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Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Author: Henry Van Dyke; Roberta Bard Ruby Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 277 hymnals Topics: Quaker author Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, God of love. Hearts unfold like flowers before thee, Opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, Drive the dark of doubt away. Giver of immortal gladness, Fill us with the light of day. 2 All thy works with joy surround thee, Earth and heaven reflect thy rays, Stars and angels sing around thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowering meadow, flashing sea Chanting bird and flowing fountain Call us to rejoice in thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, Ever blessing, ever blest. Wellspring of the joy of living, Ocean depth of happy rest. Thou our father, and our mother, All who live in love are thine. Teach us how to love each other, Lift us to the joy divine. 4 Mortals join the mighty chorus Which the morning stars began, Claim the place created for us In the great eternal plan. Hear our song, divine creator, Mother, father, friend and guide, We thy precious sons and daughters In thy light and love abide. Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY Text Sources: Poems of Henry van Dyke, 1911

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 529 hymnals Topics: Quaker author Lyrics: 1 *Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper revrence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word Rise up and follow thee. 3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, Where Jesus knelt to share with thee The silence of eternity Interpreted by love. 4 Drop thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of thy peace. 5 Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm. *Creator of all humankind Used With Tune: REST Text Sources: The Atlantic Monthly, 1872

This Is My Father's World

Author: Maltbie D. Babcock; Barbara Olmsted Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 340 hymnals Topics: Quaker author Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's (God's glorious) world, And to my listening ears All nature sings, and round me rings The music of the spheres. This is my Father's world, I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas His hand the wonders wrought. 2 This is my Father's world, The birds their carols raise, The morning light, the lily white, Declare their Maker's praise. This is my Father's world, He shines in all that's fair; In the rustling grass I hear him pass, He speaks to me everywhere. 3 This is God's glorious world, O let us not forget That all these wonders we can see Reveal God's purpose yet. This earth is ours in trust, To tend and keep it fair, With love for trees and skies and seas And creatures everywhere. Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Thoughts for Every-Day Living, 1901

Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Quaker author First Line: Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Lyrics: 1 Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has autumn poured from out her lavish horn! Through vales of grass and meads of flowers our plows their furrows made, While on the hills the sun and showers of changeful April played. 2 We dropped the seed over hill and plain beneath the sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain the robber crows away. All through the long, bright days of June its leaves grew green and fair, And waved in hot midsummer's noon its soft and yellow hair. 3 And now with autumn's moonlit eyes, It's harvest-time has come, We pluck away the frosted leaves, and bear the treasure home. Oh let the good old crop adorn the hills our fathers (forbears) trod; Still let us, for his (this) golden corn, send up our thanks to God! Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE

Lucretia Mott Song

Author: Margaret Hope Bacon Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Quaker author First Line: On the Island of Nantucket she was born beside the sea Refrain First Line: Thank thee kindly, Friend Lucretia Used With Tune: BATTLE HYMN

Love Was the First Motion

Author: Barbara Mays Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Quaker author First Line: John Woolman was a man most Quakerly Used With Tune: [John Woolman was a man most Quakerly]

O God of All Creation

Author: Lewy Olfson Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Quaker author Used With Tune: LANCACHIRE

Praise and Honor Jesus' Name

Author: Roberta Bard Ruby Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Quaker author First Line: Praise and honor Jesus' name, Alleluia! Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN

I Know Not What the Future Has

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 42 hymnals Topics: Quaker author First Line: I know not what the future has Lyrics: 1 I know not what the future has Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death God’s mercy underlies. 2 And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 3 No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove; I can but give the gifts he gave, And plead his love for love. 4 And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE