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If You Will Only Let God Guide You

Author: Catherine Winkworth; Georg Neumark Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Independence Day Lyrics: 1 If you will only let God guide you, And hope in him through all your ways, Whatever comes, he'll stand beside you,, To bear you through the evil days; Who trusts in God's unchanging love Builds on the rock that cannot move. 2 Only be still, and wait his leisure In cheerful hope, with heart content To take whate'er the Father's pleasure And all discerning love have sent; Nor doubt our inmost wants are known To him who chose us for his own. 3 Sing, pray, and swerve not from his ways, But do your part in conscience true; Trust his rich promises of grace, So shall they be fulfilled in you; God hears the call of those in need, The souls that trust in him indeed. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 55:22 Used With Tune: NEUMARK

We Are Living, We Are Dwelling

Author: Arthur Cleveland Coxe Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 204 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year Lyrics: 1 We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time. In an age on ages telling; To be living is sublime. Hark! the waking up of nations, Hosts advancing to the fray; Hark! what sounds is all creation's Groaning for the latter day. 2 Will you play, then? will you dally Far behind the battle line? Up! it is Jehovah's rally; Your full strength with God's combine. Worlds are charging, heaven beholding; You have but an hour to fight; Now, the blazoned cross unfolding, On, right onward for the right! 3 Sworn to yield, to waver, never; Consecrated, born again; Sworn to be Christ's soldiers ever, O for Christ at least be men! O let all the soul within you For the truth's sake go abroad! Strike! let every nerve and sinew Tell on ages, tell for God. Amen. Scripture: Matthew 16:2-3 Used With Tune: BLAENHAFREN

Earth and All Stars

Author: Herbert Brokering Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Labor Day Refrain First Line: He hath done marvelous things Scripture: Psalm 149 Used With Tune: [Earth and all stars]

We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing

Author: Theodore Baker Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 214 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; He chastens and hastens his will to make known; The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing, Sing praises to his name; he forgets not his own. 2 Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom always; So from the beginning the fight we were winning; You, Lord, were at our side; to you be all praise. 3 We all do extol you, O leader triumphant, And pray that you still our defender will be. Let your congregation escape tribulation. Your name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free! Amen. Scripture: Numbers 6:24 Used With Tune: KREMSER Text Sources: Netherlands Folk Song

O God, Beneath Your Guiding Hand

Author: Leonard Bacon Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 287 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 O God, beneath your guiding hand Our exiled fathers crossed the sea; And echoed o'er the wintry strand, Their psalms and prayers in worship free. 2 You heard, well-pleased, the song, the prayer: Your blessing came, and still its power Shall onward through all ages bear The memory of that holy hour. 3 Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God Came with those exiles o'er the waves, And where their pilgrim feet have trod, The God they trusted guards their graves. 4 And here your name, O God of love, Their children's children shall adore, Till these eternal hills remove, And spring adorns the earth no more. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 8 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

Thanks to God, Whose Word Was Spoken

Author: R. T. Brooks Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Independence Day Lyrics: 1 Thanks to God, whose Word was spoken In the deed that made the earth. His the voice that called a nation, His the fires that tried her worth. God has spoken; God has spoken; Praise him for his open Word. 2 Thanks to God, whose Word incarnate Glorified the flesh of man. Deeds and words and death and rising Tell the grace in heaven's plan. God has spoken; God has spoken; Praise him for his open Word. 3 Thanks to God, whose Word is answered By the Spirit's voice within. Here we drink of joy unmeasured, Life redeemed from death and sin. God has spoken; God has spoken; Praise him for his open Word. Amen. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:7 Used With Tune: LAUDA ANIMA (PRAISE, MY SOUL)

Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds

Author: Henry Hallam Tweedy Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Independence Day Lyrics: 1 Eternal God, whose power upholds Both flower and flaming star, To whom there is no here nor there, No time, no near nor far, No alien race, no foreign shore, No child unsought, unknown: O send us forth, your prophets true, To make all lands your own! 2 O God of truth, whom science seeks And reverent souls adore, Illumine every earnest mind Of every clime and shore: Dispel the gloom of error's night, Of ignorance and fear, Until true wisdom from above Shall make life's pathway clear! 3 O God of beauty, oft revealed In dreams of human art, In speech that flows to melody, In holiness of heart: Teach us to ban all ugliness, And all disharmony, Till all shall know the loveliness Of lives made fair and free! 4 O God of righteousness and grace, Seen in the Christ, your Son, Whose life and death reveal your face, By whom your will was done; Help us to spread your gracious reign Till greed and hate shall cease, And kindness dwell in human hearts, And all the earth find peace! Amen. Scripture: Psalm 54:4 Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Author: Julia Ward Howe Meter: Irregular Appears in 565 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Refrain First Line: Glory! glory! Hallelujah! Lyrics: 1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. [Refrain:] Glory! glory! hallelujah! Glory! glory! hallelujah! Glory! glory! hallelujah! His truth is marching on. 2 I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. [Refrain] 3 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. [Refrain] 4 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. [Refrain] Amen. Used With Tune: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand

Author: Daniel C. Roberts Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 432 hymnals Topics: Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Civil Year Thanksgiving Day Lyrics: 1 God of our fathers, whose almighty hand Leads forth in beauty all the starry band Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies, Our grateful songs before thy throne arise. 2 Thy love divine hath led us in the past; In this free land by thee our lot is cast; Be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay; Thy word our law, thy paths our chosen way. 3 From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence, Be thy strong arm our ever sure defense; Thy true religion in our hearts increase, Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace. 4 Refresh thy people on their toilsome way, Lead us from night to never-ending day; Fill all our lives with love and grace divine, And glory, laud, and praise be ever thine. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 20:6 Used With Tune: NATIONAL HYMN

How Firm a Foundation

Author: "K" Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,202 hymnals Topics: Civil Year New Year; Civil Year Memorial Day First Line: How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 2 "Fear not, I am with you, O be not dismayed, For I am your God, and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 3 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; For I will be near you, your troubles to bless, And sanctify to you your deepest distress. 4 "The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no, never, no, never forsake." Amen. Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-7 Used With Tune: FOUNDATION Text Sources: Rippon's A Selection of Hymns, 1787; alt.