All Glory, Laud and Honor

Hymn lyrics by Theodulph of Orleans,
trans. John M. Neale,
Music by Melchior Teschner

Chorus

• All glory, laud and honor
• To Thee, Redeemer, King,
• To Whom the lips of children
• Made sweet hosannas ring.

Verse 1

• Thou art the King of Israel,
• Thou David’s royal Son,
• Who in the Lord’s Name comest,
• The King and Blessed One.

Chorus

Verse 2

• The company of angels
• Are praising Thee on High,
• And mortal men and all things
• Created make reply.

Chorus

Verse 3

• The people of the Hebrews
• With palms before Thee went;
• Our prayer and praise and anthems
• Before Thee we present.

Chorus

Verse 4

• To Thee, before Thy passion,
• They sang their hymns of praise;
• To Thee, now high exalted,
• Our melody we raise.

Chorus

Verse 5

• Thou didst accept their praises;
• Accept the prayers we bring,
• Who in all good delightest,
• Thou good and gracious King.

Chorus

Count Your Blessings

Hymn lyrics by John­son Oat­man, Jr.,
Music by Edwin O. Excell

Verse 1

• When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
• When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
• Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
• And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Chorus

• Count your blessings, name them one by one,
• Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
• Count your blessings, name them one by one,
• Count your many blessings, see what God hath done!¹

Verse 2

• Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
• Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
• Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
• And you will be² singing as the days go by.

Chorus

Verse 3

• When you look at others with their lands and gold,
• Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
• Count your many blessings. Money cannot³ buy
• Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

Chorus

Verse 4

• So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
• Do not be discouraged,⁴ God is over all;
• Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
• Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

Chorus

¹Some hymnals read, “And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.”
²Some hymnals read, “keep”
³Some hymnals read, “Wealth can never”
⁴Some hymnals read, “disheartened”

Be Still, My Soul

Hymn lyrics by Katharina A. von Schlegel,
Translated from German by Jane L. Borthwick;
Music by Jean Sibelius

Verse 1

• Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side.
• Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
• Leave to thy God to order and provide;
• In ev’ry change, He faithful will remain.
• Be still, my soul: thy best, thy heav’nly Friend
• Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Verse 2

• Be still, my soul: thy God doth undertake
• To guide the future, as He has the past.
• Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
• All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
• Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
• His voice Who ruled them while He dwelt below.

Verse 3

• Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart,
• And all is darkened in the vale of tears,
• Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart,
• Who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
• Be still, my soul: thy Jesus can repay
• From His own fullness all He takes away.

Verse 4

• Be still, my soul: the hour is hastening on
• When we shall be forever with the Lord.
• When disappointment, grief and fear are gone,
• Sorrow forgot, love’s purest joys restored.
• Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past
• All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Verse 5

• Be still, my soul: begin the song of praise
• On earth, believing, to Thy Lord on high;
• Acknowledge Him in all thy words and ways,
• So shall He view thee with a well pleased eye.
• Be still, my soul: the Sun of life divine
• Through passing clouds shall but more brightly shine.

I Will Praise Him

Hymn lyrics and music by Margret J. Harris

Verse 1

• When I saw the cleansing fountain
• Open wide for all my sin,
• I obeyed the Spirit’s wooing,
• When He said, “Wilt thou be clean?”

Chorus

• I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
• Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
• Give Him glory, all ye people,
• For His blood can wash away each stain.

Verse 2

• Though the way seems straight and narrow,
• All I claimed was swept away;
• My ambitions, plans and wishes,
• At my feet in ashes lay.

Chorus

Verse 3

• Then God’s fire upon the altar
• Of my heart was set aflame;
• I shall never cease to praise Him
• Glory, glory to His Name!

Chorus

Verse 4

• Blessed be the Name of Jesus!
• I’m so glad He took me in;
• He’s forgiven my transgressions,
• He has cleansed my heart from sin.

Chorus

Verse 5

• Glory, glory to the Father!
• Glory, glory to the Son!
• Glory, glory to the Spirit!
• Glory to the Three in One!

Chorus

O Day of Rest and Gladness

Hymn lyrics by Christopher Wordsworth,
Music by Lowell Mason

Verse 1

• O day of rest and gladness,
• O day of joy and light,
• O balm of care and sadness,
• Most beautiful, most bright:
• On Thee, the high and lowly,
• Through ages joined in tune,¹
• Sing holy, holy, holy,
• To the great God Triune.²

Verse 2

• On Thee, at the creation,
• The light first had its birth;
• On Thee, for our salvation,
• Christ rose from depths of earth;
• On Thee, our Lord, victorious,
• The Spirit sent from heav’n,
• And thus on Thee, most glorious,
• A triple light was giv’n.

Verse 3

• Thou art a port, protected
• From storms that round us rise;
• A garden, intersected
• With streams of paradise;
• Thou art a cooling fountain
• In life’s dry, dreary sand;
• From thee, like Pisgah’s mountain,
• We view our promised land.

Verse 4

• Thou art a holy ladder,
• Where angels go and come;
• Each Sunday finds us gladder,
• Nearer to heav’n, our home;
• A day of sweet refection,³
• Thou art a day of love,
• A day of resurrection
• From earth to things above.

Verse 5

• Today on weary nations
• The heav’nly manna falls;
• To holy convocations
• The silver trumpet calls,
• Where Gospel light is glowing
• With pure and radiant beams,
• And living water flowing,
• With soul refreshing streams.

Verse 6

• New graces ever gaining
• From this our day of rest,
• We reach the rest remaining
• To spirits of the blest.
• To Holy Ghost be praises,
• To Father, and to Son;
• The church her voice upraises
• To Thee, blest Three in One.

¹Some hymnals read “Bending before the throne”—probably from Lowell Mason.
²Some hymnals read “To the great Three in One”—See Note 1 above.
³This is not an error. Refection means “Refreshment with food and drink.”

I Know of a Name (That Beautiful Name)

Hymn lyrics by Jean Perry,
Music by Mabel Johnson Camp

Verse 1

• I know of a name, a beautiful name,
• That angels brought down to earth;
• They whispered it low, one night long ago,
• To a maiden of lowly birth.

Chorus

• That beautiful name, that beautiful name,
• From sin has power to free us!
• That beautiful name, that wonderful name,
• That matchless name is Jesus!

Verse 2

• I know of a name, a beautiful name,
• That unto a Babe was given.
• The stars glittered bright throughout that glad night,
• And angels praised God in Heav’n.

Chorus

Verse 3

• The One of that name, my Savior became,
• My Savior of Calvary.
• My sins nailed Him there; my burdens He bare.
• He suffered all this for me.

Chorus

Verse 4

• I love that blest name, that wonderful name,
• Made higher than all in Heaven.
• ’Twas whispered, I know, in my heart long ago
• To Jesus my life I’ve giv’n.

Chorus

My Heart’s Prayer

Hymn lyrics by H. P. Blanchard,
Music by Ralph E. Stewart

Verse 1

• My new life I owe to Thee,
• Jesus, Lamb of Calvary;
• Sin was canceled on the tree,
• Jesus, blessed Jesus.
  

Verse 2

• Humbly at Thy cross I’d stay,
• Jesus, keep me there, I pray;
• Teach me more of thee each day,
  
• Jesus, blessed Jesus.
  

Verse 3

• Grant me wisdom, grace and pow’r,
• Lord, I need Thee ev’ry hour;
• Let my will be lost in Thine,
  
• Jesus, blessed Jesus.
  

Verse 4

• Savior, Thou hast heard my plea,
• Thou art near—so near to me;
• Now I feel Thy strength’ning pow’r,
  
• Jesus, blessed Jesus.
  

The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power (1912)

Hymn lyrics by Civilla D. Martin,
Music by Walter S. Martin

Verse 1

• The blood that Jesus once shed for me,
• As my Redeemer, upon the tree;
• The blood that setteth the pris’ner free,
• Will never lose its pow’r.

Chorus

• It will never lose its pow’r,
• It will never lose its pow’r;
• The blood that cleanses from all sin
• Will never lose its pow’r.

Verse 2

• It gives us access to God on high,
• From “far off places” it brings us nigh;
• To precious blessings that never die,
• It will never lose its pow’r.

Chorus

Verse 3

• It is a shelter for rich and poor,
• It is to Heaven the open door;
• The sinner’s merit forevermore,
• It will never lose its pow’r.

Chorus

Verse 4

• And when with all the blood washed throng
• We sing in glory redemption’s song;
• We’ll pass the glorious truth along,
• It has never lost its pow’r.

Chorus

I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go

Hymn lyrics by Mary Brown and Charles E. Prior,
Music by Carrie E. Rounsefell

Verse 1

• It may not be on the mountain’s height, or over the stormy sea;
• It may not be at the battle’s front my Lord will have need of me;
• But if by a still, small voice He calls to paths I do not know,
• I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in Thine,¹
• I’ll go where You want me to go.

Chorus

• I’ll go where You want me to go, dear Lord,
• O’er mountain, or plain, or sea;
• I’ll say what You want me to say, dear Lord,
• I’ll be what You want me to be.

Verse 2

• Perhaps today there are loving words which Jesus would have me speak;
• There may be now, in the paths of sin, some wand’rer whom I should seek.
• O Savior, if Thou wilt² be my Guide, though dark and rugged the way,
• My voice shall echo the message sweet,
• I’ll say what You want me to say.

Chorus

Verse 3

• There’s surely somewhere a lowly place in earth’s harvest fields so wide,
• Where I may labor through life’s short day for Jesus, the Crucified.
• So, trusting my all unto Thy³ care, I know Thou lovest⁴ me!
• I’ll do Your will with a heart sincere,
• I’ll be what You want me to be.

Chorus
¹Some hymnals read “Yours”
²Some hymnals read “You will”
³Some hymnals read “Your”
⁴Some hymnals read “You always love”

Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid

Hymn lyrics by John M. Neale,
Music by Henry W. Baker

Verse 1

• Art thou weary, art thou languid,
• Art thou sore distressed?
• “Come to Me,” saith One, “and coming,
• Be at rest.”

Verse 2

• Hath He marks to lead me to Him,
• If He be my Guide?
• In His feet and hands are wound prints
• And His side.

Verse 3

• Hath He diadem, as monarch,
• That His brow adorns?
• Yes, a crown in very surety,
• But of thorns.

Verse 4

• If I find Him, if I follow,
• What His guerdon¹ here?
• Many a sorrow, many a labor,
• Many a tear.

Verse 5

• If I still hold closely to Him,
• What hath He at last?
• Sorrow vanquished, labor ended,
• Jordan passed.

Verse 6

• If I ask Him to receive me,
• Will He say me nay?
• Not till earth and not till Heaven
• Pass away.

Verse 7

• Finding, following, keeping, struggling,
• Is He sure to bless?
• Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs,
• Answer, Yes!

¹A reward or recompense.

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 o’er, 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 Heav’n, Alleluia!
• Praise to Thee by both be giv’n, 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.