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There Is a Land of Pure Delight

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,408 hymnals Lyrics: 1. There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav’nly land from ours. 3. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5. O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy thoughts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes! 6. Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o’er, Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707

On God Alone My Soul Relies

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Burden-Bearer, God Or Christ Our; Deliverance From Enemies; Hardening; Hearer Of Prayer, God The; Betrayal; Trust and Confidence Scripture: Psalm 55 Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION

Jesus my Saviour and my King

Author: Rev. J. W. Howe Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: GEORGIA

The Evils That Beset Our Path

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 42 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The evils that beset our path Who can prevent or cure? We stand upon the brink of death When most we seem secure. 2 If we today sweet peace possess, It soon may be withdrawn; Some change may plunge us in distress, Before tomorrow’s dawn. 3 Disease and pain invade our health And find an easy prey; And oft, when least expected, wealth Takes wings and flies away. 4 A fever or a blow can shake Our wisdom’s boasted rule; And of the brightest genius make A madman or a fool. 5 The gourds, from which we look for fruit, Produce us only pain; A worm unseen attacks the root, And all our hopes are vain. 6 I pity those who seek no more Than such a world can give; Wretched they are, and blind, and poor, And dying while they live. 7 Since sin has filled the earth with woe, And creatures fade and die; Lord wean our hearts from things below, And fix our hopes on high. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London, W. Oliver, 1779), Book 1

Thou Who Hast Called Our Being Here

Author: James T. Fields, 1817-1881 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thou who hast called our being here, And given us souls to save, Who taught us more of love than fear, Of Heaven than of the grave— 2 To Thee in every mortal hour With confidence we turn, And feeling Thine abiding power, Our hearts with rapture burn. 3 "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done," May all Thy children say, And thank Thee, Father, for Thy Son, Who taught us how to pray. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION

Jehovah, to my prayer give ear

Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION

I Take The Journey Of A Day

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I take the journey of a day, Thy sun, Lord, gives me light; The moon and stars, Thy voice obey, And watch me through the night. 2 For mercies every hour bestowed Unceasing thanks are due; Now, ’midst the dangers of the road, Lord, bring me safely through. 3 Upheld by Thine almighty arm, And guided by Thine eye, Storms cannot crush, nor lightnings harm, Sickness nor plague come nigh. 4 Thou art Thy people’s sun and shield, Their glory and defense; All elements allegiance yield To sovereign Providence. 5 But not in Providence alone The Godhead’s footsteps shine, In grace are mightier wonders shown, Of love and power divine. 6 As these thus far on pilgrimage, My lengthened course attend, So may they lead me stage by stage, To mine appointed end. 7 When all my journeyings here must cease, And life no more shall be; Lord, let me then depart in peace, From everything but Thee. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION Text Sources: Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853)

Sweet Flowers Are Blooming In God's Sight

Author: Matilda B. Stevenson Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Sweet flowers are blooming in God’s sight Lyrics: 1 Sweet flowers are blooming in God’s sight, Created by His word, Beneath His heav’n of sunny light, By spring’s quick pulses stirred. 2 Through sky blue depths the larks do sing: Their music fills the air; What is it makes their voices ring With gladness everywhere? 3 It is the love of God, I know, His world with joy doth fill; His birds that sing, His flowers that blow, Each of them does His will. 4 If He is glad when small birds sing, And flowers drink the dew, Can I, His child, do anything To bring Him service too? 5 I am not wise, nor great, nor strong, But I His will may do; May love and serve Him all day long, Be innocent and true. 6 And if to birds and flowers His smile Of love and joy be giv’n, His child shall serve Him all the while, And find that love is Heav’n. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION

God, My Supporter and My Hope

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 223 hymnals Lyrics: 1. God, my supporter and my hope, My help for ever near, Thine arm of mercy held me up, When sinking in despair. 2. Thy counsels, Lord, shall guide my feet Through this dark wilderness; Thine hand conduct me near Thy seat, To dwell before Thy face. 3. Were I in Heav’n without my God, ’Twould be no joy to me; And whilst this earth is my abode, I long for none but Thee. 4. What if the springs of life were broke, And flesh and heart should faint? God is my soul’s eternal rock, The strength of every saint. 5. Behold, the sinners that remove Far from Thy presence die; Not all the idol gods they love Can save them when they cry. 6. But to draw near to Thee, my God, Shall be my sweet employ; My tongue shall sound Thy works abroad, And tell the world my joy. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

By Whom Shall Jacob Now Arise?

Author: Thomas Kelly Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Lyrics: 1 By whom shall Jacob now arise? For Jacob’s friends are few, And—what should fill us with surprise— They seem divided, too. 2 By whom shall Jacob now arise? For Jacob’s foes are strong. I read their triumph in their eyes, They think he’ll fail ere long. 3 By whom shall Jacob now arise? Can any tell by whom? Say, shall this branch that withered lies, Again revive and bloom? 4 Lord, Thou canst tell—the work is Thine, The help of man is vain. On Jacob now arise and shine, And he shall live again. Used With Tune: ASCRIPTION Text Sources: Hymns on Various Passages of Scriptures, 1804