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Close to Thee

Author: Fanny Crosby Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 444 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Guide First Line: Thou, my everlasting portion Refrain First Line: Close to Thee, close to Thee

You Servants of God

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 683 hymnals Topics: God Known in Jesus Christ Praise to Christ; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ: Name; Jesus Christ: Reign; Jesus Christ: Savior First Line: You servants of God, your Savior proclaim Lyrics: 1 Your servants of God, your Savior proclaim, and publish abroad that wonderful name: the name all-victorious of Jesus extol; who, sovereign and glorious, now rules over all. 2 God truth reaches high, almighty to save; and yet remains nigh: God's presence we have. The great congregation God's triumphs shall praise, ascribing salvation to Jesus always. 3 Salvation to God who sits on the throne! Let all cry aloud for what God has done. The praises of Jesus the angels proclaim; still veiling their faces, they worship the Lamb. 4 Then let us adore and render God's right, all glory and power, all wisdom and might, all honor and blessing with angels above, and thanks never-ceasing, and infinite love. Scripture: Revelation 7:9-12 Used With Tune: HANOVER

Once in Royal David's City

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 420 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Redeemer; Jesus Christ's Humanity; Jesus Christ's Life; Jesus Christ's Love Lyrics: 1 Once in royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child. 2 He came down to earth from heaven who is God and Lord of all, and his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall: with the poor, and mean, and lowly, lived on earth our Savior holy. 3 For he is our childhood's pattern; day by day like us he grew; he was little, weak, and helpless; tears and smiles like us he knew: and he feeleth for our sadness, and he shareth all our gladness. 4 And our eyes at last shall see him through his own redeeming love, for that child so dear and gentle is our Lord in heav'n above; and he leads his children on to the place where he is gone. Scripture: Luke 2:52 Used With Tune: IRBY

Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine

Author: Adoniram Judson, 1788-1850 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 132 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ His Blood; Jesus Christ His Cross; Jesus Christ His Name; Jesus Christ Our Love For Jesus; Jesus Christ Shepherd and Lamb Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine, On these baptismal waters shine, And teach our hearts, in highest strain, To praise the Lamb, for sinners slain. 2 We love Thy name, we love Thy laws, And joyfully embrace Thy cause; We love Thy cross, the shame, the pain, O Lamb of God, for sinners slain. 3 We sink beneath Thy mystic flood; O bathe us in Thy cleansing blood; We die to sin, and seek a grave, With Thee, beneath the yielding wave. 4 And as we rise, with Thee to live, O let the Holy Spirit give The sealing unction from above, The breathe of life, the fire of love. Scripture: Matthew 3:16 Used With Tune: ERNAN

For the Beauty of the Earth

Author: Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1835–1917 Appears in 652 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Creator Refrain First Line: Lord of all, to thee we raise 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, [Chorus:] Lord of all, to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 2. For the beauty of each hour Of the day and of the night, Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r, Sun and moon, and stars of light, [Chorus] 3. For the joy of human love, Brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth, and friends above, For all gentle thoughts and mild, [Chorus] Scripture: Psalm 95:1-6 Used With Tune: [For the beauty of the earth]

Jesus Is All the World to Me

Author: Will L. Thompson, 1847-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8.8.3 Appears in 327 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ; Love for Jesus Christ; Trust in Jesus Christ Lyrics: 1 Jesus is all the world to me, My life, my joy, my all; He is my strength from day to day, Without him I would fall: When I am sad, to him I go, No other one can cheer me so; When I am sad, he makes me glad, He's my friend. 2 Jesus is all the world to me, My friend in trials sore; I go to him for blessings, and He gives them o'er and o'er: He sends the sunshine and the rain, He sends the harvest's golden grain: Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain, He's my friend. 3 Jesus is all the world to me, And true to him I'll be; Oh, how could I this friend deny, When he's so true to me? Following him I know I'm right, He watches o'er me day and night; Following him bye day and night, He's my friend. 4 Jesus is all the world to me, I want no better friend; I trust him now, I'll trust him when Life's fleeting days shall end: Beautiful life with such a friend, Beautiful life that has no end; Eternal life, eternal joy, He's my friend. Scripture: Proverbs 18:24 Used With Tune: ALL THE WORLD

From Heaven Above

Author: Martin Luther Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 149 hymnals Topics: God Known in Jesus Christ Birth; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ: Birth First Line: From heaven above to earth I come Scripture: Luke 2:10-14 Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH Text Sources: tr. Lutheran Book of Worship, 1978, alt.

What Child Is This

Author: William C. Dix Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 217 hymnals Topics: God Known in Jesus Christ Birth; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ: Birth First Line: What Child is this who laid to rest Refrain First Line: This, this is Christ the King Lyrics: 1 What child is this, who, laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping? whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping? Refrain: This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing: haste, haste to bring him laud the babe, the son of Mary. 2 Why lies he in such mean estate where ox and ass are feeding? Good Christian, fear: for sinners here the silent Word is pleading: [Refrain] 3 So bring him incense, gold and myrrh, come, rich and poor, to own him, the King of kings salvation brings, let loving hearts enthrone him. [Refrain] Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 181 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ The Incarnation; Jesus Christ's Divinity; Jesus Christ's Humanity 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 pow'rs 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!” Scripture: Habakkuk 2:20 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St. James

The Lily of the Valley

Author: Charles W. Fry, 1837-1882 Meter: Irregular Appears in 427 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ His Glory and Power; Jesus Christ His Love and Mercy First Line: I have found a friend in Jesus Lyrics: 1 I have found a friend in Jesus - He's ev'rything to me, He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul; The Lily of the Valley - in Him alone I see All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole. In sorrow He's comfort, in trouble He's my stay, He tells me ev'ry care on Him to roll; He's the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, He's the greatest of ten thousand to my soul. 2 He all my grief has taken and all my sorrows borne, In temptation He's my strong and mighty tow'r; I have all for Him forsaken and all my idols torn From my heart, and now He keeps me by His pow'r. Tho' all the world forsake me and Satan tempt me sore, Thru Jesus I shall safely reach the goal; He's the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star; He's the greatest of ten thousand to my soul. 3 He will never never leave me nor yet forsake me here, While I live by faith and do His blessed will; A wall of fire about me, I've nothing now to fear - With His manna He my hungry soul shall fill. Then sweeping up to glory I'll see His blessed face, Where rivers of delight shall ever roll; He's the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star; He's the greatest of ten thousand to my soul. Scripture: Revelation 22:16 Used With Tune: SALVATIONIST