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Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty
Author: Benjamin Schmolck; Miss Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 151 hymnals Topics: Worship Prayer and Praise; Sexagesima; The Day of the Presentation of Christ (Candlemas); Church, Dedications; Mystical union; Thanksgiving Lyrics: 1 Open now thy gates of beauty;
Zion, let me enter there,
Where my soul in joyful duty
Waits for Him who answers prayer;
O how blessed is this place,
Filled with solace, light and grace!
2 Gracious God, I come before Thee,
Come Thou also down to me;
Where we find Thee and adore Thee,
There a heaven on earth must be:
To my heart, O enter Thou,
Let it be Thy temple now.
3 Here Thy praise is gladly chanted,
Here Thy seed is duly sown:
Let my soul, where it is planted,
Bring forth precious sheaves alone,
So that all I hear may be
Fruitful unto life in me.
4 Thou my faith increase and quicken,
Let me keep Thy gift divine;
Howsoe'er temptation thicken,
May Thy Word still o'er me shine,
As my guiding star through life,
As my comfort in all strife.
5 Speak, O God, and I will hear Thee,
Let Thy will be done indeed;
May I undisturbed draw near Thee
While Thy people Thou dost feed:
Here of life the fountain flows,
Here is balm for all our woes.
Amen. Used With Tune: UNSER HERRSCHER, UNSER KÖNIG
Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty
To the name of our salvation
Author: J. M. Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 123 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Praised and Worshipped; Advent 4 The Annunciation; Christmas 1 The Incarnation; The Ascension of Christ; Pentecost 3 The Church's Confidence in Christ Used With Tune: ORIEL Text Sources: the Latin (1496)
To the name of our salvation
One holy Church of God appears
Author: Rev. Samuel Longfellow Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 82 hymnals Topics: Christ Founder of the Church Lyrics: 1 One holy Church of God appears
Through every age and race,
Unwasted by the lapse of years,
Unchanged by changing place.
2 From oldest time, on farthest shores,
Beneath the pine or palm,
One unseen Presence she adores,
With silence, or with psalm.
3 The truth is her prophetic gift,
The soul her sacred page;
And feet on mercy’s errands swift
Do make her pilgrimage.
4 O living Church, thine errand speed,
Fulfill thy task sublime;
With Bread of life earth’s hungers feed;
Redeem the evil time!
Amen. Used With Tune: ST. JAMES
One holy Church of God appears
Sing praise to the Lord!
Author: H. W. Baker (1821-1877) Meter: 5.5.5.5.6.5.6.5 Appears in 79 hymnals Topics: God's Church Praise and Adoration; The Ascension of Christ; Pentecost 3 The Church's Confidence in Christ Scripture: Psalm 150 Used With Tune: LAUDATE DOMINUM
Sing praise to the Lord!
Jesus, still lead on
Author: Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1700 - 1760; Jane Laurie Borthwick, 1813 - 1897 Meter: 5.5.8.8.5.5 Appears in 293 hymnals Topics: The Church of God The Reception of Members; The Life in Christ Pilgrimage, Protection, and Guidance Used With Tune: ST. HUBERT
Jesus, still lead on
Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire
Author: C. A. von Bogatzky Appears in 38 hymnals Topics: Church of Christ Lyrics: 1 Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire
The watchmen of the Church’s youth,
Who faced the foe’s envenomed ire,
Who witnessed day and night Thy truth,
Whose voices loud are ringing still,
And bringing hosts to know Thy will.
2 Lord, let our earnest prayers be heard,
The prayer Thy Son hath bid us pray,
For lo, Thy children’s hearts are stirred
In every land in this our day,
To cry with fervent soul to Thee,
O help us, Lord! so let it be!
3 O haste to help, ere we are lost!
Send preachers forth, in spirit strong,
Armed with Thy Word, a dauntless host,
Bold to attack the rule of wrong;
Let them the earth for Thee reclaim,
Thy heritage, to know Thy Name.
4 Would there were help within our walls!
O let Thy Spirit come again,
Before whom every barrier falls,
And now once more shine forth as then!
O rend the heavens and make us free!
Come, Lord, and bring us back to Thee!
5 And let Thy Word have speedy course,
Through every land be glorified,
Till all the heathen know its force,
And fill Thy churches far and wide;
Wake Israel from her sleep, O Lord,
And spread the conquests of Thy Word!
6 The Church's desert paths restore;
Let stumbling-blocks that in them lie
Hinder Thy Word henceforth no more:
Error destroy, and heresy,
And let Thy Church, from hirelings free,
Bloom as a garden fair to Thee! Used With Tune: [Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire]
Awake, Thou Spirit, who didst fire
We love the place, O God
Author: William Bullock, 1798-1874; Henry Williams Baker, 1821-77 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: The Church of Jesus Christ Life of the Church Used With Tune: QUAM DILECTA
We love the place, O God
Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide
Author: Nicolaus Selnecker Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: Church of Christ Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide,
For round us falls the eventide;
Nor let Thy word, that heavenly light,
For us be ever veiled in night.
2 While sin and death around we see,
O grant that we may constant be;
And pure retain, till life is spent,
Thy precious word and sacrament.
3 Dear Savior, help, Thy Church uphold;
For we are sluggish, thoughtless, cold;
Indue Tyy word with power and grace
And spread its truth in every place.
4 Yes, leave us but Thy word, we pray;
The fatal wiles of Satan stay;
O smile upon Thy Church; give grace,
Give courage, patience, love, and peace.
5 O God! how sin's dread works abound,
Throughout the earth no rest is found;
And wide has falsehood's spirit spread,
And error boldly rears its head.
6 And ever is there something new
Devised to change Thy doctrine true;
Lord Jesus! as Thou still dost reign,
Those vain, presumptuous minds restrain;
7 And as the cause and glory, Lord,
Are Thine, not ours, do Thou afford
Us help and strength and constancy,
And keep us ever true to Thee.
8 Thy word shall fortify us hence,
It is Thy Church's sure defense;
O let us in its power confide,
That we may seek no other guide.
9 Here on Thy Word in faith we lean
There Thou shalt be forever seen;
And when our journey endeth here,
Receive us, Lord, in glory there.
Used With Tune: [Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide]
Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide
Father, hear the prayer we offer
Author: Love M. Willis (1824-1908) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 250 hymnals Topics: Christ the Friend of Sinners; God's Church Penitence and Prayer; Lent 3, The King and the Kingdom Suffering; Pentecost 20 Endurance; Pentecost 9 The Whole Armour of God; The Election of God's People Abraham Lyrics: 1 Father, hear the prayer we offer —
not for ease that prayer shall be,
but for strength that we may ever
live our lives courageously.
2 Not for ever in green pastures
do we ask our way to be;
but the steep and rugged pathway
may we tread rejoicingly.
3 Not for ever by still waters
would we idly rest and stay;
but would smite the living fountains
from the rocks along our way.
4 Be our strength in hours of weakness,
in our wanderings be our guide;
through endeavour, failure, danger,
Father, be there at our side. Used With Tune: GOTT WILL'S MACHEN
Father, hear the prayer we offer
Go to dark Gethsemane
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 519 hymnals Topics: God The Lord Jesus Christ - His Life Among Men; God The Lord Jesus Christ - His Sufferings and Death; The Church of God The Lord's Supper Used With Tune: GETHSEMANE
Go to dark Gethsemane
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