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A COLLECTION OF SACRED HYMNS

FOR THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.

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SELECTED BY EMMA SMITH.

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NAUVOO, ILL:

PRINTED BY E. ROBINSON.

1841.

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COPY RIGHT SECURED.

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PREFACE.

In order to sing with the Spirit, and with the understanding, it is necessary that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints should have a collection of “SACRED HYMNS,” adapted to their faith and belief in the gospel, and, as far as can be, holding forth the promises made to the fathers who died in the precious faith of a glorious resurrection, and a thousand years’ reign on earth with the Son of Man in his glory. Notwithstanding the church, as it were, is still in its infancy, yet, as the song of the righteous is a prayer unto God, it is sincerely hoped that the following collection, selected with an eye single to his glory, may answer every purpose till more are composed, or till we are blessed with a copious variety of the songs of Zion.

PUBLIC WORSHIP	1 – 119
SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL	120 – 130
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST	131 – 148
GATHERING OF ISRAEL	149 – 157
BAPTISMAL	158 – 177
SACRAMENTAL	178 – 192
MORNING	193 – 199
EVENING	200 – 205
FUNERAL	206 – 224
RESURRECTION	225 – 230
FAREWELL	231 – 237
MISCELLANEOUS	238 – 302
DOXOLOGIES	303 – 304

[Typist’s notes: There were some pages missing, but I was able to tell which hymns were supposed to be there. I got the lyrics for hymn no. 128 from the 1845 hymnal, and also the first two verses of hymn no. 129 (sans the last line of the second verse). I got the first letters that were missing on each line of the words on a couple verses of hymn 127 from the 1843 LDS hymnal. I got the third verse of hymn no. 127 (sans the first few words of each line) from the following website:
http://website.lineone.net/~gsward/pages/sslinn.html%5D

SACRED HYMNS.

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PUBLIC WORSHIP.

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Hymn 1 / LM / Elias Smith, and Abner Jones (Methodist Camp-Meeting 1805 Collection, Hymns Original and Selected for the Use of Christians; Quintessential Latter-day Saint Hymn)

1. Know then that ev’ry soul is free,

To choose his life and what he’ll be;

For this eternal truth is given,

That God will force no man to heaven.

2. He’ll call, persuade, direct him right

Bless him with wisdom, love, and light,

In nameless ways be good and kind;

But never force the human mind.

3. Freedom and reason make us men:

Take these away, what are we then?

Mere animals, and just as well,

The beast may think of heaven or hell.

4. May we no more our pow’rs abuse,

But ways of truth and goodness choose;

Our God is pleased when we improve

His grace, and seek his perfect love.

5. It’s my free will for to believe:

‘Tis God’s free will me to receive:

To stubborn willers this I’ll tell,

It’s all free grace, and all free will.

6. Those that despise, grow harder still;

Those that adhere, he turns their will:

And thus despisers sink to hell,

While those that hear in glory dwell.

7. But if we take the downward road,

And make in hell our last abode;

Our God is clear, and we shall know,

We’ve plunged ourselves in endless wo.

Hymn 2 / PM / John Newton (Anglican; Abolitionist; Author of “Amazing Grace”)

1. Glorious things of thee are spoken,

Zion, city of our God!

He whose word cannot be broken,

Chose thee for his own abode;

2. On the Rock of Enoch founded;

What can shake thy sure repose?

With salvation’s wall surrounded,

Thou may’st smile on all thy foes.

3. See the stream of living waters,

Springing from celestial love,

Well supply thy sons and daughters,

And all fear of drouth remove:

4. Who can faint, while such a river

Ever flows their thirst t’assuage?

Grace which like the Lord, the giver,

Never fails from age to age.

5. Round each habitation hov’ring,

See the cloud and fire appear!

For a glory and a cov’ring,

Showing that the Lord is near:

6. Thus deriving from their banner,

Light by night and shade by day;

Sweetly they enjoy the Spirit,

Which he gives them when they pray.

7. Blessed inhabitants of Zion,

Purchased with the Savior’s blood!

Jesus whom their souls rely on,

Makes them kings and priests to God.

8. While in love his people raises,

With himself to reign as kings;

All, as priests, his solemn praises,

Each for a thank-offering brings.

9. Savior, since of Zion’s city

I through grace a member am;

Though the world despise and pity,

I will glory in thy name.

10. Fading are all worldly treasures,

With their boasted pomp and show!

Heav’nly joys and lasting pleasures

None but Zion’s children know.

Hymn 3 / LM / W. W. Phelps (LDS; formerly “God-fearing and Zealous”-perhaps Presbyterian-and Anti-Masonic)

1. The time is nigh, that happy time,

That great, expected, blessed day,

When countless thousands of our race

Shall dwell with Christ, and him obey.

2. The prophecies must be fulfilled

Though earth and hell should dare oppose;

The stone out of the mountain cut,

Though unobserved, a kingdom grows.

3. Soon shall the blended image fall,

Brass, silver, iron, gold and clay;

And superstition’s dreadful reign

To light and liberty give way.

4. In one sweet symphony of praise,

The Jews and Gentiles will unite;

And infidelity o’ercome,

Return again to endless night.

5. From east to west, from north to south,

The Savior’s kingdom shall extend,

And ev’ry man in ev’ry place,

Shall meet a brother and a friend.

Hymn 4 / SM / adapt. W. W. Phelps (LDS; formerly “God-fearing and Zealous”-perhaps Presbyterian-and Anti-Masonic)

1. See all creation join

To praise th’eternal God;

The heavenly hosts begin the song,

And sound his name abroad.

2. The sun with golden beams,

And moon with silver rays;

The starry lights, and twinkling flames;

Shine to their Maker’s praise,

3. He built those worlds above,

And fixed their wondrous frame;

By his command they stand or move,

And always speak his name.

4. The fleecy clouds that rise,

Or falling show’rs, or snow;

The thunders rolling round the skies,

His pow’r and glory show.

5. The broad expanse on high,

With all the heav’ns afford;

The crinkling fire that streaks the sky,

Unite to praise the Lord.

Chorus.

By all that shines above

His glory is expressed;

But Saints that know his endless love,

Should sing his praises best.

Hymn 5 / LM / Parley P. Pratt (LDS)

1. O happy souls who pray

Where God appoints to hear!

O happy saints who pay

Their constant service there!

We praise him still;

And happy we;

We love the way

To Zion’s hill.

2. No burning heats by day,

Nor blasts of ev’ning air,

Shall take our health away,

If God be with us there:

He is our sun,

And he our shade,

To guide the head

By night or noon.

3. God is the only Lord,

Our shield and our defence;

With gifts his hand is stored:

We draw our blessings thence.

He will bestow

On Jacob’s race,

Peculiar grace,

And glory too.

Hymn 6 / PM / Anna L. Barbauld (Evangelical and Reformed; in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families 1837; and in The Christian Hymn Book: a compilation of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, Alexander Campbell 1866)

1. Praise to God, immortal praise,

For the love that crowns our days;

Bount’ous source of ev’ry joy,

Let thy praise our tongues employ;

2. For the blessings of the field,

For the stores the gardens yield,

For the vine’s exalted juice,

For the gen’rous olive’s use;

3. Flocks that whiten all the plain,

Yellow sheaves of ripened grain,

Clouds that drop their fat’ning dews,

Suns that temp’rate warmth diffuse;

4. All that springs with bount’ous hand

Scatters o’er the smiling land;

All that lib’ral autumn pours

From her rich o’erflowing stores;

5. Thanks to thee our God we owe;

Source from whence all blessings flow!

And for these our souls shall raise

Grateful vows and solemn praise.

Hymn 7 / LM / Parley P. Pratt (LDS; formerly Campbellite; in Pratt’s Collection)

1. Ere long the vail will rend in twain,

The King descend with all his train;

The earth shall shake with awful fright,

And all creation feel his might.

2. The trump of God, it long shall sound,

And raise the nations under ground:

Throughout the vast domains of heav’n

The voice echoes, the sound is given.

3. Lift up your heads ye Saints in peace,

The Savior comes for your release;

The day of the redeemed has come,

The saints shall all be welcomed home.

4. Behold the church, it soars on high,

To meet the saints amid the sky;

To hail the King in clouds of fire,

And strike and tune th’immortal lyre.

5. Hosanna now the trump shall sound,

Proclaim the joys of heav’n around,

When all the saints together join,

In songs of love, and all divine.

6. With Enoch here we all shall meet,

And worship at Messiah’s feet,

Unite our hands and hearts in love,

And reign on thrones with Christ above.

7. The city that was seen of old

Whose walls were jasper, and streets gold,

We’ll now inherit throned in might:

The Father and the Son’s delight.

8. Celestial crowns we shall receive,

And glories great our God shall give,

While loud hosannas we’ll proclaim,

And sound aloud our Savior’s name.

9. Our hearts and tongues all joined in one,

A loud hosanna to proclaim,

While all the heav’ns shall shout again,

And all creation say, Amen.

Hymn 8 / PM / W. W. Phelps (LDS; formerly “God-fearing and Zealous”-perhaps Presbyterian-and Anti-Masonic)

1. To him that made the world,

The sun the moon and stars,

And all that in them is,

With days, and months and years;

To him that died

That we might live,

Our thanks and songs

We freely give.

2. Our hope in things to come,

The Spirit’s quick’ning pow’r,

Should turn our hearts to him,

Where heav’nly blessings are:

That we may sing

Of things above;

And always know,

That God is love.

3. When he comes down in heav’n,

And earth again is blest,

Then all the heirs of him,

Will find the promised rest.

With all the just,

Then they may sing,

God is with us

And we with him.

Hymn 9 / PM / W. W. Phelps (LDS; formerly “God-fearing and Zealous”-perhaps Presbyterian-and Anti-Masonic)

1. Come all ye saints, who dwell on earth,

Your cheerful voices raise,

Our great Redeemer’s love to sing,

And celebrate his praise.

2. His love is great, he died for us,

Shall we ungrateful be?

Since he has marked a road to bliss,

And said, Come follow me.

3. The strait and narrow way we’ve found,

Then let us travel on,

‘Till we in the celestial world,

Shall meet where Christ is gone.

4. And there we’ll join the heav’nly choir,

And sing his praise above;

While endless ages roll around,

Perfected by his love.

Hymn 10 / CM / Eliza R. Snow (LDS; formerly Baptist and Campbellite/Disciples of Christ)

1. Great is the Lord: ’tis good to praise

His high and holy name:

Well may the saints in latter days

His wond’rous love proclaim.

2. To praise him let us all engage,

That unto us is giv’n:

To live in this momentous age,

And share the light of heav’n.

3. We’ll praise him for our happy lot,

On this much favored land;

Where truth and right’ousness are taught,

By his divine command.

4. We’ll praise him for more glorious things,

Than language can express,

The “everlasting gospel” brings,

The humble souls to bless.

5. The Comforter is sent again,

His pow’r the church attends;

And with the faithful will remain

‘Till Jesus Christ descends.

6. We’ll praise him for a prophet’s voice,

His people’s steps to guide;

In this we do and will rejoice,

Tho’ all the world deride.

7. Praise him, the time, the chosen time,

To favor Zion’s come:

And all the saints, from ev’ry clime,

Will soon be gathered home.

8. The op’ning seals announce the day,

By prophets long declared;

When all in one triumphant lay,

Will join to praise the Lord.

Hymn 11 / CM / Eliza R. Snow (LDS; formerly Baptist and Campbellite/Disciples of Christ)

1. The glorious day is rolling on—

All glory to the Lord!

When fair as at creation’s dawn

The earth will be restored.

2. A perfect harvest then will crown

The renovated soil;

And rich abundance drop around,

Without corroding toil:

3. For in its own primeval bloom,

Will nature smile again;

And blossoms streaming with perfume,

Adorn the verdant plain.

4. The saints will then, with pure delight,

Possess the holy land;

And walk with Jesus Christ in white,

And in his presence stand.

5. What glorious prospects! can we claim

These hopes, and call them ours?

Yes, if through faith in Jesus’ name,

We conquer Satan’s pow’rs.

6. If we, like Jesus bear the cross—

Like him despise the shame;

And count all earthly things but dross,

For his most holy name.

7. Then while the pow’rs of darkness rage,

With glory in our view,

In Jesus’ strength let us engage,

To press to Zion too.

8. For Zion will like Eden bloom;

And Jesus come to reign—

The saints immortal from the tomb,

With angels meet again.

Hymn 12 / CM / Samuel Medley (English Baptist Pastor Converted by Isaac Watts; 1. Mortals, awake! with angels join,

And chant the solemn lay;

Love, joy, and gratitude combine

To hail th’ auspicious day.

2. In heav’n the rapt’rous song began,

And sweet seraphic fire

Through all the shining legions ran,

And swept the sounding lyre.

3. The theme, the song, the joy was new

To each angelic tongue;

Swift through the realms of light it flew,

And loud the echo rung.

4. Down through the portals of the sky

The pealing anthem ran,

And angels flew, with eager joy,

To bear the news to man.

5. Hark! the cherubic armies shout,

And glory leads the song,

Peace and salvation swell the note

Of all the heav’nly throng,

6. With joy the chorus we’ll repeat,

“Glory to God on high;

Good will and peace are now complete

Jesus was born to die!”

7. Hail, Prince of Life, forever hail!

Redeemer, brother, friend!

Though earth, and time, and life should fail,

Thy praise shall never end.

Hymn 13 / PM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Christian Lyre 1860)

1. How pleased and blest was I,

To hear the people cry,

“Come let us seek our God to-day!”

Yes, with a cheerful zeal,

We’ll haste to Zion’s hill,

And there our vows and honors pay.

2. Zion, thrice happy place,

Adorned with wond’rous grace,

And walls of strength embrace thee round!

In thee our tribes appear,

To pray, and praise, and hear

The sacred gospel’s joyful sound.

3. There David’s greater Son

Has fixed his royal throne;

He sits for grace and judgment there:

He bids the saint be glad,

He makes the sinner sad,

And humble souls rejoice with fear.

4. May peace attend thy gate,

And joy within thee wait,

To bless the soul of ev’ry guest:

The man that seeks thy peace,

And wishes thine increase,

A thousand blessings on him rest!

5. My tongue repeats her vows,

“Peace to this sacred house!

For here my friends and kindred dwell:”

And since my glorious God

Makes thee his blest abode,

My soul shall ever love thee well.

Hymn 14 / LM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Harmonist, Containing a Collection of Tunes 1833)

1. Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh,

‘Tis God invites the fallen race;

Mercy and free salvation buy,

Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace.

2. Come to the living waters, come!

Sinners obey your Maker’s call;

“Return, ye weary wand’rer’s home,

And find my grace is free for all.”

3. See from the rock a fountain rise;

To you in healing streams it rolls;

Money ye need not bring, nor price,

Ye lab’ring, burdened, sin-sick souls.

4. Nothing ye in exchange shall give,

Leave all you have, and are, behind;

Frankly the gift of God receive,

Pardon and peace in Jesus find.

5. “Why seek ye that which is not bread,

Nor can your hungry souls sustain?

On ashes, husks, and air ye feed,

Ye spend your little all in vain.

6. “In search of empty joys below,

Ye toil with unavailing strife:

Whither, ah! whither would ye go?

I have the words of endless life.

7. “Hearken to me with earnest care,

And freely eat substantial food;

The sweetness of my mercy share;

And taste that I alone am good.

8. “I bid you all my goodness prove,

My promises for all are free:

Come, taste the manna of my love,

And let your souls delight in me.

9. “Your willing ear and heart incline,

My words believingly receive;

Quickened your souls by faith divine,

An everlasting life shall live.”

Hymn 15 / 8’s & 6’s / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church 1838)

1. Be it my only wisdom here,

To serve the Lord with filial fear,

With loving gratitude;

Superior sense may I display,

By shunning ev’ry evil way,

And walking in the good.

2. O may I still from sin depart,

A wise and understanding heart,

Jesus to me be given;

And let me through thy Spirit know,

To glorify my God below,

And find my way to heaven.

Hymn 16 / SM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1834)

1. Come, ye that love the Lord,

And let your joys be known;

Join in a song with sweet accord,

While ye surround his throne:

Let those refuse to sing,

Who never knew our God;

But servants of the Heav’nly King

May speak their joys abroad.

2. The God that rules on high,

That all the earth surveys,

That rides upon the stormy sky,

And calms the roaring seas;

This mighty God is ours,

Our Father and our Love;

He will send down his heav’nly pow’rs,

To carry us above.

3. There we shall see his face,

And never, never sin;

There, from the rivers of his grace,

Drink endless pleasures in:

Yea, and before we rise

To that immortal state,

The thoughts of such amazing bliss

Should constant joys create.

4. The men of grace have found

Glory begun below:

Celestial fruit on earthly ground

From faith and hope may grow:

Then let our songs abound,

And ev’ry tear be dry;

We’re marching thro’ Immanuel’s ground

To fairer worlds on high.

Hymn 17 / LM / We Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship 1830)

1. Happy the man that finds the grace,

The blessings of God’s chosen race,

The wisdom coming from above,

The faith that sweetly works by love.

2. Happy beyond description he

Who knows “The Savior died for me”

The gift unspeakable obtains,

And heav’nly understanding gains.

3. Wisdom divine! Who tells the price

Of Wisdom’s costly merchandise?

Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compared to her.

4. Her hands are filled with length of days,

True riches and immortal praise;

Riches of Christ, on all bestowed,

And honor that descends from God.

5. To purest joys she all invites,

Chaste, holy, spiritual delights;

Her ways are ways of pleasantness,

And all her flow’ry paths are peace.

6. Happy the man who wisdom gains;

Thrice happy who his guest retains!

He owns, and shall for ever own,

Wisdom, and Christ, and Heav’n are one.

Hymn 18 / LM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807)

1. Jesus from whom all blessings flow,

Great Builder of thy church below;

If now thy spirit moves my breast,

Hear, and fulfill thine own request!

2. The few that truly call thee Lord,

And wait thy sanctifying word,

And thee their utmost Savior own:

Unite and perfect them in one.

3. O let them all thy mind express,

Stand forth thy chosen witnesses:

Thy pow’r unto salvation show,

And perfect holiness below.

4. In them let all mankind behold,

How Christians lived in days of old:

Mighty their envious foes to move;

A proverb of reproach—and love.

5. Call them into thy wond’rous light,

Worthy to walk with thee in white!

Make up thy jewels Lord, and show

The glorious, spotless church below.

6. From ev’ry sinful wrinkle free,

Redeemed from all iniquity,

The fellowship of saints make known,

And, O my God, might I be one!

7. O might my lot be cast with these;

The least of Jesus witnesses:

O that my Lord would count me meet

To wash his dear disciples’ feet!

8. This only thing do I require:

Thou know’st ’tis all my heart’s desire,

Freely what I receive, to give,

The servant of thy church to live.

9. Tell me, or thou shalt never go,

Thy pray’r is heard; it shall be so!”

The word hath passed thy lips, and I,

Shall with thy people live and die.

Hymn 19 / 4-6’s & 2-8’s / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807)

1. Let earth and heav’n agree,

Angels and men be joined,

To celebrate with me

The Savior of mankind!

T’adore the all-atoning Lamb,

And bless the sound of Jesus’ name.

2. Jesus, transporting sound!

The joy of earth and heav’n;

No other help is found,

No other name is given,

By which we can salvation have;

But Jesus came the world to save.

3. Jesus, harmonious name!

It charms the hosts above;

They evermore proclaim,

And wonder at his love;

‘Tis all their happiness to gaze:

‘Tis heav’n to see our Jesus’ face.

4. His name the sinner hears,

And is from sin set free:

‘Tis music in his ears,

‘Tis life and victory;

New songs do now his lips employ,

And dances his glad heart for joy.

5. Stung by the scorpion—sin,

My poor expiring soul

The balmy sound drinks in,

And is at once made whole:

See there my Lord upon the tree!

I hear, I feel, he died for me.

6. O unexampled love!

O all-redeeming grace!

How swiftly didst thou move

To save a fallen race!

What shall I do to make it known

What thou for all mankind hast done?

7. O for a trumpet voice,

On all the world to call!

To bid their hearts rejoice

In him who died for all!

For all my Lord was crucified:

For all, for all, my Savior died!

Hymn 20 / CM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807)

1. Jesus, thou all-redeeming Lord,

Thy blessing we implore;

Open the door to preach thy word,

The great effectual door.

2. Gather the outcasts in, and save

From sin and Satan’s power;

And let them now acceptance have;

And know their gracious hour.

3. Lover of souls! thou know’st to prize

What thou hast bought so dear;

Come then, and in thy people’s eyes

With all thy wounds appear.

Hymn 21 / PM / Christian Hymnal, 1815

1. O Jesus! the giver

Of all we enjoy,

Our lives to thy honor

We wish to employ;

With praises unceasing

We’ll sing of thy name,

Thy goodness increasing,

Thy love we’ll proclaim.

2. With joy we remember,

The dawn of that day,

When cold as December,

In darkness we lay:

The sweet invitation

We heard with surprise,

And witnessed salvation

To flow from the skies.

3. The wonderful name

Of our Jesus we’ll sing,

And publish the fame

Of our Captain and King:

With sweet exultation

His goodness we prove,

His name is salvation,

His nature is love.

4. We now are enlisted

In Jesus’ blessed cause,

Divinely assisted,

To conquer our foes;

His grace will support us

‘Till conflicts are o’er,

He then will escort us

To Zion’s bright shore.

Hymn 22 / LM / Parley P. Pratt (LDS; formerly Campbellite; in Pratt’s Collection)

1. The morning breaks, the shadows flee,

Lo! Zion’s standard is unfurled!

The dawning of a brighter day

Majestic rises on the world.

2. The clouds of error disappear

Before the rays of truth divine—

The glory bursting from afar,

Wide o’er the nations soon will shine.

3. The Gentile fullness now comes in,

And Israel’s blessings are at hand:

Lo! Judah’s remnant, cleansed from sin,

Shall in their promised Canaan stand.

4. Jehovah speaks! let earth give ear,

And Gentile nations turn and live—

His mighty arm is making bare

His cov’nant people to receive.

5. Angels from heav’n and truth from earth

Have met, and both have record borne:

Thus Zion’s light is bursting forth,

To bring her ransomed children home.

Hymn 23 / 7’s / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in A Selection of Hymns … Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1808)

1. Who are these arrayed in white,

Brighter than the noon-day sun?

Foremost of the sons of light;

Nearest the eternal throne?

These are they who bore the cross,

Nobly for their Master stood;

Suff’rers in his righteous cause,

Follow’rs of the dying God.

2. Out of great distress they came,

Washed their robes by faith below,

In the blood of yonder Lamb,

Blood that washes white as snow:

Therefore are they next the throne,

Serve their Maker day and night:

God resides among his own,

God doth in his saints delight.

3. More than conquerors at last,

Here they find their trials o’er;

They have all their suff’rings past,

Hunger now and thirst no more:

No excessive heat they feel

From the sun’s directer ray;

In a milder clime they dwell,

Region of eternal day.

4. He who on the throne doth reign,

Them the Lamb shall always feed,

With the tree of life sustain,

To the living fountains lead;

He shall all their sorrows chase,

All their wants at once remove,

Wipe the tears from every face,

Fill up ev’ry soul with love.

Hymn 24 / 6-8’s / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Zion Songster: a Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, generally sung at camp and prayer meetings, and in revivals of religion 1834)

1. When Israel out of Egypt came,

And left the proud oppressor’s land,

Supported by the great I AM,

Safe in the hollow of his hand,

The Lord in Israel reigned alone,

And Judah was his favorite throne.

2. The sea beheld his power, and fled,

Disparted by the wond’rous rod;

Jordan ran backward to its head,

And Sinai felt the incumbent God;

The mountains skipped like frighted rams

The hills leaped after them as lambs!

3. What ailed thee, O thou trembling sea?

What horror turned the river back?

Was nature’s God displeased with thee?

And why should hills or mountains shake?

Ye mountains huge that skipped like rams?

Ye hills, that leaped as frighted lambs?

4. Earth! tremble on, with all thy sons,

In presence of thy awful Lord,

Whose pow’r inverted nature owns,

His only law, his sov’reign word:

He shakes the centre with his rod,

And heav’n bows down to Jacob’s God.

5. Creation, varied by his hand,

The omnipotent Jehovah knows;

The sea is turned to solid land,

The rock in to a fountain flows;

And all things, as they change, proclaim,

The Lord eternally the same.

Hymn 25 / 6-8’s / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell 1832)

1. I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath;

And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers;

My days of praise shall ne’er be past,

While life, and thought, and being last,

Or immortality endures.

2. Happy the man whose hopes rely

On Israel’s God: he made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train;

His truth forever stands secure;

He saves the opprest, he feeds the poor

And none shall find his promise vain.

3. The Lord pours eye-sight on the blind;

The Lord supports the fainting mind;

He sends the laboring conscience peace;

He helps the stranger in distress,

The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4. I’ll praise him while he lends me breath,

And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers;

My days of praise shall ne’er be past,

While life, and thought and being last,

Or immortality endures.

Hymn 26 / LM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in the Universalist Hymnbook 1843)

1. Praise ye the Lord! ’tis good to raise

Your hearts and voices in his praise:

His nature and his works invite

To make this duty our delight.

2. He formed the stars, those heav’nly flames;

He counts their numbers, calls their names;

His wisdom’s vast, and knows no bound,

A deep where all our thoughts are drowned.

3. Sing to the Lord; exalt him high,

Who spreads his clouds along the sky:

There he prepares the fruitful rain,

For lets the drops descend in vain.

4. He makes the grass the hills adorn,

And clothes the smiling fields with corn:

The beasts with food his hands supply,

And the young ravens when they cry.

5. And saints are lovely in his sight,

He views his children with delight;

He sees their hope, he knows their fear,

And looks and loves his image there.

Hymn 27 / CM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808 and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1834)

1. Father, how wide thy glory shines!

How high thy wonders rise!

Known through the earth by thousand signs,

By thousands through the skies.

2. Those mighty orbs proclaim thy pow’r;

Their motions speak thy skill;

And on the wings of every hour

We read thy patience still.

3. Part of thy name divinely stands

On all thy creatures writ;

They show the labor of thy hands,

Or impress of thy feet.

4. But when we view thy strange design

To save rebellious worms,

Where vengeance and compassion join

In their divinest forms;

5. Here the whole Deity is known,

Nor dares a creature guess

Which of the glories brightest shone,

The justice, or the grace.

6. Now the full glories of the Lamb

Adorn the heav’nly plains;

Bright seraphs learn Immanuel’s name,

And try their choicest strains.

7. O! may I bear some humble part

In that immortal song:

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,

And love command my tongue.

Hymn 28 / CM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807)

1. Shepherd Divine, our wants relieve,

In this our evil day;

To all thy tempted followers give

The power to watch and pray.

2. Long as our fiery trials last,

Long as the cross we bear,

O let our souls on thee be cast

In never-ceasing prayer.

3. The spirit of interceding grace,

Give us in faith to claim;

To wrestle till we see thy face,

And know thy hidden name.

4. ‘Till thou thy perfect love impart,

‘Till thou thyself bestow,

Be this the cry of ev’ry heart,

“I will not let thee go.

5. “I will not let thee go, unless

Thou tell thy name to me;

With all thy great salvation bless,

And make me all like thee.”

Hymn 29 / SM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Christian Hymn Book: a compilation of psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, Alexander Campbell 1866)

1. Hark, how the watchmen cry,

Attend the trumpet’s sound;

Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh,

The powers of hell surround:

Who bow to Christ’s command,

Your arms and hearts prepare;

The day of battle is at hand,

Go forth to glorious war.

2. Only have faith in God;

In faith your foes assail;

Not wrestling against flesh and blood,

But all the powers of hell:

From thrones of glory driven,

By flaming vengeance hurled,

They throng the air, and darken heav’n,

And rule the lower world.

Hymn 30 / 6-7’s / Rowland Hill (Anglican; in Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Poor, 1774; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Ye, who in his courts are found

List’ning to the joyful sound,

Lost and helpless as ye are,

Sons of sorrow, sin, and care,

Glorify the King of Kings,

Take the peace the gospel brings.

2. Jesus for the sinner dies!

View the wondrous sacrifice;

See in Him your sins forgiv’n,

Pardon, holiness, and heav’n:

Glorify the King of Kings,

Take the peace the gospel brings.

Hymn 31 / LM / Wesley, Charles (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in The Universalaists’ Hymn Book: a New Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies 1821; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones 1833)

1. O Thou, to whose all-searching sight

The darkness shineth as the light,

Search, prove my heart; it pants for thee;

O burst these bonds, and set it free.

2. Wash out its stains, refine its dross,

Nail my affections to the cross;

Hallow each thought; let all within

Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean.

3. If in this darksome wild I stray,

Be thou my Light, be thou my Way;

No foes, no violence I fear,

No fraud, while thou, my God, art near.

4. When rising floods my soul o’erflow,

When sinks my heart in waves of woe,

Jesus, thy timely aid impart,

And raise my head, and cheer my heart.

5. Savior, where’er thy steps I see,

Dauntless, untired, I follow thee;

O let thy hand support me still,

And lead me to thy holy hill.

6. If rough and thorny be the way,

My strength proportion to my day;

Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease,

Where all is calm, and joy, and peace.

Hymn 32 / LM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1832)

1. From all that dwell below the skies,

Let the Creator’s praise arise;

Let the Redeemer’s name be sung,

Through every land, by every tongue.

2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord,

Eternal truth attends thy word;

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore

Till suns shall rise and set no more.

Hymn 33 / SM / William Hammond (Moravian Brethren; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in The Songs of Zion: or, the Christian’s New Hymn Book, for the Use of the Methodists, 1822; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1832; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Awake, and sing the song

Of Moses and the Lamb;

Wake ev’ry heart and every tongue,

To praise the Savior’s name.

2. Sing of his dying love,

Sing of his rising power;

Sing how he intercedes above

For those whose sins he bore.

3. Sing, till we feel the heart

Ascending with the tongue;

Let every meaner joy depart,

And grace inspire the song.

4. Sing on your heavenly way,

Ye ransomed sinners, sing;

Sing on, rejoicing every day

In Christ, the eternal King.

Hymn 34 / LM / Isaac Watts, Altered by Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807)

1. Before Jehovah’s awful throne,

Ye nations, bow with sacred joy:

Know that the Lord is God alone,

He can create, and he destroy.

2. His sov’reign power, without our aid,

Made us of clay, and formed us men;

And, when like wand’ring sheep we strayed,

He brought us to his fold again.

3. We’ll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,

High as the heav’ns our voices raise;

And earth with her ten thousand tongues,

Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

4. Wide as the world is thy command,

Vast as eternity thy love:

Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,

When rolling years shall cease to move.

Hymn 35 / SM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NOT IN Methodist Hymn Books; NOT IN Campbellite Hymns; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families 1837)

1. Come, sound his praise abroad,

And hymns of glory sing;

Jehovah is the sov’reign God,

The universal King.

2. He formed the deeps unknown,

He gave the seas their bound;

The watery worlds are all his own,

And all the solid ground.

3. Come, worship at his throne,

Come, bow before the Lord;

We are his work, and not our own;

He formed us by his word,

4. To-day attend his voice,

Nor dare provoke his rod;

Come, like the people of his choice,

And own your gracious God.

5. But if your ears refuse

The language of his grace,

And hearts grow hard, like stubborn Jews,

That unbelieving race:

6. The Lord, in vengeance drest,

Will lift his hand and swear,

You who despise my promised rest

Shall have no portion there.

Hymn 36 / 7’s / William Hammond (Moravian Brethren; Not in Campbellite or Universalist Hymnbooks; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Lord, we come before thee now,

At thy feet we humbly bow;

O! do not our suit disdain;

Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain?

2. In thine own appointed way

Now we seek thee—here we stay;

Lord, from hence we would not go,

Till a blessing thou bestow.

3. Send some message from thy word,

That may joy and peace afford;

Comfort those who weep and mourn,

Let “the time of love” return.

4. Grant we all may seek, and find,

Thee our gracious God, and kind;

Heal the sick, the captive free,

Let us all rejoice in thee.

Hymn 37 / LM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in Church Psalmody: a Collection of Psalms and Hymns Selected from Dr. Watts and Others 1831)

1. Kingdoms and thrones to God belong,

Crown him ye nations, in your song;

His wondrous names and pow’rs rehearse,

His honors shall enrich your verse.

2. He shakes the heav’ns with loud alarms;

How terrible is God in arms!

In Isr’el are his mercies known,

Isr’el is his peculiar throne.

3. Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest,

He’s your defence, your joy, your rest;

When terrors rise and nations faint,

God is the strength of ev’ry Saint.

Hymn 38 / LM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NOT in Methodist Hymn Books; in Church Psalmody 1831; in Melodies of the Church (Abner Jones) 1832; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1833; in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families 1837)

1. How pleasant, how divinely fair,

O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!

With long desire my spirit faints

To meet th’ assemblies of thy Saints.

2. My flesh would rest in thine abode,

My panting heart cries out for God;

My God, my King, why should I be

So far from all my joys and thee?

3. Blest are the Saints who sit on high,

Around thy throne of majesty;

Thy brightest glories shine above,

And all their work is praise and love.

4. Blest are the souls that find a place

Within the temple of thy grace;

There they behold thy gentler rays,

And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.

5. Blest are the men whose hearts are set

To find the way to Zion’s gate;

God is their strength, and, through the road,

They lean upon their helper, God.

6. Cheerful they walk, with growing strength,

Till all shall meet in heav’n at length;

Till all before thy face appear,

And join in nobler worship there.

Hymn 39 / CM / Isaac Watts ( Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; Not in Campbellite Hymn books; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book. 1807; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808)

1. Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly Dove,

With all thy quick’ning pow’rs;

Kindle a flame of sacred love

In these cold hearts of ours.

2. Look how we grovel here below,

Fond of these earthly toys:

Our souls how heavily they go,

To reach eternal joys!

3. In vain we tune our formal songs,

In vain we strive to rise;

Hosannas languish on our tongues,

And our devotion dies.

4. Father, and shall we ever live,

At this poor dying rate?

Our love so faint, so cold to thee,

And thine to us so great?

5. Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly Dove,

With all thy quick’ning pow’rs;

Come, shed abroad a Savior’s love,

And that shall kindle ours.

Hymn 40 / CM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; NOT in Campbellite hymn books; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation 1817)

1. Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise;

All praise to him belongs;

Who kindly lengthens out our days,

Demand our choicest songs.

His providence hath brought us through

Another various year;

We all with vows and anthems new

Before our God appear.

2. Father, thy mercies past we own,

Thy still continued care;

To thee presenting, through thy Son,

Whate’er we have or are:

Our lips and lives shall gladly show

The wonders of thy love,

While on in Jesus’ steps we go

To seek thy face above.

3. Our residue of days or hours

Thine wholly thine shall be;

And all our consecrated pow’rs

A sacrifice to thee;

Till Jesus in the clouds appear

To Saints on earth forg’ven,

And bring the grand sabbatic year,

The jubilee of heav’n.

Hymn 41 / CM / Samuel Stennett (Baptist; in A Selection of Hymns from Various Authors, Designed as a Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1811; and in The Baptist Hymn Book 1825; in The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies 1829; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell 1834)

1. On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,

And cast a wishful eye,

To Canaan’s fair and happy land,

Where my possessions lie.

2. O the transporting rapt’rous scene,

That rises to my sight!

Sweet fields arrayed in living green,

And rivers of delight!

3. There gen’rous fruits that never fail,

On trees immortal grow:

There rocks, and hills, and brooks, and vales,

With milk and honey flow.

4. All o’er those wide extended plains,

Shines one eternal day:

There God the Son for ever reigns,

And scatters night away;

5. No chilling winds nor pois’nous breath,

Can reach that healthful shore;

Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,

Are felt and feared no more.

6. When shall I reach that happy place,

And be for ever blest?

When shall I see my Father’s face,

And in his bosom rest?

7. Filled with delight, my raptured soul,

Would here no longer stay!

Though Jordan’s waves around me roll,

Fearless I’d launch away.

8. There on those high and flow’ry plains,

Our spirits ne’er shall tire;

But in perpetual, joyful strains,

Redeeming love admire.

Hymn 42 / CM / Isaac Watts Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in A Selection of Hymns Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1808; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell 1834)

1. Let ev’ry mortal ear attend,

And ev’ry heart rejoice;

The trumpet of the gospel sounds

With an inviting voice.

2. Ho! all you hungry starving souls,

Who feed upon the wind,

And vainly strive with earthly toys

To fill an empty mind:

3. Eternal wisdom has prepared

A soul reviving feast,

And bids your longing appetites

The rich provision taste.

4. Ho! you that pant for living streams,

And pine away and die,

Here you may quench your raging thirst

With springs that never dry.

5. Rivers of love and mercy here

In a rich ocean join,

Salvation in abundance flows,

Like floods of milk and wine.

6. Great God! the treasures of thy love

Are everlasting mines,

Deep as our helpless mis’ries are,

And boundless as our sins.

7. The happy gates of gospel grace

Stand open night and day:

Lord we are come to seek supplies,

And drive our wants away.

Hymn 43 / LM / Parley P. Pratt (LDS; formerly Campbellite; in Pratt’s Collection)

1. Jehovah reigns—your tribute bring;

Proclaim the Lord, th’eternal King:

Crown him, ye saints, with holy joy,

His arm shall all your foes destroy.

2. Thou, Lord, ere yet the humble mind

Had formed to prayer the wish designed,

Hast heard the secret sigh arise,

While, swift to aid, thy mercies flies.

3. Thy Spirit shall our heart prepare;

Thine ear shall listen to our prayer:

Thou, righteous Judge! thou Power divine!

On thee the fatherless recline.

4. The Lord shall save th’ afflicted breast,

His arm shall vindicate th’ oppressed;

Earth’s mightiest tyrant feel his power,

Nor sin, nor Satan grieve them more.

Hymn 44 / LM / Joseph Addison (Anglican; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation 1817; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1832; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. The spacious firmament on high,

With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,

Their great Original proclaim.

2. Th’ unwearied sun, from day to day,

Does his Creator’s power display,

And publishes to every land

The work of an almighty hand.

3. Soon as the evening shades prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale,

And nightly, to the list’ning earth,

Repeats to story of her birth;—

4. While all the stars that round her burn,

And all the planets, in their turn,

Confirm the tidings, as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

5. What! though in solemn silence all

Move round this dark terrestrial ball—

What! though nor real voice, nor sound

Amid their radiant orbs be found—

6. In reason’s ear they all rejoice,

And utter forth a glorious voice:

Forever singing, as they shine,

“The hand that made us is Divine.”

Hymn 45 / LM / Philo Dibble (LDS, formerly Abolitionist Baptist)

1. The happy day has rolled on,

The glorious period now has come,

The Angel sure has come again,

To introduce Messiah’s reign.

2. The gospel trump again is heard,

The truth from darkness has appeared

The lands, which long in darkness lay

Have now beheld a glorious day.

3. The day by prophets long foretold;

The day which Abraham did behold;

The day that saints desired long,

When God his strange work would perform.

4. The day when saints again should hear

The voice of Jesus in their ear,

And angels who above do reign,

Come down to converse hold with men.

Hymn 46 / CM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NOT in Campbellite hymnbooks; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Original, Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1792; and in The Songs of Zion: or, The Christian’s New Hymn Book, for the Use of the Methodists 1817; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Oh for a shout of sacred joy

To God, the sovereign king!

Let every land their tongues employ,

And hymns of triumph sing.

2. Jesus, our God, ascends on high;

His heav’nly guards around

Attend him rising through the sky,

With trumpet’s joyful sound.

3. While angels shout, and praise their king,

Let mortals learn their strains;

Let all the earth his honors sing;

O’er all the earth he reigns.

4. Speak of his praise with awe profound,

Let knowledge guide the song;

Nor mock him with a solemn sound

Upon a thoughtless tongue.

5. Loud be the shouts of sacred joy

To God the sov’reign king!

Let every land their tongues employ,

And hymns of triumph sing.

Hymn 47 / LM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NOT in Campbellite hymnbooka; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Universalist Hymn Book 1843)

1. The praise of Zion waits for thee

Great God—and praise becomes thy house;

There shall thy saints thy glory see,

And there perform their public vows.

2. O thou, whose mercy bends the skies,

To save when humble sinners pray;—

All lands to thee shall lift their eyes,

And every yielding heart obey.

3. Soon shall the flocking nations run

To Zion’s hill—and own their Lord;

The rising and the setting sun

Shall see the Savior’s name adored.

Hymn 48 / LM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards)

1. God in his earthly temple lays

Foundation for his heav’nly praise;

He likes the tents of Jacob well,

But still in Zion loves to dwell.

2. His mercy visits every house

That pay their night and morning vows;

But makes a more delightful stay,

Where churches meet to praise and pray.

3. What glories were described of old!

What wonders are of Zion told!

Thou city of our God below,

Thy fame shall all the nations know.

Hymn 49 / CM / Isaac Watts

1. Return, O God of love—return;

Earth is a tiresome place:

How long shall we, thy children, mourn

Our absence from thy face?

2. Let heaven succeed our painful years;

Let sin and sorrow cease;

And in proportion to our tears,

So make our joys increase.

3. Thy wonders to thy servants show,

Make thine own work complete;

Then shall our souls thy glory know,

And own thy love was great.

Hymn 50 / LM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards)

1. Sweet is the work, my God, my King,

To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing,

To show thy love by morning light,

And talk of all thy truth at night.

2. Sweet is the day of sacred rest—

No mortal care shall seize my breast;

O may my heart in tune be found,

Like David’s harp of solemn sound.

3. My heart shall triumph in my Lord,

And bless his works—and bless his word:

Thy works of grace—how bright they shine!

How deep thy counsels—how divine!

4. Sure, I shall share a glorious part,

When grace hath well refined my heart,

And fresh supplies of joy are shed,

Like holy oil, to cheer my head.

5. Then shall I see—and hear—and know

All I desired, or wished below;

And every power find sweet employ,

In that eternal world of joy.

Hymn 51 / CM / Joseph Addison (Anglican; in A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts’s Psalms and Tunes 1810)

1. How are thy servants blest! O Lord,

How sure is their defence!

Eternal wisdom is their guide,

Their help, omnipotence.

2. In foreign realms, and lands remote,

Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes they pass unhurt,

And breathe in tainted air.

3. When, by the dreadful tempest, borne

High on the broken wave,

They know thou art not slow to hear,

Nor impotent to save.

4. The storm is laid—the winds retire,

Obedient to thy will;

The sea, that roars at thy command,

At thy command is still.

5. In midst of danger, fear, and death,

Thy goodness we’ll adore;

We’ll praise thee for thy mercies past,

And humbly hope for more.

Hymn 52 / LM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards)

1. Not all the blood of beasts,

On Jewish altars slain,

Could give the guilty conscience peace,

Or wash away the stain.

2. But Christ, the Heavenly Lamb,

Bears all our sins away;

A sacrifice of nobler name,

And richer blood than they.

3. Believing, we rejoice

To see the curse remove;

We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,

And sing his dying love.

Hymn 53 / CM / Isaac Watts

1. I love the Lord—he heard my cries,

And pitied every groan;

Long as I live, when troubles rise,

I’ll hasten to his throne.

2. I love the Lord—he heard my cries,

And chased my grief away:

O let my heart no more despair,

While I have breath to pray.

3. The Lord beheld me sore distressed,

He bade my pains remove;

Return, my soul, to God, thy rest,

For thou hast known his love.

Hymn 54 / LM / Isaac Watts (1674-1748; Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards)

1. Lord, thou hast searched and seen me thro’,

Thine eye commands with piercing view,

My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh, with all their powers,

2. My thoughts, before they are my own

Are to my God distinctly known:

He knows the words I mean to speak,

Ere from my opening lips they break.

3. Within thy circling power I stand,

On every side I find thy hand:

Awake—asleep—at home—abroad,

I am surrounded still with God.

4. Amazing knowledge!—vast and great!

What large extent!—what lofty height!

My soul, with all the powers I boast,

Is in the boundless prospect lost.

5. O may these thoughts possess my breast,

Where’er I rove—where’er I rest;

Nor let my weaker passions dare

Consent to sin—for God is there.

Hymn 55 / CPM / John Ogilvie (Church of Scotland; In The Universalaists’ Hymn Book: a New Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies 1821)

1. Begin, my soul, th’ exalted lay,

Let each enraptured thought obey,

And praise th’ Almighty’s name:

Lo! heaven and earth, and seas and skies,

In one melodious concert rise,

To swell th’ inspiring theme.

2. Thou heav’n of heavens, his vast abode,

Ye clouds, proclaim your Maker God;

Ye thunders, speak his power:

Lo! on the lightning’s fiery wing

In triumph walks th’ eternal King:

Th’ astonished worlds adore.

3. Ye deeps, with roaring billows rise,

To join the thunders of the skies,

Praise him, who bids you roll;—

His praise in softer notes declare,

Each whispering breeze of yielding air,

And breathe it to the soul.

4. Wake, all ye soaring throngs, and sing;

Ye feathered warblers of the spring,

Harmonious anthems raise

To him who shaped your finer mould,

Who tipped your glitt’rings wings with gold,

And tuned your voice to praise.

5. Let man, by nobler passions swayed,

Let man, in God’s own image made,

His breath in praise employ;

Spread wide his Maker’s name around,

Till heav’n shall echo back the sound,

In songs of holy joy.

Hymn 56 / CM / Joseph Addison (Anglican; in A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts’s Psalms and Tunes 1810)

1. When all thy mercies, O my God,

My rising soul surveys,

Transported with the view, I’m lost

In wonder, love, and praise.

2. Unnumbered comforts to my soul

Thy tender care bestowed,

Before my infant heart conceived

From whose those comforts flowed.

3. When in the slippery paths of youth

With heedless steps I ran,

Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe,

And led me up to man.

4. Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

My daily thanks employ;

Nor is the least a cheerful heart,

That tastes those gifts with joy.

5. Through every period of my life,

Thy goodness I’ll pursue;

And after death in distant worlds,

The glorious theme renew.

6. Through all eternity, to thee

A joyful song I’ll raise:

But oh! eternity’s too short

To utter all thy praise!

Hymn 57 / CM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NO Universalists; A FEW Presbyterians, in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Melodies of the Church (Alexander Campbell) 1832; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,

We wretched sinners lay,

Without one cheerful beam of hope,

Or spark of glimmering day!

2. With pitying eyes the prince of grace

Beheld our helpless grief:

He saw—and—oh amazing love!—

He came to our relief.

3. Down from the shining seats above

With joyful haste he fled,

Entered the grave in mortal flesh,

And dwelt among the dead.

4. Oh! for this love let rocks and hills

Their lasting silence break,

And all harmonious human tongues

The Savior’s praises speak.

5. Angels! assist our mighty joys,

Strike all your harps of gold;

But when you raise your highest notes,

His love can ne’er be told.

Hymn 58 / LM / Philip Doddridge (English nonconformist; NO Methodists; NO Campbellites; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and Families 1837)

1., Thou, Lord, through ev’ry changing scene

Hast to the saints a refuge been;

Through every age, eternal God!

Their pleasing home—their safe abode.

2. In thee our fathers sought their rest,

And were with thy protection blest;

Behold their sons, a feeble race!

We come to fill our fathers’ place.

3. Through all the thorny paths we tread,

Ere we are numbered with the dead;

When friends desert—and foes invade,

Be thou our all-sufficient aid!

4. And when this pilgrimage is o’er,

And we must dwell on earth no more,

To thee, great God! may we ascend,

And find an everlasting Friend.

5. To thee our infant race we’ll leave;

Them may their fathers’ God receive;

That voices, ye unformed, may raise

Succeeding hymns of humble praise.

Hymn 59 / PM / Andrew Reed (Baptist? In The Psalmody: a collection of hymns for public and social worship (Free-Will Baptists) 1853)

1. Hark—hark—the notes of joy,

Roll o’er the heav’nly plains!

And seraphs find employ,

For their sublimest strains.

Some new delight in heaven is known,

Loud ring the harps around the throne.

2. Hark—hark—the sounds draw nigh.

The joyful hosts descend;

Jesus forsakes the sky,

To earth his footsteps bend.

He comes to bless our fallen race.

He comes with messages of grace.

3. Bear—bear the tidings round,

Let ev’ry mortal know

What love in God is found,

What pity he can show.—

Ye winds that blow—ye waves that roll,

Bear the glad news from pole to pole!

4. Strike—strike the harps again,

To great Immanuel’s name;

Arise, ye sons of men,

And loud his grace proclaim.

Angels and men, wake ev’ry string,

‘Tis God the Savior’s praise we sing!

Hymn 60 / CM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Original, Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1792; and in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book1807; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected (Alexander Campbell) 1850)

1. With joy we meditate the grace

Of our High Priest above;

His heart is made of tenderness,

His bowels melt with love.

2. Touched with a sympathy within,

He knows our feeble frame;

He knows what sore temptations mean,

For he has felt the same.

3. He, in the days of feeble flesh,

Poured out his cries and tears,

And in his measure feels afresh

What ev’ry member bears.

4. Then let our humble faith address

His mercy and his pow’r;

We shall obtain deliv’ring grace

In each distressing hour.

Hymn 61 / LM / Parley P. Pratt (LDS; formerly Campbellite; in Pratt’s Collection)

1. The Savior lives, no more to die:

He lives, the Lord enthroned on high:

He lives, triumphant o’er the grave:

He lives, eternally to save!

2. He lives, to still his servants’ fears:

He lives, to wipe away their tears:

He lives, their mansions to prepare:

He lives, to bring them safely there!

3. Ye mourning souls, dry up your tears,

Dismiss your gloomy doubts and fears:

With cheerful hope your hearts revive,

For Christ, the Lord, is yet alive!

4. His saints he loves—and never leaves;

The contrite sinner he receives:

Abundant grace will he afford,

Till all are present with the Lord!

Hymn 62 / LM / Thomas Kelly (Congregationalist; the Charles Wesley of Ireland; No Universalists; no Campbellite; in Church Psalmody: a Collection of Psalms and Hymns … Selected from Dr. Watts and Others, 1831; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833)

1. Arise! arise!—with joy survey

The glory of the latter day:

Already is the dawn begun

Which marks at hand a rising sun!

2. ‘Behold the way!’ ye heralds cry:

Spare not—but lift your voices high:

Convey the sound from pole to pole,

‘Glad tidings,’ to the captive soul.

3. ‘Behold the way to Zion’s hill,

Where Israel’s God delights to dwell!

He fixes there his lofty throne,

And calls the sacred place his own.’

4. The north gives up—the south no more

Keeps back her consecrated store:

From east to west the message runs,

And either India yields her sons.

5. Auspicious dawn!—thy rising ray

With joy we view—and hail the day:

Great Sun of Righteousness! arise,

And fill the world with glad surprise.

Hymn 63 / CM / P Philip Doddridge (English nonconformist; in Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship 1822)

1. Hark! the glad sound! the Savior’s come!

The Savior promised long!

Let ev’ry heart prepare a throne,

And ev’ry voice a song.

2. On him the Spirit, largely poured,

Exerts his sacred fire;

Wisdom and might, and zeal and love,

His holy breast inspire.

3. He comes the pris’ners to release,

In Satan’s bondage held;

The gates of brass before him burst,

The iron fetters yield.

4. He comes, from thickest shades of night

To clear the inward sight,

And on the eyeballs of the blind

To pour celestial light.

5. He comes, the broken heart to bind,

The bleeding soul to cure;

And from the treasure of his grace

T’ enrich the humble poor.

6. Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,

Thy welcome shall proclaim;

And heav’n’s eternal arches ring

With thy beloved name.

Hymn 64 / CM // James Franch; in Elliott’s Psalms and Hymns, 1835

1. Beyond the glitt’ring starry sky,

Which God’s right hand sustains,

There, in the boundless world of light,

Our great Redeemer reigns.

2. Legions of angels, strong and fair,

In countless armies shine,

At his right hand with golden harps,

To offer songs divine.

3. Hail, Prince! they cry, for ever hail!

Whose unexampled love

Moved thee to quit these blissful realms

And royalties above!

4. While from the sons of men on earth

He suffered rude disdain.

They threw their honors at his feet

And waited in his train.

5. Through all his travels here below

They did his steps attend;

Oft gazed, and wondered where at length

This scene of love would end.

6. They heard him in the garden groan,

And saw his sweat of blood;

They saw his pierced hands and feet

Nailed to the cursed wood!

7. They saw him break the bars of death,

Which none e’er broke before;

And rise in conqu’ring majesty,

To stoop to death no more.

8. They brought his chariot from above,

To bear him to his throne;

And with a shout, exulting cried,

The glorious work is done!

Hymn 65 / LM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Songs of Zion: or, The Christian’s New Hymn Book, for the Use of the Methodists 1817; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of the Free Will Baptist 1823; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1857)

1. Great was the day, the joy was great,

When the divine disciples met:

Whilst on their heads the Spirit came,

And sat like tongues of cloven flame.

2. What gifts, what miracles he gave!

And power to kill, and pow’r to save!

Furnished their tongues with wond’rous words,

Instead of shields, and spears, and swords.

3. Thus armed he sent the champions forth,

From east to west, from south to north;

“Go, and assert your Savior’s cause;

Go, spread the myst’ry of his cross.”

4. These weapons of the holy war,

Of what almighty force they are,

To make our stubborn passions bow,

And lay the proudest rebel low!

5. The Greeks and Jews, the learned and rude,

Are by these heav’nly arms subdued;

While Satan rages at his loss,

And hates the doctrine of the cross.

Hymn 66 / CM Unknown Hymnist (Christian melodist: a collection of popular songs, for use in public and social meetings, William Gunn, Thomas Harrison,1850)

1. To him that loved the sons of men,

And washed us in his blood,

To royal honors raised our heads,

And made us priests to God.

2. To him let ev’ry tongue be praise,

And ev’ry heart be love!

All grateful honors paid on earth,

And nobler songs above!

3. Behold on flying clouds he comes!

His saints shall bless the day;

While they that pierced him sadly mourn;

In anguish and dismay.

4. Thou art the First, and thou the Last;

Time centres all in thee:

Th’ Almighty Lord, who wast, and art,

And ever more shall be.

Hymn 67 / CM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; NO METHODIST HYMNBOOKS; in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of the Free Will Baptist 1823; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected (Alexander Campbell) 1857)

1. Behold the glories of the Lamb,

Amidst his Father’s throne;

Prepare new honors for his name,

And songs before unknown.

2. Let elders worship at his feet,

The church adore around,

With vials full of odors sweet,

And harps of sweeter sound.

3. Now to the Lamb that once was slain,

Be endless blessings paid;

Salvation, glory, joy, remain

For ever on thy head.

4. Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood,

Hast set the pris’ners free,

Hast made us kings and priests to God,

And we shall reign with thee.

Hymn 68 / LM / Philip Doddridge (English nonconformist; in A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts’s Psalms and Tunes 1810; and Church Psalmody: a Collection of Psalms and Hymns Selected from Dr. Watts and Others 1831)

1. Hail to the Prince of Life and peace,

Who holds the keys of death and hell!

The spacious world unseen is his,

The sov’reign power becomes him well.

2. In shame and torment once he died:

But now he lives forevermore:

Bow down, you saints, around his seat,

And all you angel bands adore.

3. Live, Live forever, glorious Lord,

To crush thy foes and guard thy friends,

While all thy chosen tribes rejoice,

That thy dominion never ends.

4. Worthy thy hand to hold the keys,

Guided by wisdom and by love;

Worthy to rule our mortal lives,

O’er worlds below and worlds above.

5. When death thy servants shall invade,

When powers of hell thy church annoy;

Controlled by thee, their rage shall help

The cause they labor to destroy.

6. Forever reign, victorious King!

Wide through the earth thy name be known,

And call our longing souls to sing

Sublimer anthems near thy throne.

Hymn 69 / CM / Edward Perronet (Associate of the Wesleys; in The Songs of Zion: or, The Christian’s New Hymn Book, for the Use of the Methodists 1817, and The Universalaists’ Hymn Book: a New Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies 1821)

1. All hail the power of Jesus’ name!

Let angels prostrate fall:

Bring forth the royal diadem,

And crown him Lord of all.

2. Crown him, you martyrs of our God,

Who from his altar call:

Extol the stem of Jesse’s rod,

And crown him Lord of all.

3. You chosen seed of Israel’s race,

A remnant weak and small!

Hail him who saves you by his grace,

And crown him Lord of all.

4. You Gentile sinners, ne’er forget

The wormwood and the gall;

Go—spread your trophies at his feet,

And crown him Lord of all.

5. Babes, men, and sires, who know his love,

Who feel your sin and thrall:

Now joy with all the hosts above,

And crown him Lord of all.

6. Let ev’ry kindred, ev’ry tribe,

On this terrestrial ball,

To him all majesty ascribe,

And crown him Lord of all.

7. Oh! that with yonder sacred throng,

We at his feet may fall:

We’ll join the everlasting song,

And crown him Lord of all.

Hymn 70 / LM / Thomas Kelly (Congregationalist; the Charles Wesley of Ireland)

In Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1834)

1. Jesus! we hail thee, Israel’s King,

And now to thee our tribute bring;

Nor do we fear to bow to thee:

They worship God, who worship thee.

2. Hail, Israel’s King, enthroned in light!

Whose glory never shone more bright,

Than when, by trembling friends betrayed,

Thy foes insulting homage paid.

3. Then did admiring angels see

Divine forbearance, Lord, in thee;

With emphasis pronounce thee GOOD;

And heav’n and earth contrasted stood.

4. An object of contempt beneath,

And judged by men to suffer death;

By angels owned, admired, adored,

The great, the everlasting Lord.

5. Reign, mighty King, forever reign!

Thy cause throughout the world maintain;

Let Israel’s King his triumphs spread,

And crowns of glory wreathe his head!

Hymn 71 / CM / Isaac Watts (Anglican Non-Conformist; Attacked by Calvinist Jonathan Edwards; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1834)

1. Salvation! O, the joyful sound!

‘Tis pleasure to our ears;

A sov’reign balm for ev’ry wound,

A cordial for our fears.

2. Buried in sorrow and in sin,

At hell’s dark door we lay;

But we arise by grace divine

To see a heav’nly day.

3. Salvation! let the echo fly

The spacious earth around,

While all the armies of the sky

Conspire to raise the sound.

4. O happy period! glorious day,

When heaven and earth shall raise,

With all their powers, the raptured lay,

To celebrate thy praise!

Hymn 72 / SM / Anne Steele (English Baptist; in Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Abner Jones) 1833; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Alexander Campbell) 1834)

1. Come, you that love the Savior’s name,

And joy to make it known,

The sov’reign of your heart proclaim,

And bow before his throne.

2. Behold your King, your Savior, crowned

With glories all divine;

And tell the wond’ring nations round

How bright those glories shine.

3. Infinite power and boundless grace

In him unite their rays;

You that have seen his lovely face,

Can you forbear his praise?

4. When in his earthly courts we view

The beauties of our King,

We long to love as angels do,

And wish like them to sing.

5. And shall we long and wish in vain?

Lord teach our songs to rise!

Thy love can animate our strain,

And bid it reach the skies.

6. O happy period! glorious day!

When heaven and earth shall raise,

With all their powers, the raptured lay,

To celebrate thy praise.

Hymn 73 / CM / Campbell, Alexander (Campbellite; Wesleyan; in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs: original and selected By Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, Barton Warren Stone, John Trimble Johnson 1844)

1. When the King of Kings comes,

When the Lord of Lords comes:

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes:

To see the nations broken down,

And kingdoms once of great renown,

And saints, now suff’ring, wear the crown,

When the King of Kings comes.

2. When the trump of God calls,

When the last of foes falls;

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes:

To see the saints raised from the dead,

And all together gathered,

And made like to their glorious Head,

When the King of Kings comes.

3. When the foes’ distress comes,

When the church’s rest comes;

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes;

To see the New Jerusalem,

Its fullness and its matchless frame,

Surpassing all report and fame,

When the King of Kings comes.

4. When the world’s course is run,

When the judgment is begun:

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes:

To see the sons of God well known,

All spotless to their Father shown,

And Jesus all his brethren own,

When the King of Kings comes.

5. When the Lord from heav’n comes,

When the host of heav’n comes:

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes:

To see the righteous cause prevail,

And all debates decided well,

And all mouths stopped which lies do tell,

When the King of Kings comes.

6. When our God in clouds comes,

When he with great pow’r comes:

We shall have a joyful day

When the King of Kings comes:

To see all things by him restored,

And God himself alone adored

By all the saints with one accord,

When the King of Kings comes.

Hymn 74 / PM / Charles Wesley (Brother of Founder of Methodism; in The Methodist Pocket Hymn Book 1807; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Selected and Designed for the Use of the Church Universal 1808; and in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Alexander Campbell 1832)

1. Blow you the trumpet, blow!

The gladly solemn sound!

Let all the nations know

To earth’s remotest bound,

The year of Jubilee is come;