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Soon and Very Soon

Author: Andraé Crouch, b. 1947 Appears in 58 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King! Topics: Advent Used With Tune: SOON AND VERY SOON

O Holy City, Seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 89 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John, Where Christ, the Lamb, does reign, Within whose foursquare walls shall come No night, nor need, nor pain, And where the tears are wiped from eyes That shall not weep again. 2 O shame to us who rest content While lust and greed for gain In street and shop and tenement Wring gold from human pain, And bitter lips in blind despair Cry “Christ has died in vain!” 3 Give us, O God, the strength to build The city that hath stood Too long a dream, whose laws are love, Whose ways are servanthood, And where the sun that shines becomes God’s grace for human good. 4 Already in the mind of God That city rises fair. Lo, how its splendor challenges The souls that greatly dare, And bids us seize the whole of life And build its glory there. Used With Tune: MORNING SONG

Rev. 21:1-9: Lo! what a glorious sight appears

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 287 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-9 First Line: Lo! what a glorious sight appears Lyrics: Lo! what a glorious sight appears to our admiring eyes! The former seas have passed away, the former earth and skies. From heav’n the New Jerus’lem comes, all worthy of its Lord; See all things now at last renewed, and paradise restored! Attending angels shout for joy, and the bright armies sing; Mortals! behold the sacred seat of your descending King! The God of glory down to men removes his bless’d abode; He dwells with men; his people they, and he his people’s God. His gracious hand shall wipe the tears from ev’ry weeping eye: And pains and groans, and griefs and fears, and death itself, shall die. Behold, I change all human things! saith he, whose words are true; Lo! what was old is passed away, and all things are made new! I am the First, and I the Last, through endless years the same; I AM, is my memorial still, and my eternal name. Ho, ye that thirst! to you my grace shall hidden streams disclose, And open full the sacred spring, whence life for ever flows. Bless’d is the man that overcomes; I’ll own him for a son; A rich inheritance rewards the conquests he hath won. But bloody hands and hearts unclean, and all the lying race, The faithless, and the scoffing crew, who spurn at offered grace; They, seized by justice, shall be doomed in dark abyss to lie, And in the fiery burning lake the second death shall die. O may we stand before the Lamb, when earth and seas are fled, And hear the judge pronounce our name, with blessings on our bead!

My Home, dear Home

Author: Montgomery Appears in 842 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 First Line: Jerusalem, my happy home! Used With Tune: CANAAN

Jesus, lover of my soul

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 3,229 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:6 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, till the storm of life is past; safe into the haven guide, oh, receive my soul at last! 2 Other refuge have I none, hangs my helpless soul on thee; leave, ah! leave me not alone, still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed, all my help from thee I bring; cover my defenceless head with the shadow of thy wing. 3 Thou, O Christ, art all I want; more than all in thee I find! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is thy name, I am all unrighteousness; false and full of sin I am, thou art full of truth and grace. 4 Plenteous grace with thee is found, grace to cover all my sin; let the healing streams abound, make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art, freely let me take of thee; spring thou up within my heart, rise to all eternity. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Penitence; God in grace and mercy Used With Tune: ABERYSTWYTH

Of the Father's Love Begotten

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius; John Mason Neale; Henry Williams Baker Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 213 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten ere the worlds began to be, he is Alpha and Omega he the source, the ending he, of the things that are, that have been, and that future years shall see evermore and evermore. 2 O that birth forever blessed, when a virgin, blest with grace, by the Holy Ghost conceiving, bore the Savior of our race; and the babe, the world's Redeemer, first revealed his sacred face, evermore and evermore. 3 This is he whom seers in old time chanted of with one accord, whom the voices of the prophets promised in their faithful word; now he shines, the long-expected; let creation praise its Lord evermore and evermore. 4 Let the heights of heaven adore him; angel hosts, his praises sing: powers, dominions, bow before him and extol our God and King; let no tongue on earth be silent, every voice in concert ring evermore and evermore. 5 Christ, to you, with God the Father and the Spirit, there shall be hymn and chant and high thanksgiving and the shout of jubilee: honor, glory, and dominion and eternal victory evermore and evermore! Amen. Topics: King, God/Christ as; Christmas; Christmas; Creation; King, God/Christ as; Majesty of God; Trinity Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

The new creation

Appears in 1,864 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5 First Line: Love divine, all love excelling Topics: The Christian Life Sanctification Used With Tune: BAVARIA

Be Still, My Soul

Author: Katharina A. von Schlegel; Jane L. Borthwick Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 178 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: Be still, my soul! The Lord is on your side Lyrics: 1 Be still, my soul! the Lord is on your side: bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; leave to your God to order and provide; in every change he faithful will remain. Be still, my soul! Your best, your heavenly Friend thro' thorny ways leads to a joyful end. 2 Be still, my soul! Your God will undertake to guide the future as he has the past; your hope, your confidence let nothing shake; all now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still, my soul! The waves and winds still know his voice who ruled them while he dwelt below. 3 Be still, my soul! The hour is hastening on when we shall be forever with the Lord, when disappointment, grief and fear are gone, sorrow forgot, love’s purest joys restored. Be still, my soul! When change and tears are past, all safe and blessèd we shall meet at last. Topics: Assurance; Calmness; Confidence; Cross of Believers; God Mystery; God Providence; Heaven Used With Tune: FINLANDIA

Jerusalem, the Golden

Author: Bernard of Cluny; John Mason Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 913 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Lyrics: 1. Jerusalem, the golden, With milk and honey blest! Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed; I know not, O I know not, What joys await me there; What radiancy of glory, What bliss beyond compare. 2. They stand, those halls of Zion, All jubilant with song, And bright with many angels, And all the martyr throng; The Prince is ever in them, The daylight is serene; The pastures of the blessed Are decked in glorious sheen. 3. O sweet and blessed country, Shall I e'er see thy face? O sweet and blessed country, Shall I e'er win thy grace? Exult, O dust and ashes! The Lord shall be thy part; His only, His forever, Thou shalt be, and thou art! Used With Tune: EWING

This Is a Day of New Beginnings

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 23 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5 Lyrics: 1. This is a day of new beginnings, Time to remember and move on, Time to believe what love is bringing, Laying to rest the pain that's gone. 2. For by the life and death of Jesus, God's mighty Spirit, now as then, Can make for us a world of diff'rence, As faith and hope are born again. 3. Then let us, with the Spirit's daring, Step from the past and leave behind Our disappointment, guilt, and grieving, Seeking new paths, and sure to find. 4. Christ is alive, and goes before us To show and share what love can do. This is a day of new beginnings; Our God is making all things new. 5. In faith, we'll gather 'round the table To taste and share what love can do. This is a day of new beginnings; Our God is making all things new. Used With Tune: BEGINNINGS

The Church's one foundation

Author: Samuel John Stone (1839-1900) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 862 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Lyrics: 1 The Church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord: she is his new creation by water and the word; from heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. 2 Called forth from every nation, yet one o'er all the earth, her charter of salvation: one Lord, one faith, one birth. One holy name she blesses, and shares one holy food, as to one hope she presses, with every grace endued. 3 In toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war she waits the consummation of peace for evermore, till with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blest, and the great Church victorious shall be the Church at rest. 4 Yet she on earth has union with God, the Three in one, and mystical communion with those whose rest is won. O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Oneness with the Church in Heaven; Church unity and ecumenism; Communion of Saints Used With Tune: AURELIA

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Author: George Matheson Appears in 679 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 Lyrics: 1 O Love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. 2 O Light that foll'west all my way, I yield my flick'ring torch to Thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. 3 O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to Thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be. 4 O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee; I lay in dust life's glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be. Amen. Topics: Christ Light; Christ Love; Cross of Believer; Devotional; Humilty; Wedding; Christ Light; Christ Love; Cross of Believer; Devotional; Humilty; Wedding Used With Tune: [O Love that will not let me go]

For the Healing of the Nations

Author: Fred Kaan Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 58 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 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, 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, 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, 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, earth its destiny may find. Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; Justice; Peace, World; Social Concerns Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye

Author: Stennett Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,339 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 Lyrics: 1 On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. 2 Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene, That rises to my sight!-- Sweet fields, arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight. 3 O'er all those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son for ever reigns, And scatters night away. 4 No chilling winds, nor poisonous breath, Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more. 5 When shall I reach that happy place, And be for ever blest? When shall I see my Father's face, And in his bosom rest? 6 Filled with delight, my raptured soul Would here no longer stay; Though Jordan's waves should round me roll, I'd fearless launch away. Topics: Heaven; Heaven in Prospect

It came upon the midnight clear

Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 875 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-4 Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old, from angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold: "Peace on the earth, good will to you from heaven's all-gracious King!" The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing. 2 Still through the cloven skies they come, with peaceful wings unfurled: and still their heavenly music floats o'er all the weary world; above its sad and lowly plains they bend on hovering wing, and ever o'er its Babel-sounds the blessèd angels sing. 3 But with the woes of sin and strife the world has suffered long: beneath the angels' hymn have rolled two thousand years of wrong: and warring humankind hears not the love-song which they bring: oh, hush the noise and still the strife to hear the angels sing. 4 And you, beneath life's crushing load whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow, look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing: oh, rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing. 5 For lo! the days are hastening on, by prophet bards foretold, when, with the ever-rolling years, still dawns the Age of Gold, when peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendours fling, and all the world give back the song which now the angels sing. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany; Angels Used With Tune: NOEL

Come, We That Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,790 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 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 heavenly King may speak their joys abroad. 3 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields, or walk the golden streets. 4 Then let our songs abound, and every tear be dry; we're marching through Emmanuel's ground to fairer worlds on high Topics: Heaven; Jesus Christ King; Joy; Music and Singing; Pilgrimage; Praise of God Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

Author: Frank. M. North Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 369 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 Lyrics: 1 Where cross the crowded ways of life, where sound the cries of race and clan, above the noise of selfish strife, we hear your voice, O Son of Man. 2 In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds dark with fears, from paths where hide the lures of greed, we catch the vision of your tears. 3 The cup of water given for you still holds the freshness of your grace; yet long these multitudes to see the true compassion of your face. 4 O Master, from the mountainside make haste to heal these hearts of pain; among these restless throngs abide, and tread the city's streets again 5 till all the world shall learn your love and follow where your feet have trod, till glorious from your heaven above shall come the city of our God. Topics: Sickness & Health; Society/Social Concerns; War & Revolution; Missions; Poverty; Sickness & Health; Society/Social Concerns; Walk with God; War & Revolution Used With Tune: GERMANY

Hymn 45

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5-8 First Line: See where the great incarnate God Lyrics: See where the great incarnate God Fills a majestic throne; While from the skies his awful voice Bears the last judgment down. ["I am the first, and I the last, Through endless years the same; I AM is my memorial still, And my eternal name. "Such favors as a God can give My royal grace bestows: Ye thirsty souls, come taste the streams, Where life and pleasure flows.] ["The saint that triumphs o'er his sins, I'll own him for a son; The whole creation shall reward The conquests he has won. "But bloody hands, and hearts unclean, And all the lying race, The faithless and the scoffing crew, That spurn at offered grace; "They shall be taken from my sight, Bound fast in iron chains, And headlong plunged into the lake Where fire and darkness reigns."] O may I stand before the Lamb, When earth and seas are fled! And hear the Judge pronounce my name, With blessings on my head! May I with those for ever dwell Who here were my delight! While sinners, banished down to hell, No more offend my sight.

Jerusalem, My Happy Home

Author: "F. B. P.", 16th C. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 621 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, my happy home, when shall I come to thee? When will my sorrows have an end? Thy joys, when shall I see? 2 O happy harbor of the saints, O sweet and pleasant soil! In thee no sorrow may be found, no grief, no care, no toil. 3 Thy saints are crowned with glory great; they see God face to face; they triumph still, they still rejoice: most happy is their case. 4 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, God grant that I may see thine endless joy, and of the same partaker ever be! Topics: The Christian Life Death and Eternal Life; All Saints' Day; Heaven; Joy Used With Tune: LAND OF REST Text Sources: Based on Anonymous hymn, 16th century

Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 289 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-4 Lyrics: 1 Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ, our head and cornerstone, Chosen of the Lord and precious, Binding all the Church in one; Holy Zion’s help forever And our confidence alone. 2 To this temple, where we call You, Come, O Lord of hosts, and stay; Come with all Your lovingkindness, Hear Your people as they pray; And Your fullest benediction Shed within these walls today. 3 Grant, we pray, to all Your faithful All the gifts they ask to gain; What they gain from You, forever With the blessed to retain; And hereafter in Your glory Evermore with You to reign. 4 Praise and honor to the Father, Praise and honor to the Son, Praise and honor to the Spirit, Ever three and ever one: One in might and one in glory While unending ages run! Topics: Beginning of Service Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY Text Sources: Latin, c. 8th cent.

Oh, What Their Joy

Author: Peter Abelard, 1079-1142; John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 137 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2-7 First Line: Oh, what their joy and their glory must be Lyrics: 1 Oh, what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless Sabbaths the blessed ones see! Crowns for the valiant, to weary ones rest; God shall be all, and in all ever blest. 2 In new Jerusalem joy shall be found, Blessings of peace shall forever abound; Wish and fufillment are not severed there, Nor the things prayed for come short of the prayer. 3 We, where no troubles distraction can bring, Safely the anthems of Zion shall sing; While for Your grace, Lord, their voices of praise Your blessed people shall evermore raise. 4 Now let us worship our Lord and our King, Joyfully raising our voices to sing: Praise to the Father, and praise to the Son, Praise to the Spirit, to God, Three in One. Topics: Feasts and Festivals Used With Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA

Cuando mis luchas terminen

Author: Charles H. Gabriel; Vicente Mendoza Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-7 First Line: Cuando mis luchas terminen aquí Refrain First Line: ¡Esa será gloria sin fin! Lyrics: 1 Cuando mis luchas terminen aquí y ya seguro en los cielos esté, Cuando al Señor yo contemple allí, ¡Gloria por siempre será para mí! Coro: ¡Esa será gloria sin fin, gloria sin fin, gloria sin fin! Cuando por gracia su faz pueda ver, ¡Gloria por siempre por mí ha de ser! 2 Cuando por gracia yo pueda tener en sus mansiones morada de paz, Cuando por siempre su faz pueda ver, ¡Gloria por siempre será para mí! [Coro] 3 Gozo infinito será contemplar a los salvados que allí estarán, Mas la presencia de Cristo gozar, ¡Gloria por siempre será para mí! [Coro] Topics: Afflicción; Affliction; Gracia de Dios; Grace of God; Hogar Celestial; Celestial Home Used With Tune: GLORY SONG

As with Gladness Men of Old

Author: William C. Dix Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 638 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 Lyrics: 1 As with gladness men of old did the guiding star behold, as with joy they hailed its light, leading onward, beaming bright; so, most gracious Lord, may we evermore your splendor see. 2 As with joyful steps they sped to that lowly infant bed, there to bend the knee before Christ, whom heaven and earth adore; so may we with willing feet ever seek your mercy seat. 3 As they offered gifts most rare at that cradle plain and bare, so may we with holy joy, pure and free from sin's alloy, all our costliest treasures bring, Christ, to you, our heavenly King. 4 Holy Jesus, every day keep us in the narrow way, and when mortal things are past, bring our ransomed lives at last where they need no star to guide, where no clouds your glory hide. 5 In that glorious city bright none shall need created light; you its light, its joy, its crown, you its sun which goes not down; there forever may we sing alleluias to our King! Topics: Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Songs for Children Hymns; Christmas; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Eternal Life; Light; New Creation; Offering Used With Tune: DIX

Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts

Author: Ray Palmer Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 559 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:6 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts, thou Fount of life, thou Light of all, from the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to head thy call. 2 Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood; thou savest those that on thee call; to them that seek thee thou art good, to them that find thee, all in all. 3 We taste thee, O thou living bread, and long to feast upon thee still; we drink of thee, the fountainhead, and thirst our souls from thee to fill. 4 Our restless spirits yearn for thee, where'er our changeful lot is cast, glad when thy gracious smile we see, blest when our faith can hold thee fast. 5 O Jesus, ever with us stay, make all our moments calm and bright; chase the dark night of sin away, shed o'er the world thy holy light. Topics: Aspiration; Spiritual Hunger; Jesus Christ Joy; Jesus Christ Light; Jesus Christ Savior; Praise of Jesus Christ; Sin Used With Tune: QUEBEC Text Sources: from Latin, 12th C.

Brethren, We Have Met to Worship

Author: George Atkins, 19th C.; Bryan Jeffery Leech Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 249 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5 Lyrics: 1 Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God; will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the word? All is vain, unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down: Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around. 2 Sisters, will you join and help us? Moses' sisters aided him; will you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin? Tell them all about the Savior-- tell them that he will be found: Sisters, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around. 3. [Copyrighted] 4 Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other too; let us love and pray for sinners till our God makes all things new. Then he'll call us home to heaven, at his table we'll sit down; Christ will gird himself and serve us with sweet manna all around. Topics: Love Our Love of God; Love Our Love of Others; Opening Hymns; Proclamation; Worship Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA

The Homeland

Author: Hugh R. Haweis (1838-1901) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 189 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: The homeland! O the homeland! The land of the freeborn! Lyrics: 1 The homeland! O the homeland! The land of the free born! There’s no night in the homeland, But aye the fadeless morn; I’m sighing for homeland, My heart is aching here; There is no pain in the homeland To which I’m drawing near; There is no pain in the homeland To which I’m drawing near. 2 My Lord is in the homeland, With angels bright and fair; There’s no sin in the homeland, And no temptation there; The music of the homeland Is ringing in my ears; And when I think of the homeland My eyes are filled with tears; And when I think of the homeland My ears are filled with tears. 3 The dwellers in the homeland Are beckoning me to come, Where neither death nor sorrow Invades their holy name; O dear, dear native country! O rest and peace above! Christ bring us all to the homeland Of Thy redeeming love; Christ bring us all to the homeland Of Thy redeeming love Topics: Doctrines Eternal Life Used With Tune: [The homeland! O the homeland! The land of the freeborn!]

Sing With All the Saints in Glory

Author: William J. Irons, 1812-83 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 106 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-5 Lyrics: 1 Sing with all the saints in glory, Sing the resurrection song! Death and sorrow, earth's dark story, To the former days belong. All around the clouds are breaking; Soon the storms of time shall cease; In God's likeness we awaken, Knowing everlasting peace. 2 Oh, what glory, far exceeding All that eye has yet perceived! Holiest hearts for ages pleading Never that full joy conceived. God has promised, Christ prepares it; There on high our welcome waits. Ev'ry humble spirit shares it, Christ has passed the eternal gates. 3 Life eternal! Heav'n rejoices; Jesus lives who once was dead. Shout with joy, O deathless voices! Child of God, lift up your head! Life eternal! Oh, what wonders Crowd on faith; what joy unknown, When, amid earth's closing thunders, Saints shall stand before the throne! Used With Tune: MISSISSIPPI

We are on our journey home

Meter: Irregular Appears in 97 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Topics: Heaven

Light's Abode, Celestial Salem

Author: Thomas à Kempis, 1379?-1471; John Mason Neale,. 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 91 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-6 Topics: Funeral; Heaven; Trust Used With Tune: ALLELUIA, DULCE CARMEN

The City That's Coming Down

Author: A. F. I. Appears in 65 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 First Line: There’s a holy and beautiful city Refrain First Line: In that bright city, pearly white city Used With Tune: [There’s a holy and beautiful city]

In Heaven Above

Author: Laurentius Laurentii Laurinius; Johan Astrom; William Maccall Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 36 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: In heaven above, in heaven above Lyrics: 1 In heaven above, in beaven above, where God our Father dwells, how boundless there the blessèdness-- no tongue its greatness tells! There face to face, and full and free, the everlasting God we see, our God, the Lord of hosts! 2 In heaven above, in heaven above, what glory deep and bright! The splendor of the noonday sun grows pale before its light; that mighty Sun that ne’er goes down, before whose face clouds never frown, is God the Lord of hosts! 3 In heaven above, in heaven above, no tears of pain are shed; for nothing there can fade or die, life’s fullness round is spread; and, like an ocean, joy o’erflows, and with immortal mercy glows our God, the Lord of hosts! 4 In heaven above, in heaven above, God has a joy prepared, which mortal ear has never heard, nor mortal vision shared, which never entered mortal thought, in mortal dreams was never sought, O God, the Lord of hosts! Topics: The Christian Life Death and Eternal Life; Funerals; Funerals; God Transcendence; Heaven Used With Tune: I HIMMELEN

Great God, Your Love Has Called Us

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5 First Line: Great God, your love has called us here Lyrics: 1 Great God, your love has called us here as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear, though marred, dishonored, disobeyed. We come, with all our heart and mind your call to hear, your love to find. 2 Great God, in Christ you call our name and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right or claim, but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy seat and find you kneeling at our feet. 3 Then take the towel, and break the bread, and humble us, and call us friends. Suffer and serve till all are fed, and show how grandly love intends to work till all creation sings, to fill all worlds, to crown all things. 4 Great God, in Christ you set us free your life to live, your joy to share. Give us your Spirit's liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair and offer all that faith can do while love is making all things new. Topics: Jesus Christ Humility; Jesus Christ Humanity; Lord’s Supper Used With Tune: ST. PETERSBURG

Christ Is Risen! Shout Hosanna!

Author: Brian Wren, b. 1936 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 23 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5-6 Lyrics: 1 Christ is risen! Shout hosanna! Celebrate this day of days! Christ is risen! Hush in wonder: All creation is amazed. In the desert all-surrounding, See, a spreading tree has grown. Healing leaves of grace abounding Bring a taste of love unknown. 2 Christ is risen! Raise your spirits From the caverns of despair. Walk with gladness in the morning. See what love can do and dare. Drink the wine of resurrection, Not a servant, but a friend. Jesus is our strong companion. Joy and peace shall never end. 3 Christ is risen! Earth and heaven Nevermore shall be the same. Break the bread of new creation Where the world is still in pain. Tell its grim, demonic chorus: "Christ is risen! Get you gone!" God the First and Last is with us. Sing Hosanna, ev'ryone! Used With Tune: HOSANNA

No Burdens Yonder

Author: Ada R. Habershon Meter: 10.10.10.10.5.4.5.3 Appears in 18 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: No burdens yonder, not a single care Lyrics: 1 No burdens yonder, not a single care, When home is entered, not a load to bear; No burdens yonder, all will be laid down Before we share His glory and His throne. Refrain: No burdens yonder, All sorrow past; No burdens yonder, Home at last. 2 No trials yonder, all the testing done, The schooldays over and the prizes won; No much-tried faith like gold in furnace heat, The purifying will be all complete. [Refrain] 3 No toiling yonder, and no weariness, No disappointments, and no more distress; The future bright, the past all understood, We’ll see that all the way He led was good. [Refrain] 4 No parting yonder, and no sad goodbyes, No pain, no sickness, and no weeping eyes; But, best of all, my Savior I shall see, No cloud will come between my Lord and me. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [No burdens yonder, not a single care] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/No_Burdens_Yonder); Review and Herald Publishing Association, The Gospel in Song, 1926 (231)

Camina, pueblo de Dios (Walk on, O people of God)

Author: Cesáreo Gabaraín (1936-1991); George Lockwood Meter: 7.8.7.8 D with refrain Appears in 17 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21, 22:1-7 First Line: Mira allá en el Calvario (Look on Calvary's summit) Topics: Hymns and Spiritual Songs Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Used With Tune: NUEVA CREACIÓN

Lord, Bring the Day to Pass

Author: Ian Fraser Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1 Lyrics: 1 Lord, bring the day to pass when forest, rock and hill, the beasts, the birds, the grass will know your finished will: when we attain our destiny, and nature its lost unity. 2 Forgive our careless use of water, ore, and soil-- the plenty we abuse, supplied by others' toil: save us from making self our creed: turn us towards each other's need. 3 Give us, when we release creation's secret powers, to harness them for peace, our children's peace and ours: teach us the art of mastering which makes life rich and draws death's sting. 4 Creation groans, travails; futile its present plight, bound till the hour it hails the newfound heirs of light who enter on their true estate. Come, Lord! new heav'ns and earth create! Topics: In The Beginning The Earth is the Lord's Used With Tune: CAMANO

Now, from the Heav'ns Descending

Author: James Quinn Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:5 First Line: [Now, from the Heav'ns Descending] Text Sources: Praise for All Seasons (Selah, 1994)

Jamás Se Dice Adiós Allá

Author: Desconocido Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: Amigos con placer nos vemos Used With Tune: [Amigos con placer nos vemos]

Sing a New World into Being

Author: Mary Louise Bringle, 1953- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:3-4 Topics: Children; Church; Community; Compassion; Diversity; Grief; Home; Justice; Mission; Music; New Life in Christ; Transformation; Vision; World; Worth of All Persons Used With Tune: OFFERING

Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Author: John Fawcett, 1740-1817 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2,278 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 Lyrics: 1 Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above. 2 Before our Father’s throne we pour our ardent prayers; our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts and our cares. 3 We share our mutual woes, each other's burdens bear; and often for each other flows the sympathizing tear. 4 From sorrow, toil, and pain, and sin we shall be free; and perfect love and friendship reign through all eternity. Topics: Fellowship Used With Tune: DENNIS

Reigning Forever with God

Appears in 1,891 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 First Line: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, The beginning and the end. Topics: Scripture Readings

How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds

Author: John Newton (1725-1807) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,624 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:6 Lyrics: 1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear! It soothes our sorrows, heals our wounds, and drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, and calms the troubled breast; 'tis manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary rest. 3 Dear name! the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never-failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace. 4 Jesus, my Shepherd, Husband, Friend, my Prophet, Priest, and King, my Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring. 5 Weak is the effort of my heart, and cold my warmest thought; but, when I see thee as thou art, I'll praise thee as I ought. 6 Till then I would thy love proclaim with every fleeting breath; and may the music of thy name refresh my soul in death. Topics: Christ Risen Reign and Priesthood; Our Response to Christ In Devotion; Devotion; Jesus Name; Jesus Names and images for Used With Tune: ST. PETER

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Author: John Newton (1725-1807) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,296 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-6 Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God; he whose word cannot be broken formed thee for his own abode. On the rock of ages founded, what can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, thou mayest smile at all thy foes. 2 See! The streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply thy sons and daughters and all fear of want remove. Who can faint, when such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage? Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering -- showing that the Lord is near. Thus they march, the pillar leading, light by night, and shade by day; daily on the manna feeding which God gives them when they pray. 4 Saviour, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name. Fading is the world's best pleasure, all its boasted pomp or show: solid joys and lasting treasures none but Zion's children know. Topics: Bread; Church; Exodus; Praise of God; Water Used With Tune: AUSTRIA

Saints and angels ever praising God

Appears in 542 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1 First Line: Songs of praise the angels sang Topics: Introductory to Worship

Face to Face

Author: Carrie E. Breck Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 221 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: Face to face with Christ my Savior Refrain First Line: Face to face I shall behold him Lyrics: 1 Face to face with Christ my Savior, face to face-—what will it be when with rapture I behold him, Jesus Christ who died for me? [Refrain:] Face to face I shall behold him, far beyond the starry sky; face to face in all his glory, I shall see him by and by! 2 Only faintly now I see him, with the darkened veil between; but a blessèd day is coming when his glory shall be seen. (Refrain) 3 What rejoicing in his presence when are banished grief and pain, when the crooked ways are straightened and the dark things shall be plain. (Refrain) 4 Face to face! O blissful moment! Face to face—-to see and know; face to face with my Redeemer, Jesus Christ who loves me so. (Refrain) Topics: The Christian Life Death and Eternal Life; Funerals; Spiritual Conflict; Eternal Life; Funerals Used With Tune: FACE TO FACE

'Wake, awake! for night is flying'

Author: Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608); Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878) Appears in 217 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Lyrics: 1 'Wake, awake! for night is flying', the watchmen on the heights are crying. 'Awake, Jerusalem, at last!' Midnight hears the welcome voices, and at the thrilling cry rejoices: 'Come forth, you virgins, night is past! The Bridegroom comes; awake, your lamps with gladness take, Alleluia! and for his marriage feast prepare, for ye must go and meet him there.' 2 Zion hears the watchmen singing, and all her heart with joy is springing; she wakes, she rises from her gloom; for the Lord comes down all-glorious, the strong in grace, in truth victorious; her Star is risen, her Light is come! Now come, O blessèd One, God's own belovèd Son, Alleluia! We follow to the festal hall to sup with you, the Lord of all. 3 All the heavens and earth adore you, and saints and angels sing before you, with harp and cymbal's clearest tone; Zion's gates of pearl before us resound as angels sing in chorus and lead us to your dazzling throne. No mortal eye nor ear can comprehend or bear such great glory; but we rejoice and sing the song, Alleluia! through ages long. Topics: Christ Incarnate Promise of the Messiah; Christ Risen Coming Again; Angels; Jesus Names and images for Used With Tune: WACHET AUF

The Uncloudy Day

Author: Rev. J. K. Alwood Meter: 12.10.12.10 with refrain Appears in 206 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:4 First Line: O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies Refrain First Line: O the land of a cloudless day Lyrics: 1 O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies, O they tell me of a home far away; O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise; O they tell me of an uncloudy day. Refrain: O the land of cloudless day, O the land of an uncloudy day. O they tell me of a home where no storm-clouds rise, O they tell me of an uncloudy day. 2 O they tell me of a home where my friends have gone, O they tell me of that land far away, Where the tree of life in eternal bloom Sheds its fragrance through the uncloudy day. [Refrain] 3 O they tell me of a King in His beauty there, And they tell me that mine eyes shall behold Where He sits on the throne that is whiter than snow, In the city that is made of gold. [Refrain] 4 O they tell me that He smiles on His children there, And His smile drives their sorrows all away; And they tell me that no tears ever come again, In that lovely land of uncloudyday. [Refrain] Topics: Children of God; Everlasting Life; Jesus Christ His Glory and Power Used With Tune: UNCLOUDY DAY

How Bright These Glorious Spirits Shine

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 155 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1-7 Lyrics: 1 How bright these glorious spirits shine! Whence all their white array? How came they to the blissful seats of everlasting day? 2 Lo, these are they from sufferings great who came to realms of light, and in the blood of Christ have washed those robes which shine so bright. 3 Now, with triumphal palms, they stand before the throne on high, and serve the God they love, amidst the glories of the sky. 4 His presence fills each heart with joy, tunes every mouth to sing: by day, by night, the sacred courts with glad hosannas ring. 5 Hunger and thirst are felt no more, nor sun with scorching ray: God is their sun, whose cheering beams diffuse eternal day. 6 The Lamb which dwells amidst the throne shall o'er them still preside, feed them with nourishment divine, and all their footsteps guide. 7 To pastures green he'll lead his flock where living streams appear; and God the Lord from every eye shall wipe off every tear. Topics: Communion of Saints; Funeral; Heaven Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

No storm can shake my inmost calm

Author: Robert Lowry (1822-1899); Doris Plenn Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 144 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21:1 First Line: My life flows on in endless song Lyrics: 1 My life flows on in endless song above earth’s lamentation: I catch the sweet, though far off, hymn that hails a new creation. [Refrain:] No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that Rock I'm clinging. Since love is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing? 2 Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul -- how can I keep from singing? [Refrain] 3 What though my joys and comforts die? The Lord, my Saviour, liveth. What though the darkness round me close? Songs in the night he giveth. [Refrain] 4 The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing. All things are mine since I am his! How can I keep from singing? [Refrain] Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Devotion; Assurance; Despair and Trouble; Music and Song Used With Tune: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

No Night There

Author: John R. Clements Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 129 hymnals Scripture: Revelation 21 First Line: In the land of fadeless day Refrain First Line: God shall wipe away all tears Lyrics: 1 In the land of fadeless day Lies the city foursquare; It shall never pass away, And there is no night there. Refrain: God shall wipe away all tears, There’s no death, no pain, nor fears, And they count not time by years, For there is no night there. 2 All the gates of pearl are made, In the city foursquare; All the streets with gold are laid, And there is no night there. [Refrain] 3 All the gates shall never close To the city foursquare; There life’s crystal river flows, And there is no night there. [Refrain] 4 There they need no sunshine bright, In that city foursquare; For the Lamb is all the light, And there is no night there. [Refrain] Used With Tune: FADELESS DAY Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/No_Night_There)

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