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The Morning Light Is Breaking

Author: Samuel Francis Smith Appears in 1,171 hymnals First Line: The morning light is breaking, the darkness disappears Lyrics: 1. The morning light is breaking, the darkness disappears; The sons of earth are waking, to penitential tears; Each breeze that sweeps the ocean brings tidings from afar Of nations in commotion, prepared for Zion’s war. 2. Rich dews of grace come o’er us, in many a gentle shower, And brighter scenes before us, are opening every hour; Each cry to Heaven going, abundant answers brings, And heav’nly winds are blowing, with peace upon their wings. 3. See heathen nations bending before the God we love, And thousand hearts ascending in gratitude above: While sinners, now confessing, the Gospel call obey, And seek the Savior’s blessing, a nation in a day. 4. Blest river of salvation, pursue thy onward way; Flow thou to every nation, nor in thy riches stay: Stay not till all the lowly triumphant reach their home; Stay not till all the holy proclaim, The Lord is come. Used With Tune: WEBB

Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 765 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes! 2. The King Himself comes near, And feasts His saints today; Here we may sit, and see Him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3. One day in such a place, Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin. 4. My willing soul would stay In such a frame as this, And sit and sing herself away To everlasting bliss. Used With Tune: LISBON Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707

Salvation! O the Joyful Sound!

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 840 hymnals First Line: Salvation! O the joyful sound Lyrics: 1. Salvation! O the joyful sound! What pleasure to our ears! A sovereign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears. 2. Buried in sorrow and in sin, And at hell’s dark door we lay; But we arise by grace divine To see a heavenly day. 3. Glory, honor, praise, and power, Be unto the Lamb forever: Jesus Christ is our Redeemer: Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. 4. Salvation! let the echo fly The spacious earth around; While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound! 5. Salvation! O Thou bleeding Lamb, To Thee the praise belongs; Salvation shall inspire our hearts, And dwell upon our tongues. Used With Tune: ASHLEY Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, 1709

The Battle of Calvary

Author: Neil Barham Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Great Apollyon, grim and awful Lyrics: 1. Great Apollyon, grim and awful, steeped in gore and stained in blood— Death, with all his fearsome forces, has besieged the Son of God. Satan, clothed with evil armor, darkly gleaming, proud and cold— Merciless, he joins the battle, armed and clad with pow’r untold. 2. Bowed beneath demonic onslaughts, Jesus fights His awesome duel! Pain devours its Holy Victim, searing, savage, raging, cruel! Eager waits the Mouth of Sheol, huge, insatiable, and strong! Maw agape, the Grave yearns after Holy Flesh—but not for long. 3. Writhing under Law’s most fearsome curse, ruined, lost, polluted, wrecked; Languishing in Satan’s prison lie the souls of God’s elect. At the Cross—desire of Hell! —Christ gives up that final Breath: Now, at last, the choicest Captive tastes the mortal sting of Death! 4. Darkness falls; the seething smoke of Hell cloaks the battlefield from view. Down the head of God has fallen: Law and Wrath receive their due! Satan smiles in seeming triumph, reaching out, his Prize to take. Three brief days all Hell rejoices— then the stone begins to shake! 5. Now the night of wrong is ended; now the Grave has lost its Prize! Now the Ris’n One breaks the back of Sin: There! Behold! See how Death dies! Resurrection Light now scatters Satan’s armies from the field. Christ has drawn the fearful sting of Death: Sheol and Abaddon yield! 6. At His Glance the mighty prison built by Law and Sin falls down! Countless in their thousand thousands, all His Ransomed praise His Crown! Heav’n and Hell’s astonished spirits in their joy and rage all stare At the Victor of the Cross who won His greatest Battle there. Used With Tune: BLAENHAFREN

Give Me the Wings of Faith

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 514 hymnals First Line: Give me the wings of faith to rise Lyrics: 1. Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. 2. Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears: They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. 3. I ask them whence their victory came: They, with united breath, Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to His death. 4. They marked the footsteps that He trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And following their incarnate God, Possess the promised rest. 5. Our glorious Leader claims our praise For His own pattern giv’n; While the long cloud of witnesses Show the same path to Heav’n. Another arrangement, by Walter Kittredge (1834-1905), adds this refrain: Many are the friends who are waiting today, Happy on the golden strand, Many are the voices calling us away, To join their glorious band. Calling us away, calling us away, Calling to the better land, Calling us away, calling us away, Calling to the better land. Used With Tune: BINGHAM Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 140

He Saves Me

Author: George Rutledge Stuart Appears in 785 hymnals First Line: Jesus, my all, to Heav'n is gone Refrain First Line: He saves me, He saves me Lyrics: 1. Jesus, my all, to Heav’n is gone, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; He whom I fix my hopes upon, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. Refrain He saves me, He saves me, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. He saves me, He saves me, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. 2. This is the way I long have sought, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; And mourned because I found it not, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] 3. The King’s highway of holiness, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; I’ll go, for all His paths are peace, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] 4. My grief a burden long has been, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; Because I was not saved from sin, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] 5. Lo! glad I come; and Thou, blest Lamb, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; Shalt take me to Thee, as I am; Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] 6. Nothing but sin have I to give, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; Nothing but love shall I receive, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] 7. Then will I tell to sinners ’round, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me; What a dear Savior I have found, Glory hallelujah, Jesus saves me. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Jesus, my all, to Heav'n is gone]

Rise, My Soul, and Stretch Thy Wings

Author: Robert Seagrave Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 807 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things, toward Heaven, thy native place: Sun and moon and stars decay, time shall soon this earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away to seats prepared above. 2. Rivers to the ocean run, nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun; both speed them to their source: So my soul, that’s born of God, pants to view His glorious face, Upward tends to His abode, to rest in His embrace. 3. Fly me riches, fly me cares, whilst I that coast explore; Flattering world, with all thy snares, solicit me no more. Pilgrims fix not here their home; strangers tarry but a night; When the last dear morn is come, they’ll rise to joyful light. 4. Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn, press onward to the prize; Soon thy Savior will return, triumphant in the skies: Yet a season, and you know happy entrance will be given All our sorrows left below, and earth exchanged for Heaven. Used With Tune: AMSTERDAM Text Sources: Hymns for Christian Worship, Partly Composed and Partly Collected from Various Authors, 1742

Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest

Author: Rhabanus Maurus; Richard Mant Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 283 hymnals First Line: Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest Lyrics: 1. Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, Vouchsafe within our souls to rest; Come with Thy grace and heav’nly aid, And fill the hearts which Thou hast made. 2. To Thee, the Comforter, we cry; To Thee, the gift of God most high; The fount of life, the fire of love, The soul’s Anointing from above. 3. The sev’nfold gifts of grace are Thine; O finger of the hand divine; True promise of the Father Thou, Who dost the tongue with speech endow. 4. Thy light to every sense impart, And shed Thy love in every heart; Thy own unfailing might supply To strength our infirmity. Used With Tune: MENDON Text Sources: Translation in Ancient Hymns, 1837

The Day of Resurrection

Author: John of Damascus, 675-749; John M. Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 517 hymnals First Line: The day of resurrection! Lyrics: 1. The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; The Passover of gladness, the Passover of God. From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over, with hymns of victory. 2. Our hearts be pure from evil, that we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal of resurrection light; And listening to His accents, may hear, so calm and plain, His own All hail! and, hearing, may raise the victor strain. 3. Now let the heavens be joyful! Let earth the song begin! Let the round world keep triumph, and all that is therein! Let all things seen and unseen their notes in gladness blend, For Christ the Lord hath risen, our joy that hath no end. Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE

O Lord of Hosts, Almighty King

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Lord of hosts, almighty king, Behold the sacrifice we bring: To every arm Thy strength impart; Thy Spirit shed through every heart. 2. Wake in our breasts the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires; Thy hand hath made our nation free; To die for her is serving Thee. 3. Be Thou a pillared flame to show The midnight snare, the silent foe; And when the battle thunders loud, Still guide us in its moving cloud. 4. God of all nations, sovereign Lord, In Thy dread name we draw the sword, We lift the starry flag on high That fills with light our stormy sky. 5. From treason’s rent, from murder’s stain, Guard Thou its folds till peace shall reign, Till fort and field, till shore and sea, Join our loud anthem, praise to Thee. Used With Tune: HESPERUS