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Happy the heart where graces reign

Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts #310 (1835) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Deliverance from despair; Despair deliverance from it Lyrics: Happy the heart where graces reign, Where love inspires the breast; Love is the brightest of the train, And strengthens all the rest. Knowledge, alas! 'tis all in vain, And all in vain our fear; Our stubborn sins will fight and reign, If love be absent there. 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet In swift obedience move; The devils know and tremble too, But Satan cannot love. This is the grace that lives and sings When faith and hope shall cease; 'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings In the sweet, realms of bliss. Before we quite forsake our clay, Or leave this dark abode, The wings of love bear us away To see our smiling God. Scripture: Psalm 18:15-18 Languages: English

O 'tis a lovely thing to see

Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts #320 (1835) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Despair and hope in death; Hope and despair in death Lyrics: O 'tis a lovely thing to see A man of prudent heart, Whose thoughts, and lips, and life agree To act a useful part. When envy, strife, and wars begin In little angry souls, Mark how the sons of peace come in, And quench the kindling coals. Their minds are humble, mild, and meek, Nor let their fury rise; Nor passion moves their lips to speak, Nor pride exalts their eyes. Their frame is prudence mixed with love, Good works fulfil their day; They join the serpent with the dove, But cast the sting away. Such was the Savior of mankind, Such pleasures he pursued; His flesh and blood were all refined, His soul divinely good. Lord, can these plants of virtue grow In such a heart as mine? Thy grace my nature can renew, And make my soul like thine. Scripture: Matthew 10:16 Languages: English

Give us, O God, the grace to see

Author: Roger Kronmann Hymnal: The Book of Praise #335 (1997) Topics: Discouragement / Despair Languages: English Tune Title: JORDAN

Here hangs a man discarded

Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #385 (2005) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded, a scarecrow hoisted high, a nonsense pointing nowhere to all who hurry by. 2 Can such a clown of sorrows still bring a useful word when faith and love seem phantoms and every hope absurd? 3 Yet here is help and comfort for lives by comfort bound, when drums of dazzling progress give strangely hollow sound: 4 Life, emptied of all meaning, drained out in bleak distress, can share in broken silence our deepest emptiness; 5 And love that freely entered the pit of life's despair, can name our hidden darkness and suffer with us there. 6 Christ, in our darkness risen, help all who long for light to hold the hand of promise, till faith receives its sight. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23 Languages: English Tune Title: SHRUB END

Here hangs a man discarded

Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #385 (2008) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded, a scarecrow hoisted high, a nonsense pointing nowhere to all who hurry by. 2 Can such a clown of sorrows still bring a useful word when faith and love seem phantoms and every hope absurd? 3 Yet here is help and comfort for lives by comfort bound, when drums of dazzling progress give strangely hollow sound: 4 Life, emptied of all meaning, drained out in bleak distress, can share in broken silence our deepest emptiness; 5 And love that freely entered the pit of life's despair, can name our hidden darkness and suffer with us there. 6 Christ, in our darkness risen, help all who long for light to hold the hand of promise, till faith receives its sight. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:23 Languages: English Tune Title: SHRUB END

Now shall my inward joys arise

Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts #495 (1835) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Deliverance from despair; Despair deliverance from it Lyrics: Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. God on his thirsty Zion hill Some mercy drops has thrown, And solemn oaths have bound his love To shower salvation down. Why do we then indulge our fears, Suspicions, and complaints? Is he a God, and shall his grace Grow weary of his saints? Can a kind woman e'er forget The infant of her womb? And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts Her suckling have no room? "Yet," saith the Lord, "should nature change, And mothers monsters prove, Zion still dwells upon the heart Of everlasting love. "Deep on the palms of both my hands I have engraved her name; My hands shall raise her ruined walls, And build her broken frame?" Scripture: Isaiah 49:13 Languages: English

How long, O Lord, will you forget

Author: Barbara Woollett (b. 1937) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #527 (2013) Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? No tokens of your love I see, your face is turned away from me; I wrestle with despair. 2 How long, O Lord, will you forsake and leave me in this way? When will you come to my relief? My heart is overwhelmed with grief, by evil night and day. 3 How long, O Lord — but you forgive, with mercy from above. I find that all your ways are just, I learn to praise you and to trust in your unfailing love. Scripture: Psalm 13 Languages: English Tune Title: [How long, O Lord, will you forget]

Lord, if faith is disenchanted

Author: Alan Gaunt (b. 1935) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #528 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Lord, if faith is disenchanted, if our pain persists too long, show us that your love is planted deeper far than all time's wrong. 2 If we feel ourselves forsaken, overwhelmed by sin and grief, prove your love, though faith is shaken, deeper than our unbelief. 3 Where injustice and oppression make the poor and weak despair, prove your love's profound compassion, deeper than their deepest prayer. 4 When the children, Lord, are dying, anguished parents asking, 'Why?', prove your love, in grief and crying, deeper than grief's deepest cry. 5 Let the cross, your love's perfection, present with us all along, prove itself, in resurrection, deeper far than all time's wrong. Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-4 Languages: English Tune Title: OTTERY ST MARY

Before the throne of God above

Author: Charitie Lees De Chenez (1841-1923) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #598 (2013) Topics: Despair and Trouble Lyrics: 1 Before the throne of God above I have a strong, a perfect plea, a great High Priest, whose name is Love, who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on his hands, my name is written on his heart; I know that while in heaven he stands no tongue can bid me thence depart, no tongue can bid me thence depart. 2 When Satan tempts me to despair, and tells me of the guilt within, upward I look, and see him there who made an end of all my sin. Because the sinless Saviour died, my sinful soul is counted free; for God, the Just, is satisfied to look on him and pardon me, to look on him and pardon me. 3 Behold him there! the risen Lamb! my perfect, spotless Righteousness, the great unchangeable I AM, the King of glory and of grace! One with my Lord, I cannot die; my soul is purchased by his blood; my life is hid with Christ on high, with Christ, my Saviour and my God, with Christ, my Saviour and my God. Scripture: Hebrews 4:14 Languages: English Tune Title: BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD ABOVE

Just as the tide creeps over silver sand

Author: Leith Fisher (b. 1941) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #689 (2005) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Despair and Trouble Scripture: Isaiah 66:1 Languages: English Tune Title: EVENTIDE