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This Is God's Wondrous World

Author: Maltbie Davenport Babcock Meter: 6.6.8.6 D irregular Appears in 341 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year B Lyrics: 1 This is God's wondrous world, and to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is God's wondrous world; I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, of skies and seas, God's hand the wonders wrought. 2 This is God's wondrous world: the birds their carols raise, the morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker's praise. This is God's wondrous world: God shines in all that's fair; in the rustling grass or mountain pass, God's voice speaks everywhere. 3 This is God's wondrous world: O let me ne'er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet. This is God's wondrous world: why should my heart be sad? Let voices sing, let the heavens ring: God reigns, let earth be glad! Amen. Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

Lord, I Want To Be a Christian

Meter: 8.6.8.3 with refrain Appears in 164 hymnals Topics: Year A Proper 25 Lyrics: 1 Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart; Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart. 2 Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart, in my heart. Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart. 3 Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart, in my heart; Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart. 4 Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart, in my heart; Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart. Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-16 Used With Tune: I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN Text Sources: African-American spiritual

Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,069 hymnals Topics: Year C Proper 25 Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve, and press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands your zeal, and an immortal crown, and an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around holds you in full survey; Forget the steps already trod, and onward urge your way and onward urge your way. 3 For God's all-animating voice still calls us to the race; And God's own hand still gives the prize with never-ending grace, with never-ending grace. 4 O Savior, shown the way by you, I have my race begun; And, crowned with victory, at your feet I'll lay my honors down, I'll lay my honors down. Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Used With Tune: CHRISTMAS

'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee

Author: H. Montagu Butler, 1833-1918 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 71 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year C Lyrics: 1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee; here at thy feet none other may we see: 'lift up your hearts!' E'en so, with one accord, we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord. 2 Above the level of the former years, the mire of sin, the slough of guilty fears, the mist of doubt, the blight of love's decay, O Lord of light, lift all our hearts to-day. 3 Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame, the deeds, the thoughts, that honour may not name, the halting tongue that dares not tell the whole, O Lord of truth, lift every Christian soul. 4 Lift every gift that thou thyself hast given: low lies the best till lifted up to heaven; low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain, till, sent from God, they mount to God again. 5 Then, as the trumpet-call in after years, 'lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears, still shall those hearts respond with full accord, 'we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!' Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:14 Used With Tune: WOODLANDS

Open My Eyes, That I May See

Author: Clara H. Scott Meter: 8.8.9.8 with refrain Appears in 252 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year B Refrain First Line: Silently now I wait for thee Lyrics: 1 Open my eyes, that I may see glimpses of truth thou hast for me; place in my hands the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free. Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see. Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine! 2 Open my ears, that I may hear voices of truth thou sendest clear; and while the wave-notes fall on my ear, everything false will disappear. Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see. Open my ears, illumine me, Spirit divine! 3 Open my mouth, and let me bear gladly the warm truth everywhere; open my heart and let me prepare love with thy children thus to share. Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see. Open my heart, illumine me, Spirit divine! Used With Tune: OPEN MY EYES

There is a land of pure delight

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,427 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year A Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight, where saints immortal reign; infinite day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, and never-withering flowers; death, like a narrow sea, divides that heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood stand dressed in living green; so to the Jews old Canaan stood, while Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink to cross the narrow sea, and linger shivering on the brink, and fear to launch away. 5 O could we make our doubts remove, those gloomy doubts that rise, and see the Canaan that we love with unbeclouded eyes; 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, and view the landscape o'er, not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, should fright us from the shore! Scripture: Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Used With Tune: BEULAH

Guide My Feet

Meter: 8.8.8.10 Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: Guide my feet while I run this race

Breathe on me, Breath of God

Author: Edwin Hatch, 1835-1889 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 356 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year C Lyrics: 1 Breathe on me, Breath of God, fill me with life anew, that I may love what thou dost love, and do what thou wouldst do. 2 Breathe on me, Breath of God, until my heart is pure; until with thee I will one will, to do and to endure. 3 Breathe on me, Breath of God, till I am wholly thine; until this earthly part of me glows with thy fire divine. 4 Breathe on me, Breath of God: so shall I never die, but live with thee the perfect life of thine eternity. Scripture: Ezekiel 37:9-10 Used With Tune: WINDERMERE

Wade in the Water

Meter: Irregular Appears in 32 hymnals First Line: See that host all dressed in white Text Sources: African-American spiritual; African American spiritual, c. 1750-1875

Thy hand, O God, has guided

Author: Edward Hayes Plumptre (1821-1891) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 58 hymnals Topics: Proper 25 Year A Lyrics: 1 Thy hand, O God, has guided thy flock, from age to age; the wondrous tale is written, full clear, on every page; our fathers owned thy goodness, and we their deeds record; and both of this bear witness: one Church, one faith, one Lord. 2 Thy heralds brought glad tidings to greatest, as to least; they bade men rise, and hasten to share the great King's feast; and this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming one Church, one faith, one Lord. 3 When shadows thick were falling, and all seemed sunk in night, thou, Lord, didst send thy servants, thy chosen sons of light. On them and on thy people thy plenteous grace was poured, and this was still their message: one church, one faith one Lord. 4 Through many a day of darkness, through many a scene of strife, the faithful few fought bravely, to guard the nation's life. Their Gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, man restored, was all in this enfolded: one Church, one faith, one Lord. 5 And we, shall we be faithless? Shall hearts fail, hands hang down? Shall we evade the conflict, and cast away our crown? Not so: in God's deep counsels some better thing is stored; we will maintain, unflinching, one church, one faith, one Lord. 6 Thy mercy will not fail us, nor leave thy work undone; with thy right hand to help us, the victory shall be won; and then, by men and angels, thy name shall be adored, and this shall be their anthem: one Church, one faith, one Lord. Scripture: Psalm 44:1-3 Used With Tune: THORNBURY