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The World's Best Hymns

Editor: Louis K. Harlow
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1892
Language: English
Notes: Includes an introduction by J.W. Churchill
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1Gently, Lord, oh, gently lead usPage Scan
2God moves in a mysterious wayPage Scan
3Jesu, Lover of my soulPage Scan
4Watchman, tell us of the nightPage Scan
5While shepherds watched their flocks by nightPage Scan
6It came upon the midnight clearPage Scan
7Shout the glad tidings, exultingly singPage Scan
8Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comesPage Scan
9Brightest and best of the sons of the morningPage Scan
10Go to dark GethsemanePage Scan
11All hail the power of Jesus' name!Page Scan
12Hail to the Lord's anointedPage Scan
13Before Jehovah's awful thronePage Scan
14God is love! his mercy brightensPage Scan
15Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!Page Scan
16When all Thy mercies, O my GodPage Scan
17From all that dwell below the skiesPage Scan
18Praise to God, immortal praisePage Scan
19O Jesu, thou art standingPage Scan
20My faith looks up to theePage Scan
21Jesus, I my cross have takenPage Scan
22Softly now the light of dayPage Scan
23Rock of Ages, cleft for mePage Scan
24Abide with me! fast falls the eventidePage Scan
25The morning light is breakingPage Scan
26Nearer, my God, to TheePage Scan
27I think, when I read that sweet story of oldPage Scan
28Just as I am, without one pleaPage Scan
29Whilst thee I seek, protecting powerPage Scan
30Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah!Page Scan
31By cool Siloam's shady rillPage Scan
32From Greenland's icy mountainsPage Scan
33I would not live alway,— live always below!Page Scan
34Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloomPage Scan
35There is a happy landPage Scan
36There is a land of pure delightPage Scan
37Hark! hark, my soul! angelic songs are swellingPage Scan
38Lord, dismiss us with thy blessingPage Scan
39O Paradise! O ParadisePage Scan
40Children of the heavenly kingPage Scan
41O star of Truth, down shiningPage Scan
42Still, still with thee, when purple morning breakethPage Scan
43I was a wandering sheepPage Scan
44In heavenly love abidingPage Scan
45In the cross of Christ I gloryPage Scan
46O holy Saviour Friend unseenPage Scan
47When I survey the wondrous crossPage Scan
48Saviour, breathe an evening blessingPage Scan
49Welcome, happy morningPage Scan
50When morning gilds the skiesPage Scan
51Hark, my soul, it is the LordPage Scan
52Blest be the tie that bindsPage Scan
53Fierce was the wild billowPage Scan
54Hark, the herald angels singPage Scan
55I heard the voice of Jesus sayPage Scan
56Jerusalem, the golden!Page Scan
57A charge to keep I havePage Scan
58Oh, could I speak the matchless worthPage Scan
59Onward, Christian soldiers!Page Scan
60Our blest Redeemer, ere HYe breathedPage Scan
61Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dearPage Scan
62The shadows of the evening hoursPage Scan
63Hark! what mean those holy voicesPage Scan
64A few more years shall rollPage Scan
65As pants the hart for cooling streamsPage Scan
66O mother dear, Jerusalem!Page Scan
67Dawn purples all the east with lightPage Scan
68Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so brightPage Scan
69Christ to the young man said: Yet one thing morePage Scan
70Lord of all being! throned afarPage Scan
71O Love Divine, that stooped to sharePage Scan
72Sunlight upon Judaea's hillsPage Scan
73From every stormy wind that blowsPage Scan
74The Son of God goes forth to warPage Scan
75Oh, worship the KingPage Scan
76Up to those bright and gladsome hillsPage Scan
77A mighty fortress is our GodPage Scan
78When Israel, of the Lord belovedPage Scan
79The King of love my shepherd isPage Scan
80Thou say'st, Take up thy crossPage Scan
81Beyond, beyond that boundless seaPage Scan
82Father, I know that all my lifePage Scan
83City of God, how broad and farPage Scan
84Day of wrath,—that day of daysPage Scan
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