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The Guiding Star for Sunday Schools: a new collection of Sunday school songs, together with a great variety of anniversary pieces written expressly for this worke

Editor: Rev. D. C. John
Publisher: Lee & Walker, Philadelphia, 1872
Language: English
Notes: Numbering is by page number. Letters are added to hymns that start on the same page.
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3Low on the night horizonPage Scan
4'Tis sweet to work for Jesus in this life's little dayPage Scan
5"It is I!" O blessed Jesus!Page Scan
6How tedious and tasteless the hoursPage Scan
7Angels from the realms of gloryPage Scan
8Brightest and best of the sons of the morningPage Scan
9Cease, ye mourners, cease to languishPage Scan
10Mourn, my harp, the soon departedPage Scan
11Oh, how sweet it is to singPage Scan
12Pearl of the ocean, Gem of the seaPage Scan
13The Sabbath School's a place for prayerPage Scan
14There is many a lamp that is lightedPage Scan
15Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God in the highest!Page Scan
16City of worship, royal and fairPage Scan
18The lone and toiling voyagersPage Scan
19Love the little childrenPage Scan
20aOne sweetly solemn thoughtPage Scan
20bWe are joyously voyaging over the mainPage Scan
22When the heart is nigh to breakingPage Scan
23Christ the Lord is ris'n to dayPage Scan
24Ringing, sweetly ringing, The cheerful Sabbath bellsPage Scan
26There is a river, deep and darkPage Scan
27Jesus let thy pitying eyePage Scan
28When Rechab's sons, in days of oldPage Scan
29Suppose a little twinkling starPage Scan
30When great storms of life o'ertake usPage Scan
31When shall we stand upon thy shorePage Scan
32aI love to have the Sabbath comePage Scan
32bNow I make a full surrenderPage Scan
34Shadows o'er the vale are creepingPage Scan
35Hail beauteous bow of heav'n!Page Scan
36O city of the jasper wallPage Scan
37We are a little gleaning bandPage Scan
38Jesus, now to thee I flyPage Scan
39Head of the church triumphantPage Scan
40If you cannot on the oceanPage Scan
41 Oh, how happy are they Page Scan
42Lord, and is thine anger gonePage Scan
43Away with our sorrow and fearPage Scan
44aGuide me, O thou great JehovahPage Scan
44bOh, thought full of sweetness. to those that believePage Scan
46Hail, glorious day! the most sublimePage Scan
48Hail, thou once despised JesusPage Scan
49There stands a Rock, on shores of timePage Scan
50Short is the time to laborPage Scan
52There seems a voice in ev'ry galePage Scan
53Look up my soul by faith beholdPage Scan
54O say, can you tell when the sweet Sabbath bellPage Scan
55Oh, when shall we sweetly remove?Page Scan
56Come, sad and weary, comePage Scan
57Come, O thou traveler unknown[Come, O thou traveler unknown]Page Scan
58I am kneeling at the thresholdPage Scan
60Along the river, deep and widePage Scan
61Father, enthron'd above, Hear us in gracious lovePage Scan
62What are those soul-reviving strainsPage Scan
64There is a spot to me more dearPage Scan
65O Jesus in pity draw nearPage Scan
66Jesus, bless the little children!Page Scan
67You ask me, brethren, how I know that Jesus is divinePage Scan
68Raise my pillow, husband dearestPage Scan
69Jesus thou to weary mortalsPage Scan
70Come thou fount of ev'ry blessingPage Scan
71Hosanna be the childrens' songPage Scan
72aWe're the lambs of the flockPage Scan
72bYour path may be dark, and with thorns overspreadPage Scan
74The winds began to howl, O'er land and seaPage Scan
75All glory to Jesus be giv'nPage Scan
76Time is earnest, Passing byPage Scan
77On Jordan's stormy banks I standPage Scan
78aForget not the Savior in youth's happy dayPage Scan
78bWhenever you hear a word spoken in jestPage Scan
80O mother I am very tiredPage Scan
82Vain are all terrestrial pleasuresPage Scan
83I long to behold him arrayedPage Scan
84Hark! what mean those holy voicesPage Scan
85To Father, Son, and Holy GhostPage Scan
86Am I a soldier of the crossPage Scan
88aJesus wept! those tears are overPage Scan
88bI have wandered far thro' valleys gayPage Scan
90Vital spark of heav'nly flamePage Scan
92We often speak of restingPage Scan
94Jesus lover of my soulPage Scan
95How peacefully the days pass byPage Scan
96A home in heav'n, what a joyful thoughtPage Scan
97Go, ye messengers of GodPage Scan
98I am waiting by the riverPage Scan
99Love divine, all love excellingPage Scan
100Tell me, ye angels, what is your missionPage Scan
101Midnight silence, hush'd and holyPage Scan
104When the heart has grown sick of the world's sin and blightPage Scan
105While shepherd watch'd their flocks by nightPage Scan
108Hark! the song of JubileePage Scan
109Quiet is the hour of evenPage Scan
110aOh, glorious hope of perfect love!Page Scan
110bThere's a song in the air, there's a star in the sky!Page Scan
112Souls are perishing before theePage Scan
113Suffer little children to come unto mePage Scan
114Come lay your burdens, weary soulPage Scan
115O love divine, How sweet thou artPage Scan
116By-and-by, O feeble heartedPage Scan

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