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God of our fathers, Bless this our land

Author: John H. Hopkins Meter: Irregular Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: National and Patriotic; National and Patriotic Our Country Used With Tune: GOD OF OUR FATHERS

From foes, that round us rise

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Prayer for national Deliverance Lyrics: 1 From foes, that round us rise, O God of heav'n, defend, Who brave the vengeance of the skies, And with thy saints contend. 2 Behold, from distant shores, And desert wilds they come, Combine for blood their barb'rous force, And thro' thy cities roam. 3 Beneath the silent shade, Their sacred plots they lay, Our peaceful walls by night invade, And waste the fields by day. 4 And will the God of grace, Regardless of our pain, Permit secure that impious race, To riot in their reign? 5 In vain their secret guile, Or open force they prove; His eye can pierce the deepest veil, His hand their strength remove. 6 Yet save them, Lord, from death, Lest we forget their doom; But drive them with thine angry breath, Thro' distant lands to roam. 7 Then shall our grateful voice Proclaim our guardian God; The nations round the earth rejoice, And sound thy praise abroad. Scripture: Psalm 59

For the 5th of November

Author: Steele Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: National deliverances celebrated; National prayer and praise First Line: To thee, almighty God, we bring Lyrics: 1 To thee, almighty God, we bring The humble tribute of our songs; O teach our thankful hearts to sing, Or praise will languish on their tongues. 2 While Britain (favor'd of the skies) Recalls the wonders God hath wrought; Let grateful joy adoring rise, And warm to rapture every thought. 3 When hell and Rome combin'd their power, And doom'd these isles their certain prey; Thy hand forbade the fatal hour, Their impious plots in ruin lay. 4 Again our restless cruel foes Resum'd, avow'd their black design; Again to save us God arose, And Britain own'd the hand divine. 5 Why, gracious God, is Britain sav'd? Why bless'd with liberty and light? Nor by fell tyranny enslav'd, Nor lost in superstition's night? 6 Not for our sake, we conscious own; A wretched, vile, ungrateful race: 'Tis done to make thy glory known; To show the wonders of thy grace. 7 The wonders of thy grace complete; Reform this wretched guilty land! Let thankful love, beneath thy feet, Confess thy kind, thy guardian hand! 8 Let every age adore thy name, While nature's circling wheels shall roll! Thy mercies every tongue proclaim, And sound thy praise from pole to pole.

A hymn for a fast day

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: National prayer and praise First Line: When Abraham, full of sacred awe Lyrics: 1 When Abram, full of sacred awe, Before Jehovah stood, And, with an humble fervent prayer, For guilty Sodom sued; 2 With what success, what wondrous grace, Was his petitions crown'd! The Lord would spare, if in the place Ten righteous men were found. 3 And could a single, holy soul So rich a boon obtain? Good God, and shall a nation cry, And plead with thee in vain? 4 Britain, all guilty as she is, Her numerous saints can boast, And now their fervent prayers ascend, And can those prayers be lost? 5 Are not the righteous dear to thee, Now as in ancient times? Or does this sinful land exceed Gomorrah in its crimes? 6 Still are we thine, we bear thy name, Here yet is thine abode; Long has thy presence bless'd our land, Forsake us not, O God. Scripture: Genesis 18:23-33

From everlasting, God

Author: William R. Huntington Meter: 6.4.6.4 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: National and Patriotic; National and Patriotic Our Country

God the strength and refuge of his people

Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Nations Dependent on God; Royalty of Christ Nations His Subjects First Line: God is our strength and refuge high Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: [God is our strength and refuge high]

God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 13.13.7.7.13 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: National Life Lyrics: 1 God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart for an empire, unbelieving as it falls apart, when your thunder goes unheard, we will tend the prophet's word, and in season, out of season, we will sing your song. 2 When our wound is left to fester, though the pain goes deep, when we've sown a hundred whirlwinds, but have yet to reap, when the platitudes of peace only make our fears increase, with a poem and a story we will sing your song. 3 When the palace looks at poverty with scornful eyes, when the scroll of truth is shredded by a leader's lies, when the glory of the cross is a propaganda gloss, in the square and in the senate we will sing your song. 4 We will break the jar of plenty by the gates of gold, we will buy a field of promise when the farm is sold, at the ending of the dream, in the death of self esteem, at the bank and in the market we will sing your song. 5 We will praise the grainy granite of the Law's demands, and the Life-creating, Lover-God with wounded hands; we will spin your story-line to an empire in decline and in exile or in honour we will sing your song. Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Used With Tune: KELVIN GROVE

Praise to God for the return of Peace

Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: National deliverance; National deliverance First Line: To thee, most high and holy God Lyrics: 1 To thee, most high and holy God, To thee our thankful hearts we raise; Thy works declare thy name abroad, Thy wondrous works demand our praise. 2 To slavery doom'd, thy chosen sons Beheld their foes triumphant rise; And sore opprest by earthly thrones, They sought the sovereign of the skies. 3 'Twas then, great God, with equal power, Arose thy vengeance and thy grace, To scourge their legions from the shore, And save the remnant of thy race. 4 Thy hand that form'd the restless main, And rear'd the mountain's awful head, Bade raging seas their course restrain, And desert wilds receive their dead. 5 Such wonders never come by chance, Nor van the winds such blessings blow; 'Tis God the Judge doth one advance, 'Tis God that lays another low. 6 Let haughty tyrants sink their pride, Nor lift so high their scornful head; But lay their impious thoughts aside, And own the empire God hath made. Scripture: Psalm 75

For the Man and for the Woman

Author: Colin A. Gibson Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Nations Lyrics: 1 For the man and for the woman, for the body and the soul, for the mind and for the spirit, for the love that makes us whole; for the person and the people, for the many and the few, for tradition and for custom, for the fresh and for the new. 2 For the friendship, for the suffering, for the pleasure and the grief, for the learning, for the list'ning for the doubting, and belief; for the sound and for the silence, for the labour and the prayer, for the rock and for the flower, for the earth and for the air. 3 For the harmony of nations, for the sounds of many lands, for the rhythm, for the chanting, for the language of the hands; for the richness of the senses for the color and design, for the weaving of the pattern, for the circle and the line. 4 In the dancer and the poet, in the singer and the song, in the artist and the actor, on the flute and on the gong, we will praise you, great Creator, light of light and Fire of fire; make us one and make us many, your delight is our desire. Scripture: Psalm 145 Used With Tune: MAKILING

Lessons from the Church's history

Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Nations Rebuked in Wrath First Line: At his command, amid their camp Scripture: Psalm 78:23-44 Used With Tune: [At his command, amid their camp]