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Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

Author: John Mason Neale Meter: Irregular Appears in 231 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1. Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Give ye heed to what we say: News! News! Jesus Christ is born today. Ox and ass before him bow, and he is in the manger now. Christ is born today! Christ is born today! 2 Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now ye hear of endless bliss: Joy! Joy! Jesus Christ was born for this! He hath opened heaven's door, and we are blest for evermore. Christ was born for this! Christ was born for this! 3 Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now ye need not fear the grave: Peace! Peace! Jesus Christ was born to save! Calls you one and calls you all to gain his everlasting hall. Christ was born to save! Christ was born to save! Used With Tune: IN DULCI JUBILO Text Sources: Latin, 14th-century

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 882 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by; yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. 2 For Christ is born of Mary; and gathered all above, while mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. O morning stars, together proclaim the holy birth, and praises sing to God the King, and peace to all on earth. 3 How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts the blessed gift of heaven. No ear may hear his coming; but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in. 4 O holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray; cast out our sin, and enter in; be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel. Used With Tune: ST LOUIS

Beneath the Cross of Jesus

Author: Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 557 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1 Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand: the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land, a home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, from the burning of the noontide heat and the burden of the day. 2 Upon the cross of Jesus my eyes at times can see the very dying form of one who suffered there for me; and from my smitten heart with tears two wonders I confess, the wonder of his glorious love, and my unworthiness. 3 I take, O cross, your shadow for my abiding place; I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of his face; content to let the world go by, to know no gain nor loss, my sinful self my only shame, my glory all, the cross. Used With Tune: ST CHRISTOPHER

Glory to You, My God

Author: Thomas Ken Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,062 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity First Line: Glory to you, my God, this night Lyrics: 1 Glory to you, my God, this night, for all the blessings of the light; keep me, O keep me, King of kings, beneath your own almighty wings. 2 Forgive me, God, through your dear Son, the wrong that I this day have done; that peace with you and all may be, before I sleep, restored to me. 3 Teach me to live, that I may dread the grave as little as my bed; teach me to die, so that I may rise glorious at the awesome day. 4 O may my soul on you repose, and restful sleep mine eyelids close, sleep that shall me more vigorous make to serve my God when I awake. 5 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; in heaven above and earth below; our God, three persons we adore -- be praises given for evermore. Used With Tune: TALLIS'S CANON

Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 327 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see you face to face, here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all my weariness upon you lean. 2 Here I will feed upon the bread of God, here drink with you the royal wine of heaven; here I will lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table for me spread; here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong the fellowship of living wine and bread. 4 Too soon we rise, the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone: the bread and wine remove, but you are here, nearer than ever, still my shield and sun. 5 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to that glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love. Used With Tune: ST AGNES

O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts

Author: Ray Palmer Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 575 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1 O Jesus, joy of loving hearts, the fount of life, the light of all from every bliss that earth imparts, we turn, unfilled, to hear your call. 2 Your truth unchanged has ever stood; you plead with all to call on you, to those who seek you, you are good, to those who find you, life is new. 3 We taste your ever-living bread, and long to feast upon you still; we drink of you, the fountainhead, our thirsting souls from you we fill. 4 O Jesus, ever with us stay; make all our moments calm and bright; chase the bleak night of sin away; shed o'er the world your holy light. Used With Tune: MARYTON Text Sources: 12th century

Take up your cross, the Saviour said

Author: Charles William Everest Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 302 hymnals Topics: Calmness and Serenity Lyrics: 1 Take up your cross, the Saviour said, if you would my disciple be; take up your cross with willing heart and humbly follow after me. 2 Take up your cross; let not its weight fill your weak spirit with alarm; Christ's strength shall bear your spirit up, and brace your heart, and nerve your arm. 3 Take up your cross, heed not the shame, nor let your foolish pride rebel; your Saviour once accepted death upon a cross, on Calvary's hill. 4 Take up your cross, and follow Christ, think not till death to lay it down; for only those who bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown. Used With Tune: HESPERUS (QUEBEC)

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Author: Joseph Medlicott Scriven Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,777 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity Lyrics: 1 What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. 2 Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful, who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer. 3 Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care? Christ the Saviour is our refuge; take it to the Lord in prayer. Do our friends despise, forsake us? Are we tempted to despair? Jesus' strength will shield our weakness, and we'll find new courage there. Used With Tune: FRIENDSHIP

Now Thank We All Our God

Author: Martin Rinckart; Catherine Winkworth; Flossette du Pasquier Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 705 hymnals Topics: Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity First Line: Now thank we all our God (Louons le Créateur) Lyrics: 1 Now thank we all our God, with heart, and hands, and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. 2 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever-joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us, and keep us strong in grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ills in this world and the next. 3 All praise and thanks to God for all that has been given, the Son, and Spirit blest who dwell in highest heaven, the one eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be, evermore. French: 1 Louons le Créateur, chantons à Dieu louanges! Et joignons notre voix au concert de ses anges! Dès les bras maternels il nous a protégés et, jusqu'au dernier jour, il est notre berger. 2 Loué soit notre Dieu! Que notre vie entière tous nous vivions joyeux sous le regard du Père; qu'il nous tienne en sa grâce et nous guide toujours, nous garde du malheur par son unique amour. 3 De ce Dieu trois fois saint qui règne dans la gloire, chrétiens, empressons-nous de chanter la victoire; c'est lui qui nous unit et nous fait retrouver le chemin de l'amour et de la liberté. Used With Tune: NUN DANKET

'Mid all the traffic of the ways

Author: John Oxenham Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: Serenity Lyrics: 1 ’Mid all the traffic of the ways— Turmoils without, within— Make in my heart a quiet place, And come and dwell therein: 2 A little shrine of quietness, All sacred to Thyself, Where Thou shalt all my soul possess, And I may find myself; 3 A little shelter from life’s stress, Where I may lay me prone, And bare my soul in loneliness, And know as I am known; 4 A little place of mystic grace, Of self and sin swept bare, Where I may look upon Thy face, And talk with Thee in prayer. Amen. Used With Tune: ST. AGNES