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Loving Shepherd of thy sheep

Author: Jane Elizabeth Leeson, 18-0=1991 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 85 hymnals Topics: Year B Dedication Festival Lyrics: 1 Loving Shepherd of thy sheep, keep me, Lord, in safety keep; nothing can thy pow'r withstand, none can pluck me from thy hand. 2 Loving Shepherd, thou didst give thine own life that I might live; may I love thee day by day, gladly thy sweet will obey. 3 Loving Shepherd, ever near, teach me till thy voice to hear; suffer not my steps to stray from the straight and narrow way. 4 Where thou leadest I would go, walking in thy steps below; then, before my Father's throne, Jesu, claim me for thine own. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Used With Tune: LÜBECK (GOTT SEI DANK)

Nearer, my God, to thee

Author: Sarah Flower Adams, 1805-1848 Appears in 2,560 hymnals Topics: Year B Dedication Festival Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me: still all my song would be, 'Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee, nearer to thee.' 2 Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my dreams I'd be 'Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee, nearer to thee. 3 There let the way appear, steps unto heaven; all that thou sendest me, in mercy given; angels to beckon me 'Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee, nearer to thee. 4 Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise, out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; so by my woes to be 'Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee, nearer to thee. 5 Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky, sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly, still all my song shall be, 'Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee, nearer to thee.' Scripture: Genesis 28:10-19 Used With Tune: PROPIOR DEO

Jesus, where'er thy people meet

Author: William Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 518 hymnals Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Dedication Festival Lyrics: 1 Jesus, where'er thy people meet, there they behold thy mercy-seat; where'er they seek thee, thou art found, and every place is hallowed ground. 2 For thou, within no walls confined, inhabitest the humble mind; such ever bring thee when they come, and, going, take thee to their home. 3 Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few, thy former mercies here renew; here to our waiting hearts proclaim the sweetness of thy saving name. 4 Here may we prove the power of prayer to strengthen faith and sweeten care, to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heaven before our eyes. 5 Lord, we are few, but thou art near; nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear; O rend the heavens, come quickly down, and make a thousand hearts thine own. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: WAREHAM

Lord of the worlds above

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 501 hymnals Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Dedication Festival Lyrics: 1 Lord of the worlds above how pleasant and how fair the dwellings of thy love, thy earthly temples, are! To thine abode my heart aspires, with warm desires to see my God. 2 O happy souls that pray where God appoints to hear! O happy men that pay their constant service there! They praise thee still; and happy they that love the way to Zion's hill. 3 They go from strength to strength through this dark vale of tears, till each arrives at length, till each in heaven appears: O glorious seat! When God our King shall thither bring our willing feet. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: CROFT'S 136TH

Pleasant are thy courts above

Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 248 hymnals Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Dedication Festival Lyrics: 1 Pleasant are thy courts above in the land of light and love; pleasant are thy courts below in this land of sin and woe; Oh, my spirit longs and faints for the converse of thy saints, for the brightness of thy face, for thy fullness, God of grace. 2 Happy birds that sing and fly round thy altars, O most high; happier souls that find a rest in a heavenly Father's breast; like the wandering dove that found no repose on earth around, they can to their ark repair, and enjoy it ever there. 3 Happy souls, their praises flow even in this vale of woe; waters in the desert rise, manna feeds them from the skies, on they go from strength to strength, till they reach thy throne at length, at thy feet adoring fall, who hast led them safe through all. 4 Lord, be mine this prize to win, guide me through a world of sin, keep me by thy saving grace, give me at thy side a place; sun and shield alike thou art, guide and guard my erring heart; grace and glory flow from thee; shower, O shower them, Lord, on me. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: MAIDSTONE

Come ye faithful, raise the strain

Appears in 383 hymnals Topics: Festivals Lyrics: 1 Come ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness; God hath brought His Israel Into joy from sadness; Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daughters; Led them with unmoistened foot Through the Red Sea waters. 2 'Tis the Spring of souls to-day: Christ hath burst His prison; And from three days' sleep in death As a sun hath risen; All the winter of our sins, Long and dark, is flying From His light, to whom we give Laud and praise undying. 3 Now the Queen of Seasons, bright With the day of splendour, With the royal Feast of feasts, Comes its joy to render; Comes to glad Jerusalem, Who with true affection, Welcomes in unwearied strains Jesus' Resurrection. 4 Alleluia now we cry To our King Immortal, Who triumphant burst the bars Of the tomb's dark portal; Alleluia, with the Son God the Father praising; Alleluia yet again To the Spirit raising. Amen. Used With Tune: S. KEVIN

Jerusalem, my happy home

Appears in 626 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Saints' Days - Minor Festivals Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end? Thy joys when shall I see? 2 O happy harbor of the saints, O sweet and pleasant soil! In thee no sorrow may be found, No grief, no care, no toil. 3 Thy gardens and thy gallant walks Continually are green; There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers As nowhere else are seen. 4 Quite through the streets with silver sound The flood of life doth flow, Upon whose banks on every side The wood of life doth grow. 5 There trees for evermore bear fruit, And evermore do spring; There evermore the angels sit, And evermore do sing. 6 Jerusalem, my happy home, Would God I were in thee! Would God my woes were at an end, Thy joys that I might see! Used With Tune: LAND OF REST Text Sources: Based on St. Augustine, F. B. P., cir. XVI cent.

Affirm anew the three-fold name

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Other Saints and Festivals Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Lyrics: 1 Affirm anew the three-fold name of Father, Spirit, Son, our God whose saving acts proclaim a world's salvation won. In him alone we live and move and breath and being find, the wayward children of his love who cares for humankind. 2 Declare in all the earth his grace, to every heart his call, the living Lord of time and place whose love embraces all. So shall his endless praise be sung, his teaching truly heard, and every culture, every tongue, receive his timeless word. 3 Confirm our faith in this our day amid earth's shifting sand, with Christ as Life and Truth and Way, a Rock on which to stand; the one eternal Son and Lord by God the Father given, the true and life-imparting Word, the Way that leads to heaven. 4 Renew once more the ancient fire, let love our hearts inflame; renew, restore, unite, inspire the Church that bears your name; one name exalted over all, one Father, Spirit, Son, O grant us grace to heed your call and in that name be one. Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20 Used With Tune: ST MATTHEW

I will sing the wondrous story

Author: Francis Harold Rowley (1854-1952) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 308 hymnals Topics: Other Saints and Festivals Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Scripture: Isaiah 43:2 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Author: Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 217 hymnals Topics: Other Saints and Festivals The Conversion of Paul Lyrics: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might; thy justice like mountains high soaring above thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love. 3 To all life thou givest, to both great and small; in all life thou livest, the true life of all; we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, and wither and perish; but naught changeth thee. 4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight; all laud we would render: O help us to see 'tis only the splendour of light hideth thee. Scripture: Isaiah 40:6-8 Used With Tune: ST DENIO