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Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings

Author: Robert Seagrave Appears in 809 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things Toward heaven, thy native place. Sun, and moon, and stars decay; Time shall soon this earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepared above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun; Both speed them to their source: So a soul that's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face; Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace. 3 Cease, my soul, O cease to mourn! Press onward to the prize; Soon thy Saviour will return To take thee to the skies: There is everlasting peace, Rest, enduring rest in heaven; There will sorrow ever cease, And crowns of joy be given. Used With Tune: AMSTERDAM

Sweet rivers of redeeming love

Author: Anon. Appears in 110 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 Sweet rivers of redeeming love I see before me lie; Had I the pinions of a dove, I'd to those rivers fly. 2 I'd rise superior to my pain, With joy outstrip the wind; I'd cross bold Jordan's stormy main, And leave the world behind. 3 A few more days, or years at most, My troubles will be o'er; I hope to join the heavenly host On Canaan's happy shore. 4 My rapturous soul shall drink and feast In love's unbounded sea: The glorious hope of endless rest Is ravishing to me. 5 O, come, my Saviour, come away, And bear me to the sky! Nor let thy chariot wheels delay; Make haste and bring it nigh. 6 I long to see thy glorious face, And in thine image shine; To triumph in victorious grace, And be forever thine. Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

I long to behold him arrayed

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 127 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 I long to behold him arrayed With glory and light from above; The King in his beauty displayed, His beauty of holiest love: I languish, and sigh to be there, Where Jesus hath fixed his abode; O, when shall we meet in the air, And fly to the mountain of God? 2 With him, I on Zion shall stand, For Jesus has spoken the word; The breadth of Immanuel's land, Survey, by the side of my Lord. But when, on thy bosom reclined, Thy face I am strengthened to see, My fullness of rapture I find, My heaven of heavens, in thee. 3 How happy the people whose home Is found in the city of God! As pilgrims no more they shall roam, Nor travel a dangerous road. Physician divine, unto me Thy soul-healing blessing now give, And keep me while waiting for thee, And then to that city receive. Used With Tune: CONTRAST

I'm weary of staying; O when shall I rest

Author: Anon. Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 I'm weary of staying; O when shall I rest In that promised land of the good and the blest. Where sin can no longer her blandishments spread, Where tears and temptations forever are fled? 2 I'm weary of sighing o'er sorrows of earth, O'er joy's glowing visions that fade at their birth, O'er pangs for the loved which we cannot assuage, O'er blightings of you and the weakness of age. 3 I'm weary of hoping, where hope is untrue, As fair but as fleeting as bright morning dew; I long for that land whose blest promise alone Is changeless, and sure as eternity's throne. 4 I'm weary of loving what passes away; The sweetest and dearest, alas! may not stay: I long for that land where these partings are o'er, And death and the tomb can divide us no more! 5 O Jesus, my Saviour, when shall I behold That morning long promised by prophets of old, When sin's night of sorrow forever is past, And death's silent captives are ransomed at last? Used With Tune: GOSHEN

Hasten, Lord, the glorious time

Author: Harriet Auber Appears in 299 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 Hasten, Lord, the glorious time, When, beneath Messiah's sway, Every nation, every clime, Shall his righteous will obey. 2 Mightiest kings his power shall own; Heathen tribes his name adore; Satan and his host, o'erthrown, Bound in chains, shall hurt no more. 3 Then shall wars and tumults cease; Then be banished grief and pain; Righteousness, and joy, and peace, Undisturbed, shall ever reign. Used With Tune: PLEYEL

The Saviour bids us watch and pray

Author: Thomas Hastings Appears in 90 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 The Saviour bids us watch and pray Through time's brief, fleeting hour, And gives the Spirit's quickening ray To those who seek its power. 2 The Saviour bids us watch and pray, Maintain a warrior's strife; Help, Lord, to hear thy voice to-day; Obedience is our life. 3 The Saviour bids us watch and pray; For quickly he will come, To call us from our toils away To our eternal home. 4 The Saviour bids us watch and pray; For lo! the Judge is near; O may we joyfully obey, And watch till he appear! Used With Tune: ABRIDGE

The world is very evil

Author: John M. Neale Appears in 122 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 The world is very evil, The times are waxing late; Be sober and keep vigil; The Judge is at the gate, The Judge who comes in mercy, The Judge who comes with might, Who comes to end the evil, Who comes to crown the right. 2 Arise, arise, good Christian, Let right to wrong succeed; Let penitential sorrow To heavenly gladness lead, To light that has no evening, That knows no moon nor sun, The light so new and golden, The light that is but one. 3 Behold the morn shall waken, And shadows shall decay, And each true-hearted servant Shall shine as does the day; And God, our King and Portion, In fullness of his grace, Shall we behold forever, And worship face to face. Used With Tune: WEBB

This is not my place of resting

Author: Horatius Bonar Appears in 161 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 This is not my place of resting; Mine's a city yet to come; Onward, to it, I am hastening, On to my eternal home. In it, all is light and glory; O'er it shines a nightless day; Every trace of sin's sad story, All the curse has passed away. 2 There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us By the streams of life along; On the freshest pastures feeds us, Turns our sighing into song. Soon we pass this desert dreary, Soon we bid farewell to pain; Nevermore are sad and weary, Never, never sin again. Used With Tune: GREENVILLE

Watchman, tell us of the night

Author: John Bowring Appears in 875 hymnals Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Lyrics: 1 Watchman, tell us of the night, What its signs of promise are, Traveler, o'er yon mountain's hight See that glory beaming star! Watchman, does its beauteous ray Aught of hope or joy fore-tell? Traveler, yes; it brings the day, Promised day of Israel. 2 Watchman, tell us of the night; Higher yet that star ascends. Traveler, blessedness and light, Peace and truth, its course portends! Watchman, will its beams alone Gild the spot that gave them birth? Traveler, ages are its own, See, it shines o'er all the earth! 3 Watchman, tell us of the night; For the morning seems to dawn. Traveler, darkness takes its flight; Doubt and terror are withdrawn. Watchman, let thy wondering cease; Hie thee to thy quiet home! Traveler, lo! the Prince of peace, Lo! the Son of God is come! Used With Tune: WATCHMAN

Awake, our souls! away, our fears!

Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 406 hymnals Topics: Waiting upon God Lyrics: 1 Awake, our souls! away, our fears! Let every trembling thought be gone! Awake, and run the heavenly race! And put a cheerful courage on. 2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road, And mortal spirits tire and faint; But they forget the mighty God, That feeds the strength of every saint. 3 O mighty God, Thy matchless power Is ever new, and ever young, And firm endures, while endless years Their everlasting circles run! 4 From Thee, the ever-flowing Spring, Our souls shall drink a fresh supply; While such as trust their native strength Shall melt away, and droop, and die. 5 Swift as the eagle cuts the air, We'll mount aloft to thine abode; On wings of love our souls shall fly, Nor tire along the heavenly road. Used With Tune: WAREHAM