow

Author: John Milton, 1608-1674 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 98 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The Lord will come and not be slow, his footsteps cannot err; before him righteousness shall go, his royal harbinger. 2 Truth from the earth, like to a flower, shall bud and blossom then; and justice, from her heavenly bower, look down on mortal men. 3 Rise, God, judge thou the earth in might, this wicked earth redress; for thou art he who shalt by right the nations all possess. 4 The nations all whom thou hast made shall come, and all shall frame to bow them low before thee, Lord, and glorify thy name. 5 For great thou art, and wonders great by thy strong hand are done: thou in thy everlasting seat remainest God alone. Topics: Advent; Advent III Year A; Proper 12 Year C; Third Sunday Before Advent Year A Scripture: 2 Peter 3:9 Used With Tune: ST. STEPHEN

The people that in darkness sat

Author: John Morrison, 1750-1798 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 217 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The people that in darkness sat a glorious light have seen; the light has shined on them who long in shades of death have been. 2 To hail thee, Sun of Righteousness, the gathering nations come; they joy as when the reapers bear their harvest treasures home. *3 For thou their burden dost remove, and break the tyrant's rod, as in the day when Midian fell before the sword of God. 4 For unto us a child is born, to us a Son is given, and on his shoulder ever rests all power in earth and heaven. 5 His name shall be the Prince of Peace, the everlasting Lord, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the God by all adored. 6 His righteous government and power shall over all extend; on judgement and on justice based, his reign shall have no end. 7 Lord Jesus, reign in us, we pray, and make us thine alone, who with the Father ever art and Holy Spirit One. Topics: Advent III Year B; Advent III Year C; Epiphany III Year C; Second Sunday Before Advent Year C Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-8 Used With Tune: DUNDEE Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781

O come, let us adore him

Author: Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880 Meter: Irregular Appears in 742 hymnals First Line: O come, all ye faithful Lyrics: 1 O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; come and behold him born the King of Angels: Refrain: O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord! 2 God of God, Light of Light, lo! he abhors not the Virgin's womb; very God, begotten, not created: [Refrain] *3 See how the shepherds, summoned to his cradle, leaving their flocks, draw nigh with lowly fear; we too will thither bend our joyful footsteps: [Refrain] *4 Lo! star-led chieftains, Magi, Christ adoring, offer him incense, gold, and myrrh; we to the Christ child bring our heart's oblations: [Refrain] 5 Child, for us sinners poor and in the manger, fain we embrace thee, with awe and love; who would not love thee, loving us so dearly? [Refrain] 6 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, sing, all ye citizens of heaven above; glory to God in the highest: [Refrain] [On Christmas Day only] 7 Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning, Jesu, to thee be glory given; Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing: [Refrain] Topics: Christmas; Christmas Day Scripture: 1 John 4:19 Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES Text Sources: Latin, 18th century

O come and mourn with me awhile

Author: F. W. Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 216 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O come and mourn with me awhile; O come ye to the Saviour's side; O come, together let us mourn: Jesus, our Lord, is crucified! 2 Seven times he spoke, seven words of love; and all three hours his silence cried for mercy on the souls of all: Jesus, our Lord, is crucified! 3 O break, O break, hard heart of mine! Thy weak self-love and guilty pride his Pilate and his Judas were: Jesus, our Lord, is crucified! 4 O love of God! O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried; and victory remains with Love: for he, our Lord, is crucified! Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Scripture: John 19:16-30 Used With Tune: ST CROSS

All praise to our redeeming Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 142 hymnals Lyrics: 1 All praise to our redeeming Lord, who joins us by his grace, and bids us, each to each restored, together seek his face. 2 He bids us build each other up; and, gathered into one, to our high calling’s glorious hope we hand in hand go on. 3 The gift which he on one bestows, we all delight to prove; the grace through every vessel flows, in purest streams of love. 4 Ev'n now we think and speak the same, and cordially agree; concentred all, through Jesus’ name, in perfect harmony. 5 We all partake the joy of one, the common peace we feel, a peace to sensual minds unknown, a joy unspeakable. 6 And if our fellowship below in Jesus be so sweet, what heights of rapture shall we know when round his throne we meet! Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:10 Used With Tune: ST. STEPHEN

Fight the good fight with all thy might

Author: J. S. B. Monsell, 1811-1875 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 488 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 way before us lies; Christ is the path, 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: Fourth Sunday Before Lent Year B; Proper 15 Year C; Second Sunday Before Advent Year B Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

O God of Bethel, by whose hand

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 380 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O God of Bethel, by whose hand thy people still are fed, who through this weary pilgrimage hast all our fathers led; 2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present before thy throne of grace; God of our fathers, be the God of their succeeding race. 3 Through each perplexing path of life our wandering footsteps guide; give us each day our daily bread, and raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around till all our wanderings cease, and at our Father's loved abode our souls arrive in peace. Topics: Proper 11 Year A; Proper 15 Year C Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:7 Used With Tune: SALZBURG (HAYDN)