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This Is My Father's World

Author: Maltbie D. Babcock Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 321 hymnals Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's 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 my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet. This is my Father's world: Why should my heart be sad? The Lord is King: let the heavens ring! God reigns; let earth be glad! Amen. Topics: Adoration; God the Father in Nature; God the Father Sovereignty Scripture: Job 38:7 Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

O Christ, Who Called the Twelve

Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., 1923-2007 Meter: 6.6.8.6.6.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Commitment Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

God reigns o'er all the earth!

Author: Jane Parker Huber Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

Not What These Hands Have Done

Author: H. Bonar, 1808-89 Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 119 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Not what these hands have done Can save this guilty soul; Not what this toiling flesh has borne Can make my spirit whole. Not what I feel or do Can give me peace with God; Not all my prayers and sighs and tears Can bear my awe-full load. 2 Thy work alone, O Christ, Can ease this weight of sin; Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, Can give me peace within. Thy love to me, O God, Not mine, O Lord to Thee, Can rid me of this dark unrest And set my spirit free. 3 Thy grace alone, O God, To me can pardon speak; Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God, Can this sore bondage break. I bless the Christ of God, I rest on love divine, By God's free gift of saving faith I call this Savior mine. Topics: Sin and Righteousness; Trinity 6 Used With Tune: TERRA PATRIS

Forever with the Lord

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 632 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Forever with the Lord! Amen, so let it be! Life from His death is in that word ’Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day’s march nearer home 2. My Father’s house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith’s foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear! Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above. 3. Yet clouds will intervene, And all my prospect flies; Like Noah’s dove, I flit between Rough seas and stormy skies. Anon the clouds depart, The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o’er my gladdened heart Expands the bow of peace. 4. I hear at morn and even, At noon and midnight hour, The choral harmonies of Heaven Earth’s Babel tongues o’erpower; Then, then I feel that He, Remembered or forgot, The Lord, is never far from me, Though I perceive Him not. 5. Forever with the Lord! Forever in His will, The promise of that faithful word, Lord, here in me fulfill. With You at my right hand, Then I shall never fail; Uphold me, Lord, and I shall stand, Through grace I will prevail. 6. So when my latest breath Breaks through the veil of pain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain. That resurrection word, That shout of victory: Once more, Forever with the Lord! Amen, so let it be! Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Poet's Portfolio, 1835

How Can We Name a Love

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How can we name a Love that wakens heart and mind, indwelling all we know or think or do or seek or find? Within our daily world, in every human face, Love's echoes sound and God is found, hid in the commonplace. 2 If we awoke to life built on a rock of care that asked no great reward but firm, assured, was simply there, we can, with parents' names, describe, and thus adore, Love unconfined, a father kind, a mother strong and sure. 3 When people share a task, and strength and skills unite in projects old or new, to make or do with shared delight, our Friend and Partner's will is better understood, that all should share, create, and care, and know that life is good. 4 So in a hundred names, each day we all can meet a presence, sensed and shown at work, at home, or in the street. Yet every name we see, shines in a brighter sun: In Christ alone is Love full grown and life and hope begun. Topics: The Glory of the Triune God God's Nature; The Glory of the Triune God God's Nature; Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Love of; Love Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

Great Is the Lord Our God

Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: God Mighty Acts; God Strength; Adoration of God; God Righteousness; God Strength; God Transcendence; Kingdom of God; Love God’s Love for Us; Psalms Scripture: Psalm 48 Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA Text Sources: Sts. 1-2, vers. Psalter Hymnal, 1887, sts. 3-5, vers. Psalter Hymnal, rev. 1987

I Was a Wandering Sheep

Author: Rev. Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 499 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I was a wandering sheep, I did not love the fold; I did not love my Shepherd’s voice, I would not be controlled. I was a wayward child, I did not love my home, I did not love my Father’s voice, I loved afar to roam. 2 The Shepherd sought His sheep, The Father sought His child; They followed me o’er vale and hill, O’er deserts waste and wild. They found me nigh to death, Famished and faint and lone; They bound me with the bands of love, They saved the wandering one. 3 Jesus my Shepherd is; ’Twas He that loved my soul, ’Twas He that washed me in His blood, ’Twas He that made me whole. ’Twas He that sought the lost, That found the wandering sheep; ’Twas He that brought me to the fold, ’Tis He that still doth keep. 4 No more a wandering sheep! I love to be controlled, I love my tender Shepherd’s voice, I love the peaceful fold. No more a wayward child! I seek no more to roam; I love my heavenly Father’s voice, I love, I love His home. Topics: Blood of Christ; Conversion; Love for Christ; Love of Christ; Preparatory Service; Profession of Faith; Salvation; Seeking (God after Man); God or Christ as Shepherd; Wandering from God Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

"Fear Not!" the Angel Said

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: "Fear not!" the angel said, "God's joy is in the air! Lyrics: “Fear not!” the angel said, “God’s joy is in the air! Now go to Bethlehem and see a newborn baby there. A Savior, yet a child! So young, and yet the Lord!” God’s grace astounds, God’s love surrounds this sinful, hurting world. Fear not, you hungry child, you homeless refugee, You battered woman, burdened down—God came to set you free. For God’s own Son was poor; He cried and suffered, too. God’s grace astounds; God’s love abounds for people just like you. Fear not when questions come: “How can I know God’s way?” “Do my possessions weigh me down?” “Can God change me today?” For Jesus came to be true bread that satisfies; And in his birth, God touched the earth; Christ saves, forgives, and guides. Fear not, you church of Christ, distracted and distressed, For long ago in troubled times, Christ came, and we were blest. Our Prince of Peace is born—our light, our life, our song! In him we see our unity; in him God makes us strong. Topics: Christmas; Church Year; Justice; Refugees Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9 Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA