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Christ is alive! Let Christians sing

Author: Brian A. Wren, b. 1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift and war, where colour, scorn or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love and praise. Topics: Easter; Easter V Year A Scripture: Acts 9:5 Used With Tune: TRURO

Lord of all, to thee we raise

Author: F. S. Pierpoint, 1835-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 635 hymnals First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, Refrain: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise. 2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: [Refrain] 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, pleasures pure and undefiled: [Refrain] 4 For each perfect gift of thine, to our race so freely given, graces human and divine, flowers of earth and buds of heaven: [Refrain] 5 For thy church which evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain] Topics: Creation; Second Sunday Before Lent Year A; Proper 17 Year B; Proper 21 Year B Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:9 Used With Tune: ENGLANDS LANE

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford, 1810-1871 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 727 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest-home: all be safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come; raise the song of harvest-home! 2 All the world is God's own field, fruit unto his praise to yield; wheat and tares together sown, unto joy or sorrow grown; first the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear: grant, O harvest Lord, that we wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take his harvest home; from his field shall purge away all that doth offend, that day; give his angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast, but the fruitful ears to store in his garner evermore. 4 Then, thou Church Triumphant, come, raise the song of harvest-home; all be safely gathered in, free from sorrow, free from sin, there for ever purified in God's garner to abide: come, ten thousand angels, come, raise the glorious harvest-home! Topics: Harvest Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR

Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885; J. M. Neale ; R. F. Littledale Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 172 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let all mortal flesh keep silence and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand. 2 King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he stood, Lord of lords, in human vesture — in the body and the blood — he will give to all the faithful his own self for heavenly food. 3 Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way, as the Light of light descendeth from the realms of endless day, that the powers of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away. 4 At his feet the six-winged seraph; cherubim with sleepless eye veil their faces to the Presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Lord most high. Topics: Holy Communion; Proper 26 Year C Scripture: Galatians 4:4 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St James

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round

Author: J. W. Chadwick, 1840-1904 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 124 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round of circling planets singing on their way; guide of the nations from the night profound into the glory of the perfect day; rule in our hearts, that we may ever be guided and strengthened and upheld by thee. 2 We are of thee, the children of thy love, the brothers of thy well-belovèd Son; descend, O Holy Spirit, like a dove, into our hearts, that we may be as one: as one with thee, to whom we ever tend; as one with him, our Brother and our Friend. 3 We would be one in hatred of all wrong, one in our love of all things sweet and fair, one with the joy that breaketh into song, one with the grief that trembles into prayer, one in the power that makes thy children free to follow truth, and thus to follow thee. 4 O clothe us with thy heavenly armour, Lord, thy trusty shield, thy sword of love divine; our inspiration be thy constant word; we ask no victories that are not thine: give or withhold, let pain or pleasure be; enough to know that we are serving thee. Topics: Pentecost Scripture: Ephesians 6:11 Used With Tune: SONG 1

All good gifts around us

Author: Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815; Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1817-1878 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 454 hymnals First Line: We plough the fields, and scatter Lyrics: 1 We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land, but it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand: he sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain, the breezes, and the sunshine, and soft, refreshing rain. Refrain: All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above; then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love. 2 He only is the maker of all things near and far; he paints the wayside flower, he lights the evening star; the winds and waves obey him, by him the birds are fed; much more to us, his children, he gives our daily bread. [Refrain] 3 We thank thee then, O Father, for all things bright and good, the seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food. Accept the gifts we offer for all thy love imparts, and, what thou most desirest, our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Topics: Harvest; Easter VI Rogationtide Scripture: Acts 14:17 Used With Tune: WI PFLÜGEN

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 315 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2 Here would I feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would I lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood; here is my robe, my refuge, and my peace — thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord, my God. 4 I have no help but thine; nor do I need another arm save thine to lean upon; it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; my strength is in thy might, thy might alone. 5 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear; the feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but thou art here, nearer than ever, still our shield and sun. 6 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love. Topics: Holy Communion; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 16 Year B; Proper 23 Year A; Third Sunday Before Advent Year A Scripture: 1 John 1:1-7 Used With Tune: MAGDA

Christ is the world's light, he and none other

Author: F. Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 10.11.11.6 Appears in 32 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ is the world's light, he and none other: born in our darkness, he became our brother; if we have seen him, we have seen the Father: Glory to God on high. 2 Christ is the world's peace, he and none other; no one can serve him and despise a brother; who else unites us, one in God the Father? Glory to God on high. 3 Christ is the world's life, he and none other; sold once for silver, murdered here, our brother. He who redeems us, reigns with God the Father: Glory to God on high. 4 Give God the glory, God and none other; give God the glory, Spirit, Son and Father; give God the glory, God in man my brother; Glory to God on high. Topics: Saints Scripture: 1 John 4:20 Used With Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM

Crown him with many crowns

Author: Matthew Bridges, 1800-1894 Appears in 798 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark, how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own! Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless king through all eternity. 2 Crown him the Virgin's Son, the God incarnate born, whose arm those crimson trophies won which now his brow adorn: Fruit of the mystic Rose, as of that Rose the Stem; the Root whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem. 3 Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, those wounds yet visible above in beauty glorified: no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright. 4 Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and praise: his reign shall know no end, and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 5 Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime: all hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me; thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Topics: Ascension Day; Easter VII Year B; Easter VII Year C; Proper 21 Year A; Christ the King Year A; Christ the King Year C Scripture: Galatians 1:20 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

The church of God a kingdom is

Author: L. B. C. L. Muirhead, 1845-1925 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 23 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The church of God a kingdom is, where Christ in power doth reign; where spirits yearn till, seen in bliss, their Lord shall come again. 2 Glad companies of saints possess this church below, above; and God’s perpetual calm doth bless their paradise of love. 3 An altar stands within the shrine whereon, once sacrificed, is set, immaculate, divine, the Lamb of God, the Christ. 4 There rich and poor, from countless lands, praise God on mystic rood; there nations reach forth holy hands to take God’s holy food. 5 There pure life-giving streams o’erflow the sower’s garden-ground; and faith and hope fair blossoms show, and fruits of love abound. 6 O King, O Christ, this endless grace to us and all men bring, to see the vision of thy face in joy, O Christ, our King. Topics: Holy Communion; Proper 16 Year B Scripture: 1 John 3:2 Used With Tune: CREDITON