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Not Alone for Mighty Empire

Author: William P. Merrill, 1867-1954 Appears in 88 hymnals Topics: All Saints Day; Choir; Citizenship, Christian; National Righteousness; Righteousness; Social Betterment Lyrics: 1 Not alone for mighty empire, Stretching far o'er land and sea; Not alone for bounteous harvests, Lift we up our hearts to Thee. Standing in the living present, Memory and hope between, Lord, we would with deep thanksgiving Praise Thee most for things unseen. 2 Not for battleship and fortress, Not for conquests of the sword; But for conquests of the spirit Give we thanks to Thee, O Lord; For the heritage of freedom, For the home, the church, the school; For the open door to manhood In a land the people rule. 3 For the armies of the faithful, Souls that passed and left no name; For the glory that illumines Patriot lives of deathless fame; For our prophets and apostles, Loyal to the living Word; For all heroes of the Spirit, Give we thanks to Thee, O Lord. 4 God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed, From the strife of class and faction: Make our nation free indeed. Keep her faith in simple manhoood Strong as when her life began, Till it find its full fruition In the brotherhood of man. Amen. Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

Lead on, O King Eternal

Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff Appears in 412 hymnals Topics: The Reign of Righteousness Social Progress Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round

Author: John W. Chadwick Appears in 126 hymnals Topics: The Reign of Righteousness Social Progress Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE

When wilt thou save the people?

Author: Ebenezer Elliott, 1781-1849 Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: The Reign of Righteousness Social Progress Used With Tune: COMMONWEALTH

Lord Jesus Christ! For love of Thee

Author: W. J. Mathams, 1853- Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Social Righteousness; Righteousness Social Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus Christ! For love of Thee, And by Thy grace enduring, They fought of old the goodly fight, Our larger life ensuring; For Thee with soul of sacrifice Iniquity assailing, They did Thy work, they wrought Thy will, And left Thy cross prevailing. 2 Lord Jesus Christ! For love of Thee, With that same grace inspiring, We take Thy banner from their hands, To higher deeds aspiring; For Thee we front the force of sin, With faith and hope unfailing, Grant us our fathers' blessing still, To see Thy cross prevailing. 3 Lord Jesus Christ! For love of Thee, With that same grace sustaining, Behind us march our eager sons, Each tempting truce disdaining: For Thee with flashing eyes they move, Thy future glory hailing, O, let them win the golden dream, And see Thy cross prevailing. Used With Tune: CONSTANCE

Look from Thy sphere of endless day

Author: William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878 Appears in 174 hymnals Topics: Social Righteousness; Righteousness Social Lyrics: 1 Look from Thy sphere of endless day, O God of mercy and of might; In pity look on those who stray, Benighted in this land of light. 2 In peopled vale, in lonely glen, In crowded mart, by stream or sea, How many of the sons of men Hear not the message sent from Thee! 3 Send forth Thy heralds, Lord, to call The thoughtless young, the hardened old, A scattered, homeless flock, till all Be gathered to Thy peaceful fold. 4 Send them Thy mighty word to speak Till faith shall dawn and doubt depart, To awe the bold, to stay the weak, And bind and heal the broken heart. 5 Then all these wastes, a dreary scene, That make us sadden as we gaze, Shall grow, with living waters, green, And lift to heaven the voice of praise. Used With Tune: BRIGGS

March on, march on, O ye soldiers true

Author: Miss Ella S. Armitage, 1841- Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Social Righteousness; Righteousness Social Lyrics: 1 March on, march on, O ye soldiers true, In the cross of Christ confiding, For the field is set, and the hosts are met, And the Lord His own is guiding. Through earth's wide round, let the tidings sound, Of the Lord who came from heaven; Of the mighty hope, that with death can cope, And the love so freely given. Refrain: March on, march on, O ye soldiers true, In the cross of Christ confiding, For the field is set and the hosts are met, and the Lord His own is guiding. 2 We march to fight with the powers of night, That have held the world in sorrow; And the broken heart shall forget its smart, And shall hail a joyful morrow, We fight with wrong, and our weapon strong Is the love which hate shall banish; And the chains shall fall from each ransomed thrall, As the thrones of tyrants vanish. [Refrain] 3 Long wear the fight, but the God of right, Though unseen, is ever near us; And the prayers that rise to the listening skies Like a song of hope shall cheer us. Till the sunrise broad of the day of God Shall declare the victor's glory, And the world shall rest in her Lord confessed, And shall sing the finished story. [Refrain] Amen. Used With Tune: VALIANCE

Splendour of the thoughts of God

Author: W. Russell Bowie, 1882- Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Social Righteousness; Righteousness Social Lyrics: 1 Splendour of the thoughts of God For the life of men, Visions of the saints and seers Burn for us again! From the night of ancient wrongs Wake our eyes to see Dawning in the skies the day God shall bring to be. 2 Lo, from out the heavy dark Strained and haggard eyes Turn toward that breaking dawn With their dumb surmise Women from their tragic shame, Weary men who bow To the burden of the world Cry Thy coming now! 3 Shame of all our lust and greed, Shame of lives that lie Couched in ease while down their streets Pain and want go by In the twilight of our sins, These we suffer long, While our strength lies dull before Earth's unrighted wrong. 4 Splendour of the thoughts of God Through the shadows rise, Burn the films of self and sin From our blinded eyes! Penitents, we come to learn What we ought to do; Give the vision then, O God, Strength to make it true! Used With Tune: DEDICATIO ANNI

Say not, The struggle nought availeth

Author: Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Righteousness Social; Social Righteousness Lyrics: 1 Say not, The struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. 2 If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And but for you possess the field. 3 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 4 And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow how slowly! But westward, look! the land is bright. Used With Tune: BOLTON

King of the city splendid

Author: G. T. Coster, 1835- Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Social Righteousness; Righteousness Social Lyrics: 1 King of the city splendid, Eternal in the height, May all our country's cities Be holy in Thy sight: Cleansed from the deeds of darkness Cities of light. 2 Inspire the sons of labour, That honest toil may be Their token, in life's hardness, Of loyalty to Thee. That Thou mayst in their hand-work Love's heart-work see. 3 Teach love to gladden children Who know not childhood's mirth, Wronged of their rights no beauty In their scant reach of earth: To hope's large sunshine give them A second birth. 4 Lord, end the spell of passion, Break Thou the drunkard's lure: Thou art the one Physician The human heart to cure; The wavering will to strengthen, Foul life make pure. 5 Soon may our country's cities Thy robe of glory wear: Each place of toil a temple, Each house a home of prayer: Each city's name of beauty The Lord is There! Used With Tune: CITY OF LIGHT