Christian Hymns

Christian Worship On Joining The Church. O, happy day, that fixed my choiceOn thee, my Saviour and my Lord!Well may this glowing heart rejoice,And tell its raptures all abroad! O, happy bond, that seals my vowsTo Him who merits all my love!Let cheerful anthems fill the house,While to his altar now I move. Now rest, […]

Christian Worship God Merciful In Affliction. Mysterious are the ways of God,And fear and blindness oft repine;We murmur ‘neath his chastening rod,Because we read not his design. Impending clouds his love has spreadO’er this low vale where mortals dwell;And oft we mourn his spirit fled,When adverse tempests round us swell. But in those storms that […]

Christian Worship God Good And Omniscient. How precious are thy thoughts of peace,O God! to me,-how great the sum!New every morn, they never cease;They were, they are, and yet shall come,In number and in compass moreThan ocean’s sand, or ocean’s shore. Search me, O God! and know my heart,Try me, my secret soul survey;And warn […]

Christian Worship The Gospel Feast. On Zion, his most holy mount,God will a feast prepare;And Israel’s sons, and Gentile lands,Shall in the banquet share. See to the vilest of the vileA free acceptance given!See rebels, by adopting grace,Sit with the heirs of heaven! The pained, the sick, the dying, nowTo ease and health restored,With eager […]

Christian Worship Praying For Divine Help. O Help us, Lord! each hour of needThy heavenly succor give;Help us in thought, and word, and deed,Each hour on earth we live. O help us, when our spirits bleed,With contrite anguish sore,And when our hearts are cold and dead,O help us, Lord, the more. O help us through […]

Christian Worship Anniversary Of Independence. We come with joy and gladnessTo breathe our songs of praise,Nor let one note of sadnessBe mingled in our lays;For ’tis a hallowed story,This theme of freedom’s birth:Our fathers’ deeds of gloryAre echoed round the earth. The sound is waxing stronger,And thrones and nations hear-Proud men shall rule no longer,For […]

Christian Worship God-our Father. Great God! and wilt thou condescendTo be my Father and my Friend?I but a child, and thou so high,The Lord of earth and air and sky! Art thou my Father?-Let me beA meek, obedient child to thee;And try, in every deed and thought,To serve and please thee as I ought. Art […]

Christian Worship Prayer For Religious Principle. Amidst a world of hopes and fears,A wild of cares, and toils, and tears,Where foes alarm and dangers threat,And pleasures kill, and glories cheat: Shed down, O Lord! a heavenly ray,To guide me in the doubtful way;And o’er me hold thy shield of power,To guard me in the dangerous […]

Christian Worship The Gospel Gives Peace And Rest. Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moanHath taught these rocks the notes of woe;Cease thy complaints, suppress thy groan,And let thy tears forget to flow:Behold the precious balm is found,Which lulls thy pain, which heals thy wound. Come, freely come; by sin oppressed,Unburden here the weighty load,Here find […]

Christian Worship Death Of A Teacher. Farewell, dear friend! a long farewell!For we shall meet no moreTill we are raised with thee to dwellOn Zion’s happy shore. Our friend and brother, lo! is dead!The cold and lifeless clayHas made in dust its silent bed,And there it must decay. Farewell, dear friend, again farewell,-Soon we shall […]