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Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom

Author: John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 Meter: 10.4.10.4.10.10 Appears in 1,271 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Pilgrimage, Protection, and Guidance Used With Tune: LUX BENIGNA

God, that madest earth and heaven

Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826); Richard Whateley (1787 - 1863) Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 481 hymnals Topics: God Protection of Lyrics: 1 God, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night. 2 Guard us waking, guard us sleeping, and, when we die, may we in thy mighty keeping all peaceful lie: when the last dread call shall wake us, do not thou our God forsake us, but to reign in glory take us with thee on high. Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

Day Is Done

Author: James Quinn, S.J. Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: God Protection First Line: Day is done, but love unfailing Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000); Keith W. Clements (b. 1943); Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Meter: 11.10.11.10.11.10 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: God Protection of Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23 Used With Tune: FINLANDIA

My Life Flows On

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 147 hymnals Topics: Protection First Line: My life flows on in endless song Refrain First Line: No storm can shake my inmost calm Lyrics: 1 My life flows on in endless song, above earth’s lamentation. I catch the sweet, though far-off hymn that hails a new creation. Refrain: No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that Rock I’m clinging. Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth, how can I keep from singing? 2 Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing? [Refrain] 3 What though my joys and comforts die, I know my Savior liveth. What though the darkness gather round? Songs in the night he giveth. [Refrain] 4 The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing! All things are mine since I am his! How can I keep from singing? [Refrain] Scripture: 2 Samuel 22:2-7 Used With Tune: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING Text Sources: Robert Lowry’s Bright Jewels for the Sunday School (USA), 1869, alt.

Through all the changing scenes of life

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 482 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Pilgrimage, Protection, and Guidance Scripture: Psalm 34:1 Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE Text Sources: New Version, 1698

Father, breathe an evening blessing

Author: Edmeston Appears in 872 hymnals Topics: Confidence in God's Protection

Firm As a Rock

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 148 hymnals Topics: God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection First Line: Unshaken as the sacred hills Lyrics: 1. Unshaken as the sacred hills, And fix'd as mountains stand; Firm as a rock the soul shall rest That trusts th' Almighty hand. 2. Not walls nor hills could guard so well Fair Salem's happy ground, As these eternal arms of love That ev'ry saint surround. 3. Do good, O Lord, do good to those Who cleave to thee in heart, Who on thy truth alone repose, Nor from thy law depart. Used With Tune: DUNDEE

God of My Life

Author: C. Wesley Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection; God God's Protection First Line: God of my life, whose gracious pow'r Lyrics: 1. God of my life, whose gracious pow'r Thro' varied scenes my soul hath led, Or turned aside the fatal hour, Or lifted up my sinking head, 2. I have no skill the snare to shun, But thou, O God, my wisdom art: I ever into danger run, But thou art greater than my heart. 3. I rest beneath thy kindly shade; My griefs expire, my troubles cease; Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed, Wilt keep me still in perfect peace. Used With Tune: UXBRIDGE

Children of the Heavenly Father

Author: Caroline V. S. Berg; Ernst W. Olson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 106 hymnals Topics: Protection First Line: Children of the heav’nly Father Lyrics: 1 Children of the heav’nly Father safely in his bosom gather. Nestling bird nor star in heaven such a refuge e’er was given. 2 God his own doth tend and nourish, in his holy courts they flourish. From all evil things he spares them, in his mighty arms he bears them. 3 Neither life nor death shall ever from the Lord his children sever. Unto them his grace he showeth, and their sorrows all he knoweth. 4 Though he giveth or he taketh, God his children ne’er forsaketh. His the loving purpose solely to preserve them safe and holy. Scripture: Psalm 84:1-4 Used With Tune: SANDELL Text Sources: Tryggare kan ingen vara, Andeliga Daggdroppar, 1855; trans. Ernst W. Olson (USA), The Hymnal, 1925, alt.