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I call on thee, Lord Jesus Christ

Author: Miles Coverdale, 1487-1568 Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: I call on thee, Lord Jesus Christ, I have none other help but thee. My heart is never set at rest till thy sweet word have comforted me. And steadfast faith grant me therefore, to hold by thy word evermore, above all thing, never resisting but to increase in faith more and more. Topics: Holy Scripture Used With Tune: ICH RUF ZU DIR

Zion, praise thy Savior, singing

Author: Thomas Aquinas, 1225?-1274 Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Holy Eucharist Used With Tune: LAUDA SION SALVATOREM Text Sources: Tr.: Hymnal 1940; Rev.: Hymnal 1982

O Jesus Christ, may grateful hymns be rising

Author: Bradford Gray Webster, b. 1898 Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 20 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Jesus Christ, may grateful hymns be rising, in every city for your love and care; inspire our worship, grant the glad surprising that your blest Spirit rouses everywhere. 2 Grant us new courage, sacrificial, humble, strong in your strength to venture and to dare; to lift the fallen, guide the feet that stumble, seek out the lonely and God's mercy share. 3 Show us your Spirit, brooding o'er each city, as you once wept above Jerusalem, seeking to gather all in love and pity, and healing those who touch your garment's hem. Used With Tune: CHARTERHOUSE

Glory, love, and praise, and honor

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.3.3.6 D Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Glory, love, and praise, and honor for our food now bestowed render we the Donor. Bounteous God, we now confess thee: God, who thus blessest us, right it is to bless thee. 2. Thankful for our every blessing, let us sing Christ the Spring, never, never ceasing. Source of all our gifts and graces, Christ we own; Christ alone calls for all our praises. 3. He dispels our sin and sadness, life imparts, cheers our hearts, fills with food and gladness. Who himself for all hath given, us he feeds, us he leads to a feast in heaven. Topics: Holy Eucharist Used With Tune: BENIFOLD

Spread, O spread, thou mighty word

Author: Jonathan Friedrich Bahnmaier, 1774-1841; Arthur William Farlander, 1898-1952; Charles Winfred Douglas, 1867-1944; F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: GOTT SEI DANK

Morning glory, starlit sky

Author: W. H. Vanstone, b. 1923 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 16 hymnals Used With Tune: BINGHAM

Christ the worker

Author: Thomas Stevenson Colvin , b. 1925 Meter: 4.4.4.9 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ the worker, Christ the worker, born in Bethlehem, born to work and die for every one. 2 Blessed manchild, blessed manchild, boy of Nazareth, grew in wisdom as he grew in skill. 3 Skillful craftsman, skillful craftsman, blessed carpenter, praising God by labor at his bench. 4 Yoke maker, yoke maker, fashioned by his hands, easy yokes that made the labor less. 5 All who labor, all who labor, listen to his call, he will make that heavy burden light. 6 Heavy laden, heavy laden, gladly come to him, he will ease your load and give you rest. 7 Christ the worker, Christ the worker, Love alive for us, teach us how to do all work for God. Topics: Christian Responsibility Used With Tune: AFRICAN WORK SONG Text Sources: Ghanaian work song

so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: Gabriel's message does away Lyrics: 1. Gabriel's message does away Satan's curse and Satan's sway, out of darkness brings our Day: Refrain: so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold. 2. He that comes despised shall reign; he that cannot die, be slain; death by death its death shall gain: [Refrain] 3. Weakness shall the strong confound; by the hands, in grave clothes wound, Adam's chains shall be unbound. [Refrain] 4. Art by art shall be assailed; to the cross shall Life be nailed; from the grave shall hope be hailed: [Refrain] Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Used With Tune: ANGELUS EMITTITUR Text Sources: Piae Cantiones, 1582

Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen

Author: Thomas Aquinas, 1225?-1274 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Holy Eucharist Used With Tune: ADORO DEVOTE Text Sources: Tr. sts. 1-3: The Hymnal 1940 ; Tr. st. 4: Hymnal 1982

As now the sun shines down at noon

Author: Charles P. Price, b. 1920; Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Noonday Used With Tune: JESU DULCIS MEMORIA