Christian Hymns

Christian Worship The Reconciliation. Thou, whose wide extended swaySuns and systems e’er obey!Thou, our Guardian and our Stay,Evermore adored:In prospective, Lord, we seeJew and Gentile, bond and free,Reconciled in Christ to thee,Holy, holy Lord. Thou by all shalt be confessed,Ever blessing, ever blest,When to thy eternal rest,In the courts above,Thou shall bring the sore oppressed;Fill […]

Christian Worship Dedication Of A School-house. God of our fathers! from whose handCame all our lights and blessings down,-Who this devoted, favored landDost with thy choicest mercy crown! To Learning and to Knowledge reared-We dedicate with prayer and praiseThis edifice, to thee, reveredAbove all gods, through endless days! Accept the offering-deign to dwellWith thy confiding […]

Christian Worship The Closing Year. God of our life! thy constant careWith blessings crowns each opening year:These lives so frail thy love prolongs;Be this the burden of our songs. How many precious souls are fledTo the vast regions of the dead,Since, from this day, the changing sunThrough his last yearly course has run! We yet […]

Christian Worship Excellency Of Christ. O, could we speak the matchless worth,O, could we sound the glories forth,Which in our Saviour shine,We’d soar, and touch the heavenly strings,And vie with Gabriel, while he sings,In notes almost divine. We’d sing the characters he bears,And all the forms of love he wears,Exalted on his throne:In loftiest songs […]

Christian Worship Prayer For A Blessing. Come, thou soul-transforming Spirit,Bless the sower and the seed;Let each heart thy grace inherit;Raise the weak, the hungry feed;From the gospelNow supply thy people’s need. O, may all enjoy the blessingWhich thy word’s designed to give,Let us all, thy love possessing,Joyfully the truth receive,And foreverTo thy praise and glory […]

Christian Worship An Ancient Church. Long be our fathers’ temple ours,Far hence the time in which it falls;A thousand spirits watch its bowers,A cloud of angels guard its walls. And be their shield by us possessed;Lord, rear around the blest abode,The buttress of a holy breast,The rampart of a present God.

Christian Worship The Mariner’s Hymn. Lord of the sea!-thy potent swayOld ocean’s wildest waves obey;The gale that whistles through the shrouds,The storm that drives the frighted clouds,-If but thy whisper order peace,How soon their rude commotions cease! Lord of the sea!-the seaman keepFrom all dangers of the deep!When high the white-capped billows rise,When tempests roar […]

Christian Worship Prayer For Our Country. God bless our native land,Firm may she ever standThrough storm and night;When the wild tempests rave,Ruler of winds and wave,Do thou our country save,By thy great might. For her our prayer shall riseTo God above the skies;On him we wait;Thou who hast heard each sigh,Watching each weeping eye,Be thou […]

Christian Worship A House For God. Where shall we go to seek and findA habitation for our God?A dwelling for th’ Eternal MindAmong the sons of flesh and blood? The God of Jacob chose the hillOf Zion for his ancient rest;And Zion is his dwelling still;His church is with his presence blest. Here will he […]

Christian Worship Triumph. Daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness!Awake! for thy foes shall oppress thee no more;Bright o’er thy hills dawns the day-star of gladness,Arise! for the night of thy sorrow is o’er. Strong were thy foes, but the arm that subdued themAnd scattered their legions was mightier far;They fled like the chaff from […]