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Praise Be to God, the Almighty

Author: Joachim Neander, 1650-1680; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 396 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise First Line: Praise be to God, the Almighty, who rules all creation! Lyrics: 1 Praise be to God, the Almighty, who rules all creation! O my soul, praise the Love who is our health and salvation. Join the great throng, wake harp and psaltery and song, sound forth your glad adoration. 2 Praise be to God, who is o'er all things wondrously reigning, who, as on eagle wings, lifts us, so gently sustaining. Have you not seen, all that is needful has been sent by God's gracious ordaining? 3 Praise be to God, who will prosper your work and defend you; surely God's goodness and mercy here daily attend you. Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, who with great love does befriend you. 4 Praise be to God! O forget not God's manifold graces; all that has life and breath one song of gratitude raises. Let the Amen sound from the people again; gladly forever sing praises. Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN
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For the Beauty of the Earth

Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, 18365-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 650 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 2 For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 3 For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 4 For the joy of human care, sister, brother, parent, child, for the kinship we all share, for all gentle thoughts and mild: Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. Used With Tune: DIX
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Let the Whole Creation Cry

Author: Stopford Augustus Brooke, 1832-1916 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 83 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise Lyrics: 1 Let the whole creation cry, "Glory be to God on high!" Heaven and earth, awake and sing, to your God your praises bring. Sun and moon, uplift your voice, night and stars, in God rejoice; sunshine, darkness cloud, and storm, rain and snow in praise perform. 2 Chant in honor, ocean fair; earth, soft rushing through the air; birds, with morn and dew elate, sing with joy at heaven's gate. Let the blossoms of the earth join the universal mirth; men and women, young and old, raise the anthem manifold. 3 You to whom the arts belong, add your voices to the song; bards of knowledge and of law, to the glorious circle draw. From the north to southern pole let the mighty chorus roll: "Holy, holy, holy," crry; "Glory be to God on high!" Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR
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Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Author: Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 275 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, God of love; hearts unfold like flowers before thee, hail thee as the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the pain of doubt away; giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the joy of day. 2 All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heav’n reflect thy rays, stars and planets sing around thee, center of unbroken praise; field and forest, vale and mountain, blossoming meadow, flashing sea, chanting bird and flowing fountain call us to rejoice in thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest; wellspring of the joy of living, ocean-depth of happy rest. Ever singing march we onward, victors in the midst of strife; joyful music lifts us sunward in the triumph song of life. Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY
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Morning Has Broken

Author: Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965 Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 97 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise Lyrics: 1 Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh from the Word! 2 Sweet the rain’s new fall sunlit from heaven, like the first dewfall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where God’s feet pass. 3 Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning born of the one light Eden saw play! Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s recreation of the new day! Used With Tune: BUNESSAN
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Bring, O Morn, Thy Music

Author: William Channing Gannett, 1840-1923 Meter: 12.13.12.10 Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise First Line: Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence! Lyrics: 1 Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence! Oceans, laugh in rapture to the storm-winds coursing free! Sun and planets chorus, praise to Thee, Most Holy – Who was, and is, and evermore shall be. 2 Life and death, thy creatures, praise thee, mighty Giver! Praise and prayer are rising in thy beast and bird and tree; Lo! they praise and vanish, vanish at thy bidding – Who was, and is, and evermore shall be. 3 Life nor death can part us, O thou Love eternal, Shepherd of the wandering star and souls that wayward flee! Homeward draws the spirit to thy Spirit yearning – Who was, and is, and evermore shall be. Used With Tune: NICAEA
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Now on Land and Sea Descending

Author: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 123 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise Refrain First Line: Jubilate! Jubilate! Lyrics: 1 Now on land and sea descending, brings the night its peace profound; let our vesper hymn be blending with the holy calm around. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. 2 Soon as dies the sunset glory, stars of heav’n shine out above, telling still the ancient story – their Creator’s endless love. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. 3 Now, our wants and burdens leaving, to the Care that cares for all, cease we fearing, cease we grieving; quietly our burdens fall. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. 4 As the darkness deepens o’er us, lo, eternal stars arise; hope and faith and love rise glorious, shining in the Spirit’s skies. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Used With Tune: VESPER HYMN

Turn the World Around

Author: Harry Belafonte, 1927-; Robert Freedman Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Celebration and Praise First Line: We come from the fire Used With Tune: [We come from the fire]
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Come, We That Love

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,830 hymnals Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Completion of Creation and City of God; Biblical Characters Moses; Celebration; Church Triumphant; City/City of God; Cloud of Witnesses; Eternal Life; Funerals and Memorial Services; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Joy; Kingdom of God; Love for God/Christ; Music and Singing; Pilgrimage and Conflict; Praise; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Victory; Witness; Worship; Zeal; Zion; Proper 22 Year A; Easter 4 Year C; Proper 16 Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Easter Evening Year ABC First Line: Come, we that love the Lord Lyrics: 1 Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known, join in a song with sweet accord, and thus surround the throne. 2 Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God; but children of the heavenly King may speak their joys abroad. 3 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields, or walk the golden streets. 4 Then let our songs abound, and every tear be dry; we're marching through Emmanuel's ground, to fairer worlds on high. Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS
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We Worship Thee, God

Author: Robert Grant, 1779-1838 Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,174 hymnals Topics: Celebration and Praise First Line: We worship thee, God, below and above Lyrics: 1 We worship thee, God, below and above, and gratefully sing thy power and thy love. Our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise. 2 We tell of thy might and sing of thy grace, enrobed by the light and crowned by space. Thy zeal for the just the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is thy path on the wings of the storm. 3 The earth with its store of wonders untold, thy power and care has founded from old, established nature's unchanging decree, and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea. 4 Though children of dust, as feeble as frail, by thy endless trust we fear not to fail. Thy wing with its sheltering touch does us mend, for thou art our maker, redeemer, and friend. Used With Tune: LYONS

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