Seeking the Lost

Hymn lyrics and Music by William A. Ogden

Verse 1

• Seeking the lost, yes, kindly entreating
• Wanderers on the mountain astray;
• “Come unto Me,” His message repeating,
• Words of the Master speaking today.

Chorus

• Going afar (going afar)
• Upon the mountain (upon the mountain)
• Bringing the wan(bringing the wan)d’rer back again, back again,
• Into the fold (into the fold)
• Of my Redeemer (of my Redeemer)
• Jesus the Lamb (Jesus the Lamb) for sinners slain, for sinners slain.

Verse 2

• Seeking the lost and pointing to Jesus
• Souls that are weak and hearts that are sore,
• Leading them forth in ways of salvation,
• Showing the path to life evermore.

Chorus

Verse 3

• Thus would I go on missions of mercy,
• Following Christ from day unto day,
• Cheering the faint and raising the fallen,
• Pointing the lost to Jesus, the Way.

Chorus

Heavenly Host

Hymn lyrics and Music by William Billings
(1786 edition)

Verse 1

• Methinks I see an Heav’nly host
• Of angels on the wing;
• Methinks I hear their cheerful notes,
• So merrily they sing:
• Let all your fears be banish’d hence,
• Glad tidings I proclaim,
• For there’s a Saviour born today,
• And Jesus is his name.

Verse 2

• Lay down your crooks, and quit your flocks,
• To Bethlehem repair;
• And let your wand’ring steps be squared
• By yonder shining star.
• Seek not in courts or palaces,
• Nor royal curtains draw;
• But search the stable, see your God
• Extended on the straw.

Verse 3

• Then learn from hence, ye rural swains,
• The meekness of your God,
• Who left the boundless realms of joy,
• To ransom you with blood.
• The master of the inn refus’d
• A more commodious place;
• Ungenerous soul of savage mold,
• And destitute of grace.

Verse 4

• Exult ye oxen, low for joy,
• Ye tenants of the stall,
• Pay your obeisance; on your knees
• Unanimously fall.
• The royal guest you entertain
• Is not of common birth,
• But second in the Great I am;
• The God of Heav’n and Earth.

Verse 5

• Then suddenly an Heav’nly host
• Around the shepherds throng,
• Exulting in the threefold God
• And thus address their song:
• To God the Father, Christ the Son,
• And Holy Ghost ador’d;
• The First and Last, the Last and First,
• Eternal praise afford.

I’ve Found a Friend

Hymn lyrics by James G. Small,
Music by George C. Stebbins

Verse 1

• I’ve found a Friend, O such a friend!
• He loved me ere I knew Him;
• He drew me with the cords of love,
• And thus He bound me to Him;
• And round my heart still closely twine
• Those ties which naught can sever,
• For I am His, and He is mine,
• Forever and forever.

Verse 2

• I’ve found a Friend, O such a friend!
• He bled, He died to save me;
• And not alone the gift of life,
• But His own Self He gave me!
• Naught that I have mine own I call,
• I’ll hold it for the Giver,
• My heart, my strength, my life, my all
• Are His, and His forever.

Verse 3

• I’ve found a Friend, O such a friend!
• All pow’r to Him is given,
• To guard me on my onward course,
• And bring me safe to heaven.
• Th’eternal glories gleam afar,
• To nerve my faint endeavor;
• So now to watch, to work, to war,
• And then to rest forever.

Verse 4

• I’ve found a Friend, O such a friend!
• So kind and true and tender,
• So wise a Counselor and Guide,
• So mighty a Defender!
• From Him who loves me now so well
• What pow’r my soul can sever?
• Shall life or death, shall earth or hell?
• No! I am His forever.

My Faith Has Found a Resting Place

Hymn lyrics by Eliza E. Hewitt,
Music by André E. M. Grétry,
Arr. William J. Kirkpatrick

Verse 1

• My faith has found a resting place,
• Not in device or creed;
• I trust the ever living One,
• His wounds for me shall plead.

Chorus

• I need no other argument,
• I need no other plea,
• It is enough that Jesus died,
• And that He died for me.

Verse 2

• Enough for me that Jesus saves,
• This ends my fear and doubt;
• A sinful soul I come to Him,
• He’ll never cast me out.

Chorus

Verse 3

• My heart is leaning on the Word,
• The living Word of God,
• Salvation by my Savior’s Name,
• Salvation through His blood.

Chorus

Verse 4

• My great Physician heals the sick,
• The lost He came to save;
• For me His precious blood He shed,
• For me His life He gave.

Chorus

The Church’s One Foundation

Hymn lyrics by Samuel J. Stone,
Music by Samuel S. Wesley

Verse 1

• The Church’s one foundation
• Is Jesus Christ her Lord,
• She is His new creation
• By water and the Word.
• From heav’n He came and sought her
• To be His holy bride;
• With His own blood He bought her
• And for her life He died.

Verse 2

• She is from every nation,
• Yet one o’er all the earth;
• Her charter of salvation,
• One Lord, one faith, one birth;
• One holy Name she blesses,
• Partakes one holy food,
• And to one hope she presses,
• With every grace endued.

Verse 3

• The Church shall never perish!
• Her dear Lord to defend,
• To guide, sustain, and cherish,
• Is with her to the end:
• Though there be those who hate her,
• And false sons in her pale,
• Against both foe or traitor
• She ever shall prevail.

Verse 4

• Though with a scornful wonder
• Men see her sore oppressed,
• By schisms rent asunder,
• By heresies distressed:
• Yet saints their watch are keeping,
• Their cry goes up, “How long?”
• And soon the night of weeping
• Shall be the morn of song!

Verse 5

• ’Mid toil and tribulation,
• And tumult of her war,
• She waits the consummation
• Of peace forevermore;
• Till, with the vision glorious,
• Her longing eyes are blest,
• And the great Church victorious
• Shall be the Church at rest.

Verse 6

• Yet she on earth hath union
• With God the Three in One,
• And mystic sweet communion
• With those whose rest is won,
• With all her sons and daughters
• Who, by the Master’s hand
• Led through the deathly waters,
• Repose in Eden land.

Verse 7

• O happy ones and holy!
• Lord, give us grace that we
• Like them, the meek and lowly,
• On high may dwell with Thee:
• There, past the border mountains,
• Where in sweet vales the Bride
• With Thee by living fountains
• Forever shall abide!

God Leads Us Along

Hymn lyrics by and music by George A. Young

Verse 1

• In shady, green pastures, so rich and so sweet,
• God leads His dear children along;
• Where the water’s cool flow bathes the weary one’s feet,
• God leads His dear children along.

Chorus

• Some through the waters, some through the flood,
• Some through the fire, but all through the blood;
• Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song,
• In the night season and all the day long.

Verse 2

• Sometimes on the mount where the sun shines so bright,
• God leads His dear children along;
• Sometimes in the valley, in darkest of night,
• God leads His dear children along.

Chorus

Verse 3

• Though sorrows befall us and evils oppose,
• God leads His dear children along;
• Through grace we can conquer, defeat all our foes,
• God leads His dear children along.

Chorus

Verse 4

• Away from the mire, and away from the clay,
• God leads His dear children along;
• Away up in glory, eternity’s day,
• God leads His dear children along.

Chorus

My Hope Is in the Lord

Hymn lyrics and Music by Norman J. Clayton

Verse 1

• My hope is in the Lord
• Who gave Himself for me,
• And paid the price of all my sin at Calvary.

Chorus

• For me He died,
• For me He lives,
• And everlasting life and light He freely gives.

Verse 2

• No merit of my own
• His anger to suppress.
• My only hope is found in Jesus’ righteousness.

Chorus

Verse 3

• And now for me He stands
• Before the Father’s throne.
• He shows His wounded hands and names me as His own.

Chorus

Verse 4

• His grace has planned it all,
• ’Tis mine but to believe,
• And recognize His work of love and Christ receive.

Chorus

Revive Us Again

Hymn lyrics by William P. MacKay,
Music by John J. Husband

Verse 1

• We praise Thee, O God!
• For the Son of Thy love,
• For Jesus Who died,
• And is now gone above.

Chorus

• Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
• Hallelujah! Amen.
• Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
• Revive us again.

Verse 2

• We praise Thee, O God!
• For Thy Spirit of light,
• Who hath shown us our Savior,
• And scattered our night.

Chorus

Verse 3

• All glory and praise
• To the Lamb that was slain,
• Who hath borne all our sins,
• And hath cleansed every stain.

Chorus

Verse 4

• All glory and praise
• To the God of all grace,
• Who hast brought us, and sought us,
• And guided our ways.

Chorus

Verse 5

• Revive us again;
• Fill each heart with Thy love;
• May each soul be rekindled
• With fire from above.

Chorus

Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Hymn lyrics by Charles Wesley,
Music: Easter Hymn, composer unknown

Verse 1

• Christ, the Lord, is ris’n today, Alleluia!
• Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia!
• Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
• Sing, ye heav’ns, and earth, reply, Alleluia!

Verse 2

• Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
• Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
• Lo! the Sun’s eclipse is over, Alleluia!
• Lo! He sets in blood no more, Alleluia!

Verse 3

• Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Alleluia!
• Christ hath burst the gates of hell, Alleluia!
• Death in vain forbids His rise, Alleluia!
• Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!

Verse 4

• Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
• Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
• Once He died our souls to save, Alleluia!
• Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Verse 5

• Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia!
• Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
• Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!
• Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

Verse 6

• Hail, the Lord of earth and Heaven, Alleluia!
• Praise to Thee by both be given, Alleluia!
• Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!
• Hail, the resurrection, thou, Alleluia!

Verse 7

• King of glory, Soul of bliss, Alleluia!
• Everlasting life is this, Alleluia!
• Thee to know, Thy power to prove, Alleluia!
• Thus to sing and thus to love, Alleluia!

Verse 8

• Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
• Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
• Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
• Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!

Verse 9

• But the pains that He endured, Alleluia!
• Our salvation have procured, Alleluia!
• Now above the sky He’s King, Alleluia!
• Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!

Verse 10

• Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
• Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
• Who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!
• Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Keep Thou my Way

Hymn lyrics by Fanny Crosby,
Music by Theodore E. Perkins

Verse 1

• Keep Thou my way, O Lord, be Thou ever nigh;
• Strong is Thy mighty arm, weak and frail am I;
• Then, my unchanging Friend, on Thee, my hopes depend,
• Till life’s brief day shall end, be Thou ever nigh.

Verse 2

• Keep Thou my heart, O Lord, ever close to Thee;
• Safe in Thine arms of love, shall my refuge be;
• Then, over a tranquil tide, my bark shall safely glide;
• I shall be satisfied, ever close to Thee.

Verse 3

• Keep Thou my all, O Lord, hide my life in Thine;
• O let Thy sacred light over my pathway shine;
• Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I’ll bear;¹
• Hear Thou and grant my prayer, hide my life in Thine.

¹This line is the famous "Gladly the cross-eyed bear" line.