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For the Healing of the Nations

Author: Fred Kaan Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 58 hymnals Topics: The Life of the Nations Lyrics: 1 For the healing of the nations, Lord, we pray with one accord; for a just and equal sharing of the things that earth affords; to a life of love in action help us rise and pledge our word. 2 Lead us forward into freedom; from despair your world release, that, redeemed from war and hatred, all may come and go in peace. Show us how through care and goodness fear will die and hope increase. 3 All that kills abundant living, let it from the earth be banned: pride of status, race, or schooling, dogmas that obscure your plan. In our common quest for justice may we hallow life's brief span. 4 You, Creator God, have written your great name on humankind; for our growing in your likeness, bring the life of Christ to mind, that by our response and service earth its destiny may find. Scripture: Genesis 1:27 Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS (Wade)

From ocean unto ocean

Author: Robert Murray, 1832-1909 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 79 hymnals Topics: National Occasions Lyrics: 1 From ocean unto ocean our land shall name you, Lord and, filled with true devotion, obey your sovereign word; our prairies and our mountains, forest and fertile field, our rivers, lakes and fountains to you shall tribute yield. 2 O Christ, we pray before you: come in your power to dwell. Now humbly we implore you: make this land whole and well, and may we know, Lord Jesus, the touch of your dear hand, and, healed of our diseases, the tempter's power withstand. 3 Our Savior King, defend us, and guide where we should go; forth with your message send us, your love and light to show; till, fired with true devotion and kindled by your word, from ocean unto ocean our land shall name you Lord. Scripture: Psalm 72:8 Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE

This Is My Song

Author: Lloyd Stone; Georgia Harkness Meter: 11.10.11.10.11.10 Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: This is my song, O God of all the nations Used With Tune: FINLANDIA

O God of Every Nation

Author: William W. Reid, Jr. Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Nation Lyrics: 1 O God of every nation, of every race and land, redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand. Where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in love and mercy guide us, and heal our strife-torn world. 2 From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right, from trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night, from pride of race and nation and blindness to your way, deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray! 3 Lord, strengthen all who labor that we may find release from fear of rattling saber, from dread of war's increase. When hope and courage falter, Lord, let your voice be heard; with faith that none can alter, your servants undergird. 4 Keep bright in us the vision of days when war shall cease, when hatred and division give way to love and peace, till dawns the morning glorious when truth and justice reign, and Christ shall rule victorious o'er all the world's domain. Scripture: Isaiah 2:4 Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN

Te Deum

Appears in 370 hymnals Topics: The Nation and Commonweal First Line: We praise thee, O God Used With Tune: [We praise Thee, O God]

O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

Author: Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 508 hymnals Topics: National Songs Lyrics: 1 O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with *brotherhood From sea to shining sea! 2 O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! 3 O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine. 4 O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with *brotherhood From sea to shining sea! *Or "servanthood." Used With Tune: MATERNA

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

Author: Edward Perronet, 1726-1792 Appears in 3,437 hymnals Topics: Nations First Line: All hail the power of Jesus' name! Refrain First Line: And crown him, crown him Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-2 Used With Tune: DIADEM

God the All-merciful! earth hath forsaken

Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: Times and Seasons National Lyrics: 1 God the All-merciful! earth hath forsaken Thy ways of blessedness, slighted Thy word; Bid not Thy wrath in its terrors awaken; Give to us peace in our time, O Lord! 2 God the All-righteous One! man hath defied Thee; Yet to eternity standeth Thy Word; Falsehood and wrong shall not tarry beside Thee; Give to us peace in our time, O Lord! 3 God the All-wise! by the fire of Thy chastening Earth shall to freedom and truth be restored; Through the thick darkness Thy kingdom is hastening: Thou wilt give peace in Thy time, O Lord! 4 So shall Thy children with thankful devotion Praise Him Who saved them from peril and sword, Singing in chorus from ocean to ocean, "Peace to the nations, and praise to the Lord." Amen. Used With Tune: RUSSIAN HYMN Text Sources: Arranged from Henry F. Charley, 1842 and John Ellerton, 1870

God of the Ages, Whose Almighty Hand

Author: Daniel Crane Roberts Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 421 hymnals Topics: The Life of the Nations Lyrics: 1 God of the ages, whose almighty hand leads forth in beauty all the starry band of shining worlds in splendor through the skies, our grateful songs before thy throne arise. 2 Thy love divine hath led us in the past. In this free land by thee our lot is cast. Be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay: thy word our law, thy paths our chosen way. 3 From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence, be thy strong arm our ever sure defense. Thy true religion in our hearts increase. Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace. 4 Refresh thy people on their toilsome way. Lead us from night to never-ending day. Fill all our lives with love and grace divine, and glory, laud, and praise be ever thine. Scripture: Exodus 13:15 Used With Tune: NATIONAL HYMN

Thy kingdom come, O Lord

Author: Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929 Appears in 71 hymnals Topics: National and World Peace Scripture: Matthew 6:11 Used With Tune: ST. CECILIA

O God of Earth and Altar

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton Appears in 75 hymnals Topics: Nation Scripture: Hebrews 13:10-14 Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN

God is Our Refuge and Our Strength

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Nations Lyrics: 1 God is our refuge and our strength, Our ever present aid, And, therefore, though the earth remove, We will not be afraid; Though hills amidst the seas be cast, Though foaming waters roar, Yea, though the mighty billows shake The mountains on the shore. 2 A river flows whose streams make glad The city of our God, The holy place wherein the Lord Most High has His abode; Since God is in the midst of her, Unmoved her walls shall stand, For God will be her early help, When trouble is at hand. 3 The nations raged, the kingdoms moved, But when His voice was heard The troubled earth was stilled to peace Before His mighty word. The Lord of Hosts is on our side, Our safety to secure; The God of Jacob is for us A refuge strong and sure. 4 O come, behold what wondrous works Jehovah's hand has wrought; Come, see what desolation great He on the earth has brought. To utmost ends of all the earth He causes war to cease; The weapons of the strong destroyed, He makes abiding peace. 5 Be still and know that I am God, O'er all exalted high; The subject nations of the earth My Name shall magnify. The Lord of Hosts is on our side, Our safety to secure; The God of Jacob is for us A refuge strong and sure. Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: MATERNA

O God, our help in ages past

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,242 hymnals Topics: National and Remembrance 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 defence 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: ST ANNE

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

Author: Samuel F. Smith Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 1,950 hymnals Topics: Nation First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Lyrics: 1. My country,' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring! 2. My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills; my heart with rapture thrills, like that above. 3. Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song; let mortal tongues awake; let all that breathe partake; let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 4. Our fathers' God, to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light; protect us by thy might, great God, our King. Used With Tune: AMERICA

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Author: James Weldon Johnson Meter: Irregular Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Nation Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us; sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. 2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered; we have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. 3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee; lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land. Used With Tune: LIFT EVERY VOICE

Our land, O Lord, with songs of praise

Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: National

Christ, by Heavenly Hosts Adored

Author: Henry Harbaugh, 1817-67 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 49 hymnals Topics: The Nation First Line: Christ, by heav'nly hosts adored Lyrics: 1 Christ, by heav'nly hosts adored, Gracious, mighty, sov'reign Lord, God of nations, King of kings, Head of all created things, By the Church with joy confessed, God the Son forever blessed, Pleading at your throne we stand, Save your people, bless our land. 2 On our fields of grass and grain Send, O Lord, the kindly rain, And throughout this spacious land Crown the labors of each hand. Let your kind protection be Over commerce on the sea. Open, Lord, your bounteous hand; Bless your people, bless our land. 3 Give us rulers faithful, true, Such as love ad honor you; Let the powers you ordained Be in righteousness maintained. In the people's hearts increase Love of piety and peace. Thus united, we shall stand One wide, free, and happy land. Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S, WINDSOR

We Gather Together

Author: Anonymous; Theodore Baker Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 201 hymnals Topics: National Hymns; National Righteousness First Line: We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing (Baker) Text Sources: Netherlands Folk Song; Adrianus Valerius' Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck, 1626

God of grace and God of glory

Author: H. E. Fosdick (1878-1969) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 155 hymnals Topics: God's World Nations, Justice, and Peace Used With Tune: UNSER HERRSCHER