The Devotional Hymn Book

Editor: American Baptist Publication Society
Publisher: American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, Penn., 1864
Denomination: Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions (U.S.)
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d201How sad our state [fate] by nature is
d202How shall the sons of men appear
d203How shall the young secure their hearts
d204How short and hasty is our life
d205How sweet and awful [holy] [sacred] is the place
d206How sweet, how [and] heavenly is the sight
d207How sweet [sweetly] upon this sacred day
d208How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
d209How sweetly flowed the gospel's sound
d210How tedious and tasteless [restless and tiresome] the hours
d211I asked the Lord that I might grow
d212I cannot call affliction sweet
d213I have a Father in the promised land
d214I lay my sins on Jesus
d215I love thy kingdom, Lord
d216I love to steal awhile away
d217I love to think of the heavenly land
d218I love to think [sing] of heaven, where white robed angels are
d219I send the joys of earth away
d220I was a wandering sheep
d221I would not live alway [always], I ask not to stay
d222If human kindness meets return
d223If I must die, O, let me die, With hope
d224I'm a pilgrim and I'm a stranger, I can tarry
d225I'm but a stranger [traveler] here, heaven is my home
d226I'm not ashamed to own my [the] Lord
d227In all my Lord's appointed ways
d228In all my [our] vast concerns with thee
d229In duties and in sufferings too
d230In evil long I took delight
d231In the Christian's home in [of] glory
d232In the cross of Christ I [we] glory, towering
d233In thy name, O Lord, assembling We, thy people, now draw near
d234In vain I search creation o'er
d235In vain we seek for peace with God By methods of our own
d236Inquiring souls, who long to find
d237Inscribed upon the cross we see
d238Is this the kind return
d239Jerusalem, my happy home, name ever dear to me
d240Jesus, and shall it ever be
d241Jesus, delightful, charming name
d242Jesus demands this heart of mine
d243Jesus, I love thy charming name
d244Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave
d245Jesus, in thy transporting name
d246Jesus, let thy pitying eye
d247Jesus, Lover [Savior] of my soul, Let me to thy bosom [refuge] fly
d248Jesus, my [mine] [our] all, to heaven is [has] gone
d249Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
d250Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend
d251Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts
d252Jesus, thy boundless love to me
d253Jesus, where'er thy people meet
d254Jesus, who knows full well
d255Join all the glorious names
d256Joy to the world, the Lord is [has] come
d257Joyfully, joyfully, onward I [we] move
d258Just as thou art, without one trace Of love or joy
d259Kindred in Christ, for his dear [name's] sake
d260Know, my soul, thy full salvation
d261Laborers of Christ, arise
d262Let every mortal ear attend
d263Let me but hear my [the] Savior say
d264Let sinners take their course
d265Let Zion's watchman all awake
d266Life's journey we have started
d267Live on the field of battle
d268Lo on a narrow neck of land
d269Look ye saints the sight is glorious
d270Lord, deliver; Thou canst save
d271Lord, dismiss us with Thy [your] blessing, Bid us now depart in peace
d272Lord, I hear of [that] [the] showers of blessing
d273Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear My voice ascending high
d274Lord, lead the way the [my] [our] Savior went
d275Lord, look on all assembled here
d276Lord, may our sympathizing breasts
d277Lord, may thy goodness cause our land
d278Lord of my life, O may thy praise
d279Lord, send thy servants forth, To call the Hebrews home
d280Lord, send thy word, and let it fly [run]
d281Lord, 'tis sweet to mingle where
d282Lord, we come before thee now
d283Lord, what a feeble piece
d284Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I
d285Lord, when we bow before thy throne
d286Lord, while for all mankind we pray
d287Love is the fountain, whence
d288Majestic sweetness sits enthroned upon the Savior's brow
d289Mary to her [the] Savior's tomb
d290May I resolve with all my heart
d291Meekly in Jordan's holy stream
d292Mercy, O thou Son of David
d293Mourn for the thousands slain
d294Must Jesus bear the [his] cross alone
d295My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty
d296My days are gliding swiftly by
d297My dear Redeemer, and my Lord
d298My drowsy powers, why sleep ye [you] so
d299My faith looks up to thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary
d300My former hopes are dead [fled], my terror now begins

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