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O Love Divine, How Sweet Thou Art

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 379 hymnals First Line: O Love divine, how sweet Thou art! When shall I find my willing heart

Let All the Earth Their Voices Raise

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 166 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Let all the earth their voices raise To sing the choicest psalm of praise, To sing and bless Jehovah’s name: His glory let the heathens know, His wonders to the nations show, And all His saving works proclaim. 2. The heathens know Thy glory, Lord, The wondering nations read Thy Word, In Britain is Jehovah known: Our worship shall no more be paid To gods which mortal hands have made; Our maker is our God alone. 3. He framed the globe, He built the sky, He made the shining worlds on high, And reigns complete in glory there: His beams are majesty and light; His beauties, how divinely bright! His temple, how divinely fair! 4. Come the great day, the glorious hour, When earth shall feel His saving power, And barbarous nations fear His name; Then shall the race of man confess The beauty of His holiness, And in His courts His grace proclaim. Used With Tune: ARIEL Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

O Glorious Hope of Perfect Love

Author: John Wesley; Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 223 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O glorious hope of perfect love! It lifts me up to things above; It bears on eagles’ wings. It gives my ravished soul a taste, And makes me for some moments feast With Jesus’ priests and kings, With Jesus’ priests and kings. 2. Rejoicing now in earnest hope, I stand, and from the mountain top See all the lands below. Rivers of milk and honey rise, And all the fruits of paradise In endless plenty grow, In endless plenty grow. 3. A land of corn, and wine, and oil; Favored with God’s peculiar smile, With ev’ry blessing blest; There dwells the Lord our Righteousness, And keeps His own in perfect peace, And everlasting rest, And everlasting rest. 4. Oh, that I might at once go up; No more on this side of Jordan stop, But now the land possess; This moment end my legal years, Sorrows and sins, and doubts and fears, A howling wilderness, A howling wilderness! Used With Tune: ARIEL Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, by John and Charles Wesley, 1742

Doxology and Benediction

Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: Come, all ye servants of the Lord

O Lord! How Happy Should We Be

Author: Joseph Anstice Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 135 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee, If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best. 2. How far from this our daily life How oft disturbed by anxious strife, By sudden wild alarms; Oh, could we but relinquish all Our earthly props, and simply fall On Thy almighty arms 3. Could we but kneel and cast our care Upon our God in humble prayer, With strengthened souls we rise, Sure that our Father who is nigh, To hear the ravens when they cry, Will hear His children’s cries. 4. We cannot trust Him as we should; So chafes weak nature’s restless mood To cast its peace away; But birds and flowerets round us preach, All, all the present evil teach Sufficient for the day. 5. Lord, make these faithless hearts of ours Such lessons learn from birds and flowers, And learn from self to cease; Leave all things to a Father’s will, And taste, before Him lying still E’en in affliction, peace! Used With Tune: MERIBAH

O could I speak the matchless worth

Author: Samuel Medley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 744 hymnals Lyrics: O could I speak the matchless worth, O could I sound the glories forth Which in my Savior shine, I'd soar, and touch the heavenly strings, And vie with Gabriel while he sings In notes almost divine. I'd sing the characters he bears, And all the forms of love he wears, Exalted on his throne: In loftiest songs of sweetest praise, I would to everlasting days Make all his glories known. O the delightful day will come When my dear Lord will bring me home, And I shall see his face; Then with my Savior, Brother, Friend, A blest eternity I'll spend, Triumphant in his grace. Topics: Sundays after Trinity Praise and Adoration Used With Tune: MERIBAH

O God, mine inmost soul convert

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 88 hymnals Topics: Christ Advent Second; Christ Judge; Eternity; Life Solemnity of Used With Tune: MERIBAH

Moderation and Charity

Author: Benjamin Beddome Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: When I behold my table spread Text Sources: Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)

Jesus, Thou Source of All Our Joys

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788; Compiler Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 42 hymnals Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; The Christian Home Family Worship (Guarding Against the Power of Sound) Scripture: Matthew 26:41 Used With Tune: ARIEL

O Lord of Nations, Hear Our Prayer

Author: Laurie F. Gauger Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: O Lord, of nations, hear our prayer

Arise And Hail The Sacred Day

Author: Elizabeth Scott, 1708-1776 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 33 hymnals First Line: Arise, and hail the sacred day Lyrics: 1 Arise, and hail the sacred day, Cast all low cares of life away; And thoughts of meaner things; This day, to cure our deadly woes, The Sun of Righteousness arose With healing in His wings. 2 If angels on that happy morn The Savior of the world was born Poured forth seraphic songs, Much more should we of human race Adore the wonders of His grace, To whom that grace belongs. 3 How wonderful, how vast His love, Who left the shining realms above, Those happy seats of rest; How much for lost mankind He bore, Their peace and pardon to restore, Can never be expressed. 4 While we adore His boundless grace, And pious joy and mirth take place Of sorrow, grief and pain, Give glory to our God on high, And not, among the general joy, Forget good-will to men. 5 O then let Heav’n and earth rejoice, Creation’s whole united voice, And hymn the sacred day, When sin and Satan vanquished fell, And all the powers of death and hell, Before His sovereign sway. Used With Tune: ROMFORD

Come on, companions of our way

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: Come on, companions of our way, Who travel to eternal day Through this poor world of night; Give to the Lord, in noble songs, The praise that to His name belongs, As children of the light. Call'd out of darkness, by His voice, Be that clear shining path our choice, Which Christ our captain trod! Whether with flowers and fragrance crown'd, Or thorns and thistle interwound, It leads the soul to God. Though pilgrims in a vale of woes, Thick-strown with snares, and throng'd with foes; Since Jesus journey'd through, 157 Plant but your steps where his have prest The ground once curst,--that ground now blest Is heaven's highway for you. To heaven, to heaven then march we on, Go where our conquering Lord hath gone! Thus where He is, shall we In joy behold Him face to face, And, changed by glorifying grace, Resemble Him we see. Sacred Poems and Hymns

Thou Great Mysterious God Unknown

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 84 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou great mysterious God unknown, Whose love hath gently led me on, E’en from my infant days, Mine inmost soul expose to view, And tell me if I ever knew Thy justifying grace, Thy justifying grace. 2. If I have only known Thy fear, And followed, with a heart sincere, Thy drawings from above, Now, let the further grace bestow, And let my sprinkled conscience know Thy sweet forgiving love, Thy sweet forgiving love. 3. Father, in me reveal Thy Son, And to my inmost soul make known How merciful Thou art; The secret of Thy love reveal, And by Thy hallowing Spirit dwell Forever in my heart, Forever in my heart! 4. If now the witness were in me, Would He not testify of Thee, In Jesus reconciled? And should I not with faith draw nigh, And boldly, Abba, Father, cry, And know myself Thy child, And know myself Thy child? Used With Tune: ARIEL Text Sources: Redemption Hymns, 1747

Peace And Good Will

Author: Harriet M. Kimball Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" Lyrics: 1 "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" Year after year with sweet increase The heav’nly carol swells: The holy tale of Jesu’s birth In ever widening circles earth With tongues unnumbered tells. 2 Once more the vision glorified Appears with blessèd Christmastide— The virgin full of grace; And in her arms the Child divine, The God-Man born of David’s line, New head of Adam’s race. 3 The very nature that we wear, His Godhead veiled, He stoops to share In great humility; And angel legions round Him close And Heav’n with boundless praise o’erflows That such a love could be. 4 But neither round His infant brow The crown of thorns (pre-woven now) Created eyes behold; Nor in those infant arms that reach In mute appeal, in lieu of speech, The cross those arms infold. 5 Yet crown of thorns and holy rood (The tree of life, the mystic wood), His spotless sacrifice, His anguish and His triumph, all Are shadowed here in Bethlehem’s stall Though hidden from our eyes. 6 Here, too, begins His wondrous reign; Confessors, martyrs, lead His train Of humble souls and pure; Not of this world His kingdom is; All others fade away, but His Forever shall endure. 7 His sword is truth, His armor love; His Spirit as a tender dove Broods o’er this troubled life; He pities, pardons, strengthens, feeds; He binds the breaking heart that bleeds; To peace transformeth strife. 8 Where’er the Marah waters spring Of want or wrong or suffering And men of Him entreat, His cross all crimsoned with His blood He casts into the bitter flood And makes those waters sweet. 9 "Peace and good will, good will and peace!" What wonder that with glad increase The heav’nly carol swells; And on the story of His birth In ever widening circles earth With wondering rapture dwells! Used With Tune: MERIBAH Text Sources: Poems (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1889)

And Am I Only Born to Die?

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 124 hymnals Lyrics: 1. And am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply With nature’s stern decree? What after death for me remains? Celestial joys, or hellish pains, To all eternity? 2. How then ought I on earth to live, While God prolongs the kind reprieve And props the house of clay? My sole concern, my single care, To watch, and tremble, and prepare Against the fatal day. 3. No room for mirth or trifling here, For worldly hope, or worldly fear, If life so soon is gone: If now the Judge is at the door, And all mankind must stand before The inexorable throne! 4. No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment’s misery, or joy; But O! when both shall end, Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends, or angels spend? 5. Nothing is worth a thought beneath But how I may escape the death That never, never dies; How make mine own election sure, And, when I fail on earth, secure A mansion in the skies. 6. Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray, Be Thou my guide, be Thou my way To glorious happiness; Ah, write the pardon on my heart, And whensoe’er I hence depart, Let me depart in peace. Used With Tune: VENETIA Text Sources: Hymns for Children, 1763

O Lamb Of God, For Sinners Slain

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals First Line: O Lamb of God, for sinners slain, I plead with thee my suit to gain

O Food That Weary Pilgrims Love

Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O food that weary pilgrims love, O bread of angel hosts above, O manna of the saints, The hungry soul would feed on Thee; Ne’er may the heart unsolaced be Which for Thy sweetness faints. 2. O fount of love, O cleansing tide, Which from the Savior’s piercèd side And sacred heart dost flow, Be ours to drink of Thy pure rill, Which only can our spirits fill, And all our need bestow. 3. Lord Jesu, whom, by power divine Now hidden ’neath the outward sign, We worship and adore, Grant, when the veil away is rolled, With open face we may behold Thyself forevermore. Used With Tune: ESCA VIATORUM Text Sources: Maintzich Gesangbuch, 1661; translated from Latin to English by the compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern

Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day

Author: Thomas Greene Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 129 hymnals First Line: My days and weeks, and months and years Text Sources: Poems on Various Subjects, Chiefly Sacred, by the Late Mr. Thomas Greene, of Ware, Hertfordshire. London: H. Goldney. 1780. 381 pp.

Eternal Mind, Who Rules The Fates

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Text Sources: Horae Lyrica Book 1, 1706

All Wise, All Good, Almighty Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1. All wise, all good, almighty Lord, Jesus, by highest Heav’n adored, Ere time its course began; How did Thy glorious mercy stoop, To take Thy fallen children up, When Thou Thyself wert man? 2. Th’eternal God from Heav’n came down; The King of glory dropped His crown And veiled His majesty; Emptied of all but love He came, Jesus, I call Thee by the name, Thy pity bore for me. 3. O holy Child, still let Thy birth Bring peace to us poor worms of earth, And praise to God on high! Come, Thou who didst my flesh assume; Now to the abject sinner come, And in a manger lie. 4. Didst Thou not in person join The natures human and divine, That God and man might be Henceforth inseparably one? Haste then and make Thy nature known Incarnated in me. 5. In my weak, sinful flesh appear, O God, be manifested here, Peace, righteousness and joy; Thy kingdom, Lord, set up within My faithful heart; and all my sin, The devil’s work, destroy. 6. I long Thy coming to confess, The mystic power of godliness, The life divine to prove: The fullness of Thy life to know, Redeemed from all my sins below, And perfected in love. 7. O Christ, my Hope, make known to me The great, the glorious mystery The hidden life impart; Come, Thou Desire of nations, come, Formed in a spotless virgin’s womb, A pure, believing heart. 8. Come quickly, dearest Lord, that I May own, tho’ Antichrist deny, Thy incarnation’s power: May cry, a witness to my Lord, Come in my flesh is Christ the Word, And I can sin no more! Text Sources: Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (London: William Strahan, 1745), number 15

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