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Rejoice, rejoice, believers
Author: L. Laurenti Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #602 (1913) Topics: The Last Things Christ's Second Coming; The Last Things Christ's Second Coming Lyrics: 1 Rejoice, rejoice, believers,
And let your lights appear!
The evening is advancing,
And darker night is near.
The Bridegroom is arising,
And soon He draweth nigh;
Up, pray, and watch and wrestle;
At midnight comes the cry!
2 The watchers on the mountain
Proclaim the Bridegroom near;
Go meet Him as He cometh,
With Hallelujahs clear.
The marriage-feast is waiting,
The gates wide open stand;
Up, up ye heirs of glory;
The Bridegroom is at hand!
3 Ye saints, who here in patience
Their cross and sufferings bore,
Shall live and reign for ever,
When sorrow is no more.
Around the throne of glory
The Lamb ye shall behold,
In triumph cast before Him
Their diadems of gold!
4 Our hope and expectation,
O Jesus, now appear;
Arise, Thou Sun so longed for,
O'er this benighted sphere!
With hearts and hands uplifted,
We plead, O Lord, to see
The day of earth's redemption,
That brings us unto Thee! Tune Title: [Rejoice, rejoice, believers]
Rejoice, rejoice, believers
O Son of God, we wait for Thee
Author: Philipp F. Hiller Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #603 (1913) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Topics: The Last Things Christ's Second Coming; The Last Things Christ's Second Coming Lyrics: 1 O Son of God, we wait for Thee,
We long for Thine appearing,
We know Thou sittest on the throne,
And we Thy name are bearing.
Who trusts in Thee, may joyful be,
And see Thee, Lord, descending
To bring us bliss unending.
2 We wait for Thee, ’mid toil and pain,
In weariness and sighing;
But glad that Thou our guilt hast borne,
And canceled it by dying.
Hence, cheerfully may we with Thee
Take up our cross and bear it,
Till we relief inherit.
3 We wait for Thee; here Thou hast won
Our hearts to hope and duty;
But while our spirits feel Thee near,
Our eyes would see Thy beauty;
We fain would be at rest with Thee
In peace and joy supernal,
In glorious life eternal.
4 We wait for Thee; sure Thou wilt come,
The time is swiftly nearing;
In this we also now rejoice,
And long for Thine appearing.
O bliss ’twill be when Thee we see,
Homeward Thy people bringing,
With transport and with singing! Tune Title: [O Son of God, we wait for Thee]
O Son of God, we wait for Thee
Great God, What do I See and Hear?
Author: William B. Collyer; Unknown Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnal #604 (1941) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: The Last Things Judgment Lyrics: 1 Great God, what do I see and hear?
The end of things created;
The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated.
The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.
2 The dead in Christ shall first arise
At that last trumpet’s sounding,
Caught up to meet Him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding.
No gloomy fears their souls dismay;
His presence sheds eternal day
On those prepared to meet Him.
3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing,
For they shall rise and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing;
The day of grace is past and gone;
They trembling stand before His throne,
All unprepared to meet Him.
4 O Christ, who diedst and yet dost live,
To me impart Thy merit;
My pardon seal, my sins forgive,
And cleanse me by thy Spirit.
Beneath Thy cross I view the day
When heav’n and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet Thee. Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 Languages: English Tune Title: ES IST GEWISSLICH
Great God, What do I See and Hear?
That day of wrath, that dreadful day
Author: Thomas of Celano Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #606 (1913) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: The Last Things Christ's Second Coming; The Last Things Christ's Second Coming Lyrics: 1 That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?
2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Resounds the trump that wakes the dead;
3 O on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away. Tune Title: [That day of wrath, that dreadful day]
That day of wrath, that dreadful day
For thee, O dear, dear country
Author: Bernard of Cluny Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #608 (1913) Topics: The Last Things The Heavenly Home; The Last Things The Heavenly Home Lyrics: 1 For thee, O dear, dear country,
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name, they weep.
The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.
2 O one, O only mansion!
O Paradise of joy!
Where tears are ever banished
And smiles have no alloy;
The Lamb is all thy splendor,
The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction
Thy ransomed people raise.
3 With jasper glow thy bulwarks,
Thy streets with emeralds blaze;
The sardius and the topaz
Unite in thee their rays;
Thine ageless walls are bonded
With amethyst unpriced;
The saints build up thy fabric,
And the corner-stone is Christ.
4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away!
Upon the Rock of Ages
They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,
And Thine the golden dower.
5 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country,
That eager hearts expect!
Jesus, in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father
And Spirit, ever blest. Tune Title: [For thee, O dear, dear country]
For thee, O dear, dear country
Jerusalem, my happy home
Author: Anon.; Joseph Bromhead Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #609 (1913) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Last Things The Heavenly Home; The Last Things The Heavenly Home Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me!
When shall my labors have an end
In joy, and peace, and thee?
2 When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold?
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
3 O when, thou city of my God,
Shall I thy courts ascend,
Where evermore the angels sing,
Where sabbaths have no end?
4 There happier bowers than Eden’s bloom,
Nor sin nor sorrow know:
Blest seats! through rude and stormy scenes
I onward press to you.
5 Why should I shrink at pain and woe,
Or feel at death dismay?
I’ve Canaan’s goodly land in view,
And realms of endless day.
6 Apostles, martyrs, prophets there
Around my Savior stand;
And soon my friends in Christ below
Will join the glorious band.
7 Jerusalem, my happy home!
My soul still pants for thee;
Then shall my labors have an end,
When I thy joy shall see.
Tune Title: [Jerusalem my happy home]
Jerusalem, my happy home
There is a land of pure delight
Author: I. Watts Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #611 (1913) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Last Things The Heavenly Home; The Last Things The Heavenly Home Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger trembling on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With faith's illumined eyes:
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore. Tune Title: [There is a land of pure delight]
There is a land of pure delight
Great God, What Do I See and Hear!
Author: William Bengo Collyer Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #611 (1926) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: Last Things Resurrection and Judgment Lyrics: 1 Great God, what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The Judge of man I see appear,
On clouds of glory seated.
The trumpet sounds: the graves restore
The dead which they contained before;
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.
2 The dead in Christ shall first arise,
At the last trumpet's sounding,
Caught up to meet Him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding;
No gloomy fears their souls dismay;
His presence sheds eternal day
On those prepared to meet Him.
3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing,
For they shall rise, and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing;
The day of grace is past and gone;
They trembling stand before the throne,
All unprepared to meet Him.
4 Thou who hast died and yet dost live,
To me impart Thy merit;
My pardon seal, my sins forgive,
And cleanse me by Thy Spirit.
Beneath Thy cross I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet Thee.
Amen. Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Languages: English Tune Title: ES IST GEWISSLICH AN DER ZEIT
Great God, What Do I See and Hear!
Brief life is here our portion
Author: Bernard of Cluny Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #612 (1913) Topics: The Last Things The Heavenly Home; The Last Things The Heavenly Home Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there.
O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest;
For mortals, and for sinners
A mansion with the blest!
2 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full and everlasting
And passionless renown;
And now we watch and struggle,
And now we live in hope,
And Zion in her anguish
With Babylon must cope;
3 But He whom now we trust in
Shall then be seen and known;
And they that know and see Him
Shall have Him for their own.
The morning shall awaken,
And shadows shall decay,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day.
4 There grief is turned to pleasure,
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know.
There God, our king and portion,
In fullness of His grace,
Shall we behold for ever,
And worship face to face.
5 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country
That eager hearts expect!
Jesus, in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father
And Spirit, ever blest.
Tune Title: [Brief life is here our portion]
Brief life is here our portion
True Light, that lightest all in heaven and earth
Author: G. Thring Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #613 (1913) Meter: 10.6.10.6.7.6.7.6 Topics: The Last Things The Heavenly Home; The Last Things The Heavenly Home Lyrics: 1 True Light, that lightest all in heaven and ,
Light us Thou Light divine;
Children thou mad'st us by a second birth.
children, O Lord, of Thine;
Heirs of a life undying,
The hidden life above,
Strong on Thy strength relying,
Safe in a Father's love.
2 The earth, erewhile so oft bedewed with tears,
Shall be, like man, new-born;
The heavens--unrolled through unimagined years--
Be bright with endless morn;
No room is there for sorrow,
Toll, trouble, want, or care,
None anxious for the morrow,--
There is no morrow there.
3 Light there, eternal light and life shall reign
O'er all without, within;
No stricken soul e'er bow beneath the pain
Of unforgotten sing;
The day shall have no ending,
No night its shadows cast,
All present gladness blending
With gladness in the past.
4 We darkly now, as in a mirror, see
These wondrous worlds on high;
Help us, O Lord, to live our life in Thee,
The life that cannot die;
Till heavenward ever soaring,
By Thy redeeming grace,
Before Thy throne adoring
We see Thee face to face. Tune Title: [True Light, that lightest all in heaven and earth]
True Light, that lightest all in heaven and earth
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