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Here, O my Lord, I see thee

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 322 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God First Line: Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2 Here would we feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would we lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table for us spread; here let us feast, and, feasting, still prolong this fellowship in thee, our living bread. 4 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but thou art here, nearer than ever, still our shield and sun. 5 We have no help but thine, nor do we need another arm but thine to lean upon; it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; our strength is in thy might, thy might alone. 6 Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood. Here is my robe, my refuge and my peace, thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord, my God. 7 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great marriage feast of bliss and love. Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-5 Used With Tune: LANGRAN

Christ is coming

Author: John Ross Macduff, 1818-1895 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God First Line: Christ is coming! let creation Lyrics: 1 Christ is coming! let creation from its groans and labour cease; let the glorious proclamation hope restore and faith increase: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come, O blessed Prince of peace. 2 Earth can now but tell the story of your bitter cross and pain; we shall yet behold your glory, Lord, when you return to reign: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Let each heart repeat the strain. 3 With that blessed hope before us, flutes are tuned and harps are strung; let the mighty advent chorus onward roll from tongue to tongue: "Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Let each heart repeat the song. 4 Long your exiles have been pining for your promised rest and home, but in heavenly glory shining, soon the risen Christ shall come. Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Joyful, shout the victory psalm. Scripture: Romans 8:22-23 Used With Tune: UNSER HERRSCHER

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine

Author: Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915 Appears in 1,107 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God Lyrics: 1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. Refrain: This is my story; this is my song: praising my Saviour all the day long; this is my story; this is my song: praising my Saviour all the day long. 2 Perfect submission, perfect delight, visions of rapture now burst on my sight; angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain] 3 Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Saviour am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] Scripture: Hebrews 1:14 Used With Tune: ASSURANCE

For all the saints

Author: William Walsham How, 1823-1897 Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 583 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God First Line: For all the saints who from their labours rest Lyrics: 1 For all the saints who from their labours rest, who thee by faith before the world confessed, thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might, thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight, thou in the darkness drear their one true light. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 3 Oh, may thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold, fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, and win with them the victor's crown of gold. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 4 O blest communion! fellowship divine! We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 5 And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long, steals on the ear the distant triumph song, and hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 6 The golden evening brightens in the west; soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest; sweet is the calm of paradise the blest. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 7 But, lo, there breaks a yet more glorious day; the saints triumphant rise in bright array: the King of glory passes on his way. Hallelujah, hallelujah! 8 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Hallelujah, hallelujah! Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2 Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE

The church's one foundation

Author: Samuel John Stone, 1839-1900; Fernand Barth, 1923- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 884 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God Lyrics: 1 The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord; we are his new creation by water and the word: from heaven he came and sought us that we might ever be his living servant people, by his own death set free. 2 Called forth from every nation, yet one o'er all the earth, our charter of salvation, one Lord, one faith, one birth, one holy name professing and at one table fed, to one hope we are pressing, be Christ's own Spirit led. 3 Though with a scornful wonder the world sees us oppressed, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed, yet saints their watch are keeping; their cry goes up, "How long?" But soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song. 4 'Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of our war, we wait the consummation of peace forevermore; till with the vision glorious our longing eyes are blest, and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest. 5 We now on earth have union with God the Three-in-One, and share, through faith, 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. --- FRENCH - 1 L’église universelle a pour roc Jésus-Christ; elle est l’oeuvre nouvelle que sa parole fit. Habitant le ciel même, il vint se l’attacher, et, par un don suprême, mourut pour la sauver! 2 L’église en sa prière unit à leur Sauveur les peuples de la terre, soumis au seul Seigneur. C’est son nom qu’elle acclame, son pain qui la nourrit; elle verse à toute âme l’espoir qui la guérit. 3 Honnie et méconnue, menant de durs combats, elle attend la venue de la paix ici-bas. Contemplant par avance la fin de son tourment, la grande délivrance, le repos permanent. 4 Aujourd’hui, sur la terre, elle est unie à Dieu, et, par un saint mystère, aux élus du saint lieu. Rends-nous, comme eux, fidèles, et reçois-nous, Seigneur, dans la vie éternelle, dans l’éternel bonheur! --- HUNGARIAN - 1 Az egyháznak a Jézus a fundámentoma, A szent Ígére épült fel lelki temploma. Leszállt a mennyből hívni és eljegyezni őt, Megváltva drága vérén a váltságban hívőt. 2 Kihívott minden népből egy lelki népet itt, Kit egy Úr, egy keresztség és egy hit egyesít. Csak egy nevet magasztal, csak egy cél vonja őt, és egy terített asztal ád néki új erőt. 3 A világ fejedelme feltámad ellene, Vagy hamis tudománytól gyaláztatik neve, S míg egykor felderül majd az Úrnak hajnala, Csak virrasztói kérdik: Meddig az éjszaka? 4 Sok bajban, küzdelemben meghajszolt, megvetett, De szent megújulásért és békéért eped, Míg látomása egykor dicsőn beteljesül, S a győzedelmes egyház Urával egyesül. 5 A három-egy Istennel már itt e földön egy, S az üdvözült sereggel egy nép és egy sereg. Ó mily áldott reménység: Ha itt időnk lejár, Te boldog szenteiddel fenn Nálad béke vár! Scripture: John 3:5 Used With Tune: AURELIA

Lord of the living

Author: Fred Kaan, 1929- Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God First Line: Lord of the living, in your name assembled Lyrics: 1 Lord of the living, in your name assembled, we join to thank you for the life remembered. Father, have mercy, to your children giving hope in believing. 2 Help us to treasure all that will remind us of the enrichment in the days behind us. Your love has set us in the generations, God of creation. 3 May we, whenever tempted to dejection, strongly recapture thoughts of resurrection. You gave us Jesus to defeat our sadness with Easter gladness. 4 Lord, you can lift us from the grave of sorrow into the presence of your own tomorrow; give to your people for the day's affliction your benediction. Scripture: Psalm 90:1 Used With Tune: FLEMMING

God Our Help and Hope

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,259 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Death At Hand; God Attributes of; God Eternity of ; God Our Guardian; God Hearer of Prayer; God Immutability of; God Infinity of; Our Eternal Home; Hope; Life Brevity and Uncertainty of; Man Mortal and Frail; Old Age; Preservation; Protection Only from God; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Trust in God Expression of First Line: O God, our help in ages past 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 Under the shadow of Thy throne Thy saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is Thine arm alone, And our defenxe is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 6 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: DUNDEE

O holy city, seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie, 1882-1969 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 89 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John, where Christ, the Lamb, doth reign, within whose foursquare walls shall come no night, nor need, nor pain, and where the tears are wiped from eyes that shall not weep again! 2 Hark, how from men whose lives are held more cheap than merchandise, from women struggling sore for bread, from little children's cries, there swells the sobbing human plaint that bids thy walls arise. 3 Oh shame to us who rest content while lust and greed for gain in street and shop and tenement wring gold from human pain, and bitter lips in blind despair cry “Christ hath died in vain!” 4 Give us, O God, the strength to build the city that hath stood too long a dream, whose laws are love, whose crown is servanthood, and where the sun that shineth is God’s grace for human good. 5 Already in the mind of God that city riseth fair: lo, how its splendour challenges the souls that greatly dare– yea, bids us seize the whole of life and build its glory there. Scripture: Hebrews 11:10 Used With Tune: MORNING SONG Text Sources: Hymns of the Christian Life, 1910, alt.

Shall we gather at the river

Author: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 Appears in 779 hymnals Topics: Our Hope in God 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 bosom of the river, where the Saviour King we own, we shall meet, and sorrow never 'neath the glory of the throne. [Refrain] 3 Ere we reach the shining river, lay we every 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] Scripture: Ezekiel 47:1 Used With Tune: HANSON PLACE

O God, our Father in heaven

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Our Hope in God Scripture: Luke 11:2-4 Used With Tune: PATER NOSTER (WEST INDIAN) Text Sources: English Language Liturgical Consultation, 1988