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I'm But a Stranger Here

Author: Thomas R. Taylor Meter: 10.10.12.10 Appears in 627 hymnals First Line: I'm but a stranger here, Heav'n is my home Lyrics: 1. I’m but a stranger here, Heav’n is my home; Earth is a desert drear, Heav’n is my home. Danger and sorrow stand round me on every hand; Heav’n is my fatherland, Heav’n is my home. 2. What though the tempest rage, Heav’n is my home; Short is my pilgrimage, Heav’n is my home; Time’s cold and wild wintry blast soon shall be over past; I shall reach home at last, Heav’n is my home. 3. There at my Savior’s side Heav’n is my home; I shall be glorified, Heav’n is my home. There are the good and blest, those I loved most and best; There, too, I soon shall rest, Heav’n is my home. 4. Therefore I murmur not, Heav’n is my home; Whate’er my earthly lot, Heav’n is my home; And I shall surely stand there at my Lord’s right hand. Heav’n is my fatherland, Heav’n is my home. Used With Tune: ST. EDMUND (Sullivan)

Glory To God! We Were In Bitter Need

Author: A. M. M. Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Glory to God! We were in bitter need, We sat in darkness long and weary days; But now our light is come, the Light indeed, And we may rise and shine with kindred rays; The God-Man comes down so we can now ascend, The Guiltless drinks guilt’s woes to work their end. 2 O mystic gift of God Omnipotent! O happiness for man, most deep, most dear! This is no theme for subtle argument, No lore of earth hath lot or portion here; That the Great God should so abasèd be— We speak, we cannot search, the mystery. 3 The dew of God is on the parchèd fleece, The sapless rod blooms with immortal flowers, The virgin bears a Son, our utter peace, Nor knows pollution in her travail’s hours; We cannot speak that birth, but we confess Most great the mystery of godliness. 4 Though it may chance the shipmen toil and row, With countless wrecks far strewn on either hand, They see a star above the waters glow, There is an ark which sights the pleasant land; There is a door of life set wide, which none Can open to lorn souls, can shut, save One. 5 O not with observation came He then Into our world, but soon the day shall be When with great glory He shall come again With all His saints, and every eye shall see Him whom they piercèd. When we meet Thee thus Let there be mercy, O our God, on us. Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE Text Sources: Missal of Noyon; Tr.: Lyra Messianica by Orby Shipley (London: Longman, Green, Longman, roberts & Green, 1864)

Almost Persuaded

Author: Philip P. Bliss Appears in 750 hymnals First Line: Almost persuaded now to believe Lyrics: 1. Almost persuaded now to believe; Almost persuaded Christ to receive; Seems now some soul to say, Go, Spirit, go Thy way, Some more convenient day On Thee I’ll call. 2. Almost persuaded, come, come today; Almost persuaded, turn not away; Jesus invites you here, Angels are lingering near Prayers rise from hearts so dear; O wanderer, come! 3. Almost persuaded, harvest is past! Almost persuaded, doom comes at last! Almost cannot avail; Almost is but to fail! Sad, sad, that bitter wail— Almost, but lost! Used With Tune: CAESAREA Text Sources: The Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music, 1871

O Sing to the Lord, Whose Bountiful Hand

Author: Richard F. Littledale Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O sing to the Lord, whose bountiful hand Again doth accord His gifts to the land. His clouds have shed down their plenteousness here, His goodness shall crown the hopes of the year. 2. In clefts of the hills the founts He hath burst, And poureth their rills through valleys athirst, The river of God the pastures has blest, The dry, withered sod in greenness is dressed. 3. And every fold shall team with its sheep, With harvests of gold the fields shall be deep; The vales shall rejoice with laughter and song, And man’s grateful voice the music prolong. 4. So too may He pour, the Last and the First, His graces in store on spirits athirst, Till, when the great day of harvest hath come, He takes us away to garner at home. Used With Tune: 67TH PSALM Text Sources: People's Hymnal, 1867

The Heavens Declare Thy Glory (Birks)

Author: Thomas Birks Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 58 hymnals First Line: The heavens declare Thy glory Lyrics: 1. The heavens declare Thy glory, The firmament Thy power; Day unto day the story Repeats from hour to hour; Night unto night replying, Proclaims in every land, O Lord, with voice undying, The wonders of Thy hand. 2. The sun with royal splendor Goes forth to chant Thy praise; And moonbeams soft and tender Their gentler anthem raise; O’er every tribe and nation That music strange is poured, The song of all creation, To Thee, creation’s Lord. 3. How perfect, just, and holy The precepts Thou hast given; Still making wise the lowly, They lift the thoughts to heaven; How pure, how soul restoring Thy Gospel’s heavenly ray, A brighter radiance pouring Than noon of brightest day. 4. All heaven on high rejoices To do its Maker’s will; The stars with solemn voices Resound Thy praises still; So let my whole behavior, Thoughts, words, and actions be, O Lord, my Strength, my Savior, One ceaseless song to Thee. Used With Tune: CHENIES

Ah, What Can I Do?

Author: John Newton Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Ah, what can I do, or where be secure? Lyrics: 1. Ah, what can I do, or where be secure? If justice pursue, what heart can endure? When God speaks in thunder and makes Himself known, The heart breaks asunder though hard as a stone. 2. With terror I read my sins’ heavy score, The numbers exceed the sands on the shore; Guilt makes me unable to stand or to flee, So Cain murdered Abel, and trembled like me. 3. Each sin, like his blood, with terrible cry, Calls loudly on God to strike from on high: Nor can my repentance, extorted by fear, Reverse the just sentence; ’tis just, though severe. 4. The case is too plain, I have my own choice; Again, and again I slighted His voice; His warnings neglected, His patience abused, His Gospel rejected, His mercy refused. 5. And must I then go, forever to dwell In torments and woe with devils in hell? Oh where is the Savior I scorned in times past? His word in my favor would save me at last. 6. Lord Jesus, on Thee I venture to call, Oh look upon me, the vilest of all! For whom didst Thou languish and bleed on the tree? Oh pity my anguish, and say, ’Twas for thee. 7. A case such as mine will honor Thy power; All hell will repine, all Heav’n will adore; If in condemnation strict justice takes place, It shines in salvation more glorious through grace. Used With Tune: OLD 104TH Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 6.

Alpha, Omega

Author: Susan H. Peterson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Alpha, Omega, beginning and end Lyrics: 1. Alpha, Omega, beginning and end, Who is, who was, and who is yet to come— May grace and peace now upon us descend From Father, Spirit, and Christ the Son. 2. Lord Jesus Christ, First and Last, faithful e’er, Once You were dead; now You live evermore. The keys to death and to hell You now bear. You rule the kings of earth by Your power. 3. To Him who loves us and shed His own blood— All of our sins in His body He bore, Made us a kingdom and priests serving God— To Him be glory, pow’r evermore! 4. Look, He is coming! With clouds He’s adorned. All eyes will see Him when He comes again. Because of Him, all earth’s peoples will mourn. So shall it be! Amen and amen. Used With Tune: HAMBURG

O God, in Whom We Live and Move

Author: Samuel Longfellow Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 36 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God, in whom we live and move, Thy love is law, Thy law is love; Thy present Spirit waits to fill The soul which comes to do Thy will. 2. Unto thy children’s spirits teach Thy love, beyond the powers of speech; And make them know, with joyful awe, The encircling presence of Thy law. 3. Its patient working doth fulfill Man’s hope, and God’s all-perfect will, Nor suffers one true word or thought, Or deed of love, to come to naught. 4. Such faith, O God, our spirits fill, That we may work in patience still. Who works for justice, works for Thee; Who works in love, Thy child shall be. Used With Tune: GERMANY

Come, Let Us Join Our Friends Above

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 347 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, let us join our friends above, who have obtained the prize, And on the eagle wings of love to joys celestial rise. Let saints on earth unite to sing with those to glory gone, For all the servants of our king in earth and Heaven are one. 2. One family we dwell in Him, one church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, the narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, to His command we bow; Part of His host have crossed the flood, and part are crossing now. 3. Ten thousand to their endless home this solemn moment fly, And we are to the margin come, and we expect to die. His militant embodied host, with wishful looks we stand, And long to see that happy coast, and reach the heavenly land. 4. Our old companions in distress we haste again to see, And eager long for our release, and full felicity: Even now by faith we join our hands with those that went before; And greet the blood besprinkled bands on the eternal shore. 5. Our spirits too shall quickly join, like theirs with glory crowned, And shout to see our captain’s sign, to hear His trumpet sound. O that we now might grasp our guide! O that the word were given! Come, Lord of Hosts, the waves divide, and land us all in Heaven. Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN Text Sources: Funeral Hymns, 1759

Courage, Brother, Do Not Stumble

Author: Norman MacLeod Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 181 hymnals Refrain First Line: Trust in God, trust in God Lyrics: 1. Courage, brother, do not stumble, Though thy path be dark as night; There’s a star to guide the humble: Trust in God and do the right. Let the road be rough and dreary, And its end far out of sight, Foot it bravely; strong or weary, Refrain: Trust in God, trust in God, Trust in God and do the right. 2. Perish policy and cunning, Perish all that fears the light! Whether losing, whether winning, Trust in God and do the right, Trust no party, sect or faction; Trust no leaders in the fight; Put in every word or action, [Refrain] 3. Some will hate thee, some will love thee, Some will flatter, some will slight; Cease from man, and look above thee: Trust in God and do the right. Simple rule, and safest guiding, Inward peace and inward might, Star upon our path abiding, [Refrain] Alternate form of last verse: 4. Trust no lovely forms of passion— Fiends may look like angels bright; Trust no custom, school or fashion: Trust in God, and do the right. Simple rule, and safest guiding, Inward peace, and inward might, Star upon our path abiding, [Refrain] Used With Tune: COURAGE Text Sources: First appeared as a poem in The Edinburgh Christian Magazine