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O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High

Author: Thomas à Kempis; Benjamin Webb Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 139 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Good Friday; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Ascension; Incarnation; Jesus Christ Life; Love of God for Us; Praise; The Triune God Lyrics: 1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high, beyond all thought and fantasy, that God, the Son of God, should take our mortal form for mortals' sake. 2 For us baptized, for us he bore his holy fast and hungered sore; for us temptations sharp he knew, for us, the tempter overthrew. 3 For us by wickedness betrayed, for us, in crown of thorns arrayed, he bore the shameful cross and death; for us gave up his dying breath. 4 For us he rose from death again; for us he went on high to reign; for us he sent the Spirit here to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer. 5 All glory to our Lord and God, for love so deep, so high, so broad: the Trinity whom we adore forever and forevermore. Scripture: Matthew 3:13 Used With Tune: DEO GRACIAS

Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days

Author: Claudia F. I. Hernaman Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 86 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Transfiguration; Christian Year Lent; Jesus Christ Life; Temptation Lyrics: 1 Lord, who throughout these forty days for us did fast and pray, teach us with you to mourn our sins and close by you to stay. 2 As you with Satan did contend and did the victory win, O give us strength to persevere, in you to conquer sin. 3 And through these days of penitence, and through this Passiontide, yes, evermore, in life and death, O Lord, with us abide. 4 Abide with us, till when this life of suffering shall be past, an Easter of unending joy we may attain at last. Scripture: Psalm 16:11 Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN

Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendor

Author: Henry Scott Holland Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Reign of Christ; Healing; Judgment; The Life of the Nations; World Peace Lyrics: 1 Judge Eternal, throned in splendor, Lord of lords and King of kings, with your living fire of judgment purge this land of bitter things; solace all its wide dominion with the healing of your wings. 2 Still the weary folk are pining for the hour that brings release, and the city’s crowded clangor cries aloud for sin to cease, and the homesteads and the woodlands plead in silence for their peace. 3 Crown, O God, your own endeavor; cleave our darkness with your sword; feed the faithless and the hungry with the richness of your word; cleanse the body of this nation through the glory of the Lord. Scripture: Psalm 72 Used With Tune: RHUDDLAN

Come and worship

Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 768 hymnals Topics: Christ Incarnate Christmas and Epiphany; Christian Year Season of Epiphany First Line: Angels from the realms of glory Lyrics: 1 Angels from the realms of glory, wing your flight o'er all the earth; ye who sang creation's story now proclaim Messiah's birth: [Refrain:] Come and worship Christ, the new-born King. Come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 2 Shepherds in the field abiding, watching o'er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing, yonder shines the infant Light: [Refrain] 3 Wise men, leave your contemplations; brighter visions beam afar; seek the great Desire of nations; ye have seen his natal star: [Refrain] 4 Though an infant now we view him, he will share his Father's throne, gather all the nations to him; every knee shall then bow down: [Refrain] 5 All creation, join in praising God the Father, Spirit, Son, evermore your voices raising to the eternal Three in One: [Refrain] Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Used With Tune: IRIS Text Sources: Verse 4, unascribed text in The Christmas Box, 1825

O Sing a Song of Bethlehem

Author: Louis F. Benson Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 65 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Christmas; The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Children's Choir Selections; Christian Year Christmas; Jesus Christ; Salvation Lyrics: 1. O sing a song of Bethlehem, of shepherds watching there, and of the news that came to them from angels in the air. The light that shone on Bethlehem fills all the world today; of Jesus' birth and peace on earth the angels sing alway. 2. O sing a song of Nazareth, of sunny days of joy; O sing of fragrant flowers' breath, and of the sinless Boy. For now the flowers of Nazareth in every heart may grow; now spreads the fame of his dear name on all the winds that blow. 3. O sing a song of Galilee, of lake and woods and hill, of him who walked upon the sea and bade the waves be still. For though like waves on Galilee, dark seas of trouble roll, when faith has heard the Master's word, falls peace upon the soul. 4. O sing a song of Calvary, its glory and dismay, of him who hung upon the tree, and took our sins away. For he who died on Calvary is risen from the grave, and Christ, our Lord, by heaven adored, is mighty now to save. Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD

높 이 들 라 사 랑 의 십 자 가 (Lift High the Cross)

Author: George William Kitchin; Michael Robert Newbolt Meter: 10.10 with refrain Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: 슬 픔; 예 배 시 작; 예 수 그 리 스 도; 예 수 의 이 름; 증 거; 펑 화; Christian Year Lent; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Cross; Jesus Christ Life and Ministry; Jesus Christ Name of; Opening Hymns; Peace; 교회 년 사순절; 십자가; 예수의생애 와 사역; 개 회 찬송; 평안 First Line: 성 도 들 모 두 하 나 되 어 서 (Come Christians, follow this triumphant sign) Refrain First Line: 높 이 들 라 사 랑 의 십 자 가 (Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim) Used With Tune: CRUCIFER Text Sources: Korean trans. The United Methodist Korean Hymnal Committee

All Hail to God’s Anointed (Psalm 72)

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 846 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Christian Year Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Birth; Kingdom of God; Providence; Sovereignty of God First Line: All hail to God's anointed Lyrics: 1 All hail to God’s anointed, great David’s greater Son! All hail, in time appointed, your reign on earth begun! You come to break oppression, to set the captive free, to take away transgression and rule in equity. 2 You come with rescue speedy to those who suffer wrong, to help the poor and needy and bid the weak be strong; to give them songs for sighing, their darkness turn to light, whose souls, condemned and dying, are precious in your sight. 3 You shall come down like showers upon the fruitful earth; love, joy, and hope, like flowers, spring in your path to birth. Before you on the mountains shall peace, the herald, go, and righteousness in fountains from hill to valley flow. 4 All rulers bow before you, and gold and incense bring. All nations shall adore you; your praise all people sing. To you shall prayer unceasing and daily vows ascend. Your rule is still increasing; your rule is without end. Scripture: Psalm 72 Used With Tune: ROCKPORT

Forty Days and Forty Nights

Author: George H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: The Celebration of the Gospel Story Ash Wednesday and Lent; Christian Year Lent; Jesus Christ Temptation and Wilderness Lyrics: 1 Forty days and forty nights You were fasting in the wild; Forty days and forty nights Tempted, and yet undefiled. 2 Shall not we Your sorrow share And from worldly joys abstain, Fasting with unceasing prayer, Strong with You to suffer pain? 3 Then, if Satan on us press, Flesh or spirit to assail, Victor in the wilderness, Grant we may not faint nor fail! 4 So shall we have peace divine; Holier gladness ours shall be. 'Round us, too, shall angels shine, Such as served You faithfully. 5 Keep, O keep us, Savior dear, Ever constant by Your side, That with You we may appear At the eternal Eastertide. Scripture: Matthew 4:1-2 Used With Tune: HEINLEIN

O for a World

Author: Miriam Therese Winter Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Reign of Christ; Evangelism; Justice; Kingdom of God; A New Heaven and a New Earth; World Peace; Reconciliation; Unity First Line: O for a world where everyone Scripture: Romans 12:16 Used With Tune: AZMON

O God of Every Nation

Author: William W. Reid Jr. Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Reign of Christ; Faith; Justice and Reconciliation; The Life of the Nations; Redemption Lyrics: 1 O God of every nation, of every race and land, redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand. Where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in love and mercy guide us and heal our strife-torn world. 2 From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right, from trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night, from pride of race and station and blindness to your way, deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray. 3 Lord, strengthen those who labor that all may find release from fear of rattling saber, from dread of war's increase; when hope and courage falter, your still small voice be heard; with faith that none can alter, your servants under-gird. 4 Keep bright in us the vision of days when war shall cease, when hatred and division give way to love and peace, till dawns the morning glorious when truth and justice reign and Christ shall rule victorious o'er all the world's domain. Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-4 Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN