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What sweetness on Thine earth doth dwell!

Author: T. H. Gill Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: LOUVAN

The Turf Shall Be My Fragrant Shrine

Author: Thomas Moore Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 25 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The turf shall be my fragrant shrine, My temple, Lord! that arch of Thine; My censer’s breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. 2 My choir shall be the moonlight waves, When murmuring homeward to their caves, Or when the stillness of the sea, E’en more than music, breathes of Thee! 3 I’ll seek, by day, some glade unknown, All light and silence, like Thy throne; And all the pale stars shall be at night, The only eyes that watch my rite. 4 Thy Heaven, on which ’tis bliss to look, Shall be my pure and shining book, Where I shall read, in words of flame, The glories of Thy wondrous name. 5 I’ll read Thy anger in the rack That clouds awhile the day-beams track; Thy mercy in the azure hue Of sunny brightness breaking through! 6 There’s nothing bright, above, below, From flowers that bloom to stars that glow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of Thy deity. 7 There’s nothing dark, below, above, But in its gloom I trace Thy love, And meekly wait that moment, when Thy touch shall turn all bright again! Used With Tune: LOUVAN

O Risen Lord upon the throne

Author: Louis F. Benson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Installation of Pastor Used With Tune: [LOUVAN]

How Sweetly Flowed the Gospel Sound

Author: John Bowring Appears in 357 hymnals First Line: How sweetly flowed the gospel's sound Used With Tune: LOUVAIN

Mortality and Immortality

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Before my journey is complete Lyrics: 1 Before my journey is complete My vigor fails, my years decline; My God, O spare me, I entreat; The days of life are wholly Thine. 2 O cut not short my life's brief day, O thou Whose years eternal run, Thou Who didst earth's foundations lay, Creator of the stars and sun. 3 The earth and heav'ns shall pass away, Like vesture worn and laid aside, But changeless thou shalt live for aye, Thy years forever shall abide. 4 Thy servants' children shall remain For ever more before Thy face; Enduring honor they shall gain, Established ever in thy grace. Topics: Children Promises for; Death Deprecated; God Attributes of; God Creator of All; God Eternity of ; God Hearer of Prayer; God Immutability of; Grace Quickening; Grace Restoring; Grace Sustaining; Life Brevity and Uncertainty of; Parents and Children; Prayer Complaint in; Prayer For Deliverance from Death; Prayer For Deliverance from Trouble; Royalty of Christ Ultimate Acknowledgement of Scripture: Psalm 102 Used With Tune: LOUVAN

The Wondrous Cross

Appears in 1,998 hymnals First Line: When I survey the wondrous cross Topics: Our Lord Jesus Christ His Sufferings and Death Used With Tune: [When I survey the wondrous cross]

Ah! why should doubts and fears arise

Author: Anon. Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ah! why should doubts and fears arise, And sorrow fill my weeping eyes? Too slow, alas! the mind receives The comforts that the gospel gives. 2 O, for a strong, a lasting faith, To rest on what the Almighty saith! To heed the message of his Son, And calls the joys of heaven my own. 3 Then, should the earth's old pillars shake, And all the wheels of nature break, My steadfast soul would fear no more Than solid rocks when billows roar. Topics: The Christian Faith, Hope, and Charity Used With Tune: LOUVAN

Thy Praise, O God, In Zion Waits

Author: Jacob Kimball Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits; All flesh shall crowd Thy sacred gates, To offer sacrifice and prayer, And pay their willing homage there. 2 What tho’ iniquity prevail, And feeble flesh be prone to fail; Yet, Lord, Thy grace Thou wilt display, And purge each hateful stain away. 3 Blest is the man approved by Thee, And brought Thy holy courts to see! Goodness, immense and unconfined, Shall largely feast his longing mind. 4 Great God, by Thy almighty hand, The everlasting mountains stand: And every storm, and every flood, Obey Thy all commanding nod. 5 Thy lightnings flashing thro’ the skies, The wide earth fill with sad surprise; But cheered by Thy enlivening voice, Rising and setting suns rejoice. 6 From Thy vast, unexhausted stores, The earth is blest with kindly showers; And savage wilds and deserts drear, Confess Thee, Father of the year. 7 The flocks which graze the mountain’s brow, The corn which clothes the plains below, To every heart new transports bring, And hills and vales rejoice and sing. Used With Tune: LOUVAN Text Sources: Sacred Poetry by Jeremy Belknap (Boston: Apollo Press, 1795)

Lord of All Being, Throned Afar

Author: Oliver W. Holmes, 1809-1896 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 431 hymnals Topics: God--Majesty and Power Used With Tune: LOUVAN

'Twas the Commission of Our Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 104 hymnals Lyrics: 1. ’Twas the commission of our Lord, Go teach the nations, and baptize: The nations have received the word Since He ascended to the skies. 2. He sits upon th’eternal hills, With grace and pardon in His hands; And sends His cov’nant with the seals, To bless the distant darkened lands. [originally …the distant British lands] 3. Repent, and be baptized, He saith, For the remission of your sins: And thus our sense assists our faith, And shows us what His Gospel means. 4. Our souls He washes in His blood, As water makes the body clean; And the good Spirit from our God Descends like purifying rain. 5. Thus we engage ourselves to Thee, And seal our cov’nant with the Lord; O may the great eternal Three In Heav’n our solemn vows record! Used With Tune: LOUVAN Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707, alt.