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Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us

Author: James Edmeston, 1791-1867 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 360 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn First Line: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us Lyrics: 1 Lead us, heav'nly Father, lead us o'er the world's tempestuous sea; guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, for we have no help but thee; yet possessing ev'ry blessing if our God our Father be. 2 Saviour, breathe forgiveness o'er us, all our weakness thou dost know, thou didst tread this earth before us, thou didst feel its keenest woe; lone and dreary, faint and weary, through the desert thou didst go. 3 Spirit of our God, descending, fill our hearts with heav'nly joy, love with ev'ry passion blending, pleasure that can never cloy; thus provided, pardoned, guided, nothing can our peace destroy. Scripture: Luke 4:1-13 Used With Tune: RED WHARF BAY

Shall we not love thee, Mother dear

Author: Henry Williams Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn Lyrics: 1 Shall we not love thee, Mother dear, whom Jesus loves so well, and to his glory, year by year thy praise and honour tell? 2 Thee did he choose from whom to take true flesh, his flesh to be; in it to suffer for our sake, and by it make us free. 3 O wondrous depth of love divine, that he should bend so low; and, Mary, O what joy was thine the Saviour's love to know. 4 Joy to be mother of the Lord, yet thine the truer bliss, in ev'ry thought and deed and word to be for ever his. 5 Now in the realm of life above close to thy Son thou art, while on thy soul glad streams of love flow from his sacred heart. 6 Jesu, the Virgin's holy Son, praise we thy mother blest; grant when our earthly course is run, life with the saints at rest. Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise

Author: John Ellerton, 1826-1893 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 865 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn Lyrics: 1 Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise with one accord our parting hymn of praise; we stand to bless thee ere our worship cease; then, lowly kneeling, wait thy word of peace. 2 Grant us thy peace upon our homeward way; with thee began, with thee shall end, the day: guard thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame, that in this house have called upon thy name. 3 Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the coming night; turn thou for us its darkness into light; from harm and danger keep thy children free, for dark and light are both alike to thee. 4 Grant us thy peace throughout our earthly life, our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife; then, when thy voice shall bid our conflict cease, call us, O Lord, to thine eternal peace. Scripture: John 14:27 Used With Tune: ELLERS

Sing we of the blessèd Mother

Author: George Bourne Timms, b. 1910 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn First Line: Sing we of the blesséd Mother Scripture: Acts 1:14-26 Used With Tune: ABBOT'S LEIGH

God who made the earth

Author: Sarah Betts Rhodes, 1824-1904 Meter: 5.6.5.4 Appears in 92 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn Lyrics: 1 God who made the earth, the air, the sky, the sea, who gave the light its birth, careth for me. 2 God who made the grass, the flow'r, the fruit, the tree, the day and night to pass, careth for me. 3 God who made the sun, The moon, the stars, is he who, when life's clouds come on, careth for me. 4 God who sent his Son to die on Calvary, he if I lean on him, will care for me. Scripture: Genesis 1, 2:1-4 Used With Tune: SOMMERLIED

You shall go out with joy (The trees of the field)

Author: Steffi Geiser Rubin; Stuart Dauermann Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn First Line: You shall go out with joy Scripture: Isaiah 55:12 Used With Tune: [You shall go out with joy]

May the grace of Christ our Saviour

Author: John Newton, 1725-1807 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 621 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn Lyrics: 1 May the grace of Christ our Saviour, and the Father's boundless love, with the Holy Spirit's favour, rest upon us from above. 2 Thus may we abide in union with each other and the Lord, and possess, in sweet communion, joys which earth cannot afford. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:13 Used With Tune: GOTT DES HIMMELS

Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 350 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn Lyrics: 1 Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go, my daily labour to pursue; thee, only thee, resolved to know, in all I think or speak or do. 2 The task thy wisdom hath assigned O let me cheerfully fulfil; in all my works thy presence find, and prove thy good and perfect will. 3 Thee may I set at my right hand, whose eyes my inmost substance see, and labour on at thy command, and offer all my works to thee. 4 Give me to bear thy easy yoke, and ev'ery moment watch and pray, and still to things eternal look, and hasten to thy glorious day; 5 For thee delightfully employ whate'er thy bounteous grace hath giv'n, and run my course with even joy, and closely walk with thee to heav'n. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:24 Used With Tune: SONG 34 (ANGELS' SONG)

Strengthen for service, Lord

Author: Ephraim the Syrian, c. 306-373; Charles William Hymphreys, 1840-1921; Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Final Hymn First Line: Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands Lyrics: 1 Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that holy things have taken; let ears that now have heard thy songs to clamour never waken. 2 Lord, may the tongues which 'Holy' sang keep free from all deceiving; the eyes which saw thy love be bright, thy blessèd hope perceiving. 3 The feet that tread thy holy courts from light do thou not banish; the bodies by thy Body fed with thy new life replenish. Used With Tune: ACH GOTT UND HERR Text Sources: Syriac Liturgy

Jesus Shall Reign

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,826 hymnals Topics: Adoration of Jesus Christ; Adoration of Jesus Christ; Children; Church Final Victory; Jesus Christ Reign; Missions; Recessional Hymns First Line: Jesus shall reign where're the sun Lyrics: 1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does its successive journeys run; his kingdom spread from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and wane no more. 2 To him shall endless prayer be made, and endless praises crown his head; his name like sweet perfume shall rise with every morning sacrifice. 3 People and realms of every tongue dwell on his love with sweetest song, and infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name. 4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns; the prisoners leap to lose their chains, the weary find eternal rest, and all who suffer want are blessed. 5 Let all the people rise and bring their special honors to our King; angels descend with songs again and earth repeat the loud Amen. Scripture: Psalm 72:11 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET