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Let us with a gladsome mind

Author: John Milton, 1608-74 Meter: 7.7 with refrain Appears in 558 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 Let us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord, for he is kind: Refrain: For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure. 2 Let us blaze his Name abroad, For of gods he is the God: [Refrain] 3 He, with all-commanding might, Filled the new-made world with light: [Refrain] 4 He his chosen race did bless In the wasteful wilderness: [Refrain] 5 All things living he doth feed; His full hand supplies their need: [Refrain] 6 Let us then with gladsome mind Praise the Lord, for he is kind: [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 136 Used With Tune: MONKLAND

Awake, my soul, and with the sun

Author: Thomas Ken, 1637-1711 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 904 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Morning Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, To pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, And with the angels bear thy part, Who all night long unwearied sing High praise to the eternal King. 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, or do, or say, That all my pow3rs, with all their might In thy sole glory may unite. 5 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. Used With Tune: MORNING HYMN

The sun is sinking fast

Author: Anonymous; Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Meter: 6.4.6.6 Appears in 160 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Evening Lyrics: 1 The sun is sinking fast, The daylight dies; Let love awake, and pay Her evening sacrifice. 2 As Christ upon the Cross His head inclined, And to His Father's hands His parting soul resigned, 3 So now herself my soul Would wholly give Into His sacred charge In whom all spirits live; 4 Thus would I live: yet now Not I, but he In all his power and love Henceforth alive in me: 5 One sacred Trinity, One Lord Divine; Myself for ever his, And he for ever mine. Used With Tune: ST. COLUMBA Text Sources: 18th century

O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands

Appears in 363 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 O be joyful in the Lord all you lands: Serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song. 2 Be sure that the Lord he is God: It is he that hath made us and we are his own we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 3 O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise: Be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name. 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting: And his truth endureth from generation to generation. Glory be to the Father: And to the Son and to teh Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning: Is now and ever shall be World without end. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: [O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands] Text Sources: Jubilate Deo

Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 783 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 Praise the Lord! ye heavens adore him; Praise him, angels in the height; Sun and moon rejoice before him; Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise the Lord! for he hath spoken; Worlds his mighty voice obeyed; Laws which never can be broken, For their guidance hath he made. 2 Praise the Lord! for he is glorious; Never shall his promise fail; God hath made his saints victorious, Sin and death shall not prevail. Praise the God of our salvation! Hosts on high, his power proclaim; Heaven, and earth, and all creation, Praise and magnify his Name! Amen. Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN Text Sources: Foundling Hospital Hymns c. 1796

God is our refuge and our strength

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 52 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 God is our refuge and our strength, In straits a present aid; Therefore, although the earth remove, We will not be afraid: 2 Though hills amidst the seas be cast; Though waters roaring make, And troubled be; yea, though the hills By swelling seas do shake. 3 A river is, whose streams make glad The city of our God; The holy place, wherein the Lord Most high hath his abode. 4 God in the midst of her doth dwell; Nothing shall her remove; God unto her an helper will, And that right early, prove. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 46:1-5 Used With Tune: STROUDWATER

Father, we praise thee, now the night is over

Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 88 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Morning Lyrics: 1 Father, we praise thee, now the night is over; Active and watchful, stand we all before thee; Singing, we offer prayer and meditation: Thus we adore thee. 2 Monarch of all things, fit us for thy mansions; Banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending; Bring us to heaven, where thy saints united Joy without ending. 3 All-holy Father, Son and equal Spirit, Trinity blessed, send us thy salvation; Thine is the glory, gleaming and resounding Through all creation. Amen. Used With Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM Text Sources: 10th century or earlier

Stand up, and bless the Lord

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 406 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 Stand up, and bless the Lord, Ye people of his choice; Stand up, and bless the Lord your God With heart and soul and voice. 2 Though high above all praise, Above all blessing high, Who would not fear his holy Name, And laud and magnify? 3 O for the living flame From his own altar brought, To touch our lips, our minds inspire, And wing to heaven our thought! 4 God is our strength and song, And his salvation ours; Then be his love in Christ proclaimed With all our ransomed powers. 5 Stand up, and bless the Lord; The Lord your God adore; Stand up, and bless his glorious Name, Henceforth for evermore. Used With Tune: CARLISLE

All people that on earth do dwell

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 744 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice, Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. 2 Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make; We are his folk, he does us feed, And for his sheep he does us take. 3 O enter then his gates with praise, Approach with joy his courts unto: Praise, laud, and bless his Name always, For it is seemly so to do. 4 For why? the Lord our God is good, His mercy is for ever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom earth and heaven adore, Be glory, as it was of old, Is now, and shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: [All people that on earth do dwell]

How lovely is thy dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace How pleasant, Lord, they be! 2 My thirsty soul longs vehemently, Yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out An house wherein to rest; The swallow also for herself Hath purchased a nest; 4 Even thine own altars, where she safe Her young ones forth may bring, O thou almighty Lord of hosts, Who art my God and King. 5 Blest are they in thy house that dwell, They ever give thee praise. Blest is the man whose strength thou art, In whose heart are thy ways. 6 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 84:1-5 Used With Tune: HARINGTON (RETIREMENT)