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God of Our Fathers, Known of Old

Author: Rudyard Kipling, 1861-1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 228 hymnals Matching Instances: 18 Refrain First Line: Lest we forget, Lest we forget Topics: World Friendship and Peace Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Words from "The Five Nations," by Rudyard Kipling.

Lord God of hosts, whose mighty hand

Author: John Oxenham Appears in 24 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET

God of Our Youth, to Whom We Yield

Author: William Byron Forbush, 1868-1928, alt. Appears in 15 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Topics: School and College Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET

Father, Behold Us Gathered Here

Author: Kees Boeke, 1884-1966 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Refrain First Line: O Father, help us here below Topics: Church; Discipleship; Expectation; Guidance; Peace; Repentance and Forgiveness; Suffering Used With Tune: [Father, behold us gathered here]

Peace, Doubting Heart!

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 46 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Peace, doubting heart! my God's I am Lyrics: 1. Peace, doubting heart! my God’s I am; Who formed me man, forbids my fear; The Lord hath called me by my name; The Lord protects, for ever near; His blood for me did once atone, And still He loves and guards His own. 2. When passing through the watery deep, I ask in faith His promised aid, The waves all awful distance keep, And shrink from my devoted head; Fearless their violence I dare; They cannot harm, for God is there! 3. To Him mine eye of faith I turn, And through the fire pursue my way; The fire forgets its power to burn, The lambent flames around me play; I own His power, accept the sign, And shout to prove the Savior mine. 4. Still nigh me, O my Savior, stand! And guard in fierce temptation’s hour; Hide in the hollow of Thy hand, Show forth in me Thy saving power, Still be Thy arms my sure defense, Nor earth nor hell shall pluck me thence. 5. Since Thou hast bid me come to Thee, Good as Thou art, and strong to save I’ll walk o’er life’s tempestuous sea, Upborne by the unyielding wave, Dauntless, though rocks of pride be near, And yawning whirlpools of despair. 6. When darkness intercepts the skies, And sorrow’s waves around me roll, When high the storms of passion rise, And half o’erwhelm my sinking soul, My soul a sudden calm shall feel, And hear a whisper, Peace; be still! 7. Though in affliction’s furnace tried, Unhurt on snares and death I’ll tread; Though sin assail, and hell, thrown wide, Pour all its flames upon my head, Like Moses’ bush, I’ll mount the higher, And flourish unconsumed in fire. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739

Is This A Time To Plant And Build?

Author: John Keble Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Is this a time to plant and build Lyrics: 1 Is this a time to plant and build, Add house to house, and field to field, When round our walls the battle lowers, When mines are hid beneath our towers, And watchful foes are stealing round To search and spoil the holy ground? 2 Is this a time for moonlight dreams Of love and home by mazy streams, For Fancy with her shadowy toys, Aërial hopes and pensive joys, While souls are wandering far and wide, And curses swarm on every side? 3 No—rather steel thy melting heart To act the martyr’s sternest part, To watch, with firm unshrinking eye, Thy darling visions as they die, Till all bright hopes, and hues of day, Have faded into twilight gray. 4 Yes—let them pass without a sigh, And if the world seem dull and dry, If long and sad thy lonely hours, And winds have rent thy sheltering bowers, Bethink thee what thou art and where, A sinner in a life of care. 5 The fire of God is soon to fall (Thou know’st it) on this earthly ball; Full many a soul, the price of blood, Marked by th’ Almighty’s hand for good, To utter death that hour shall sweep— And will the saints in Heaven dare weep? 6 Then in His wrath shall God uproot The trees He set, for lack of fruit, And drown in rude tempestuous blaze The towers His hand had deigned to raise; In silence, ere that storm begin, Count o’er His mercies and thy sin. 7 Pray only that thine aching heart, From visions vain content to part, Strong for Love’s sake its woe to hide May cheerful wait the Cross beside, Too happy if, that dreadful day, Thy life be given thee for a prey. 8 natched sudden from th’ avenging rod, Safe in the bosom of Thy God, How wilt thou then look back, and smile On thoughts the bitterest seemed erewhile, And bless the pangs that made thee see This was no world of rest for thee! Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: The Christian Year, 1827

Howe'er The Nicolaitans Claim

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Howe’er the Nicolaitans claim Lyrics: 1 Howe’er the Nicolaitans claim Our God for theirs with lips impure, And boast thro’ faith in Jesu’s name Their pardon and salvation sure, Vain boasters who with sin comply, Their actions give their lips the lie. 2 No lot or part with us have they Who slight the Father and the Son, Demonstrate, while they disobey, That God they never yet have known, Or washed from their old sins in vain, Have to their vomit turned again. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)

O God The Great

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 First Line: O God the great, the fearful God Lyrics: 1 O God the great, the fearful God, To Thee we humbly sue for peace, Groaning beneath a nation’s load, And crushed by our own wickedness Our guilt we tremble to declare, And pour out our sad souls in prayer. 2 Thee we revere, the faithful Lord, Keeping the covenant of Thy grace, True to Thine everlasting Word, Loving to all who seek Thy face, And keep Thy kind commands, and prove Their faith by their obedient love. 3 But we have only evil wrought, Have done to our good God despite, Rebellious with our Maker fought, And sinned against the Gospel light, Departed from His righteous ways, And fallen, fallen from His grace. 4 We have not hearkened to the Word Thy prophets and apostles spoke; In them we disobeyed their Lord: Our princes have cast off the yoke, Our kings Thy sovereign will withstood, Our fathers have denied their God. 5 The rich, and poor, the high, and low, Have trampled on Thy mild command; The floods of wickedness o’erflow, And deluge all our guilty land, People and priest lie drowned in sin, And Tophet yawns to take us in. 6 Righteousness, Lord, belongs to Thee, But guilt to us, and foul disgrace, Confusion, shame, and misery Is due to all our faithless race, Scattered by sin where’er we rove, Vile rebels ’gainst Thy pardoning love. 7 Confusion, misery, and shame Our loudly-crying sins require, Our princes, kings, and fathers claim Their portion in eternal fire, For all the downward path have trod, For all have sinned against their God. 8 But O, forgivenesses are Thine Far above all our hearts conceive, The glorious property divine Is still to pity and forgive, With Thee is full redemption found, And grace doth more than sin abound. 9 All may in Thee our gracious Lord Forgivenesses and mercies find, Though we Thy warnings have abhorred, And cast Thy precepts all behind, The voice divine refused t’obey, And started from Thy plainest way. 10 All Israel have transgressed Thy law, And therefore did the curse take place, Our sins did all Thy judgments draw In showers on our devoted race, Thou hast fulfilled Thy threatening Word, We bear the fury of the Lord. 11 Justly we all Thine anger bear, Chastised for our iniquity, Yet made we not our humble prayer, Yet have we not returned to Thee, Renounced our sins, or longed to prove The truth of Thy forgiving love. 12 Therefore the Lord, the jealous God Hath watched to bring the evil days, Bruised us with His avenging rod, Who would not His still voice obey, Righteous is God in all His ways: We forced Him to withdraw His grace. 13 Yet now, O Lord our God, at last Our sins and wickedness we own; We call to mind Thy mercies past, The ancient days of Thy renown, The wonders Thou for us hast wrought, The arm that out of Egypt brought. 14 O Lord, according to Thy love, Thy utmost power of love, we pray Thine anger and Thy plague remove; Turn from Jerusalem away The curse and punishment we feel, Thou know’st we are Thy people still. 15 The holy mountain of our God, The city Thou hast built below, Thy people, though dispersed abroad, A proverb of reproach and woe, We have our fathers’ sins filled up, And drunk the bitter trembling cup. 16 Now then acknowledge us for Thine, Regard Thine humbled servant’s prayer, And cause on us Thy face to shine, The ruins of Thy Church repair, O for the sake of Christ the Lord, Let all our souls be now restored. 17 My God, incline Thine ear, and hear, Open Thine eyes our wastes to see, Thy fallen desolate Sion cheer, The city which is named by Thee; Not for our cry the grace be shown, But hear, in Jesus hear Thine own. 18 All our desert, we own, is hell, But spare us for Thy mercy sake, We humbly to Thy grace appeal, And Jesus’ wounds our refuge make, O let us all Thy mercy prove, The riches of Thy pardoning love. 19 O Lord, attend, O Lord forgive, O Lord, regard our prayer, and do, Hasten, my God, and bid us live, The fullness of Thy mercy show, Thy city, and Thy people own, And perfect all our souls in one. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

The Past No Longer In My Power

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: The past no longer in my power: The future who shall live to see? Mine only is the present hour, Lent, to be all laid out for Thee: Now, Savior, with Thy grace endowed, Now let me serve and please my God. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)

Oh Hand Of Bounty, Largely Spread

Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 Oh hand of bounty, largely spread. By whom our every want is fed, Whate’er we touch, or taste, or see, We owe them all, oh Lord! to Thee; The corn, the oil, the purple wine, Are all Thy gifts, and only Thine! 2 The stream Thy word to nectar dyed. The bread Thy blessing multiplied, The stormy wind, the whelming flood, That silent at Thy mandate stood, How well they knew Thy voice divine, Whose works they were, and only Thine! 3 Though now no more on earth we trace Thy footsteps of celestial grace, Obedient to Thy word and will We seek Thy daily mercy still; Its blessèd beams around us shine. And Thine we are, and only Thine! Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827)