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O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,269 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Psalms Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: 2 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame, from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, soon bears us all away; we fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. 5 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Stille Nacht

Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1848 Meter: Irregular Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas First Line: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Quiet night, holy night) Lyrics: GERMAN - 1 Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht. Alles schläft, einsam wacht nur das traute hoch heilige Paar. Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar, schlaf in himmlischer Ruh, schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! --- 1 Quiet night, holy night, all asleep! Save tonight watch a dear and holy pair their sweet boy with curly hair, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Quiet night, holy night, shepherds first know the light through the angel allelu, bringing news to me, to you: Christ who frees is here, Christ who frees is here. Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT

It Came upon the Midnight Clear

Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 910 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old, from angels bending near the earth, to touch their harps of gold: "Peace on the earth, to all good will, from heaven the news we bring." The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing. 2 Still through the cloven skies they come, with peaceful wings unfurled; and still their heavenly music floats o'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains they bend on hovering wing; and ever o'er its Babel sounds the blessed angels sing. 3 But with the woes of war and strife the world has suffered long; beneath the angel-strain have rolled two thousand years of wrong; and we who fight the wars hear not the love song which they bring. O hush the noise of battle strife, and hear the angels sing. 4 For, lo! the days are hastening on, by prophet bards foretold, when with the ever-circling years comes round the age of gold: when peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendors fling, and the whole world give back the song which now the angels sing. Used With Tune: CAROL

Silent Night, Holy Night

Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1848 Meter: Irregular Appears in 664 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Lyrics: 1 Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the sight, glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts sing, "Alleluia," sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. 3 Silent night, holy night! child of God, love’s pure light radiant beams from thy holy face, with the dawn of redeeming grace, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT

Angels We Have Heard on High

Author: Earl Marlatt, 1892-1940 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 259 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo Lyrics: 1 Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o'er the plains and the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains. Refrain: Gloria in excelsis Deo. Gloria in excelsis Deo. 2 Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why these songs of happy cheer? What great brightness did you see? What glad tidings did you hear? [Refrain] 3 See him in a manger laid who the angels praise above; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, while we raise our hearts in love. [Refrain] Used With Tune: GLORIA

Joy to the World!

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,911 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas First Line: Joy to the world! The Word is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Word is come: let earth with praises ring. Let every heart prepare a room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! Now gladness reigns: let hearts their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground. Let righteousness its glories show as far as love is found, as far as love is found, as far, as far, as love is found. Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Shall We Gather at the River

Author: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 787 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Refrain First Line: Yes, we'll gather at the river Lyrics: 1 Shall we gather at the river, where bright angel feet have trod, with its crystal tide forever flowing by the throne of God? Refrain: Yes, we'll gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river, gather with the saints at the river that flows by the throne of God. 2 On the margin of the river, washing up its silver spray, we will walk and worship ever, all the happy golden day. [Refrain] 3 Ere we reach the shining river, lay we ev'ery burden down. Grace our spirits will deliver, and provide a robe and crown. [Refrain] 4 Soon we'll reach the shining river, soon our pilgrimage will cease, soon our happy hearts will quiver with the melody of peace. [Refrain] Used With Tune: HANSON PLACE Text Sources: Happy Voices, 1865

There's a Wideness in Your Mercy

Author: Frederick William Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 923 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Worship Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in your mercy like the wideness of the sea; there’s a kindness in your justice which is more than liberty. 2 But we make your love too narrow by false limits of our own, and we magnify your strictness with a zeal you will not own. 3 For the love of God is broader than the measures of our minds and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind. Used With Tune: CHARLESTON

Dear Mother-Father of Us All

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 530 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings The Christian Spirit Lyrics: 1 Dear Mother-Father of us all, forgive our foolish ways. Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Word, let us, like them, our faith restored, rise up and follow thee. 3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by love. 4 With that deep hush subduing all our words and works that drown the tender whisper of thy call, as noiseless let thy blessing fall as fell thy manna down. 5 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. Used With Tune: REST

In the Lonely Midnight

Author: Theodore Chickering Williams, 1855-1915 Meter: 6.5.5.6.5 D Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Jewish and Christian Teachings Christmas Lyrics: 1 In the lonely midnight on the wintry hill, shepherds heard the angels singing, "Peace, good will." Listen, O ye weary, to the angels’ song, unto to you the tidings of great joy belong. 2 Though in David’s city angels sing no more, love makes angel music on earth’s darkest shore. Though no heavenly glory meet your wondering eyes, love can make your dwelling bright as paradise. 3 Though the child of Mary, heralded on high, in his manger cradle may no longer lie, love will reign forever, though the proud world scorn; if you truly seek peace, Christ for you is born. Used With Tune: ADORO TE DEVOTE