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Eternal Mind, Who Rules The Fates

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Text Sources: Horae Lyrica Book 1, 1706

O God of Light and Life and Joy

Author: John Brownlie Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: O God of Light and Life and Joy, Blest Trinity! my soul employ While I have power to sing: No song too glad to raise to Thee, Eternal, glorious Trinity,-- No gift too rich to bring. When darkness brooded o'er the earth, At thy command light had its birth, And night and darkness fled; And still, where hearts are bound in night, Thou speak'st the word, "Let there be light," And noontide beams are shed. Death held the Christ of God enchained, The grave the Lord of Life restrained, And eyes were filled with tears;-- Awoke the morn in eastern skies! Behold, the Lord of Life arise! Farewell to mortal fears! O joyless still the spirit sighs, And fearful looks to ebon skies, And stars begin to shine;-- Lo! overhead the bright array, The night is shining as the day, When hopes and fears entwine. O God of Light and Life and Joy, Blest Trinity, my soul employ While I have power to sing: No song too glad to raise to Thee, Eternal, glorious Trinity, No gift too rich to bring.

Light of my life, O Lord, Thou art

Author: John Brownlie Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: I Light of my life, O Lord, Thou art, No fear afflicts my trusting heart When, all secure in Thee As in a fortress I repose, And evil men, my direst foes, Are baulked that trouble me, II Hosts may encamp on every side, And pallid fear the trust deride That saves me from affright; But in the Lord my hope shall last, Till noise of war and strife are past, And flee the powers of night. III To God I make this chief request, That I in His abode may rest Through all my earthly days, To mark its comeliness and grace, And see the beauty of His face, Whose love inspires my praise. IV There shall I dwell unseen by all, Secure when days of trouble call, And evil doers mock; And He shall hide me in His tent, Till all the wrath of man is spent As tempests on a rock. V Therefore to Thee my praise I’ll give, And joyful offerings while I live My grateful soul shall bring; For Thou my foes hast beaten down, With victory Thou my head dost crown, And tun’st my heart to sing. Scripture: Psalm 27:1-6

Looking At the Cross

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 34 hymnals First Line: O thou who hast our sorrows borne

The Annunciation

Author: Adelia C. Graves Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: ’Twas night upon Judea’s hills

They Come From Far A King To Seek

Author: Isa J. Postgate Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Text Sources: A Christmas Legend, and Other Verses, 1899, alt.

Thou God of Glorious Majesty

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 98 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou God of glorious majesty, To Thee, against myself, to Thee, A worm of earth, I cry; A half-awakened child of man; An heir of endless bliss or pain; A sinner born to die! 2. Lo! on a narrow neck of land, ’Twixt two unbounded seas I stand, Secure, insensible; A point of time, a moment’s space, Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell. 3. O God, mine inmost soul convert! And deeply on my thoughtful heart Eternal things impress: Give me to feel their solemn weight, And tremble on the brink of fate, And wake to righteousness. 4. Before me place, in dread array, The pomp of that tremendous day, When Thou with clouds shalt come, To judge the nations at Thy bar; And tell me, Lord, shall I be there To meet a joyful doom? 5. Be this my one great business here, With serious industry and fear Eternal bliss to ensure; Thine utmost counsel to fulfill, And suffer all Thy righteous will, And to the end endure. 6. Then, Savior, then my soul receive, Transported from this vale to live And reign with Thee above; Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight, And everlasting love. Used With Tune: MERIBAH Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749

Yn Eden, cofiaf hynny byth (In Eden, (O the memory))

Author: William Williams, Pantycelyn, (1716-1791); Rev. Robert Parry Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Used With Tune: BUDDUGOLIAETH

Peace And Good Will

Author: Harriet M. Kimball Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" Lyrics: 1 "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" Year after year with sweet increase The heav’nly carol swells: The holy tale of Jesu’s birth In ever widening circles earth With tongues unnumbered tells. 2 Once more the vision glorified Appears with blessèd Christmastide— The virgin full of grace; And in her arms the Child divine, The God-Man born of David’s line, New head of Adam’s race. 3 The very nature that we wear, His Godhead veiled, He stoops to share In great humility; And angel legions round Him close And Heav’n with boundless praise o’erflows That such a love could be. 4 But neither round His infant brow The crown of thorns (pre-woven now) Created eyes behold; Nor in those infant arms that reach In mute appeal, in lieu of speech, The cross those arms infold. 5 Yet crown of thorns and holy rood (The tree of life, the mystic wood), His spotless sacrifice, His anguish and His triumph, all Are shadowed here in Bethlehem’s stall Though hidden from our eyes. 6 Here, too, begins His wondrous reign; Confessors, martyrs, lead His train Of humble souls and pure; Not of this world His kingdom is; All others fade away, but His Forever shall endure. 7 His sword is truth, His armor love; His Spirit as a tender dove Broods o’er this troubled life; He pities, pardons, strengthens, feeds; He binds the breaking heart that bleeds; To peace transformeth strife. 8 Where’er the Marah waters spring Of want or wrong or suffering And men of Him entreat, His cross all crimsoned with His blood He casts into the bitter flood And makes those waters sweet. 9 "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" What wonder that with glad increase The heav’nly carol swells; And on the story of His birth In ever widening circles earth With wondering rapture dwells! Used With Tune: MERIBAH Text Sources: Poems (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1889)