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This Is My Father's World
Author: Maltbie D. Babcock Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 332 hymnals Lyrics:
1 This is my Father's world,
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas--
His hand the wonders wrought.
2 This is my Father's world:
The birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white,
Declare their Maker's praise.
This is my Father's world:
He shines in all that's fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass,
He speaks to me everywhere.
3 This is my Father's world:
O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the Ruler yet.
This is my Father's world:
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!
Amen. Topics: Adoration; God the Father in Nature; God the Father Sovereignty Scripture: Job 38:7 Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
This Is My Father's World
Forever with the Lord
Author: James Montgomery Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 634 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Forever with the Lord!
Amen, so let it be!
Life from His death is in that word
’Tis immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day’s march nearer home
2. My Father’s house on high,
Home of my soul, how near
At times to faith’s foreseeing eye
Thy golden gates appear!
Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above.
3. Yet clouds will intervene,
And all my prospect flies;
Like Noah’s dove, I flit between
Rough seas and stormy skies.
Anon the clouds depart,
The winds and waters cease,
While sweetly o’er my gladdened heart
Expands the bow of peace.
4. I hear at morn and even,
At noon and midnight hour,
The choral harmonies of Heaven
Earth’s Babel tongues o’erpower;
Then, then I feel that He,
Remembered or forgot,
The Lord, is never far from me,
Though I perceive Him not.
5. Forever with the Lord!
Forever in His will,
The promise of that faithful word,
Lord, here in me fulfill.
With You at my right hand,
Then I shall never fail;
Uphold me, Lord, and I shall stand,
Through grace I will prevail.
6. So when my latest breath
Breaks through the veil of pain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.
That resurrection word,
That shout of victory:
Once more, Forever with the Lord!
Amen, so let it be! Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Poet's Portfolio, 1835
Forever with the Lord
Grace Has a Thrilling Sound
Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-51; Augustus M. Toplady, 1740-78 Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 832 hymnals Topics: Justification Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
Grace Has a Thrilling Sound
A Few More Years Shall Roll
Author: Rev. H. Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 384 hymnals Lyrics: 1. A few more years shall roll,
A few more seasons come,
And we shall be with those that rest
Within their heav'nly home:
Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that great day;
O wash me in Thy precious blood,
And take my sins away!
2. A few more storms shall beat
On this wild, rocky shore,
And we shall be where tempests cease,
And surges swell no more.
A few more struggles here,
A few more partings o'er,
A few more toils, a few more tears,
And we shall weep no more.
3. 'Tis but a little while
And He shall come again,
Who died that we might live, who lives
That we with Him may reign:
Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that glad day;
O wash me in Thy precious blood,
And take my sins away! Topics: The Future Life Mortality Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
A Few More Years Shall Roll
I Was a Wandering Sheep
Author: Rev. Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 500 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I was a wandering sheep,
I did not love the fold;
I did not love my Shepherd’s voice,
I would not be controlled.
I was a wayward child,
I did not love my home,
I did not love my Father’s voice,
I loved afar to roam.
2 The Shepherd sought His sheep,
The Father sought His child;
They followed me o’er vale and hill,
O’er deserts waste and wild.
They found me nigh to death,
Famished and faint and lone;
They bound me with the bands of love,
They saved the wandering one.
3 Jesus my Shepherd is;
’Twas He that loved my soul,
’Twas He that washed me in His blood,
’Twas He that made me whole.
’Twas He that sought the lost,
That found the wandering sheep;
’Twas He that brought me to the fold,
’Tis He that still doth keep.
4 No more a wandering sheep!
I love to be controlled,
I love my tender Shepherd’s voice,
I love the peaceful fold.
No more a wayward child!
I seek no more to roam;
I love my heavenly Father’s voice,
I love, I love His home. Topics: Blood of Christ; Conversion; Love for Christ; Love of Christ; Preparatory Service; Profession of Faith; Salvation; Seeking (God after Man); God or Christ as Shepherd; Wandering from God Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
I Was a Wandering Sheep
Not What These Hands Have Done
Author: H. Bonar, 1808-89 Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 120 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Not what these hands have done
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers and sighs and tears
Can bear my awe-full load.
2 Thy work alone, O Christ,
Can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
Can give me peace within.
Thy love to me, O God,
Not mine, O Lord to Thee,
Can rid me of this dark unrest
And set my spirit free.
3 Thy grace alone, O God,
To me can pardon speak;
Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God,
Can this sore bondage break.
I bless the Christ of God,
I rest on love divine,
By God's free gift of saving faith
I call this Savior mine.
Topics: Sin and Righteousness; Trinity 6 Used With Tune: TERRA PATRIS
Not What These Hands Have Done
El Mundo es de Mi Dios
Author: George P. Simmonds, 1890-; Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901 Appears in 13 hymnals Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
El Mundo es de Mi Dios
The Spring Again Is Here
Author: Arthur C. Benson, 1862-1925 Appears in 9 hymnals Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA
The Spring Again Is Here
Great Is the Lord Our God
Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: God Mighty Acts; God Strength; Adoration of God; God Righteousness; God Strength; God Transcendence; Kingdom of God; Love God’s Love for Us; Psalms Scripture: Psalm 48 Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Sts. 1-2, vers. Psalter Hymnal, 1887, sts. 3-5, vers. Psalter Hymnal, rev. 1987
Great Is the Lord Our God
Messiah, Prince of Peace
Author: John Wesley; Charles Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Messiah, Prince of peace!
Where men each other tear,
Where war is learned, they must confess,
Thy kingdom is not there.
Who, prompted by Thy foe,
Delight in human blood,
Apollyon is their king, we know,
And Satan is their god.
2. But shall he still devour
The souls redeemed by Thee?
Jesus, stir up Thy glorious power
And end the apostasy!
Come, Savior, from above,
O’er all our hearts to reign;
And plant the kingdom of Thy love
In every heart of man.
3. Then shall we exercise
The hellish art no more,
While Thou our long-lost paradise
Dost with Thyself restore.
Fightings and wars shall cease,
And, in Thy Spirit giv’n,
Pure joy and everlasting peace
Shall turn our earth to Heav’n. Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Short Hymns, by John & Charles Wesley, 1762
Messiah, Prince of Peace
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