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Thy Goodness, Lord, Our Souls Confess

Author: Thomas Gibbons Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 140 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thy goodness, Lord, our souls confess, Thy goodness we adore: A spring, whose blessings never fail, A sea without a shore. 2. Sun, moon and stars Thy love attest, In every cheerful ray: Love draws the curtains of the night, And love restores the day. 3. Thy bounty every season crowns, With all the bliss it yields; With joyful clusters bend the vines, With harvests wave the fields. 4. But chiefly Thy compassions, Lord, Are in the Gospel seen; There, like the sun, Thy mercy shines, Without a cloud between. 5. Thy Son, Thy noblest, choicest gift, Was from Thy bosom sent To bear from off a sinking world Its load of punishment. 6. Ours is the life, the glory ours, And His the death and shame; Pardon, acceptance, peace, and joy, Are published in His name. Used With Tune: CLAPHAM Text Sources: Gospel Magazine, 1775

Hear Lord, The Song Of Praise And Prayer

Author: Wiliam Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 27 hymnals First Line: Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer Lyrics: 1 Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer, In Heav’n Thy dwelling place, From infants, made Thy constant care, [originally, …made the public care] And taught to seek Thy face! 2 Thanks for Thy Word, and for Thy day, And grant us, we implore, Never to waste in sinful play, Thy holy Sabbaths more. 3 Thanks that we hear—but, Oh, impart, To each desires sincere, That we may listen with our heart, And learn, as well as hear. 4 For if vain thoughts our minds engage, Of elder far than we: What hope that at our heedless age, Our minds shall e’er be free? 5 Much hope, if Thou our spirits take Under Thy gracious sway, Who canst make the wisest wiser make And babes as wise as they. 6 Wisdom and bliss Thy Word bestows, A sun that ne’er declines; And be Thy mercies showered on those Who placed us where it shines. Used With Tune: GARDINER Text Sources: Divine Hymns Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children by Rowland Hill (Aldermanbury, London: T. Wilkins, 1790)

A holy air is breathing round a fragrance

Author: Abiel A. Livermore Appears in 30 hymnals Used With Tune: DEDHAM

O light, from age to age the same

Author: Frederick L. Hosmer Appears in 22 hymnals Used With Tune: DEDHAM

A wondrous star our pioneer

Author: John Weiss Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: DEDHAM

Complaint in Declension

Author: Watts Appears in 42 hymnals First Line: Lord, we have heard thy works of old Topics: Church Afflicted; Fasting; Revival Scripture: Psalm 44 Used With Tune: DEDHAM

Now, brethren, to your homes repair

Author: S. M. Hoover Appears in 12 hymnals Used With Tune: DEDHAM

O Thou Great Teacher from the Skies

Author: Thomas C. Upham Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Thou great teacher from the skies, Who lived and died for men; Teach us with Thee to sympathize, And be as Thou wast then. 2. It was the glory of Thy heart, Whate’er Thou hadst to give; For others’ sufferings to impart, For others’ good to live. 3. Be Thou in us a living soul; Be Thou our spirit’s power; Its secret thought, its life’s control, To guide it every hour. 4. W need like Thee a spirit true, A just and generous mind, Which seeks, in all it has to do, The good of all mankind. Used With Tune: GARDINER