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Mortals Awake, with Angels Join

Author: Samuel Medley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 325 hymnals First Line: Mortals, awake, with angels join Lyrics: 1. Mortals, awake, with angels join, And chant the solemn lay, Joy, love, and gratitude combine, To hail the auspicious day, To hail the auspicious day. 2. In Heav’n the rapturous song began, And sweet seraphic fire Through all the shining legions ran, And strung and tuned the lyre, And strung and tuned the lyre. 3. Swift through the vast expanse it flew, And loud the echo rolled, The theme, the song, the joy, was new— ’Twas more than Heav’n could hold, ’Twas more than Heav’n could hold. 4. Down through the portals of the sky The impetuous torrent ran; And angels flew, with eager joy, To bear the news to man, To bear the news to man. 5. Hark! the cherubic armies shout, And glory leads the song: Good will and peace are heard throughout The harmonious heav’nly throng, The harmonious heav’nly throng. 6. With joy the chorus we repeat, Glory to God on high! Good will and peace are now complete, Jesus was born to die, Jesus was born to die. 7. Hail, Prince of Life, forever hail! Redeemer, Brother, Friend! Though earth, and time, and life shall fail Thy praise shall never end, Thy praise shall never end. Used With Tune: CHRISTMAS

The Savior! O What Endless Charms

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 276 hymnals Lyrics: 1. The Savior! O what endless charms, Dwell in the blissful sound! Its influence every fear disarms, And spreads sweet comforts round. 2. Here pardon, life and joys divine, In rich effusion flow, For guilty rebels, lost in sin, And doomed to endless woe. 3. Th’Almighty former of the skies Stooped to our vile abode; While angels viewed with wondering eyes, And hailed th’incarnate God. 4. O the rich depths of love divine, Of bliss, a boundless store! Dear Savior, let me call Thee mine— I cannot wish for more. Used With Tune: ST. ANDREW (Tans'ur)

Praise

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 132 hymnals First Line: Awake, awake the sacred song

When in the Night I Meditate

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 15 hymnals

What wond'rous love is this

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 256 hymnals

Lord, who throughout these forty days

Author: Claudia Frances Hernaman, 1838-1898 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 87 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Lord, who throughout these forty days for us didst fast and pray, teach us with thee to mourn our sins, and close by thee to stay. 2. As thou with Satan didst contend and didst the victory win, O give us strength in thee to fight, in thee to conquer sin. 3. As thou didst hunger bear and thirst, so teach us, gracious Lord, to die to self, and chiefly live by thy most holy word. 4. And through these days of penitence, and through thy Passiontide, yea, evermore, in life and death, Jesus! with us abide. 5. Abide with us, that so, this life of suffering overpast, an Easter of unending joy we may attain at last! Topics: Lent Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN

When Morning Lights the Eastern Skies

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Used With Tune: [When morning lights the eastern skies]

Was ever grief like thine

Author: Ch. Wesley; R. B. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Used With Tune: SOUTHWELL

O where are kings and empires now

Author: Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1818 - 96 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 303 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O where are kings and empires now Of old that went and came? But, Lord, thy Church is praying yet, A thousand years the same. 2 We mark her goodly battlements And her foundations strong: We hear, within, the solemn voice Of her unending song. 3 For not like kingdoms of the world Thy holy Church, O God, Though earthquake shocks are threatening her, And tempests are abroad; 4 Unshaken as eternal hills, Immovable she stands, A mountain that shall fill the earth, A house not made with hands. Topics: The Church The People of God; The Church The House of God Used With Tune: TALLIS' ORDINAL