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My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord

Author: Dewey Westra Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Sovereignty, God's; Birth of Christ; Glorifying God; Mercy, God'S Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Used With Tune: PENTECOST

God of the strong, God of the weak

Author: Richard Watson Gilder Appears in 41 hymnals Used With Tune: PENTECOST

O Sovereign Lord

Author: T. H. Gladstone Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Sure 'twere enough, O Sovereign Lord Used With Tune: PENTECOST

O God, in whom we live and move

Author: Samuel Longfellow Appears in 37 hymnals Used With Tune: PENTECOST

Learn, Oh My Soul,What 'Tis To Die!

Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Learn, oh my soul, what ’tis to die! Lyrics: 1 Learn, oh my soul, what ’tis to die! Th’event how solemn, and how nigh; When every tongue shall silent be, These eyes no pleasing object see. 2 The active limbs, the comely face, Turned to a mass of rottenness; The name forgot, the substance gone, No more admired, no longer known. 3 But thou, my soul, must then remain, In everlasting joy or pain; The bliss of Heav’n with angels share, Or else be plunged in black despair. 4 Then be these solemn thoughts impressed, With power divine on every breast; And ere another moment pass, Oh let us seek renewing grace. 5 Quickly to Jesus may we fly, And on His righteousness rely; Lo, our eternal all’s at stake, Awake, our slumbering souls, awake. Used With Tune: PENTECOST Text Sources: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)

O God, Whom I Delight to Praise

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 6 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God, whom I delight to praise, To Thee my cry for help I raise; Be Thou my friend and advocate When foes assail with bitter hate. 2. Against me slanderous words are flung From many a false and lying tongue; Without a cause men hurl at me The shafts of deadly enmity. 3. My good with evil they repay, My love turns not their hate away; The part of vengeance, Lord, is Thine; To pray, and only pray, is mine. 4. Since love appeals to him in vain, The slave of sin let him remain; Against him let his foe be turned, His sin be judged, his prayer be spurned. 5. Let sudden death upon him break, His office let another take, His children and his widowed wife Pursue the homeless beggar’s life. 6. Let creditors consume his toil And strangers make his wealth their spoil; Let none in pity heed his claim; Cut off his race, blot out his name. 7. His parents’ sins be not forgot Till Thou from earth his memory blot, Since he remembered not to show Compassion to the sons of woe. 8. He cursing loved and blessing loathed: Unblest, with cursing he is clothed; For thus the justice of the Lord My adversaries will reward. 9. O God, the Lord, for Thy name’s sake Let me of Thy good grace partake; My need is great, and great Thou art To heal my wounded, stricken heart. 10. With failing strength I fast and pine, Like shadows swift my days decline, And when my foes my weakness see They shake their head in scorn at me. 11. O Lord, my God, Thy help I crave, In Thy great lovingkindness save; Before my foes Thy mercy show; That Thou dost help me, make them know. 12. What though they curse, if Thou wilt bless? Then joy shall banish my distress, And shame shall overwhelm the foes Who would Thy servant’s way oppose. 13. Thanksgiving to the Lord I raise, The multitude shall hear my praise, For by the needy God will stand To save them from oppression’s hand. Used With Tune: PENTECOST Text Sources: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 300

Spirit of mercy, truth and love

Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: Whitsuntide Used With Tune: PENTECOST

Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep

Appears in 1,096 hymnals Used With Tune: PENTECOST

Easter Day

Author: May L. R. Smith Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O sad, sad soul, fling wide your doors Lyrics: 1 O sad, sad soul, fling wide your doors, And make your windows curtainless; Strew odors on your silent floors, And all your walls with lilies dress! 2 Throw open every somber place; Roll every hindering stone away; Let Easter sunshine gild your face, And bless you with its warmth today! 3 Let friends renew each bygone hour; Let children fling the world a kiss; And every hand tie in some flower, To crown a day so good as this! 4 And whether skies are sad or clear, We’ll give the day to joy and song; For since the Christ is surely here, All things are right, and naught is wrong! Used With Tune: PENTECOST Text Sources: Sometimes and Other Poems (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1893)