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On Jordan’s Bank

Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749; John Chandler, 1806-1876 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 230 hymnals First Line: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry Lyrics: 1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry Announces that the Lord is nigh; Awake and harken, for he brings Glad tidings of the King of kings. 2 Then cleansed be ev'ry life from sin; Make straight the way for God within, And let each heart prepare a home Where such a mighty guest may come. 3 For you are our salvation, Lord, Our refuge and our great reward; Without your grace we waste away Like flow'rs that wither and decay. 4 To heal the sick stretch out your hand, And bid the fallen sinner stand; Shine forth, and let your light restore Earth's own true loveliness once more. 5 All praise to you, eternal Son, Whose advent has our freedom won, Whom with the Father we adore, And Holy Spirit, evermore. Topics: Advent Season; Baptism of the Lord; Conversion; Freedom; Grace; Healing; Light; Mercy, Forgiveness; Prophecy; Reconciliation, Atonement, Forgiveness; Sickness Scripture: Isaiah 40:3-5 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW Text Sources: Jordanis oras praevia

Come, Lord, and Tarry Not!

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 155 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, Lord, and tarry not! Bring the long-looked for day! O why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay? 2 Come, for your saints still wait; Daily ascends their sigh; The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!" Do you not hear the cry? 3 Come, for creation groans With longing for your stay, Worn out with these long years of ill, These ages of decay. 4 Come, and make all things new; Build up this ruined earth; Restore our faded paradise, Creation's second birth. 5 Come, and begin your reign Of everlasting peace; Come, take the kingdom to yourself, Great King of Righteousness! Topics: Advent Season; Hope; New Creation; New Life; Perseverance; Redemption; Reign of God, Kingdom; Second Coming Scripture: Revelation 22:17 Used With Tune: ST. BRIDE

Silent Night

Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1849; John F. Young, 1820-1885 Meter: 6.6.8.9.6.6 Appears in 623 hymnals First Line: Silent night, holy night! Lyrics: 1 Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight; Glories stream from heaven afar; Heav'nly hosts sing alleluia! Christ, the Savior, is born! Christ, the Savior, is born!” 3 Silent night, holy night! Son of God, love’s pure light Radiant beams from thy holy face, With the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth. Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord; Peace Scripture: Luke 2:6-14 Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT Text Sources: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht

Angels We Have Heard on High

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 237 hymnals Refrain First Line: Glória in excélsis Deo Lyrics: 1 Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o'er the plains, And the mountains in reply Echo back their joyous strains. Refrain: Glória in excélsis Deo. Glória in excélsis Deo. 2 Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? Say what may the tidings be Which inspire your heav'nly song. [Refrain] 3 Come to Bethlehem and see Him whose birth the angels sing; Come, adore on bended knee Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain] 4 See him in a manger laid Whom the choirs of angels praise; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, While our hearts in love we raise. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Season; Mary, Mother of God; Epiphany of the Lord; Angels; Joy Scripture: Luke 2:13-18 Used With Tune: GLORIA Text Sources: Les anges dans nos campagnes; French carol, c. 18th C.; tr. from Crown of Jesus Music, London, 1862

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 1,329 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hark! The herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!" Joyful, all you nations, rise; Join the triumph of the skies; With the angelic host proclaim, "Christ is born in Bethlehem!" Refrain: Hark! The herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King!" 2 Christ, by highest heav'n adored; Christ, the everlasting Lord! Late in time behold him come, Offspring of the Virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail the incarnate Deity, Pleased as man with us to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. [Refrain] 3 Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Ris'n with healing in his wings. Mild he lays his glory by, Born that we no more may die, Born to raise each child of earth, Born to give us second birth. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord; Angels; Incarnation; New Creation; Peace Scripture: Isaiah 9:5 Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN

It Came upon the Midnight Clear

Author: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 873 hymnals Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: "Peace on the earth, good will to all, From heav'n's all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing. 2 Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heav'nly music floats O'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hov'ring wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. 3 Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the heav'nly hymn have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And warring humankind hears not The tidings which they bring; O hush the noise and cease your strife And hear the angels sing. 4 For, lo! The days are hast'ning on, By prophets seen of old, When with the ever-circling years Shall come the time foretold, When peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And all the world give back the song Which now the angels sing. Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord; Angels; Justice; Music; Peace; Song Scripture: Luke 2:10-11 Used With Tune: CAROL

Joy to the World

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,860 hymnals First Line: Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her king; Let ev'ry heart prepare him room And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let us our songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy. 3 No more let sin and sorrow grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as, the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness, And wonders of his love, And wonders of his love, And wonders, wonders of his love. Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord; Joy; Salvation Scripture: Psalm 98:4-9 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893 Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 846 hymnals 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 the 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 wond'ring 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 giv'n! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heav'n. 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! Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord Scripture: Micah 5:2 Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS

Away in a Manger

Author: Anonymous; John T. McFarland, 1851-1913 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 546 hymnals First Line: Away in a manger, no crib for a bed Lyrics: 1 Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head; The stars in the sky looked down where he lay, The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay. 2 The cattle are lowing; the baby awakes, But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes. I love thee, Lord Jesus! Look down from the sky And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh. 3 Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask thee to stay Close by me forever, and love me, I pray. Bless all the dear children in thy tender care, And fit us for heaven, to live with thee there. Topics: Children's Hymns Scripture: Luke 2:7 Used With Tune: MUELLER

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work, Jr., 1871-1925 Appears in 108 hymnals First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and ev'rywhere, Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold, throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled When lo! above the earth, Rang out the angel chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lowly manger The humble Christ was born, And God set us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas Season; Epiphany of the Lord; Children's Hymns; Spirituals Scripture: Luke 2:6-18 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN Text Sources: Negro Spiritual