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Lord, Have Mercy When We Pray

Author: Henry H. Milman Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 27 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, have mercy when we pray, Strength to seek a better way; When our wakening thoughts begin First to loathe their cherished sin; When the earliest gleam is giv’n, Of the bright but distant Heav’n, Then Thy fostering grace afford, Then, oh, then! Have mercy, Lord. 2 Lord, have mercy when we know First how vain this world below; When its darker thoughts oppress, Doubts perplex, and fears distress; Sigh for death, yet fear it still, From the dread of future ill; When the dim, advancing gloom Tells us that our hour is come. 3 Lord, have mercy when we lie On the restless bed, and sigh— When our weary spirits fail, And our aching brows are pale; When all other hope is gone, When our course is almost done, When is loosed the silver cord— Then, oh, then! have mercy, Lord. Used With Tune: MADRID Text Sources: Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year by Reginald Heber (London: J. Murray, 1827)

What Good News The Angels Bring

Author: William Hammond Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 23 hymnals Lyrics: 1 What good news the angels bring, What glad tidings of our king! Christ the Lord is born today, Christ, who takes our sins away! He who rules both Heav’n and earth, Hath in Bethlehem His birth; Him shall all the people see, And rejoice eternally. 2 Lift your hearts and voices high, With hosannas fill the sky; "Glory be to God above," Who is infinite in love! "Peace on earth, good will to men!" Now with us our God is seen; Angels, join with us in praise! Help to sing redeeming grace. 3 Now the wall is broken down, Now the Gospel is made known; Now the door is open wide, Christ for Jew and Gentile died; All who feel the weight of sin, All who languish to be clean; All who for redemption groan, May be saved by faith alone. 4 Jesus is the lovely name: This the angel doth proclaim; He shall all His people save, They in Him remission have; When they see themselves undone, They take refuge in the Son; They shall all be born again, And with Him in glory reign. 5 Shout, ye nations of the earth, Sing the triumphs of His birth; All the world by Him is blest, Sound His praise from east to west; Jews and Gentiles jointly sing, Christ our common Lord and king; Christ, our life, our joy, our song, To eternity prolong! Used With Tune: MADRID Text Sources: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns by Samuel Jones and Burgis Allison (Philadelphia: R. Aitken & Son, 1790)

Come, children, join to sing

Author: Christian H. Bateman Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Appears in 131 hymnals Topics: Hymns for the Young The Son - His Praise Scripture: Matthew 21:15-16 Used With Tune: MADRID

Santa Biblia, para mí

Author: John Burton; Pedro Castro Appears in 36 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 119:11 Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN

Chief of Sinners

Author: McComb Appears in 89 hymnals First Line: Chief of sinners tho' I be Lyrics: 1 Chief of sinners tho' I be, Jesus shed his blood for me, Died that I might live on high, Died that I might never die; As the branch is to the vine, I am his, and he is mine. 2 O the height of Jesus' love! Higher than the heav'n above, Deeper than the deepest sea, Lasting as eternity; Love that found me wondrous tho't! Found me when I sought him not. 3 Chief of sinners tho' I be, Christ is all in all to me; All my wants to him are known, All my sorrows are his own; Safe with him from earthly strife, He sustains the hidden life. Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

Author: Jane E. Leeson Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 87 hymnals First Line: Christ the Lord is ris'n today Lyrics: 1 Christ the Lord is ris'n today, Christians, haste your vows to pay; Offer ye your praises meet At the Paschal Victim's feet. For the sheep the Lamb hath bled, Sinless in the sinner's stead; Christ is ris'n today, we cry: Now He lives, no more to die. 2 Christ, the Victim undefiled, Man to God hath reconciled, When, in strange and awful strife, Met together death and life. Christians, on this happy day, Haste with joy your vows to pay; Christ is ris'n today, we cry: Now He lives, no more to die. 3 Christ, who once for sinners bled, Now the first-born from the dead, Throned in endless might and pow'r, Lives and reigns for evermore. Hail, eternal Hope on high! Hail, Thou King of victory! Hail, Thou Prince of life adored! Help and save us, gracious Lord! Amen. Topics: The Church Year Easter; Processionals and Recessionals Easter Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN Text Sources: Wipo St. Gall Ms., ca. 1000

Our Words

Appears in 54 hymnals First Line: Words are things of little cost Lyrics: 1. Words are things of little cost, Quickly spoken, quickly lost; We forget them, but they stand Witnesses at God's right hand, And their testimony bear For us or against us there. 2. Oh, how often ours have been Idle words and words of sin! Words of anger, scorn, or pride, Or deceit, our faults to hide, Envious tales, or strife unkind, Leaving bitter thoughts behind. 3. Grant us, Lord, from day to day, Strength to watch and grace to pray: May our lips from sin kept free, Love to speak and sing of Thee; Till in heav'n we learn to raise Hymns of everlasting praise. Topics: Living His Life Kind Words Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN

Savior, When in Dust to Thee

Author: Robert Grant Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 445 hymnals Refrain First Line: Hear our solemn litany Lyrics: 1 Savior, when in dust to Thee Low we bow th'adoring knee, When, repentant, to the skies Scarce we lift our weeping eyes, Oh, by all Thy pains and woe Suffered once for man below, Bending from Thy throne on high, Hear our solemn litany! 2 By thy helpless infant years, By Thy life of want and tears, By Thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness, By the dread, mysterious hour Of th'insulting tempter's pow'r, Turn, O turn, a fav'ring eye, Hear our solemn litany! 3 By Thine hour of dire despair, By Thine agony of prayer, By the cross, the nail, the thorn, Piercing spear, and torturing scorn, By the gloom that veiled the skies O'er the dreadful sacrifice, Listen to our humble cry; Hear our solemn litany! 4 By Thy deep expiring groan, By the sad sepulchral stone, By the vault whose dark abode Held in vain the rising God, Oh, from earth to heav'n restored, Mighty, reascended Lord, Listen, listen to the cry, Hear our solemn litany! Amen. Topics: The Church Year Good Friday Scripture: Luke 18:13 Used With Tune: SPANISH CHANT

Come,ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford Appears in 738 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide That our wants are all supplied; Come to God's own temple, come; Raise the song of harvest home. 2 We ourselves are God's own field, Fruit unto His praise to yield; Wheat and tares together sown Unto joy or sorrow grown; First the blade and then the ear, Then the full corn shall appear; Lord of harvest, grant that we Wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, And shall take the harvest home; From His field shall purge away All that doth offend that day, Give his angels charge at last In the fire the tares to cast; But the fruitful ears to store In His garner evermore. 4 Even so, Lord! quickly come, To Thy final harvest home; Gather Thou Thy people in, Free from sorrow, free from sin, There, forever purified, In Thy presence to abide; Come, with all Thine angels, come, Raise the glorious harvest home. Topics: The Church Year Harvest Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN