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When All Your Mercies, O My God

Author: Joseph Addison Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,014 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year A Lyrics: 1 When all your mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view, I'm lost in wonder, love, and praise. 2 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts my daily thanks employ; nor is the least a cheerful heart that tastes those gifts with joy. 3 Through every period of my life your goodness I'll pursue; and after death, in distant world the glorious theme renew. 4 Through all eternity to you a joyful song I'll raise; but oh! eternity's too short to utter all your praise! Used With Tune: ST STEPHEN

Come, O Fount of Every Blessing

Author: Robert Robinson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,242 hymnals Topics: Church in the World Discipleship: Call; Calling and Response; Commitment; Consecration; Eternal Life; Faith Journey; God Adoration and Praise; God Mercy; Grace; Jesus Christ Blood; Jesus Christ Saviour; Mercy; Music and Singing; Penitence; Salvation; Surrender; Vocation; Epiphany 9 Year A; Lent 1 Year A; Easter 4 Year A; Proper 7 Year A; Epiphany 7 Year B; Lent 4 Year B; Proper 23 Year B; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year C; Lent 1 Year C; Easter 6 Year C; Easter 6 Year C; Proper 19 Year C Used With Tune: NETTLETON

Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above

Author: Johann Jacob Schütz; Frances Elizabeth Cox Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 200 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year B Lyrics: 1 Sing praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation, the God of power, the God of love, the God of our salvation; with healing balm my soul is filled, and every faithless murmur stilled: to God all praise and glory! 2 What God's almighty power hath made, God's gracious mercy keepeth: by morning glow or evening shade God's watchful eye ne'er sleepeth; within the shelter of God's might, lo! all is just and all is right: to God all praise and glory! 3 Our God is never far away, but through all grief distressing, an ever-present help and stay, our peace, and joy, and blessing; as with a mother's tender hand, God gently leads the chosen band: to God all praise and glory! 4 Thus all my gladsome way along, I sing aloud thy praises that all may hear the grateful song my voice unwearied raises. Be joyful in your God, my heart! Both soul and body take your part: to God all praise and glory! Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART

At the Name of Jesus

Author: Caroline Maria Noel Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 263 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year C First Line: At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow Lyrics: 1 At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess him King of glory now; 'tis our God's great pleasure we should call him Lord, who from the beginning was the mighty Word. 2 Humbled for a season to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it, spotless to the last, brought it back victorious when from death he passed. 3 Name him, Christians, name him, with love strong as death, but with awe and wonder, and with bated breath; he is God the Saviour, he is Christ the Lord, ever to be worshipped, trusted, and adored. 4 In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue all that is not holy, all that is not true; crown him as your Captain in temptation's hour; let his will enfold you in its light and power. 5 Christians, this Lord Jesus shall return again, with his Father's glory, with his angel train; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of Glory now. Used With Tune: KING'S WESTON

Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

Author: Frank Mason North Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 380 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year A Lyrics: 1 Where cross the crowded ways of life, where sound the cries of race and clan, above the noise of selfish strife, we hear your voice of life again. 2 In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds, dark with fears, from paths where hide the lures of greed, we catch the vision of your tears. 3 The cup of water given for you still holds the freshness of your grace; yet long these multitudes to view the strong compassion of your face. 4 O Master, from the mountainside make haste to heal these hearts of pain; among these restless throngs abide, and tread the city's streets again, 5 till all the world shall learn your love and follow where your feet have trod, till glorious from your heaven above shall come the city of our God. Used With Tune: FULDA

Help us to help each other, Lord

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788r Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: Year C Proper 9 Lyrics: 1 Help us to help each other, Lord, each other's cross to bear; let each a helping hand afford, and feel another's care. 2 Up into thee, our living head, let us in all things grow, and by thy sacrifice be led the fruits of love to show. 3 Drawn by the magnet of thy love let all our hearts agree; and ever t'wards each other move, and ever move t'wards thee. 4 This is the bond of perfectness, thy spotless charity. O let us still, we pray, possess the mind that was in thee. Scripture: Ephesians 4:15 Used With Tune: DUNFERMLINE

Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth

Author: Jean Wiebe Janzen; Julian (Juliana) of Norwich Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year C Used With Tune: HESPERUS (QUEBEC)

Creating God, We Give You Thanks

Author: William deWitt Hyde Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year A Lyrics: 1 Creating God, we give you thanks that this your world is incomplete; that battle calls our marshalled ranks, that work awaits our hands and feet. 2 You hast not finished woman, man, for we are in the making still, as friends who share the Maker’s plan as those who know your loving will. 3 Beyond the present sin and shame, wrong’s bitter, cruel, scorching blight, we see the beckoning vision flame, the blessèd kingdom of the right. 4 What though the kingdom long delay, and still with haughty foes must cope? It gives us that for which to pray, a field for toil and faith and hope. 5 Since what we choose is what we are, and what we love we yet shall be, the goal may ever shine afar, the will to win it makes us free. Used With Tune: WAREHAM

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 198 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year C First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator Refrain First Line: Great is thy faithfulness! Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; as thou has been thou forever wilt be. [Refrain:] Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided -- great is thy faithfulness, ever to me! 2 Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide, strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow -- wondrous the portion thy blessings provide. [Refrain] Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS

O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee

Author: Washington Gladden Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 598 hymnals Topics: Proper 9 Year B Lyrics: 1 O Master, let me walk with thee in lowly paths of service free; tell me thy secret, help me bear the strain of toil, the fret of care. 2 Help me the slow of heart to move with some clear, winning word of love; teach me the wayward feet to stay, and guide them in the homeward way. 3 Teach me thy patience; still with thee , in closer, dearer company, in work that keeps faith sure and strong, in trust that triumphs over wrong, 4 in hope that sends a shining ray far down the future's broadening way, in peace that only thou canst give, with thee, O Master, let me live. Used With Tune: MARYTON