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O When Will We See Justice Done?

Author: Carol Betchel Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Refrain First Line: God, hear my cry! To you I call Scripture: Psalm 58 Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD

I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 530 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Lyrics: 1 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, and when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. 2 Happy are those whose hopes rely on God the Lord, who made the sky, and earth, the sea, the night and day; God's truth forever stands secure, he keeps his promise to the poor, and none who seeks is turned away. 3 The Lord gives eyesight to the blind, he calms and heals the troubled mind, and sends the wounded conscience peace. God helps the stranger in distress, the widow and the fatherless, and grants the prisoner glad release. 4 I'll praise you while you lend me breath, and, when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. Scripture: Psalm 146 Used With Tune: OLD 113TH

Jesus, Our Divine Companion

Author: Henry van Dyke, 1852-1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 79 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Lyrics: 1 Jesus, our divine companion, By your lowly human birth You have come to join the workers, Burden bearers of the earth. Son of Joseph, gifted worker, Toiling for your daily food, By your patience and your courage, You have taught us toil is good. 2 All who tread the path of labor Follow where your feet have trod; All who work without complaining Do the holy will of God. Christ, the peace surpassing knowledge, Dwell with us in daily strife; Christ, the bread of heaven, broken In the sacrament of life. 3 Ev'ry task, however humble, Fills the soul with grace anew; Ev'ry deed of love and kindness Done in faith is done for you. Jesus, our divine companion, Help us all to work our best; Bless us in our daily labor, Lead us to our heav'nly rest. Used With Tune: PLEADING SAVIOR

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Author: James W. Johnson, 1871-1938 Meter: 6.6.10.6.6.10.14.14.6.6.10 Appears in 51 hymnals Topics: Comfort; Courage; Freedom; Justice; Love for Others; Social Concern; Song; Suffering First Line: Lift ev'ry voice and sing Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun Of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. 2 Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our people sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path thro' the blood of the slaughtered; Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast. 3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee; Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee. Shadowed beneath thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land. Used With Tune: ANTHEM

Glorious Things of You Are Spoken

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,319 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of you are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He whose word cannot be broken formed you for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake your sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, you may smile at all your foes. 2 See, the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply your sons and daughters, and all fear of want remove. Who can faint, while such a river ever will their thirst assuage? Grace which, like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering, showing that the Lord is near. Thus deriving from their banner light by night and shade by day, safe they feed upon the manna which God gives them on their way. 4 Savior, since of Zion's city I through grace a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in your name. Fading are the world's vain pleasures, all their boasted pomp and show; solid joys and lasting treasures none but Zion's children know. Scripture: Psalm 87 Used With Tune: JEFFERSON

Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love

Author: Tom Colvin Appears in 65 hymnals Topics: Social Justice First Line: Kneels at the feet of his friends Lyrics: Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you. 1 Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet, Master who acts as a slave to them. [Refrain] 2 Neighbors are rich folk and poor, neighbors are black, brown, and white, neighbors are nearby and far away. [Refrain] 3 These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you. [Refrain] 4 Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are slaves: this is the way we should live with you. [Refrain] Scripture: John 13:2-5 Used With Tune: CHEREPONI

God is love: come heaven, adoring

Author: Timothy Rees C.R., 1874-1939 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: Social Concerns / Social Justice Scripture: Psalm 104 Used With Tune: ABBOT'S LEIGH

For the fruits of His creation

Author: F. Pratt Green, b. 1903 Meter: 12.12.8.8.12 Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: Social Justice First Line: For the fruits of His creation, thanks be to God Used With Tune: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Christ Is Alive! Let Christians Sing

Author: Brian A. Wren, b. 1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 56 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift and war, where color, scorn, or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love and praise. Scripture: Zechariah 8:18-23 Used With Tune: TRURO

O Lord, Be Thou My Helper True

Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Social Justice Lyrics: 1 O Lord, be Thou my helper true, For just and godly men are few; The faithful who can find? From truth and wisdom men depart, With flattering lips and double heart They speak their evil mind. 2 The lips that speak, the truth to hide, The tongues of arrogance and pride, That boastful words employ, False-speaking tongues that boast their might, That own no law, that know no right, Jehovah will destroy. 3 Because the poor are sore oppressed, Because the needy are distressed, And bitter are their cries, The Lord will be their Helper strong; To save them from contempt and wrong Jehovah will arise. 4 Jehovah's promises are sure, His words are true, His words are pure As silver from the flame. Though base men walk on every side, His saints are safe, whate'er betide, Protected by His Name. Scripture: Psalm 12 Used With Tune: BREMEN