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Come, every pious heart

Appears in 213 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Resurrection and Ascnesion Scripture: Acts 1:11 Used With Tune: LENOX

Author: Paul Gerhardt; Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153); James W. Alexander Appears in 741 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ Passion and Death First Line: O Sacred Head, nowwounded Used With Tune: PASSION CHORAL

O Lord, How Shall I Meet You

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Lyrics: 1 O Lord, how shall I meet You, How welcome You aright? Your people long to greet You, My hope, my heart's delight! O kindle, Lord most holy, A lamp within my breast To do in spirit lowly All that may please You best. 2 Love caused Your incarnation, Love brought You down to me; Your thirst for my salvation Procured my liberty. O love behond all telling, That led You to embrace In love all love excelling Our lost and fallen race. 3 A glorious crown You give me, A treasure safe on high, That will not fail no leave me As earthly riches fly. My heart shall bloom forever For You with praises new, And from Your name shall never Withhold the honor due. Amen. Scripture: Proverbs 7:15 Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH

Who Is He in Yonder Stall

Author: Benjamin R. Hanby, 1833-1867 Meter: 7.7 D with refrain Appears in 142 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Refrain First Line: 'Tis the Lord! O wondrous story! Lyrics: 1 Who is He in yonder stall, At whose feet the shepherds fall? Who is He in deep distress, Fasting in the wilderness? Refrain: 'Tis the Lord! O wondrous story! 'Tis the Lord! the King of glory! At His feet we humbly fall, Crown Him! Crown Him, Lord of all! 2 Who is He the people bless For His words of gentleness? Who is He to whom they bring All the sick and sorrowing? [Refrain] 3 Who is He that stands and weeps At the grave where Lazarus sleeps? Who is He the gath'ring throng Greet with loud triumphant song? [Refrain] 4 Lo! at midnight, who is He Prays in dark Gethsemane? Who is He on yonder tree, Dies in grief and agony? [Refrain] 5 Who is He that from the grave Comes to heal and help and save? Who is He that from His throne Rules through all the world alone? [Refrain] Scripture: Revelation 17:14 Used With Tune: LOWLINESS

See Amid the Winter's Snow

Author: Edward Caswall Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 170 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Incarnation Refrain First Line: Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn! Lyrics: 1 See, amid the winter's snow, born for us on earth below, see the tender Lamb appears, promised from eternal years. Refrain: Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn! Hail, redemption's happy dawn! Sing through all Jerusalem, "Christ is born in Bethlehem." 2 Lo, within a manger lies He who built the starry skies; He, who throned in height sublime, sits amid the cherubim! [Refrain] 3 Say, ye holy shepherds, say, what your joyful news today; wherefore have ye left your sheep on the lonely mountain steep? [Refrain] 4 "As we watched at dead of night, lo, we saw a wondrous light; angels singing 'Peace on earth' told us of the Savior's birth." [Refrain] 5 Sacred Infant, all divine, what a tender love was Thine; thus to come from highest bliss down to such a world as this! [Refrain] 6 Teach, O teach us, Holy Child, by Thy face so meek and mild, teach us to resemble Thee in Thy sweet humility! [Refrain] Used With Tune: HUMILITY

Arise, My Soul, Arise

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 900 hymnals Topics: The Gospel of Jesus Christ The Response Scripture: Galatians 4:4-7 Used With Tune: TOWNER

I've Wandered Far

Author: William J. Kirkpatrick Appears in 355 hymnals Topics: The Gospel of Jesus Christ The Response First Line: I've wandered far away from God Refrain First Line: Coming home, coming home Scripture: Luke 15:17-18 Used With Tune: COMING HOME

Love for All

Author: Samuel Longfellow Appears in 111 hymnals Topics: The Gospel of Jesus Christ The Response First Line: Love for all--and can it be? Scripture: Luke 15:17-20 Used With Tune: HORTON

Light of the World, We Hail Thee

Author: John S. B. Monsell Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise Lyrics: 1 Light of the world, we hail Thee, Flushing the eastern skies; Never shall darkness veil Thee Again from human eyes; Too long, alas, withholden, Now spread from shore to shore; Thy light, so glad and golden, Shall set on earth no more. 2 Light of the world, Thy beauty Steals into every heart, And glorifies with duty Life's poorest, humblest part; Thou robest in Thy splendor The simple ways of men, And helpest them to render Light back to Thee again. 3 Light of the world, before Thee Our spirits prostrate fall; We worship, we adore Thee, Thou Light, the Life of all; With Thee is no forgetting Of all Thy hand hath made; Thy rising hath no setting Thy sunshine hath no shade. 4 Light of the world, illumine This darkened earth of Thine, Till everything that's human Be filled with what's divine; Till every tongue and nation, From sin's dominion free, Rise in the new creation Which springs from love and Thee. Amen. Scripture: John 9:4-5 Used With Tune: SALVE DOMINE

The Sun of Righteousness

Author: Samuel Wesley, Jr., 1691-1739 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Resurrection First Line: The Sun of Righteousness appears Lyrics: 1 The Sun of Righteousness appears To set in blood no more; Adore the Scatterer of your fears, Your rising Sun adore. 2 The saints, when He resigned His breath, Unclosed their sleeping eyes; He breaks again the bonds of death; Again the dead arise. 3 Alone the dreadful race He ran, Alone the wine-press trod; He dies and suffers as a man; He rises as a God. 4 In vain the stone, the watch, the seal Forbid an early rise To Him who breaks the gates of hell, And opens paradise. Scripture: Matthew 28:2 Used With Tune: ARLINGTON