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When blooming youth is snatch'd away

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 287 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances On the Death of Relatives and Friends Lyrics: 1 When blooming youth is snatch'd away By death's resistless hand, Our hearts the mournful tribute pay, Which pity must demand. 2 While pity prompts the rising sigh, O may this truth, imprest With awful pow'r,--I too must die, Sink deep in ev'ry breast. 3 Let this vain world delude no more; Behold the gaping tomb! It bids us seize the present hour; To-morrow death may come. 4 The voice of this alarming scene, May ev'ry heart obey; Nor be the heav'nly warming vain, Which calls to watch and pray.

All praise to thee, my God! this night

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,049 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Evening Lyrics: 1 All praise to thee, my God! this night, For all the blessings of the light. Keep me, O keep me, King of kings! Beneath thy own almighty wings. 2 Forgive me, Lord, through thy dear Son, The ill that I have ever done; That with the world, myself, and thee, I, e'er I sleep, at peace may be. 3 Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; To die, that this frail body may Rise glorious at the awful day.

Awake, my soul! and with the sun

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 891 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Morning Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul! and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run; Shake off dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 By influ'nce of the light divine, Let thy own light to others shine; Reflect all heav'ns propitious rays, I ardent love and cheerful praise. 3 Lord! I my vows to thee renew: Disperse my sins as morning dew; Guard my first springs of thought and will, And with thyself my spirit fill. 4 Direct, control, suggest, this day, All I design to do or say; That ll my pow'rs, with all their might, In thy sole glory may unite. 5 All praise to thee, who safe hast kept, And hast refresh'd me, while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless light partake.

Thus spake the Saviour, when he sent

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For a Congregation Lyrics: 1 Thus spake the Saviour, when he sent His ministers to preach his word; They through the world obedient went, And spread the gospel of their Lord. 2 "Go forth, ye heralds, in my name; Bid the whole earth my grace receive; The gospel jubilee proclaim, And call them to repent and live. 3 "The joyful news to all impart, And teach them where salvation lies; Bind up the broken bleeding heart, And wipe the tear from weeping eyes. 4 "Be wise as serpents where you go, But harmless as the peaceful dove; And let your heav'n-taught conduct show, That you're commission'd from above. 5 "Freely from me ye have receiv'd; Freely in love to others give: Thus shall your doctrines be believ'd, And by your labour sinners live." 6 Happy those servants of the Lord, Who thus their Master's will obey How rich, how full is their reward, Reserv'd until the final day!

And will the great eternal God

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 193 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For a Congregation Lyrics: 1 And will the great eternal God On earth establish his abode? And will he, from his radiant throne, Regard our temples for his own? 2 We bring the tribute of our praise; And sing that condescending grace, Which to our notes will lend an ear, And call us sinful mortals near. 3 Our Father's watchful care we bless, Which guards our house of pray'r in peace, That no tumultuous foes invade, To fill the worshippers with dread. 4 These walls we to thy honour raise; Long may they echo with thy praise; And thou, descending, fill the place With choicest tokens of thy grace. 5 And in the great decisive day, When God the nations shall survey, May it before the world appear That crowds were born to glory here!

Sov'reign of life, I own thy hand

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 59 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Sickness and Recovery Lyrics: 1 Sov'reign of life, I own thy hand In ev'ry chast'ning stroke; And while I smart beneath thy rod, Thy presence I invoke. 2 To thee in my distress I cried, And thou hast bow'd thy ear; Thy pow'rful word prolong'd my life, And brought salvation near. 3 Unfold, ye gates of righteousness, That, with the pious throng, I may record my solemn vows, And tune my grateful song. 4 Praise to the Lord, whose gentle hand Renews our lab'ring breath: Praise to the Lord, who makes his saints Triumphant e'en in death. 5 My God, in thine appointed hour Those heav'nly gates display, Where pain and sin, and fear and death For ever flee away. 6 There, while the nations of the bless'd, With raptures bow around; My anthems to deliv'ring grace, In sweeter strains shall sound.

Interval of grateful shade

Meter: Irregular Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Evening Lyrics: 1 Interval of grateful shade, Welcome to my weary head! Welcome, slumber, to my eyes, Tir'd with glaring vanities. 2 My great Master still allows Needful periods of repose: By my heav'nly Father blest, Thus, I give y pow'rs to rest. 3 Heav'nly Father! gracious name! Night and day his love the same! Far be each suspicious thought, Ev'ry anxious care forgot! 4 Thou my ever-bounteous God! Crown'st my days with various good. Thy kind eye, which cannot sleep, My defenseless hours shall keep. 5 What if death my sleep invade? Should I be of death afraid? While encircled by thine arm, Death may strike, but cannot harm. 6 With thy heav'nly presence blest, Death is life, and labour rest. Welcome sleep or death to me, Still secure, for still with thee!

Now, in the heat of youthful blood

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 118 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For the Young, And Old Lyrics: 1 Now, in the heat of youthful blood, Remember your Creator, God. Behold, the months come hast'ning on, When you shall say, "My joys are gone!" 2 God from on high beholds your thoughts; His book records your secret faults: The works of darkness men have done Must all appear before the sun. 3 Behold, the aged sinner goes, Laden with guilt and heavy woes, Down to the regions of the dead, With bitt'rest curses on his head. 4 The dust returns to dust again; The soul, in agonies of pain, Ascends to God, not there to dwell, But hears her doom, and sinks to hell. 5 God of the young! turn off their eyes From earth's alluring vanities; And let the warnings of thy word Awake their souls to fear the Lord!

Happy is he, whose early years

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 143 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For the Young, And Old Lyrics: 1 Happy is he, whose early years Receive instructions well; Who hates the sinner’s path, and fears The road that leads to hell. 2 ’Tis easier work, if we begin To serve the Lord betimes; While sinners, who grow old in sin, Are harden’d by their crimes. 3 It saves us from a thousand snares To mind religion young: With joy it crowns succeeding years, And makes our virtue strong. 4 To thee, almighty God! to thee Our hearts we now resign: ’Twill please us, to look back and see, That our whole lives were thine! 5 Let the sweet work of pray'r and praise Employ our daily breath: Thus we're prepar'd for future days, Or fit for early death.

My God, my everlasting hope!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 116 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For the Young, And Old Lyrics: 1 My God, my everlasting hope! I live upon thy truth; Thine hands have held my childhood up, And strengthen'd all my youth. 2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy pow'r, And shows thy skill divine; And from my mother’s painful hour, I’ve been entirely thine. 3 Still has my life new wonders seen In each revolving year: Behold, my days that yet remain, I trust them to thy care. 4 Cast me not off, when strength declines, When hoary hairs arise: And round me let thy glory shine, Whene’er thy servant dies.