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.”

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.

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!

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

Arise, My Soul, Arise

Hymn lyrics by Charles Wesley,
Music by Lewis Edson,
Alternate Tune by Daniel B. Towner (with slightly rearranged words)

Verse 1

• Arise, my soul, arise;
• Shake off thy guilty fears;
• The bleeding sacrifice
• In my behalf appears:
• Before the throne my surety stands,
• Before the throne my surety stands,
• My name is written on His hands.

Verse 2

• He ever lives above,
• For me to intercede;
• His all redeeming love,
• His precious blood, to plead:
• His blood atoned for all our race,
• His blood atoned for all our race,
• And sprinkles now the throne of grace.

Verse 3

• Five bleeding wounds He bears;
• Received on Calvary;
• They pour effectual prayers;
• They strongly plead for me:
• “Forgive him, O forgive,” they cry,
• “Forgive him, O forgive,” they cry,
• “Nor let that ransomed sinner die!”

Verse 4

• The Father hears Him pray,
• His dear anointed One;
• He cannot turn away,
• The presence of His Son;
• His Spirit answers to the blood,
• His Spirit answers to the blood,
• And tells me I am born of God.

Verse 5

• My God is reconciled;
• His pardoning voice I hear;
• He owns me for His child;
• I can no longer fear:
• With confidence I now draw nigh,
• With confidence I now draw nigh,
• And “Father, Abba, Father,” cry.

Saved by the Blood of the Crucified One

Hymn lyrics by S. J. Henderson,
Music by Daniel B. Towner

Verse 1

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Now ransomed from sin and a new work begun,

Sing praise to the Father and praise to the Son,

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Chorus

Glory, I’m saved! Glory, I’m saved!

My sins are all pardoned, my guilt is all gone!

Glory, I’m saved! Glory, I’m saved!

I am saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Verse 2

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

The angels rejoicing because it is done;

A child of the Father, joint heir with the Son,

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Chorus

Verse 3

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

The Father He spake, and His will it was done;

Great price of my pardon, His own precious Son;

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Chorus

Verse 4

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

All hail to the Father, all hail to the Son,

All hail to the Spirit, the great Three in One!

Saved by the blood of the Crucified One!

Chorus