Christian Hymns

Christian Worship Heavenly Joy On Earth. Come, ye that love the Lord,And let your joys be known;Join in a song with sweet accord,And thus surround the throne. The sorrows of the mindBe banished from the place!Religion never was designedTo make our pleasures less. The men of grace have foundGlory begun below;Celestial fruits on earthly groundFrom […]

Christian Worship The Bond Of Peace. Blest are the sons of peace,Whose hearts and hopes are one;Whose kind designs to serve and pleaseThrough all their actions run. Blest is the pious houseWhere zeal and friendship meet;Their songs of praise, their mingled vows,Make their communion sweet. Thus on the heavenly hillsThe saints are blest above,Where joy […]

Christian Worship Hark! What Celestial Notes Hark! what celestial notes,What melody, we hear!Soft on the morn it floats,And fills the ravished ear.The tuneful shell,The golden lyre,And vocal choir,The concert swell. Angelic hosts descend,With harmony divine;See, how from heaven they bend,And in full chorus join!Fear not, say they;Jesus, your King,Great joy we bring:Is born to day. […]

Christian Worship Being Of God. There is a God-all nature speaks,Through earth, and air, and sea, and skies:See, from the clouds his glory breaks,When first the beams of morning rise. The rising sun, serenely bright,O’er the wide world’s extended frameInscribes, in characters of light,His mighty Maker’s glorious name. The flowery tribes, all blooming, riseAbove the […]

Christian Worship The Paternal Love Of God. Father! to thy kind love we oweAll that is fair and good below;Bestower of the health that liesOn tearless cheeks and cheerful eyes! Giver of sunshine and of rain!Ripener of fruits on hill and plain!Fountain of light, that, rayed afar,Fills the vast urns of sun and star! Yet […]

Christian Worship Watchfulness And Brotherly Reproof Psalm 141. My God, accept my early vows,Like morning incense, in thy house;And let my nightly worship riseSweet as the evening sacrifice. Watch o’er my lips, and guard them, Lord,From every rash and heedless word;Nor let my feet incline to treadThe guilty path where sinners lead. O may the […]

Christian Worship Mark How The Swift-winged Minutes Fly Mark how the swift-winged minutes fly,And hours still hasten on!How swift the circling months run round!How soon the year is gone! How is our debt of love increasedTo that sustaining Power,Who hath upheld our feeble frame,And blest each rolling hour. For all thy favors, O our God,Thy […]

Christian Worship Youth And The Spring-time. Sweet is the time of spring,When nature’s charms appear;The birds with ceaseless pleasure sing,And hail the opening year:But sweeter far the springOf wisdom and of grace,When children bless and praise their King,Who loves the youthful race. Sweet is the dawn of day,When light just streaks the sky;When shades and […]

Christian Worship The Hour Of Prayer. Blest hour, when mortal man retiresTo hold communion with his God,To send to heaven his warm desires,And listen to the sacred word. Blest hour, when earthly cares resignTheir empire o’er his anxious breast,While, all around, the calm divineProclaims the holy day of rest. Blest hour, when God himself draws […]

Christian Worship When, His Salvation Bringing When, his salvation bringing,To Zion Jesus came,The children all stood singingHosanna to his name.Nor did their zeal offend him,But, as he rode along,He bade them still attend him,And smiled to hear their song. And since the Lord retainethHis love for children still,Though now as king he reignethOn Zion’s heavenly […]