Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship

1. THE Lord Je-ho-vah reigns, And royal state maintains, His head with awful glories crowned:

Arrayed in robes of light, Begirt with sovereign might, And rays of majesty around.

2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, Without our aid He did us make: We are His flock, He doth us feed, And for His sheep He doth us take.

3 O enter then His gates with praise,

Approach with joy His courts unto: Praise, laud, and bless His name always, For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is forever sure:
His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.
Rev. William Kethe. 1561.

14 For He's the Lord, supremely good, His mercy is forever sure;

His truth, which always firmly stood,
To endless ages shall endure.

I BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and He destroy.

2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when, like wand'ring sheep, we strayed,
He brought us to His fold again.

3 We are His people, we His care,

Our souls and all our mortal frame: What lasting honors shall we rear, Almighty Maker, to Thy name?

4 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 must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
Rev. Isaac Watts. (1674-1748.) 1719. ab. and alt.
Rev. John Wesley. (1703-1791) 1741.

RUSSIAN HYMN. L. M.

Alexis Theodore Lwoff. (1799-) 1833.

1. KINGDOMS and thrones to God be long; Crown Him, ye na- tions, in your song;

I 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;

3 Let clouds, and winds, and waves agree
To join their praise with blazing fire;
Let the firm earth and rolling sea
In this eternal song conspire.

4 Wide as His vast dominion lies,

Make the Creator's name be known;
Loud as His thunder, shout the praise,
And sound it lofty as His throne.

5 Speak of the wonders of that love,
Which Gabriel plays on every chord
From all below and all above,
Loud hallelujahs to the Lord.

Rev. Isaac Watts.

1719.

ab.

Praise for Protection. Grace, and Truth.
Ps. lvii.

My God, in whom are all the springs
Of boundless love, and grace unknown.
Hide me beneath Thy spreading wings,
Till the dark cloud is overblown.

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore 2 Up to the heavens I send my cry;
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

The Lord will my desires perform :
He sends His angels from the sky,

And saves me from the threat'ning storm.
High o'er the earth Thy mercy reigns,
And reaches to the utmost sky;

His truth to endless years remains,
When lower worlds dissolve and die.

4 Be Thou exalted, O my God,

Above the heavens where angels dwell;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land Thy wonders tell.

Rev. Isaac Watts. 1719. ab.

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Praise from the whole Creation.
Ps. cxlviii.

2 Praise the Lord, for He hath spoken;

Worlds His mighty voice obeyed; Laws which never shall be broken, For their guidance He hath made. 3 Praise the Lord, for He is glorious; Never shall His promise fail; God hath made His saints victorious;

Sin and death shall not prevail.

4 Praise the God of our salvation;

Hosts on high, His power proclaim; Heaven and earth, and all creation, Laud and magnify His name.

GOD is love; His mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss He wakes, and woe He lightens :

God is wisdom, God is love.

2 Chance and change are busy ever;
Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never:
God is wisdom, God is love.

3 E'en the hour that darkest seemeth

Will His changeless goodness prove; From the mist His brightness streameth: God is wisdom, God is love.

4 He with earthly cares entwineth Hope and comfort from above;

Everywhere His glory shineth: God is wisdom, God is love.

Sir John Bowring. (1792-1872.) 1825.

Praise on Earth and in Heaven.
Rev. iv. 11.

I PRAISE to Thee, Thou great Creator,
Praise be Thine from every tongue;
Join, my soul, with every creature,
Join the universal song.

2 Father, Source of all compassion,
Pure unbounded grace is Thine:
Hail the God of our salvation,

Praise Him for His love divine.

3 For ten thousand blessings given,
For the richest gifts bestowed,
Sound His praise through earth and heaven,
Sound Jehovah's praise aloud.

4 Joyfully on earth adore Him,

Till in Heaven our song we raise; There, enraptured fall before Him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

Rev. John Fawcett. (1739-1817.) 1767. alt.

DOXOLOGY.

WORSHIP, honor, glory, blessing,
Lord, we offer to Thy name:
Young and old their praise expressing,

Join Thy goodness to proclaim.
As the saints in Heaven adore Thee,
We would bow before Thy throne;
As the angels serve before Thee,
So on earth Thy will be done!

Edward Osler, (1798-1863) 1836.

LYONS. 10, II.

Francis Joseph Haydn. (1732-1809.) 1770.

I. O WORSHIP the King all glorious above; O grateful-ly sing His power and His love;

Our Shield and Defend-er, the Ancient of days, Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,

2 O tell of His might, O sing of His grace, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space; His chariots of wrath deep thunder-clouds 5 Frail children of dust, and fecble as frail,

form,

In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail : And dark is His path on the wings of the storm. Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend. 3 The earth, with its store of wonders untold, Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old, 6 O measureless Might, ineffable Love, Hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree, While angels delight to hymn Thee above, And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea. The humbler creation, though feeble their 4 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite? With true adoration shall lisp to Thy praise. It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,

HANOVER. 10, II.

lays,

Sir Robert Grant. (1785-1838.) 1839.

William Croft. (1677-1727.) 1699.

1. O WORSHIP the King all glorious a - bove; O grateful-ly sing His power and His love;

Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of days, Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

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