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Through the Heart of Every City
Author: Sylvia Dunstan Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: City/City of God Used With Tune: HERMON
Through the Heart of Every City
Shall We Gather at the River
Author: Robert S. Lowry Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 750 hymnals Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Completion of Creation and City of God; City/City of God Refrain First Line: Yes, we'll gather at the river Lyrics: 1 Shall we gather at the river,
where bright angel feet have trod;
with its crystal tide forever
flowing by the throne of God?
Refrain:
Yes, we'll gather at the river,
the beautiful, the beautiful river;
gather with the saints at the river
that flows by the throne of God.
2 Ere we reach the shining river,
lay we every burden down;
grace our spirits will deliver,
and provide a robe and crown. [Refrain]
3 Soon we'll reach the shining river,
soon our pilgrimage will cease,
soon our happy hearts will quiver
with the melody of peace. [Refrain] Used With Tune: HANSON PLACE
Shall We Gather at the River
City of God
Author: Dan Schutte, b. 1947 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: City of God First Line: Awake from your slumber Refrain First Line: Let us build the city of God Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-2 Used With Tune: [Awake from your slumber]
City of God
City of God, how broad and far
Author: Samuel Johnson, 1822 - 82 Appears in 166 hymnals Topics: City, Nation, World Lyrics: 1 City of God, how broad and far
Outspread thy walls sublime!
The true thy chartered freemen are
Of every age and clime:
2 One holy Church, one army strong,
One steadfast, high intent,
One working band, one harvest-song,
One King Omnipotent.
3 How purely hath thy speech come down
From man's primeval youth!
How grandly hath thine empire grown
Of freedom, love, and truth!
4 How gleam thy watch-fires through the night
With never-fainting ray!
How rise thy towers, serene and bright,
To meet the dawning day!
5 In vain the surge's angry shock,
In vain the drifting sands;
Unharmed upon the eternal Rock
The eternal city stands.
Used With Tune: RICHMOND (CHESTERFIELD)
City of God, how broad and far
The City Is Alive, O God
Author: William W. Reid Jr Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: City Lyrics: 1 The city is alive, O God,
with sound of hustling feet,
with rapid change and flashing lights
that pulse through every street;
but oft there's inhumanity
behind the bright facade,
and throngs with empty, hungering hearts
cry out for help, O God.
2 Is it your will, O loving God,
that races live in strife,
that loneliness and greed and hate
should mark a city's life?
Do you desire one person's wealth
to keep another poor?
Must crime and slums and lust abound?
O Lord, is there no cure?
3 In Galilee the people heard
your servant Christ declare
through healing touch, through word and cross,
the good news of your care.
He said your heart touched every heart
that longed for peace and right,
that those bowed down by burdens borne
could find your life, your light.
4 O God, inspire your church today
to take Christ's servant role,
to love the world, to hear its claims
to sense its yearning soul,
to live within the marketplace,
to serve both weak and strong,
to lose itself, to share its dream,
to give the world its song. Scripture: Matthew 10:39 Used With Tune: STAR OF COUNTY DOWN
The City Is Alive, O God
Will Your Anchor Hold
Author: Priscilla Jane Owens Meter: 10.9.10.9 with refrain Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: City/City of God First Line: Will your anchor hold in the storms of life? Refrain First Line: We have an anchor that keeps the soul Lyrics: 1 Will your anchor hold in the storms of life?
When the clouds unfold their wings of strife,
when the strong tides lift and the cables strain,
will your anchor drift or firm remain?
[Refrain:]
We have an anchor that keeps the soul
steadfast and sure while the billows roll,
fastened to the Rock which cannot move,
grounded firm and deep in the Saviour’s love!
2 It will surely hold in the straits of fear,
when the breakers tell and the reef is near;
though the tempest rave and the wild winds blow,
not an angry wave shall our bark o'erflow? [Refrain]
3 It will surely hold in the floods of death,
when the waters cold chill our latest breath;
on the rising tide you can never fail
while our hopes abide within the veil. [Refrain]
4 When our eyes behold, through the gathering night,
the city of gold, our harbour bright,
we shall anchor fast by the heavenly shore,
with the storms all past for evermore. [Refrain] Used With Tune: WILL YOUR ANCHOR HOLD
Will Your Anchor Hold
Thou, by heavenly hosts adored
Author: Henry Harbaugh, 1817 - 67 Appears in 49 hymnals Topics: Church Life and Work City, Nation, World Lyrics: 1 Thou, by heavenly hosts adored,
Gracious, mighty, sovereign Lord,
God of nations, King of kings,
Head of all created things,
By the Church with joy confest,
God o'er all for ever blest;
Pleading at thy throne we stand:
Save thy people, bless our land.
2 From all public sin and shame,
From ambition's grasping aim,
From rebellion, war and death,
From the pestilential breath,
From dread famine's awful stroke,
From oppression's galling yoke,
From the judgments of thy hand:
Spare thy people, spare our land.
3 Let our rulers ever be
Men that love and honor thee;
Let the powers by thee ordained
Be in righteousness maintained;
In the people's hearts increase
Love of piety and peace;
Thus united, we shall stand
One wide, free, and happy land.
Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S, WINDSOR
Thou, by heavenly hosts adored
O Holy City, Seen of John
Author: Walter Russell Bowie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 89 hymnals Topics: New Heaven and a New Earth The Completion of Creation (The City of God) Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John,
where Christ, the Lamb, doth 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 Hark, how from men whose lives are held
more cheap than merchandise,
from women struggling sore for bread,
from little children's cries,
there swells the sobbing human plaint
that bids thy walls arise.
3 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 hath died in vain!”
4 Give us, O God, the strength to build
the city that hath stood
too long a dream, whose laws are love,
whose crown is servanthood,
and where the sun that shineth is
God’s grace for human good.
5 Already in the mind of God
that city riseth fair:
lo, how its splendor challenges
the souls that greatly dare;
yea, bids us seize the whole of life
and build its glory there.
Scripture: Revelation 21 Used With Tune: MORNING SONG
O Holy City, Seen of John
Here in the Busy City
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: City Scripture: Matthew 5:13 Used With Tune: MUNICH
Here in the Busy City
No Night There
Author: John R. Clements Appears in 127 hymnals Topics: The Home Eternal City of God 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 four-square,"
It shall never pass away,
And there is "no night there.
Chorus:
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 four-square,"
All the streets with gold are laid,
And there is "no night there." [Chorus]
3. And the gates shall never close
To "the city four-square,"
There life's crystal river flows,
And there is "no night there." [Chorus]
4. There they need no sunshine bright,
In "that city four-square,"
For the Lamb is all the light,
And there is "no night there." [Chorus] Used With Tune: [In the land of fadeless day]
No Night There
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