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Wisdom Calls

Author: Carol Bechtel Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: At the crossroads of decision Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-33 Topics: Church Year Christmas; Church Year Easter/Season of Easter; Covenant Faithfulness; Cry to God; God Trust in; God Ways Of; God's Wisdom Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart

Author: Mary Elizabeth Byrne, 1880-1931; Eleanor Henrietta Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: Irregular Appears in 159 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:5-7 Topics: Commitment; Confirmation Service; Ordination; Protection; Saints Days and Holy Days St Matthew; Sovereignty of God; The way; Vision Used With Tune: SLANE (1) Text Sources: Gaelic, c. 8th cent.

Bring many names, beautiful and good

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 9.10.11.9 Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:5-7 Lyrics: 1 Bring many names, beautiful and good, celebrate, in parable and story, holiness in glory, living, loving God. Hail and hosanna! bring many names! 2 Strong mother God, working night and day, planning all the wonders of creation, setting each equation genius at play: Hail and hosanna, strong mother God! 3 Warm father God, hugging every child, feeling all the strains of human living, caring and forgiving till we're reconciled: Hail and hosanna, warm father God! 4 Old, aching God, gray with endless care, calmly piercing evil's new disguises, glad of good surprises, wiser than despair: Hail and hosanna, old, aching God! 5 Young, growing God, eager, on the move, saying no to falsehood and unkindness, crying out for justice, giving all you have: Hail and hosanna, young, growing God! 6 Great, living God, never fully known, joyful darkness far beyond our seeing, closer yet than breathing, everlasting home: Hail and hosanna, great, living God! Topics: Celebration of Faith; Consolation; Eternity of God; Joy; Mystery of God's Love; Name/s of God; Providence; Renewal; Suffering Used With Tune: WESTCHASE

Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:7 Topics: Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Transfiguration; Gift of the Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ Life; The Triune God; Wisdom Used With Tune: MADELEINE

Procrastination

Author: Thomas Hastings Appears in 361 hymnals First Line: Delay not, delay not; O sinner, draw near Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Lyrics: 1 Delay not, delay not; O sinner, draw near, The waters of life are now flowing for thee; No price is demanded; the Saviour is here; Redemption is purchased, salvation is free. 2 Delay not, delay not, the Spirit of grace, Long grieved and resisted, may take his sad flight, And leave thee in darkness to finish thy race, To sin in the gloom of eternity's night. 3 Delay not, delay not; the hour is at hand; The earth shall dissolve, and the heavens shall fade, The dead, small and great, in the judgment shall stand, What helper, then, sinner, shall lend thee his aid? Topics: Access to God; Advent of Christ To Judgment; Christ Judge; Delay Used With Tune: EXPOSTULATION

Depth of mercy! can there be

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 811 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Topics: The Christian Life Faith, Penitence and Confession Used With Tune: WEBER

Oh a Song Must Rise (A Song Must Rise)

Author: Paul B. Svenson Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: From the mountains to the valleys Scripture: Proverbs 1-31 Refrain First Line: Oh a song must rise Topics: Response; Christian Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit; Interfaith; Justice; Service Music Gathering; Service Music Offering Used With Tune: [From the mountains to the valleys]

God Is Calling

Author: J. Borthwick; T. S. C. Appears in 422 hymnals First Line: God calling yet! will you not hear? Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Lyrics: 1 God calling yet! will you not hear? Earth's pleasures will you still hold dear, While precious moments sweetly fly, Still your poor soul in slumber lies. Chorus: God is calling, Heed His voice God is calling Come today make Him your choice. 2 God calling yet! will you arise? Can you His loving voice despise, Come do not wait another day, He calls you still will you delay. [Chorus] 3 God calling yet! and shall you give, No heed, but still in bondage live? Waters of life come now partake, He calls you will your heart awake? [Chorus] 4 God calling yet! how can you stay? Yield now your heart without delay; Say now vain world from you I part, I'm yielding now to Him my heart. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [God calling yet! will you not hear?]

Hark, it is the wisdom's voice

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-26 Topics: Domestic circumstances; The Christian life Power of; The Voice of Wisdom

Hear, O Hear the Saviour Calling!

Author: Charles P. Jones Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading? Scripture: Proverbs 1:24-26 Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! What abundant grace Lyrics: 1 Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading? Calling to the burden'd sinner, "Come to Me," I have died for you, and now I'm interceding, Interceding that you may be wholly free? Refrain: Hallelujah! What abundant grace, God bestows upon a sinful race, Full forgiveness and the Spirit's pow'r, Sanctifying us forever more. 2 Hear, O hear the Saviour calling, gently calling, Calling to the sinner gone so far astray; From His lips the kindest accents sweetly falling, Plead to wayward sinners to accept life's way. [Refrain] 3 Hear, O hear the Saviour calling, sweetly calling, Calling to believers to be pure and strong; He has grace sufficient and will keep from falling, Filling us with peace and glory all day long. [Refrain] Hear, hear Him call. Topics: Invitation Used With Tune: [Hear you not the Saviour calling, pleading, pleading]

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

Author: Ira Stanphill Appears in 37 hymnals First Line: I don't know about tomorrow Scripture: Proverbs 1:18 Refrain First Line: Many things about tomorrow Used With Tune: [I don't know about tomorrow]

I have called but ye refused

Author: J. F. Berg Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Proverbs 1:23-31

Prov. 1:20-31: In streets, and op'nings of the gates

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In streets, and op'nings of the gates Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-31 Lyrics: In streets, and op’nings of the gates, where pours the busy crowd, Thus heav’nly Wisdom lifts her voice, and cries to men aloud: How long, ye scorners of the truth, scornful will ye remain? How long shall fools their folly love, and hear my words in vain? O turn, at last, at my reproof! and, in that happy hour, His bless’d effusions on your heart my Spirit down shall pour. 127 But since so long, with earnest voice, to you in vain I call Since all my counsels and reproofs thus ineffectual fall; The time will come, when humbled low, in Sorrow’s evil day, Your voice by anguish shall be taught, but taught too late, to pray. When, like the whirlwind, o’er the deep comes Desolation’s blast; Pray’rs then extorted shall be vain, the hour of mercy past. The choice you made has fixed your doom; for this is Heav’n’s decree, That with the fruits of what he sowed the sinner filled shall be.

Life is the time to serve the Lord

Author: Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 351 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:24-32 Lyrics: 1 Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time t' insure the great reward; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. 2 Life is the hour that God has given To escape from hell and fly to heaven; The day of grace; and mortals may Secure the blessings of the day. 3 Then what my thoughts design to do, My hands, with all your might pursue; Since no device, nor work is found, Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground. 4 There are no acts of pardon past In the cold grave to which we haste; But darkness, death, and long despair Reign in eternal silence there. Topics: Provisions of the Gospel Warnings ; The Time to Serve the Lord

Wisdom Crieth in the Streets

Author: Daniel S. Warner Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Lo, wisdom crieth in the streets Scripture: Proverbs 1:20 Refrain First Line: The voice of wisdom cries to all Lyrics: 1 Lo, wisdom crieth in the streets, In solemn tones of warning; Amid the concourse loud repeats, The end of time is coming. Refrain: The voice of wisdom cries to all, The end of time is coming soon; The voice of wisdom cries to all, Escape the sinner’s awful doom. 2 Hear, O ye craving, restless throng, The gospel invitation, It tells you what you’ve needed long— The touch of God’s salvation. [Refrain] 3 Young men, in all your revelry, Young ladies, proud and thoughtless, Will you be saved eternally, Or die forever hopeless? [Refrain] 4 You drown your souls in follies deep, You plunge in sin’s perdition, Yet wisdom cries upon the street, In God there is redemption. [Refrain] 5 Ye aged sinners surely know Your end of time is coming, And youthful summers swiftly flow Down to the vale of mourning. [Refrain] 6 Come, old and young, come, rich and poor, We have but one probation; Be wise, repent and sin no more, Accept a free salvation. [Refrain] Topics: Warning Used With Tune: [Lo, wisdom crieth in the streets] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Wisdom_Crieth_in_the_Streets); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (401); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (523)

Memories of Mother

Author: Fred. P. Morris Appears in 18 hymnals First Line: My mother's hand is on my brow Scripture: Proverbs 1:10 Refrain First Line: O mother when I think of thee Used With Tune: [My mother's hand is on my brow]

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Author: John M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 509 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:20 Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Refrain: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel! 2 O come, Thou Wisdom from on high, Who ord'rest all things mightily; To us the path of knowledge show, And teach us in her ways to go. [Refrain] 3 O come, O come, Thou Lord of might, Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height In ancient times didst give the law, In cloud and majesty and awe. [Refrain] 4 O come, Thou Rod of Jesse's stem, From ev'ry foe deliver them That trust thy mighty pow'r to save, And give them vict'ry o'er the grave. [Refrain] 5 O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heav'nly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. [Refrain] 6 O come, Thou Dayspring from on high And cheer us by thy drawing nigh; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death's dark shadow put to flight. [Refrain] 7 O come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all humankind; Bid thou our sad divisions cease, And be thyself our Prince of Peace. [Refrain] Topics: Musical Style Chant; Musical Style Chant; Musical Style Chant; Musical Style Chant; Musical Style Chant; Musical Style Chant; The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundasy and Weekdays) Used With Tune: VENI, VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: Latin, 9th cent.; Vs. 1, 3-6, para. in Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum Cologne, 1708; Tr. Vs. 2, 7 from The Hymnal 1940, alt.

O Master Teacher, Teach Us Now

Author: Carlton C. Buck; Louis Fitzgerald Benson (1855-1930) Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:5 Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; The Christian School Used With Tune: ABRIDGE

O the Wretched, Wretched State

Author: Charles P. Jones Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Proverbs 1:23-33 Refrain First Line: Sinner, will you not prepare Lyrics: 1 O the wretched, wretched state, Of the one who waits too late, Hasting not to make his own election sure! But in ign'rance doth defy, Heavens holy warning cry Until suddenly grim death rides to his door. Refrain: Sinner, will you not prepare. While the Saviour answers pray'r, And while mercy yet repentance grants to men, O accept His proffer'd grace. Seeking now His loving face, And believing in His word be born again. 2 O the bitter, bitter wail, When the faithless pray'r shall fail And the heavens shall but dark and frowning be; When before the soul shall lie, But hells blist'ring desert dry And a Godless, hopeless, bleak eternity. [Refrain] 3 'Twill be sadder still to know, That this need not have been so, Since the Saviour died the sinner to redeem, And each soul was born an heir To eternal mansion's fair Simply by the trusting of the life with Him. [Refrain] 4 Sad, the more the Spirit plead, That so many will not heed, But in madness choose the sinner's life and way, Rushing on to endless death. Mocking at the life of faith, Till at last in horror comes his dying day. [Refrain] 5 O the horror of his fate! O the woe of such a state! What an awful thing to see a sinner die! May our gracious, loving God, Save you sinner, by His blood, Save you sweetly ere the day of doom draws nigh. [Refrain] Topics: Invitation; Warning Used With Tune: [O the wretched, wretched state]

Come, Holy Ghost, our Souls Inspire

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O Woniya Wakaŋ, uqa Scripture: Proverbs 1:23 Topics: Whitsuntide Used With Tune: MELCOMBE

Sinner, turn, why will ye die?

Author: C. Wesley Appears in 538 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:23 Lyrics: 1 Sinners, turn, why will ye die? God, your Maker, asks you--Why? God, who did your being give, Made you with himself to live; He the fatal cause demands, Asks the work of his own hands-- Why, ye thankless creatures, why Will ye cross his love, and die? 2 Sinners, turn, why will ye die? God, your Saviour, asks you--Why? He, who did your souls retrieve, Died himself, that ye might live. Will ye let him die in vain? Crucify your Lord again? Why, ye ransomed sinners, why Will ye slight his grace, and die? 3 Sinners, turn, why will ye die? God, the Spirit, asks you--Why? He, who all your lives hath strove, Urged you to embrace his love: Will ye not his grace receive? Will ye still refuse to live? Oh, ye dying sinners! why, Why will ye for ever die? Topics: Provisions of the Gospel Warnings ; Why Will ye Die?

There's a Hand Stretched Out

Author: Grace Wieser Davis Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: There's a hand stretched out in mercy Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Refrain First Line: 'Tis the hand to the cross that was nailed Used With Tune: [There's a hand stretched out in mercy]

Thou hidden love of God, whose height

Author: Gerhard Tersteegen, 1697-1769; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 265 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 1:28 Lyrics: 1 Thou hidden love of God, whose height, whose depth unfathomed, no-one knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, inly I sigh for thy repose; my heart is pained, nor can it be at rest, till it finds rest in thee. 2 'Tis mercy all, that thou hast brought my mind to seek its peace in thee; yet, while I seek but find thee not, no peace my wandering soul shall see; O when shall all my wanderings end, and all my steps to thee-ward tend? 3 Is there a thing beneath the sun that strives with thee my heart to share? Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone, the Lord of every motion there! Then shall my heart from earth be free, when it hath found repose in thee. 4 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart to save me from low-thoughted care; chase this self-will through all my heart, through all its latent mazes there; make me thy duteous child, that I ceaseless may 'Abba, Father!' cry. 5 Each moment draw from earth away my heart, that lowly waits thy call; speak to my inmost soul, and say 'I am thy Love, thy God, thy all!' To feel thy power, to hear thy voice, to taste thy love, be all my choice. Used With Tune: VATER UNSER

"The voice of Jesus"

Author: Samuel J. Stone Appears in 219 hymnals First Line: Weary of earth, and laden with my sin Scripture: Proverbs 1:24 Lyrics: 1 Weary of earth, and laden with my sin, I look at heaven and long to enter in, But there no evil thing may find a home: And yet I hear a voice that bids me "Come." 2 So vile I am, how dare I hope to stand In the pure glory of that holy land? Before the whiteness of that throne appear? Yet there are hands stretched out to draw me near. 3 The while I fain would tread the heavenly way, Evil is ever with me day by day; Yet on mine ears the gracious tidings fall, "Repent, confess, thou shalt be loosed from all." 4 It is the voice of Jesus that I hear, His are the hands stretched out to draw me near, And his the blood that can for all atone, And set me faultless there before the throne. 5 'Twas he who found me on the deathly wild, And made me heir of heaven, the Father's child, And day by day, whereby my soul may live, Gives me his grace of pardon, and will give. Topics: Atonement Accepted; Backsliding Used With Tune: LANGRAN

Who Comes from God

Author: Patrick Michaels (1954-) Meter: 8.4.8.4.7.7.7.6.6 Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Who comes from God, as Word and Breath? Scripture: Proverbs 1:20-33 Lyrics: 1 Who comes from God, as Word and Breath? Holy Wisdom. Who holds the keys of life and death? Mighty Wisdom: Crafter and Creator too, eldest, she makes all things new; she completes what God would do,. Wisest one, radiant one, welcome, holy Wisdom! 2 Who lifts her voice for all to hear? Joyful Wisdom. Who shapes a thought and makes it clear? Truthful Wisdom: Teacher, drawing out our best, magnifies what we invest, names our truth, directs our quest. Wisest one, radiant one, welcome, holy Wisdom! 3 Whom should we seek with all our heart? Loving Wisdom. Who, once revealed, will not depart? Faithful Wisdom. Partner, Counselor, Comforter, love has found none lovelier, life is gladness lived with her. Wisest one, radiant one, welcome, holy Wisdom! Topics: Praise of God; The Holy Spirit; Wisdom Used With Tune: SALVE REGINA COELITUM

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