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The Summons

Author: John Bell Meter: 13.13.7.7.13 Appears in 42 hymnals Matching Instances: 37 First Line: Will you come and follow me if I but call your name? Topics: Grace Invitation Used With Tune: KELVINGROVE

Will You Come and See the Light

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 12.12.14.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Will you come and see the light from the stable door? Lyrics: 1 Will you come and see the light from the stable door? It is shining newly bright, though it shone before. It will be your guiding star, it will show you who you are. Will you hide, or decide to meet the light? 2 Will you step into the light that can free the slave? It will stand for what is right, it will heal and save. By the pyramids of greed there's a longing to be freed. Will you hide, or decide to meet the light? 3 Will you tell about the light in the prison cell? Though it's shackled out of sight, it is shining well. When the truth is cut and bruised, and the innocent abused, will you hide, or decide to meet the light? 4 Will you join the hope, alight in a young girl's eyes, of the mighty put to flight by a baby's cries? When the lowest and the least are the foremost at the feast, will you hide, or decide to meet the light? 5 Will you travel by the light of the babe new born? In the candle lit at night there's a gleam of dawn, and the darkness all about is too dim to put it out: will you hide, or decide to meet the light? Topics: The Christian Year Epiphany; Christian Year Epiphany; Feast; Freedom; Healing; Hope; Light; Prisoner(s); Star(s); Traveller; Advent 2 Year B; Proper 23 Year B; New Year Year ABC Used With Tune: KELVINGROVE

When you prayed beneath the trees

Author: Christopher Idle, b. 1938 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Topics: The Faithful Christ: Lent and Temptation; Jesus Christ the Suffering Servant: The Passion and The Cross; Jesus Christ: Prophet, Priest and King Scripture: 1 Peter 2:24-25; 3; 4 Used With Tune: KELVINGROVE

God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 13.13.7.7.13 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart for an empire, unbelieving as it falls apart, when your thunder goes unheard, we will tend the prophet's word, and in season, out of season, we will sing your song. 2 When our wound is left to fester, though the pain goes deep, when we've sown a hundred whirlwinds, but have yet to reap, when the platitudes of peace only make our fears increase, with a poem and a story we will sing your song. 3 When the palace looks at poverty with scornful eyes, when the scroll of truth is shredded by a leader's lies, when the glory of the cross is a propaganda gloss, in the square and in the senate we will sing your song. 4 We will break the jar of plenty by the gates of gold, we will buy a field of promise when the farm is sold, at the ending of the dream, in the death of self esteem, at the bank and in the market we will sing your song. 5 We will praise the grainy granite of the Law's demands, and the Life-creating, Lover-God with wounded hands; we will spin your story-line to an empire in decline and in exile or in honour we will sing your song. Topics: Law of God; Music; National Life; Proclamation: Witness; Social Justice; Suffering; Witness to Community Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Used With Tune: KELVIN GROVE