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Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord

Author: John Mason Neale Meter: 10.10 Appears in 118 hymnals Lyrics: Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord, And drink the holy Blood for you outpoured. Saved by that Body and that holy Blood, With souls refreshed, we render thanks to God. Salvation's giver, Christ, the only Son, By his dear cross and Blood the victory won. Offered was he for greatest and for least Himself the Victim, and himself the Priest. 302 Victims were offered by the law of old, That in a type celestial mysteries told. He, Ransomer from death, and Light from shade Now gives his holy grace, his saints to aid. Approach ye then with faithful hearts sincere, And take the safeguard of salvation here. He, that his saints in this world rules and shields, To all believers life eternal yields; With heavenly bread makes them that hunger whole, Gives living waters to the thirsting soul. Alpha and Omega, to whom shall bow All nations at the doom, is with us now. Topics: Holy Communion Used With Tune: LAMMAS Text Sources: Latin, 7th cent.

Let the song go round the earth

Author: Sarah G. Stock Meter: 7.5.7.5.7.7 Appears in 45 hymnals Lyrics: Let the song go round the earth, Jesus Christ is Lord! Sound his praises, tell his worth, Be his Name adored; Every clime and every tongue Join the grand, the glorious song! Let the song go round the earth! From the eastern sea, Where the daylight has its birth, Glad, and bright, and free! China's millions join the strains, Waft them on to India's plains. Let the song go round the earth! Lands where Islam's sway Darkly broods o'er home and hearth, Cast their bonds away! Let his praise from Afric's shore Rise and swell her wide lands o'er. Let the song go round the earth! Where the summer smiles; Let the notes of holy mirth Break from distant isles! Inland forests, dark and dim, Icebound coasts give back the hymn. Let the song go round the earth, Jesus Christ is King! With the story of his worth Let the whole world ring! Him creation all adore Evermore and evermore. Topics: Missions; Sunday Schools Missions; Parochial Missions Used With Tune: MOEL LLYS

Easter flowers are blooming bright

Author: Mary A. Nicholson Meter: 7.7.7.6 Appears in 50 hymnals Lyrics: Easter flowers are blooming bright, Easter skies pour radiant light: Christ our Lord is risen in might, 520 Angels caroled this sweet lay, When in manger rude he lay; Now once more cast grief away, He, then born to grief and pain, Now to glory born again, Calleth forth our gladdest strain, As he riseth, rise we too, Tune we heart and voice anew, Offering homage glad and true, Glory in the highest. Amen. Topics: Easter Day; Carols; Sunday Schools Carols Used With Tune: GLORY IN THE HIGHEST

Before the ending of the day

Author: St. Ambrose, 340-397; John Mason Neale Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 65 hymnals Lyrics: Before the ending of the day, Creator of the world, we pray, That with thy wonted favor, thou Wouldst be our Guard and Keeper now. From all ill dreams defend our sight, From fears and terrors of the night; Withhold from us our ghostly foe, That spot of sin we may not know. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee, Doth live and reign eternally. Amen. Topics: Daily Prayer Evening Used With Tune: JAM LUCIS

Saw you never, in the twilight

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 85 hymnals Lyrics: Saw you never, in the twilight, When the sun had left the skies, Up in heaven the clear stars shining Through the gloom, like silver eyes? So of old the wise men, watching, Saw a little stranger star, And they knew the King was given, And they followed it from far. Heard you never of the story How they crossed the desert wild, Journeyed on by plain and mountain Till they found the holy Child? 515 How they opened all their treasure, Kneeling to that infant King; Gave the gold and fragrant incense, Gave the myrrh in offering? Know ye not that lowly baby Was the bright and morning Star? He who came to light the Gentiles, And the darkened isles afar? And we, too, may seek his cradle; There our hearts' best treasures bring; Love, and faith, and true devotion For our Savior, God, and King. Topics: Sundays after Trinity Faith; Epiphany; Carols; Sunday Schools Epiphanytide Used With Tune: THE WISE MEN

Angels sing His triumph as you sang His birth

Author: Phillips Brooks Appears in 71 hymnals First Line: God hath sent His angels to the earth again Lyrics: God hath sent his angels to the earth again, Bringing joyful tidings to the sons of men; They who first, at Christmas, thronged the heavenly way, Now beside the tomb-door, sit on Easter Day. Angels sing his triumph, as you sang his birth, "Christ, the Lord, is risen. Peace, goodwill on earth." In the dreadful desert, where the Lord was tried, There the faithful angels gathered at his side; And when in the garden, grief and pain and care Bowed him down with anguish, they were with him there. Yet the Christ they honor is the same Christ still, Who, in light and darkness, did his Father's will; And the tomb deserted shineth like the sky, Since he passed out from it into victory. God has still His angels, helping, at his word, All his faithful children, like their faithful Lord; Soothing them in sorrow, arming them in strife, Opening wide the tomb-doors, leading into life. Topics: Easter Day; Processional; Carols; Sunday Schools Carols Used With Tune: VEXILLUM

God is working his purpose out

Author: Arthur C. Ainger Meter: Irregular Appears in 93 hymnals Lyrics: God is working his purpose out, As year succeeds to year: God is working his purpose out, And the time is drawing near; 440 Nearer and nearer draws the time, The time that shall surely be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea. From utmost east to utmost west, Where'er man's foot hath trod, By the mouth of many messengers Goes forth the voice of God; Give ear to me, ye continents, Ye isles, give ear to me, That the earth may be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea. What can we do to work God's work, To prosper and increase The brotherhood of all mankind, The reign of the Prince of Peace? What can we do to hasten the time, The time that shall surely be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea. March we forth in the strength of God, With the banner of Christ unfurled, That the light of the glorious gospel of truth May shine throughout the world: Fight we the fight with sorrow and sin To set their captives free, That the earth may be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea. 441 All we can do is nothing worth, Unless God blesses the deed; Vainly we hope for the harvest-tide, Till God gives life to the seed; Yet nearer and nearer draws the time, The time that shall surely be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God As the waters cover the sea. Amen. Topics: Old and New Year; Missions; Processional; Sunday Schools Missions; Parochial Missions; Sunday Schools Used With Tune: BENSON

Not by Thy mighty hand

Author: James R. Woodford Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals Lyrics: Not by thy mighty hand, Thy wondrous works alone, But by the marvels of thy word, Thy glory, Lord, is known. Forth from the eternal gates, Thine everlasting home, To sow the seed of truth below, Thou didst vouchsafe to come. And still from age to age, Thou, gracious Lord, hast been The Bearer forth of goodly seed The Sower still unseen. And thou wilt come again, And heaven beneath thee bow, To reap the harvest thou hast sown, Sower and Reaper thou. Watch, Lord, thy harvest field With thine unsleeping eye, The children of the Kingdom keep To thy Epiphany; That when, in thy great day, The tares shall severed be, We may be surely gathered in With all thy saints to thee. Amen. Topics: Sundays after Epiphany Used With Tune: POTSDAM

Beneath the cross of Jesus

Author: Elizabeth C. Clephane Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 523 hymnals Lyrics: Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand, The shadow of a mighty rock Within a weary land; A home within the wilderness, A rest upon the way, From the burning of the noontide heat, And the burden of the day. Upon the cross of Jesus Mine eyes at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my smitten heart with tears These wonders I confess: The wonders of redeeming love, And my own worthlessness. I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place; I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of his face; Content to let the world go by, To know no gain nor loss, My sinful self my only shame, My glory all the cross. Topics: Holy Week; Visitation; Parochial Missions Used With Tune: CRUCIS UMBRA

Breathe on me, Breath of God

Author: Edwin Hatch Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 339 hymnals Lyrics: Breathe on me, Breath of God, Fill me with life anew, That I may love what thou dost love, And do what thou wouldst do. Breathe on me, Breath of God, Until my heart is pure, Until with thee I will one will, To do or to endure. Breathe on me, Breath of God, Till I am wholly thine, Till all this earthly part of me Glows with thy fire divine. Breathe on me, Breath of God, So shall I never die; But live with thee the perfect life Of thine eternity. Amen. Topics: Whitsunday; Confirmation Used With Tune: NOVA VITA