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How Can I Keep from Singing?

Author: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: New Creation First Line: My life flows on in endless song Refrain First Line: No storm can shake my inmost calm Scripture: Psalm 18:2 Used With Tune: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

All People That on Earth Do Dwell

Author: William Kethe Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 726 hymnals Topics: Creation Lyrics: 1. All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell; come ye before him and rejoice. 2. Know that the Lord is God indeed; without our aid he did us make; we are his folk, he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. 3. O enter then his gates with praise; approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud, and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do. 4. For why! the Lord our God is good; his mercy is forever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD 100TH

From all who dwell below the skies

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 1,282 hymnals Topics: Creation; Gifts in Creation Lyrics: 1 From all who dwell below the skies let the Creator's praise arise; Hallelujah! Let the Redeemer's name be sung through every land, by every tongue, Hallelujah! 2 Eternal are your mercies, Lord, eternal truth attends your word: Hallelujah! Your praise shall sound from shore to shore till suns shall rise and set no more. Hallelujah! Scripture: Malachi 1:11 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

What Wondrous Love

Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Topics: New Creation First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, to bear the dreadful curse for my soul? 2 When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down, sinking down; when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul, Christ laid aside his crown for my soul. 3 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing, to God and to the Lamb I will sing; to God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing, while millions join the theme, I will sing. 4 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and when from death I'm free, I'll sing on; and when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be, and through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on, and through eternity I'll sing on. Scripture: Revelation 5:6-14 Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: S. Mead's A General Selection, 1811

Bless the Lord, O My Soul

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 100 hymnals Topics: God In Creation First Line: O thou my soul bless God the Lord Scripture: Psalm 103:1 Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

Meter: Irregular Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Creation and Providence Lyrics: 1 He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. 2 He's got the wind and the rain in his hands. (Sing three times) He's got the whole world in his hands. 3 He's got the little tiny baby in his hands. . . . He's got the whole world in his hands. 4 He's got you and me, brother, in his hands. . . . He's got the whole world in his hands. 5 He's got you and me, sister, in his hands. . . . He's got the whole world in his hands. 6 He's got everybody here in his hands. . . . He's got the whole world in his hands. Used With Tune: WHOLE WORLD Text Sources: Afro-American spiritual

Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee

Author: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 269 hymnals Topics: Creation; Creation Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love; hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away; giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day. 2 All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect thy rays, stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea, chanting bird and flowing fountain call us to rejoice in thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest, well-spring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest! Thou our Father and our Mother, all who live in love are thine; teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine. Scripture: Psalm 66 Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY

When all Thy mercies, O my God

Author: Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,002 hymnals Topics: God In Creation and Providence Used With Tune: HARINGTON

Creatures vain, and God All-sufficient

Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: Creation and Providence; Praise for creation and providence First Line: O happy Nation, where the Lord Lyrics: 1 O happy Nation, where the Lord Reveals the Treasure of his Word, And builds his Church, his earthly Throne! His Eye the Heathen World surveys, He form'd their Hearts, he knows their Ways; But GOD their Maker is unknown. 2 Let Kings rely upon their Host, And of his Strength the Champion boast; In vain they boast, in vain rely; In vain we trust the brutal Force; Or Speed or Courage of an Horse, To guard his Rider, or to fly. 3 The Eye of thy Compassion, Lord, Doth more secure Defence afford When Death or Dangers threat'ning stand; Thy watchful Eye preserves the Just, Who make thy Name their Fear and Trust, When Wars or Famine waste the Land. 4 In Sickness, or the bloody Field, Thou our Physician, thou our Shield, Send us Salvation from thy Throne; We wait to see thy Goodness shine; Let us rejoice in Help divine, For all our Hope is GOD alone. Scripture: Psalm 133