The Lesser Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns, Selected Chiefly from the Standard Hymn-bookNelson & Phillips, 1875 - 272 pages |
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adore angels Azmon blest bliss breast bright Broomsgrove cheer CHORUS CHORUS-I Christ cross crown dark death delight Devizes dwell dying earth endless ESUS eternal everlasting everlasting song eyes faith Father fear feel forever give glorious glory gracious grief guilty Hallelujah happy hast hath hear heart heaven heavenly hell help me sing Holy Ghost hope Hosanna hour humble Hymn Jesus JOSEPH F joyful joyfully King Lamb Lamb of God land let thy light live Lord love at home love divine mercy Meribah Nearer never Northfield o'er Olmutz Ortonville pain peace perfect Peterboro Phuvah pray prayer precious ransom'd Redeemer reign rejoice rest rise sacred saints salvation Saviour Saviour bleed shine sing sinners sins skies song sorrow soul sound sov'reign sweet tears thee there's love thine thou art throne thy grace thy love thy name thyself tongues trust truth voice Wesley
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Page 182 - In the cross of Christ I glory,' Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page 122 - BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love ; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. 2 Before our Father's throne, We pour our ardent prayers ; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, — Our comforts and our cares.
Page 57 - HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled breast ; 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary rest.
Page 11 - We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is thy command; Vast as eternity thy love; Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.
Page 25 - He comes the prisoners to release, In Satan's bondage held ; The gates of brass before Him burst, The iron fetters yield.
Page 185 - Jesus, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shalt be. Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own.
Page 11 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and he destroy.
Page 10 - FROM all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise : Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue. 2 Eternal .are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word ; Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 8 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs, With angels round the throne ; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 "Worthy the Lamb that died"— they cry, "To be exalted thus :"— "Worthy the Lamb"— our lips reply,
Page 145 - Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise.