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From the Depths Do I Invoke Thee

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 44 hymnals Lyrics: 1. From the depths do I invoke Thee, Lord, to me incline Thine ear; To my voice be Thou attentive, And my supplications hear. 2. Lord, if Thou shouldst mark transgressions, In Thy presence who shall stand? But with Thee there is forgiveness, That Thy name may fear command. 3. For Jehovah I am waiting And my hope is in His Word; In His Word of promise given, Yea, my soul waits for the Lord. 4. For the Lord my soul is waiting More than watchers in the night; More than they for morning watching, Watching for the morning light. 5. Hope in God, ye waiting people, Mercies great in Him abound; With the Lord a full redemption From the guilt of sin is found. Scripture: Psalm 130 Used With Tune: EVENING PRAYER (Stebbins) Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 363

Laden with Guilt, and Full of Fears

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 192 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Laden with guilt, and full of fears, I fly to Thee, my Lord, And not a glimpse of hope appears But in Thy written Word. 2. The volume of my Father’s grace Does all my griefs assuage; Here I behold my Savior’s face Almost in every page. 3. This is the field where hidden lies The pearl of price unknown; That merchant is divinely wise Who makes the pearl his own. 4. Here consecrated water flows To quench my thirst of sin; Here the fair tree of knowledge grows, Nor danger dwells therein. 5. This is the Judge that ends the strife Where wit and reason fail, My guide to everlasting life Through all this gloomy vale. 6. O may Thy counsels, mighty God, My roving feet command; Nor I forsake the happy road That leads to Thy right hand. Used With Tune: ST. SAVIOUR (Baker) Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1709

Great God, And Wilt Thou Condescend?

Author: Ann T. Gilbert Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 106 hymnals First Line: Great God! and wilt Thou condescend Lyrics: 1 Great God! and wilt Thou condescend To be my father and my friend? I but a child—and Thou so high, The Lord of earth and air and sky! 2 Art Thou my father? Let me be A meek, obedient child to Thee; And try, in word and deed and thought, To serve and please Thee as I ought. 3 Art Thou my father? I’ll depend Upon the care of such a friend; And only wish to do and be Whatever seemeth good to Thee. 4 Art Thou my father? Then, at last, When all my days on earth are past, Send down, and take me, in Thy love, To be Thy better child above. Used With Tune: HOLLEY Text Sources: Hymns for Infant Minds

The Battle of Calvary

Author: Neil Barham Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Great Apollyon, grim and awful Lyrics: 1. Great Apollyon, grim and awful, steeped in gore and stained in blood— Death, with all his fearsome forces, has besieged the Son of God. Satan, clothed with evil armor, darkly gleaming, proud and cold— Merciless, he joins the battle, armed and clad with pow’r untold. 2. Bowed beneath demonic onslaughts, Jesus fights His awesome duel! Pain devours its Holy Victim, searing, savage, raging, cruel! Eager waits the Mouth of Sheol, huge, insatiable, and strong! Maw agape, the Grave yearns after Holy Flesh—but not for long. 3. Writhing under Law’s most fearsome curse, ruined, lost, polluted, wrecked; Languishing in Satan’s prison lie the souls of God’s elect. At the Cross—desire of Hell! —Christ gives up that final Breath: Now, at last, the choicest Captive tastes the mortal sting of Death! 4. Darkness falls; the seething smoke of Hell cloaks the battlefield from view. Down the head of God has fallen: Law and Wrath receive their due! Satan smiles in seeming triumph, reaching out, his Prize to take. Three brief days all Hell rejoices— then the stone begins to shake! 5. Now the night of wrong is ended; now the Grave has lost its Prize! Now the Ris’n One breaks the back of Sin: There! Behold! See how Death dies! Resurrection Light now scatters Satan’s armies from the field. Christ has drawn the fearful sting of Death: Sheol and Abaddon yield! 6. At His Glance the mighty prison built by Law and Sin falls down! Countless in their thousand thousands, all His Ransomed praise His Crown! Heav’n and Hell’s astonished spirits in their joy and rage all stare At the Victor of the Cross who won His greatest Battle there. Used With Tune: BLAENHAFREN

Cast Thy Burden on the Lord

Author: Rowland Hill Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 188 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Cast thy burden on the Lord, Only lean upon His Word; Thou wilt soon have cause to bless His eternal faithfulness. 2. He sustains thee by His hand, He enables thee to stand; Those whom Jesus once hath loved From His grace are never moved. 3. Human counsels come to naught; That shall stand which God hath wrought; His compassion, love, and power, Are the same forevermore. 4. Heav’n and earth may pass away, God’s free grace shall not decay; He hath promised to fulfill All the pleasure of His will. 5. Jesus, guardian of Thy flock, Be Thyself our constant rock; Make us, by Thy powerful hand, Strong as Zion’s mountain stand. Used With Tune: MERCY Text Sources: Psalms and Hymns, 1783

Come, Let Us Join Our Friends Above

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 346 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, let us join our friends above, who have obtained the prize, And on the eagle wings of love to joys celestial rise. Let saints on earth unite to sing with those to glory gone, For all the servants of our king in earth and Heaven are one. 2. One family we dwell in Him, one church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, the narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, to His command we bow; Part of His host have crossed the flood, and part are crossing now. 3. Ten thousand to their endless home this solemn moment fly, And we are to the margin come, and we expect to die. His militant embodied host, with wishful looks we stand, And long to see that happy coast, and reach the heavenly land. 4. Our old companions in distress we haste again to see, And eager long for our release, and full felicity: Even now by faith we join our hands with those that went before; And greet the blood besprinkled bands on the eternal shore. 5. Our spirits too shall quickly join, like theirs with glory crowned, And shout to see our captain’s sign, to hear His trumpet sound. O that we now might grasp our guide! O that the word were given! Come, Lord of Hosts, the waves divide, and land us all in Heaven. Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN Text Sources: Funeral Hymns, 1759

Jesus, While Our Hearts Are Bleeding

Author: Thomas Hastings Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 140 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Jesus, while our hearts are bleeding O’er the spoils that death has won, We would at this solemn meeting Calmly say, Thy will be done. 2. Though cast down, we’re not forsaken, Though afflicted, not alone; Thou didst give, and Thou hast taken; Blessèd Lord, Thy will be done. 3. Though today we’re filled with mourning, Mercy still is on the throne; With Thy smiles and love returning, We can sing, Thy will be done. 4. By Thy hands the boon was given; Thou hast taken but Thine own; Lord of earth, and God of Heaven, Evermore, Thy will be done. Used With Tune: BATTY Text Sources: Mother's Hymn Book, 1834

Sweet Is The Friendly Voice Which Speaks

Author: Thomas Jervis Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 53 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Sweet is the friendly voice which speaks The words of life and peace; Which bids the penitent rejoice, And sin and sorrow cease. 2 No healing balm on earth like this Can cheer the contrite heart; No flattering dreams of earthly bliss Such pure delight impart. 3 Thou still art merciful and kind; Thy mercy, Lord, reveal: The broken heart ’tis Thou canst bind, The wounded spirit heal. 4 Let Thy bright presence, Lord, restore Peace to my anxious breast: Conduct me in the path that leads To everlasting rest. Used With Tune: BROWN Text Sources: A Collection of Hymns and Psalms for Public and Private Worship (London, 1795)

Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest

Author: Rhabanus Maurus; Richard Mant Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 283 hymnals First Line: Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest Lyrics: 1. Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, Vouchsafe within our souls to rest; Come with Thy grace and heav’nly aid, And fill the hearts which Thou hast made. 2. To Thee, the Comforter, we cry; To Thee, the gift of God most high; The fount of life, the fire of love, The soul’s Anointing from above. 3. The sev’nfold gifts of grace are Thine; O finger of the hand divine; True promise of the Father Thou, Who dost the tongue with speech endow. 4. Thy light to every sense impart, And shed Thy love in every heart; Thy own unfailing might supply To strength our infirmity. Used With Tune: MENDON Text Sources: Translation in Ancient Hymns, 1837

The Day of Resurrection

Author: John of Damascus, 675-749; John M. Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 518 hymnals First Line: The day of resurrection! Lyrics: 1. The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; The Passover of gladness, the Passover of God. From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over, with hymns of victory. 2. Our hearts be pure from evil, that we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal of resurrection light; And listening to His accents, may hear, so calm and plain, His own All hail! and, hearing, may raise the victor strain. 3. Now let the heavens be joyful! Let earth the song begin! Let the round world keep triumph, and all that is therein! Let all things seen and unseen their notes in gladness blend, For Christ the Lord hath risen, our joy that hath no end. Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE