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How firm a foundation

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,204 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Union With Christ First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Used With Tune: ST DENIO Text Sources: K' in Rippon's Selection

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,895 hymnals Topics: Union With God/Christ Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. 2 Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 3 Finish then thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

Be Thou My Vision

Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne Meter: 10.10.9.10 Appears in 166 hymnals Topics: Union with God; Union with God First Line: Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. 2 Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word; I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord. Born of thy love, thy child may I be, thou in me dwelling and I one with thee. 3 Be thou my buckler, my sword for the fight. Be thou my dignity, thou my delight, thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tow’r. Raise thou me heav’nward, O Pow’r of my pow’r. 4 Riches I heed not, nor vain empty praise; thou mine inheritance, now and always. Thou and thou only, first in my heart, Ruler of heaven, my treasure thou art. 5 "*True Light of heaven, when vict’ry is won may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun! Heart of my heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all. *Alternate phrase: “High King” Scripture: Psalm 86:11 Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Irish traditional, “Rob tu mo bhoile, a Comdi cride,” ca. 8th c.; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne (Ireland), Ériu, Vol. 2, 1905, alt.

The church's one Foundation

Author: Samuel J. Stone Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 883 hymnals Topics: Union with Christ Lyrics: 1 The church's one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the Word: From heav'n he came and sought her To be his holy bride; With his own blood he bought her, And for her life he died. 2 Elect from ev'ry nation, Yet one o'er all the earth, Her charter of salvation One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy Name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With ev'ry grace endued. 3 Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore oppressed, By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distressed, Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song. 4 The church shall never perish! Her dear Lord to defend, To guide, sustain and cherish Is with her to the end; Though there be those that hate her, And false sons in her pale, Against or foe or traitor She ever shall prevail. 5 'Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation Of peace for evermore; Till with the vision glorious Her longing eyes are blest, And the great church victorious Shall be the church at rest. 6 Yet she on earth hath union With the God the Three in One, And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won: O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we, Like them, the meek and lowly, On high may dwell with thee. Amen. Scripture: Romans 12:5 Used With Tune: AURELIA

The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns

Author: Thomas Kelly Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 522 hymnals Topics: Union with Christ Lyrics: 1 The head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now; a royal diadem adorns the mighty Victor's brow. 2 The highest place that heav'n affords is his, is his by right, the King of kings and Lord of lords, and heav'n's eternal Light: 3 The joy of all who dwell above, the joy of all below; to whom he manifests his love, and grants his name to know. 4 To them the cross, with all its shame, with all its grace, is giv'n; their name an everlasting name, their joy the joy of heav'n. 5 They suffer with their Lord below, they reign with him above; their profit and their joy to know the myst'ry of his love. 6 The cross he bore is life and health, though shame and death to him; his people's hope, his people's wealth, their everlasting theme. Scripture: Acts 2:36 Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 522 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Union With Christ Used With Tune: REST

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide

Author: Rev. Henry F. Lyte, 1793-1847 Appears in 1,719 hymnals Topics: Saints Union with Christ Used With Tune: EVENTIDE (MONK)

O Love of God, How Strong and True

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 113 hymnals Topics: Union with Christ Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true! eternal and yet ever new, uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought! O love of God, how deep and great, far deeper than man's deepest hate; self-fed, self-kindled like the light, changeless, eternal, infinite. 2 O heav'nly love, how precious still, in days of weariness and ill, in nights of pain and helplessness, to heal, to comfort, and to bless! O wide-embracing, wondrous love! We read you in the sky above, we read you in the earth below, in seas that swell, and streams that flow. 3 We read you best in him who came to bear for us the cross of shame; sent by the Father from on high, our life to live, our death to die. We read your pow'r to bless and save, e'en in the darkness of the grave; still more in resurrection light we read the fulness of your might. 4 O love of God, our shield and stay through all the perils of our way! Eternal love, in you we rest, forever safe, forever blest. We will exalt you, God and King, and we will ever praise your name; we will extol you ev'ry day, and evermore your praise proclaim. Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Used With Tune: JERUSALEM (PARRY)

Christ, the solid rock

Author: Edward Mote Appears in 1,109 hymnals Topics: Saints Union of, with Christ First Line: My hope is built on nothing less Scripture: Hebrews 13:5

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 1,357 hymnals Topics: Mystical union Lyrics: 1 Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the new-born King! Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!” Joyful, all ye nations, rise, Join the triumph of the skies: Universal nature say, "Christ the Lord is born today!' Refrain: Hark! the herald angels sing: “Glory to the newborn King!” 2 Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with us to dwell, Jesus, our Immanuel. Hail, the heavenly Prince of Peace, Hail, the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings, Risen with healing in His wings. [Refrain] 3 Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth; Born to give them second birth. Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home; O to all Thyself impart, Formed in each believing heart! [Refrain] Amen. Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN