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Beautiful Saviour, wonderful Counsellor

Author: Stuart Townend Meter: Irregular Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: All my days I will sing this song of gladness Topics: Life in Christ Christ Risen - Reign and Priesthood; Heaven; Jesus cross Scripture: Exodus 15:11 Used With Tune: BEAUTIFUL SAVIOUR

Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side

Author: Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel (b. 1697); Jane Laurie Borthwick (1813-1897) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 178 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Be still, my soul: for God is on your side; bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; leave to your God to order and provide; in every change he faithful will remain. Be still, my soul: your best, your heavenly friend through thorny ways leads to a joyful end. 2 Be still, my soul: for God will undertake to guide the future as he has the past. Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake, all now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know his voice who ruled them while he lived below. 3 Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart and all is darkened in the vale of tears, then you shall better know his love, his heart, who comes to soothe your sorrow, calm your fears. Be still, my soul: for Jesus can repay from his own fullness all he takes away. 4 Be still, my soul: the hour is hastening on when we shall be for ever with the Lord, when disappointment, grief, and fear are gone, sorrow forgotten, love’s pure joys restored. Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past, all safe and blessèd we shall meet at last. Topics: The Church Celebrates Family, Friendship, and Marriage; The Church Celebrates Death and Grieving; Death and Bereavement; God Faithfulness of; God in grace and mercy; Grief; Heaven Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Used With Tune: FINLANDIA

Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart

Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne (188-1931); Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860-1935) Meter: 10.10.10.10 irregular Appears in 159 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art; thou my best thought, in the day or the night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. 2 Be thou my Wisdom, be thou my true Word; I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord; thou my great Father: thine own I would be; thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee. 3 Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight; be thou my dignity, thou my delight, thou my soul's shelter, and thou my high tower: raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power. 4 Riches I heed not, nor earth's empty praise, thou mine inheritance, now and always; thou, and thou only, the first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my treasure thou art. 5 High King of Heaven, after victory won, may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my Vision, O Ruler of all. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Risen - Reign and Priesthood; Conflict; God Protection of; God names and imags of; Heaven Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:24 Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Irish, 8th century

Bethlehem, a noble city

Author: Prudentius (348-c. 413); Edward Caswall (1814-1878) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 51 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Bethlehem, a noble city, has been blessed beyond compare, for the gracious God of heaven once became incarnate there. 2 Fairer than the sun at morning was the star that told his birth, to the world its God announcing, seen in human form on earth. 3 From the east came men of wisdom bringing treasures prized of old, tributes to a greater wisdom, gifts of incense, myrrh, and gold. 4 Sacred gifts of mystic meaning: incense shows that God has come, gold proclaims him king of nations, myrrh foretells his saving tomb. 5 Holy Jesus, in your brightness to the gentile world displayed, with the Father and the Spirit endless praise to you be paid. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany; Christian Year Season of Epiphany Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Used With Tune: STUTTGART

Behold the amazing gift of love

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 38 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold the amazing gift of love the Father hath bestowed on us, in calling us his own, the children of our God! 2 Concealed as yet this honour lies, by this dark world unknown, a world that knew not when he came, even God's eternal Son. 3 High is the rank we now possess; but higher we shall rise, though what we shall hereafter be is hid from mortal eyes. 4 Our souls, we know, when he appears, shall bear his image bright; for all his glory, full disclosed, shall open to our sight. 5 A hope so great and so divine may trials well endure; and purge the soul from sense and sin, as Christ himself is pure. Topics: Christ Risen Coming Again; Heaven; Human Dignity Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3 Used With Tune: ST. STEPHEN (NEWINGTON) Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781,Paraphrase 63, alt.

Blest be the everlasting God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 189 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Blest be the everlasting God, the Father of our Lord! Be his abounding mercy praised, his majesty adored! 2 When from the dead he raised his Son, and called him to the sky, he gave our souls a lively hope that they should never die. 3 To an inheritance divine he taught our hearts to rise; 'tis uncorrupted, undefiled, unfading in the skies. 4 Saints by the power of God are kept, till the salvation come: we walk by faith as strangers here; but Christ shall call us home. Topics: Christ Risen Resurrection and Exaltation; The Church Celebrates Oneness with the Church in Heaven; Eternal Life; Jesus Resurrection Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Used With Tune: BISHOPTHORPE Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781

Be still

Author: David J. Evans (b. 1957) Meter: Irregular Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Our Response to God in adoration and gratitude; Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; God in glory; God Power of; God Presence of; God Presence of Scripture: Exodus 3:4-5 Used With Tune: BE STILL

By cool Siloam's shady rill

Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 606 hymnals Lyrics: 1 By cool Siloam's shady rill how sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill of Sharon's dewy rose! 2 Lo! such the child whose early feet the paths of peace have trod, whose secret heart with influence sweet is upward drawn to God. 3 By cool Siloam's shady rill the lily must decay, the rose that blooms beneath the hill must shortly fade away; 4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour of life's maturer age will shake the soul with sorrow's power and stormy passion's rage. 5 O thou whose infant feet were found within thy Father's shrine, whose years, with changeless virtue crowned, were all alike divine. 6 Dependent on thy bounteous breath we seek thy grace alone, through every stage of life, and death, to keep us still thine own. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Family, Friendship, and Marriage; Funerals general; Stages of Life Scripture: Isaiah 40:6-8 Used With Tune: BELMONT

Behold! the mountain of the Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 182 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold! the mountain of the Lord in latter days shall rise on mountain tops above the hills, and draw the wondering eyes. 2 To this the joyful nations round, all tribes and tongues, shall flow; up to the hill of God, they'll say, and to his house we'll go. 3 The beam that shines from Zion hill shall lighten every land; the King who reigns in Salem's towers shall all the world command. 4 Among the nations he shall judge; his judgements truth shall guide; his sceptre shall protect the just, and quell the sinner’s pride. 5 No strife shall rage, nor hostile feuds disturb those peaceful years; to ploughshares men shall beat their swords, to pruning-hooks their spears. 6 No longer hosts, encountering hosts, shall crowds of slain deplore: they hang the trumpet in the hall, and study war no more. 7 Come then, O house of Jacob! come to worship at his shrine; and, walking in the light of God, with holy beauties shine. Topics: The Church Celebrates National Life; God in judgement and justice; Peace; Remembrance Sunday; Visons and Dreams Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-5 Used With Tune: GLASGOW Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781, Paraphrase 18

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning

Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 912 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining; low lies his head with the beasts of the stall; angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all. 3 Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, odours of Edom, and offerings divine, gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts would his favour secure: richer by far is the heart's adoration, dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. 5 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany; Christian Year Season of Epiphany Scripture: Revelation 22:16 Used With Tune: WAS LEBET, WAS SCHWEBET