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Lo, God Is Here

Author: John Wesley, 1703 - 1791; Gerhard Tersteegen, 1696 - 1769 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 291 hymnals First Line: Lo, God is here! Let us adore Used With Tune: VATER UNSER

Victim divine, thy grace we claim

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 42 hymnals

Our Earth We Now Lament to See

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Our earth we now lament to see With floods of wickedness overflowed, With violence, wrong, and cruelty, The killing fields our constant abode, Where men like fiends each other tear, In all the hellish rage of war. 2. As listed on Abaddon’s side, They mangle their own flesh, and slay: Tophet is moved, and opens wide Its mouth for its enormous prey; And myriads sink beneath the grave, And plunge into the flaming wave. 3. O might the universal Friend This havoc of His creatures see! Bid our unnatural discord end; Declare us reconciled in Thee; Write kindness on our inward parts, And chase the murderer from our hearts! 4. Who now against each other rise, The nations of the earth, constrain To follow after peace, and prize The blessings of Thy righteous reign, The joys of unity to prove, The paradise of perfect love! Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE (Walton) Text Sources: Hymns of Intercessio, 1758, alt.

Father of everlasting grace

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals

The Wind of Change Forever Blown

Author: Sarojini Naidu, 1879-1949 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 The wind of change forever blown across the tumult of our way, tomorrow’s unborn griefs depose the sorrows of our yesterday. Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife, and death unweaves the webs of life. 2 For us the labor and the heat, the broken secrets of our pride, the strenuous lessons of defeat, the flower deferred, the fruit denied; but not the peace, supremely won, great Buddha, of the lotus throne. 3 With futile hands we seek to gain our inaccessible desire, diviner summits to attain, with faith that sinks and feet that tire; but nought shall conquer or control the heav’nward hunger of our soul. 4 The end, elusive and afar, still lures us with its beck’ning flight, and our immortal moments are a session of the infinite. How shall we reach the great, unknown nirvana of your lotus throne? Topics: Wisdom from the World's Religions Words from Sacred Traditions; Buddhism; Change; Death and Life Used With Tune: MACH'S MIT MIR, GOTT

With Heart and Mind

Author: Alicia S. Carpenter, 1930- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: With heart and mind and voice and hand Topics: Humanist Teachings The Life of Integrity; Beloved Community; Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning Used With Tune: MACH'S MIT MIR, GOTT

Judges Who Rule the World by Laws

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Judges, who rule the world by laws, will you despise the righteous cause, when in your court poor victims stand? Dare you condemn the righteous poor, and let rich crooks escape secure, while gold and greatness bribe your hand? 2 Have you forgot, or never knew that God will judge the judges too? High in the heav'ns his justice reigns; yet you invade the rights of God and send your bold decrees abroad, to bind the conscience in your chains. 3 A poisoned arrow is your tongue, the arrow sharp, the poison strong, and death attends where'er it wounds: you hear no counsels, cries, or tears, just as the cobra stops her ears against the pow'r of charming sounds. 4 Break out their teeth, eternal God— those teeth of lions dyed in blood— and crush the serpents in the dust: as empty chaff when whirlwinds rise before the sweeping tempest flies, so let their hopes and names be lost. 5 Th' Almighty thunders from the sky, their grandeur melts, their titles die, as hills of snow dissolve and run, or snails that perish in their slime, or births that come before their time, vain births, that never see the sun. 6 Thus shall the vengeance of the LORD true peace and joy to saints afford, and all that hear shall join and say, "There is a God who rules on high, a God who hears his children cry, and will their suff'rings well repay." Topics: Enemies; God as Judge; Injustice; Justice; Ten Commandments 8th Commandment (You shall not give false witness) Scripture: Psalm 58 Used With Tune: OLD 113TH