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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Author: Julia W. Howe Meter: 15.15.15.6 with refrain Appears in 556 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:26 First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Refrain First Line: Glory, glory hallelujah! Lyrics: 1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; he has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. God’s truth is marching on. Refrain: Glory, glory hallelujah! Glory, glory hallelujah! Glory, glory hallelujah! God’s truth is marching on. 2 God has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat and is sifting out all human hearts before the judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer; O be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. [Refrain] 3 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; as he died to make us holy, let us live to make all free, while God is marching on. [Refrain] Topics: Christ's Return and Judgment; Jesus Christ Advent; A New Heaven and a New Earth Used With Tune: BATTLE HYMN

Face to Face

Author: Carrie E. Breck Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 223 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:26 First Line: Face to face with Christ my Savior Refrain First Line: Face to face I shall behold him Lyrics: 1 Face to face with Christ my Savior, face to face-—what will it be when with rapture I behold him, Jesus Christ who died for me? [Refrain:] Face to face I shall behold him, far beyond the starry sky; face to face in all his glory, I shall see him by and by! 2 Only faintly now I see him, with the darkened veil between; but a blessèd day is coming when his glory shall be seen. (Refrain) 3 What rejoicing in his presence when are banished grief and pain, when the crooked ways are straightened and the dark things shall be plain. (Refrain) 4 Face to face! O blissful moment! Face to face—-to see and know; face to face with my Redeemer, Jesus Christ who loves me so. (Refrain) Topics: The Christian Life Death and Eternal Life; Funerals; Spiritual Conflict; Eternal Life; Funerals Used With Tune: FACE TO FACE

O Lord, my God (How great thou art)

Author: Karl Boberg, 1859-1940; Stuart K. Hine, 1899-1989 Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 140 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:25-26 First Line: O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Refrain First Line: Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee Topics: Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year A Proper 8; Year A Trinity Sunday; Year B Proper 22; Year C Trinity Sunday Used With Tune: HOW GREAT THOU ART

Mache dich, mein geist, bereit

Author: J. B. Freystein Appears in 133 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:33-37 Topics: Christliche Sinn und Wandel Einfalt und Wahrhaftigkeit

Surely I come quickly

Author: Rev. John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-1875) Appears in 113 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:35 First Line: O'er the distant mountains breaking comes the reddening dawn of day Topics: Aspirations For Heaven; Christ Second Coming; Judgment

The promised rest

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 71 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:31 First Line: God of all power, and truth, and grace Topics: The Christian Life Sanctification

Arm these Thy Soldiers

Author: Bp. Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) Appears in 67 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:33 First Line: Arm these thy soldiers, mighty Lord Topics: Converts Welcomed; Warfare and Victory Used With Tune: VICTORIA

The advent of our King

Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749; John Chandler, 1808-1876 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 54 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:26-27 Lyrics: 1 The advent of our King our prayers must now employ, and we must hymns of welcome sing in strains of holy joy. 2 The everlasting Son incarnate deigns to be; himself a servant's form puts on, to set his servants free. 3 Daughter of Sion, rise to meet thy lowly King; nor let thy faithless heart despise the peace he comes to bring. 4 As judge, on clouds of light, he soon will come again, and his true members all unite with him in heaven to reign. 5 All glory to the Son who comes to set us free, with Father, Spirit, ever One, through all eternity. Topics: Advent; Advent I Year C Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

Thanks to God whose Word was spoken

Author: Reginald Thomas Brooks (1918-1985) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:31 Lyrics: 1 Thanks to God whose word was spoken in the making of the earth. His the voice that called a nation, fired her vision, tried her worth. God has spoken, God has spoken: praise him for his open word. 2 Thanks to God whose word incarnate came to save our human race. Deeds and words and death and rising testify to heaven's grace. God has spoken, God has spoken: praise him for his open word. 3 Thanks to God whose word was written in the Bible's sacred page, record of the revelation showing God to every age. God has spoken, God has spoken: praise him for his open word. 4 Thanks to God whose word is published in the tongues of every race. See its glory undiminished by the change of time and place. God has spoken, God has spoken: praise him for his open word. 5 Thanks to God whose word is answered by the Spirit's voice within. Here we drink of joy unmeasured, life redeemed from death and sin. God is speaking, God is speaking: praise him for his open word. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit in the Church - Illumination of God's Word; God In Creation; Jesus incarnation; Jesus Word of God; Scripture; Word of God Used With Tune: ST. HELEN

For my sake and the gospel's, go

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825-1906) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 35 hymnals Scripture: Mark 13:10 Lyrics: 1 'For my sake and the gospel's, go and tell redemption's story'; his heralds answer, 'Be it so, and thine, Lord, all the glory!' They preach his birth, his life, his cross, the love of his atonement, for whom they count the world but loss, his Easter, his enthronement. 2 Hark! hark! the trump of jubilee proclaims to every nation, from pole to pole, by land and sea, glad tidings of salvation. Still on and on the anthems spread of alleluia voices; in concert with the holy dead, the warrior Church rejoices. 3 He comes, whose advent trumpet drowns the last of time's evangels, Immanuel, crowned with many crowns, the Lord of saints and angels. O Life, Light, Love, the great I AM, Triune, who changest never, the throne of God and of the Lamb is thine, and thine for ever. Topics: Our Response to God in mission and service; Christ Risen Coming Again; The Church Celebrates Ordination; Gospel Call; Jesus coming again; Jesus coming again; Ordination; Witness Used With Tune: BISHOPGARTH