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Morning Has Broken

Author: Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 100 hymnals Topics: Morning; Creation; Praise of God Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: BUNESSAN

Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun

Author: Thomas Ken (1637-1711) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 918 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily stage of duty run; shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 Redeem thy misspent time that's past, and live this day as if thy last; improve thy talent with due care; for the great day thyself prepare. 3 Let all thy converse be sincere, thy conscience as the noonday clear; think how all-seeing God thy ways and all thy secret thoughts surveys. 4 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, and with the angels bear thy part, who all night long unwearied sing glory to the eternal King. Topics: Morning Scripture: Romans 12 Used With Tune: MORNING HYMN

Saviour, Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise

Author: John Ellerton (1826-1893) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 877 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise with one accord our parting hymn of praise. We stand to bless thee ere our worship cease, then lowly kneeling wait thy word of peace. 2 Grant us thy peace upon our homeward way; with thee began, with thee shall end the day. Guard thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame, that in this house have called upon thy name. 3 Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the coming night; turn thou for us its darkness into light. From harm and danger keep thy children free, for dark and light are both alike to thee. 4 Grant us thy peace, throughout our earthly life; our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife. Then, when thy voice shall bid our conflict cease, call us, O Lord, to thine eternal peace. Topics: Evening; Peace of God Scripture: John 14:23-29 Used With Tune: ELLERS

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks (1831-1893) Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 905 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by; yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. 2 For Christ is born of Mary; and, gathered all above, while mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. O morning stars, together proclaim the holy birth, and praises sing to God the King, and peace to all on earth. 3 How silently, how silently, the wondrous Gift is given as love imparts to human hearts the blessings of God's heaven! No ear may hear his coming but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in. 4 O holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray; cast out our sin and enter in; be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel. Topics: Christmas; Epiphany Scripture: Micah 5:2-5 Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN

The First Nowell

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 439 hymnals First Line: The first nowell the angel did say Refrain First Line: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Lyrics: 1 The first nowell the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay, in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep. Refrain: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel. 2 They looked up and saw a star shining in the east beyond them far, and to the earth it gave great light, and so it continued both day and night. [Refrain] 3 And by the light of that same star three wise men came from country far; to seek for a king was their intent, and to follow the star wherever it went. [Refrain] 4 This star drew nigh to the northwest, o'er Bethlehem it took its rest, and there it did both stop and stay right over the place where Jesus lay. [Refrain] 5 Then entered in those wise men three, full reverently upon their knee, and offered there in his presence their gold, and myrrh, and frankincense. [Refrain] 6 Then let us all with one accord sing praises to our heavenly Lord, who has made heaven and earth of nought, and with his blood salvation bought. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas; Epiphany Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Used With Tune: THE FIRST NOWELL Text Sources: English trad.

It Came upon the Midnight Clear

Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 931 hymnals Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old, from angels bending near the earth, to touch their harps of gold: "Peace on the earth, to all good will from heaven's all-gracious king!" The world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing. 2 Still through the cloven skies they come with peaceful wings unfurled, and still their heavenly music floats o'er all the weary world; above its sad and lowly plains they bend on hovering wing, and ever o'er its Babel sounds the blessed angels sing. 3 Yet with the woes of sin and strife the world has suffered long; beneath the angel-strain have rolled two thousand years of wrong; and we amid our wars hear not the words of peace they bring; O listen now, and still your strife to hear the angels sing. 4 And you, beneath life's crushing load, whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow; look now, for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing: O rest beside the weary road and hear the angels sing. 5 For lo, the days are hastening on, by prophets seen of old, when with the ever-circling years shall come the time foretold: when the new heaven and earth shall own the Prince of Peace their King, and the whole world send back the song which now the angels sing. Topics: Christmas; Epiphany; Angels Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7 Used With Tune: CAROL

Good Christians All, Rejoice

Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 6.6.7.7.7.8.5.5 Appears in 240 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Listen now to what we say: Jesus Christ is born today; ox and ass before him bow, and he is in the manger now. Christ is born today; Christ is born today! 2 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Hear the news of endless bliss: Jesus Christ was born for this; he has opened heaven's door and we are blessed for evermore! Christ was born for this; Christ was born for this! 3 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now you need not fear the grave; Jesus Christ was born to save: come at his most gracious call to find salvation, one and all! Christ was born to save; Christ was born to save! Topics: Christmas; Epiphany Scripture: Psalm 97 Used With Tune: IN DULCI JUBILO Text Sources: German-Latin carol (14th cent.)

Ye Holy Angels Bright

Author: Richard Baxter (1615-1691) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 124 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ye holy angels bright, who wait at God's right hand, or through the realms of light fly at your Lord's command, assist our song, for else the theme too high doth seem for mortal tongue. 2 Ye blessed souls at rest, who ran this earthly race and now, from sin released, behold the Saviour's face, your praises sound, as in God's sight with sweet delight ye do abound. 3 Ye saints, who toil below, adore your heavenly King, and onward as ye go some joyful anthem sing; in God rejoice, and thus proclaim the holy name with sounding voice. 4 My soul, bear thou thy part, triumph in God above, and with a well-tuned heart sing thou the songs of love! Let all thy days till life shall end, whate'er God send, be filled with praise. Topics: Angels; Communion of Saints; Funeral; Michael, the Archangel; Praise of God Scripture: Psalm 103 Used With Tune: DARWALL'S 148TH

To the Name of Our Salvation

Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 123 hymnals Lyrics: 1 To the Name of our salvation laud and honour let us pay, which for many a generation hid in God's foreknowledge lay; but with holy exultation we may sing aloud today. 2 Jesus is the name we treasure, name beyond what words can tell; name of gladness, name of pleasure, ear and heart delighting well; name of sweetness passing measure, saving us from sin and hell. 3 'Tis the name that whoso preaches speaks like music to the ear; who in prayer this name beseeches finds its comfort ever near; who its perfect wisdom reaches, heavenly joy possesses here. 4 Jesus is the name exalted over every other name; in this name, whene'er assaulted, we can put our foes to shame: strength to them who else had halted, eyes to blind and feet to lame. 5 Therefore we in love adoring, this most blessed name revere, holy Jesus, thee imploring so to write it in us here that, hereafter heavenward soaring, we may sing with angels there. Topics: Adoration; Praise of God; Name of Jesus Scripture: Psalm 44:1-8 Used With Tune: ORIEL Text Sources: Latin (15th cent.)

Dear God, Compassionate and Kind

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 with repeat Appears in 549 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Dear God, compassionate and kind, forgive our foolish ways. Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise, in deeper reverence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up and follow thee, rise up and follow thee! 3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity interpreted by love, interpreted by love! 4 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace, the beauty of thy peace. 5 Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm, O still, small voice of calm. Topics: Call and Vocation; Forgiveness; Lent (season); Peace of God Scripture: 1 Kings 19:1-18 Used With Tune: REPTON