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How pleasant, how divinely fair

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 354 hymnals Topics: Worship Opening Hymns Lyrics: 1 How pleasant, how divinely fair, O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are! With long desire my spirit faints To meet th' assemblies of thy saints. 2 I long to rest in thine abode My panting heart cries out for God; My God, my King, why should I be So far from all my joys and thee? 3 Blest are the souls that find a place Within the temple of thy grace; There they behold thy gentle rays, And seek thy face and learn thy praise. 4 Blest are the men whose hearts are set To find a way to Zion's gate: God is their strength; and through the road They lean upon their helper, God. 5 Cheerful they walk, with growing strength, Till all shall meet in heaven at length; Till all before thy face appear, And join in nobler worship there. Used With Tune: BURTON

Here, O My Lord, I See Thee

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 322 hymnals Topics: Opening Hymns First Line: Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face Lyrics: 1. Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen; here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2. This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table spread for me; here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong the hallowed hour of fellowship with thee. 3. Here would I feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would I lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 4. Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear; the feast, though not the love, is past and gone. The bread and wine remove; but thou art here, nearer than ever, still my shield and sun. 5. Feast after feast thus comes and passes by; yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love. Scripture: Revelation 19:6-9 Used With Tune: PENITENTIA

When, as returns this solemn day

Author: Anna L. Barbauld Appears in 126 hymnals Topics: Worship Opening Hymns Lyrics: 1 When, as returns this solemn day, Man comes to meet his God, What rites, what honors shall he pay? How spread his praise abroad? 2 From marble domes and gilded spires Shall clouds of incense rise? And gems, and gold, and garlands deck The costly sacrifice? 3 Vain, sinful man! creation's Lord Thy offerings well may spare; But give thy heart, and thou shalt find Thy God will hear thy prayer. Used With Tune: MANOAH

Come Down, O Love Divine

Author: Bianco da Siena; Richard Frederick Littledale Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 114 hymnals Topics: Opening Hymns Lyrics: 1 Come down, O love divine, seek now this soul of mine, and visit it with your own ardour glowing. O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing. 2 O let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn to dust and ashes in its heat consuming; and let your glorious light shine ever on my sight, and clothe me round, my onward path illuming. 3 And so the yearning strong with which the soul will long shall far outpass the power of human telling; for none can guess its grace, till Love create the place wherein the Holy Spirit makes its dwelling. Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY

O Holy Spirit, Enter In

Author: Michael Schirmer, 1606-1673; Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878 Meter: Irregular Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: Opening Hymns Used With Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET

How Great Thou Art

Author: Carl Boberg, 1850-1940; Stuart K Hine, b. 1899 Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 147 hymnals Topics: Opening Hymns First Line: O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Refrain First Line: Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee Used With Tune: O STORE GUD