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Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates

Author: Georg Weissel, 1590 - 1635; Catherine Winkworth, 1829 - 78 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #8b (1958) Lyrics: 1 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates; Behold the King of glory waits! The King of kings is drawing near; The Saviour of the world is here; Life and salvation he doth bring, Wherefore rejoice and gladly sing: We praise thee, Father, now, Creator, wise art thou. 2 The Lord is just, a helper tried, With mercy ever at his side; His kingly crown is holiness, His scepter, pity in distress, The end of all our woe he brings; Wherefore the earth is glad and sings: We praise thee, Saviour now, Mighty in deed art thou. A-men. 3 O blest the land, the city blest, Where Christ the Ruler is confest! O happy hearts and happy homes To whom this King of triumph comes! The cloudless Sun of joy he is, Who bringeth pure delight and bliss: O Comforter divine, What boundless grace is thine. 4 Redeemer, come! I open wide My heart to thee: here, Lord, abide! Let me thy inner presence feel: Thy grace and love in me reveal. The Holy Spirit guide us on, Until our glorious goal is won: Eternal praise and fame We offer to thy Name. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: MACHT HOCH DIE TUR

Prepare the way, O Zion!

Author: Augustus Nelson, 1863 - 1949; Frans Mikael Franzen, 1772-1847 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #9 (1958) Lyrics: 1 Prepare the way, O Zion! Ye awful deeps, rise high; Sink low, ye lofty mountains, The Lord is drawing nigh; The righteous King of glory, Foretold in sacred story. Refrain: O blest is he that came In God the Father's Name! 2 O Zion, he approaches, Your Lord and King for aye; Strew palms where he advances, Spread garments in his way; God's promise faileth never, Hosanna sound forever. [Refrain[ 3 Fling wide your portals, Zion, And hail your glorious King; His tidings of salvation To every people bring, Who, waiting still in sadness, Would sing his praise with gladness. [Refrain] 4 The throne which he ascended Is fixed in heaven above; His everlasting kingdom Is light and joy and love; Let us his praise be sounding For grace and peace abounding. [Refrain] Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: MESSIAH

The King shall come when morning dawns

Author: John Brownlie, 1859-1925 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #10 (1958) Lyrics: 1 The King shall come when morning dawns And light triumphant breaks; When beauty gilds the eastern hills And life to joy awakes. 2 Not as of old, a little child, To bear, and fight, and die; But crowned with glory like the sun That lights the morning sky. A-men. 3 The King shall come when morning dawns, And earth's dark night is past; O haste the rising of that morn, The day that aye shall last; 4 And let the endless bliss begin, By weary saints foretold, When right shall triumph over wrong, And truth shall be extolled. 5 The King shall come when morning dawns, And light and beauty brings: Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray, Come quickly, King of kings. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: FARRANT

O how shall I receive thee

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607 - 76; Composite Hymnal: SBHC1958 #11 (1958) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 O how shall I receive thee, How greet thee, Lord, aright? All nations long to see thee, My Hope, my heart's delight! O kindle, Lord most holy, Thy lamp within my breast, To do in spirit lowly All that may please thee best. 2 Thy Zion palms is strewing, And branches fresh and fair; My heart, its powers renewing, An anthem shall prepare. My heart, its powers renewing, An anthem shall prepare. With all her strength and gladness She fain would serve thy Name. 3 Love caused thine incarnation, Love brought thee down to me; Thy thirst for my salvation Procured my liberty. O love beyond all telling That led thee to embrace, In love all love excelling, Our lost and fallen race. 4 Rejoice, then, ye sad-hearted, Who sit in deepest gloom, Who mourn o'er joys departed And tremble at your doom, He who alone can cheer you Is standing at the door; He brings his pity near you, And bids you weep no more. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: ST. THEODULPH (VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN)

Comfort, comfort ye, my people

Author: Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78; Johannes Olearius, 1611 - 84 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #12 (1958) Lyrics: 1 Comfort, comfort ye, my people, Speak ye peace, thus saith our God; Comfort those who sit in darkness, Bowed beneath their sorrow's load; Of the peace that waits for them Speak ye to Jerusalem; Tell her that her sins I cover, And her warfare now is over. 2 For the herald's voice is crying In the desert far and near, Biding all men to repentance, Since the kingdom now is here. O, that warning cry obey! Now prepare for God a way; Let the valleys rise to meet him, And the hills bow down to greet him. 3 Make ye straight what long was crooked, Make the rougher places plain; Let your hearts be true and humble, As befits his holy reign; For the glory of the Lord Now o'er earth is shed abroad, And all flesh shall see the token That his word is never broken. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: PSALM 42 (FREU DICH SEHR)

Lo! he comes with clouds descending

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #13 (1958) Lyrics: 1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending, Once for favored sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending Swell the triumph of his train: Alleluia! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold him Robed in glorious majesty; Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nailed him to the Tree, Deeply wailing, Shall their true Messiah see. A-men. 3 Those dear tokens of his passion Still his dazzling body bears; Cause of wondering exultation To his ransomed worshippers; With what rapture Praise we him for all his scars. 4 Yea, amen, let all adore thee, High on thine eternal throne; Saviour, take the power and glory, Claim the kingdom as thine own: Alleluia! Thou shalt reign, and thou alone! Amen. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: STORL

Rejoice, all ye believers

Author: Sarah Borthwick Findlater, 1823 - 1907; Laurentius Laurenti, 1660-1722 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #14 (1958) Lyrics: 1 Rejoice, all ye believers, And let your lights appear; The evening is advancing And darker night is near; The Bridegroom is arising, And soon he draweth nigh; Up, pray, and watch, and wrestle, At midnight comes the cry! 2 The watchers on the mountain Proclaim the Bridegroom near; Go meet him as he cometh With hallelujahs clear; The marriage-feast is waiting, The gates wide open stand; Up, up ye heirs of glory, The Bridegroom is at hand! A-men. 3 Ye saints, who here in patience Your cross and sufferings bore, Shall live and reign for ever When sorrow is no more. Around the throne of glory The Lamb ye shall behold, In triumph cast before him Their diadems of gold! 4 Our hope and expectation, O Jesus, now appear; Arise, thou Sun so longed for, O'er this benighted sphere! With hearts and hands uplifted, We plead, O Lord, to see The day of earth's redemption That brings us unto thee! A-men. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Advent Languages: English Tune Title: VIGIL

Joy to the world! the Lord is come

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #15 (1958) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness, And wonders of his love, And wonders of his love, And wonders, and wonders of his love. Topics: The Church Year Advent; The Church Year Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: ANTIOCH

Silent night, holy night

Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792 - 1849; Unknown Hymnal: SBHC1958 #16 (1958) Lyrics: 1 Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant, so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night, holy night, Shepherds quake at the sight; Glories stream from heaven afar, Heavenly hosts sing, Alleluia, Christ, the Saviour, is born! 3 Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love's pure light Radiant beams from thy holy face, With the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth. Topics: The Church Year Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: STILLE NACHT

Of the Father's love begotten

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66; Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-413; Henry Williams Baker, 1821-77 Hymnal: SBHC1958 #17a (1958) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 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 for ever blessed, When the Virgin, full of grace, By the Holy Ghost conceiving, Bare the Saviour of our race; And the Babe, the world's Redeemer, First revealed his sacred face, Evermore and evermore. A-men. 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 O ye 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 thee, with God the Father, And, O Holy Ghost, to thee, Hymn and chant and high thanksgiving, And unwearied praises be: Honor, glory, and dominion, And eternal victory, Evermore and evermore. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (CORDE NATUS EX PARENTIS)