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Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways

Author: Clifford Bax, 1886- Meter: 10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 63 hymnals Topics: National and Social Service World Peace and Brotherhood Used With Tune: OLD 124TH

O Lord of Light and Love and Power

Author: Ella S. Armitage Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Change; Commitment; Ministry; New Life; Repentance; Sending Forth; Service; Work; World Scripture: Philippians 4:10-13 Used With Tune: BETHLEHEM (SERAPH)

Praise, I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart

Author: Kenneth I. Morse (b. 1913); Claude Fraysse (b. 1941) Meter: Irregular Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in adoration and gratitude; Adoration Of God; Joy; Love For God; Multi-cultrual and World-church Songs; Service Scripture: Psalm 9:1-2 Used With Tune: JE LOUERAI L'ÉTERNEL

Follow the Gleam

Appears in 63 hymnals Topics: World Service First Line: To knights in the days of old Used With Tune: [To knights in the days of old]

O Day of God, Draw Nigh

Author: R. B. Y. Scott Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Service for the Lord's Day Conclusion of Worship; Christian Year Advent; Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Other Observances World Peace Scripture: Isaiah 2:12-17 Used With Tune: ST. MICHAEL

We Greet You, Sure Redeemer from All Strife

Author: Elizabeth L. Smith; John Calvin Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Service for the Lord's Day Opening of Worship; Service for the Lord's Day After Creed; Sacraments Lord's Supper; Acts of the Church Confirmation; Acts of the Church The Marriage Service; Acts of the Church Installation; Other Observances Ecumenism; Other Observances Reformation Day; Other Observances World Communion Lyrics: 1 we greet you, sure Redeemer from all strife, Our only Trust and Savior of our life, Who pain did undergo for our poor sake; We pray you from our hearts all cares to take. 2 You are the King of mercy and of grace, Reigning omnipotent in every place: So come, O King, and our whole being sway; Shine on us with the light of your pure day. 3 You are the life, in which we do believe, From you all substance and our strength receive; Sustain us by your faith and by your power, And give us strength in every trying hour. 4 You have the true and perfect gentleness, You have no harshness and no bitterness: O grant to us the grace in you we see That we may dwell in perfect unity. 5 Our hope is in no other save in you; Our faith is built upon Thy promise true; Lord, give us peace, and make us calm and sure, That in your strength we evermore endure. Amen. Scripture: 1 John 5:13-14 Used With Tune: TOULON

Take Time to Be Holy

Author: William D. Longstaff Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 334 hymnals Topics: The Church in the World Commitment: Trust; Calmness and Serenity; Commitment; Communion with Christ and God; Discipleship and Service; Holiness; Integrity; Jesus Christ Example; Patience; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Prayer; Trust; Epiphany 8 Year A; Lent 3 Year B; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year C Lyrics: 1 Take time to be holy, speak oft with your Lord; abide in him always, and feed on his word. Make friends of God's children, help those who are weak, forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek. 2 Take time to be holy, let him be your guide, and run not before him, whatever betide. In joy or in sorrow, still follow the Lord, and, looking to Jesus, still trust in his word. 3 Take time to be holy, be calm in your soul, each thought and each motive beneath his control. Thus led by his spirit to fountains of love, you soon shall be fitted for service above. Used With Tune: HOLINESS

Fight the Good Fight

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 507 hymnals Topics: The Church in the World Commitment: Trust; Adversity, Affliction & Tribulation; Calling and Response; Commitment; Conflict and Struggle; Faith; God Guidance; Installation Services; Jesus Christ Truth and Way; Life; Race; Seeking God; Trust; Victory; Warfare (Spiritual); Wholeness; Proper 18 Year A; Epiphany 6 Year B; Proper 15 Year C; Proper 21 Year C; Proper 26 Year C First Line: Fight the good fight with all your might Lyrics: 1 Fight the good fight with all your might, Christ is your strength and Christ your right; lay hold on life, and it shall be your joy and crown eternally. 2 Run the straight race, through God's good grace, lift up your eyes and seek Christ's face. Life with its way before us lies; Christ is the way, and Christ the prize. 3 Cast care aside, lean on your guide; God's boundless mercy will provide; trust, and the trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life, and Christ its love. 4 Faint not nor fear, God's arms are near; God changes not and you are dear. Only believe, and Christ shall be your all in all eternally. Used With Tune: PENTECOST

Great Ruler of the Earth and Skies

Author: Compiler; Anne Steele (1717-1778) Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: Seasons, Days, Services Intercession for National and World Peace Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Used With Tune: WALTHAM

O Holy City, Seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 87 hymnals Topics: Service for the Lord's Day After Creed; Other Observances Stewardship; Other Observances World Communion; Other Observances World Peace Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John, Where Christ, the Lamb, does reign, Within whose four-square walls shall come No night, nor need, nor pain, And where the tears are wiped from eyes That shall not weep again! 2 O shame to us who rest content While lust and greed for gain In street and shop and tenement Wring gold from human pain, And bitter lips in blind despair Cry, "Christ has died in vain"! 3 Give us, O God, the strength to build The city that has stood Too long a dream, whose laws are love, Whose ways are brotherhood, And where the sun that shines becomes God's grace for human good. 4 Already in the mind of God That city rises fair. Lo, how its splendor challenges The souls that greatly dare, And bids us seize the whole of life And build its glory there. Amen. Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Used With Tune: MORNING SONG