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Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,259 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: 2 Under the shadow of your throne your saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is your arm alone, and our defense is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received her frame, from everlasting you are God, to endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in your sight are like an evening gone; short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood, with all their lives and cares, are carried downward by your flood, and lost in foll'wing years. 6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the op'ning day. 7 Our God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come: O be our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Topics: Funerals; Reformation Day; God His Eternity; God Defender; Life Brevity of; Opening and Closing of the Year; Preservation of Christians; Tribulation and Suffering Prayer in Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE (Croft)

How Blest Are They Who, Fearing God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How blest are they who, fearing God, from sin restrain their feet, who will not with the wicked stand, who shun the scorner's seat. 2 How blest are they who make God's law their treasure and delight, and meditate upon that word with gladness day and night. 3 Their lives are nourished like a tree set by the river's side; its leaf is green, its fruit is sure: so all their works abide. 4 The wicked, like the driven chaff, are blown across the land; they shall not gather with the just, nor in the judgment stand. 5 The Lord will guard the righteous well, their way to him is known; the way of sinners, far from God, shall surely be o'erthrown. Topics: God Justice; God Law of; Judgment; Christian Maturity; Psalms Scripture: Psalm 1 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE (Croft) Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

How Helpless Guilty Nature Lies

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 233 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How helpless guilty nature lies, Unconscious of its load! The heart unchanged can never rise To happiness and God. 2 Can aught beneath a power divine The stubborn will subdue? ’Tis Thine, Almighty Saviour, Thine, To form the heart anew. 3 ’Tis Thine the passions to recall, And upwards bid them rise; And make the scales of error fall From reason’s darkened eyes. 4 To chase the shades of death away, And bid the sinner live, A beam of heaven, a vital ray, ’Tis Thine alone to give. 5 O change these wretched hearts of ours, And give them life divine! Then shall our passions and our powers, Almighty Lord, be Thine. Amen. Topics: Way of Salvation Repentance; Trinity, Eleventh Sunday Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Lamp of Our Feet Whereby We Trace

Author: Bernard Barton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 280 hymnals First Line: Lamp of our feet, whereby we trace Lyrics: 1 Lamp of our feet whereby we trace Our path when wont to stray; Stream from the fount of heav'nly grace, Brook by the trav'ler's way: 2 Bread of our souls whereon we feed; True manna from on high; Our guide and chart wherein we read Of realms beyond the sky; 3 Pillar of fire, thro' watches dark, Or radiant cloud by day: When waves would break our tossing bark, Our anchor and our stay: 4 Word of the ever-living God, Will of His glorious Son; Without thee, how could earth be trod Or heaven itself be won? 5 Lord, grant us all aright to learn The wisdom it imparts And to its heavenly teaching turn With simple, childlike hearts. Amen. Topics: The Word Law and Gospel Scripture: Psalm 119:105 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 27 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in generations all. 2 Before thou ever hadst brought forth the mountains great or small; ere ever thou hadst formed the earth, and all the world abroad; thou even from everlasting art to everlasting God. 3 Thou, Lord, unto destruction dost man that is mortal turn; and unto them thou sayest, Again, ye sons of men, return. 4 Because a thousand years appear no more before thy sight than yesterday when it is past, or than a watch by night. 5 As with an overflowing flood thou carriest them away: they like a sleep are, like the grass that grows at morn are they. 6 At morn it flourishes and grows, cut down at even doth fade. 7 For by thine anger we’re consumed, thy wrath makes us afraid. 8 Our sins thou and iniquities dost in thy presence place, and sett’st our secret faults before the brightness of thy face. 9 For in thine anger all our days do pass on to an end; and as a tale that hath been told, so we our years do spend. 10 Threescore and ten years do sum up our days and years, we see; or if, by reason of more strength, in some fourscore they be; yet doth the strength of such old men but grief and labour prove; for it is soon cut off, and we fly hence, and soon remove. 11 Who knows thine anger's power, and keeps thy fear before his eyes? 12 To count our days so teach thou us that our hearts may be wise. Scripture: Psalm 90:1-12 Used With Tune: ST ANNE

Begin, My Tongue, Some Heavenly Theme

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 300 hymnals First Line: Begin, my tongue some heav'nly theme Lyrics: 1 Begin, my tongue, some heav'nly theme And speak some boundless thing; The mighty works or mightier Name Of our eternal King. 2 Tell of His wondrous faithfulness And sound His pow'r abroad; Sing the sweet promise of His grace, The love and truth of God. 3 His very word of grace is strong As that which built the skies; The voice that rolls the stars along Speaks all the promises. 4 O might I hear Thy heav'nly tongue But whisper, "Thou art mine!" Those gentle words shall raise my song To notes almost divine. Topics: Exalt the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

The Son of God goes forth to war

Author: Reginald Heber, 1783 - 1826 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 846 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Not to the terrors of the Lord

Author: I. Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 186 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Not to the terrors of the Lord, The tempest, fire, and smoke: Not to the thunder of that word Which God on Sinai spoke: 2 But we are come to Sion's hill, The city of our God; Where milder words declare His will, And spread His love abroad. 3 Behold th' innumerable host Of angels clothed in light: Behold the spirits of the just, Whose faith is turned to sight. 4 Behold the blest assembly there Whose names are writ in heaven; Hear God, the Judge of all, declare Their sins, through Christ, forgiven. 5 Angels, and living saints, and dead But one communion make: All join in Christ, their living Head, And of His love partake. Topics: All Saints; General; Other Feasts and Fasts Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

O Where Are Kings and Empires Now

Author: Arthur Cleveland Coxe Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 303 hymnals First Line: O where are the kings and empires now Lyrics: 1 O where are kings and empires now Of old that went and came? But, Lord, Thy Church is praying yet, A thousand years the same. 2 We mark her goodly battlements, And her foundations strong; We hear within the solemn voice Of her unending song. 3 For not like kingdoms of the world Thy holy Church, O God; Though earthquake shocks are threatening her, And tempests are abroad, 4 Unshaken as eternal hills, Immovable she stands, A mountain that shall fill the earth, A house not made by hands. Amen. Topics: Church, The; Church, The Church Triumphant Scripture: Psalm 48:12-13 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

O Lord and Master of Us All

Author: John G. Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 69 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Lord and Master of us all, Whate’er our name or sign, We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call, We test our lives by Thine. 2. Thou judgest us; Thy purity Doth all our lusts condemn; The love that draws us nearer Thee Is hot with wrath to them. 3. Our thoughts lie open to Thy sight And naked to Thy glance Our secret sins are in the light Of Thy pure countenance. 4. Yet weak and blinded though we be, Thou dost our service own; We bring our varying gifts to Thee, And Thou rejectest none. 5. To Thee our full humanity, Its joys and pains belong; The wrong of man to man on Thee Inflicts a deeper wrong. 6. Who hates, hates Thee; who loves, becomes Therein to Thee allied: All sweet accords of hearts and homes In Thee are multiplied. 7. Apart from Thee all gain is loss, All labor vainly done; The solemn shadow of the cross Is better than the sun. 8. Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may Thy service be? Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, But simply following Thee. 9. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Thee The Light, the Truth, the Way. Used With Tune: ST. ANNE