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O How I Love Jesus

Author: Frederick Whitfield Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 569 hymnals First Line: There is a name I love to hear Lyrics: 1. There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; it sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest name on earth. Refrain: O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, O how I love Jesus, because he first loved me! 2. It tells me of a Savior's love, who died to set me free; it tells me of his precious blood, the sinner's perfect plea. [Refrain] 3. It tells of one whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe; who in each sorrow bears a part that none can bear below. [Refrain] Topics: The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Children's Choir Selections; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Love For; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ Name of; Testimony and Witness Used With Tune: O HOW I LOVE JESUS

Joy to the World

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,858 hymnals First Line: Joy to the world, the Lord is come 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 Savior reigns! Let all 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, wonders of his love. Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Joy; Opening Hymns Scripture: Psalm 98:4-9 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

America the Beautiful

Author: Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 506 hymnals First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Lyrics: 1 O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain; for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. 2 O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine. 3 O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. United Methodist Hymnal, 1989 Topics: National Hymns; Citizenship, Christian; Memorial Day; National Righteousness; Patriotic; Righteousness; Social Betterment; liturgical Scripture Songs

Keep Silence, All Created Things

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 202 hymnals First Line: Keep silence, all created things! Topics: God Providence of Used With Tune: ST. ANN'S

O Christ, Our Lord, Dear Son of God

Author: Calvin Seerveld Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Cross of Christ; Suffering of Christ; Lent; Blood of Christ; Confession of Sin; Cross of Christ; Suffering of Christ; Trinity; Wisdom Used With Tune: ORMEAU

While Shepherds Watched

Author: Nahum Tate Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,100 hymnals First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night Lyrics: 1 While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around. "Fear not," said he, for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind; "Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind. 2 "To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Savior, who is Christ the Lord; And this shall be the sign: The heav'nly Babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapt in swathing bands, And in a manger laid." 3 Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith Appeared a shining throng Of angels, praising God, who thus Addressed their joyful song: "All glory be to God most high, And to the earth be peace; Goodwill henceforth from heav'n to men Begin, and never cease." Topics: Jesus Christ Birth Used With Tune: NOEL

The Head, that once was crown'd with thorns

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 511 hymnals Used With Tune: FLENSBURG

How Shall I Meet Thee?

Author: Paul Gerhardt; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: How shall I meet Thee? How my heart Lyrics: 1. How shall I meet Thee? How my heart Receive her Lord aright? Desire of all the earth Thou art! My hope, my sole delight! Kindle the lamp, Thou Lord, alone, Half-dying in my breast, And make Thy gracious pleasure known How I may greet Thee best. 2. Her budding boughs and fairest palms Thy Zion strews around; And songs of praise and sweetest psalms From my glad heart shall sound. My desert soul breaks forth in flowers, Rejoicing in Thy fame; And puts forth all her sleeping powers, To honor Jesus’ name. 3. In heavy bonds I languished long, Thou com’st to set me free; The scorn of every mocking tongue— Thou com’st to honor me. A heavenly crown wilt Thou bestow, And gifts of priceless worth, That vanish not as here below The fading wealth of earth. 4. Naught, naught, dear Lord, has power to move Thee from Thy rightful place, Save that most strange and blessèd love Wherewith Thou dost embrace This weary world and all her woe, Her load of grief and ill And sorrow, more than man can know— Thy love is deeper still. 5. O write this promise in your hearts, Ye sorrowful, on whom Fall thickening cares, while joy departs And darker grows your gloom. Despair not, for your help is near, He standeth at the door Who best can comfort you and cheer, He comes, nor stayeth more. 6. Nor vex your souls with care, nor grieve And labor longer thus, As though your arm could ought achieve, And bring Him down to us. He comes, He comes with ready will By pity moved alone, To soothe our every grief and ill, For all to Him are known. 7. Nor ye, O sinners, shrink aside, Afraid to see His face, Your darkest sins our Lord will hide Beneath His pitying grace. He comes, He comes, to save from sin, And all its pangs assuage, And for the sons of God to win Their proper heritage. 8. Why heed ye then the craft and noise, The fury of His foes? Lo, in a breath the Lord destroys All who His rule oppose. He comes, He comes, as king to reign! And earthly powers may band Against Him, yet they strive in vain, His might may none withstand. 9. He comes to judge the earth, and ye Who mocked Him, feel His wrath; But they who loved and sought Him see His light o’er all their path. O Sun of Righteousness! arise, And guide us on our way To yon fair mansion in the skies Of joyous cloudless day. Used With Tune: KINGSFOLD Text Sources: D. M. Luthers und anderer vornehmen geistreichen und gelehrten Männer geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, by Christoph Runge (Berlin: 1653); translation in Chorale Book for England, 1863

Oh, Wondrous Name!

Author: Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Oh, wondrous name, by prophets heard Refrain First Line: The Wonderful! The Counselor! Lyrics: 1. Oh, wondrous name, by prophets heard Long years before His birth; They saw Him coming from afar, The Prince of Peace on earth. Refrain The Wonderful! The Counselor! The Great and Mighty Lord! The everlasting Prince of Peace! The King, the Son of God! 2. Oh, glorious name the angels praise And ransomed saints adore, The name above all other names, Our refuge evermore. [Refrain] 3. Oh, precious name, exalted high, To Him all power is giv’n; Through Him we triumph over sin, By Him we enter Heav’ [Refrain] Used With Tune: DOUGLAS