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The Word is like a garden, Lord

Author: Edwin Hodder Appears in 158 hymnals Used With Tune: SOHO

Soon With Resistless Arm Shall Death

Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Soon with resistless arm shall death Assert its sovereign claim, And summon man to yield his breath To Him whence first it came. 2 Like crowded forest trees we stand, And some are marked to fall: The axe will smite at God’s command, And soon shall smite us all. 3 Green as the bay tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, I have seen; I passed—and they were gone. 4 No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come, No human power our life secure And save us from the tomb. 5 Lord! may we mark the awful truth, Revealed in sacred page— A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 6 Lord! teach me henceforth so to live, And number all my days, That in Thy strength I now may strive To walk in wisdom’s ways. 7 And since the fatal shafts of death Are flying all around, Prepare us to resign our breath, Nor dread the threatened wound. Used With Tune: SOHO Text Sources: Select Portions of the Psalms, from Various Translations by John Kempthorne (London: J. Hatchard, 1810)

The Mysteries of Providence

Appears in 1,134 hymnals First Line: God moves in a mysterious way Used With Tune: [God moves in a mysterious way]

See Israel's Gentle Shepherd Stand

Author: Philip Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 487 hymnals Lyrics: 1 See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand With all-engaging charms; Hark! how He calls the tender lambs, And folds them in His arms. 2 "O let the children come," He cries, "Nor scorn their humble name; For 'twas to bless such souls, as these The Lord of angels came." 3 We bring them, Lord, in thankful hands, And yield them up to Thee; O gentle Saviour, we are Thine, Thine let our children be. Amen. Topics: Family Life Prayers; St. Michael's Day Scripture: Matthew 19:15 Used With Tune: SOHO

My God, my King

Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1703-1847 Meter: 4.4.6 D Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Adoration and Worship; The Christian Life Joy and Thanksgiving Used With Tune: SPRINGTIDE HOUR

The morn of life

Appears in 78 hymnals First Line: Oh, in the morn of life Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:8-10 Used With Tune: [Oh, in the morn of life]

Talk with Us, Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals First Line: Talk with us, Lord, Thyself reveal Lyrics: 1. Talk with us, Lord, Thyself reveal, While here o’er earth we rove; Speak to our hearts, and let us feel The kindling of Thy love. 2. With Thee conversing, we forget All time, and toil, and care; Labor is rest, and pain is sweet, If Thou, my God, art here. 3. Here, then, my God, vouchsafe to stay, And bid my heart rejoice; My bounding heart shall own Thy sway, And echo to Thy voice. 4. Thou callest me to seek Thy face, ’Tis all I wish to seek; To attend the whispers of Thy grace, And hear Thee inly speak. 5. Let this my every hour employ, Till I Thy glory see; Enter into my master’s joy, And find my heaven in Thee. Used With Tune: SOHO Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740. The original version had an additional first stanza that began, Saviour, Who ready art to hear. The current version first appeared in the Wesley Hymn Book, 1780

There is a Land of Pure Delight

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,406 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 heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest 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 Oh, 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. Amen. Topics: Eternity Used With Tune: SOHO