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Jesu! The Very Thought is Sweet!

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux; John M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 95 hymnals First Line: Jesu! the very thought is sweet Lyrics: 1. Jesu! the very thought is sweet! In that dear name all heart-joys meet; But sweeter than the honey far The glimpses of His presence are. 2. No word is sung more sweet than this: No name is heard more full of bliss; No thought brings sweeter comfort nigh, Than Jesus, Son of God most high. 3. Jesu! the hope of souls forlorn! How good to them for sin that mourn! To them that seek Thee, O how kind! But what art Thou to them that find? 4. Jesu, Thou sweetness, pure and blest, Truth's fountain, light of souls distressed, Surpassing all that heart requires, Exceeding all that soul desires! 5. No tongue of mortal can express, No letters write His blessedness, Alone who hath Thee in his heart Knows, love of Jesus! what Thou art. 6. O Jesu! King of wondrous might! O Victor, glorious from the fight! Sweetness that may not be expressed, And altogether loveliest! 7. Remain with us, O Lord, today! In every heart Thy grace display; That now the shades of night are fled, On Thee our spirits may be fed. 8. All honor, laud and glory be, O Jesu, virgin-born, to Thee! All glory, as is ever meet, To Father and to Paraclete. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: Sometimes attributed to an 11th Century abbess

David Rejoiced in God His Strength

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 33 hymnals Lyrics: 1. David rejoiced in God his strength, Raised to the throne by special grace; But Christ the Son appears at length, Fulfills the triumph and the praise. 2. How great is the Messiah’s joy In the salvation of Thy hand! Lord, Thou hast raised His kingdom high, And giv’n the world to His command. 3. Thy goodness grants whate’er He will, Nor doth the least request withhold; Blessings of love prevent Him still, And crowns of glory, not of gold. 4. Honor and majesty divine Around His sacred temples shine; Blessed with the favor of Thy face, And length of everlasting days. 5. Thine hand shall find out all His foes; And as a fiery oven glows With raging heat and living coals, So shall Thy wrath devour their souls. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

When Israel Out of Egypt Went

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1. When Israel out of Egypt went, From people of a speech unknown, The Lord among His people dwelt, And there He set his royal throne. 2. The sea beheld and fled away, The Jordan’s waters backward turned, The lofty mountains and the hills With trembling awe our God discerned. 3. What aileth thee, O troubled sea? Thou Jordan, why thy riven tide? Ye mountains and ye little hills, Why thus dismayed on every side? 4. O tremble, earth, before the Lord, In presence of Jehovah fear, Beneath whose touch the flinty rock Became a fount of water clear. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

When Far Astray

Author: Salathial C. Kirk Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: When far astray in sin, one day Lyrics: 1 When far astray in sin, one day The loving Savior passed my way; As helpless, sick, and sore I lay Deep in the pit and miry clay. 2 He stooped and touched me in my shame; I felt His touch, I breathed His name; A thrill divine went through my soul— I felt that touch had made me whole. 3 "For you I drank the bitter cup," Thus Jesus said, and raised me up; He raised me up, O praise the Lamb, From what I was to what I am! 4 I know the depths from whence I came; Thou knowest, too, how weak my frame; Keep Thou my hand within Thine own, For, O, I dare not walk alone! 5 Close by the side of such a friend, Whose love could such a depth descend, I shall not wander from the fold, For power to save is grace to hold. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: Musings Along the Way (Philadelphia: A. H. Sickler & Company, 1900)

Children, in Years and Knowledge Young

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 67 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Children, in years and knowledge young, Your parents’ hope, your parents’ joy, Attend the counsels of my tongue, Let pious thoughts your minds employ. 2. If you desire a length of days, And peace to crown your mortal state, Restrain your feet from impious ways, Your lips from slander and deceit. 3. The eyes of God regard His saints, His ears are open to their cries; He sets His frowning face against The sons of violence and lies. 4. To humble souls and broken hearts God with His grace is ever nigh; Pardon and hope His love imparts, When men in deep contrition lie. 5. He tells their tears, He counts their groans, His Son redeems their souls from death; His Spirit heals their broken bones, They in His praise employ their breath. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

The New Song

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Beyond the hills where suns go down Lyrics: 1 Beyond the hills where suns go down, And brightly beckon as they go; I see the land of far renown, The land which I so soon shall know. 2 Above the dissonance of time, And discord of its angry words, I hear the everlasting chime, The music of unjarring chords. 3 I bid it welcome; and my haste To join it cannot brook delay; O song of morning, come at last, And ye who sing it, come away! 4 O song of light, and dawn, and bliss, Sound over earth, and fill these skies, Nor ever, ever, ever cease Thy soul entrancing melodies. 5 Glad song of this disburdened earth, Which holy voices then shall sing; Praise for creation’s second birth, And glory to creation’s king! Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: Hymns of Faith and Hope 2nd series (London, James Nisbet, 1861)

All Ye That Seek the Lord Who Died

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1. All ye that seek the Lord who died, Your God for sinners crucified, Prevent the earliest dawn, and come To worship at His sacred tomb. 2. Bring the sweet spices of your sighs, Your contrite hearts, and streaming eyes, Your sad complaints, and humble fears; Come, and embalm Him with your tears. 3. While thus ye love your souls t’employ, Your sorrow shall be turned to joy: Now, let all your grief be o’er! Believe, and ye shall weep no more. 4. An earthquake hath the cavern shook, And burst the door, and rent the rock; The Lord hath sent His angel down, And he hath rolled away the stone. 5. As snow behold his garment white, His countenance as lightning bright: He sits, and waves a flaming sword, And waits upon his rising Lord. 6. The third auspicious morn is come, And calls your Savior from the tomb, The bands of death are torn away, The yawning tomb gives back its prey. 7. Could neither seal nor stone secure, Nor men, nor devils make it sure? The seal is broke, the stone cast by, And all the powers of darkness fly. 8. The body breathes, and lifts His head, The keepers sink, and fall as dead; The dead restored to life appear, The living quake, and die for fear. 9. No power a band of soldiers have To keep one body in its grave: Surely it no dead body was That could the Roman eagles chase. 10. The Lord of Life is risen indeed, To death delivered in your stead; His rise proclaims your sins forgiv’n, And show the living way to Heav’n. 11. Haste then, ye souls that first believe, Who dare the Gospel-Word receive, Your faith with joyful hearts confess, Be bold, be Jesus’ witnesses. 12. Go tell the followers of your Lord Their Jesus is to life restored; He lives, that they His life may find; He lives, to quicken all mankind. The Garden of the Sepulcher 13. It was a night of calls and far replies, A night of trembling for that Serpent head In gulfs that were before the eldest dead— A night of whispering haste along the skies, Prayer, and a wondering down of seraph eyes; While stilled Jerusalem, washed in the moon’s light, Lay like a brood of sepulchers, ghost-white. 14. The dark was dying silverly, that strange, Still hour when Earth is falling toward the day— That hour of spacious silence and delay When all things pose upon the hinge of change. The guardsmen had grown silent on their round, Their fire was sinking, when a crash of sound— Darkness—a reel of Earth—a rush of light— Cleft rocks—then scent of aloes on the night! 15. Their faces turned to faces of the dead, Their spears fell clamoring terribly as they fled. And He stood risen in the guarded place, With empire in His gesture—on His face The hush of muted music and the might That drew the stars down on the ancient night. 16. Tall in the first-light, mystical and pale, He stood as one who dares and cannot fail, As some high conscript of the Bright Abodes, As one still called to travel on the wild roads In Love’s divine adventure—His white face Hushed with heroic purpose for the race; Yet wistful of the men who should deny Him, And wistful of the years that should belie Him. 17. With peace of heart the blind world could not break, He took a path the young leaves keep awake. Glad of the day come back and loving all, He passed across the morning, felt the cool, Sweet, kindling air blown upward from the pool A burning bush was reddening by the wall; An oleander bough was full of stirs, Struck by the robes of unseen messengers. 18. The hills broke purpling, as the sun’s bright edge Pushed slowly up behind a rocky ledge: The hovering dome of the Temple, gray and cold, Burned out with sudden, unexpected gold. A light wind silvered up the olive slope, And all the world was wonder and wild hope! 19. Edwin Markham The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems, 1921 Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: Hymns for Our Lord's Resurrection (London: William Strahan, 1746), number 1

The World He Made He Still Sustains

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The world He made He still sustains, When then dost thou, O Israel, say, "My God forgets His people’s pains; His Jacob is a castaway"? 2 Repent thee of thy peevish haste, Recall the rash desponding word, No more complain, "The hour is past, And I have wearied out my Lord." 3 Hast thou not heard, hast thou not known, The everlasting God, that laid The earth’s foundations, rules alone, Nor faints to bear the world He made? 4 Jehovah is unchangeable, His ways, and thought, are not as ours, He cheers the languid souls that fail, And quickens all their drooping powers. 5 Gently He lifts the fallen up, He gives them faith, and faith’s increase, Revives their feeble, dying hope, And fills with love, and joy and peace. 6 Blasted, the vigor of the young Shall fade, and suddenly decay; The bold, and confident, and strong, Shall fear, despair, and die away. 7 But they who wait upon the Lord Shall surely find His promise true, Receive the quickening powerful Word, And, born of God, their strength renew. 8 Their willing souls from sin set free, Shall swiftly in His statutes move, Shall walk in glorious liberty, Shall fly upon the wings of love. 9 With eagle’s wings their souls shall rise, Steady and strong to Heaven soar, Regain on earth their native skies, And faint, and fall, and sin no more. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742

Thy Broken Body, Gracious Lord

Author: Samuel P. Tregelles, 1813-1875 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 25 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thy broken body, gracious Lord, Is shadowed by this broken bread; The wine which in this cup is poured, Points to the blood which Thou hast shed. 2. And while we meet together thus, We show that we are one in Thee; Thy precious blood was shed for us, Thy death, O Lord, hast set us free! 3. We have one hope that Thou wilt come, Thee in the air we wait to see, When Thou wilt give Thy saints a home, And we shall ever reign with Thee. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED

Lord, What Was Man?

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 56 hymnals First Line: Lord, what was man, when made at first Lyrics: 1. Lord, what was man, when made at first, Adam the offspring of the dust, That Thou shouldst set him and his race But just below an angel’s place? 2. That Thou shouldst raise his nature so, And make him lord of all below; Make every beast and bird submit, And lay the fishes at his feet? 3. But O! what brighter glories wait To crown the second Adam’s state! What honors shall Thy Son adorn, Who condescended to be born! 4. See Him below His angels made; See Him in dust amongst the dead, To save a ruined world from sin; But He shall reign with power divine. 5. The world to come, redeemed from all The mis’ries that attend the fall, New made and glorious, shall submit At our exalted Savior’s feet. Used With Tune: ABSCHIED Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719