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O Thou, who dost accord us

Author: Anon. Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Thou, who dost accord us The highest prize and guerdon, Thou hope of all our race, Jesus, do Thou afford us The gift we ask of pardon For all who humbly seek thy face. 2 With whispered accusation Our conscience tells of sinning In thought, and word, and deed; Thine is our restoration, The work of grace beginning For souls from every burden freed. 3 For who, if Thou reject us, Shall raise the fainting spirit? 'Tis thine alone to spare:' If Thou to life elect us, With cleanséd hearts to near it, Shall be our task, our lowly prayer. 4 O Trinity most glorious, Thy pardon free bestowing, Defend us evermore; That in Thy courts victorious, Thy love more truly knowing, We may with all Thy saints adore. Topics: The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Easter; The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Easter; Conversion Used With Tune: [O Thou, who dost accord us] Text Sources: (Latin 11th Century)

Thy word, O Lord, like gentle dews

Author: C.B. Garve Appears in 46 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thy word, O Lord, like gentle dews, Falls soft on hearts that pine; Lord, to Thy garden ne’er refuse This heavenly balm of Thine. Watered by Thee, let every tree Then blossom to Thy praise, By grace of Thine bear fruit divine, Through all the coming days. 2 Thy word is like a flaming sword, A wedge that cleaveth stone; Keen as a fire, so burns Thy word, And pierceth flesh and bone. Let it go forth o’er all the earth, To cleanse our hearts within, To show Thy power in Satan’s hour And break the night of sin. 3 Thy word, a wondrous guiding star, On pilgrim hearts doth rise, Leads those to God who dwell afar, And makes the simple wise. Let not its light e’er sink in night; In every spirit shine, That none may miss heaven’s final bliss, Led by Thy light divine. Topics: The Means of Grace The Word of God; The Means of Grace The Word of God; Close of Service; Word of God Used With Tune: [Thy word, O Lord, like gentle dews]

With trembling awe the chosen three

Author: W. W. How Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 With trembling awe the chosen three The holy mount ascended, Where, wrapped in blissful ecstacy, They saw the vision splendid-- Their Lord arrayed in living light, And on His left hand and His right, By glorious saints attended. 2 O vision bright, too bright to tell, The joys of heaven unveiling! How precious on those hearts it fell, When earthly hopes were failing; When, saints no more on either side, Between the thieves the Savior died 'Mid hate, and scorn, and railing! 3 Grant us, dear Lord, some vision brief Of future triumph telling, Gilding with hope our night of grief, Our clouds of fear dispelling. If the dim foretaste was so bright, O what shall be the dazzling light Of Thine eternal dwelling! Topics: The Church Year Sixth Sunday after Epiphany; The Church Year Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Used With Tune: [With trembling awe the chosen three]

The only Son from heaven

Author: Elizabeth Cruciger Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The only Son from heaven, Foretold by ancient seers, By God, the Father, given, In human form appears; No sphere His light confining, No star so brightly shining As He, our Morning Star. 2 O time of God appointed, O bright and holy morn! He comes, the King anointed, The Christ, the virgin-born; His home on earth He maketh, And man of heaven partaketh, Of life again an heir. 3 O Lord, our hearts awaken, To know and love Thee more, In faith to stand unshaken, In Spirit to adore, That we still heavenward hasting, Yet here Thy joy foretasting May reap its fulness there. Topics: The Church Year Third Sunday in Advent; The Church Year Third Sunday in Advent Used With Tune: [The only Son from heaven]

I sing to Thee with voice and heart

Author: P. Gerhardt Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I sing to Thee with voice and heart, Of all my joys the well; I sing, that, what I know Thou art My lips to all may tell: That Thou a fountain art of grace, With blessings richly stored For all, in every time and place, This well I know, O Lord. 2 Cheer up, faint heart, rejoice and sing, All anxious fear resign; For God, the sovereign Lord and King, Is Thy God, even thine: He is thy portion, He thy joy, Thy life, and light, and Lord; Thy counsellor when doubts annoy, Thy shield and great reward. 3 In restless thoughts or dark despair Why spend the day and night? On Him who loves thee cast thy care; He makes our burdens light: Did not His love, and truth, and power Watch o'er thy childhood's day? Hath He not oft, in threatening hour, Turned dreaded ills away? 4 His wisdom never plans in vain, Ne'er falters, or mistakes; All that His counsels wise ordain A happy ending makes: Upon thy mouth, then, lay thy hand, And trust His guiding eye; Thus, firm as rock, thy feet shall stand, Now and eternally. Topics: The Church Year Trinity Sunday; The Church Year Trinity Sunday; Trust in God Used With Tune: [I sing to Thee with voice heart]

O gracious Hand that freely gives

Author: A. T. Russell Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O gracious Hand that freely gives The fruit of earth, our toil to bless! O Love, by which the sinner lives, O let our tongue that love confess! 2 Our God for all our need provides; His sun alike o'er all doth shine; From none his glorious beams he hides; So rich, so free, His love divine. 3 Again this Love our garners fills; This love again let all adore: The cry of want His bounty stills, Who biddeth all His name implore. 4 O may our lives through grace abound, In holy fruits and Thee proclaim! Let all Thy courts with praises sound Thy gracious hand, Thy wondrous name. 5 Lord, when Thou shalt descend from heaven, Thy ransomed harvest here to reap: O in that day Thy joy be given To those who now go forth and weep. Topics: The Church Year Eighth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Seventh Sunday after Trinity; Providence Used With Tune: [O gracious Hand that freely gives]

Light of the Gentile nations

Author: J. Franck Appears in 36 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Light of the Gentile nations, Thy people’s joy and love! Drawn by Thy Spirit hither, We gladly come to prove Thy presence in Thy temple, And wait with earnest mind, As Simeon once had waited His Savior God to find. 2 Yes, Lord, Thy servants meet Thee, E’en now, in every place Where Thy true word hath promised, That they should see Thy face. Thou yet wilt gently grant us, Who gather round Thee here, In faith’s strong arms to bear Thee, As once that aged seer. 3 Be Thou our joy, our brightness, That shines ’mid pain and loss, Our sun in times of terror, The glory round our cross; A glow in sinking spirits, A sunbeam in distress, Physician, friend in sickness, In death our happiness. 4 Let us, O Lord, be faithful With Simeon to the end, That so his dying song may From all our hearts ascend; "O Lord, let now Thy servant Depart in peace for aye, Since I have seen my Savior, Have here beheld His day." 5 My Savior, I behold Thee Now with the eye of faith; No foe of Thee can rob me, Though bitter words he saith. Within my heart abiding As Thou dost dwell in me, No pain, no death has terrors To part my soul from Thee! Topics: The Church Year Sunday after Christmas; The Church Year Sunday after Christmas Used With Tune: [Light of the Gentile nations]

I know of a sleep in Jesus' name

Author: M. B. Landstad Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I know of a sleep in Jesus' name, A rest from all toil and sorrow; Earth folds in her arms my weary frame, And shelters it till the morrow; My soul is at home with God in heaven, Her sorrows are past and over. 2 I know of a peaceful eventide; And when I am faint and weary, At times with the journey sorely tried, Through hours that are long and dreary; Then often I yearn to lay me down, And sink into blissful slumber. 3 I know of a morning bright and fair, When tidings of joy shall wake us, When songs of from on high shall fill the air, And God to His glory take us, When Jesus shall bid us rise from sleep-- How joyous that hour of awaking! 4 O that is a morning dear to me, And oft, o'er the mountains streaming, In spirit its heavenly light I see, As golden the peaks are beaming; Then sing I for joy like birds at dawn That carol in lofty lindens. 5 God's Son to our graves then wends His way, His voice hear all tribes and nations; The portals are rent that guard our clay, And moved are the sea's foundations. He calls out aloud: "Ye dead, come forth!" In glory we rise to meet Him. 6 Now opens the Father's house above, The names of the blest are given: Lord, gather us there; let none we love Be missed in the joys of heaven. Vouchsafe Thou us all a place with Thee; We ask through our dear Redeemer. 7 O Jesus, draw near my dying bed, And take me into Thy keeping, And say when my spirit hence is fled; "This child is not dead, but sleeping." And leave me not, Savior, till I rise, To praise Thee in life eternal. Topics: The Church Year Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity; Resurrection Used With Tune: [I know of a sleep in Jesus' name]

Our Father, throned in heaven above

Author: J. Guthrie Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Our Father, throned in heaven above, All glory to Thy name of love! Thy kingdom come; Thy holy will May earth as well as heaven fulfill. 2 Give us this day our daily food, With all we need of promised good; And freely all our sins remit As we our debtors freely quit. 3 Defend us from the tempter's ways, Uphold when tried, when fallen raise: For power is Thine, and boundless reign, In glory evermore, Amen. Topics: Prayer and Praise; Worship in General Prayer and Praise; Worship in General Prayer and Praise; Praise and Prayer Used With Tune: [Our Father, throned in heaven above]

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay

Author: W. A. Muhlenberg Appears in 702 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way; The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. 2 I would not live alway, thus fettered by sin, Temptation without, and corruption within: E'en the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears, And the cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears. 3 I would not live alway; no, welcome the tomb: Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There sweet be my rest, till He bid me arise To hail Him in triumph descending the skies. 4 Who, who would live alway, away from his God; Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright plains, And the noontide of glory eternally reigns? 5 Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, Their Savior and brethren transported to greet, While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. Topics: The Last Things Preparation for Death; The Last Things Preparation for Death Used With Tune: [I would not live alway, I ask not to stay]