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Stand Up and Bless the Lord

Author: James Montgomery Appears in 402 hymnals Topics: God; Praise; Worship Scripture: Psalm 63:4 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Author: William P. Merrill Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 265 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Rise up, O men* of God! Have done with lesser things. Give heart and mind and soul and strength to serve the King of kings. 2. Rise up, O men of God! The kingdom tarries long. Bring in the day of brotherhood and end the night of wrong. 3. Rise up, O men of God! The church for you doth wait, her strength unequal to her task; rise up, and make her great! 4. Lift high the cross of Christ! Tread where his feet have trod. As brothers of the Son of Man, rise up, O men of God! * "Ye saints" may be substituted for "O men" Topics: The Nature of the Church Called to God's Mission; Mission and Outreach; Social Concerns; Stewardship; Zeal Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Give to the Winds Your Fears

Author: Paul Gerhardt; John Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 522 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Give to the winds your fears, hope, and be undismayed; God hears your sighs and counts your tears, God shall lift up your head. 2 Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears the way; wait for His time, so shall the night soon end in joyous day. 3 Far, far above your thought His counsel shall appear, when fully He the work has wrought that caused your needless fear. 4 Leave to His sovereign will to choose and to command: with wonder filled, you then shall know how wise, how strong His hand. Topics: God the Father Sustainer; Assurance; Comfort Scripture: Psalm 37 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

My soul with patience waits

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 40 hymnals Lyrics: My soul with patience waits For thee, the living Lord: My hopes are on thy promise built, Thy never-failing word. My longing eyes look out For thy enlivening ray, More duly than the morning watch To spy the dawning day. Let Israel trust in God; No bounds his mercy knows; The plenteous source and spring from whence Eternal succour flows; Whose friendly streams to us Supplies in want convey; A healing spring, a spring to cleanse And wash our guilt away. To God, the Father, Son, And Spirit, ever blest, The One in Three, the Three in One, Be endless praise addressed. Amen. Topics: Holy Communion Introits Scripture: Psalm 130 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG Text Sources: Tate and Brady, 1698

For All Your Saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 160 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For all your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to live, who followed you, obeyed, adored, our grateful hymn receive. 2 For all your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to die, who counted you their great reward, accept our thankful cry. 3 They all in life and death, with you, their Lord, in view, learned from your Holy Spirit's breath to suffer and to do. 4 For this, your name we bless and humbly pray anew that we like them in holiness may live and die in you. 5 To God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest, the One in Three, the Three in One, be endless praise addressed. Topics: Festivals, Commemorations; Festivals, Commemorations Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Come, We That Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,824 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne. 2. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God; But children of the heav'nly King May speak their joys abroad. 3. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heav'nly fields, Or walk the golden streets. 4. Then let our songs abound, And ev'ry tear be dry; We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground, To fairer worlds on high. Scripture: Ephesians 5:20 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Rise Up, O Saints of God!

Author: Norman O. Forness, b. 1936 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Vocation, Ministry; Witness; Commitment, Discipleship; Vocation, Ministry; Witness Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Teach Me, My God and King

Author: George Herbert; John Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 267 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see, and what I do in anything, to do it as for Thee. 2 To scorn the senses’ sway, while still to Thee I tend; in all I do be Thou the Way, in all be Thou the End. 3 All may of Thee partake; nothing so small can be, but draws, when acted for Thy sake, greatness and worth from Thee. 4 If done t'obey Thy laws, e’en servile labors shine; hallowed is toil, if this the cause, the meanest work divine. Topics: Submission and Profession Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Not All the Blood of Beasts

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 606 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Not all the blood of beasts on Jewish altars slain, could give the guilty conscience peace, or wash away the stain: 2 But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, takes all our sins away, a sacrifice of nobler name and richer blood than they. 3 My faith would lay her hand on that dear head of thine, while like a penitent I stand, and there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see the burdens thou didst bear, when hanging on the cursed tree, and knows her guilt was there. 5 Believing, we rejoice to see the curse remove; we bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, and sing his bleeding love. Topics: Jesus Christ His Atoning Work; Christ Lamb of God; Family Worship; Imputation of Sin Scripture: Hebrews 10:4 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Rejoice, ye pure in heart

Author: Dean E. H. Plumptre Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 434 hymnals Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving; Lay Helpers and Teachers Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG