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Hymn 116

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 74 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:37-40 First Line: Thus saith the first, the great command Lyrics: Thus saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward powers unite To love thy Maker and thy God With utmost vigor and delight. "Then shall thy neighbor next in place Share thine affections and esteem, And let thy kindness to thyself Measure and rule thy love to him." This is the sense that Moses spoke, This did the prophets preach and prove; For want of this the law is broke, And the whole law's fulfilled by love. But O! how base our passions are! How cold our charity and zeal! Lord, fill our souls with heav'nly fire, Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

Spirit of God, Dwell Thou Within My Heart

Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 342 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:37 Topics: Doubt; Patience; Seeking After God Used With Tune: MORECAMBE

The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy

Author: Bryn Austin Rees Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 23 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:9-10 Topics: Church Ministry and Ministers; Church Nature; Evangelism; Justice; Kingdom of God; Missions Used With Tune: HANOVER

Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

Author: Frank Mason North Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 372 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:9 Lyrics: 1. Where cross the crowded ways of life, where sound the cries of race and clan, above the noise of selfish strife, we hear your voice, O Son of man. 2. In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds dark with fears, from paths where hide the lures of greed, we catch the vision of your tears. 3. From tender childhood's helplessness, from woman's grief, man's burdened toil, from famished souls, from sorrow's stress, your heart has never known recoil. 4. The cup of water given for you still holds the freshness of your grace; yet long these multitudes to view the sweet compassion of your face. 5. O Master, from the mountainside make haste to heal these hearts of pain; among these restless throngs abide; O tread the city's streets again. 6. Till all the world shall learn your love and follow where your feet have trod, till, glorious from your heaven above, shall come the city of our God! Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; City; Love; Social Concerns Used With Tune: GERMANY

Take My Life

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,215 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:37 First Line: Take my life and let it be Lyrics: 1 Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise; let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love; take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee, swift and beautiful for thee. 3 Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King; take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee, filled with messages from thee. 4 Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold; take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose, every power as thou shalt choose. 5 Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne, it shall be thy royal throne. 6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store; take myself and I will be ever, only, all for thee, ever, only, all for thee. Topics: Commitment; Dedication and Stewardship; Evangelism; Love for God; Offering; Ordination/Installation; Praise; Will of God; Youth Used With Tune: HENDON

Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love

Author: Tom Colvin Meter: 7.7.9 with refrain Appears in 64 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:46 First Line: Kneels at the feet of his friends Lyrics: Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you. 1 Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet, Master who acts as a slave to them. Refrain 2 Neighbors are rich folk and poor, neighbors are black, brown, and white, neighbors are nearby and far away. Refrain 3 These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you. Refrain 4 Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are slaves: this is the way we should live with you. Refrain Topics: Commitment & Dedication; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Industry & Labor; Love Our Love for Others; Society/Social Concerns; Songs for Children Hymns; Commitment & Dedication; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Humility; Industry & Labor; Love Our Love for Others; Ministry & Service; Poverty; Society/Social Concerns Used With Tune: CHEREPONI

Your hand, O God, has guided

Author: Edward Hayes Plumptre (1821-1891) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7 with refrain Appears in 55 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:1-14 Lyrics: 1 Your hand, O God, has guided your flock, from age to age; the wondrous tale is written, full clear, on every page; your people owned your goodness, and we their deeds record: and both of this bear witness: one Church, one Faith, one Lord. 2 Your heralds brought glad tidings to greatest as to least; they summoned all to hasten and share the great King's feast; and this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming: one Church, one Faith, one Lord. 3 Through many a day of darkness, through many a scene of strife, the faithful few fought bravely to guard the nation's life. Their Gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, life restored, was all in this enfolded: one Church, one Faith, one Lord. 4 Your mercy will not fail us, nor leave your work undone; with your right hand to help us, the victory shall be won; by mortals and by angels your name shall be adored, and this shall be our anthem: one Church, one Faith, one Lord. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Discipleship; Church Ministry; Church unity and ecumenism; Salvation and Redemption; Witness Used With Tune: THORNBURY

As We Gather at Your Table

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 27 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:14 Lyrics: 1 As we gather at your table, as we listen to your Word, help us know, O God, your presence; let our hearts and minds be stirred. Nourish us with sacred story till we claim it as our own; teach us through this holy banquet how to make Love’s victory known. 2 Turn our worship into witness in the sacrament of life; send us forth to love and serve you, bringing peace where there is strife. Give us, Christ, your great compassion to forgive as you forgave; may we still behold your image in the world you died to save. 3 Gracious Spirit, help us summon other guests to share that feast where triumphant Love will welcome those who had been last and least. There no more will envy blind us nor will pride our peace destroy, as we join with saints and angels to repeat the sounding joy. Topics: Lord's Supper Used With Tune: PLEADING SAVIOR

Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 455 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:14 First Line: Come, sinners to the gospel feast Lyrics: 1. Come, sinners, to the gospel feast, let every soul be Jesus' guest. Ye need not one be left behind, for God hath bid all humankind. 2. Do not begin to make excuse; ah! do not you his grace refuse; your worldly cares and pleasures leave, and take what Jesus hath to give. 3. Come and partake the gospel feast, be saved from sin, in Jesus rest; O taste the goodness of our God, and eat his flesh and drink his blood. 4. See him set forth before your eyes; behold the bleeding sacrifice; his offered love make haste to embrace, and freely now be saved by grace. 5. Ye who believe his record true shall sup with him and he with you; come to the feast, be saved from sin, for Jesus waits to take you in. Topics: The Sacraments and Rites of the Church Eucharist (Holy Communion or The Lord's Supper); Christian Experience; Holy Communion; Jesus Christ Atonement Used With Tune: HURSLEY

Take Thou Our Minds, Dear Lord

Author: William Hiram Foulkes Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 22:37 First Line: Take thou our minds, dear Lord, we humbly pray Lyrics: 1 Take thou our minds, dear Lord, we humbly pray; give us the mind of Christ each passing day; teach us to know the truth that sets us free; grant us in all our thoughts to honor thee. 2 Take thou our hearts, O Christ, they are thine own; come thou within our souls and claim thy throne; help us to shed abroad thy deathless love; use us to make the earth like heaven above. 3 Take thou our wills, Most High! Hold thou full sway; have in our inmost souls Thy perfect way; guard thou each sacred hour from selfish ease; guide thou our ordered lives as thou dost please. 4 Take thou ourselves, O Lord, heart, mind, and will; through our surrendered souls thy plans fulfill. We yield ourselves to thee - time, talents, all; we hear, and henceforth heed thy sov'reign call. Topics: The Christian Life Christian Service; Heart Surrendered Used With Tune: SURSUM CORDA