{ "27": { "metadata": { "Title": "Bethel", "Collation": "Bethel", "Page": "27", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1772", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O, for a closer walk with God!\nA calm and heav’nly frame!\nA light to shine upon the road\nThat leads me to the Lamb!\n\nWhere is the blessedness I knew\nWhen first I saw the Lord?\nWhere is the soul-refreshing view\nOf Jesus and His Word?\n\nWhat peaceful hours I then enjoy’d!\nHow sweet their mem’ry still!\nBut now I find an aching void\nThe world can never fill.\n\nReturn, O Holy Dove, return,\nSweet messenger of rest;\nI hate the sins that made Thee mourn,\nAnd drove Thee from my breast.\n\nThe dearest idol I have known,\nWhate’er that idol be,\nHelp me to tear it from Thy throne,\nAnd worship only Thee.\n\nSo shall my walk be close with God,\nCalm and serene my frame;\nSo purer light shall mark the road\nThat leads me to the Lamb." }, "28t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Will Guide Us Till We Die", "Collation": "Will Guide Us Till We Die", "Alternative Title": "Aylesbury", "Page": "28t", "Tune Composer": "Book of Psalmody, A", "Tune Composition Date": "1718", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The God we worship now\nWill guide us ’till we die\nWill be our God while here below,\nAnd ours above the sky.\n\nHow decent and how wise!\nHow glorious to behold.\nBeyond the pomp that charms the eye\nAnd rites adorned with gold.\n\nFar as thy name is known\nThe world declares thy praise;\nThy saints, O Lord, before thy throne\nTheir songs of honor raise." }, "28b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord", "Collation": "Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord", "Alternative Title": "Wells", "Page": "28b", "Tune Composer": "Holdroyd, Israel", "Tune Composition Date": "1724", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Life is the time to serve the Lord,\nThe time t’ensure the great reward;\nAnd while the lamp holds out to burn,\nThe vilest sinner may return.\n\nLife is the hour that God has giv’n\nTo escape hell and fly to heav’n;\nThe day of grace, and mortals may\nSecure the blessing of the day.\n\nThe living know that they must die,\nBut all the dead forgotten lie;\nTheir mem’ry and their sense is gone,\nAlike unknowing and unknown." }, "29t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come, Humble Sinner", "Collation": "Come, Humble Sinner", "Alternative Title": "Fairfield", "Page": "29t", "Tune Composer": "Hitchcock", "Tune Composition Date": "1791", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Jones, Edmund", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast\nA thousand thoughts revolve,\nCome with your guilt and fear oppressed\nAnd make this last resolve.\n\nI’ll go to Jesus, though my sin,\nHath like a mountain rose,\nI know His courts, I’ll enter in,\nWhatever may oppose.\n\nI can but perish if I go,\nI am resolved to try,\nFor if I stay away I know,\nI must forever die." }, "29b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Entreaty", "Collation": "Entreaty", "Alternative Title": "Liverpool", "Page": "29b", "Tune Composer": "Davis, M. C. H. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hall’s New Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Young people all attention give,\nAnd hear what I shall say;\nI wish your souls with Christ to live,\nIn everlasting day.\n\nRemember you are hast’ning on\nTo death’s dark gloomy shade;\nYour joys on earth will soon be gone,\nYour flesh in dust be laid." }, "30t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rochester", "Collation": "Rochester", "Page": "30t", "Tune Composer": "Holdroyd, Israel", "Tune Composition Date": "1722", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, let us join our cheerful songs\nWith angels round the throne;\nTen thousand thousand are their tongues,\nBut all their joys are one.\n\nThe whole creation join in one,\nTo bless the sacred name\nOf Him who sits upon the throne,\nAnd to adore the Lamb." }, "30b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Prospect", "Collation": "Prospect", "Page": "30b", "Tune Composer": "Graham", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Why should we start or fear to die,\nWhat tim’rous worms we mortals are;\nDeath ’tis the gate to endless joy,\nBut still we dread to enter there.\n\nJesus can make a dying bed\nFeel soft as downy pillows are:\nWhile on His breast I lean my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there." }, "31t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ninety-Third Psalm", "Collation": "Ninety-Third Psalm", "Page": "31t", "Tune Composer": "Chapin, Lucius", "Tune Composition Date": "1812", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Grace! ’tis a charming sound,\nHarmonious to the ear;\nHeav’n with the echo shall resound,\nAnd all the earth shall hear.\n\nGrace first contrived the way\nTo save rebellious man;\nAnd all the steps that grace display,\nWhich drew the wondrous plan.\n\nGrace taught my wand’ring feet\nTo tread the heav’nly road;\nAnd new supplies each hour I meet,\nWhile pressing on to God.\n\nGrace all the work shall crown,\nThru everlasting days;\nIt lays in heav’n the topmost stone,\nAnd well deserves our praise." }, "31b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come, We That Love the Lord", "Collation": "Come, We That Love the Lord", "Alternative Title": "Webster", "Page": "31b", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, we that love the Lord,\nAnd let our joys be known;\nJoin in a song with sweet accord,\nAnd thus surround the throne.\n\nThe hill of Zion yields\nA thousand sacred sweets,\nBefore we reach the heav’nly fields,\nOr walk the golden streets.\n\nThen let our songs abound,\nAnd ev’ry tear be dry;\nWe’re marching thru Immanuel’s ground\nTo fairer worlds on high." }, "32t": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’m Not Ashamed of Jesus", "Collation": "I’m Not Ashamed of Jesus", "Alternative Title": "Corinth", "Page": "32t", "Tune Composer": "Massengale, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Grigg, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1765", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus and shall it ever be,\nA mortal man ashamed of Thee?\nAshamed of Thee whom angels praise,\nWhose glories shine thru endless day.\n\nAshamed of Jesus, sooner far\nLet evening blush to own a star.\nHe sheds the beams of light divine\nO’er this benighted soul of mine.\n\nAshamed of Jesus, just as soon\nLet midnight be ashamed of noon;\n’Tis midnight with my soul ’till He,\nBright morning star, bids darkness flee.\n\nAshamed of Jesus my dear Friend\nOn whom my hopes for life depend!\nNo, when I blush, be this my shame,\nThat I no more adore His name." }, "32b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weeping Saviour", "Collation": "Weeping Saviour", "Page": "32b", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Beddome, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Did Christ o’er sinners weep,\nAnd shall our cheeks be dry?\nLet floods of penitential grief\nFlow forth from ev’ry eye.\n\nThe Son of God in tears,\nThe wond’ring angels see,\nBe thou astonished, O my soul,\nHe shed those tears for me.\n\nHe wept that we might weep;\nEach sin demands a tear,\nIn heav’n alone no sin is found,\nAnd there’s no weeping there." }, "33": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gathering Home", "Collation": "Gathering Home", "Page": "33", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Maud Lee", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (1st Verse); Robins, Gurdon (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1707 (1st Verse); 1843 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere we shall be gathered home;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nWhere we shall be gathered home.\n\nChorus:\n\nWhere we shall be gathered home,\nTo meet with the Savior there,\nAnd all the sainted, blood-washed throng,\nWhere we shall be gathered home.\n\nIts skies are not like earthly skies,\nWhere we shall be gathered home;\nIt hath no need of sun to rise,\nWhere we shall be gathered home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "34": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gone to a Better World", "Collation": "Gone to a Better World", "Page": "34", "Tune Composer": "Rountree, Dennis Wilson", "Tune Composition Date": "July 15, 1927", "Lyrics": "Rountree, Dennis Wilson", "Lyrics Date": "July 15, 1927", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, dear parents, I must go,\nTo that sweet home above,\nGod loves me so that He wants me\nIn that sweet home of love.\n\nChorus:\n\nOh! do not weep, dear friends, for me,\nFor I’ll be with my Lord,\nPrepare to meet me up in heav’n,\nAnd get your great reward.\n\nSister, I know that you’ll miss me,\nWherever you may go,\nBut God saw fit to take me from\nThis sinful world of woe.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI know that you all wanted me,\nBut God knew it was best\nFor me to go up there to dwell,\nIn that sweet land of rest.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI’ll say farewell to one and all,\nI am going away,\nI hope to meet you all up there,\nIn yonder happy place.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "35": { "metadata": { "Title": "Augusta", "Collation": "Augusta", "Page": "35", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O for a shout of sacred joy\nTo God, the sov’reign King!\nLet ev’ry land their tongues employ,\nAnd hymns of triumph sing.\nJesus, our God, ascends on high;\nHis heav’nly guards around,\nAttend Him rising through the sky,\nWith trumpet’s joyful sound.\n\nWhile angels shout and praise their King,\nLet mortals learn their strain;\nLet all the earth His honors sing;\nO’er all the earth He reigns.\nSpeak forth His praise with awe profound,\nLet knowledge guide the song;\nNor mock Him with a solemn sound,\nUpon a thoughtless tongue." }, "36t": { "metadata": { "Title": "America", "Collation": "America", "Page": "36t", "Tune Composer": "Wetmore, Truman S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1798", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My soul repeat His praise,\nWhose mercies are so great;\nWhose anger is so slow to rise\nSo ready to abate." }, "36b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ninety-Fifth Psalm", "Collation": "Ninety-Fifth Psalm", "Page": "36b", "Tune Composer": "Patterson’s Church Music", "Tune Composition Date": "1813", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (1st & 2nd Verse); Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads (3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1707 (1st & 2nd Verse); 1790 (3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When I can read my title clear,\nTo mansions in the skies.\nI’ll bid farewell to ev’ry fear,\nAnd wipe my weeping eyes.\n\nThere I shall bathe my weary soul,\nIn seas of heav’nly rest,\nAnd not a wave of trouble roll\nAcross my peaceful breast.\n\nWhen we’ve been there ten thousand years,\nBright shining as the sun,\nWe’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,\nThan when we first begun." }, "37": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Home", "Collation": "Christian’s Home, The", "Page": "37", "Tune Composer": "Sanders, Thomas Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1960", "Alto Composer": "Sanders, Euva Priscilla (Renfroe) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1960", "Lyrics": "Lloyd’s The Primitive Hymns; Sanders, Thomas Franklin (alteration)", "Lyrics Date": "1858; 1960 (alteration)", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Our father dear has gone to rest,\nTo reign with God forever blest,\nHis sov’reign tongue will always praise\nA Savior’s love, redeeming grace.\n\nChorus:\n\nHe’s gone to his home in glory,\nTo a mansion bright and fair,\nHe’s gone to his home in glory,\nTo sing with the angels there.\n\nCould we but hear his sov’reign tongue,\nSo sweetly sing the heav’nly song;\nCould we but see his smiling face,\nDelighted with the happy place.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWe would not wish him back again,\nBut say, dear one, with God remain\nWe’ll try to gain that peaceful shore,\nWhere those who meet shall part no more.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "38t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sessions", "Collation": "Sessions", "Page": "38t", "Tune Composer": "Emerson, Luther Orlando", "Tune Composition Date": "1847", "Lyrics": "Rippon, John", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Sinner, O why so thoughtless grown?\nWhy in such dreadful haste to die?\nDaring to leap to worlds unknown,\nHeedless against thy God to fly.\n\nWilt thou despise eternal fate,\nUrged on by sin’s delusive dreams?\nMadly attempt th’ infernal gate,\nAnd force thy passage thru the flames.\n\nStay, sinner, on the gospel plains,\nAnd hear the Lord of life unfold;\nThe glory of His dying pains,\nForever telling yet untold." }, "38b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Road to Life and Death", "Collation": "Road to Life and Death, The", "Alternative Title": "Windham", "Page": "38b", "Tune Composer": "Read, Daniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1785", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Broad is the road that leads to death,\nAnd thousands walk together there;\nBut wisdom shows narrow a path,\nWith here and there a traveler.\n\n‘Deny thyself, and take thy cross.’\nIs the Redeemer’s great command;\nNature must count her gold but dross,\nIf she would gain this heav’nly land.\n\nThe fearful soul that tires and faints,\nAnd walks the way of God no more,\nIs but esteemed almost a saint,\nAnd makes his own destruction sure.\n\nLord, let not all my hopes be vain;\nCreate my heart entirely new,\nWhich hypocrites could ne’er attain,\nWhich false apostates never knew." }, "39": { "metadata": { "Title": "Eden of Love", "Collation": "Eden of Love", "Page": "39", "Tune Composer": "Benbow, Merle (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1977", "Lyrics": "Tillou, W. C.", "Lyrics Date": "1831", "Meter": "12s,11s Double (12,11,12,11,12,11,12,11)" }, "lyrics": "How sweet to reflect on those joys that await me,\nIn yon blissful region, the haven of rest,\nWhere glorified spirits with welcome shall greet me,\nAnd lead me to mansions prepared for the blest!\nEncircled in light, and with glory enshrouded,\nMy happiness perfect, my mind’s unclouded,\nI’ll bathe in the ocean of pleasure unbounded,\nAnd range with delight in the Eden of love.\n\nWhile angelic legions with harps tuned celestial,\nHarmoniously join in the concert of praise,\nThe saints as the flock from the regions terrestrial,\nIn loud hallelujahs their voices will raise;\nThen songs to the Lamb shall reecho through heaven,\nMy soul will respond, to Immanuel be giv’n,\nAll glory, all honor, all might and dominion,\nWho brought us thru grace to the Eden of love.\n\nThen hail blessed state! Hail, ye songsters of glory!\nYe harpers of bliss soon I’ll meet you above.\nAnd join your full choir in rehearsing the story,\n‘Salvation from sorrow, thru Jesus’ love,’\nThough prisoned in earth, yet by anticipation\nAlready my soul feels a sweetness above,\nOf joys that await me, when freed from temptations;\nMy heart’s now in heaven, the Eden of love." }, "40": { "metadata": { "Title": "Blow Ye the Trumpet", "Collation": "Blow Ye the Trumpet", "Alternative Title": "Lenox", "Page": "40", "Tune Composer": "Edson, Lewis", "Tune Composition Date": "1782", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1750", "Meter": "6s (6,6,6,6)" }, "lyrics": "Blow ye the trumpet, blow,\nThe gladly solemn sound;\nLet all the nations know,\nTo earth’s remotest bound:\n\nChorus:\n\nThe year of jubilee is come;\nReturn, ye ransomed sinners, home.\n\nExalt the Lamb of God,\nThe sin atoning Lamb;\nRedemption by his blood\nThrough all the lands proclaim:\n\n(Chorus)\n\nYe slaves of sin and hell,\nYour liberty receive,\nAnd safe in Jesus dwell,\nAnd blest in Jesus live:\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThe gospel trumpet hear,\nThe news of pard’ning grace;\nYe happy souls, draw near;\nBehold your Savior’s face:\n\n(Chorus)\n\nJesus, our great High Priest,\nHas satisfaction made;\nYe weary spirits, rest;\nYe mourning souls, be glad:\n\n(Chorus)" }, "41": { "metadata": { "Title": "Poyner", "Collation": "Poyner", "Page": "41", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1905", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How long, dear Savior, O how long\nShall this bright hour delay?\nFly swift around, ye wheels of time,\nAnd bring the promised day.\n\nHis own soft hand shall wipe the tears\nFrom ev’ry weeping eye,\nAnd pains and groans and griefs and fears\nAre felt and feared no more.\n\nFrom the third heav’n where God resides,\nThat holy, happy place,\nThe New Jerusalem came down\nAdorn’d with shining grace.\n\nAttending angels shout for joy,\nAnd the bright angels sing,\nMortals behold the sacred seat\nOf our descending King." }, "42": { "metadata": { "Title": "Social Band", "Collation": "Social Band", "Alternative Title": "Clamanda", "Page": "42", "Tune Composer": "Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1806", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Say, now ye lovely social band,\nWho walk the way to Canaan’s land;\nYe, who have fled from Sodom’s plain,\nSay, do you wish to turn again?\nO have you ventured to the field,\nWell armed with helmet, sword and shield\nAnd shall the world with dread alarms,\nCompel you now to ground your arms?\n\nBeware of pleasure’s siren song;\nAlas! it cannot soothe you long;\nIt cannot quiet Jordan’s wave,\nNor cheer the dark and silent grave.\nO let your thoughts delight to soar\nWhere earth and time shall be no more;\nExplore by faith the heav’nly fields,\nAnd pluck the fruit that Canaan yields.\n\nThere see the glorious hosts on wing,\nAnd hear the heav’nly seraphs sing!\nThe shining ranks in order stand,\nOr move like lightning at command.\nJehovah there reigns not alone,\nThe Savior shares his Father’s throne,\nWhile angels circle round his seat,\nAnd worship prostrate at his feet." }, "43": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Hope of Heaven", "Collation": "Hope of Heaven, The", "Alternative Title": "Primrose Hill", "Page": "43", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When I can read my title clear\nTo mansions in the skies,\nI’ll bid farewell to ev’ry fear,\nAnd wipe my weeping eyes.\n\nShould earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts by hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world.\n\nLet cares like a wild deluge come,\nAnd storms of sorrow fall!\nMay I but safely reach my home,\nMy God, my heav’n, my all.\n\nThere I shall bathe my weary soul\nIn seas of heav’nly rest,\nAnd not a wave of trouble roll\nAcross my peaceful breast." }, "44": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Converted Thief", "Collation": "Converted Thief, The", "Page": "44", "Tune Composer": "Moore, William; Hauser, William (Dr.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1825", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "As on the cross the Savior hung,\nAnd wept, and bled, and died;\nHe poured salvation on a wretch,\nThat languished at His side.\nHis crimes with inward grief and shame,\nThe penitent confessed;\nThen turned his dying eyes to Christ,\nAnd thus his pray’r addressed.\n\n‘Jesus, Thou Son and heir of heav’n!\nThou spotless Lamb of God!\nI see Thee bathed in sweat and tears,\nAnd welt’ring in Thy blood.\nYet quickly from these scenes of woe,\nIn triumph Thou shalt rise;\nBurst thro’ the gloomy shades of death,\nAnd shine above the skies.\n\n‘Amid the glories of that world,\nDear Savior, think on me,\nAnd in the vict’ries of Thy death,\nLet me a sharer be.’\nHis pray’r the dying Jesus hears,\nAnd instantly replies’\n‘Today thy parting soul shall be\nWith me in Paradise.’" }, "45t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Amazing Grace", "Collation": "Amazing Grace", "Alternative Title": "New Britain", "Page": "45t", "Tune Composer": "Columbian Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1829", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,\nThat saved a wretch like me!\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\n’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\nAnd grace my fears relieved;\nHow precious did that grace appear,\nThe hour I first believed!\n\nThro’ many dangers, toils and snares,\nI have already come;\n’Tis grace has bro’t me safe thus far,\nAnd grace will lead me home.\n\nThe Lord has promised good to me,\nHis word my hope secures;\nHe will my shield and portion be,\nAs long as life endures." }, "45b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Supplication", "Collation": "Supplication", "Page": "45b", "Tune Composer": "Chapin, (Amzi or Lucius); Walker, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1810; 1863 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O Thou who hear’st when sinners cry,\nTho’ all my crimes before Thee lie,\nBehold them not with angry look,\nBut blot their mem’ry from Thy book.\n\nCreate my nature pure within,\nAnd form my soul averse to sin,\nLet Thy good Spirit ne’er depart,\nNor hide Thy presence from my heart.\n\nI cannot live without Thy light,\nCast out and banished from Thy sight;\nThy holy joys, my God, restore,\nAnd guard me that I fall no more." }, "46": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Fountain of Life", "Collation": "Fountain of Life, The", "Page": "46", "Tune Composer": "Culbreth, J. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1772", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a fountain filled with blood,\nDrawn from Immanuel’s veins,\nAnd sinners plunged beneath that flood,\nLose all their guilty stains.\n\nThe dying thief rejoiced to see\nThat fountain in his day;\nO may I there, tho’ vile as he\nWash all my sins away.\n\nAnd when this feeble, falt’ring tongue\nLies silent in the grave,\nThen in a nobler, sweeter song,\nI’ll sing His pow’r to save." }, "47t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Salvation, O the Joyful Sound", "Collation": "Salvation, O the Joyful Sound", "Alternative Title": "Primrose", "Page": "47t", "Tune Composer": "Chapin, Amzi", "Tune Composition Date": "1812", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Salvation! O, the joyful sound!\n’Tis pleasure to our ears;\nA sov’reign balm for ev’ry wound,\nA cordial for our fears.\n\nBuried in sorrow and in sin;\nAt hell’s dark door we lay,\nBut we arise by grace divine,\nTo see a heav’nly day.\n\nSalvation! Let the echo fly\nThe spacious earth around,\nWhile all the armies of the sky,\nConspire to raise the sound." }, "47b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Idumea", "Collation": "Idumea", "Page": "47b", "Tune Composer": "Davisson, Ananias", "Tune Composition Date": "1816", "Alto Composer": "Watson, J. W.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1763", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And am I born to die?\nTo lay this body down?\nAnd must my trembling spirit fly\nInto a world unknown!\n\nA land of deepest shade,\nUnpierced by human thought;\nThe dreary regions of the dead,\nWhere all things are forgot!\n\nSoon as from earth I go,\nWhat will become of me?\nEternal happiness or woe\nMust then my portion be!\n\nWaked by the trumpet sound,\nI from my grave shall rise;\nAnd see the Judge with glory crowned,\nAnd see the flaming skies!" }, "48t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Devotion", "Collation": "Devotion", "Page": "48t", "Tune Composer": "Johnson, Alexander", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet is the day of sacred rest,\nNo mortal care shall seize my breast,\nO may my heart in tune be found,\nLike David’s harp of solemn sound.\n\nThen shall I share a glorious part,\nWhen grace hath well refined my heart,\nAnd fresh supplies of joy are shed,\nLike holy oil, to cheer my head.\n\nThen shall I see, and hear, and know\nAll I desired and wished below;\nAnd ev’ry pow’r find sweet employ,\nIn that eternal world of joy." }, "48b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Thou Man of Grief", "Collation": "Thou Man of Grief", "Alternative Title": "Kedron", "Page": "48b", "Tune Composer": "United States Sacred Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1799", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1762", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Thou Man of grief, remember me,\nWho never canst Thyself forget.\nThy last expiring agony,\nThy fainting pangs and bloody sweat.\n\nFather, if I may call Thee so,\nRegard my fearful heart’s desire;\nRemove this load guilty of woe,\nNor let me in my sins expire!\n\nI tremble, lest the wrath divine,\nWhich bruises now my wretched soul,\nShould bruise this wretched soul of mine,\nLong as eternal ages roll." }, "49t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Old Hundred", "Collation": "Old Hundred", "Page": "49t", "Tune Composer": "Psaumes de David", "Tune Composition Date": "1551", "Lyrics": "Tate & Brady’s New Version (1st verse); Ken, Thomas (2nd verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1696 (1st verse); 1674 (2nd verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O come, loud anthems let us sing,\nLoud thanks to our Almighty King;\nFor we our voices high should raise,\nWhen our salvation’s Rock we praise.\n\nPraise God from whom all blessings flow,\nPraise Him, all creatures here below;\nPraise Him above ye heav’nly host,\nPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." }, "49b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Will God Forever Cast Us Off?", "Collation": "Will God Forever Cast Us Off?", "Alternative Title": "Mear", "Page": "49b", "Tune Composer": "Sett of Tunes, A", "Tune Composition Date": "1720", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Will God forever cast us off?\nHis wrath forever smoke\nAgainst the people of His love,\nHis little chosen flock?\n\nWhere once Thy churches prayed and sang\nThy foes profanely rage;\nAmid Thy gates their ensigns hang\nAnd there their host engage.\n\nNo prophet speaks to calm our grief,\nBut all in silence mourn;\nNor know the time of our relief,\nThe hour of Thy return.\n\nOur foes would triumph in our blood,\nAnd make our hope their jest;\nPlead Thy own cause, Almighty God,\nAnd give Thy children rest." }, "50t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Consolation", "Collation": "Consolation", "Page": "50t", "Tune Composer": "Chapin, Lucius (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1812", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Once more, my soul, the rising day\nSalutes thy waking eyes;\nOnce more, my voice, thy tribute pay\nTo Him that rules the skies.\n\nNight unto night His name repeats,\nThe day renews the sound,\nWide as the heav’ns on which He sits,\nTo turn the seasons round.\n\nDear God, let all my hours be Thine,\nWhilst I enjoy the light,\nThen shall my sun in smiles decline,\nAnd bring a pleasing night." }, "50b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Distress", "Collation": "Distress", "Page": "50b", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Steele, Anne", "Lyrics Date": "1760", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "So fades the lovely blooming flow’r;\nFrail, smiling solace of an hour;\nSo soon our transient comforts fly,\nAnd pleasure only blooms to die.\n\nIs there no kind, no healing art\nTo soothe the anguish of the heart?\nSpirit of grace, be ever nigh;\nThy comforts are not made to die.\n\nLet gentle patience smile on pain,\n’Till dying hope revives again;\nHope wipes the tear from sorrow’s eye,\nAnd faith points upward to the sky." }, "51": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Home", "Collation": "My Home", "Alternative Title": "Lisbon", "Page": "51", "Tune Composer": "Letson, C. F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nDon’t you feel like going home;\nMy home it is in the promised land,\nAnd I feel like going home.\nYes, I feel like going home;\nMy home it is in the promised land,\nAnd I feel like going home.\n\nO the transporting rapt’rous scene,\nThat rises to my sight!\nSweet fields arrayed in living green,\nAnd rivers of delight.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "52t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Albion", "Collation": "Albion", "Page": "52t", "Tune Composer": "Boyd, Robert", "Tune Composition Date": "1816", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, we that love the Lord,\nAnd let our joys be known;\nJoin in a song with sweet accord,\nAnd thus surround the throne.\n\nLet those refuse to sing\nWho never knew our God,\nBut servants of the heav’nly King\nMay speak their joys abroad.\n\nThe men of grace have found\nGlory begun below;\nCelestial fruit on earthly ground\nFrom faith and hope may grow." }, "52b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Prayer of Bartimeus", "Collation": "Prayer of Bartimeus", "Alternative Title": "Charlestown", "Page": "52b", "Tune Composer": "United States Sacred Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1799", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "‘Mercy, O Thou Son of David,’\nThus poor blind Bartimeus prayed,\n‘Others by Thy Word are saved,\nNow to me afford Thine aid.’\n\nMany for his crying chid him,\nBut he called the louder still,\n’Till the gracious Savior bid him,\n‘Come and ask me what you will.’" }, "53": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jerusalem", "Collation": "Jerusalem", "Page": "53", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1743", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon,\nHis track I see, and I’ll pursue\nThe narrow way ’till Him I view.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’m on my journey home, to the New Jerusalem,\nSo fare you well, I am going home.\n\nThe way the holy prophets went,\nThe road that leads from banishment,\nThe King’s highway of holiness\nI’ll go, for all His paths are peace.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "54t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Palmetto", "Collation": "Palmetto", "Page": "54t", "Tune Composer": "Hauser, William (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Lyrics": "Allen, James; Shirley, Walter (alteration) (1st Verse); Christian Harmony (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1757; 1774 (1st Verse) (alteration); 1958 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,\nWhich before the cross I spend,\nLife, and health, and peace possessing,\nFrom the sinner’s dying friend.\nHere I’ll sit forever viewing\nMercy’s streams in streams of blood;\nPrecious drops, my soul bedewing,\nPlead and claim my peace with God.\n\nHad I heart to hold its pleasure,\nHad I tongue to tell its bliss;\nCould I share with all my treasure,\nO that all my friends were his.\nNothing else could quite so charm me,\nNor my ev’ry idol hold.\nSatan now no more can harm me,\nI’ve a home in realms of gold." }, "54b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Farewell, My Brethren", "Collation": "Farewell, My Brethren", "Alternative Title": "Imandra New", "Page": "54b", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cleland, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, my dear brethren, the time is at hand\nWhen we must be parted from this social band;\nOur several engagements now call us away,\nOur parting is needful, and we must obey.\n\nFarewell, my dear brethren, farewell for awhile.\nWe’ll soon meet again if kind Providence smile;\nBut while we are parted and scatter’d abroad\nWe’ll pray for each other and trust in the Lord." }, "55": { "metadata": { "Title": "Shall We Know Each Other There?", "Collation": "Shall We Know Each Other There?", "Page": "55", "Tune Composer": "Lowry, Robert (Rev.); Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1864; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "W. M.", "Lyrics Date": "1860", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "When we hear the music ringing\nThru the bright celestial dome,\nWhen the angel voices singing,\nGladly bid us welcome home.\nTo that land of ancient story,\nWhere the spirit knows no care;\nIn that land of light and glory,\nShall we know each other there?\n\nChorus:\n\nShall we know each other?\nWe shall know each other,\nWe shall see each other there.\n\nO! Ye weary, heavy laden,\nDroop not, faint not by the way,\nYe shall join the loved departed\nIn the land of perfect day.\nHarp strings touched by angel fingers\nMurmur in my raptured ear;\nEvermore their sweet tone lingers,\nWe shall know each other there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "56": { "metadata": { "Title": "Salem", "Collation": "Salem", "Page": "56", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds\nIn a believer’s ear;\nIt soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds\nAnd drives away his fears.\n\nIt makes the wounded spirit whole,\nAnd calms the troubled breast;\n’Tis manna to the hungry soul,\nAnd to the weary rest.\n\n’Till then I would Thy love proclaim\nWith ev’ry fleeting breath;\nAnd may the music of Thy name\nRefresh my soul in death." }, "57": { "metadata": { "Title": "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?", "Collation": "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?", "Alternative Title": "Christian Soldier", "Page": "57", "Tune Composer": "Price, F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA follow’r of the Lamb?\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\nMust I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease,\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sailed thru bloody seas!\n\nAre there no foes for me to face?\nMust I not stem the flood?\nIs this vile world a friend to grace,\nTo help me on to God?\nSure I must fight, if I would reign;\nIncrease my courage, Lord!\nI’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,\nSupported by Thy word." }, "58": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pisgah", "Collation": "Pisgah", "Page": "58", "Tune Composer": "Lowry, J. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1817", "Alto Composer": "Walker, William", "Alto Composition Date": "1866", "Lyrics": "Burnham, Richard", "Lyrics Date": "1783", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, Thou art the sinner’s friend,\nAs such I look to Thee;\nNow in the fullness of Thy love,\nO Lord remember me!\n\nRemember Thy pure word of grace,\nRemember Calvary,\nRemember all Thy dying groans,\nAnd then remember me!" }, "59t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Lord Revive Us", "Collation": "Lord Revive Us", "Alternative Title": "Holy Manna", "Page": "59t", "Tune Composer": "Moore, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1825", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace,\nStreams of mercy never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise;\n\nChorus:\n\nLord, revive us, O revive us,\nAll our help must come from Thee.\n\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,\nSung by flaming tongues above;\nPraise the mount — O fix me on it —\nMount of God’s unchanging love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO to grace how great a debtor,\nDaily I’m constrained to be!\nLet Thy goodness, like a fetter,\nBind my wand’ring heart to Thee.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "59b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Holy Manna", "Collation": "Holy Manna", "Page": "59b", "Lyrics": "Askins, George", "Lyrics Date": "1817", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Brethren, we have met to worship,\nAnd adore the Lord our God;\nWill you pray with all your power,\nWhile we try to preach the word?\nAll is vain unless the Spirit\nOf the Holy One comes down;\nBrethren, pray and holy manna,\nWill be showered all around.\n\nLet us love our God supremely,\nLet us love each other, too;\nLet us love and pray for sinners,\n’Till our God makes all things new.\nThen He’ll call us home to heaven,\nAt His table we’ll sit down;\nChrist will gird Himself, and serve us,\nWith sweet manna all around." }, "60": { "metadata": { "Title": "Saints Bound for Heaven", "Collation": "Saints Bound for Heaven", "Page": "60", "Tune Composer": "King, J.; Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1873", "Lyrics": "Elliott’s Sacred Lyre", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 12,9,6,7,13,10" }, "lyrics": "Our bondage, it shall end by and by, by and by;\nOur bondage, it shall end by and by;\nFrom Egypt’s yoke set free;\nHail the glorious jubilee,\nAnd to Canaan we’ll return by and by, by and by,\nAnd to Canaan we’ll return by and by.\n\nOur Deliv’rer, He shall come by and by, by and by;\nOur Deliv’rer, He shall come by and by;\nAnd our sorrows have an end,\nWith our three score years and ten,\nAnd vast glory crown the day by and by, by and by,\nAnd vast glory crown the day by and by.\n\nTho’ our enemies are strong, we’ll go on, we’ll go on;\nTho’ our enemies are strong, we’ll go on;\nTho’ our hearts dissolve with fear,\nLo, Sinai’s God is near,\nWhile the fiery pillar moves, we’ll go on, we’ll go on,\nWhile the fiery pillar moves, we’ll go on.\n\nThen with the happy throng we’ll rejoice, we’ll rejoice;\nThen with the happy throng we’ll rejoice;\nShout, Glory to our King,\n’Till the vaults of heaven ring,\nAnd in all eternity we’ll rejoice, we’ll rejoice,\nAnd in all eternity we’ll rejoice." }, "61": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Rivers", "Collation": "Sweet Rivers", "Page": "61", "Tune Composer": "Moore, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1825", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Granade, John Adam", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet rivers of redeeming love\nLie just before mine eye,\nHad I the pinions of a dove,\nI’d to those rivers fly;\nI’d rise superior to my pain,\nWith joy outstrip the wind,\nI’d cross o’er Jordan’s stormy waves,\nAnd leave the world behind.\n\nA few more days, or years at most,\nMy troubles will be o’er;\nI hope to join the heav’nly host\nOn Canaan’s happy shore.\nMy raptured soul shall drink and feast\nIn love’s unbounded sea;\nThe glorious hope of endless rest\nIs ravishing for me." }, "62": { "metadata": { "Title": "Parting Hand", "Collation": "Parting Hand", "Page": "62", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Blain, John", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "My Christian friends, in bonds of love,\nWhose hearts in sweetest union join,\nYour friendship’s like a drawing band,\nYet we must take the parting hand.\nYour company’s sweet, your union dear,\nYour words delightful to my ear,\nYet when I see that we must part,\nYou draw like cords around my heart.\n\nHow sweet the hours have pass’d away,\nSince we have met to sing and pray;\nHow loath we are to leave the place\nWhere Jesus shows His smiling face.\nO could I stay with friends so kind,\nHow would it cheer my drooping mind!\nBut duty makes me understand,\nThat we must take the parting hand.\n\nAnd since it is God’s holy will\nWe must be parted for a while,\nIn sweet submission, all as one,\nWe’ll say, our Father’s will be done.\nMy youthful friends, in Christian ties,\nWho seek for mansions in the skies,\nFight on, we’ll gain that happy shore,\nWhere parting will be known no more.\n\nHow oft I’ve seen your flowing tears,\nAnd heard you tell your hopes and fears!\nYour hearts with love were seen to flame,\nWhich makes me hope we’ll meet again.\nYe mourning souls, lift up your eyes\nTo glorious mansions in the skies;\nO trust His grace — in Canaan’s land\nWe’ll no more take the parting hand." }, "63": { "metadata": { "Title": "Coronation", "Collation": "Coronation", "Page": "63", "Tune Composer": "Holden, Oliver", "Tune Composition Date": "1793", "Lyrics": "Perronet, Edward (1st & 2nd Verse); Rippon, John (3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1779-80; 1787 (3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ name,\nLet angels prostrate fall;\nBring forth the royal diadem,\nAnd crown Him Lord of all.\n\nLet ev’ry kindred, ev’ry tribe,\nOn this terrestrial ball,\nTo Him all majesty ascribe,\nAnd crown Him Lord of all.\n\nO! that with yonder sacred throng,\nWe at His feet may fall;\nWe’ll join the everlasting song,\nAnd crown Him Lord of all." }, "64": { "metadata": { "Title": "Refreshing Showers", "Collation": "Refreshing Showers", "Alternative Title": "Nashville", "Page": "64", "Tune Composer": "Johnson, Alexander", "Tune Composition Date": "1821", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Christian Lyre", "Lyrics Date": "1830", "Meter": "Common Particular Meter (8,8,6,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord into His garden come,\nThe spices yield a rich perfume,\nThe lilies grow and thrive;\nRefreshing show’rs of grace divine,\nFrom Jesus flow to ev’ry vine,\nWhich makes the dead revive.\n\nO that this dry and barren ground,\nIn springs of water may abound,\nA fruitful soil become;\nThe desert blossoms as the rose,\nWhile Jesus conquers all His foes,\nAnd makes His people one." }, "65": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Prospect", "Collation": "Sweet Prospect", "Page": "65", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye,\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nO, the transporting rapt’rous scene,\nThat rises to my sight,\nSweet fields arrayed in living green\nAnd rivers of delight.\n\nO’er all those wide, extended plains\nShines one eternal day;\nThere God the Son forever reigns\nAnd scatters night away.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "66": { "metadata": { "Title": "Security", "Collation": "Security", "Page": "66", "Tune Composer": "Robinett, W. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Bathurst, William Hiley", "Lyrics Date": "1831", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O for a faith that will not shrink,\nTho’ pressed by ev’ry foe,\nThat will not tremble on the brink\nOf any earthly foe.\nThat will not murmur or complain\nBeneath the chastening rod,\nBut in the hour of grief or pain,\nWill lean upon its God.\n\nA faith that shines more bright and clear\nWhen tempests rage without;\nAnd when in danger knows no fear,\nIn darkness feels no doubt.\nLord, give us such a faith as this\nAnd then whate’er may come,\nWe’ll taste, e’en here, the hallowed bliss\nOf an eternal home." }, "67": { "metadata": { "Title": "Columbus", "Collation": "Columbus", "Page": "67", "Tune Composer": "Columbian Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1829", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mercer’s Cluster", "Lyrics Date": "1823", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O once I had a glorious view\nOf my redeeming Lord;\nHe said I’ll be a God to you,\nAnd I believed His word.\nBut now I have a deeper stroke\nThan all my groanings are,\nMy God has me of late forsook’\nHe’s gone, I know not where.\n\nO what immortal joys I felt,\nOn that celestial day,\nWhen my hard heart began to melt,\nBy love dissolved away!\nBut my complaint is bitter now,\nFor all my joys are gone;\nI’ve stray’d —I’m left! I know not how;\nThe light’s from me withdrawn.\n\nOnce I could ’joy the saints to meet,\nTo me they were most dear\nI then could stoop to wash their feet,\nAnd shed a joyful tear;\nBut now I meet them as the rest,\nAnd with them joyless stay,\nMy conversation’s spiritless,\nOr else I’ve naught to say.\n\nI once could mourn o’er dying men,\nAnd longed their souls to win,\nI travailed for their poor children,\nAnd warned them of their sin;\nBut now my heart’s so careless grown,\nAlthough they’re drowned in vice,\nMy bowels o’er them cease to yearn,\nMy tears have left mine eyes.\n\nI forward go in duty’s way,\nBut can’t perceive Him there;\nThen backward on the road I stray,\nBut cannot find Him there;\nOn the left hand, where He doth work,\nAmong the wicked crew,\nAnd on the right I find Him not\nAmong the favored few.\n\nWhat shall I do? Shall I lie down\nAnd sink in deep despair?\nWill He forever wear a frown,\nNor hear my feeble prayer?\nNo, He will put His strength in me,\nHe knows the way I’ve strolled,\nAnd when I’m tried sufficiently\nI shall come forth as gold." }, "68t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Do Not I Love Thee", "Collation": "Do Not I Love Thee", "Alternative Title": "Detroit", "Page": "68t", "Tune Composer": "Bradshaw, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Do not I love Thee, O my Lord?\nBehold my heart, and see;\nAnd turn each worthless idol out,\nThat dares to rival Thee.\n\nDo not I love Thee from my soul?\nThen let me nothing love:\nDead be my heart to ev’ry joy,\nWhich Thou dost not approve.\n\nHast Thou a lamb in all Thy flock,\nI would disdain to feed?\nHast Thou a foe before whose face,\nI fear Thy cause to plead?\n\nThou know’st I love Thee, dearest Lord,\nBut O, I long to soar\nFar from the sphere of mortal joys,\nThat I may love Thee more." }, "68b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come Holy Spirit", "Collation": "Come Holy Spirit", "Alternative Title": "Abbeville", "Page": "68b", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Beddome, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1800", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, Holy Spirit, come,\nWith energy divine,\nAnd on this poor benighted soul\nWith beams of mercy shine.\n\nFrom the celestial hills\nLife, light, and joy, dispense!\nAnd may I daily, hourly feel\nThy quick’ning influence." }, "69": { "metadata": { "Title": "Minister’s Farewell", "Collation": "Minister’s Farewell", "Page": "69", "Tune Composer": "Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second", "Tune Composition Date": "1813", "Alto Composer": "Smith, Stanley (arranger)", "Alto Composition Date": "2003", "Lyrics": "Smith, Joshua", "Lyrics Date": "1794", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Dear friends, farewell! I do you tell,\nSince you and I must part;\nI go away, and here you stay,\nBut still we’re joined in heart.\nYour love to me has been most free,\nYour conversation sweet;\nHow can I bear to journey where\nWith you I cannot meet!\n\nYet do I find my heart inclined\nTo do my work below;\nWhen Christ doth call I trust I shall\nBe ready then to go.\nI leave you all, both great and small,\nIn Christ’s encircling arms,\nWho can you save from the cold grave,\nAnd shield you from all harms.\n\nI trust you’ll pray, both night and day,\nAnd keep your garments white,\nFor you and me, that we may be\nThe children of the light.\nIf you die first, anon you must,\nThe will of God be done;\nI hope the Lord will you reward\nWith an immortal crown." }, "70t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gainsville", "Collation": "Gainsville", "Page": "70t", "Tune Composer": "Jones, W. D.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hammond, William", "Lyrics Date": "1745", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, we come before Thee now,\nAt Thy feet we humbly bow;\nO do not our suit disdain;\nShall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain?\n\nLord, on Thee our souls depend;\nIn compassion now descend;\nFill our hearts with Thy rich grace,\nTune our lips to sing Thy praise." }, "70b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Evening", "Collation": "Evening", "Page": "70b", "Tune Composer": "White, James Landrum; Smith, Stanley (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 2005 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Doane, George W.", "Lyrics Date": "1824", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Softly now the light of day\nFades upon our sight away;\nFree from care, from labor free,\nLord, we would commune with Thee.\n\nSoon for us the light of day\nShall forever pass away;\nThen, from sin and sorrow free,\nTake us, Lord, to dwell with Thee." }, "71": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Soul Forsakes Her Vain Delight", "Collation": "My Soul Forsakes Her Vain Delight", "Alternative Title": "Leander", "Page": "71", "Tune Composer": "Tennessee Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My soul forsakes her vain delight,\nAnd bids the world farewell,\nBase as the dirt beneath thy feet,\nAnd mischievous as hell.\nNo longer will I ask your love,\nNor seek your friendship more;\nThe happiness that I approve,\nIs not within your pow’r.\n\nWhere pleasure rolls its living flood,\nFrom sin and dross refined,\nStill springing from the throne of God,\nAnd fit to cheer the mind;\nTh’ Almighty Ruler of the sphere,\nThe glorious and the great,\nBrings his own all-sufficience there,\nTo make our bliss complete.\n\nThere’s nothing round this spacious earth\nThat suits my soul’s desire;\nTo boundless joy and solid mirth\nMy nobler thoughts aspire.\nO, for the pinions of a dove\nTo mount the heav’nly road;\nThere shall I share my Savior’s love,\nThere shall I dwell with God." }, "72": { "metadata": { "Title": "Firm Foundation", "Collation": "Firm Foundation", "Alternative Title": "Bellevue", "Page": "72", "Tune Composer": "Chambless, Zachariah (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rippon’s Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,\nIs laid for your faith in His excellent Word,\nWhat more can He say than to you He hath said,\nYou, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?\n\nIn every condition, in sickness, in health,\nIn poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth.\nAt home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,\nAs your days may demand so your succor shall be.\n\nFear not; I am with thee; O be not dismayed;\nI, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;\nI’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,\nUpheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.\n\nWhen thru the deep waters I call thee to go,\nThe rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;\nFor I will be with thee thy troubles to bless,\nAnd sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.\n\nThe soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,\nI will not, I will not desert to His foes:\nThat soul, tho’ all hell should endeavor to shake,\nI’ll never, no never, no never forsake!" }, "73t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Show Pity, Lord", "Collation": "Show Pity, Lord", "Alternative Title": "Cusseta", "Page": "73t", "Tune Composer": "Massengale, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Show pity, Lord; O Lord, forgive,\nLet a repenting rebel live;\nAre not Thy mercies large and free?\nMay not a sinner trust in Thee?\n\nMy crimes, tho’ great, cannot surpass\nThe pow’r and glory of Thy grace;\nGreat God, Thy nature hath no bound;\nSo let Thy pard’ning love be found.\n\nYet save a trembling sinner, Lord,\nWhose hope still hov’ring round Thy word\nWould light on some sweet promise there,\nSome sure support against despair." }, "73b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Soldiers of Christ", "Collation": "Soldiers of Christ", "Alternative Title": "Arlington", "Page": "73b", "Tune Composer": "Arne, Thomas A.; Harrison, Ralph (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1762; 1784 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb,\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\n\nShall I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease,\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sailed through bloody seas?\n\nAre there no foes for me to face,\nMust I not stem the flood,\nIs this vile world a friend to grace,\nTo help me on to God?" }, "74t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Inquirer", "Collation": "Inquirer, The", "Page": "74t", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1720", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I’m not ashamed to own my Lord,\nOr to defend His cause,\nMaintain the honor of His word,\nThe glory of His cross.\nJesus, my God, I know His name;\nHis name is all my trust,\nNor will He put my soul to shame,\nNor let my hope be lost.\n\nFirm as His throne His promise stands,\nAnd he can well secure\nWhat I’ve committed to His hands,\n’Till the decisive hour.\nThen will He own my worthless name\nBefore His Father’s face,\nAnd in the New Jerusalem,\nAppoint my soul a place." }, "74b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Solid Comfort", "Collation": "Solid Comfort", "Alternative Title": "King of Peace", "Page": "74b", "Tune Composer": "Price, F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Masters, Mary; Rippon’s Selection (alteration)", "Lyrics Date": "1755; 1804 (alteration)", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "’Tis religion that can give\nSweetest pleasures while we live,\n’Tis religion must supply\nSolid comforts when we die.\n\nAfter death, its joys will be\nLasting as eternity;\nBe the living God my friend\nThen my bliss shall never end." }, "75": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Would See Jesus", "Collation": "I Would See Jesus", "Page": "75", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1854", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Bonar, Horatius (2nd verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1846 (2nd verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I would see Jesus when the flow’rs\nOf joy adorn my way;\nWhen sunshine and when hope surround\nMy path from day to day.\nWhen friends I cherish most are near,\nAnd hearts encircle mine,\nThen Father would I turn from all,\nTo lean alone on Thine.\n\nI heard the voice of Jesus say,\n‘Behold, I freely give\nThe living water, thirsty one,\nStoop down and drink and live!’\nI came to Jesus and I drank\nOf that life-giving stream;\nMy thirst was quenched, my soul revived,\nAnd now I live in Him." }, "76t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Holiness", "Collation": "Holiness", "Page": "76t", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Providence Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1820", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Daniel’s wisdom may I know,\nStephen’s faith and spirit show,\nJohn’s divine communion feel,\nMoses’ meekness, Joshua’s zeal;\nRun like the unwearied Paul,\nWin the day and conquer all." }, "76b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Desire for Piety", "Collation": "Desire for Piety", "Page": "76b", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Trivett, Edward; Purify’s Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (alteration)", "Lyrics Date": "c1772; 1823 (alteration)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "’Tis my desire with God to walk\n’Till the warfare is over, hallelujah,\nAnd with His children pray and talk\n’Till the warfare is over, hallelujah,\n\nChorus:\n\nCry Amen, pray on\n’Till the warfare is over, hallelujah.\n\n’Tis my desire above the rest\n’Till the warfare is over, hallelujah,\nTo lean my head on Jesus’ breast\n’Till the warfare is over, hallelujah,\n\n(Chorus)" }, "77t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Child of Grace", "Collation": "Child of Grace, The", "Page": "77t", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How happy’s ev’ry child of grace\nWho knows his sins forgiv’n!\n‘This earth,’ he cries, ‘is not my place,\nI seek my home in heav’n.\nA country far from mortal sight,\nYet O by faith I see\nThe land of rest the saints’ delight,\nThe heav’n prepared for me.’\n\nO, what a blessed hope is ours\nWhile here on earth we stay.\nWe more than taste the heav’nly pow’rs\nAnd antedate that day.\nWe feel the resurrection near,\nOur life in Christ concealed,\nAnd with His glorious presence here\nOur earthen vessels filled." }, "77b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Saviour’s Word", "Collation": "Saviour’s Word, The", "Alternative Title": "Talbotton", "Page": "77b", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1768", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Hark! my soul, it is the Lord,\n’Tis the Savior, hear His word;\nJesus speaks, He speaks to thee,\n‘Say, poor sinner, lov’st thou me?’\n\nLord, it is my chief complaint\nThat my love is weak and faint;\nYet I love Thee, and adore;\nO for grace to love Thee more!" }, "78": { "metadata": { "Title": "Calvary", "Collation": "Calvary", "Page": "78", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Alto Composer": "Payne, Emma (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1907", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I see One hanging on the tree,\nIt inspires my heart.\nMy Savior says, ‘Look unto me,’\nIt inspires my heart.\n\nChorus:\n\nCalvary, Calvary,\nThere is life for a look at the Crucified,\nCalvary, Calvary,\nIt inspires my heart.\n\nI love to think of Calvary,\nIt inspires my heart.\nMy Savior died on Calvary,\nIt inspires my heart.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nToday He pleads His wounded side,\nIt inspires my heart.\nToday He points you to the cross,\nIt inspires my heart.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBy faith I see His bleeding side,\nIt inspires my heart.\nBy faith I hear those bitter groans,\nIt inspires my heart.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "79": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Old Ship of Zion", "Collation": "Old Ship of Zion, The", "Page": "79", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Lyrics": "Bryan’s Songster’s Companion; Sacred Harp, The (alteration)", "Lyrics Date": "1837; 1844 (alteration)", "Meter": "10s Half (10,10)" }, "lyrics": "What ship is this that will take us all home,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nAnd safely land us on Canaan’s bright shore?\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nO the old ship of Zion, hallelu, hallelu,\nO the old ship of Zion, hallelujah!\n\nThe winds may blow and the billows may foam,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nBut she is able to land us all home,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nShe landed all who are gone before,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nAnd yet she’s able to land still more,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nNo wrecks on sandbars or dangers attend,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nFor Jesus is our Captain and Friend,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nShe’s waiting now for a heavenward gale,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nMethinks I see her now hoisting her sail,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHer sails are spread, see how swiftly she moves,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nHer landing harbor is heaven above,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhat will the glad Christians do when above?\nO glory, hallelujah!\nThey’ll shout, they’ll sing, they’ll be wrapt up in love,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nShould you arrive there before I do,\nO glory, hallelujah!\nInform them that I am coming there, too,\nO glory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "80t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Shouting Song", "Collation": "Shouting Song", "Page": "80t", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Marion Wilson", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Peak’s New Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, grant us all a blessing,\nShouting, singing, send it down;\nLord, above may we go praising,\nAnd rejoicing in Thy love.\n\nChorus:\n\nShout, O glory! Sing glory, hallelujah!\nI’m going where pleasure never dies.\n\nJesus, pardon all our follies,\nSince together we have been,\nMake us humble, make us holy,\nCleanse us all from ev’ry sin.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "80b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Service of the Lord", "Collation": "Service of the Lord", "Page": "80b", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home;\nI am bound to die in the army.\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come;\nI am bound to die in the army.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am bound to live in the service of my Lord,\nI am bound to die in the army.\n\nSweet angels beckon me away;\nI am bound to die in the army.\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day;\nI am bound to die in the army.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "81": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Is Willing", "Collation": "Jesus Is Willing", "Alternative Title": "Beach Spring", "Page": "81", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hart, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,7,8,7,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,\nWeak and wounded, sick and sore;\nJesus ready stands to save you,\nFull of pity, love and power.\nHe is able, He is able,\nHe is willing, doubt no more.\n\nNow, ye needy, come and welcome;\nGod’s free bounty glorify;\nTrue belief and true repentance,\nEv’ry grace that brings you nigh;\nWithout money, without money,\nCome to Jesus Christ and buy\n\nLet not conscience make you linger,\nNor of fitness fondly dream;\nAll the fitness He requireth\nIs to feel our need of Him.\nThis He gives you, this He gives you,\n’Tis the Spirit’s glimmering beam." }, "82": { "metadata": { "Title": "Bound for Canaan", "Collation": "Bound for Canaan", "Page": "82", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "O when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above?\nAnd from the flowing fountain\nDrink ever lasting love!\n\nChorus:\n\nI’m on my way to Canaan,\nTo the New Jerusalem.\n\nWhen shall I be delivered\nFrom this vain world of sin?\nAnd with my blessed Jesus\nDrink endless pleasures in.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBut now I am a soldier,\nMy Captain’s gone before;\nHe’s given me my orders,\nAnd bids me ne’er give o’er.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHis promises are faithful,\nA righteous crown He’ll give,\nAnd all His valiant soldiers\nEternally shall live.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThrough grace I feel determined\nTo conquer, tho’ I die;\nAnd then away to glory,\nOn wings of love I’ll fly.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "83t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vale of Sorrow", "Collation": "Vale of Sorrow", "Page": "83t", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Battle’s Collection of Hymns", "Lyrics Date": "1814", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,8,6,7,6" }, "lyrics": "While in this vale of sorrow,\nI travel on in pain;\nMy heart is fixed on Jesus,\nI hope the prize to gain;\nBut when I come to bid adieu\nTo those I dearly love,\nMy heart is often melted’\nIt is the grief of love.\n\nI’m on my way to glory;\nBy faith I look above,\nAnd view the smiling Savior\nWhich fills my soul with love;\n’Tis this that so constrains my soul\nPoor sinners to entreat,\nTo seek the Father’s favor\nUpon the mercy-seat." }, "83b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Weary Souls", "Collation": "Weary Souls, The", "Page": "83b", "Tune Composer": "White, Jesse T. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Granade, John A.", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Ye weary, heavy-laden souls,\nWho are opprest and sore,\nYe trav’lers thro’ the wilderness\nTo Canaan’s peaceful shore.\nThro’ chilling winds and beating rains,\nAnd waters deep and cold,\nAnd enemies surrounding us\nTake courage and be bold.\n\nFarewell, my brethren in the Lord,\nWho are for Canaan bound,\nAnd should we never meet again\n’Till Gabriel’s trump shall sound.\nI hope that I shall meet you there\nOn that delightful shore,\nIn mansions of eternal bliss,\nWhere parting is no more." }, "84": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Crucified Saviour", "Collation": "Crucified Saviour, The", "Page": "84", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Givens, D. J.", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "7s Half (7,7)" }, "lyrics": "With a Savior crucified\nOn the cross of Calvary;\n’Twas for you He bled and died\nOn the cross of Calvary.\n\nChorus:\n\nShout the chorus through\nChrist who died for you\nSing of Christ who died for you;\nOn the cruel tree\nChrist hath died for me\nSing that Jesus died for me.\n\n’Twas for sins His life He gave\nOn the cross of Calvary;\nAnd the world He died to save\nOn the cross of Calvary.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "85": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Morning Trumpet", "Collation": "Morning Trumpet, The", "Page": "85", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "O when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd from the flowing fountain\nDrink ever lasting love,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\nChorus:\n\nShout, O glory! For I shall mount above the skies,\nWhen I hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\nWhen shall I be delivered\nFrom this vain world of sin?\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd with my blessed Jesus\nDrink endless pleasures in?\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBut now I am a soldier,\nMy captain’s gone before;\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nHe’s given me my orders,\nAnd bids me ne’er give o’er;\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHis promises are faithful’\nA righteous crown He’ll give,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd all His valiant soldiers\nEternally shall live,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThrough grace I feel determined\nTo conquer, tho’ I die,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd then away to Jesus,\nOn wings of love I’ll fly:\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nFarewell to sin and sorrow,\nI bid them both adieu!\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd O, my friends, prove faithful\nAnd on your way pursue.\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhene’er you meet with troubles\nAnd trials on your way,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nThen cast your care on Jesus,\nAnd don’t forget to pray.\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nGird on the gospel armor\nOf faith, and hope, and love,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd when the combat’s ended,\nHe’ll carry you above.\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO do no be discouraged,\nFor Jesus is your friend;\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nAnd if you lack for knowledge,\nHe’ll not refuse to lend.\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nNeither will He upbraid you,\nThough often you request,\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\nHe’ll give you grace to conquer,\nAnd take you home to rest.\nAnd shall hear the trumpet sound in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "86": { "metadata": { "Title": "Guiding Spirit", "Collation": "Guiding Spirit", "Page": "86", "Tune Composer": "Denson, Paine; Austin, Vernon E. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1935; 1950 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (Verse); Austin, C. H. (Chorus)", "Lyrics Date": "1707 (Verse); 1950 (Chorus)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Our life is ever on the wing,\nAnd death is ever nigh,\nThe moment when our life begins\nWe all begin to die.\n\nChorus:\n\nThen the eternal spirit guides,\nOur souls by day and night,\nAnd when we reach the heav’nly land\nOur souls shall be at rest." }, "87": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Canaan", "Collation": "Sweet Canaan", "Page": "87", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O who will come and go with me?\nI am bound for the land of Canaan.\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nI am bound for the land of Canaan.\n\nChorus:\n\nO Canaan, sweet Canaan,\nI’m bound for the land of Canaan,\nSweet Canaan, ’tis my happy home;\nI am bound for the land of Canaan.\n\nI’ll join with those who’re gone before,\nI am bound for the land of Canaan.\nWhere sin and sorrow are no more,\nI am bound for the land of Canaan.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "88t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Done With the World", "Collation": "Done With the World", "Page": "88t", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1743", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,\nAnd I don’t expect to stay much longer here.\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon,\nAnd I don’t expect to stay much longer here.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am done with the world,\nAnd I want to serve my Lord,\nAnd I don’t expect to stay much longer here." }, "88b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mount Zion", "Collation": "Mount Zion", "Page": "88b", "Tune Composer": "Massengale, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1739", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O for a thousand tongues to sing\nMy great Redeemer’s praise,\nThe glories of my God and King,\nThe triumphs of His grace.\n\nChorus:\n\nO Christians, praise Him,\nMethinks I hear the gospel sounding\nFor more volunteers." }, "89": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Church’s Desolation", "Collation": "Church’s Desolation, The", "Page": "89", "Tune Composer": "White, Jesse T. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1844", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1844", "Meter": "8s,7s Double Iambic (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Well may Thy servants mourn, my God,\nThe Church’s desolation;\nThe state of Zion calls aloud\nFor grief and lamentation.\nOnce she was all alive to Thee,\nAnd thousands were converted;\nBut now a sad reverse we see,\nHer glory is departed.\n\nHer pastors love to live at ease,\nThey covet wealth and honor;\nAnd while they seek such things as these,\nThey bring reproach upon her.\nSuch worthless objects they pursue\nWarmly and undiverted;\nThe church they lead and ruin, too’\nHer glory is departed.\n\nHer private members walk no more\nAs Jesus Christ has taught them;\nRiches and fashion they adore,\nWith these the world has bought them.\nThe Christian’s name they still retain\nAbsurdly and false-hearted;\nAnd while they in the church remain,\nHer glory is departed.\n\nAnd has religion left the Church\nWithout a trace behind her?\nWhere shall I go, where shall I search,\nThat I once more may find her?\nAdieu, ye proud, ye light and gay,\nI’ll seek the broken-hearted,\nWho weep when they of Zion say,\nHer glory is departed.\n\nSome few, like good Elijah, stand,\nWhile thousands have revolted,\nIn earnest for the heav’nly land;\nThey never yet have halted.\nWith such religion doth remain,\nFor they are not perverted;\nO may they all through them regain\nThe glory that’s departed." }, "90": { "metadata": { "Title": "Arise and Pray", "Collation": "Arise and Pray", "Alternative Title": "Look Out", "Page": "90", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Courtney’s The Christian Pocket Companion", "Lyrics Date": "1805", "Meter": "8s,7s Double Iambic (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "My breth’ren all, on you I call,\nArise and look around you,\nHow many foes, bound to oppose,\nWho’re waiting to confound you!\nThe gospel calls on Zion’s walls,\nShake off your sleep and slumber;\nArise and pray, we’ll win the day,\nThough we are few in number." }, "91": { "metadata": { "Title": "Assurance", "Collation": "Assurance", "Page": "91", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1781", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Now shall my soul be lifted high,\nAbove my foes around,\nAnd songs of joy and victory\nWithin Thy temple sound." }, "92": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Glorious Light of Zion", "Collation": "Glorious Light of Zion, The", "Alternative Title": "Burk", "Page": "92", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Battle’s Collection of Hymns", "Lyrics Date": "1814", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "The glorious light of Zion\nIs spreading far and wide,\nAnd sinners now are coming\nUnto the gospel tide.\n\nChorus:\n\nTo see the saints in glory,\nAnd the angels stand inviting,\nTo welcome sinners home.\n\nThe glory of King Jesus\nTriumphant doth arise,\nAnd sinners crowd around it\nWith bitter groans and cries.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "93": { "metadata": { "Title": "Frozen Heart", "Collation": "Frozen Heart", "Page": "93", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hart, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1762", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, shed a beam of heav’nly day\nTo melt this stubborn stone away;\nAnd thaw, with rays of love divine\nThis heart, this frozen heart of mine.\n\nTo hear the sorrows Thou hast felt,\nAll but an adamant would melt;\nGoodness and wrath in vain combine\nTo move this stupid heart of mine.\n\nBut One can yet perform the deed;\nThat One in all His grace I need;\nThy Spirit can from dross refine\nAnd melt this stubborn heart of mine.\n\nO Breath of life, breathe on my soul!\nOn me let streams of mercy roll;\nNow thaw with rays of love divine,\nThis heart, this frozen heart of mine." }, "94": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Sands of Life", "Collation": "My Sands of Life", "Alternative Title": "Mulberry Grove", "Page": "94", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Taylor, Carmei (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wood, H.", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,8" }, "lyrics": "My sands of life are running fast;\nI can’t recall one moment past:\nI’ve much to do in little space,\nOh, can I yet be saved by grace?\nOh, can I yet one effort make?" }, "95t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Farewell, Vain World", "Collation": "Farewell, Vain World", "Page": "95t", "Tune Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection (1st & 2nd Verse); Mead’s General Selection (3rd Verse); Hunter, William (4th Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1801 (1st & 2nd Verse); 1807 (3rd Verse); 1838 (4th Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nI can’t stay away;\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nI can’t stay away.\n\nChorus:\n\nI cannot stay much longer here,\nI can’t stay away,\nFor the gospel ship is passing by,\nI can’t stay away.\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nI can’t stay away;\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nI can’t stay away.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nOh who will come and go with me,\nI can’t stay away;\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nI can’t stay away.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy heav’nly home is bright and fair,\nI can’t stay away.\nNo pain nor death can enter there,\nI can’t stay away.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "95b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Love", "Collation": "Christian’s Love, The", "Page": "95b", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Fawcett, John", "Lyrics Date": "1782", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Blest be the tie that binds\nOur hearts in Christian love;\nThe fellowship of kindred minds\nIs like to that above.\n\nBefore our Father’s throne\nWe pour our ardent prayers;\nOur fears, our hopes, our aims are one,\nOur comforts and our cares.\n\nWhen we asunder part\nIt gives us inward pain;\nBut we shall still be joined in heart,\nAnd hope to meet again." }, "96": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mercy Seat", "Collation": "Mercy Seat", "Page": "96", "Tune Composer": "Etheridge, John (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "2005", "Lyrics": "Stowell, Hugh", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "From ev’ry stormy wind that blows,\nFrom ev’ry swelling tide of woes,\nThere is a calm, a sure retreat,\n’Tis found beneath the mercy seat.\n\nThere is a place where Jesus sheds\nThe oil of gladness on our heads,\nA place of all on earth most sweet;\nIt is the blood bought mercy seat.\n\nThere is a scene where spirits blend,\nWhere friend holds fellowship with friend;\nThough sundered far, by faith they meet\nAround one common mercy seat.\n\nAh! whither could we flee for aid,\nWhen tempted, desolate, dismayed?\nOr how the hosts of hell defeat\nHad suff’ring saints no mercy seat?\n\nThere, there, on eagles’ wings we soar,\nAnd sin and sense seem all no more;\nAnd heav’n comes down our souls to greet\nAnd glory crowns the mercy seat.\n\nO let my hand forget her skill,\nMy tongue be silent, cold, and still;\nThis bounding heart forget to beat\nIf I forget the mercy seat." }, "97": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gone to Heaven", "Collation": "Gone to Heaven", "Page": "97", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1892", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,6,9,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Oh, where is my father?\nHe is gone to his home,\nHe’s where we all may meet in heaven,\nWhere the wicked cease from troubling,\nAnd the weary are at rest.\n\nOh, where is my mother?\nShe is gone to her home,\nShe’s where we all may meet in heaven,\nWhere the wicked cease from troubling,\nAnd the weary are at rest.\n\nOh, where is my Savior?\nHe is gone to His home,\nHe’s where we all may meet in heaven,\nWhere the wicked cease from troubling,\nAnd the weary are at rest." }, "98": { "metadata": { "Title": "Glory Shone Around", "Collation": "Glory Shone Around", "Page": "98", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Allen, David Crockett (Rev.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Tate, Nahum", "Lyrics Date": "1702", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While shepherds watched their flocks by night,\nAll seated on the ground,\nThe angel of the Lord came down\nAnd glory shone around." }, "99": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gospel Trumpet", "Collation": "Gospel Trumpet", "Page": "99", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads", "Lyrics Date": "1790", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,8,4" }, "lyrics": "Hark! How the gospel trumpet sounds!\nThro’ all the world the echo bounds;\nAnd Jesus by redeeming blood,\nIs bringing sinners home to God,\nAnd guides them safely by His word\nTo endless day.\n\nThy blood, dear Jesus, once was spilt,\nTo save our souls from sin and guilt,\nAnd sinners now may come to God\nAnd find salvation through Thy blood,\nAnd sail by faith upon that flood\nTo endless day." }, "100": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Bower of Prayer", "Collation": "Bower of Prayer, The", "Page": "100", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ormsby, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1821", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "To leave my dear friends, and with neighbors to part,\nAnd go from my home it afflicts not my heart,\nLike thoughts of absenting myself for a day\nFrom the bless’d retreat, where I’ve chosen to pray.\n\nDear bow’r, where the pine and the poplar have spread,\nAnd wove with their branches a roof o’er my head;\nHow oft have I knelt on the evergreen there,\nAnd pour’d out my soul to my Savior in prayer.\n\nThe early shrill notes of the loved nightingale,\nThat dwelt in my bow’r I observed as my bell,\nTo call me to duty, while birds of the air\nSang anthems of praises as I went to prayer.\n\nHow sweet were the zephyrs perfumed by the pine,\nThe ivy, the balsam, and wild eglantine;\nBut sweeter, ah! sweeter, superlative were\nThe joys I have tasted in answer to prayer.\n\nFor Jesus, my Savior, oft deign’d there to meet\nAnd bless’d with His presence my humble retreat;\nOft fill’d me with rapture and blessedness there\nIndicting, in heaven’s own language, my prayer.\n\nDear bow’r, I must leave you and bid you adieu,\nAnd pay my devotion in parts that are new;\nFor Jesus, my Savior, resides everywhere,\nAnd can in all places give answer to prayer." }, "101t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Canaan’s Land", "Collation": "Canaan’s Land", "Page": "101t", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Lloyd’s Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture", "Lyrics Date": "1811", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O for a breeze of heav’nly love,\nTo waft my soul away\nTo that celestial world above,\nWhere pleasures ne’er decay!\nEternal Spirit, deign to be\nMy pilot here below,\nTo steer through life’s tempestuous sea,\nWhere stormy winds do blow.\n\nFrom rocks of pride on either hand,\nFrom quicksands of despair,\nO guide me safe to Canaan’s land,\nThru ev’ry latent snare.\nAnchor me in that port above,\nOn that celestial shore,\nWhere dashing billows never move,\nWhere tempests never roar." }, "101b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Holy City", "Collation": "Holy City", "Page": "101b", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a holy city,\nA happy world above,\nBeyond the starry regions,\nBuilt by the God of love.\nAn everlasting temple,\nAnd saints array’d in white;\nThey serve their great Redeemer,\nAnd dwell with Him in light." }, "102": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fulfillment", "Collation": "Fulfillment", "Page": "102", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Granade, John Adam", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "9s,8s Double (9,8,9,8,9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "See how the Scriptures are fulfilling,\nPoor sinners are returning home,\nThe time that prophets were foretelling,\nWith signs and wonders now has come.\nThe gospel trumpets now are blowing\nFrom sea to sea, from land to land;\nGod’s Holy Spirit down is pouring,\nAnd Christians’ joining heart and hand.\n\nTen thousand fall before Jehovah,\nFor mercy, mercy, loud they cry,\nThey rise, all shouting hallelujah,\nAnd glory be to God on high.\nBut heathens cry, ‘It’s all disorder,’\nAnd disbelieve God’s holy word;\nYet Christians sing, and shout the louder,\nAll glory, glory to the Lord.\n\nNow God is calling ev’ry nation,\nThe bond, the free, the rich, the poor;\nThese are the days of visitation,\nSweet gospel grace will soon be o’er.\nThe Lord shall come, all clothed in thunder,\nAnd lightning streaming to and fro,\nO then He’ll cut His foes asunder,\nAnd cast them with the damned below." }, "103": { "metadata": { "Title": "Animation", "Collation": "Animation", "Page": "103", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And let this feeble body fail,\nAnd let it faint or die,\nMy soul shall quit this mournful vale,\nAnd soar to worlds on high.\n\nShall join the disembodied saints,\nAnd find its long-sought rest,\nThe only bliss for which it pants,\nIn my Redeemer’s breast.\n\nO what are all my suff’rings here,\nIf Lord, Thou count me meet\nWith that enraptured host t’appear,\nAnd worship at Thy feet!" }, "104": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Lovely Story", "Collation": "Lovely Story, The", "Page": "104", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mercer’s Cluster", "Lyrics Date": "1810", "Meter": "8s Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "A story most lovely I’ll tell\nOf Jesus, (O wondrous surprise!),\nHe suffered the torments of hell,\nThat sinners, vile sinners might rise.\nHe left His exalted abode\nWhen man by transgression was lost,\nAppeasing the wrath of our God,\nHe shed forth His blood as the cost.\n\nO did my dear Jesus thus bleed,\nAnd pity a ruined lost race?\nO whence did such mercy proceed,\nSuch boundless compassion and grace?\nHis body bore anguish and pain,\nHis spirit most sunk with the load,\nA short time before He was slain,\nHis sweat was as great drops of blood.\n\nO was it for crimes I had done\nThe Savior was hailed with a kiss,\nBy Judas, the traitor, alone?\nWas ever compassion like this?\nThe ruffians all joined in a band,\nConfined Him, and led Him away;\nThe cords wrapp’d around His sweet hands’\nO, sinners, look at Him, I pray." }, "105t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Saint Paul", "Collation": "Saint Paul", "Page": "105t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Providence Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1820", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Daniel’s wisdom may I know,\nStephen’s faith and spirit show;\nJohn’s divine communion feel,\nMoses’ meekness, Joshua’s zeal;\nRun like the unwearied Paul,\nWin the day and conquer all." }, "105b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Turn, Sinner, Turn", "Collation": "Turn, Sinner, Turn", "Page": "105b", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Miller, William", "Lyrics Date": "1809", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Today, if you will hear His voice,\nNow is the time to make your choice;\nSay, will you to Mount Zion go?\nSay, will you have this Christ or no?\n\nChorus:\n\nO turn, sinner, turn,\nMay the Lord help you turn!\nO turn, sinner, turn,\nWhy will you die?\n\nSay, will you be forever blest,\nAnd with this glorious Jesus rest?\nWill you be saved from guilt and pain?\nWill you with Christ forever reign?\n\n(Chorus)" }, "106": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ecstacy", "Collation": "Ecstacy", "Page": "106", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "O, when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above?\nAnd from the flowing fountain,\nDrink ever lasting love?\nWhen shall I be delivered\nFrom this vain world of sin?\nAnd with my blessed Jesus,\nDrink endless pleasures in.\n\nChorus:\n\nO! had I wings\nI would fly away and be at rest,\nAnd I’d praise God in His bright abode.\n\nBut now I am a soldier,\nMy Captain’s gone before;\nHe’s given me my orders,\nAnd bids me ne’er give o’er;\nHis promises are faithful’\nA righteous crown He’ll give,\nAnd all His valiant soldiers\nEternally shall live.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThrough grace I feel determined\nTo conquer, though I die,\nAnd then away to Jesus\nOn wings of love I’ll fly:\nFarewell to sin and sorrow\nI bid them both adieu!\nAnd oh, my friends, prove faithful,\nAnd on your way pursue.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhene’er you meet with troubles\nAnd trials on your way,\nThen cast your care on Jesus,\nAnd don’t forget to pray.\nGird on the gospel armor\nOf faith, and hope, and love,\nAnd when the combat’s ended,\nHe’ll carry you above.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO, do not be discouraged,\nFor Jesus is your friend;\nAnd if you lack for knowledge\nHe’ll not refuse to lend.\nNeither will He upbraid you,\nThough often you request,\nHe’ll give you grace to conquer\nAnd take you home to rest.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "107": { "metadata": { "Title": "Martin", "Collation": "Martin", "Page": "107", "Tune Composer": "Marsh, Simeon B.", "Tune Composition Date": "1836", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1738", "Meter": "7s Double (7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, lover of my soul,\nLet me to Thy bosom fly;\nWhile the raging billows roll,\nWhile the tempest still is high.\nHide me, O my Savior, hide,\n’Till the storm of life is past;\nSafe into the haven guide,\nO receive my soul at last.\n\nOther refuge have I none,\nHangs my helpless soul on Thee;\nLeave, O leave me not alone,\nStill support and comfort me.\nAll my trust on Thee is stayed,\nAll my help from Thee I bring;\nCover my defenseless head\nWith the shadow of Thy wing.\n\nThou, O Christ, art all I want;\nMore than all in Thee I find;\nRaise the fallen, cheer the faint,\nHeal the sick, and lead the blind.\nJust and holy is Thy name,\nI am all unrighteousness;\nVile and full of sin I am,\nThou art full of truth and grace.\n\nPlenteous grace with Thee is found,\nGrace to cover all my sin;\nLet the healing streams abound;\nMake me, keep me, pure within.\nThou of life the Fountain art,\nFreely let me take of Thee;\nSpring Thou up within my heart,\nRise to all eternity." }, "108t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weeping Sinners", "Collation": "Weeping Sinners", "Page": "108t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Holden, Oliver", "Lyrics Date": "1806", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Weeping sinners, dry your tears,\nJesus on the throne appears;\nMercy comes with balmy wings,\nBids you His salvation sing.\n\nPeace He brings you by His death,\nPeace He speaks with ev’ry breath;\nCan you slight such heav’nly charms?\nFlee, O flee to Jesus’ arms." }, "108b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Traveler", "Collation": "Traveler, The", "Page": "108b", "Tune Composer": "Ogletree, Absalom (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Trav’ler haste, the night comes on,\nMany a shining hour is gone;\nStorm is gath’ring in the West,\nAnd you are so far from home.\n\nChorus:\n\nO come, trav’ler, haste away,\nYou must walk while it is day;\nO come, trav’ler, haste away,\nYou will find in Christ the way.\n\nFar from home thy footsteps stray;\nChrist the life and Christ the way,\nChrist the light, yon setting sun,\nEre the noon is scarce begun.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "109": { "metadata": { "Title": "Carnsville", "Collation": "Carnsville", "Page": "109", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2005", "Lyrics": "Taylor, Caleb Jarvis", "Lyrics Date": "1815", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,6,7,7,7,6" }, "lyrics": "I love my blessed Savior,\nI feel I’m in His favor,\nAnd I am His forever,\nIf I but faithful prove;\nAnd now I’m bound for Canaan,\nI feel my sins forgiven,\nAnd soon shall get to heaven\nTo sing redeeming love.\n\nPoor sinners may deride me,\nAnd unbelievers chide me,\nBut nothing shall divide me\nFrom Jesus, my best friend;\nSupported by His power,\nI long to see the hour\nThat bids my spirit tower,\nAnd all my troubles end.\n\nThe pleasing time is hast’ning,\nMy tott’ring frame is wasting.\nWhilst I’m engaged in praising,\nImpelled by His love.\nWhen yonder shining orders,\nWho sing on Canaan’s borders,\nShall bear me to the Lord there,\nTo praise His name above." }, "110": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mount Vernon", "Collation": "Mount Vernon", "Page": "110", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen", "Tune Composition Date": "1799", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dwight, Theodore", "Lyrics Date": "1799", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "What solemn sound the ear invades?\nWhat wraps the land in sorrow’s shade?\nFrom heav’n the awful mandate flies,\nThe father of his country dies.\nWhere shall our nation turn its eye?\nWhat help remains beneath the sky?\nOur friend, protector, strength and trust,\nLies low and mould’ring in the dust." }, "111t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Journey Home", "Collation": "Journey Home", "Page": "111t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection (1st Verse); Baltimore Collection (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1807 (1st Verse); 1801 (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O who will come and go with me;\nI’m on my journey home.\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nI’m on my journey home.\n\nChorus:\n\nO come and go with me,\nFor I’m on my journey home,\nHome, sweet home, Bless the Lord.\n\nFarewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nI’m on my journey home.\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nI’m on my journey home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nI’m on my journey home.\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nI’m on my journey home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "111b": { "metadata": { "Title": "To Die No More", "Collation": "To Die No More", "Page": "111b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1856", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hunter, William", "Lyrics Date": "1838", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "My heav’nly home is bright and fair;\nNor pain nor death can enter there;\nIts glitt’ring tow’rs the sun outshine;\nThat heav’nly mansion shall be mine.\n\nChorus\n\nI’m going home to Christ above,\nI’m going home to the Christian’s rest,\nI’m going home, to die no more,\nI’m going home to die no more.\n\nMy Father’s house is built on high,\nFar, far above the starry sky;\nWhen from this earthly prison free,\nThat heav’nly mansion mine shall be.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nLet others seek a home below,\nWhich flames devour, or waves o’erflow;\nBe mine a happier lot to own\nA heav’nly mansion near the throne.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "112": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Last Words of Copernicus", "Collation": "Last Words of Copernicus, The", "Page": "112", "Tune Composer": "Lancaster, Sarah (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Ye golden lamps of heav’n, farewell,\nWith all your feeble light,\nFarewell, thou ever changing moon,\nPale empress of the night.\nAnd thou, refulgent orb of day,\nIn brighter flames arrayed,\nMy soul which springs beyond thy sphere,\nNo more demands thy aid." }, "113": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Prodigal Son", "Collation": "Prodigal Son, The", "Page": "113", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Taylor, Carmei (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Afflictions, tho’ they seem severe,\nAre oft in mercy sent;\nThey stopped the prodigal’s career,\nAnd caused him to repent.\n\nChorus:\n\nO I die with hunger here, he cries,\nAnd starve in a foreign land.\nMy father’s house hath large supplies,\nAnd bounteous are his hands.\n\nAlthough he no relenting felt\n’Till he had spent his store;\nHis stubborn heart began to melt\nWhen famine pinched him sore.\n\n(Chorus)\n\n‘Father, I’ve sinned, but O forgive!’\n‘Enough,’ the father said.\n‘Rejoice, my house, my son’s alive,\nFor whom I mourned as dead.’\n\n(Chorus)" }, "114t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Edmonds", "Collation": "Edmonds", "Page": "114t", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Roney, F. M.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Bozarth, William H.", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "When Adam was created,\nHe dwelt in Eden’s shade,\nAs Moses has related,\nBefore a bride was made.\nTen thousand times ten thousand\nOf creatures swarmed around,\nBefore a bride was formed,\nOr any mate was found.\n\nThis woman, she was taken\nFrom near to Adam’s heart,\nBy which we are directed\nThat they should never part.\nThe book that’s called the Bible,\nBe sure you don’t neglect;\nFor in every sense of duty,\nIt will you both direct." }, "114b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fallen by the Way", "Collation": "Fallen by the Way", "Page": "114b", "Tune Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I feel I’ve fallen by the way,\nI feel I’m all undone;\nMy way gets shorter ev’ry day\nTo my eternal home.\n\nChorus:\n\nJesus, blessed Savior,\nHear my fainting cry;\nO Jesus, be thou nearer\nWhen I am called to die." }, "115": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Midnight Cry", "Collation": "Midnight Cry, The", "Page": "115", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baptist Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1834", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,6,7,7" }, "lyrics": "When the midnight cry began,\nO what lamentation,\nThousands sleeping in their sins,\nNeglecting their salvation.\nLo, the Bridegroom is at hand,\nWho will kindly treat Him?\nSurely all the waiting band\nWill now go forth to meet Him." }, "116": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Will Shout and Sing in Glory", "Collation": "I Will Shout and Sing in Glory", "Page": "116", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection (1st Verse); Hunter, William (2nd, 3rd, & 4th Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1807 (1st Verse); 1838 (2nd, 3rd, & 4th Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O who will come and go with me?\nI am bound for the promised land,\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nI am bound for the promised land.\n\nChorus:\n\nI will shout His praise in glory,\nSo will I, so will I,\nAnd we’ll all sing hallelujah by and by.\n\nMy heav’nly home is bright and fair,\nI am bound for the promised land,\nNo pain or death can enter there,\nI am bound for the promised land.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nIts glitt’ring towers the sun outshine,\nI am bound for the promised land,\nThat heav’nly mansion shall be mine,\nI am bound for the promised land.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy Father’s house is built on high,\nI am bound for the promised land,\nFar, far above the starry sky,\nI am bound for the promised land.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "117": { "metadata": { "Title": "Timmons", "Collation": "Timmons", "Page": "117", "Tune Composer": "Williams, E. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, Thou wilt hear me when I pray;\nI am forever Thine;\nI fear before Thee all the day,\nNor would I dare to sin,\nAnd while I rest my weary head\nFrom cares and bus’ness free,\n’Tis sweet conversing on my bed\nWith my own heart and Thee.\n\nI pay this evening sacrifice,\nAnd when my work is done,\nGreat God, my faith and hope relies\nUpon thy grace alone,\nThus with my thoughts composed to peace,\nI’ll give mine eyes to sleep;\nThy hand in safety keeps my days,\nAnd will my slumbers keep." }, "118": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sounding Joy", "Collation": "Sounding Joy", "Page": "118", "Tune Composer": "Morgan, Justin", "Tune Composition Date": "1790", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Behold, the morning sun\nBegins his glorious way,\nHis beams through all the nations run,\nAnd life and light convey.\n\nBut when the gospel comes,\nIt spreads diviner light,\nIt calls dead sinners from their tombs,\nAnd gives the blind their sight.\n\nMy gracious God, how plain\nAre Thy directions giv’n.\nOh, may I never read in vain,\nBut find the path to heav’n.\n\nWhile with my heart and tongue,\nI spread Thy praise abroad,\nAccept the worship and the song,\nMy Savior and my God." }, "119": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heaven’s My Home", "Collation": "Heaven’s My Home", "Page": "119", "Tune Composer": "Davis, R. H. (Dr.); Terry, John S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Davis, R. H. (Dr.) (1st Verse); Terry, John S. (1st Verse); Denham, David (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1869 (1st Verse); 1837 (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "Come, all my dear brethren, and help me to sing;\nI’m going to Jesus, He’s heaven’s great King,\nHe died to atone for the sins of the world;\nHis banner is flying; His sails are unfurled.\n\nChorus:\n\nHeav’n’s my home, heav’n’s my home,\nI’m going to Jesus, for heav’n’s my home.\n\nWhile here in the valley of conflict I stay,\nOh, give me submission, and strength as my day,\nIn all my afflictions to Thee would I come,\nRejoicing in hope of my glorious home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI long, dearest Lord, in Thy beauties to shine,\nNo more as an exile in sorrow to pine;\nAnd in Thy dear image arise from the tomb,\nWith glorified millions to praise Thee at home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "120": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Lord Jehovah Reigns", "Collation": "Lord Jehovah Reigns, The", "Alternative Title": "Chambers", "Page": "120", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Particular Meter (6,6,8,6,6,8)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord Jehovah reigns,\nAnd royal state maintains;\nHis head with awful glories crowned,\nArrayed in robes of light,\nBegirt with sov’reign might,\nAnd rays of majesty around." }, "121": { "metadata": { "Title": "Florence", "Collation": "Florence", "Page": "121", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip (1st Verse); Granade, John Adam (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1755 (1st Verse); 1804 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Not many years their rounds shall roll,\nEach moment brings it nigh,\nEre all its glories stand revealed,\nTo our admiring eye.\nYe wheels of nature, speed your course,\nYe mortal pow’rs decay;\nFast as ye bring the night of death,\nYe bring eternal day.\n\nThrough storms and hurricanes arise,\nThe desert all around,\nAnd fiery serpents oft appear,\nThrough the enchanted ground.\nDark nights and clouds and gloomy fear’\nAnd dragons often roar’\nBut while the gospel trump we hear,\nWe’ll press for Canaan’s shore." }, "122": { "metadata": { "Title": "All Is Well", "Collation": "All Is Well", "Page": "122", "Tune Composer": "White, Jesse T. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Pious Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1836", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,6,10,6,8,8,8,6" }, "lyrics": "What’s this that steals, that steals upon my frame?\nIs it death? Is it death?\nThat soon will quench, will quench this mortal flame?\nIs it death? Is it death?\nIf this be death I soon shall be,\nFrom ev’ry pain and sorrow free,\nI shall the King of glory see.\nAll is well! All is well!\n\nWeep not, my friends, my friends, weep not for me,\nAll is well! All is well!\nMy sins forgiv’n, forgiv’n, and I am free,\nAll is well! All is well!\nThere’s not a cloud that doth arise,\nTo hide my Jesus from my eyes,\nI soon shall mount the upper skies.\nAll is well! All is well!" }, "123t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Dying Christian", "Collation": "Dying Christian, The", "Page": "123t", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Francis, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1795", "Meter": "11s,8s (11,8,11,8)" }, "lyrics": "Ye objects of sense and enjoyments of time,\nWhich oft have delighted my heart,\nI soon shall exchange you for views more sublime,\nFor joys that shall never depart.\n\nThou, Lord of the day, and thou, Queen of the night,\nTo me ye no longer are known;\nI soon shall behold, with increasing delight,\nA sun that shall never go down." }, "123b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cross of Christ", "Collation": "Cross of Christ", "Page": "123b", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Roundtree, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Southern Harmony (1st Verse); Heber, Reginald (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1835 (1st Verse); 1827 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The cross of Christ inspires my heart\nTo sing redeeming grace;\nAwake, my soul, and bear a part\nIn my Redeemer’s praise.\nO, who can be compared to Him\nWho died upon the tree?\nThis is my dear, delightful theme,\nThat Jesus died for me.\n\nA glorious band, the chosen few,\nOn whom the Spirit came,\nTwelve valiant saints, their hope they knew,\nAnd mocked the cross and flame;\nO God, to us may grace be giv’n\nTo follow in their train.\nThru peril, toil and pain they climbed\nThe steep ascent to heav’n." }, "124t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Land", "Collation": "Heavenly Land", "Page": "124t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1857", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\n\nThere everlasting spring abides\nAnd never fading flow’rs;\nDeath, like a narrow sea, divides\nThis heav’nly land from ours." }, "124b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Dying Minister", "Collation": "Dying Minister, The", "Page": "124b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1854", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hicks, Berryman T.", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The time is swiftly rolling on\nWhen I must faint and die;\nMy body to the dust return,\nAnd there forgotten lie.\n\nLet persecution rage around,\nAnd antichrist appear;\nMy silent dust beneath the ground,\nThere’s no disturbance there." }, "125": { "metadata": { "Title": "Expression", "Collation": "Expression", "Page": "125", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Taylor, Caleb Jarvis", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "O Jesus, my Savior, I know Thou art mine,\nFor Thee all the pleasures of earth I resign;\nOf objects most pleasing, I love Thee the best,\nWithout Thee I’m wretched, but with Thee I’m bless’d.\n\nThou art my rich treasure, my joy and my love,\nNone richer possessed by the angels above;\nFor Thee all the pleasures of sense I forego;\nAnd wander a pilgrim, despised below.\n\nThy Spirit first taught me to know I was blind,\nAnd taught me the way of salvation to find.\nFor when I was sinking in dreadful despair,\nMy Jesus relieved me and bid me not fear." }, "126": { "metadata": { "Title": "Babel’s Streams", "Collation": "Babel’s Streams", "Page": "126", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen", "Tune Composition Date": "1810", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases", "Lyrics Date": "1650", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "By Babel’s streams we sat and wept,\nWhile Zion we thought on;\nAmidst thereof we hung our harps,\nThe willow trees upon.\n\nChorus:\n\nWith all the pow’r and skill I have,\nI’ll gently touch each string;\nIf I can reach the charming sound,\nI’ll tune my harp again.\n\nFor there a song required they,\nWho did us captive bring;\nOur spoilers call’d for mirth, and said,\nA song of Zion sing.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO how the Lord’s song shall we sing\nWithin a foreign land?\nIf thee, Jerus’lem, I forget,\nSkill part from my right hand.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "127": { "metadata": { "Title": "Green Fields", "Collation": "Green Fields", "Page": "127", "Tune Composer": "Kentucky Harmonist, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "How tedious and tasteless the hours,\nWhen Jesus no longer I see!\nSweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flow’rs,\nHave lost all their sweetness to me;\nThe midsummer sun shines but dim,\nThe fields strive in vain to look gay;\nBut when I am happy in Him,\nDecember’s as pleasant as May.\n\nHis name yields a richest perfume,\nAnd sweeter than music His voice;\nHis presence disperses my gloom,\nAnd makes all within me rejoice;\nI should, were He always thus nigh,\nHave nothing to wish or to fear;\nNo mortal so happy as I,\nMy summer would last all the year.\n\nDear Lord, if indeed I am Thine,\nIf Thou art my sun and my song,\nSay, why do I languish and pine?\nAnd why are my winters so long?\nO drive these dark clouds from the sky,\nThy soul cheering presence restore,\nOr take me to Thee up on high,\nWhere winter and clouds are no more." }, "128": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Promised Land", "Collation": "Promised Land, The", "Page": "128", "Tune Composer": "Durham, Matilda T. (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye,\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am bound for the promised land,\nO who will come and go with me?\nI am bound for the promised land.\n\nWhen shall I reach that happy place,\nAnd be forever blest?\nWhen shall I see my Father’s face,\nAnd in his bosom rest?\n\n(Chorus)\n\nFilled with delight, my raptured soul\nWould here no longer stay:\nThough Jordan’s waves around me roll,\nFearless I’d launch away.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "129": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Armor", "Collation": "Heavenly Armor", "Page": "129", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1828", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "And if you meet with troubles\nAnd trials on the way,\nThen cast your cares on Jesus,\nAnd don’t forget to pray.\nGird on the heav’nly armor\nOf faith, and hope, and love,\nAnd when the combat’s ended,\nHe’ll take you up above.\n\nThrough grace I am determined\nTo conquer, though I die;\nAnd then away to Jesus\nOn wings of love I’ll fly.\nFarewell to sin and sorrow,\nI bid you all adieu,\nThen, O my friends, prove faithful,\nAnd on your way pursue." }, "130": { "metadata": { "Title": "Millennium", "Collation": "Millennium", "Page": "130", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1831", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Portsmouth Selection, The", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 12,12,12,13" }, "lyrics": "The time is soon coming, by the prophets foretold,\nWhen Zion in purity the world shall behold.\nWhen Jesus’ pure testimony will gain the day,\nDenominations, selfishness, will vanish away.\n\nLet all who would wish to see Millennium begin,\nCome out and be separate from sinners and sin,\nAs soon as the churches are redeemed from sin,\nThe day of the Millennium will surely begin." }, "131t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Messiah", "Collation": "Messiah", "Page": "131t", "Tune Composer": "Carrell, James P. (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1821", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel (1st verse); Wesley, Charles (2nd verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1787 (1st verse); 1763 (2nd verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "He comes! He comes! to judge the world,\nA loud th’ archangel cries,\nWhile thunders roll from pole to pole,\nAnd lightnings cleave the skies;\nTh’ affrighted nations hear the sound,\nAnd upward lift their eyes;\nThe slumb’ring tenants of the ground\nIn living armies rise.\n\nThou awful Judge of quick and dead,\nThe watchful pow’r bestow,\nSo shall I to my ways take heed,\nTo all I speak or do.\nIf now Thou standest at the door,\nO let me feel Thee near;\nAnd make my peace with God, before\nI at Thy bar appear." }, "131b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Invocation", "Collation": "Invocation", "Page": "131b", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Seagrave, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,7,7,6" }, "lyrics": "Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,\nThy better portion trace,\nRise from transitory things\nTo heav’n, thy native place;\nSun, and moon, and stars decay,\nTime shall soon this earth remove;\nRise, my soul, and haste away\nTo seats prepared above.\n\nCease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn,\nPress onward to the prize;\nSoon our Savior will return,\nTriumphant through the skies.\nYet a season, and you know,\nHappy entrance will be giv’n;\nAll our sorrows left below,\nAnd earth exchanged for heav’n." }, "132": { "metadata": { "Title": "Evening Shade", "Collation": "Evening Shade", "Page": "132", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen", "Tune Composition Date": "1805", "Alto Composer": "Hauser, William (Dr.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1848", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The day is past and gone,\nThe evening shades appear;\nO may we all remember well,\nThe night of death is near.\n\nWe lay our garments,\nUpon our beds to rest;\nSo death will soon disrobe us all\nOf what we here possess.\n\nLord, keep us safe this night,\nSecure from all our fears:\nMay angels guard us while we sleep,\n’Till morning light appears.\n\nAnd when we early rise,\nAnd view th’ unwearied sun,\nMay we set out to win the prize,\nAnd after glory run.\n\nAnd when our days are past,\nAnd we from time remove,\nO may we in thy bosom rest,\nThe bosom of thy love." }, "133": { "metadata": { "Title": "John 4:14", "Collation": "John 4:14", "Page": "133", "Tune Composer": "Nowlin, Morris", "Tune Composition Date": "1973", "Lyrics": "Nowlin, Morris", "Lyrics Date": "1973", "Meter": "9s,8s (9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, lead me to the crystal fountain,\nWhere I may bathe my weary soul,\nWhere I may drink of it so freely,\nEnveloped in His grace and love.\n\nOh, see the stream of living waters,\nSo freely flowing from His throne,\nTo this vain world of sin and sorrow,\nWhere my dear Savior’s feet have trod.\n\nHe brought salvation to His people,\nHoly and rev’rend is His name,\nHe is the source of all my comfort,\nIn Him alone my hope doth cling.\n\nOh, let me drink of it so freely,\nOh, this shall be my daily cry.\nOr else the weight of sin and sorrow,\nMy weary soul would faint and die." }, "134": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Hope", "Collation": "Christian’s Hope, The", "Page": "134", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Social and Campmeeting Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "8,8,8,6 Double (8,8,8,6,8,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "A few more days on earth to spend,\nAnd all my toils and cares shall end,\nAnd I shall see my God and friend,\nAnd praise His name on high.\nNo more to sigh or shed a tear,\nNo more to suffer pain or fear,\nBut God, and Christ, and heav’n appear\nUnto the raptured eye.\n\nThen, O my soul, despond no more,\nThe storm of life will soon be o’er\nAnd I shall find the peaceful shore\nOf everlasting rest.\nO happy day! O joyful hour!\nWhen freed from earth my soul shall tow’r\nBeyond the reach of Satan’s pow’r,\nTo be forever blest.\n\nMy soul anticipates the day,\nI’ll joyfully the call obey,\nWhich comes to summon me away\nTo seats prepared above.\nThere I shall see my Savior’s face,\nAnd dwell in His beloved embrace,\nAnd taste the fullness of His grace,\nAnd sing redeeming love." }, "135": { "metadata": { "Title": "Olney", "Collation": "Olney", "Page": "135", "Tune Composer": "Tennessee Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,\nSung by flaming tongues above;\nPraise the mount —I’m fixed upon it —\nMount of Thy redeeming love!\n\nHere I’ll raise my Ebenezer;\nHither by Thy help I’m come;\nAnd I hope by Thy good pleasure,\nSafely to arrive at home.\nJesus sought me when a stranger,\nWondering from the fold of God;\nHe, to rescue me from danger,\nInterposed His precious blood.\n\nO to grace how great a debtor\nDaily I’m constrained to be!\nLet Thy goodness, as a fetter,\nBind my wand’ring heart to Thee;\nProne to wander, Lord, I feel it,\nProne to leave the God I love;\nHere’s my heart, O take and seal it,\nSeal it for Thy courts above." }, "136": { "metadata": { "Title": "Morality", "Collation": "Morality", "Page": "136", "Tune Composer": "Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second", "Tune Composition Date": "1813", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "More, Hannah", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "While beauty and youth are in their full prime,\nAnd folly and fashion affect their whole time,\nO let not the phantom our wishes engage,\nLet us live so in youth that we blush not in age.\n\nThe vain and the young may attend us awhile,\nBut let not their flatt’ry our prudence beguile;\nLet us covet those charms that shall never decay,\nNor listen to all that deceivers can say.\n\nI sigh not for beauty nor languish for wealth,\nBut grant me, kind Providence, virtue and health;\nThen, richer than kings, and far happier than they\nMy days shall pass swiftly and sweetly away.\n\nFor when age steals on me and youth is no more,\nAnd the moralist Time shakes his glass at my door,\nWhat pleasure in beauty or wealth can I find?\nMy beauty, my wealth, is a sweet peace of mind.\n\nThat peace! I’ll preserve it as pure as ’twas giv’n,\nShall last in my bosom an earnest of heav’n;\nFor virtue and wisdom can warm the cold scene,\nAnd sixty can flourish as gay as sixteen.\n\nAnd when I the burden of life shall have borne,\nAnd Death with his sickle shall cut the ripe corn;\nReascend to my God without murmur or sigh,\nI’ll bless the kind summons, and lie down and die." }, "137": { "metadata": { "Title": "Liberty", "Collation": "Liberty", "Page": "137", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen", "Tune Composition Date": "1800", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "No more beneath th’ oppressive hand\nOf tyranny we groan,\nBehold the smiling, happy land,\nThat freedom calls her own." }, "138t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Song to the Lamb", "Collation": "Song to the Lamb", "Page": "138t", "Tune Composer": "White, David Patillo (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1688", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Behold the glories of the Lamb\nAmidst His Father’s throne,\nPrepare new honors for His name,\nAnd songs before unknown.\n\nChorus:\n\nO the Lamb, the living Lamb,\nThe Lamb on Calvary,\nThe Lamb was slain but rose again\nTo intercede for me.\n\nNow to the Lamb that once was slain\nBe endless blessings paid;\nSalvation, glory, joy remain\nForever on Thy head.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "138b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ogletree", "Collation": "Ogletree", "Page": "138b", "Tune Composer": "Brown, S. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Underwood, Leila (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Browne, Simon", "Lyrics Date": "1720", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Frequent the day of God returns\nTo shed its quick’ning beams;\nAnd yet how slow devotion burns,\nHow languid are its flames.\n\nIncrease, O Lord, our faith and hope,\nAnd fit us to ascend,\nWhere the assembly ne’er breaks up,\nAnd sabbaths never end." }, "139": { "metadata": { "Title": "Elysian", "Collation": "Elysian", "Page": "139", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Kemperfelt, Richard", "Lyrics Date": "1777", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Burst, ye em’rald gates, and bring\nTo my raptured vision\nAll ecstatic joys that spring\nRound the bright elysian.\nLo, we lift our longing eyes,\nBurst, ye intervening skies,\nSun of righteousness arise,\nOpe the gates of Paradise.\n\nFloods of everlasting light\nFreely flash before him;\nMyriads, with supreme delight,\nInstantly adore him.\nAngel trumps resound his fame,\nLutes of lucid gold proclaim\nAll the music of his name,\nHeav’n echoing with the theme.\n\nFour-and-twenty elders rise\nFrom their princely station;\nShout his glorious victories,\nSing the great salvation;\nCast their crowns before his throne,\nCry, in reverential tone,\nGlory give to God alone,\n‘Holy, holy, holy one!’\n\nHark! the thrilling symphonies\nSeem, methinks, to seize us?\nJoin we too their holy lays,\nJesus, Jesus, Jesus!\nSweetest sound in seraph’s song,\nSweetest notes on mortal tongue,\nSweetest carol ever sung,\nJesus, Jesus, roll along." }, "140": { "metadata": { "Title": "Chicago", "Collation": "Chicago", "Page": "140", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Tune Composition Date": "1987", "Lyrics": "Sunday School Hymn Book", "Lyrics Date": "1827", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Almighty Father, heav’nly King!\nWho rules the world above;\nAccept the tribute children bring,\nOf gratitude and love.\n\nTo Thee, each morning, when we rise,\nOur early vows we pay;\nAnd ere the night hath closed our eyes,\nWe thank Thee for the day.\n\nO Lord, extend Thy gracious hand,\nTo guide our erring youth;\nAnd lead us to that blissful land,\nWhere dwells eternal truth." }, "141": { "metadata": { "Title": "Complainer", "Collation": "Complainer", "Page": "141", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Southern Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "I am a great complainer\nThat bears the name of Christ;\nCome, all ye Zion mourners,\nAnd listen to my cries:\nI’ve many sore temptations,\nAnd sorrows to my soul;\nI feel my faith declining\nAnd my affections cold.\n\nI wish it was with me now,\nAs in the days of old,\nThe glorious light of Jesus\nWas flowing in my soul.\nBut now I am distressed,\nAnd no relief can find,\nWith a hard, deceitful heart,\nAnd a wretched, wandering mind.\n\nIt is great pride and passion\nBeset me on my way,\nSo I am filled with folly,\nAnd so neglect to pray.\nWhile others run rejoicing,\nAnd seem to lose no time,\nI am so weak I stumble,\nAnd so I’m left behind.\n\nI read that peace and happiness\nMeet Christians in their way,\nThat bear their cross with meekness,\nAnd don’t neglect to pray.\nBut I, a thousand objects,\nBeset me in my way,\nSo I am filled with folly,\nAnd so neglect to pray." }, "142": { "metadata": { "Title": "Stratfield", "Collation": "Stratfield", "Page": "142", "Tune Composer": "Goff, Ezra", "Tune Composition Date": "1786", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Through ev’ry age, eternal God,\nThou art our rest, our safe abode;\nHigh was Thy throne ere heav’n was made,\nOr earth Thy humble footstool laid." }, "143": { "metadata": { "Title": "Playel’s Hymn Second", "Collation": "Playel’s Hymn Second", "Page": "143", "Tune Composer": "Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph", "Tune Composition Date": "1790", "Lyrics": "Williams, Helen Maria", "Lyrics Date": "1790", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While Thee I seek, protecting pow’r,\nBe my vain wishes still’d,\nAnd may this consecrated hour\nWith better hopes be fill’d.\nThy love the pow’r of thought bestow’d,\nTo Thee my thoughts would soar;\nThy mercy o’er my life has flow’d,\nThat mercy I adore." }, "144": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jubilee", "Collation": "Jubilee", "Page": "144", "Tune Composer": "Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,7,8,7,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Hark! the jubilee is sounding,\nO the joyful news is come;\nFree salvation is proclaimed\nIn and thro’ God’s only Son;\nNow we have an invitation\nTo the meek and lowly Lamb.\n\nChorus:\n\nGlory, honor, and salvation;\nChrist, the Lord, is come to reign.\n\nCome, dear friends, and don’t neglect it,\nCome to Jesus in your prime;\nGreat salvation, don’t reject it,\nO receive it, now’s your time;\nNow the Savior is beginning\nTo revive His work again.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nCome, let us run our race with patience,\nLooking unto Christ the Lord,\nWho doth live and reign for ever,\nWith His Father and our God;\nHe is worthy to be praised,\nHe is our exalted King.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nCome, dear children, praise your Jesus,\nPraise Him, praise Him evermore;\nMay His great love now constrain us,\nHis great name for to adore,\nO then let us join together\nCrowns of glory to obtain.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "145t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Streams of Mercy", "Collation": "Streams of Mercy", "Alternative Title": "Warrenton", "Page": "145t", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William; Williams, J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am bound for the kingdom,\nWill you go to glory with me?\nHallelujah, praise the Lord." }, "145b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Child’s Prayer", "Collation": "Child’s Prayer, The", "Alternative Title": "Sweet Affliction", "Page": "145b", "Tune Composer": "Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Mason, Lowell (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1752; 1823 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Pearce, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1800", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "In the floods of tribulation,\nWhile the billows o’er me roll,\nJesus whispers consolation,\nAnd supports my fainting soul.\n\nChorus:\n\nHallelujah, hallelujah,\nHallelujah, praise the Lord.\n\nSavior, tender Shepherd, hear me,\nBless Thy little lamb tonight,\nThro’ the darkness be Thou near me,\nWatch me ’till the morning light.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nTeach me how to do my duty,\nIn the service of my Lord,\nThen, when time with me is over,\nI’ll receive the great reward.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd with Jesus Christ, my Savior,\nI shall live in endless day;\nWhen my sorrows and my toiling\nShall be banished far away.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "146": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hallelujah", "Collation": "Hallelujah", "Page": "146", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles (1st & 2nd Verse); Newton, John (3rd Verse); Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads (4th Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1759 (1st & 2nd Verse); 1779 (3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And let this feeble body fail,\nAnd let it faint and die;\nMy soul shall quit this mournful vale,\nAnd soar to worlds on high.\n\nChorus:\n\nAnd I’ll sing hallelujah,\nAnd you’ll sing hallelujah,\nAnd we’ll all sing hallelujah,\nWhen we arrive at home.\n\nGive joy or grief, give ease or pain,\nTake life or friends away,\nBut let me find them all again,\nIn that eternal day.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAmazing grace, how sweet the sound\nThat saved a wretch like me.\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhen we’ve been there ten thousand years,\nBright shining as the sun,\nWe’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,\nThan when we’ve first begun.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "147": { "metadata": { "Title": "Washington", "Collation": "Washington", "Page": "147", "Tune Composer": "Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second; Monday, Reubin (arranger); Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1813; 1835 (arrangement); 2005 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Hart, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1762", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Dismiss us with thy blessing, Lord,\nHelp us to feed upon thy word;\nAll that has been amiss forgive,\nAnd let thy truth within us live.\nTho’ we are guilty, thou art good,\nWash all our works in Jesus’ blood;\nGive ev’ry fetter’d soul release,\nAnd bid us all depart in peace." }, "148": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jefferson", "Collation": "Jefferson", "Page": "148", "Tune Composer": "Tennessee Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Glorious things of thee are spoken,\nZion, city of our God!\nHe whose word can ne’er be broken,\nForm’d thee for His own abode.\nOn the Rock of Ages founded,\nWho can shake thy sure repose?\nWith salvation’s walls surrounded,\nThou mayst smile at all thy foes.\n\nSee, the streams of living waters,\nSpringing from eternal love,\nWell supply thy sons and daughters,\nAnd all fear of want remove.\nWho can faint while such a river,\nEver will their thirst t’assuage;\nGrace which like the Lord, the giver,\nNever fails from age to age." }, "149": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Trumpet", "Collation": "Trumpet, The", "Page": "149", "Tune Composer": "Williams, J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1831", "Treble Composer": "Walker, William", "Treble Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Milman, Henry Hart", "Lyrics Date": "1827", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,12,12,12" }, "lyrics": "The chariot! the chariot! its wheels roll in fire,\nAs the Lord cometh down in the pomp of His ire!\nLo! self-moving it drives on its pathway of cloud,\nAnd the heav’ns with the burden of Godhead are bowed.\n\nThe glory! the glory! around Him are pour’d,\nMighty hosts of the angels that wait on the Lord;\nAnd the glorified saints and the martyrs are there,\nAnd there all who the palm-wreaths of victory wear.\n\nThe trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard,\nLo! the depths of the stone-covered charnel are stirred;\nFrom the sea, from the earth, from the south, from the north,\nAnd the vast generations of man are come forth.\n\nThe judgment! the judgment! the thrones are all set,\nWhere the Lamb and the white-vested elders are met;\nThere all flesh is at once in the sight of the Lord,\nAnd the doom of eternity hangs on His word.\n\nOh mercy! Oh mercy! look down from above,\nGreat Creator, on us, Thy sad children, with love;\nWhen beneath to their darkness the wicked are driv’n,\nMay our justified souls find a welcome in heav’n." }, "150": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Spiritual Sailor", "Collation": "Spiritual Sailor, The", "Page": "150", "Tune Composer": "Shaker tune; Walker, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "abt 1810-1830; 1835 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "McNemar, Richard", "Lyrics Date": "1813", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "The people called Christians\nHave many things to tell\nAbout the land of Canaan,\nWhere saints and angels dwell;\nBut here a dismal ocean,\nEnclosing them around\nWith its tides still divides\nThem from Canaan’s happy ground.\n\nMany have been impatient\nTo work their passage thro’,\nAnd with united wisdom\nHave tried what they could do;\nBut vessels built by human skill\nHave never sailed far\n’Till we found them aground\nOn some dreadful, sandy bar.\n\nTo those who are spectators,\nWhat anguish must ensue,\nTo hear their old companions\nBid them a last adieu!\nThe pleasures of your paradise\nNo more our hearts invite;\nWe will sail —you may rail,\nWe shall soon be out of sight.\n\nThe passengers united\nIn order, peace, and love,\nThe wind is in our favor,\nHow swiftly do we move!\nTho’ tempests may assail us\nAnd raging billows roar,\nWe will sweep thro’ the deep\n’Till we reach fair Canaan’s shore." }, "151": { "metadata": { "Title": "Symphony", "Collation": "Symphony", "Page": "151", "Tune Composer": "Morgan, Justin", "Tune Composition Date": "1790", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,10,10,10,10,10" }, "lyrics": "Behold, the Judge descends, His guards are nigh;\nTempests and fire attend Him down the sky;\nHeav’n, earth and hell draw near, let all things come\nTo hear His justice and the sinner’s doom;\nBut gather first, my saints, the Judge commands,\nBring them, ye angels, from their distant lands." }, "152": { "metadata": { "Title": "Bruce’s Address", "Collation": "Bruce’s Address", "Page": "152", "Tune Composer": "Christian Lyre", "Tune Composition Date": "1831", "Alto Composer": "Sellers, Julia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Waterbury, Jared B.", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,5,7,7,7,5" }, "lyrics": "Soldiers of the cross, arise!\nLo, your Captain from the skies,\nHolding forth the glitt’ring prize,\nCalls to victory.\nFear not, tho’ the battle low’r,\nFirmly stand the trying hour,\nStand the tempter’s utmost pow’r,\nSpurn his slavery.\n\nWho the cause of Christ would yield?\nWho would leave the battlefield?\nWho would cast away his shield?\nLet him basely go;\nWho for Zion’s King will stand?\nWho will join the faithful band?\nLet him come with heart and hand,\nLet him face the foe.\n\nBy the woes which rebels prove,\nBy the bliss of holy love,\nSinners, seek the joys above;\nSinners, turn and live;\nHere is freedom worth the name,\nTyrant sin is put to shame;\nGrace inspires the hallow’d flame,\nGod the crown will give." }, "153": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come and Go with Me to Heaven", "Collation": "Come and Go with Me to Heaven", "Page": "153", "Tune Composer": "Cumbie, W. A. (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection (1st Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1801 (1st Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nBright angels beckon me away,\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day.\n\nChorus:\n\nO come and go,\nO come and go with me to heav’n, my happy home,\nO come and go with me to heav’n.\n\nO seek ye heav’n — a golden land,\nWhere happy souls rejoicing stand,\nAnd ever view the Savior’s face,\nAnd speak and sing of matchless grace.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "154t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Holy Land", "Collation": "Holy Land", "Page": "154t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\n\nThere everlasting spring abides\nAnd never with’ring flow’rs;\nDeath, like a narrow sea, divides\nThis heav’nly land from ours." }, "154b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Eden", "Collation": "Eden", "Page": "154b", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest! for thee I sigh;\nWhen will the moments come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell in peace at home?\n\nChorus:\n\nO Eden is a land of rest,\nO Eden is my home;\nI’ll launch my bark on Eden’s shore,\nFor Eden is my home." }, "155": { "metadata": { "Title": "How Long, Dear Saviour", "Collation": "How Long, Dear Saviour", "Alternative Title": "Northfield", "Page": "155", "Tune Composer": "Ingalls, Jeramiah", "Tune Composition Date": "1800", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How long, dear Savior, O how long\nShall this bright hour delay?\nFly swift around, ye wheels of time,\nAnd bring the promised day.\n\nLo, what a glorious sight appears\nTo our believing eyes!\nThe earth and seas are passed away,\nAnd the old rolling skies.\n\nFrom the third heaven, where God resides,\nThat holy, happy place,\nThe New Jerusalem comes down\nAdorn’d with shining grace.\n\nAttending angels shout for joy,\nAnd the bright angels sing;\nMortals, behold the sacred seat\nOf our descending King!\n\nHis own soft hand shall wipe the tears\nFrom every weeping eye;\nAnd pains and groans and griefs and fears\nAnd death itself shall die." }, "156": { "metadata": { "Title": "San Diego", "Collation": "San Diego", "Page": "156", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Tune Composition Date": "1997", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "From all that’s mortal, all that’s vain,\nAnd from this earthly clod,\nArise my soul, and strive to gain\nSweet fellowship with God.\nSay, what is there beneath the skies,\nWherever thou hast trod,\nCan suit thy wishes or thy joys,\nLike fellowship with God?\n\nNot life, nor all the toys of art,\nNor pleasure’s flow’ry road,\nCan to my soul such bliss impart,\nAs fellowship with God.\nWhen I am made in love to bear\nAffliction’s needful rod,\nLight, sweet and kind, the strokes appear,\nThrough fellowship with God.\n\nAnd when the icy hand of death\nShall chill my flowing blood,\nO may I yield my latest breath\nIn fellowship with God.\nWhen I, at last, to heav’n ascend,\nAnd gain my blest abode,\nThere an eternity I’ll spend\nIn fellowship with God." }, "157": { "metadata": { "Title": "How We Grovel Here Below", "Collation": "How We Grovel Here Below", "Alternative Title": "Zynder-Zee", "Page": "157", "Tune Composer": "Wynne, M. Mark", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Look, how we grovel here below,\nFond of these earthly toys;\nOur souls, how heavily they go,\nTo reach eternal joys.\nIn vain we tune our formal songs,\nIn vain we strive to rise;\nHosannas languish on our tongues,\nAnd our devotion dies." }, "158": { "metadata": { "Title": "Funeral Thought", "Collation": "Funeral Thought", "Page": "158", "Tune Composer": "Caldwell, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1837", "Lyrics": "Heber, Reginald", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 13,11,12,11" }, "lyrics": "Thou art gone to the grave — but we will not deplore thee,\nTho’ sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb;\nThe Savior has pass’d thru its portals before thee,\nAnd the lamp of his love is thy guide thru the gloom.\n\nThou art gone to the grave — we no longer behold thee,\nNor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side;\nBut wide arms of mercy are spread to enfold thee,\nAnd the sinners may hope, since the Savior hath died.\n\nThou art gone to the grave — and thy cradle forsaken,\nWith us thy fond spirit did not tarry long;\nBut sunshine of heav’n beam’d bright on thy waking,\nAnd the sound thou didst hear was the seraphim’s song." }, "159": { "metadata": { "Title": "Wondrous Love", "Collation": "Wondrous Love", "Page": "159", "Tune Composer": "Christopher, James", "Tune Composition Date": "1840", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dupuy’s Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1812", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 12,9,6,6,12,9" }, "lyrics": "What wondrous love is this? O my soul! O my soul!\nWhat wondrous love is this? O my soul!\nWhat wondrous love is this,\nThat caused the Lord of bliss,\nTo send this precious peace to my soul, to my soul?\nTo send this precious peace to my soul!\n\nWhen I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down;\nWhen I was sinking down, sinking down;\nWhen I was sinking down,\nBeneath God’s righteous frown,\nChrist laid aside His crown for my soul, for my soul,\nChrist laid aside His crown for my soul.\n\nYe friends of Zion’s King, join the praise, join the praise;\nYe friends of Zion’s King, join the praise;\nYe friends of Zion’s King,\nWith heart and voices sing,\nAnd strike each tuneful string in his praise, in his praise,\nAnd strike each tuneful string in his praise." }, "160": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Crown of Life for Me", "Collation": "Crown of Life for Me, A", "Page": "160", "Tune Composer": "McDaniel, J. H.", "Tune Composition Date": "1910", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,8,9,8,9,7,8,8" }, "lyrics": "O the day of joy will soon appear,\nWhen the Lord shall come for my soul,\nAnd a crown of life He will prepare,\nWhen the Lord shall come for my soul.\nWhen the Lord Jesus comes for my soul,\nAnd I view cold Jordan’s stream\nI’ll bid farewell to earthly care,\nWhen the Lord shall come for my soul." }, "161": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Home", "Collation": "Sweet Home", "Page": "161", "Tune Composer": "Bishop, Henry Rowley (Sir); Walker, William (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1823; 1840 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Denham, David", "Lyrics Date": "1826", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,\nHow sweet to my soul is communion with saints;\nTo find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,\nAnd feel in the presence of Jesus at home.\n\nChorus:\n\nHome, home, sweet, sweet, home;\nPrepare me, dear Savior, for glory, my home.\n\nSweet bonds that unite all the children of peace!\nAnd thrice precious Jesus, whose love cannot cease!\nTho’ oft from Thy presence in sadness I roam,\nI long to behold Thee in glory, at home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI sigh from this body of sin to be free,\nWhich hinders my joy and communion with Thee;\nTho’ now temptations like billows may foam,\nAll, all will be peace when I’m with Thee at home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "162": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hark! from the Tomb", "Collation": "Hark! from the Tomb", "Alternative Title": "Plenary", "Page": "162", "Tune Composer": "Clark, A. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1839", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Hark! from the tomb a doleful sound,\nMine ears, attend the cry:\n‘Ye living men, come view the ground\nWhere you must shortly lie.’\n\n‘Princes, this clay must be your bed\nIn spite of all your pow’r;\nThe tall, the wise, the rev’rend head\nMust lie as low as ours.’\n\n‘Great God! is this our certain doom?\nAnd are we now prepared?\nWe’re marching onward to the tomb\nWhere pardon is no more.’" }, "163t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Morning", "Collation": "Morning", "Page": "163t", "Tune Composer": "Pilsbury, Amos", "Tune Composition Date": "1799", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "He dies, the friend of sinners dies,\nLo! Salem’s daughters weep around;\nA solemn darkness veils the skies,\nA sudden trembling shakes the ground.\n\nHere’s love and grief beyond degree:\nThe Lord of glory dies for men;\nBut lo! what sudden joys we see!\nJesus, the dead, revives again.\n\nThe rising God forsakes the tomb;\nUp to His Father’s court He flies,\nCherubic legions guard Him home,\nAnd shout Him welcome to the skies." }, "163b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Marysville", "Collation": "Marysville", "Page": "163b", "Tune Composer": "Davisson, Ananias; Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1821; 2000 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1743", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon;\nHis track I see, and I’ll pursue\nThe narrow way ’till Him I view.\n\nThis is the way I long have sought,\nAnd mourn’d because I found it not;\nMy grief a burden long has been,\nBecause I was not saved from sin.\n\nThen will I tell to sinners round,\nWhat a dear Savior I have found;\nI’ll point to Thy redeeming blood,\nAnd say, ‘Behold the way to God!’" }, "164": { "metadata": { "Title": "Duane Street", "Collation": "Duane Street", "Page": "164", "Tune Composer": "Coles, George", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Treble Composer": "White, Jesse T.", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Montgomery, James", "Lyrics Date": "1826", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "A poor, wayfaring Man of grief\nHath often pass’d me on my way,\nWho sued so humbly for relief\nThat I could never answer, ‘Nay.’\nI had not pow’r to ask His name,\nWhither He went or whence He came,\nYet there was something in His eye,\nThat won my love, I knew not why.\n\nOnce, when my scanty meal was spread,\nHe entered — not a word he spake —\nJust perishing for want of bread,\nI gave Him all, He bless’d it, brake,\nAnd ate, but gave me part again,\nMine was an angel’s portion then;\nAnd while I fed with eager haste,\nThe crust was manna to my taste.\n\nIn pris’n I saw Him next, condemn’d\nTo meet a traitor’s doom at morn;\nThe tide of lying tongues I stemm’d,\nAnd honor’d Him ’mid shame and scorn.\nMy friendship’s utmost zeal to try,\nHe ask’d, if I for Him would die;\nThe flesh was weak, my blood ran chill,\nBut the free spirit cried, ‘I will!’\n\nThen, in a moment, to my view\nThe stranger started from disguise;\nThe tokens in His hands I knew’\nMy Savior stood before my eyes!\nHe spake, and my poor name He named:\n‘Of Me thou hast not been ashamed;\nThese deeds shall thy memorial be;\nFear not; thou didst it unto Me.’" }, "165": { "metadata": { "Title": "Family Bible", "Collation": "Family Bible", "Page": "165", "Tune Composer": "Caldwell, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1837", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Charleston Courier, The", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "12s,11s Double (12,11,12,11,12,11,12,11)" }, "lyrics": "How painfully pleasing the fond recollection,\nOf youthful connection and innocent joy,\nWhile blest with parental advice and affection,\nSurrounded with mercy and peace from on high.\nI still view the chairs of my father and mother,\nThe seats of their offspring, as ranged on each hand,\nAnd the richest of books which excels ev’ry other,\nThe family Bible that lay on the stand.\n\nThe Bible, that volume of God’s inspiration,\nAt morning and ev’ning could yield us delight;\nThe prayers of our father, a sweet invocation,\nFor mercy by day and for safety by night;\nO hymns of thanksgiving with harmonious sweetness,\nAs warmed by the hearts of the family band,\nHath raised us from earth to that rapturous dwelling,\nDescribed in the Bible that lay on the stand." }, "166": { "metadata": { "Title": "Joyful", "Collation": "Joyful", "Page": "166", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Treble Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Treble Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb?\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\nMust I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease?\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sailed thru bloody seas?\n\nChorus:\n\nO, that will be joyful, joyful, joyful!\nO, that will be joyful\nTo meet to part no more.\nTo meet to part no more,\nOn Canaan’s happy shore;\nWe all shall meet at Jesus’ feet\nWith those who’ve gone before." }, "168": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cowper", "Collation": "Cowper", "Page": "168", "Tune Composer": "Holden, Oliver", "Tune Composition Date": "1803", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Forgive the song that falls so low\nBeneath the gratitude I owe.\nIt means Thy praise, however poor,\nAn angel’s song can do no more." }, "169": { "metadata": { "Title": "Dartmouth", "Collation": "Dartmouth", "Page": "169", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen", "Tune Composition Date": "1803", "Alto Composer": "Roney, F. M.", "Alto Composition Date": "1900", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sound His praise abroad,\nAnd hymns of glory sing,\nJehovah is the sov’reign God,\nThe universal King.\nHe formed the deep unknown,\nHe gave the seas their bound,\nThe wat’ry worlds are all His own,\nAnd all the solid ground.\n\nCome, worship at His throne,\nCome, bow before the Lord,\nWe are His work, and not our own,\nHe formed us by His Word.\nToday attend His voice,\nNor dare provoke His rod,\nCome, like the people of His choice,\nAnd own your gracious God." }, "170": { "metadata": { "Title": "Exhilaration", "Collation": "Exhilaration", "Page": "170", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O may I worthy prove to see\nThe saints in full prosperity,\nThen my troubles will be over.\nTo see the bride, the glitt’ring bride,\nClose seated by her Savior’s side,\nThen my troubles will be over.\n\nChorus:\n\nI never shall forget the day when Jesus wash’d my sins away,\nAnd now my troubles are all over,\nAre all over, Are all over, Hallelujah,\nAnd now my troubles are all over.\n\nI’ll praise Him while he gives me breath,\nI hope to praise Him after death,\nThen my troubles will be over.\nI hope to praise Him when I die,\nAnd shout salvation as I fly!\nThen my troubles will be over.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "171": { "metadata": { "Title": "Exhortation", "Collation": "Exhortation", "Page": "171", "Tune Composer": "Hibbard", "Tune Composition Date": "1796", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hear\nMy voice ascending high;\nTo Thee will I direct my pray’r,\nTo Thee lift up mine eye.\n\nUp to the hills where Christ is gone\nTo plead for all His saints,\nPresenting at His Father’s throne\nOur songs and our complaints." }, "172": { "metadata": { "Title": "Harmony", "Collation": "Harmony", "Page": "172", "Tune Composer": "Ellis, Abner", "Tune Composition Date": "1805", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ogilvie, John", "Lyrics Date": "1762", "Meter": "Common Particular Meter (8,8,6,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Wake, all ye soaring throngs and sing,\nYe cheerful warblers of the spring,\nHarmonious anthems raise,\nTo Him who shap’d your finer mold,\nWho tipp’d your glitt’ring wings with gold,\nAnd tuned your voice to praise." }, "173": { "metadata": { "Title": "To Thee Will I Direct My Prayer", "Collation": "To Thee Will I Direct My Prayer", "Alternative Title": "Phoebus", "Page": "173", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1770", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hear\nMy voice ascending high,\nTo Thee will I direct my pray’r,\nTo Thee lift up mine eye.\nUp to the hills where Christ is gone\nTo plead for all His saints,\nPresenting at His Father’s throne\nOur songs and our complaints." }, "174": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gospel Message", "Collation": "Gospel Message", "Page": "174", "Tune Composer": "Lincoln, Horace Neely", "Tune Composition Date": "1895", "Lyrics": "Newell, Laura E.", "Lyrics Date": "1895", "Meter": "13s Half (13,13)" }, "lyrics": "Have you heard the gospel message sent to us today?\nGod is love, God is love;\nDid you know that Christ redeemed you? He’s the Truth, the Way.\nGod is love, God is love.\n\nChorus:\n\nGood news to all, the Savior reigns,\nA place in Heav’n for all remains\nHis blood will cleanse sin’s deepest stains,\nGod is love, God is love, our God is love.\n\nThere’s a road that all may travel to the realms of bliss,\nGod is love, God is love;\nAnd a home for you in glory, brighter far than this.\nGod is love, God is love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nDid you know that Jesus suffered to redeem you soul?\nGod is love, God is love;\nAnd to Heaven He would guide you, all your ways control.\nGod is love, God is love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "175": { "metadata": { "Title": "Star in the East", "Collation": "Star in the East", "Page": "175", "Tune Composer": "Herron, R.", "Tune Composition Date": "1825", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Heber, Reginald", "Lyrics Date": "1811", "Meter": "10s,11s (10,11,10,11)" }, "lyrics": "Hail the blest morn when the great Mediator,\nDown from the regions of glory descends;\nShepherds, go worship the Babe in the manger,\nLo! for His guard the bright angels attend." }, "176t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ragan", "Collation": "Ragan", "Page": "176t", "Tune Composer": "Moore, W. F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home;\nI belong to this band, hallelujah,\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come;\nI belong to this band, hallelujah.\n\nChorus:\n\nHallelujah, hallelujah,\nI belong to this band, hallelujah.\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nI belong to this band, hallelujah,\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nI belong to this band, hallelujah.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "176b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Good Physician", "Collation": "Good Physician, The", "Page": "176b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "How lost was my condition,\n’Till Jesus made me whole;\nThere is but one Physician\nCan cure a sin-sick soul.\n\nChorus:\n\nPoor sinners, come to Jesus,\nO come without delay,\nFor Jesus is inviting,\nO come, O come today.\n\nNext door to death He found me,\nAnd snatch’d me from the grave;\nTo tell all around me\nHis wondrous pow’r to save.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nA dying, risen Jesus,\nSeen by the eye of faith,\nAt once from anguish frees us,\nAnd saves the soul from death.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nCome, then to the Physician,\nHis help He’ll freely give;\nHe makes no hard condition,\n’Tis only Look and Live.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "177": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Loves to Answer Prayer", "Collation": "Jesus Loves to Answer Prayer", "Page": "177", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, my soul, thy suit prepare,\nJesus loves to answer pray’r;\nHe Himself has bid thee come,\nTherefore will not say thee nay.\n\nChorus:\n\nSay thee nay, yes, say thee nay,\nJesus loves to answer pray’r, answer pray’r,\nLoves to answer pray’r,\nAnswer pray’r, yes, answer pray’r,\nTherefore will not say thee nay.\n\nThou art coming to a King,\nLarge petitions with thee bring,\nFor His grace and pow’r are such,\nNone can ever ask too much.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nLord, I come to Thee for rest,\nTake possession of my breast;\nThere thy blood-bought right maintain,\nAnd without a rival reign.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "178": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hosanna", "Collation": "Hosanna", "Page": "178", "Tune Composer": "American Church Harp, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "King, John", "Lyrics Date": "1830", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "When His salvation bringing,\nTo Zion Jesus came,\nThe children all stood singing\nHosanna to His Name;\nNor did their zeal offend Him,\nBut as He rode along,\nHe let them still attend Him,\nAnd smiled to hear their song.\n\nAnd since the Lord retaineth\nHis love for children still,\nTho’ now as King He reigneth\nOn Zion’s heav’nly hill,\nWe’ll flock around His banner,\nWho sits upon the throne,\nAnd cry aloud ‘Hosanna\nTo David’s royal Son.’" }, "179": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian Warfare", "Collation": "Christian Warfare, The", "Page": "179", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Southern Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "12s,11s Double (12,11,12,11,12,11,12,11)" }, "lyrics": "I find myself placed in a state of probation,\nWhich God has commanded us well to improve;\nAnd I am resolved to regard all His precepts,\nAnd on in the way of obedience to move.\nI know I must go thru great tribulation,\nAnd many sore conflicts on every hand;\nBut grace will support and comfort my spirit,\nAnd I shall be able forever to stand.\n\nAnd more than exemption from fighting and hardship,\nMy gracious Redeemer will grant unto me;\nA portion of bliss He has promised to give me,\nAnd true to that promise He surely will be.\nYes, I shall receive and always inherit\nA happy reception and truly divine,\nFor which all the praise and glory, my Savior,\nAre due unto Thee, and shall ever be Thine." }, "180": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Place for Children", "Collation": "Place for Children, A", "Page": "180", "Tune Composer": "Herr, L. B.; Compton, J. D. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1877; 1907 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Herr, L. B.", "Lyrics Date": "1877", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,9,12,9" }, "lyrics": "There’s a place for children in the singing school\nTo improve all their bright Sabbath days;\nIt is there we should gather when the Sabbath comes,\nAnd to Jesus, our Savior, give praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nThen sing, O sing!\nWe will sing, we will sing, we will sing,\nWe will sing, we will sing,\nWe will sing in the singing school.\n\nWe will sing to Jesus, who has died for us,\nAnd has gone to prepare us a home;\nUnto Him we should ever our praises sing,\nWhile here in this world we roam.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd ’tis while we’re singing that our tho’t’s will turn\nTo the beautiful, true and the good;\nAnd ’tis music, sweet music, that our souls will cheer,\nWhile feasting on heavenly food.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "181": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Gospel Invitation", "Collation": "Gospel Invitation, The", "Page": "181", "Tune Composer": "Shaw, J. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sinner, to the gospel feast,\nO come without delay,\nFor there is room in Jesus’ breast\nFor all who will obey;\nThere’s room in God’s eternal love\nTo save thy precious soul,\nRoom in the Spirit’s grace above\nTo heal and make thee whole." }, "182": { "metadata": { "Title": "Newburgh", "Collation": "Newburgh", "Page": "182", "Tune Composer": "Munson, Amos", "Tune Composition Date": "1798", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter Double (6,6,8,6,6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Let ev’ry creature join\nTo praise th’ eternal God;\nYe heav’nly hosts the song begin,\nAnd sound his name abroad.\nThou sun with golden beams,\nAnd moon with paler rays;\nYe starry lights, ye twinkling flames,\nShine to your Maker’s praise." }, "183": { "metadata": { "Title": "Arbacoochee", "Collation": "Arbacoochee", "Page": "183", "Tune Composer": "Denson, Seaborn McDaniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1908", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Behold the love, the gen’rous love,\nThat holy David shows,\nBehold His kind compassion move\nFor His afflicted foes.\nWhen they are sick His soul complains,\nAnd seems to feel the smart,\nThe spirit of the gospel reigns\nAnd melts His pious heart." }, "184t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Will You Come?", "Collation": "Will You Come?", "Page": "184t", "Tune Composer": "Watson, J. W.", "Meter": "9s Half (9,9)" }, "lyrics": "Will you come to the Savior today?\nWill you come, will you come, will you come?\nWill you come without doubt or delay?\nWill you come, will you come, will you come?\n\nChorus:\n\nWill you come, will you come?\nWill you come to the Savior today?\nJesus sweetly invites you away,\nWill you come and be happy today?" }, "184b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Tribulation", "Collation": "Tribulation", "Page": "184b", "Tune Composer": "Patterson’s Church Music", "Tune Composition Date": "1813", "Alto Composer": "Missouri Harmony", "Alto Composition Date": "1820", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Death, ’tis a melancholy day\nTo those who have no God,\nWhen the poor soul is forced away,\nTo seek her last abode.\n\nIn vain to heav’n she lifts her eyes,\nFor guilt, a heavy chain,\nStill drags her downward from the skies,\nTo darkness, fire, and pain.\n\nAwake and mourn, ye heirs of hell,\nLet stubborn sinners fear;\nYou must be driv’n from earth, and dwell,\nA long forever there.\n\nSee how the pit gapes wide for you,\nAnd flashes in your face;\nAnd thou, my soul, look downward too,\nAnd sing recovering grace." }, "185": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pilgrim’s Farewell", "Collation": "Pilgrim’s Farewell", "Page": "185", "Tune Composer": "Harmony of Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1802", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Psalmodist’s Companion", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, my friends, I must be gone,\nI have no home or stay with you;\nI’ll take my staff and travel on\n’Till I a better world can view.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’ll march to Canaan’s land,\nI’ll land on Canaan’s shore.\nWhere pleasures never end,\nAnd troubles come no more.\nFarewell, my loving friends, farewell.\n\nFarewell, my friends, time rolls along,\nNor waits for mortal care or bliss;\nI’ll leave you here and travel on,\n’Till I arrive where Jesus is.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "186": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sherburne", "Collation": "Sherburne", "Page": "186", "Tune Composer": "Read, Daniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1785", "Lyrics": "Tate, Nahum", "Lyrics Date": "1702", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night,\nAll seated on the ground,\nThe angel of the Lord came down\nAnd glory shone around." }, "187": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Race", "Collation": "Christian’s Race, The", "Page": "187", "Tune Composer": "Martin, A. L. (Dr.); Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Awake, my soul, in joyful songs,\nAnd press with vigor on;\nA heav’nly race demands thy zeal,\nAnd an immortal crown.\n\nChorus:\n\nAwake! awake my soul!\nAnd press with vigor on;\nAwake, awake, press onward now\n’Till all thy work is done.\n\nA cloud of witnesses around,\nHold thee in full survey;\nForget the steps already trod,\nAnd onward urge thy way.\n\n(Chorus)\n\n’Tis God’s all animating voice\nThat calls thee from on high;\n’Tis his own hand presents the prize\nTo thine uplifted eye.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThat prize, with peerless glories bright,\nWhich shall new luster boast,\nWhen victor’s wreaths and monarch’s gems\nShall blend in common dust.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "188": { "metadata": { "Title": "Spring", "Collation": "Spring", "Page": "188", "Tune Composer": "David’s Harp", "Tune Composition Date": "1818", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,7,7" }, "lyrics": "The scattered clouds are fled at last,\nThe rain is gone, the winter’s past;\nThe lovely vernal flow’rs appear,\nThe warbling choirs enchant our ear.\nNow, with sweetly pensive moan,\nCoos the turtle-dove alone.\n\nThe voice of my beloved sounds,\nWhile o’er the mountain top he bounds;\nHe flies, exulting, o’er the hills,\nAnd all my soul with transports fills.\nGently doth he chide my stay,\nRise, my soul, and come away." }, "189": { "metadata": { "Title": "Montgomery", "Collation": "Montgomery", "Page": "189", "Tune Composer": "Morgan, Justin", "Tune Composition Date": "1790", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Early, my God, without delay,\nI haste to seek Thy face;\nMy thirsty spirit faints away,\nWithout Thy cheering grace;\nSo pilgrims on the scorching sand,\nBeneath a burning sky,\nLong for a cooling stream at hand,\nAnd they must drink or die." }, "191": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Is Winning Souls", "Collation": "Jesus Is Winning Souls", "Alternative Title": "Essay", "Page": "191", "Tune Composer": "Clark, A. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1840", "Alto Composer": "Denson, Seaborn McDaniel", "Alto Composition Date": "1911", "Lyrics": "Purify’s Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1823", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "See how the wicked kingdom\nIs falling ev’ry day!\nAnd still our blessed Jesus\nIs winning souls away;\nBut O how I am tempted,\nNo mortal tongue can tell!\nSo often I’m surrounded\nWith enemies from hell.\n\nWith weeping and with praying,\nMy Jesus I have found,\nTo crucify old nature,\nAnd make His grace abound.\nDear children, don’t be weary,\nBut march on in the way;\nFor Jesus will stand by you\nAnd be your guard and stay." }, "192": { "metadata": { "Title": "Schenectady", "Collation": "Schenectady", "Page": "192", "Tune Composer": "Shumway, Nehemiah", "Tune Composition Date": "1805", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "From all that dwell below the skies,\nLet the Creator’s praise arise;\nLet the Redeemer’s name be sung,\nThro’ ev’ry land, by ev’ry tongue.\nEternal are Thy mercies, Lord,\nEternal truth attends Thy word;\nThy praise shall sound from shore to shore,\n’Till sun shall rise and set no more." }, "193": { "metadata": { "Title": "Huntington", "Collation": "Huntington", "Page": "193", "Tune Composer": "Morgan, Justin", "Tune Composition Date": "1790", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I\nTo mourn and murmur and repine;\nTo see the wicked placed on high,\nIn pride and robes of honor shine.\nBut, O, their end, their dreadful end!\nThy sanctuary taught me so,\nOn slipp’ry rocks I see them stand,\nAnd fiery billows roll below." }, "195": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mars Hill Morning", "Collation": "Mars Hill Morning", "Page": "195", "Tune Composer": "Lee, Clark", "Tune Composition Date": "2005", "Lyrics": "Lee, Clark", "Lyrics Date": "2005", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "We sing the songs of Sacred Harp\nWhile living in this world,\nIt lifts our hearts and souls on high\nAs melodies unfurl.\nTranscending spirits mingle there\nTo sing the melody.\nThe Holy Ghost blends ev’ry voice\nIn perfect harmony.\n\nWe sing the songs of grace and praise\nWhile gathered in the church.\nGod’s Spirit blends our voices here\nAnd lifts us above earth.\nWhile lifted up in heav’nly love\nOur Savior God we see,\nAnd long to be enshrouded in\nHis love eternally.\n\nWe sing the songs of Lloyd’s Hymnal\nTheir melodies do ring.\nWe thank God for this precious gift\nThat makes our hearts to sing.\nOur bodies dead, our souls shall rise\nTo their eternal home,\nAnd sing praise to our Savior King\nUpon his sacred throne." }, "196": { "metadata": { "Title": "Alabama", "Collation": "Alabama", "Page": "196", "Tune Composer": "Tennessee Harmony; Southern Harmony (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1818; 1835 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Southern Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Angels in shining order stand\nAround the Savior’s throne;\nThey bow with rev’rence at his feet,\nAnd make his glories known.\nThose happy spirits sing his praise\nTo all eternity,\nBut I can sing redeeming grace,\nFor Jesus died for me." }, "197": { "metadata": { "Title": "Edwards", "Collation": "Edwards", "Page": "197", "Tune Composer": "Woodward, H. S. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1714", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath,\nAnd when my voice is lost in death,\nPraise shall employ my nobler pow’rs.\nMy days of praise shall ne’er be past\nWhile life and thought and being last\nOr immortality endures." }, "198": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Saves", "Collation": "Jesus Saves", "Alternative Title": "Raymond", "Page": "198", "Tune Composer": "McCurry, John G. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1855", "Lyrics": "Bassett, J. W.", "Lyrics Date": "1950", "Meter": "Common Meter Half (8.6)" }, "lyrics": "I know that Jesus saves me now,\nHe heard my feeble prayer,\n\nChorus:\n\nAnd in the great redemption plan\nI now so freely share\nI now so freely live\nAnd bye and bye we’ll meet Him there\nAnd see Him as He is.\n\nSo shall our songs and pray’rs ascend\nTo Him who saves us there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "199": { "metadata": { "Title": "City of Light", "Collation": "City of Light", "Page": "199", "Tune Composer": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Tune Composition Date": "1877", "Lyrics": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Lyrics Date": "1877", "Meter": "12s,9s (12,9,12,9)" }, "lyrics": "There’s a city of light ’mid the stars, we are told,\nWhere they know not a sorrow or care;\nAnd the gates are of pearl and the streets are of gold,\nAnd the buildings exceedingly fair.\n\nChorus:\n\nLet us pray for each other, nor faint by the way,\nIn this sad world of sorrow and care,\nFor that home is so bright, and is almost in sight,\nAnd I trust in my heart you’ll go there.\n\nBrother dear, never fear, we shall triumph at last,\nIf we trust in the word He has giv’n;\nWhen our trials and toils, and our weepings are past,\nWe shall meet in that home up in heav’n.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSister dear, never fear, for the Savior is near,\nWith His hand He will lead you along;\nAnd the way that is dark, Christ will graciously clear,\nAnd your mourning shall turn to a song.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nLet us walk in the light of the gospel divine;\nLet us ever keep near to the cross;\nLet us love, watch, and pray, in our pilgrimage here;\nLet us count all things else but as loss.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "200": { "metadata": { "Title": "With Songs and Honors", "Collation": "With Songs and Honors", "Alternative Title": "Edom", "Page": "200", "Tune Composer": "West, Elisha", "Tune Composition Date": "1797", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "With songs and honors sounding loud,\nAddress the Lord on high,\nOver the heav’ns He spreads His clouds,\nAnd waters veil the sky,\nHe sends His show’rs of blessings down\nTo cheer the plains below;\nHe makes the grass the mountains crown,\nAnd corn in valleys grow." }, "201": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pilgrim", "Collation": "Pilgrim", "Page": "201", "Tune Composer": "Carden, Allen D. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Granade, John Adam", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,8,6,7,6,8,6" }, "lyrics": "Come, all ye mourning pilgrims dear,\nWho’re bound for Canaan’s land,\nTake courage and fight valiantly,\nStand fast with sword in hand.\nOur Captain’s gone before us,\nOur Father’s only Son,\nThen, pilgrims dear, pray do not fear,\nBut let us follow on." }, "202": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Lebanon", "Collation": "New Lebanon", "Page": "202", "Tune Composer": "Sherman, P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1808", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Great God, the heav’n’s well order’d frame\nDeclares the glories of Thy name;\nThere Thy rich works of wonder shine;\nA thousand starry beauties there,\nA thousand radiant marks appear,\nOf boundless pow’r and skill divine." }, "203": { "metadata": { "Title": "Florida", "Collation": "Florida", "Page": "203", "Tune Composer": "Wetmore, Truman S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1803", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Let sinners take their course\nAnd choose the road to death,\nBut in the worship of my God\nI’ll spend my daily breath.\n\nMy thoughts address His throne,\nWhen morning brings the light;\nI seek His blessings every noon,\nAnd pay my vows at night.\n\nThou wilt regard my cries,\nO my eternal God;\nWhile sinners perish in surprise,\nBeneath Thine angry rod.\n\nBecause they dwell at ease,\nAnd no sad changes feel,\nThey neither fear nor trust Thy name,\nNor learn to do Thy will." }, "204": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mission", "Collation": "Mission", "Page": "204", "Tune Composer": "Grambling, Andrew (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wolcott’s Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1817", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Young people, all attention give\nWhile I address you in God’s name;\nYou who in peace and folly live,\nCome hear the counsel of a friend.\nI’ve sought for bliss in glitt’ring joys,\nAnd ranged the luring scenes of vice,\nBut never knew substantial joys\nUntil I heard my Savior’s voice.\n\nHe spake at once my sins forgiv’n,\nAnd wash’d my load of guilt away;\nHe gave me glory, peace, and heav’n,\nAnd thus I found the heav’nly way.\nAnd now with trembling sense I view\nThe billows roll beneath your feet;\nFor death eternal waits for you\nWho slight the force of gospel truth.\n\nYour souls will land in darker realms,\nWhere vengeance reigns and billows roar,\nAnd roll amid the burning flames,\nWhen thousand thousand years are o’er.\nSunk in the shades of endless night,\nTo groan and howl in endless pain,\nAnd never more behold the light,\nAnd never, never rise again.\n\nYe blooming youth, this is the state\nOf all who do free grace refuse;\nAnd soon with you ’twill be too late\nThe way of life and Christ to choose.\nCome, lay your carnal weapons by,\nNo longer fight against your God,\nBut with the gospel now comply,\nAnd heav’n shall be your great reward." }, "205": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pleasant Hill", "Collation": "Pleasant Hill", "Page": "205", "Tune Composer": "Nicholson, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Lyrics": "Fawcett, John", "Lyrics Date": "1782", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Religion is the chief concern\nOf mortals here below;\nMay I its great importance learn,\nIts sov’reign virtues know.\nMore needed this than glitt’ring wealth,\nOr aught the world bestows;\nNor reputation, food or health,\nCan give us such repose.\n\nReligion should our thoughts engage\nAmidst our youthful bloom;\n’Twill fit us for declining age,\nAnd for the awful tomb.\nO may my heart, by grace renewed,\nBe my Redeemer’s throne;\nAnd be my stubborn will subdued,\nHis government to own.\n\nLet deep repentance, faith, and love,\nBe joined with godly fear;\nAnd all my conversation prove\nMy heart to be sincere.\nPreserve me from the snares of sin,\nThrough my remaining days;\nAnd in me let each virtue shine,\nTo my Redeemer’s praise." }, "206": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come, Friends, Go With Me", "Collation": "Come, Friends, Go With Me", "Page": "206", "Tune Composer": "Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist", "Tune Composition Date": "1846", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Alas! and did my Savior bleed,\nAnd did my Sov’reign die?\nWould He devote that sacred head\nFor such a worm as I.\n\nChorus:\n\nI want my friends to go with me,\nTo the New Jerusalem;\nI wonder, Lord, shall I ever get to heaven,\nTo the New Jerusalem.\n\nWas it for crimes that I had done,\nHe groaned upon the tree,\nAmazing pity, grace unknown,\nAnd love beyond degree.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBut drops of grief can ne’er repay,\nThe debt of love I owe,\nHere Lord, I give myself to Thee,\n’Tis all that I can do.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "207t": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’m On My Journey Home", "Collation": "I’m On My Journey Home", "Page": "207t", "Tune Composer": "Lancaster, Sarah (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Spivey, Belle (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection (1st Verse); Baltimore Collection (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1807 (1st Verse); 1801 (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O who will come and go with me,\nI am on my journey home;\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nI am on my journey home.\n\nChorus:\n\nO come and go with me,\nFor I’m on my journey home.\n\nFarewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nI am on my journey home;\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nI am on my journey home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nI am on my journey home;\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nI am on my journey home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "207b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Passing Away", "Collation": "Passing Away", "Page": "207b", "Tune Composer": "Watson, John A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1872", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1763", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And must I be to judgment bro’t,\nAnd answer in that day\nFor ev’ry vain and idle tho’t\nAnd ev’ry word I say?\n\nChorus:\n\nWe are passing away\nTo that great judgment day.\n\nYes, ev’ry secret of my heart\nShall shortly be made known;\nAnd I receive my just desert\nFor all that I have done.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHow careful, then, ought I to be;\nWith what religious fear,\nWho such a strict account must give\nFor my behavior here.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "208": { "metadata": { "Title": "Little Songs and Little Ways", "Collation": "Little Songs and Little Ways", "Alternative Title": "Louisiana", "Page": "208", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shaker text", "Lyrics Date": "c.1806", "Meter": "8s,7s Double Iambic (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, little children, now we may\nPartake a little morsel,\nFor little songs and little ways\nAdorned a great apostle.\nA little drop of Jesus’ blood\nCan make a feast of union,\nIt is by little steps we move\nInto a full communion\n\nA little faith does mighty deeds,\nQuite past all my recounting;\nFaith, like a little mustard seed,\nCan move a lofty mountain.\nA little charity and zeal,\nA little tribulation,\nA little patience makes us feel\nGreat peace and consolation.\n\nA little zeal supplies the soul,\nIt doth the heart inspire;\nA little spark lights up the way,\nAnd sets the crowd on fire.\nA little union serves to hold\nThe good tender-hearted;\nIt’s stronger than a chain of gold,\nAnd never can be parted.\n\nCome, let us labor here below,\nAnd who can be the straightest,\nFor in God’s kingdom, all must know,\nThe least shall be the greatest.\nO give us, Lord, a little drop\nOf heavenly love and union,\nO may we never, never stop\nShort of a full communion." }, "209": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sing His Praise", "Collation": "Sing His Praise", "Page": "209", "Tune Composer": "Stevens, D. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "7s Double (7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Children of the heav’nly King,\nAs we journey sweetly sing;\nSing your Savior’s worthy praise,\nGlorious in his works and ways.\nWe are trav’ling home to God,\nIn the way the fathers trod;\nThey are happy now, And we\nSoon their happiness shall see." }, "210": { "metadata": { "Title": "Minnesota", "Collation": "Minnesota", "Page": "210", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Tune Composition Date": "2004", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, ’tis an infinite delight\nTo see Thy lovely face,\nTo dwell whole ages in Thy sight,\nAnd feel Thy vital rays.\n\nChorus:\n\nMy blessed Lord,\nMy Savior and my King,\nMy ransomed soul will sing Your praise\nThrough all eternity.\n\nWhile the bright nation sounds Thy praise\nFrom each eternal hill,\nSweet odors of exhaling grace\nThe happy region fill.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThy love, a sea without a shore,\nSpreads life and joy abroad,\nO! ’tis a heav’n worth dying for\nTo see a smiling God.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "211": { "metadata": { "Title": "Whitestown", "Collation": "Whitestown", "Page": "211", "Tune Composer": "Howd", "Tune Composition Date": "1800", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey,\nOr men as fierce and wild as they,\nHe bids th’ oppressed and poor repair,\nAnd build them towns and cities there.\nThey sow the fields, and trees they plant,\nWhose yearly fruit supplies their want\nTheir race grows up from fruitful stocks,\nTheir wealth increases with their flocks." }, "212": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sharon", "Collation": "Sharon", "Page": "212", "Tune Composer": "West, Elisha", "Tune Composition Date": "1793", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Particular Meter (6,6,8,6,6,8)" }, "lyrics": "How pleasant ’tis to see\nKindred and friends agree,\nEach in his proper station move,\nAnd each fulfill his part,\nWith sympathizing heart,\nIn all the cares of life and love." }, "213": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Good Old Way", "Collation": "Good Old Way, The", "Page": "213", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mintz’s Spiritual Song Book", "Lyrics Date": "1805", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lift up your heads, Immanuel’s friends,\nO halle, hallelujah,\nAnd taste the pleasures Jesus sends,\nO halle, hallelujah.\nLet nothing cause you to delay,\nO halle, hallelujah;\nBut hasten on the good old way,\nO halle, hallelujah!\n\nOur conflicts here, though great they be,\nO halle, hallelujah,\nShall not prevent our victory,\nO halle, hallelujah.\nIf we but watch, and strive, and pray,\nO halle, hallelujah;\nLike Soldiers in the good old way,\nO halle, hallelujah.\n\nO good old way, how sweet thou art!\nO halle, hallelujah,\nMay none of us from thee depart;\nO halle, hallelujah.\nBut may our actions always say,\nO halle, hallelujah;\nWe’re marching in the good old way,\nO halle, hallelujah!\n\nAnd when on Pisgah’s top we stand,\nO halle, hallelujah,\nAnd view, by faith, the promised land,\nO halle, hallelujah.\nThen we will sing, and shout, and pray,\nO halle, hallelujah;\nAnd glory in the good old way,\nO halle, hallelujah." }, "214": { "metadata": { "Title": "Repentance", "Collation": "Repentance", "Page": "214", "Tune Composer": "Rollo, J. H.", "Tune Composition Date": "1796", "Alto Composer": "Roney, F. M.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O, if my soul was formed for woe,\nHow would I vent my sighs!\nRepentance should like rivers flow\nFrom both my streaming eyes.\n’Twas for my sins my dearest Lord\nHung on that cursed tree,\nAnd groaned away His dying life\nFor thee, my soul, for thee." }, "215": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Topia", "Collation": "New Topia", "Page": "215", "Tune Composer": "Monday, Reubin", "Tune Composition Date": "1816", "Lyrics": "Hall’s New Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Young people all, attention give,\nAnd hear what I do say:\nI want your souls with Christ to live,\nIn everlasting day.\nRemember, you are hast’ning on\nTo death’s dark, gloomy shade;\nYour joys on earth will soon be gone,\nYour flesh in dust be laid." }, "216": { "metadata": { "Title": "Delight", "Collation": "Delight", "Page": "216", "Tune Composer": "Coan, Simeon", "Tune Composition Date": "1798", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Hallelujah Meter (6,6,6,6,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "No burning heats by day,\nNor blasts of ev’ning air,\nShall take my health away\nIf God be with me there.\nThou art my sun and Thou my shade\nTo guard my head by night or noon." }, "217": { "metadata": { "Title": "Great God, Attend", "Collation": "Great God, Attend", "Alternative Title": "Ballstown", "Page": "217", "Tune Composer": "Shumway, Nehemiah", "Tune Composition Date": "1809", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Great God, attend while Zion sings\nThe joy that from thy presence springs;\nTo spend one more day with Thee on earth\nExceeds a thousand days of mirth." }, "218": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mount Pleasant", "Collation": "Mount Pleasant", "Alternative Title": "Long Version", "Page": "218", "Tune Composer": "Deolph", "Tune Composition Date": "1793", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a house not made with hands,\nEternal, and on high,\nAnd here my spirit waiting stands\n’Till God shall bid it fly." }, "220": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mount Zion", "Collation": "Mount Zion", "Page": "220", "Tune Composer": "Brown, Bartholomew", "Tune Composition Date": "1792", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter Double (6,6,8,6,6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The hill of Zion yields\nA thousand sacred sweets,\nBefore we reach the heav’nly fields,\nOr walk the golden streets.\nThen let your songs abound,\nAnd ev’ry tear be dry;\nWe’re marching thro’ Immanuel’s ground\nTo fairer worlds on high." }, "222": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ocean", "Collation": "Ocean", "Page": "222", "Tune Composer": "Philadelphia Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1789", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Thy works of glory mighty Lord,\nThat rul’st the boist’rous sea;\nThe sons of courage shall record\nWho tempt the dang’rous way.\nAt Thy command the winds arise,\nAnd swell the tow’ring waves;\nThe men astonish’d mount the skies,\nAnd sink in gaping graves.\n\nThen to the Lord they raise their cries,\nHe hears the loud request,\nAnd orders silence thro’ the skies,\nAnd lays the floods to rest.\nSailors rejoice to lose their fears,\nAnd see the storm allay’d:\nNow to their eyes the port appears;\nThere let their vows be paid." }, "223": { "metadata": { "Title": "Portuguese Hymn", "Collation": "Portuguese Hymn", "Page": "223", "Tune Composer": "Wade, John Francis", "Tune Composition Date": "1743", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wade, John Francis", "Lyrics Date": "1743", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,11,11,10" }, "lyrics": "Hither, ye faithful, haste with songs of triumph,\nTo Bethlehem haste, the Lord of life to meet;\nTo you this day is born a Prince and Savior;\nO come and let us worship at His feet.\n\nO Jesus, for such wondrous condescension,\nOur praises and rev’rence are an off’ring meet;\nNow as the word made flesh and dwells among us;\nO come and let us worship at His feet." }, "224": { "metadata": { "Title": "Save, Lord, or We Perish", "Collation": "Save, Lord, or We Perish", "Page": "224", "Tune Composer": "Wynne, M. Mark", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Heber, Reginald", "Lyrics Date": "1827", "Meter": "12s (12,12,12,12)" }, "lyrics": "When thro’ the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming,\nWhen o’er the dark wave the red lightning is gleaming,\nNor hope lends a ray the poor seaman to cherish,\nWe fly to our Maker: Save, Lord or we perish.\n\nAnd, O, when the whirlwind of passion is raging,\nWhen hell in our hearts its wild warfare is waging,\nArise in Thy strength, Thy redeemed to cherish,\nRebuke the destroyer: Save, Lord, or we perish." }, "225t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Newry", "Collation": "Newry", "Page": "225t", "Tune Composer": "Davis, M. C. H.", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Beddome, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Did Christ o’er sinners weep,\nAnd shall our cheeks be dry!\nLet floods of penitential grief\nFlow forth from ev’ry eye.\n\nThe Son of God in tears,\nAngels with wonder see;\nBe thou astonished, O my soul!\nHe shed those tears for me." }, "225b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Christmas Anthem", "Collation": "Christmas Anthem", "Page": "225b", "Tune Composer": "Denson, James M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Totten’s Collection of the Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1813", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "O how charming\nAre the radiant bands of music\nFlying in the air.\nThe church triumphant gives the tone,\nWhile they surround the holy throne,\nIn glory with celestial arts,\nAngelic armies tune their harps,\nAnd raptur’d seraphs play their parts;\nStrike their notes at our Redeemer’s birth." }, "227": { "metadata": { "Title": "Baptismal Anthem", "Collation": "Baptismal Anthem", "Page": "227", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Underwood, Leila (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1844", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: Matthew 3:1-4", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "In those days came John the Baptist,\nPreaching in the wilderness of Judea,\nAnd saying, Repent ye;\nFor the kingdom of heaven is at hand,\nFor this is He that was spoken of\nBy the prophet, Esaias, saying,\nThe voice of one crying in the wilderness,\nPrepare ye the way of the Lord,\nMake His paths straight,\nAnd the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair,\nAnd bound with a leathern girdle,\nAnd his meat was locust and wild honey." }, "229": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Great Roll Call", "Collation": "Great Roll Call, The", "Page": "229", "Tune Composer": "Denson, Seaborn McDaniel; Denson, Thomas Jackson; James, Joseph Summerlin", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Shaffer, Lacy Freer", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "At the sounding of the trumpet,\nWhen life’s work is last is o’er,\nAnd we gather in that circle,\nWhere we never met before.\nShall we hark with rapt’rous longing,\nTo the calling of the roll,\nOr shall we be fearful trembling,\nLike some guilty frightened soul.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe shall gather, we shall gather,\nWe shall gather one and all,\nWe shall gather, we shall gather\nAt the Savior’s great roll call.\n\nShall we meet the Savior gladly\nAs He stands without stretched arm,\nShall we feel we’ve done our duty,\nAnd have no cause for alarm,\nOr as we stand there shall we know\nWe have failed to serve the Lord,\nOnly worshipped Him half-hearted\nSeldom read His precious word.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nCome, then let us do our duty\nAs we journey on the way,\nThat our meeting may be joyous\nIn that great and perfect day,\nFor the time is not far distant\nWhen we gather, one and all,\nWe must harken to that trumpet\nAnd answer that great roll call.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "230": { "metadata": { "Title": "Reverential Anthem", "Collation": "Reverential Anthem", "Page": "230", "Tune Composer": "King, Elisha J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1844", "Alto Composer": "Atkinson, Clara (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: Psalms 96:8-11, 13", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "Give unto the Lord\nThe glory due unto His name;\nCome into His courts;\nWorship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.\nFear before Him all the earth,\nHe shall judge the people righteously.\nLet the heav’ns rejoice,\nAnd the earth be glad before the Lord.\nFor He cometh,\nTo judge the world with righteousness\nAnd the people with His truth." }, "232": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Crucifixion", "Collation": "Crucifixion, The", "Page": "232", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "They crucified the Savior,\nAnd nailed Him to the tree.\nSee, Mary comes a weeping to behold her blessed Lord.\nHark! Mother, behold thy dying son!\nIn great agony\nOur Lord is dying,\nSee Him hanging,\nHear Him crying:\n‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, my God?’\nThe sun refused to shine;\nAll is darkness;\nSee the Savior,\nHear his groanings,\nBlessed Savior,\nGreat Redeemer;\nList, poor sinner,\n‘I die for sinful men,\nIt is finished,\nFor sinful man I pay the debt.’" }, "235": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Resurrection", "Collation": "Resurrection, The", "Alternative Title": "Easter Anthem", "Page": "235", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1787", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: Luke 24:34; Holy Bible: 1 Corinthians 15:20; Young, Edward", "Lyrics Date": "1742-44", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "The Lord is ris’n indeed! Hallelujah!\nNow is Christ risen from the dead\nAnd become the first fruits of them that slept.\nHallelujah! And did He rise?\nHear it ye nations! hear it, O ye dead!\nHe rose, He rose,\nHe burst the bars of death,\nAnd triumphed o’er the grave;\nThen I rose, then I rose\nThen first humanity triumphant passed the crystal ports of light,\nAnd seized eternal youth.\nMan all immortal hail, hail,\nHeaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man,\nThine’s all the glory, man’s the boundless bliss." }, "239": { "metadata": { "Title": "David’s Lamentation", "Collation": "David’s Lamentation", "Page": "239", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1778", "Alto Composer": "Kentucky Harmony", "Alto Composition Date": "1816", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "David, the king, was grieved and moved\nHe went to his chamber and wept;\nAnd as he went, he wept and said:\n“O my son,\nWould to God I had died,\nFor thee, O Absalom, my son!”" }, "240": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Song", "Collation": "Christian’s Song, The", "Page": "240", "Tune Composer": "Ingalls, Jeramiah", "Tune Composition Date": "1805", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Christian Harmony", "Meter": "8s Triple (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Mine eyes are now closing to rest,\nMy body must soon be removed,\nAnd mould’ring, lie buried in dust,\nNo more to be envied or loved.\nAh! what is this drawing my breath,\nAnd stealing my senses away?\nOh tell me, my soul, is it death,\nReleasing me kindly from clay?\nNow mounting, my soul shall descry\nThe regions of pleasure and love,\nMy spirit shall triumphant fly,\nAnd dwell with my Savior above." }, "242": { "metadata": { "Title": "Newton", "Collation": "Newton", "Page": "242", "Tune Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "When I survey the wondrous cross,\nOn which the Prince of glory died;\nMy richest gain I count but loss,\nAnd pour contempt on all my pride.\nForbid it, Lord, that I should boast,\nSave in the death of Christ, my Lord;\nAll the vain things that charm me most,\nI sacrifice them to His blood." }, "243t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Yarbrough", "Collation": "Yarbrough", "Page": "243t", "Alto Composer": "Mullins, Belle (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1750", "Meter": "Hallelujah Meter (6,6,6,6,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Blow ye the trumpet, blow,\nThe gladly solemn sound,\nLet all the nations know\nTo earth’s remotest bound:\nThe year of jubilee has come,\nReturn, ye ransomed sinners, home." }, "243b": { "metadata": { "Title": "To Thee I Call", "Collation": "To Thee I Call", "Alternative Title": "Hingham", "Page": "243b", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1770", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My God, my life, my love,\nTo Thee, to Thee I call,\nI cannot live if Thou remove,\nFor Thou art all in all.\n\nThou art the sea of love,\nWhere all my pleasures roll;\nThe circle where my passions move,\nAnd center of my soul." }, "244": { "metadata": { "Title": "Joyful News", "Collation": "Joyful News", "Alternative Title": "Resignation", "Page": "244", "Tune Composer": "Carter, Thomas W. (Dr.); Cheshire, N. F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1844; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Joy to the world, the Lord is come!\nLet earth receive her King;\nLet ev’ry heart prepare Him room,\nAnd heav’n and nature sing.\n\nNo more let sins and sorrows grow,\nNor thorns infest the ground;\nHe comes to make his blessings flow\nFar as the curse is found." }, "245": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vital Spark", "Collation": "Vital Spark", "Alternative Title": "Claremont", "Page": "245", "Tune Composer": "Temple, Samuel; Merrill, David", "Tune Composition Date": "1799", "Lyrics": "Pope, Alexander", "Lyrics Date": "1736", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "Vital spark of heav’nly flame,\nQuit, O! quit this mortal frame;\nTrembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying.\nO the pain, the bliss of dying!\nCease, fond nature, cease thy strife,\nAnd let me languish into life,\nHark! they whisper; angels say,\nSister spirit, come away.\nWhat is this absorbs me quite’\nSteals my senses, shuts my sight?\nDrowns my spirit, draws my breath?\nTell me, my soul, can this be death?\nThe world recedes, it disappears,\nHeav’n opens on my eyes,\nMy ears with sounds seraphic ring,\nLend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!\nO grave, where is thy victory?\nO death, where is thy sting?" }, "250": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Vision", "Collation": "Heavenly Vision", "Page": "250", "Tune Composer": "French, Jacob", "Tune Composition Date": "1786", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: Revelation 7:9, 4:8b, 8:13, 11:15a, 6:15-17", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "I beheld, and lo, a great multitude,\nWhich no man could number;\nThousands of thousands, and ten times thousands\nStood before the Lamb,\nAnd they had palms in their hands,\nAnd they cease not day nor night, saying:\n‘Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy,\nLord God Almighty,\nWhich was, and is, and is to come.’\nAnd I heard a mighty angel\nFlying thro’ the midst of heav’n,\nCrying with a loud voice,\n‘Woe, woe, woe, woe\nBe unto the earth by reason of the trumpet\nWhich is yet to sound.’\nAnd when the last trumpet sounded,\nThe great men and nobles, rich men and poor,\nBond and free, gathered themselves together,\nAnd cried to the rocks and mountains\nTo fall upon them, and hide them from\nThe face of Him that sitteth on the throne;\nFor the great day of the Lord is come,\nAnd who shall be able to stand?" }, "254": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rose of Sharon", "Collation": "Rose of Sharon", "Page": "254", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1778", "Lyrics": "Holy Bible: Song of Solomon 2:1-5,7-8,10-11", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley;\nAs the lily among the thorns,\nSo is my love among the daughters;\nAs the apple tree among the trees of the wood,\nSo is my beloved among the sons.\nI sat down under his shadow with great delight,\nAnd His fruit was sweet to my taste.\nHe bro’t me to the banqueting house,\nHis banner over me was love.\nStay me with flagons,\nComfort me with apples,\nFor I am sick of love;\nI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,\nBy the roes, and by the hinds of the field,\nThat you stir not up, nor awake my love ’till He please.\nThe voice of my beloved,\nBehold! He cometh, leaping upon the mountains,\nSkipping upon the hills.\nMy beloved spake and said unto me,\nRise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.\nFor lo, the winter is past,\nThe rain is over and gone." }, "260": { "metadata": { "Title": "Farewell Anthem", "Collation": "Farewell Anthem", "Page": "260", "Tune Composer": "French, Jacob", "Tune Composition Date": "1789", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey,\nNever to return;\nFare you well, my friends,\nAnd God grant we may meet together In that world above,\nWhere trouble shall cease and harmony shall abound.\nHark! hark! my dear friends, for death hath called me,\nAnd I must go and die down in the cold and silent grave,\nWhere the mourners cease from mourning and the pris’ner is set free;\nWhere the rich and poor are both alike.\nFare you well, my friends." }, "263": { "metadata": { "Title": "Beautiful Home", "Collation": "Beautiful Home", "Page": "263", "Tune Composer": "Culbreth, J. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "12s,8s (12,8,12,8)" }, "lyrics": "There’s a beautiful home where no parting is known,\nJust across on the shining shore;\nThere we’ll meet with the dear ones who from us have gone,\nAnd abide with them evermore.\n\nChorus:\n\nBeautiful home, beautiful home,\nBeautiful home whose bliss we shall share,\nBeautiful home, beautiful home,\nNever again from thy shelter to roam.\n\nIn that beautiful home we will wear crowns of life\nAnd no evil can thus molest;\nFor we’ll be with the Savior and free from all strife,\nIn His presence we’ll sweetly rest.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "264t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Great God, Attend", "Collation": "Great God, Attend", "Alternative Title": "Duke Street", "Page": "264t", "Tune Composer": "Hatton, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1793", "Lyrics": "Barlow, Joel", "Lyrics Date": "1785", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Great God! attend to my complaint,\nNor let my drooping spirit faint;\nWhen foes in secret spread the snare,\nLet my salvation be Thy care.\n\nShield me without and guard within,\nFrom treach’rous foes and deadly sin;\nMay envy, lust and pride depart,\nAnd heav’nly grace expand my heart." }, "264b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hebron", "Collation": "Hebron", "Page": "264b", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1823", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Thus far the Lord hath led me on,\nThus far His pow’r prolongs my days;\nAnd ev’ry ev’ning shall make known\nSome fresh memorials of His grace.\n\nMuch of my time has run to waste,\nAnd I, perhaps, am near my home,\nBut He forgives my follies past,\nAnd gives me strength for days to come.\n\nI lay my body down to sleep,\nPeace is the pillow for my head;\nWhile well-appointed angels keep\nTheir watchful stations ’round my bed." }, "265t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Restoration New", "Collation": "Restoration New", "Page": "265t", "Tune Composer": "White, David Patillo", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rippon’s Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1878", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "How many years has man been driv’n,\nFar off from happiness and heav’n?\nWhen wilt Thou, gracious Lord, restore\nThy wand’ring church to roam no more?\n\nWe want to have the day appear!\nThe promised great Sabbatic year,\nWhen, far from grief, and sin, and hell,\nIsrael in ceaseless peace shall dwell." }, "265b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Eternal Spirit", "Collation": "Eternal Spirit", "Alternative Title": "Uxbridge", "Page": "265b", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1830", "Lyrics": "Collyer, William Bengo", "Lyrics Date": "1812", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Thanks to the hand that set us free,\nEternal Spirit, thanks to thee,\nWhose pow’r, resistless, unconfined,\nSubdues the passion of the mind.\n\nSubdued by love, and taught of God,\nRejoicing in redeeming blood,\nWe press to find that happy shore,\nWhere sin and sorrow reign no more." }, "266t": { "metadata": { "Title": "O Happy Day", "Collation": "O Happy Day", "Alternative Title": "Rockingham", "Page": "266t", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1830", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O happy day that fix’d my choice\nOn Thee, my Saviour and my God!\nWell may this glowing heart rejoice,\nAnd tell its raptures all abroad.\n\nTis done, the great transaction’s done,\nI am the Lord’s and He is mine;\nHe drew me, and I followed on,\nCharmed to confess the voice divine." }, "266b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Lebanon New", "Collation": "Lebanon New", "Page": "266b", "Tune Composer": "Carrell, James P. (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1747", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast;\nLet ev’ry soul be Jesus’ guest,\nYe need not one be left behind,\nFor God hath bidden all mankind.\n\nSent by my Lord, on thee I call,\nThe invitation is to all;\nCome, all the world, come, sinner, thou,\nAll things in Christ are ready now." }, "267t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sacred Stream", "Collation": "Sacred Stream", "Page": "267t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, Henry Goodwin", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "There is a stream whose gentle flow\nSupplies the city of our God;\nLife, love and joy still gliding through\nAnd wat’ring our divine abode.\n\nThat sacred stream, that Holy Word,\nSupports our faith, our fear controls;\nSweet peace thy promises afford,\nAnd gives new strength to fainting souls." }, "267b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hedgeburg", "Collation": "Hedgeburg", "Page": "267b", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Thus the Eternal Father spake\nTo Christ, the Son, ‘Ascend, and sit\nAt my right hand ’till I shall make\nThy foes submissive at Thy feet.’\n\n‘That day shall show Thy pow’r is great\nWhen saints shall flock with willing minds,\nAnd sinners crowd Thy temple gate\nWhere holiness in beauty shines.’" }, "268t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Restoration", "Collation": "Restoration", "Page": "268t", "Tune Composer": "Southern Harmony", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nI will rise and go to Jesus,\nHe’ll embrace me in His arms;\nIn the arms of my dear Savior,\nO, there are ten thousand charms.\n\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,\nSung by flaming tongues above;\nPraise the mount, O fix me on it,\nMount of God’s unchanging love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO! to grace how great a debtor,\nDaily I’m constrained to be!\nLet Thy goodness like a fetter,\nBind my wand’ring heart to Thee.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nProne to wander, Lord, I feel it;\nProne to leave the God I love;\nHere’s my heart, O take and seal it,\nSeal it for Thy courts above.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "268b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Texas", "Collation": "Texas", "Page": "268b", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Tune Composition Date": "1988", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "We seek a rest beyond the skies,\nIn everlasting day;\nThrough floods and flames the passage lies,\nBut Jesus guards the way.\n\nThe swelling flood, the raging flame,\nHear and obey His word;\nThen let us triumph in His name,\nOur Saviour is the Lord." }, "269": { "metadata": { "Title": "Nightfall", "Collation": "Nightfall", "Page": "269", "Tune Composer": "Obert, Charlie", "Tune Composition Date": "2009", "Lyrics": "Doane, George W.", "Lyrics Date": "1824", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Softly now the light of day\nFades upon my sight away;\nFree from care, from labor free,\nLord, we would commune with Thee.\n\nWhen for me the light of day\nShall forever pass away;\nThen, from sin and sorrow free,\nTake me, Lord, to dwell with Thee." }, "270": { "metadata": { "Title": "Confidence", "Collation": "Confidence", "Page": "270", "Tune Composer": "Turner, J. R.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Away, my unbelieving fear;\nFear shall in me no more have place;\nMy Savior doth not yet appear,\nHe hides the brightness of His face;\nBut shall I, therefore, let Him go,\nAnd basely to the tempter yield?\nNo, in the strength of Jesus, No,\nI never will give up my shield.\n\nIn hope, believing against hope,\nJesus my Lord and God I claim;\nJesus my strength shall lift me up,\nSalvation is in Jesus’ name;\nTo me He soon shall bring it nigh;\nMy soul shall then outstrip the wind,\nOn wings of love mount up on high,\nAnd leave the world and sin behind." }, "271t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Safety", "Collation": "Safety", "Page": "271t", "Tune Composer": "Robinett, W. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb,\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\n\nShall I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease,\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sail’d thro’ bloody seas?" }, "271b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come On, My Friends", "Collation": "Come On, My Friends", "Page": "271b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I long to reach the shore of bliss,\nAnd see the New Jerusalem,\n\nChorus:\n\nCome on, come on, my friends, come on,\nThe gospel sounds the jubilee.\n\nWhere my beloved Jesus is,\nAnd spend eternity with Him.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "272": { "metadata": { "Title": "Exhortation", "Collation": "Exhortation", "Page": "272", "Tune Composer": "Doolittle, Eliakim", "Tune Composition Date": "1800", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Now, in the heat of youthful blood,\nRemember your Creator, God!\nBehold the months come hast’ning on,\nWhen you shall say, My joys are gone." }, "273": { "metadata": { "Title": "Marthasville", "Collation": "Marthasville", "Page": "273", "Tune Composer": "Lee, David I.", "Tune Composition Date": "1995", "Lyrics": "Lee, David I.", "Lyrics Date": "1995", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Before the judgment bar of God,\nI soon must trembling stand.\nMy worthless soul must answer all\nThy holy laws demand.\nThy justice, Lord, condemns my soul\nFor all eternity;\nYet I would plead a Savior’s grace\nTo set a sinner free.\n\nBehold how great my need, O Lord,\nAnd how extreme my case.\nMy doom pronounced would flash like fire\nAnd drive me from Thy face.\nBut yet I call upon Thy Son\nWho died on Calvary;\nAgain I plead a Savior’s grace\nTo set a sinner free." }, "274t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Golden Harp", "Collation": "Golden Harp, The", "Page": "274t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nTo play on the golden harp.\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nTo play on the golden harp.\n\nChorus:\n\nTo play on the golden harp,\nTo play on the golden harp;\nI want to be where Jesus is,\nTo play on the golden harp.\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nTo play on the golden harp.\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nTo play on the golden harp.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "274b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Baldwin", "Collation": "Baldwin", "Page": "274b", "Tune Composer": "Arnold, J. D.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "That awful day will surely come,\nTh’appointed hour makes haste,\nWhen I must stand before my Judge,\nAnd pass the solemn test." }, "275t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Loving-Kindness", "Collation": "Loving-Kindness", "Page": "275t", "Tune Composer": "Pickard, James L.; Penick, Spencer Reed", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1782", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Awake, my soul, to joyful lays,\nHalle, hallelujah!\nAnd sing the great Redeemer’s praise,\nHalle, hallelujah!\nHe justly claims a song from me,\nHalle, hallelujah!\nHis loving kindness, O! how free!\nHalle, hallelujah!\n\nHe saw me ruined in the fall,\nHalle, hallelujah!\nYet loved me, not withstanding all;\nHalle, hallelujah!\nHe saved me from my lost estate,\nHalle, hallelujah!\nHis loving kindness O! how great!\nHalle, hallelujah!" }, "275b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Roll On", "Collation": "Roll On", "Page": "275b", "Tune Composer": "Bass, Cynthia (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Why should we start and fear to die?\nWhat tim’rous worms we mortals are!\nDeath is the gate of endless joy,\nAnd yet we dread to enter there.\n\nChorus:\n\nRoll on, Roll on, sweet moments, roll on,\nAnd let the poor pilgrim go home, go home.\n\nJesus can make a dying bed,\nFeel soft as downy pillows are;\nWhile on His breast I lean my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "276": { "metadata": { "Title": "Bridgewater", "Collation": "Bridgewater", "Page": "276", "Tune Composer": "Edson, Lewis", "Tune Composition Date": "1782", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "From all that dwell below the skies,\nLet the Redeemer’s praise arise:\nLet the Redeemer’s name be sung\nThro’ ev’ry land by ev’ry tongue.\n\nIn ev’ry land begin the song;\nTo ev’ry land the strains belong;\nIn cheerful sounds all voices raise,\nAnd fill the world with loudest praise." }, "277": { "metadata": { "Title": "Antioch", "Collation": "Antioch", "Page": "277", "Tune Composer": "Wood, F. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, J. W.; McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1775", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I know that my Redeemer lives,\nGlory, hallelujah!\nWhat comfort this sweet sentence gives,\nGlory, hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nShout on, pray on, we’re gaining ground,\nGlory hallelujah;\nThe dead’s alive, and the lost is found,\nGlory hallelujah!\n\nHe lives all glory to His name!\nGlory, hallelujah!\nHe lives my Jesus still the same,\nGlory, hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "278t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Heaven", "Collation": "Sweet Heaven", "Page": "278t", "Tune Composer": "King, Elias Lafayette", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ecking, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1778", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord, who built the earth and sky,\nIn mercy stoops to hear thy cry;\nHis promise all may freely claim,\nAsk, and receive in Jesus’ name.\n\nChorus:\n\nO heav’n, sweet heav’n, when shall I see?\nO when shall I get there?\n\nWithout reserve give Christ your heart;\nLet Him His righteousness impart;\nThen all things else He’ll freely give;\nWith Him you all things shall receive.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "278b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Traveling Pilgrim", "Collation": "Traveling Pilgrim", "Page": "278b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell! vain world, I’m going home,\nWhere there’s no more stormy clouds to rise.\nMy Savior smiles, and bids me come,\nWhere there’s no more stormy clouds to rise.\n\nChorus:\n\nTo the land, To the land I am bound,\nWhere there’s no more stormy clouds to rise.\n\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nWhere there’s no more stormy clouds to rise.\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nWhere there’s no more stormy clouds to rise.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "279": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cross for You and Me", "Collation": "Cross for You and Me", "Page": "279", "Tenor Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tenor Composition Date": "1902", "Bass Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Bass Composition Date": "1902", "Treble Composer": "Terry, W. H.", "Treble Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Andrews, Bertie (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shepherd, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1693", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Must Jesus bear the cross alone,\nAnd all the world go free;\nNo, there’s a cross for ev’ry one,\nAnd there’s a cross for me.\n\nChorus:\nAnd there’s a cross for ev’ry one,\nAnd there’s a cross for you and me,\nTho’ all the world go free;\nYes, there’s a cross for ev’ry one,\nAnd there’s a cross for me.\n\nO precious cross, O glorious crown,\nO resurrection day;\nWith joy I’ll cast my golden crown,\nAnd His dear name repeat.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "280": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vain World, Be Gone", "Collation": "Vain World, Be Gone", "Alternative Title": "Westford", "Page": "280", "Tune Composer": "Read, Daniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1785", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter Triple (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Far from my thoughts, vain world, be gone,\nLet my religious hours alone.\nFain would my eyes my Savior see,\nI wait a visit, Lord, from Thee.\nMy heart grows warm with holy fire,\nAnd kindles with a pure desire.\nCome, my dear Jesus, from above,\nAnd feed my soul with heav’nly love;\nBlest Jesus, what delicious fare!\nHow sweet Thine entertainments are!\nNever did angels taste above\nRedeeming grace and dying love." }, "282": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’m Going Home", "Collation": "I’m Going Home", "Page": "282", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home!\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nAnd I don’t care to stay here long!\nSweet angels beckon me away\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nAnd I don’t care to stay here long!\n\nChorus:\n\nRight up yonder, Christians, away up yonder;\nO yes, my Lord, for I don’t care to stay here long.\n\nI soon shall hear the awful sound,\nAwake ye nations under ground;\nAnd I don’t care to stay here long!\nArise and drop your dying shrouds,\nAnd meet King Jesus in the clouds,\nAnd I don’t care to stay here long!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "283t": { "metadata": { "Title": "How Sweet the Name", "Collation": "How Sweet the Name", "Alternative Title": "Ortonville", "Page": "283t", "Tune Composer": "Hastings, Thomas; White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1837; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds\nIn a believer’s ear;\nIt soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,\nAnd drives away his fear.\n\nIt makes the wounded spirit whole,\nAnd calms the troubled breast;\n’Tis manna to the hungry soul,\nAnd to the weary, rest.\n\nDear name! the rock on which I build,\nMy shield and hiding place;\nMy never-failing treas’ry, filled\nWith boundless stores of grace.\n\n’Till then I would Thy love proclaim\nWith ev’ry fleeting breath;\nAnd may the music of Thy name\nRefresh my soul in death." }, "283b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Am I a Soldier?", "Collation": "Am I a Soldier?", "Alternative Title": "Ortonville", "Page": "283b", "Tune Composer": "Hastings, Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "1837", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb?\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\n\nMust I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease?\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sailed through bloody seas!\n\nAre there no foes for me to face?\nMust I not stem the flood?\nIs this vile world a friend to grace,\nTo help me on to God?\n\nSure I must fight, if I would reign;\nIncrease my courage, Lord!\nI’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,\nSupported by Thy word.\n\nThy saints, in all this glorious war,\nShall conquer, though they die;\nThey see the triumph from afar\nAnd seize it with their eye.\n\nWhen that illustrious day shall rise,\nAnd all Thine armies shine,\nIn robes of vict’ry through the skies,\nThe glory shall be Thine." }, "284": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Rest", "Collation": "Christian’s Rest, The", "Page": "284", "Tune Composer": "Mann, Henry Goodwin; Cumbie, W. A. (Rev.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 1907 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest, for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moment come\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell in peace at home?\n\nChorus:\n\nCarry me home, Carry me home;\nCarry me to my long sought home,\nWhere Sabbath hath no end.\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful, shelt’ring dome;\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not my home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nTo Jesus Christ I sought for rest,\nHe bid me cease to roam,\nAnd fly for refuge to His breast,\nAnd He’d conduct me home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "285t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Arnold", "Collation": "Arnold", "Page": "285t", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "McGee, W. L.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, let us join our friends above\nThat have obtained the prize,\nAnd on the eagle wings of love\nTo joys celestial rise.\nLet all the saints terrestrial sing\nWith those to glory gone,\nFor all the servants of our King\nIn heav’n and earth are one.\n\nOne family, we dwell in Him,\nOne church above, beneath,\nTho’ now divided by the stream,\nThe narrow stream of death.\nOne army of the living God,\nTo His command we bow;\nPart of the host have crossed the flood,\nAnd part are crossing now." }, "285b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Land of Rest", "Collation": "Land of Rest", "Page": "285b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest, for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moments come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell with Christ at home?\n\nWeary of wand’ring round and round,\nThis vale of sin and gloom,\nI long to leave th’ unhallowed ground\nAnd dwell with Christ at home." }, "286t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Saint’s Request", "Collation": "Saint’s Request", "Page": "286t", "Tune Composer": "Terry, John S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Lyrics": "Hall’s New Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Young people, all attention give,\nAnd hear what I shall say:\nI wish your souls with Christ to live\nIn everlasting day.\n\nChorus:\n\nI want you to go to that bright world,\nTo dwell with saints forever there.\n\nThere you may drink in endless joy,\nAnd reign with Christ your King,\nIn His glad notes your souls employ,\nAnd hallelujahs sing.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "286b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Melody", "Collation": "Melody", "Page": "286b", "Tune Composer": "Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second; White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1813; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1763", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And must I be to judgment bro’t,\nAnd answer in that day,\nFor ev’ry vain and idle thought,\nAnd ev’ry word I say?\n\nThou awful Judge of quick and dead,\nThe watchful pow’r bestow;\nSo shall I to my ways take heed,\nTo all I speak or do.\n\nIf now Thou standest at the door,\nO let me feel Thee near!\nAnd make my peace with God, before\nI at Thy bar appear." }, "287": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cambridge", "Collation": "Cambridge", "Page": "287", "Tune Composer": "Randall, John; Atkinson, Clara (Mrs.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1786; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord will happiness divine\nOn contrite hearts bestow;\nThen tell me, gracious God, is mine\nA contrite heart, or no?\n\nI hear, but seem to hear in vain,\nInsensible as steel;\nIf aught is felt, ’tis only pain\nTo find I cannot feel.\n\nI sometimes think myself inclined\nTo love Thee, if I could;\nBut often feel another mind\nAverse to all that’s good.\n\nMy best desires are faint and few,\nI fain would strive for more;\nBut, when I cry, “My strength renew,”\nSeem weaker than before.\n\nThy saints are comforted, I know,\nAnd love Thy house of prayer;\nI sometimes go where others go,\nBut find no comfort there." }, "288": { "metadata": { "Title": "White", "Collation": "White", "Page": "288", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1856", "Lyrics": "Dobell’s New Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1806", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Ye fleeting charms of earth, farewell,\nYour springs of joy are dry;\nMy soul now seeks another home,\nA brighter world on high.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’m a long time travelling here below,\nI’m a long time a-travelling away from home,\nI’m a long time travelling here below\nTo lay this body down.\n\nFarewell, my friends, whose tender care\nHas long engaged my love;\nYour fond embrace I now exchange\nFor better friends above.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "289": { "metadata": { "Title": "Greensborough", "Collation": "Greensborough", "Page": "289", "Tune Composer": "Mercer, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\n\nThere everlasting spring abides,\nAnd never-with’ring flow’rs;\nDeath, like a narrow sea, divides\nThis heav’nly land from ours.\n\nSweet fields, beyond the swelling flood\nStand dressed in living green:\nSo to the Jews old Canaan stood,\nWhile Jordan rolled between.\n\nBut timorous mortals start and shrink\nTo cross this narrow sea,\nAnd linger, shivering on the brink,\nAnd fear to launch away.\n\nO could we make our doubts remove,\nThose gloomy doubts that rise,\nAnd see the Canaan that we love\nWith unbeclouded eyes.\n\nCould we but climb where Moses stood\nAnd view the landscape o’er;\nNot Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,\nShould fright us from the shore." }, "290": { "metadata": { "Title": "Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed", "Collation": "Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed", "Alternative Title": "Victoria", "Page": "290", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Green, Lessie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Half (8.6)" }, "lyrics": "Alas! And did my Savior bleed?\nAnd did my Sov’reign die?\n\nChorus:\n\nI have but one more river to cross,\nAnd then I’ll be at rest.\n\nWould He devote His sacred head,\nFor such a worm as I?\n\n(Chorus)" }, "291": { "metadata": { "Title": "Shepherds, Rejoice", "Collation": "Shepherds, Rejoice", "Page": "291", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1706 (verse 1 & chorus), 1707 (verses 2 & 3)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes,\nAnd send your fears away;\nNews from the regions of the skies,\nA Saviour’s born today.\n\nChorus:\n\nJesus, the God, whom angels fear,\nCome down to dwell with you,\nToday He makes His entrance here,\nBut not as monarchs do.\n\nHe took our mortal flesh to show\nThe wonders of His love;\nFor us He paid His life below\nAnd prays for us above.\n\n(Chorus)\n\n‘Forgive,’ He cries, ‘forgive their sins,\nFor I myself have died;’\nAnd then He shows His open veins,\nAnd pleads His wounded side.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "292t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Happy Day", "Collation": "Happy Day", "Page": "292t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Blest is the man who shuns the place,\nWhere sinners love to meet;\nWho fears to tread their wicked ways,\nAnd hates the scoffer’s seat.\n\nChorus:\n\nYes, yes, yes my Lord,\nGlory hallelujah.\n\nHe, like a plant of gen’rous kind\nBy living waters set,\nSafe from the storm and blasting wind\nEnjoys a peaceful state.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "292b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Wonder", "Collation": "Wonder, The", "Page": "292b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Alto Composition Date": "2006", "Lyrics": "Hollyday (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1829", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O ’tis a glorious mystery\n’Tis a wonder!\nThat I should ever saved be,\n’Tis a wonder!\nNo heart can think, no tongue can tell,\n’Tis a wonder!\nThe love of God unspeakable,\n’Tis a wonder!\n\nGreat mystery that God should place,\n’Tis a wonder!\nHis love on any of Adam’s race,\n’Tis a wonder!\nThat I should also share a part,\n’Tis a wonder!\nAnd find a mansion in His heart,\n’Tis a wonder!" }, "293t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ballerma", "Collation": "Ballerma", "Page": "293t", "Tune Composer": "Barth’l’mon, Fran’ois Hippolyte; White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\n\nBut tim’rous mortals start and shrink,\nTo cross this narrow sea;\nAnd linger, shiv’ring on the brink,\nAnd fear to launch away.\n\nCould we but climb where Moses stood,\nAnd view the landscape o’er,\nNot Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood\nShould fright us from the shore." }, "293b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Saint Thomas", "Collation": "Saint Thomas", "Page": "293b", "Tune Composer": "Williams, Aaron", "Tune Composition Date": "1770", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sound his praise abroad,\nAnd hymns of glory sing:\nJehovah is the sov’reign God,\nThe universal King.\n\nHe formed the deeps unknown,\nHe gave the seas their bound;\nThe wat’ry worlds are all His own,\nAnd all the solid ground.\n\nCome, worship at His throne,\nCome, bow before the Lord;\nWe are His works, and not our own,\nHe formed us by His word." }, "294": { "metadata": { "Title": "Never Part", "Collation": "Never Part", "Page": "294", "Tune Composer": "Himes’s Millennial Harp; Carwell, John (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1842; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Jones, Edmund", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast\nA thousand thoughts revolve,\nCome, with your guilt and fear oppressed,\nAnd make this last resolve.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’re marching through Immanuel’s ground\nAnd soon shall hear the trumpet sound,\nAnd then all shall with Jesus reign,\nAnd never, never part again.\nWhat! Never part again?\nNo, never part again.\nAnd soon shall hear the trumpet sound,\nAnd never, never part again." }, "295": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Sinner Must Be Born Again", "Collation": "Sinner Must Be Born Again, The", "Alternative Title": "Ganges", "Page": "295", "Tune Composer": "Bridgewater Collection", "Tune Composition Date": "1802", "Treble Composer": "Genuine Church Music", "Treble Composition Date": "1832", "Alto Composer": "Genuine Church Music", "Alto Composition Date": "1832", "Lyrics": "Occom, Samson (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1774", "Meter": "Common Particular Meter (8,8,6,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Awaked by Sinai’s awful sound,\nMy soul in guilt and thrall I found,\nAnd knew not where to go;\nO’erwhelmed with sin, with anguish slain,\nThe sinner must be born again\nOr sink in endless woe." }, "296": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sardinia", "Collation": "Sardinia", "Page": "296", "Tune Composer": "Castle", "Tune Composition Date": "1794", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Behold the love, the gen’rous love,\nThat holy David shows!\nBehold His kind compassion move\nFor his afflicted foes!\nWhen they are sick his soul complains,\nAnd seems to feel the smart;\nThe spirit of the gospel reigns\nAnd melts his pious heart.\n\nHow did his flowing tears condole,\nAs for a brother dead!\nAnd fasting, mortified his soul,\nWhile for their lives he prayed.\nThey groaned and cursed him on their bed,\nYet still he pleads and mourns,\nAnd double blessings on his head\nThe righteous Lord returns.\n\nO glorious type of heav’nly grace!\nThus Christ the Lord appears;\nWhile sinners curse the Savior prays,\nAnd pities them with tears.\nHe, the true David, Israel’s King,\nBless’d and beloved of God,\nTo save us rebels, dead in sin,\nPaid His own dearest blood." }, "297": { "metadata": { "Title": "Conversion", "Collation": "Conversion", "Page": "297", "Tune Composer": "Belcher, Supply", "Tune Composition Date": "1794", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When God revealed His gracious name,\nAnd changed my mournful state,\nMy rapture seemed a pleasing dream,\nThe grace appeared so great!" }, "298": { "metadata": { "Title": "Providence", "Collation": "Providence", "Page": "298", "Tune Composer": "Curtis, C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1820", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "What shall I render to my God\nFor all His kindness shown?\nMy feet shall visit Thine abode;\nMy songs address Thy throne." }, "299": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Jerusalem", "Collation": "New Jerusalem", "Page": "299", "Tune Composer": "Ingalls, Jeramiah", "Tune Composition Date": "1796", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lo! what a glorious sight appears\nTo our believing eyes;\nThe former seas have pass’d away,\nAnd the old rolling skies!" }, "300": { "metadata": { "Title": "Calvary", "Collation": "Calvary", "Page": "300", "Tune Composer": "Read, Daniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1785", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1706", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My thoughts that often mount the skies,\nGo search the world beneath.\nWhere nature all in ruin lies,\nAnd owns her sov’reign, Death!" }, "301": { "metadata": { "Title": "God’s Promise", "Collation": "God’s Promise", "Page": "301", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.; Vaughn, Robert Lee (arranger); Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1948; 2011 (arrangement)", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a thought that comes to me,\nThat time cannot erase,\nReminding me of God’s own Son,\nWho saves and keeps by grace,\nAnd so I journey down Life’s Road,\nTho’ short may be the Race,\nI’ll keep on working for my Lord,\nWho saves and keeps by grace." }, "302": { "metadata": { "Title": "Greenland", "Collation": "Greenland", "Page": "302", "Tune Composer": "Moore, W. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1867", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "With songs and honors sounding loud,\nAddress the Lord on high,\nOver the heav’ns He spreads His clouds,\nAnd waters veil the sky.\nHe sends his show’rs of blessings down\nTo cheer the plains below;\nHe makes the grass the mountains crown,\nAnd corn in valleys grow." }, "303": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Fountain", "Collation": "Fountain, The", "Alternative Title": "Sincerity", "Page": "303", "Tune Composer": "Keith, George; Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rippon’s Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,\nIs laid for your faith in His excellent word!\nWhat more can He say, than to you He has said,\nYou, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled.\n\nIn ev’ry condition, in sickness, in health,\nIn poverty’s vale or abounding in wealth;\nAt home or abroad, on the land, on the sea,\nAs thy days may demand shall thy strength ever be.\n\nFear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,\nI, I am thy God and will still give thee aid;\nI’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,\nUpheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand." }, "304": { "metadata": { "Title": "Morgan", "Collation": "Morgan", "Page": "304", "Tune Composer": "Easy Instructor, Part II, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1803", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "With songs and honors sounding loud,\nAddress the Lord on high!\nOver the heav’ns He spreads His clouds,\nAnd waters veil the sky.\nHe sends His show’rs of blessings down,\nTo cheer the plains below;\nHe makes the grass the mountains crown,\nAnd corn in valleys grow." }, "306": { "metadata": { "Title": "News From the Regions of the Skies", "Collation": "News From the Regions of the Skies", "Alternative Title": "Oxford", "Page": "306", "Tune Composer": "Juvenile Harmony; Massengale, John (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1825; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1706", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Shepherds, rejoice! lift up your eyes,\nAnd send your fears away;\nNews from the regions of the skies,\nA Savior’s born today!\nJesus, the God, whom angels fear,\nComes down to dwell with you;\nToday He makes his entrance here,\nBut not as monarchs do!" }, "308": { "metadata": { "Title": "Parting Friends", "Collation": "Parting Friends", "Page": "308", "Tune Composer": "King, Elias Lafayette", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1749", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "What is there here to court my stay,\nAnd keep me back from home,\nWhen angels beckon me away,\nAnd Jesus bids me come?\nShall I regret my parting friends\nHere in this vale confined?\nNay, but where’er my soul ascends\nThey will not stay behind.\n\nThen let me suddenly remove,\nThat hidden life to share;\nI shall not lose my friends above,\nBut more enjoy them there.\nThere we in Jesus’ praise shall join,\nHis boundless love proclaim,\nAnd solemnize songs divine,\nThe marriage of the Lamb." }, "309": { "metadata": { "Title": "Living Lamb", "Collation": "Living Lamb", "Page": "309", "Tune Composer": "Davis, C. A. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Munny, Lula", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1724", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb?\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\n\nChorus:\n\nO the Lamb, the living Lamb,\nThe Lamb on Calvary,\nThe Lamb that was slain, but lives again,\nTo intercede for me." }, "310": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Weeping Saviour", "Collation": "Weeping Saviour, The", "Page": "310", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Alas! and did my Savior bleed,\nAnd did my Sov’reign die?\nWould He devote that sacred head\nFor such a worm as I?\n\nChorus:\n\nO come, sinner, you will hear\nThe Savior say, ‘Weep not for me.’\nSee the Savior on the cross!\nO sinner, hear Him cry,\n‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani.’\n\nWas it for crimes that I had done,\nHe groaned upon the tree?\nAmazing pity, grace unknown,\nAnd love beyond degree!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "311": { "metadata": { "Title": "Silver Street", "Collation": "Silver Street", "Page": "311", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Isaac", "Tune Composition Date": "1779", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sound His praise abroad,\nAnd hymns of glory sing;\nJehovah is the sov’reign God,\nThe universal King.\n\nChorus:\n\nPraise ye the Lord,\nHallelujah,\nPraise ye the Lord.\n\nToday attend His voice,\nNor dare provoke His rod;\nCome, like the people of His choice,\nAnd own your gracious God.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "312": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sing to Me of Heaven", "Collation": "Sing to Me of Heaven", "Page": "312", "Tune Composer": "Massengale, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Spivey, Henrietta (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1840", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O, sing to me of heav’n,\nWhen I am called to die,\nSing songs of holy ecstasy,\nTo waft my soul on high!\n\nWhen cold and sluggish drops\nRoll off my marble brow,\nBurst forth in strains of joyfulness,\nLet heav’n begin below!\n\nWhen the last moment comes,\nO, watch my dying face,\nAnd catch the bright, seraphic gleam\nWhich on each feature plays.\n\nThen to my ravished ear\nLet one sweet song begin;\nLet music charm me last on earth,\nAnd greet me first in heav’n.\n\nThen close my sightless eyes,\nAnd lay me down to rest,\nAnd clasp my cold and icy hands\nAcross my peaceful breast.\n\nThen round my senseless clay\nAssemble those I love,\nAnd sing of heav’n, delightful heav’n,\nMy glorious home above." }, "313": { "metadata": { "Title": "Concord", "Collation": "Concord", "Page": "313", "Tune Composer": "Holden, Oliver", "Tune Composition Date": "1793", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The men of grace have found\nGlory begun below;\nCelestial fruits on earthly ground,\nFrom faith and hope may grow.\n\nThe hill of Zion yields\nA thousand sacred sweets,\nBefore we reach the heavenly fields,\nOr walk the golden streets.\n\nThen let our songs abound,\nAnd every tear be dry;\nWe’re marching through Immanuel’s ground,\nTo fairer worlds on high." }, "314": { "metadata": { "Title": "Amherst", "Collation": "Amherst", "Page": "314", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1770", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Hallelujah Meter (6,6,6,6,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lord of the worlds above,\nHow pleasant and how fair\nThe dwellings of Thy love,\nThine earthly temples are!\nTo Thine abode, my heart aspires\nWith warm desires to see my God.\n\nThe sparrow for her young,\nWith pleasure seeks a nest;\nAnd wand’ring swallows long\nTo find their wonted rest:\nMy spirit faints with equal zeal\nTo rise and dwell among thy saints.\n\nO happy souls that pray\nWhere God appoints to hear!\nO happy men that pay\nTheir constant service there!\nThey praise Thee still; and happy they\nThat love the way to Zion’s hill." }, "315": { "metadata": { "Title": "Worlds Above", "Collation": "Worlds Above", "Page": "315", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Watson, J. W.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Hallelujah Meter (6,6,6,6,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Lord of the worlds above,\nHow pleasant and how fair\nThe dwellings of Thy love,\nThine earthly temples are!\nTo thine abode my heart aspires\nWith warm desires, to see my God.\n\nTo spend one sacred day\nWhere God and saints abide,\nAffords diviner joy\nThan thousand days beside;\nWhere God resorts, I love it more\nTo keep the door than shine in courts.\n\nThe sparrow, for your young,\nWith pleasure seeks a nest;\nAnd wandering swallows long\nTo find their wonted rest:\nMy spirit faints, with equal zeal,\nTo rise and dwell among Thy saints.\n\nThe Lord His people loves:\nHis hand no good withholds\nFrom those His heart approves,\nFrom pure and pious souls:\nThrice happy he, O God of hosts,\nWhose spirit trust alone in Thee." }, "316": { "metadata": { "Title": "Blessed Thought", "Collation": "Blessed Thought", "Page": "316", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "We have our trials here below,\nO glory hallelujah!\nA few more beating winds and rains,\nO glory hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nO glory hallelujah!\nBlessed thought we’ll meet our loved ones gone before;\nO that will be a happy day;\nWe’ll sing redemption’s sweet story,\nO glory hallelujah!\n\nA few more risings of the sun,\nO glory hallelujah!\nI feel no ways like getting tired,\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI’m making for the harbor’s side\nO glory hallelujah!\nI hope to get there by and by.\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy home is over Jordan’s shore\nO glory hallelujah!\nI have some friends before me gone.\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI’ll go to meet them by and by,\nO glory hallelujah!\nI’ll meet them ’round our Father’s throne\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd live with God for evermore,\nO glory hallelujah!\nO how it lifts my soul to think.\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI’ll meet them in the glory land;\nO glory hallelujah!\nOur God will wipe all tears away.\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWe’ll sing God’s praises evermore\nO glory hallelujah!\nOn Canaan’s bright and happy shore.\nO glory hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "318": { "metadata": { "Title": "Morning Meditation", "Collation": "Morning Meditation", "Page": "318", "Tune Composer": "Jones, S. G. (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, Dosia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "7s Double (7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Though the morn may seem serene,\nNot a threat’ning cloud be seen,\nWho can undertake to say\nTwill be pleasant all the day?\nTempests suddenly may rise,\nLight’nings flash and thunders roar,\nDarkness overspread the skies,\nEre a short-lived day be o’er.\n\nDearest Savior, call us soon,\nTo Thine high eternal noon;\nNever there shall tempest rise,\nTo conceal Thee from our eyes:\nSatan shall no more deceive,\nWe no more Thy Spirit grieve;\nBut through cloudless, endless days,\nSound, to golden harps, Thy praise." }, "319": { "metadata": { "Title": "Religion Is a Fortune", "Collation": "Religion Is a Fortune", "Page": "319", "Tune Composer": "Williams, William L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "O when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above,\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\nAnd from the flowing fountain,\nDrink everlasting love?\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\n\nChorus:\n\nWhen we all get to heaven,\nWe will shout aloud and sing,\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\nReligion is a fortune,\nAnd heaven is a home,\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\n\nWhen shall I be delivered\nFrom this vain world of sin,\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\nAnd with my blessed Jesus\nDrink endless pleasures in?\nShout glory, halle, hallelujah.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "320": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Lost City", "Collation": "Lost City, The", "Page": "320", "Tune Composer": "King, Elias Lafayette", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "Oh, when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above,\nAnd from the flowing fountain\nDrink everlasting love?\n\nChorus:\n\nAnd to glory I will go,\nAnd to glory I will go, will go, will go,\nAnd to glory I will go.\n\nHis promises are faithful,\nA righteous crown He’ll give,\nAnd all His valiant soldiers\nEternally shall live.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "321": { "metadata": { "Title": "Man’s Redemption", "Collation": "Man’s Redemption", "Page": "321", "Tune Composer": "Brown, S. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Battle’s Collection of Hymns", "Lyrics Date": "1814", "Meter": "9s,7s (9,7,9,7)" }, "lyrics": "The glorious plan of man’s redemption\nBy the Son of God was wrought,\nTo save the lost and ruined nation,\nSo to Heav’n we might be brought.\n\nChorus:\n\nGlory, honor, and salvation,\nTo the Lamb who once was slain;\nSound His praise thro’ ev’ry nation,\nMay it never cease again." }, "322": { "metadata": { "Title": "Soon We Shall Land on Canaan’s Shore", "Collation": "Soon We Shall Land on Canaan’s Shore", "Alternative Title": "Autauga", "Page": "322", "Tune Composer": "Sacred Harp, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Quick, Bamma (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Leland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "Oh, when shall I see Jesus,\nAnd reign with Him above,\nAnd from the flowing fountain\nDrink everlasting love?\n\nChorus:\n\nSoon we shall land on Canaan’s shore,\nTo live for evermore." }, "323t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mullins", "Collation": "Mullins", "Page": "323t", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Peak’s New Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, grant us all a blessing;\nSend it down, Lord, from above:\nMay we all go home a-praising,\nAnd rejoicing in Thy love.\n\nChorus:\n\nFarewell, breth’ren, farewell, sisters,\nTill we all shall meet again.\n\nJesus, pardon all our folly,\nSince together we have been;\nMake us humble, make us holy,\nCleanse us all from ev’ry sin.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "323b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Soft Music", "Collation": "Soft Music", "Page": "323b", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1841", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,7,4,7" }, "lyrics": "Soft, soft music is stealing,\nSweet, sweet lingers the strain;\nLoud, loud now it is pealing,\nWaking the echoes again!\nYes, yes, yes, yes,\nWaking the echoes again!\n\nJoin, join children of sadness,\nSend, send sorrow away;\nNow, now changing to gladness,\nWarble this beautiful lay;\nYes, yes, yes, yes,\nWarble this beautiful lay.\n\nHope, hope fair and enduring,\nJoy, joy bright as the day;\nLove, love heaven ensuring,\nSweetly invites you away;\nYes, yes, yes, yes,\nSweetly invites you away." }, "324": { "metadata": { "Title": "Northport", "Collation": "Northport", "Page": "324", "Tune Composer": "Osborne, R. R. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Bass Composer": "Smith, J. (arranger)", "Bass Composition Date": "1850", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1743", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,\nGlory hallelujah!\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon,\nGlory hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nI want a seat in paradise,\nGlory hallelujah!\nI love that union never dies,\nGlory hallelujah!\n\nHis track I see and I’ll pursue,\nGlory hallelujah!\nThe narrow way ’till Him I view,\nGlory hallelujah!" }, "325": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Cause of Christ", "Collation": "Cause of Christ, The", "Page": "325", "Tune Composer": "King, Elias Lafayette", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Green, Lessie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Waterbury, Jared B.", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,5,7,7,7,5" }, "lyrics": "Who the cause of Christ would yield?\nWho would leave the battlefield?\nWho would cast away his lot?\nLet him basely go!\nWho for Zion’s King will stand?\nWho will join the faithful band?\nLet him come with heart and hand,\nLet him face the foe!" }, "326": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weary Pilgrim", "Collation": "Weary Pilgrim", "Page": "326", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Taylor, Caleb Jarvis", "Lyrics Date": "1804", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,9,7,9,7,8,8,8,8,8" }, "lyrics": "Come and taste along with me\nThe weary pilgrim’s consolation;\nBoundless mercy, running free,\nThe earnest of complete salvation.\nJoy and peace in Christ I find,\nMy heart to Him is all resigned;\nThe fullness of His pow’r I prove,\nThe sweetness of redeeming love!\nJesus is the pilgrim’s portion,\nLove as boundless as the ocean.\n\nWhen the world and flesh would rise,\nAnd strive to draw me from my Savior,\nStrangers slight, or friends despise,\nI then more highly prize His favor.\nFriends, believe me when I tell,\nIf Christ be present all is well.\nThe world and flesh in vain may rise:\nI all their efforts do despise;\nIn the world I’ve tribulation,\nBut in Christ sweet consolation." }, "327": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hatfield", "Collation": "Hatfield", "Page": "327", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William; White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1793; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Naked as from the earth we came,\nAnd crept to life at first,\nWe to the earth return again\nAnd mingle with our dust.\nThe dear delights we here enjoy,\nAnd fondly call our own,\nAre but short favors borrowed now\nTo be repaid anon.\n\n’Tis God that lifts our comforts high,\nOr sinks them in the grave;\nHe gives, and blessed be His name!\nHe takes but what He gave.\nIf smiling mercy crown our lives,\nIts praises shall be spread;\nAnd we’ll adore the justice, too,\nThat strikes our comforts dead." }, "328": { "metadata": { "Title": "There’s a Great Day Coming", "Collation": "There’s a Great Day Coming", "Page": "328", "Tune Composer": "Thompson, Will Lamartine", "Tune Composition Date": "1887", "Lyrics": "Thompson, Will Lamartine", "Lyrics Date": "1887", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,5,9,14,9" }, "lyrics": "There’s a great day coming,\nA great day coming,\nThere’s a great day coming by and by;\nWhen the saints and the sinners shall be parted right and left,\nAre you ready for that day to come?\n\nChorus:\n\nAre you ready? Are you ready?\nAre you ready for the judgment day?\nAre you ready? Are you ready?\nAre you ready for the judgment day?\n\nThere’s a bright day coming,\nA bright day coming,\nThere’s a bright day coming by and by;\nBut its brightness shall only come to them that love the Lord,\nAre you ready for that day to come?\n\n(Chorus)" }, "329": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vain World, Adieu!", "Collation": "Vain World, Adieu!", "Page": "329", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1856", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Seamen’s Devotional Assistant and Mariners’ Hymns", "Lyrics Date": "1830", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8" }, "lyrics": "When for eternal worlds we steer,\nAnd seas are calm and skies are clear,\nAnd faith in lively exercise,\nAnd distant hills of Canaan rise.\nThe soul for joy then claps her wings\nAnd loud her hallelujahs sing,\nVain world, adieu, vain world, adieu.\n\nWith cheerful hope her eyes explore\nEach landmark on the distant shore,\nThe trees of life, the pastures green,\nThe crystal stream, delightful scene.\nAgain for joy she claps her wings\nAnd loud her hallelujahs sing,\nVain world, adieu, vain world, adieu." }, "330t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Love Divine", "Collation": "Love Divine", "Page": "330t", "Tune Composer": "Waller, Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Green, Lessie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1747", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Love divine, all love excelling,\nJoy of heav’n, to earth come down!\nFix in us Thy humble dwelling;\nAll Thy faithful mercies crown.\nJesus, Thou art all compassion,\nPure, unbounded love Thou art;\nVisit us with Thy salvation;\nEnter ev’ry trembling heart." }, "330b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sacred Music", "Collation": "Sacred Music", "Page": "330b", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1863", "Alto Composer": "Green, Lessie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Pearce, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1800", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "In the floods of tribulation,\nWhile the billows o’er me roll,\nJesus whispers consolation,\nAnd supports my fainting soul.\n\nChorus:\n\nHallelujah, Hallelujah,\nHallelujah, praise the Lord!" }, "331t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Father’s Boundless Love", "Collation": "Father’s Boundless Love, The", "Alternative Title": "Columbiana", "Page": "331t", "Tune Composer": "White, David Patillo", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "May the grace of Christ our Saviour,\nAnd the Father’s boundless love,\nWith the Holy Spirit’s favor,\nRest upon us from above.\n\nThus may we abide in union\nWith each other and the Lord;\nAnd possess in sweet communion\nJoys which earth cannot afford." }, "331b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mercy, O Thou Son of David", "Collation": "Mercy, O Thou Son of David", "Alternative Title": "Villulia", "Page": "331b", "Tune Composer": "Day, J. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "‘Mercy, O Thou Son of David,’\nThus poor blind Bartimeus pray’d;\n‘Others by Thy grace are saved,\nNow to me afford Thine aid.’\n\nMoney was not what he wanted,\nThough by begging used to live;\nBut he asked, and Jesus granted,\nAlms which none but He could give.\n\n‘Lord, remove this grievous blindness,\nLet mine eyes behold the day;’\nStraight he saw, and won by kindness,\nFollowed Jesus in the way." }, "332": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sons of Sorrow", "Collation": "Sons of Sorrow", "Page": "332", "Tune Composer": "Hauser’s Hesperian Harp", "Tune Composition Date": "1848", "Alto Composer": "Martin, E. D. (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Social and Campmeeting Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1825", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Hail! ye sighing sons of sorrow,\nLearn with me, your certain doom;\nLearn with me your fate tomorrow,\nDead, perhaps, laid in the tomb!\nSee all nature fading, dying,\nSilent, all things seem to mourn,\nLife from vegetation flying,\nCalls to mind the mould’ring urn.\n\nDeath destroys our future prospects,\nTears our earthly joys away;\nFriends and children, O how precious!\nTurn by death’s cold hands away!\nFast our sun of life declining;\nSoon ’twill set in dismal night;\nBut our hopes, pure and refining,\nRest in future life and light." }, "333": { "metadata": { "Title": "Family Circle", "Collation": "Family Circle", "Page": "333", "Tune Composer": "Brown, R. E. (Rev.); White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nBless the Lord, O my soul!\nPraise the Lord, O my brother!\nShout and sing, O my sister!\nGive him glory, O my father!\nAnd rejoice, O my mother!\nAnd we’ll travel on together,\nAnd we’ll join heart and hands for Canaan.\n\nCome, dear Lord, no long tarry;\nTake my raptur’d soul away;\nSend Thine angels down to carry\nMe to realms of endless day.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "334": { "metadata": { "Title": "O Come Away!", "Collation": "O Come Away!", "Page": "334", "Tune Composer": "Hauser’s Hesperian Harp", "Tune Composition Date": "1848", "Lyrics": "Stowe’s Melodies for the Temperance Band", "Lyrics Date": "1856", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 5,7,8,5,8,8,7,5" }, "lyrics": "O come, come away\nFrom labor now reposing,\nOur jubilee has set us free,\nO come, come away!\nCome, hail the day that celebrates\nThe ransom of th’inebriates\nFrom all that intoxicates,\nO come, come away!\n\nWe welcome you here!\nWith heart and hand wide open,\nYe welcome sons of temperance,\nWe welcome you here!\nHeav’n’s blessings on your plans we pray!\nYe come our sinking friends to save,\nAnd rescue from a drunkard’s grave,\nWe welcome you here!\n\nWe welcome you here!\nYe who with taste perverted\nHave seized the cup and drank it up,\nWe welcome you here!\nCome, join us in our holy aim,\nThe poor besotted to reclaim,\nThe broken heart to cheer again,\nO come, sign the pledge!" }, "335": { "metadata": { "Title": "Return Again", "Collation": "Return Again", "Page": "335", "Tune Composer": "Williams, William L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Savior, visit Thy plantation,\nGrant us, Lord, a gracious rain,\nAll will come to desolation\nUnless Thou return again.\n\nChorus:\n\nLord, revive us! Lord revive us!\nAll our help must come from Thee.\n\nKeep no longer at a distance,\nShine upon us from on high!\nLest for want of Thy assistance,\nEv’ry plant should droop and die.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "336t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hester", "Collation": "Hester", "Page": "336t", "Tune Composer": "Everett, L. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1860", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (1st, 2nd, & 4th Verses); Carver, Stewart (3rd Verse); Church Psalmody (5th Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1958 (3rd Verse); 1831 (5th Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I love to see the Lord below,\nHis church displays His grace;\nBut upper worlds His glory know,\nAnd view Him face to face.\n\nI love to worship at His feet,\nThough sin annoy me there;\nBut saints exalted near His seat\nHave no assaults to fear.\n\nI love to sing the song of grace\nIn concert with His saints,\nBut all the songs we sing below\nCannot extol His praise.\n\nI love to meet Him in the courts,\nAnd taste His heav’nly love;\nBut still His visits seem too short,\nOr I too soon remove.\n\nO Lord, I love Thy service now;\nThy church displays Thy pow’r;\nBut soon in heav’n I’ll to Thee bow,\nAnd praise Thee evermore." }, "336b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Haw Ridge", "Collation": "Haw Ridge", "Page": "336b", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Tune Composition Date": "1982", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1763", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Father to Thee my soul I lift:\nMy soul on Thee depends,\nConvinc’d that every perfect gift\nFrom Thee alone descends.\nMercy and grace are Thine alone,\nAnd pow’r and wisdom, too:\nWithout the Spirit of Thy Son,\nWe nothing good can do.\n\nWe cannot speak one useful word,\nOne holy thought conceive,\nUnless, in answer to our Lord,\nThyself the blessing give.\nHis blood demands the purchased grace;\nHis blood’s availing plea,\nObtains the help for all our race,\nAnd sends it down to me." }, "337": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mercy’s Free", "Collation": "Mercy’s Free", "Page": "337", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1858", "Alto Composer": "Stevens, D. F.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sweet Singer of Israel", "Lyrics Date": "1840", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,6,9,6,8,8,8,3" }, "lyrics": "What’s this that in my soul is rising?\nIs it grace? Is it grace?\nWhich makes me keep for mercy crying?\nIs it grace? Is it grace?\nThis work that’s in my soul begun,\nIt makes me strive all sin to shun,\nIt plants my soul beneath the sun,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\n\nGreat God of love, I can but wonder,\nIs it grace? Is it grace?\nThough I’ve no price at all to tender,\nIs it grace? Is it grace?\nThough mercy’s free our God is just,\nAnd if a soul should ere be lost,\nThis will torment the sinner most,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\n\nSwell, swell, O swell the heav’nly chorus,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\nThe devil’s kingdom falls before us,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\nSinners, repent, inquire the road\nThat leads to glory and to God,\nCome, wash in Christ’s atoning blood,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\n\nThis truth through all our life shall always cheer us,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\nAnd through the vale of death shall bear us,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!\nAnd when to Jordan’s banks we come\nAnd cross the raging billow’s foam,\nWe’ll sing, when safely landed home,\nMercy’s free! Mercy’s free!" }, "338": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rise to the Mansions of Glory", "Collation": "Rise to the Mansions of Glory", "Page": "338", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sawyer, Seymour Boughton (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "9s,8s (9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "How bright is the day when the Christian\nReceives the sweet message to come,\nTo rise to the mansions of glory,\nAnd be there forever at home.\n\nThe angels stand ready and waiting,\nThe moment the spirit is gone\nTo carry it upward to heaven,\nAnd welcome it safely at home." }, "339": { "metadata": { "Title": "When I Am Gone", "Collation": "When I Am Gone", "Page": "339", "Tune Composer": "Turner, M. H. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1841", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,8,10,8,10,10,10,7" }, "lyrics": "Shed not a tear o’er your friend’s early bier,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone;\nSmile when the slow tolling bell you shall hear,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone;\nWeep not for me as you stand round my grave,\nThink who has died His beloved to save,\nThink of the crown all the ransomed shall wear,\nWhen I am gone, I am gone.\n\nShed not a tear as you all kneel in pray’r,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone;\nSing a sweet song when my grave you shall see,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone;\nSing to the Lamb who on earth once was slain,\nSing to the Lamb who in heaven doth reign,\nSing ’till the earth shall be filled with His name,\nWhen I am gone, I am gone." }, "340": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Rock That Is Higher Than I", "Collation": "Rock That Is Higher Than I, The", "Page": "340", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dobell’s New Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1806", "Meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "Convinced as a sinner to Jesus I come,\nInformed by the gospel for such there is room;\nO’erwhelmed with sorrows for sin I will cry,\nLead me to the Rock that is higher than I.\n\nChorus:\n\nHigher than I, higher than I,\nLead me to the Rock that is higher than I.\n\n’Tis there with the chosen of Jesus I long,\nTo swell and eternally join in the song,\nAnd praising and blessing with angels on high,\nIts Jesus, the Rock, that is higher than I.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "341": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Lone Pilgrim", "Collation": "Lone Pilgrim, The", "Alternative Title": "The White Pilgrim", "Page": "341", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ellis, John", "Lyrics Date": "1838", "Meter": "11s,8s (11,8,11,8)" }, "lyrics": "I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay,\nAnd pensively stood by his tomb,\nWhen in a low whisper I heard something say,\n‘How sweetly he sleeps here alone.’\n\nThe tempest may howl, and the loud thunders roar,\nAnd gathering storms may arise,\nYet calm are his feelings, at rest is his soul,\nThe tears are all wiped from his eyes.\n\nThe cause of his Master propelled him from home;\nHe bade his companion farewell;\nHe blessed his dear children who for him now mourn,\nIn far distant regions they dwell.\n\nHe wandered an exile and stranger from home,\nNo kindred or relative nigh;\nHe met the contagion and sank to the tomb,\nHis soul flew to mansions on high.\n\nO tell his companions and children most dear,\nTo weep not for him now he’s gone;\nThe same Hand that led him thro’ scenes most severe,\nHas kindly assisted him home." }, "342": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fountain of Life", "Collation": "Fountain of Life", "Page": "342", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a fountain fill’d with blood\nDrawn from Immanuel’s veins;\nAnd sinners plung’d beneath that flood,\nLose all their guilty stains.\n\nChorus:\n\nLose all their guilty stains,\nAnd sinners plung’d beneath that flood,\nLose all their guilty stains.\n\nThe dying thief rejoiced to see\nThat fountain in his day;\nAnd there may I, tho’ vile as he,\nWash all my sins away.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nEre since, by faith, I saw the stream,\nThy flowing wounds supply,\nRedeeming grace has been my theme,\nAnd shall be ’till I die.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "343": { "metadata": { "Title": "Long Sought Home", "Collation": "Long Sought Home", "Page": "343", "Tune Composer": "Bobo, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1847", "Alto Composer": "Christian Harmony", "Alto Composition Date": "1867", "Lyrics": "F. B. P.", "Lyrics Date": "c. 1600", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Jerusalem! My happy home!\nO how I long for thee!\nWhen will my sorrows have an end?\nThy joys when shall I see?\n\nChorus:\nHome, sweet home, my long sought home,\nMy home in heav’n above.\n\nThy walls are all of precious stones,\nMost glorious to behold!\nThy gates are richly set with pearl,\nThy streets are paved with gold.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy friends, I bid you all adieu,\nI leave you in God’s care;\nAnd if I here no more see you,\nGo on, I’ll meet you there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "344": { "metadata": { "Title": "We’ll Meet Beyond the Grave", "Collation": "We’ll Meet Beyond the Grave", "Page": "344", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Hafley, W. C.", "Lyrics Date": "1886", "Meter": "8s,7s Iambic (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Beyond the golden sunset sky,\nBeyond the old rolling wave,\nBeyond each earthly tear and sigh,\nWe’ll meet just beyond the grave.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’ll meet, yes, we’ll meet on that shining shore,\nWe’ll meet in that home of love;\nWe’ll meet, yes, meet to part no more,\nWe shall meet in heaven above.\n\nBeyond these pangs that parting brings,\nBeyond all this earthly vale,\nWe’ll meet where joys eternal spring,\nAnd love there shall never fail.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nOur refuge is the Lord our God,\nHis life for us all He gave,\nHe gave that life that we might live,\nAnd yet He alone can save.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "345t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Is My Friend", "Collation": "Jesus Is My Friend", "Page": "345t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1803", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Come life, come death, come then what will,\nJesus is my friend;\nHis footsteps I will follow still,\nJesus is my friend.\n\nJesus is my friend,\nO hallelujah!\nJesus is my friend." }, "345b": { "metadata": { "Title": "We’ll Meet Over There", "Collation": "We’ll Meet Over There", "Alternative Title": "Golden Streets", "Page": "345b", "Tune Composer": "Pickard, J. L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "And we’ll meet our fathers there.\n\nChorus:\n\nIn the New Jerusalem.\n\nAnd we’ll meet our mothers there.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd we’ll meet our brothers there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "346": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Happy Home", "Collation": "My Happy Home", "Page": "346", "Tune Composer": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Tune Composition Date": "1880", "Lyrics": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Lyrics Date": "1880", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,9,11,9" }, "lyrics": "I have a home above the starry skies,\nWhich my Saviour has gone to prepare;\nIt is free from sin and ev’ry earthly ill,\nO I long, O I long to be there.\n\nChorus:\n\nO my happy, happy home far away,\nTo reach Thee safe I daily pray,\nThat my Saviour’s hand will lead me on\nTo my happy, happy home far away.\n\nMy Saviour dwells in yonder happy home,\nAnd His presence and love make it fair,\nHe will walk with me along its golden streets,\nO I long, O I long to be there.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThe holy saints, a countless, happy throng,\nIn that bright happy home have a share,\nI will meet them there to talk of Jesus’ love,\nO I long, O I long to be there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "347": { "metadata": { "Title": "It Is a Wonder If I Am Saved", "Collation": "It Is a Wonder If I Am Saved", "Alternative Title": "’Tis Wonder", "Page": "347", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1857", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hollyday (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1929", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O ’tis a glorious mystery,\n’Tis a wonder,\nThat I should ever saved be!\n’Tis a wonder.\n\nChorus:\n\n’Twill be a wonder, wonder, a wonder,\n’Twill be a wonder be if I am saved." }, "348t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Happy Land", "Collation": "Happy Land", "Page": "348t", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Spivey, Henrietta (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Young, Andrew", "Lyrics Date": "1838", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,4,6,4,6,7,6,4" }, "lyrics": "There is a happy land,\nFar, far away.\nWhere saints in glory stand,\nBright, bright as day.\nO how they sweetly sing,\nWorthy is our Saviour King,\nLoud let His praises ring,\nPraise, praise for aye.\n\nCome to the happy land,\nCome, come away.\nWhy will you doubting stand?\nWhy yet delay?\nO we shall happy be,\nWhen from sin and sorrow free,\nLord we shall live with thee,\nBlest, blest for aye." }, "348b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Blessed Forever", "Collation": "Blessed Forever", "Page": "348b", "Tune Composer": "Parker, John W. (Eld.); Underwood, Leila (Miss) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Parker, John W. (Eld.)", "Lyrics Date": "1902", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,8,11,9" }, "lyrics": "I sometimes think it’s too good to be true,\nWhen they talk of life’s fair river;\nOf a land that’s so bright, where there is no night\nIn that beautiful, that blest forever.\n\nChorus:\n\nNo matter what the world says,\nNo matter for its frowns,\nNo matter for its storms, no, never,\nIf to Jesus you are true\nThere’s a glory waits for you\nIn that beautiful, that blest forever.\n\nI sometimes wish, when I am weary and sad,\nThat the golden gates were nearer;\nBut I know that I can wait, for a joy that’s so great,\nFor I know that the crown will be dearer.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "350": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Red Sea Anthem", "Collation": "Red Sea Anthem, The", "Page": "350", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Prose" }, "lyrics": "The Lord spoke unto Moses saying,\nSanctify unto me all the first-born.\nAnd Moses said unto the people,\nRemember this day in which you came out of Egypt;\nOut of the house of bondage, by the strong hand of the Lord.\nAnd Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, was loth to let them go.\nAnd when we had let them go,\nGod, by his servant Moses, led them towards the Red Sea through the wilderness;\nAnd Pharaoh, the king, pursued them in the anger of an enemy,\nWith all the hosts of Egypt array’d in army form;\nBut the Lord was with Moses and his chosen race,\nAnd led them safely on,\nAnd enabled them to make their escape from the hands of the king.\nAnd when they arrived at the Red Sea,\nThe Lord commanded Moses to stretch out his hand over the sea.\nAnd Moses obey’d the Lord,\nAnd the waters were roll’d back and became a wall on either side,\nAnd the children of Israel pass’d through on dry land.\nAnd Pharaoh, the king, attempted to pursue,\nWith all his army;\nAnd when they entered into the deep the waters returned and buried them all in the depth of the sea.\nThen Moses and his people stood on the banks of the sea and shouted,\n‘Glory to God in the highest!\nGlory and honor, power and blessing, be unto His name forever and ever!’" }, "355": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hinder Me Not", "Collation": "Hinder Me Not", "Page": "355", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ryland, John", "Lyrics Date": "1775", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "In all my Lord’s appointed ways\nMy journey I’ll pursue,\n‘Hinder me not,’ ye much-loved saints,\nFor I must go with you.\n\nChorus:\n\nThrough floods and flames, if Jesus lead,\nI’ll follow where He goes;\n‘Hinder me not,’ shall be my cry,\nThough earth and hell oppose.\n\nThrough duties and through trials, too,\nI’ll go at His command,\n‘Hinder me not,’ for I am bound\nTo my Immanuel’s land.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd when my Saviour calls me home,\nStill this my cry shall be,\n‘Hinder me not;’ come, welcome death,\nI’ll gladly go with you.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "356": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cheves", "Collation": "Cheves", "Page": "356", "Tune Composer": "Bradfield, Oliver", "Tune Composition Date": "1857", "Alto Composer": "Denson, Seaborn McDaniel", "Alto Composition Date": "1911", "Lyrics": "Baptist Hymn Book", "Lyrics Date": "1825", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Grace, ’tis a most delightful theme,\n’Tis grace that rescues guilty man,\n’Tis grace divine, all conquering free,\nOr it had never rescued me." }, "357": { "metadata": { "Title": "God’s Eternal", "Collation": "God’s Eternal", "Alternative Title": "Complaint", "Page": "357", "Tune Composer": "Parmenter, Ezra; Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1791; 1893 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Deal, W. J.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Spare us, O Lord, aloud we cry,\nNor let our sun go down so soon;\nThy years are one eternal day,\nAnd must Thy children die so soon?" }, "358": { "metadata": { "Title": "Murrillo’s Lesson", "Collation": "Murrillo’s Lesson", "Page": "358", "Tune Composer": "Sacred Harp, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dwight, Timothy", "Lyrics Date": "ca. 1778", "Meter": "11s Double (11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11)" }, "lyrics": "As down a lone valley with cedars o’erspread,\nFrom war’s dread confusion I pensively strayed,\nThe gloom from the face of fair heaven retired,\nThe winds hushed their murmurs, the thunders expired;\nPerfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along,\nA voice as of angels enchantingly sung,\n‘Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,\nThe queen of the world and the child of the skies.’" }, "359": { "metadata": { "Title": "Prosperity", "Collation": "Prosperity", "Page": "359", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Willard, Karen", "Alto Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O may I worthy prove to see,\nGlory to Immanuel!\nThe saints in full prosperity!\nGlory to Immanuel!\nTo see the bride, the glitt’ring bride,\nGlory to Immanuel!\nClose seated by her Saviour’s side,\nGlory to Immanuel!" }, "360": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Royal Band", "Collation": "Royal Band, The", "Page": "360", "Tune Composer": "Power, W. T.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mintz’s Spiritual Song Book", "Lyrics Date": "1805", "Meter": "12s,11s Double (12,11,12,11,12,11,12,11)" }, "lyrics": "Hosanna to Jesus, my soul’s filled with praises,\nCome, O my dear brethren, and help me to sing;\nNo music so charming, no look is so warming,\nIt gives life and comfort, and gladness within.\nHosanna is ringing, O how I love singing,\nThere’s nothing so sweet as the sound of His name;\nThe angels in glory repeat the glad story\nOf love which in Jesus is made known to man.\n\nHosanna to Jesus, who died for to save us;\nI’ll love Him, and serve Him wherever I go;\nHe’s now gone to heaven the Spirit is given\nTo quicken and comfort His children below.\nHosanna to Jesus! my soul sweetly rises,\nWe soon will attain a far happier clime,\nWhere we will see Jesus, and dwell on His praises,\nAnd with Him in glory eternally shine." }, "361": { "metadata": { "Title": "Loving Jesus", "Collation": "Loving Jesus", "Page": "361", "Tune Composer": "Giardini, Felice; White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger); Searcy, John Smith (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1722; 1850 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Green, Lessie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,7,10,8,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Here’s my heart, my loving Jesus,\nThou who didst from sin relieve us,\nTake the purchase of Thy blood,\nLoving Jesus, Thou hast bo’t a ransom!\nGlory, honor, praise and power\nBe unto the Lamb forever!\nGlory, glory to the Lord!" }, "362": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Lord’s Promise", "Collation": "Lord’s Promise, The", "Page": "362", "Tune Composer": "Watson, Hattie (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Amazing grace! how sweet the sound\nThat saved a wretch like me;\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\n’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\nAnd grace my fears relieved;\nHow precious did that grace appear\nThe hour I first believed!\n\nThro’ many dangers, toils and snares,\nI have already come;\n’Tis grace has bro’t me safe thus far,\nAnd grace will lead me home.\n\nThe Lord has promised good to me,\nHis word my hope secures;\nHe will my shield and portion be\nAs long as life endures." }, "363": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Have No Mother Now", "Collation": "I Have No Mother Now", "Page": "363", "Tune Composer": "Miller, John Wesley", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Miller, John Wesley", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "I hear the soft winds sighing\nAmong the boughs that wave,\nBeneath is mother lying\nSo quiet in her grave.\nUnbidden tears have started,\nAs by the mound I bow,\nI think of when we parted’\nI have no mother now.\n\nChorus:\n\nShe’s gone from earth to heaven,\nShe’s gone away, I have no mother now.\n\nThe pale moon shines so faintly,\nYet I in fancy see\nHer face, so pure and saintly,\nAs when she smiled on me.\nAlthough she’s safe in glory,\nYet care beclouds my brow,\nThere’s sorrow in my story’\nI have no mother now.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI feel so very lonely,\nThe future seems so drear,\nMy dear Redeemer only\nCan make the pathway clear.\nOf wounds, past mortal healing,\nThere’s few like this I trow;\nThis sad, heartbroken feeling’\nI have no mother now.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "364": { "metadata": { "Title": "Greenland", "Collation": "Greenland", "Page": "364", "Tune Composer": "Swan, William H.", "Tune Composition Date": "1848", "Lyrics": "Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1825", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "Why should I be affrighted\nAt pestilence and war,\nThe fiercer be the tempest,\nThe sooner it is o’er.\n\nWith Jesus in the vessel,\nThe billows rise in vain,\nThey only will convey me\nTo yon Elysian plains.\n\nThis world is full of dangers,\nAnd foes that press me hard;\nBut Jesus He has promised\nThat He will be my guard.\n\nHere I shall not be tempted\nAbove what I can bear,\nWhen frightings are exerted,\nHis kingdom for to share.\n\nFrom Him I have my orders,\nAnd while I do obey,\nI find His Holy Spirit\nIlluminates my way.\n\nThe way is so delightful,\nI wish to travel on,\n’Till I arrive at heaven\nT’receive a starry crown." }, "365": { "metadata": { "Title": "Southwell", "Collation": "Southwell", "Page": "365", "Tune Composer": "Carpenter, Elihu", "Tune Composition Date": "1786-87", "Lyrics": "American Musical Magazine", "Lyrics Date": "1786-87", "Meter": "Common Particular Meter (8,8,6,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "’Tis finished, the Redeemer said,\nAnd meekly bowed His dying head,\nWhile we the sentence scan,\nCome, sinners, and observe the Word,\nBehold the conquest of the Lord,\nComplete for sinful man." }, "367": { "metadata": { "Title": "Dear Name! The Rock on Which I Stand", "Collation": "Dear Name! The Rock on Which I Stand", "Page": "367", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John (Verses); Whitfield, Frederick (Chorus)", "Lyrics Date": "1779 (Verses); 1855 (Chorus)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds\nIn a believer’s ear!\nIt soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,\nAnd drives away his fear.\n\nChorus:\n\nO how I love Jesus,\nBecause He first loved me.\n\nIt makes the wounded spirit whole,\nAnd calms the troubled breast;\n’Tis manna to the hungry soul,\nAnd to the weary, rest.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nDear name! The rock on which I build,\nMy shield and hiding place;\nMy never failing treas’ry filled\nWith boundless stores of grace.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI would the boundless love proclaim\nWith ev’ry fleeting breath;\nSo shall the music of Thy name\nRefresh my soul in death.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "368t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Remember Me", "Collation": "Remember Me", "Page": "368t", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin; Ledbetter, Lewis L. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Ketcham, E. L. (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a fountain filled with blood,\nDrawn from Immanuel’s veins,\nAnd sinners plunged beneath that flood,\nLose all their guilty stains.\n\nChorus:\n\nI will believe, I do believe,\nThat Jesus died for me,\nRemember all Thy dying groans\nAnd then remember me.\n\nE’er since by faith I saw the stream,\nThy flowing wounds supply,\nRedeeming love has been my theme,\nAnd shall be ’till I die.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "368b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Newman", "Collation": "Newman", "Page": "368b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Frasier, Toy (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hart, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear,\nRepent, thy end is nigh,\nDeath at the farthest can’t be far,\nO think before thou die!\nReflect, thou hast a soul to save,\nThy sins, how high they mount,\nWhat are thy hopes beyond the grave?\nHow stands that dark account?" }, "369": { "metadata": { "Title": "Send a Blessing", "Collation": "Send a Blessing", "Page": "369", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin; Ledbetter, Lewis L. (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Gambold, John", "Lyrics Date": "1748", "Meter": "10s,11s (10,11,10,11)" }, "lyrics": "O tell me no more of this world’s vain store,\nThe time for such trifles with me now is o’er.\nA country I’ve found, where true joys abound,\nTo dwell I’m determined on that happy ground.\n\nChorus:\n\nSend a blessing just now.\n\nNo mortal will know what Christ doth bestow,\nWhat life, strength, and comfort do after Him go;\nLo! onward I move to see Christ above,\nNone guesses how wondrous my journey will prove.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "370": { "metadata": { "Title": "Monroe", "Collation": "Monroe", "Page": "370", "Tune Composer": "Turner, William S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Lyte, Henry F.", "Lyrics Date": "1824", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, I my cross have taken,\nAll to leave and follow Thee;\nNaked, poor, despised, forsaken,\nThou, from hence, my all shall be:\nPerish, ev’ry fond ambition,\nAll I’ve sought, or hoped, or known;\nYet how rich is my condition,\nGod and heav’n is still my own.\n\nTake, my soul, thy full salvation;\nRise o’er sin and fear and care;\nJoy to find, in ev’ry station,\nSomething still to do or bear.\nThink what Spirit dwells within thee,\nWhat a Father’s smile is thine,\nWhat a Savior died to win Thee,\nChild of heav’n, shouldst thou repine?" }, "371": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Dove", "Collation": "Heavenly Dove", "Alternative Title": "Turner", "Page": "371", "Tune Composer": "Maxim, Abraham; Ogletree, Absalom (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1802; 1859 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly Dove,\nWith all Thy quick’ning pow’rs,\nKindle a flame of sacred love\nIn these cold hearts of ours.\n\nLook, how we grovel here below,\nFond of these trifling toys;\nOur souls can neither fly nor go\nTo reach eternal joys.\n\nIn vain we tune our formal songs,\nIn vain we strive to rise;\nHosannas languish on our tongues,\nAnd our devotion dies.\n\nCome, Holy Spirit, Heav’nly Dove,\nWith all thy quick’ning pow’rs,\nCome shed abroad a Savior’s love,\nAnd that shall kindle ours." }, "372": { "metadata": { "Title": "Mount Pleasant", "Collation": "Mount Pleasant", "Alternative Title": "Short Version", "Page": "372", "Tune Composer": "Deolph; Poyner, B. P. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1793; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a home not made with hands,\nEternal and on high;\nAnd here my spirit waiting stands\n’Till God shall bid it fly." }, "373": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weeping Peter", "Collation": "Weeping Peter", "Page": "373", "Tune Composer": "Sacred Harp, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, J. W.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1749", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,8,7,6" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, let Thy pitying eye\nCall back a wand’ring sheep;\nFalse to Thee, like Peter,\nI would fain, like Peter, weep;\nLet me be by grace restored;\nOn me be all long-suff’ring shown;\nTurn and look upon me, Lord,\nAnd break my heart of stone.\n\nSee me, Savior! From above,\nNor suffer me to die;\nLife and happiness and love,\nDrop form Thy gracious eye.\nBreak the reconciling word,\nAnd let Thy mercy melt me down,\nTurn and look upon me, Lord,\nAnd break my heart of stone.\n\nLook, as when Thy languid eye\nWas closed that we might live;\n‘Father,’ at the point to die\nMy Savior prayed, ‘forgive!’\nSurely, with that dying word,\nHe turns and looks and cries, ‘’Tis done!’\nO my bleeding, loving Lord,\nThou break’st my heart of stone!" }, "374": { "metadata": { "Title": "O Sing With Me!", "Collation": "O Sing With Me!", "Page": "374", "Tune Composer": "Lancaster, Priscilla R. (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Oh! sing with me in social spheres,\nWhere breathes in kindness mutual love,\nWhere no ungentle look appears,\nTho’ faithfulness should ev’n reprove.\nCome, sing of all that’s bright and fair\nIn azure sky and beauteous earth,\nOh! sing of heav’n, our hopes are there,\nWith treasures of immortal worth." }, "375": { "metadata": { "Title": "Love the Lord", "Collation": "Love the Lord", "Page": "375", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Alas! and did my Savior bleed,\nAnd did my Sov’reign die?\nWould He devote His sacred head\nFor such a worm as I.\n\nChorus:\n\nO who is like Jesus, hallelujah,\nPraise ye the Lord,\nThere’s none like Jesus, hallelujah,\nLove and serve the Lord.\n\nWell might the sun in darkness hide,\nAnd shut His glories in,\nWhen God the mighty Maker died\nFor man the creature’s sin.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBut drops of grief can ne’er repay,\nThe debt of love I owe;\nHere, Lord, I give myself away,\n’Tis all that I can do.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "376": { "metadata": { "Title": "Help Me to Sing", "Collation": "Help Me to Sing", "Page": "376", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "9s,8s Double (9,8,9,8,9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "Ye souls, who are bound unto Canaan,\nCome, join in and help me to sing\nThe praises of my loving Jesus,\nMy Prophet, my Priest, and my King.\nHis name is most sweetly melodious,\n’Twill help you most swiftly to move,\nWhile Jesus Himself is the leader,\nWe’re bound by the cords of His love." }, "377t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Happy Home", "Collation": "Happy Home", "Page": "377t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Spivey, Henrietta (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O yes, my Savior I will trust,\nAnd tho’ my body turns to dust,\n\nChorus:\n\nO what a happy time when the Christians all get home,\nAnd we’ll shout and praise the Lamb in glory.\n\nMy spirit shall fly out and sing\nEternal praises to my King.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "377b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Parting Friends", "Collation": "Parting Friends", "Page": "377b", "Tune Composer": "Graham, J. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The time will come when we must part,\nWhen we must say farewell!\nTo part with you gives to my heart\nA sting no one can tell.\nWhen I am gone, and far away,\nI still will think of thee,\nI’ll think of thee both night and day,\nO then, remember me." }, "378t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Heavenly Port", "Collation": "Heavenly Port, The", "Page": "378t", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’ll stem the storm, it won’t be long,\nThe heav’nly port is nigh;\nWe’ll stem the storm, it won’t be long,\nWe’ll anchor by and by.\n\nO’er all those wide extended plains\nShines one eternal day;\nThere God the Son forever reigns,\nAnd scatters night away.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "378b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Eureka", "Collation": "Eureka", "Page": "378b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Social and Campmeeting Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Soon will this mortal life be o’er,\nThis body moulder into dust;\nNaked my soul will stand before\nA God that’s holy, pure and just.\n\nIts standing doom of bliss or woe\nWill from the Great I Am receive;\nUp to the realms of glory go,\nOr in hell’s torments ever live." }, "379": { "metadata": { "Title": "Span of Life", "Collation": "Span of Life", "Page": "379", "Tune Composer": "Brown, S. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, J. W.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, Frances Maria", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My span of life will soon be gone,\nThe passing moments say;\nAs length’ning shadows o’er the mead\nProclaim the close of day.\nO that my heart might dwell aloof\nFrom all created things,\nAnd learn that wisdom from above,\nWhence true contentment springs.\n\nSoon will the toilsome strife be o’er,\nOf sublunary care;\nAnd life’s dull vanities no more\nThis anxious breast ensnare.\nCourage, my soul! on God rely,\nDeliv’rance soon will come;\nA thousand ways has Providence\nTo bring believers home." }, "380t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Nettie", "Collation": "Nettie", "Page": "380t", "Tune Composer": "Green, William L.", "Tune Composition Date": "2001", "Lyrics": "Green, William L.", "Lyrics Date": "2001", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While trav’ling thru this world below,\nMy heart is full of care;\nBut, Jesus walks with me, I know,\nHis love is ev’rywhere.\nWhen time with me shall be no more,\nMy burdens I’ll lay down;\nI’ll join the saints on Canaan’s shore\nAnd wear a starry crown.\n\nThe time is nigh, I must depart,\nHis love is calling me;\nHe gives me strength, He lifts my heart,\nHis glory soon I’ll see.\nMy Christian friends, I bid adieu,\nHark! Hear the trumpet sound;\nI go to join the saints above\nAnd wear a starry crown." }, "380b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Humble Pleadings", "Collation": "Humble Pleadings", "Page": "380b", "Tune Composer": "Lee, Clark", "Tune Composition Date": "2001", "Alto Composer": "Lee, Mary Elizabeth (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "2001", "Lyrics": "Lee, Clark", "Lyrics Date": "2001", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "Oh Lord, look down from Thy throne,\nHave mercy on us here.\nTeach us, Lord, to look to Thee,\nAnd Thy name to revere.\nKeep us, Lord, in all Thy ways,\nLead us in Thy right paths.\nCall us, Lord to live with Thee,\nAnd in Thy smiles to bask." }, "381t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Never Turn Back", "Collation": "Never Turn Back", "Page": "381t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer (arranger); Parkerson, F. E. (Miss) (arranger)", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "When to that blessed world I rise,\nI’ll never turn back any more,\nAnd join the anthems in the skies,\nI’ll never turn back any more.\n\nChorus:\n\nAny more, any more, any more, my Lord,\nI’ll never turn back any more." }, "381b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Surrender", "Collation": "Surrender, The", "Page": "381b", "Tune Composer": "Penick, Spencer Reed", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mason, William", "Lyrics Date": "1826", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Welcome, welcome, dear Redeemer,\nWelcome to this heart of mine;\nLord, I make a full surrender,\nEv’ry pow’r and thought be Thine.\n\nChorus:\n\nThine entirely, Thine entirely,\nThru eternal ages Thine,\nThine entirely, Thine entirely,\nThru eternal ages Thine." }, "382": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Cleansing Fountain", "Collation": "Cleansing Fountain, The", "Page": "382", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Leonidas", "Lyrics Date": "1896", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a fountain flowing free\nWith bright and crimson sheen,\n’Twas open in King David’s time\nTo save and cleanse from sin.\n\nChorus:\n\nThis fountain, open wide,\nStill flows for all mankind,\nAnd whosoever shall enter in,\nShall be saved and cleansed from sin.\n\nOn Calv’ry’s brow the Saviour bled,\nFor you His life He gave,\nHe bore the sins of all the world\nAnd from all sin doth save.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nCome, sinner, come, your sins confess,\nAnd let this fountain roll,\nWith cleansing pow’r the crimson tide,\nWill wash and make you whole." }, "383": { "metadata": { "Title": "Eternal Day", "Collation": "Eternal Day", "Page": "383", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O what of all my suff’rings here\nIf, Lord, thou count me meet,\nWith that enraptured host t’appear\nAnd worship at Thy feet.\nGive joy or grief, give ease or pain,\nTake life or friends away,\nBut let me find them all again\nIn that eternal day." }, "384": { "metadata": { "Title": "Longing for Heaven", "Collation": "Longing for Heaven", "Alternative Title": "Panting for Heaven", "Page": "384", "Tune Composer": "Brown, S. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "DeFleury, Maria", "Lyrics Date": "1791", "Meter": "8s Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O when will the period appear,\nWhen I shall unite in your song?\nI’m weary of lingering here,\nAnd I to your Savior belong.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’m fettered and chained up in clay,\nI struggle and pant to be free,\nI long to be soaring away,\nMy God and my Savior to see.\n\nYe angels who stand round the thrown,\nAnd view my Savior’s face,\nIn your music make Him be known,\nAnd tune your soft harps to His praise.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "385t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fight On", "Collation": "Fight On", "Page": "385t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "McGee, W. L.; McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Heath, George", "Lyrics Date": "1781", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Fight on, my soul, ’till death\nShall bring thee to thy God,\nHe’ll take thee at thy parting breath\nUp to His last abode." }, "385b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Asleep in Jesus", "Collation": "Asleep in Jesus", "Page": "385b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mackay, Mary", "Lyrics Date": "1832", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep,\nFrom which none ever wakes to weep!\nA calm and undisturbed repose,\nUnbroken by the last of foes." }, "386": { "metadata": { "Title": "Carry Me Home", "Collation": "Carry Me Home", "Page": "386", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet land of rest! For thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moment come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell with Christ at home?\n\nChorus:\n\nCarry me home, carry me to my home.\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful shelt’ring dome;\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not my home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWeary of wand’ring round and round\nThis vale of sin and gloom,\nI long to leave the unhallowed ground,\nAnd dwell with Christ at home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "387": { "metadata": { "Title": "Penick", "Collation": "Penick", "Page": "387", "Tune Composer": "Sikes, Matthew", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Martin, E. D. (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sikes, Matthew", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While trav’ling thru the world below,\nWhere sore afflictions come,\nMy soul abounds with joy to know\nThat I will rest at home.\n\nChorus:\n\nCarry me home, carry me home,\nWhen my life is o’er,\nThen carry me to my long-sought home,\nWhere pain is felt no more.\n\nMy soul’s delight has been to sing\nOf glorious days to come,\nWhen I shall, with my God and King,\nForever rest at home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd then I want these lines to be\nInscribed upon my tomb:\n‘Here lies the dust of S. R. P.,\nHis spirit sings at home.’\n\n(Chorus)" }, "388": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Happy Sailor", "Collation": "Happy Sailor, The", "Page": "388", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Bryan’s Songster’s Companion", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "Come tell of your ship and what is her name?\nO tell me, happy sailor!\nCome tell of your Captain and what is His fame?\nO tell me, happy sailor!\n\nChorus:\n\nShe’s the old ship of Zion, hallelu! hallelu!\nAnd her captain, Judah’s Lion, hallelujah.\n\nCome tell of your crew, from whence do they come?\nO tell me, happy sailor!\nAnd why did you lead them away from their home?\nO tell me, happy sailor!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "389t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Saint Peters", "Collation": "Saint Peters", "Page": "389t", "Tune Composer": "Sacred Harp, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1749", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "How shall a lost sinner in pain\nRecover his forfeited peace?\nWhen brought into bondage again,\nWhat hope of a second release?\n\nWill mercy itself be so kind\nTo spare such a rebel as me?\nAnd O! can I possibly find\nSuch plenteous redemption in Thee?" }, "389b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Sky", "Collation": "Sky, The", "Page": "389b", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Linley", "Lyrics Date": "1830", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Loud swell the pealing organ’s notes;\nBreathe forth your soul in raptures high;\nPraise ye the Lord with harp and voice;\nJoin the full chorus of the sky.\n\nSay how may earth and heav’n unite?\nAnd how shall man with angels join?\nWhat link harmonious may be found?\nDiscordant nature to combine?" }, "390": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Prospect", "Collation": "New Prospect", "Page": "390", "Tune Composer": "Turner, William S. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1866", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest! for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moments come\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell in peace at home?\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful shelt’ring dome,\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not may home." }, "391": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Royal Invitation", "Collation": "Royal Invitation, The", "Page": "391", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,8,9,9" }, "lyrics": "Come, sinner, come, and help bear the cross,\nJesus has suffered the great loss;\nHe will redeem you from all your sin,\nIf you will come, He will take you in.\n\nChorus:\n\nCome, sinner, come, without delay,\nHe is the truth, the light and the way;\nHe has the pow’r to save from all sin,\nIf you will come, He will take you in.\n\nJesus so sweetly bids you to come,\nHe will receive you to His home;\nCome to the fold, why do you delay?\nCome to the Saviour, O! come today.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "392": { "metadata": { "Title": "Little Pilgrim", "Collation": "Little Pilgrim", "Page": "392", "Tune Composer": "Merritt, John Newton", "Tune Composition Date": "1987", "Lyrics": "Merritt, John Newton (1st Verse); Warner, Anna Bartlett (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1987 (1st Verse); 1860 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Come little pilgrim take my hand,\nWalk with me to Canaan’s land,\nAs we journey sweetly sing,\nPraises to our heav’nly King!\n\nChorus:\n\nOh, come, little pilgrim, take my hand,\nAnd let’s travel on together to the Promised Land\n\nJesus loves me this I know,\nFor the Bible tells me so,\nLittle ones to him belong,\nThey are weak, but he is strong.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "393": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’m Wandering To and Fro", "Collation": "I’m Wandering To and Fro", "Page": "393", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Boyden, L.", "Lyrics Date": "1860", "Meter": "6s (6,6,6,6)" }, "lyrics": "I’m wand’ring to and fro\nIn this wide world of woe,\nWhere streams of sorrow flow,\nAnd then I’m going home.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’ll camp a while in the wilderness,\nAnd then we’re going home.\n\nAnd when my faith is tried,\nIn Him I will confide,\nAnd all the storms outride,\nAnd then I’m going home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "394": { "metadata": { "Title": "Messiah’s Praise", "Collation": "Messiah’s Praise", "Page": "394", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.; Spark, James A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, Dosia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rhodes, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "My heart and voice I raise\nTo spread Messiah’s praise,\nLet all repeat,\nThe universal Lord.\nPraise Him, Let all praise Him,\nBy whose almighty word,\nCreation rose in form complete" }, "395t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Can I Leave You?", "Collation": "Can I Leave You?", "Page": "395t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Watson, J. W.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Smith, Samuel Francis (D. D.)", "Lyrics Date": "1831", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Yes, my native land, I love thee,\nAll thy scenes I love them well,\nFriends, connections, happy country,\nCan I bid you all farewell?\n\nChorus:\n\nCan I leave you?\nFar in heathen lands to dwell?\n\nHome, thy joys are passing lovely,\nJoys no stranger’s heart can tell;\nHappy home indeed I love thee;\nCan I, can I, say, “Farewell”?\n\n(Chorus)" }, "395b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fleeting Days", "Collation": "Fleeting Days", "Page": "395b", "Tune Composer": "Mann, Henry Goodwin", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Time! what an empty vapor ’tis!\nOur days, how swift they are,’\nSwift as an Indian arrow flies,\nOr like a shooting star.\n\nOur life is ever on the wing,\nAnd death is ever nigh;\nThe moment when our lives begin,\nWe all begin to die." }, "396": { "metadata": { "Title": "Look to Jesus, Weary One", "Collation": "Look to Jesus, Weary One", "Page": "396", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Scott, Thomas (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1773", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Haste, O sinner, now be wise,\nLook and live, look and live,\nStay not for tomorrow’s sun,\nLook and live.\nWisdom if you still despise,\nLook and live, look and live,\nHarder is it to be won,\nLook and live.\n\nChorus:\n\nLook! the Lord is lifted high,\nLook to Him, He’s ever nigh,\nLook and live, why will you die?\nLook and live.\n\nHaste, and mercy now implore,\nLook and live, look and live,\nStay not for the morrow’s sun,\nLook and live.\nLest thy season should be o’er,\nLook and live, look and live,\nEre this evening’s stage is run,\nLook and live.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHaste, O sinner, now return,\nLook and live, look and live,\nStay not for the morrow’s sun,\nLook and live.\nLest thy lamp should cease to burn,\nLook and live, look and live,\nEre salvation’s work is done,\nLook and live.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHaste, O sinner, now be blest,\nLook and live, look and live,\nStay not for the morrow’s sun,\nLook and live.\nLest perdition thee arrest,\nLook and live, look and live,\nEre the morrow is begun,\nLook and live.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "397": { "metadata": { "Title": "We’ll Soon Be There", "Collation": "We’ll Soon Be There", "Page": "397", "Tune Composer": "Bradfield, Oliver (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O who will come and go with me,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna,\nI’m bound fair Canaan’s land to see,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna.\n\nChorus:\n\nGo on, go on, we’ll soon be there,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna,\nCome on, come on, we’ll soon be there,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna.\n\nO may my soul march boldly on,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna,\nAnd never end the blessing song,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO may I always persevere,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna,\nAnd never stop ’till I get there,\nWe’ll shout and sing hosanna.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "398t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Farewell to All", "Collation": "Farewell to All", "Page": "398t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Blain, John", "Lyrics Date": "1818", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "And now my friends, both old and young,\nI hope in Christ you’ll still go on,\nAnd if on earth we meet no more,\nO may we meet on Canaan’s shore.\nI hope you’ll all remember me,\nIf you on earth no more I see.\nAn int’rest in your pray’rs I crave,\nThat we may meet beyond the grave." }, "398b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Dying Californian", "Collation": "Dying Californian, The", "Page": "398b", "Tune Composer": "Ball, R. F.; Drinkard", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Harris, Kate", "Lyrics Date": "1850", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Lay up nearer, brother, nearer,\nFor my limbs are growing cold,\nAnd thy presence seemeth nearer\nWhen thine arms around me fold.\n\nI am dying, brother, dying,\nSoon you’ll miss me in your berth,\nFor my form will soon be lying\n’Neath the ocean’s briny surf.\n\nI am going, surely going,\nBut my hope in God is strong;\nI am willing, brother, knowing\nThat He doeth nothing wrong." }, "399": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Dying Boy", "Collation": "Dying Boy, The", "Page": "399", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I’m dying, mother, dying now,\nPlease raise my aching head,\nAnd fan my heated, burning brow,\nYour boy will soon be dead.\nTurn o’er my pillow once again,\nAnd kiss my fevered cheek,\nI’ll soon be freed from all the pain,\nFor now I am so weak.\n\nA band of angels beckons me,\nI can no longer stay;\nHark! how they sing, ‘We welcome thee;\nDear brother, haste away.’\nThe hour has come, my end is near,\nMy soul is mounting high’r;\nWhat glorious strains salute my ear,\nFrom heav’n’s angelic choir?" }, "400": { "metadata": { "Title": "Struggle On", "Collation": "Struggle On", "Page": "400", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Our praying time will soon be o’er, Hallelujah!\nWe’ll join with those who’ve gone before, Hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nStruggle on, struggle on, Hallelujah!\nStruggle on, for the work’s most done, Hallelujah!\n\nTo love and bless and praise the name, Hallelujah!\nOf Jesus, Christ, the bleeding Lamb, Hallelujah!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "401": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cuba", "Collation": "Cuba", "Page": "401", "Tune Composer": "Bolen, J. H.; Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "Go, preachers, and tell it to the world,\nPoor mourner’s found a home at last;\n\nChorus:\n\nThrough free grace and a dying Lamb,\nPoor mourner’s found a home at last." }, "402": { "metadata": { "Title": "Protection", "Collation": "Protection", "Page": "402", "Tune Composer": "Letson, C. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Addison, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1712", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord my pasture shall prepare,\nAnd feed me with a shepherd’s care;\nHis presence shall my wants supply,\nAnd guard me with a watchful eye;\nMy noon-day walks He shall attend,\nAnd all my midnight hours defend.\n\nWith gloomy horrors overspread,\nThough in the paths of death I tread;\nMy steadfast heart shall fear no ill,\nFor Thou, O Lord, art with me still;\nThy friendly crook shall give me aid,\nAnd guide me through the dreadful shade." }, "403": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Rest", "Collation": "Heavenly Rest", "Page": "403", "Tune Composer": "Terry, John S.; Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Toplady, Augustus Montague (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How happy are the souls above,\nFrom sin and sorrow free,\nWith Jesus they are now at rest,\nAnd all His glory see." }, "404": { "metadata": { "Title": "He Died on the Cross", "Collation": "He Died on the Cross", "Page": "404", "Tune Composer": "Stevens, D. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Stevens, D. F.", "Lyrics Date": "1902", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "Jesus came to save poor sinners,\nJesus came, Jesus came;\nJesus died to save poor sinners,\nJesus died on the cross;\nHe rose from the grave,\nAnd ascended in a cloud;\nHe will come the second time\nWithout sin unto salvation,\nHe will come the second time." }, "405": { "metadata": { "Title": "Children of the Heavenly King", "Collation": "Children of the Heavenly King", "Alternative Title": "The Marcellas", "Page": "405", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Poyner, B. P.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cennick, John", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Children of the heav’nly King,\nAs we journey sweetly sing;\nSing your Saviour’s worthy praise,\nGlorious in His works and ways." }, "406": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Harmony", "Collation": "New Harmony", "Page": "406", "Tune Composer": "Lancaster, Maria Lucinda Anna (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. J.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Myers’ The Zion Songster", "Lyrics Date": "1829", "Meter": "8s,7s Double Iambic (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "I want to live a Christian here,\nI want to die a shouting,\nI want to feel a Saviour near,\nWhile soul and body’s parting;\nI want to see bright angels stand\nAnd waiting to receive me,\nTo bear my soul to Canaan’s land,\nWhere Christ is gone before me.\n\nO that I had some humble place,\nWhere I might hide from sorrow;\nWhere I might see my Savior’s face,\nAnd there by freed from terror.\nO! had I wings like Noah’s dove,\nI’d leave this word and Satan,\nAnd fly away to realms above,\nWhere Jesus stands inviting." }, "407": { "metadata": { "Title": "Charlton", "Collation": "Charlton", "Page": "407", "Tune Composer": "Breedlove, Leonard P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1854", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, W. R.", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Cowper, Frances Maria", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My span of life will soon be done,\nThe passing moments say,\nAs length’ning shadows o’er the mead\nProclaim the close of day;\nO that my heart can dwell aloof\nFrom all created things,\nAnd learn that wisdom from above,\nWhence true contentment springs.\n\nSoon will the toilsome strife be o’er\nOf sublunary care,\nAnd life’s dull vanities no more\nThis anxious breast ensnare;\nCourage, my soul! on God rely;\nDeliv’rance soon will come:\nA thousand ways has Providence\nTo bring believers home." }, "408": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weeping Mary", "Collation": "Weeping Mary", "Page": "408", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rees, John Palmer", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "7s,6s Half (7,6)" }, "lyrics": "They crucified the Saviour,\nAnd nailed Him to the cross;\n\nChorus:\n\nHe arose, He arose, He arose,\nAnd ascended in a cloud.\n\nSee, Mary comes a-weeping,\nTo see where He was laid;\n\n(Chorus)" }, "409": { "metadata": { "Title": "Promised Day", "Collation": "Promised Day", "Page": "409", "Tune Composer": "Raiford, L. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How long, dear Savior, O how long,\nShall this bright hour delay?\nFly swifter round, ye wheels of time,\nAnd bring the promised day.\n\nAttending angels shout for joy,\nAnd the bright armies sing,\nMortals, behold the sacred seat\nOf our descending King!" }, "410": { "metadata": { "Title": "Willie", "Collation": "Willie", "Page": "410", "Tune Composer": "White, James Landrum", "Tune Composition Date": "1884", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1849", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There’s not a bright and beaming smile,\nWhich in this world I see,\nBut turns my hear to future joys,\nAnd whispers heav’n to me!\n\nChorus:\n\nHome, sweet home,\nMy beautiful home on high.\n\nThough often here my soul is sad,\nAnd falls the silent tear,\nThere is a world of smiles and love,\nAnd sorrow comes not there.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI never clasp a friendly hand,\nIn greeting or farewell,\nBut tho’ts of my eternal home\nWithin my bosom swell.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere when we meet with holy joy,\nNo thoughts of parting come,\nBut never ending ages still,\nShall find us all at home!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "411": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Finest Flower", "Collation": "Finest Flower, The", "Page": "411", "Tune Composer": "Walker, David", "Tune Composition Date": "1845", "Lyrics": "Swain, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1834", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The finest flow’r that e’er was known,\nOpened on Calvary’s tree,\nWhen Christ the Lord was pierced and torn\nFor love of worthless me.\nIts deepest hue, its richest smell,\nNo mortal sense can bear;\nNor can the tongue of angels tell\nHow bright its colors are.\n\nEarth could not hold so rich a flow’r,\nNor half its beauties show;\nNor could the world and Satan’s pow’r\nConfine it here below.\nOn Canaan’s banks supremely fair,\nThis flow’r of wonder blooms,\nTransplanted to its native air,\nAnd all the shores perfumes.\n\nBut not to Canaan’s shores confined,\nThe seed from which it blow,\nTake root within the human mind,\nAnd scent the church below.\nLove is the sweetest bud that blows,\nIts beauty never dies;\nOn earth among the saints it grows,\nAnd ripens in the skies." }, "412": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Hosanna", "Collation": "New Hosanna", "Page": "412", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dobell’s New Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1806", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Wake, O my soul, and hail the morn,\nFor unto us a Savior’s born;\nSee how the angels wing there way\nTo usher in the glorious day.\n\nChorus:\n\nGlory, glory, let us sing,\nWhile heaven and earth His praises ring,\nHosanna to the Lamb of God.\n\nHark! what sweet music —what a song —\nSounds from the bright celestial throng;\nSweet song, whose melting sounds impart\nJoy to each raptured list’ning heart.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "413": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Loved Ones", "Collation": "Loved Ones, The", "Page": "413", "Tune Composer": "Woodbury, Isaac B.; Pound, E. T. (arranger); Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1847; 1859 (arrangement); 2010 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Courtney, Margaret", "Lyrics Date": "1822-1862", "Meter": "11s,8s Double (11,8,11,8,11,8,11,8)" }, "lyrics": "Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,\nWho loved thee so fondly as he?\nHe caught the first accent that fell from thy tongue,\nAnd joined in thy innocent glee.\nBe kind to thy father, for now he is old,\nHis locks intermingled with gray;\nHis footsteps are feeble, once fearless and bold,\nThy father is passing away.\n\nBe kind to thy mother, for low on her brow\nMay traces of sorrow be seen;\nO well may’st thou comfort and cherish her now,\nFor gentle and kind has she been,\nRemember thy mother, for thee she will pray,\nAs long as God giveth her breath;\nWith actions of kindness then cheer her lone way\nE’en to the dark valley of death." }, "414": { "metadata": { "Title": "Morning Sun", "Collation": "Morning Sun", "Page": "414", "Tune Composer": "Denson, Seaborn McDaniel", "Tune Composition Date": "1911", "Lyrics": "Wolcott’s Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1817", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Youth, like the spring will soon be gone,\nBy fleeting time or conquering death;\nYour morning sun may set at noon,\nAnd leave you ever in the dark.\nYour sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks\nMust wither like the blasted rose;\nThe coffin, earth, and winding sheet\nWill soon your active limbs enclose." }, "416t": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Native Land", "Collation": "My Native Land", "Page": "416t", "Tune Composer": "Helms, R. B.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Smith, Stanley", "Alto Composition Date": "1992", "Lyrics": "Smith, Samuel Francis (D. D.) (1st Verse); Hart, Joseph (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1832 (1st Verse); 1759 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,7,8,7,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Yes, my native land, I love thee,\nAll thy scenes I love them well;\nFriends, connections, happy country,\nCan I bid you all farewell?\nCan I leave you, can I leave you,\nFar in heathen lands to dwell?\n\nCome, ye weary, heavy laden,\nLost and ruined by the fall,\nIf you tarry ’till you’re better,\nYou will never come at all.\nNot the righteous, not the righteous,\nSinners Jesus came to save." }, "416b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vernon", "Collation": "Vernon", "Page": "416b", "Tune Composer": "Chapin, Amzi (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1813", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Come, O Thou traveler unknown,\nWhom still I hold, but cannot see;\nMy company before is gone,\nAnd I am left alone with Thee.\nWith Thee all night I mean to stay,\nAnd wrestle ’till the break of day.\n\nIn vain Thou strugglest to get free,\nI never will unloose my hold;\nArt Thou the Man that died for me?\nThe secret of Thy love unfold.\nWrestling, I will not let Thee go,\n’Till I Thy name, Thy nature know." }, "417": { "metadata": { "Title": "Weeping Pilgrim", "Collation": "Weeping Pilgrim", "Page": "417", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Rees, John Palmer", "Lyrics Date": "1859", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "You may tell them, father,\nWhen you see them,\nI’m a poor mourning pilgrim,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land;\nYou may tell them, mother,\nWhen you see them,\nI’m a poor mourning pilgrim,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land.\n\nChorus:\n\nI weep, and I mourn,\nAnd I move slowly on,\nI’m a poor mourning pilgrim,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land.\n\nYou may tell them, brothers,\nWhen you see them,\nI’m a poor mourning pilgrim,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land;\nYou may tell them, sisters,\nWhen you see them,\nI’m a poor mourning pilgrim,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "418": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rees", "Collation": "Rees", "Page": "418", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a house, not made with hands,\nEternal and on high;\nAnd here my spirit waiting stands\n’Till God shall bid it fly.\n\nChorus:\n\nI long to see my friends again,\nAnd hear them sweetly say,\n‘Come, weary dove, here is thy home,\nThen fold thy wings and stay.’\n\nShortly this prison of my clay\nMust be dissolved and fall;\nThen, O my soul, with joy obey,\nThy heav’nly Father’s call.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "419": { "metadata": { "Title": "Melancholy Day", "Collation": "Melancholy Day", "Page": "419", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Death, ’tis a melancholy day,\nTo those who have no God,\nWhen the poor soul is forced away,\nTo seek her last abode.\nIn vain to heav’n she lifts her eyes,\nFor guilt, a heavy chain,\nStill drags her downward from the skies,\nTo darkness, fire and pain." }, "420": { "metadata": { "Title": "Religion Is Sweet", "Collation": "Religion Is Sweet", "Page": "420", "Tune Composer": "Waldrup, W. R.", "Tune Composition Date": "1850", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Masters, Mary", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "’Tis religion that can give\nSweetest pleasures while we live,\n’Tis religion must supply\nSolid comforts when we die.\n\nAfter death, its joys will be\nLasting as eternity;\nBe the living God my friend,\nThen my bliss shall never end." }, "421": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Morning", "Collation": "Sweet Morning", "Page": "421", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads", "Lyrics Date": "1790", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "The happy day shall soon appear,\nAnd we’ll all shout together in that morning,\nWhen Gabriel’s trumpet you shall hear,\nAnd we’ll all shout together in that morning.\n\nChorus:\n\nSweet Morning, sweet morning,\nAnd we’ll all shout together in that morning.\n\nBehold the righteous marching home,\nAnd we’ll all shout together in that morning,\nAnd all the angels bid them come,\nAnd we’ll all shout together in that morning.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "422t": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Song of Texas", "Collation": "Song of Texas, A", "Page": "422t", "Tune Composer": "Palmer, S. W.; Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "11s,8s (11,8,11,8)" }, "lyrics": "Away here in Texas, the bright, Sunny South,\nThe cold storms of winter defy;\nThe dark, lurid clouds that envelop the North,\nScarce darken our beautiful sky.\n\nAway here in Texas, the sun shines so bright,\nThe stars in their beauty appear;\nThe full moon in splendor illumines the night,\nAnd the seasons roll round through the year." }, "422b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Grieved Soul", "Collation": "Grieved Soul, The", "Page": "422b", "Tune Composer": "Hendon, M. A. (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Sellers, Julia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hart, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "Come my soul, and let us try\nFor a little season,\nEv’ry burden to lay by,\nCome and let us reason.\nWhat is this that casts thee down?\nWho are those that grieve thee?\nSpeak and let the worst be known,\nSpeaking may relieve thee.\n\nLook not on yourself too long,\nLest it sink you lower;\nLook to Jesus, kind as strong,\nMercy joined with power.\nEv’ry work that you must do,\nWill your gracious Savior,\nFor you work, and in you too,\nOf His special favor." }, "423": { "metadata": { "Title": "Grantville", "Collation": "Grantville", "Page": "423", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Should earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts be hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world." }, "424": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Union", "Collation": "Sweet Union", "Page": "424", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1782", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Awake my soul, in joyful lays,\nO glory hallelujah!\nAnd sing thy great Redeemer’s praise;\nDon’t you love God, glory hallelujah!\n\nChorus:\n\nThere’s union in heav’n, and there’s union in my soul;\nO glory hallelujah,\nSweet music in Zion’s beginning to roll,\nDon’t you love God, glory hallelujah" }, "425": { "metadata": { "Title": "Golden Streets", "Collation": "Golden Streets", "Page": "425", "Tune Composer": "Pickard, J. L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Southern Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "I am on my journey home,\n\nChorus:\n\nTo the New Jerusalem." }, "426t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Dumas", "Collation": "Dumas", "Page": "426t", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads", "Lyrics Date": "1790", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When we’ve been there ten thousand years,\nBright shining as the sun,\nWe’ve no less time to sing God’s praise,\nThan when we’d first begun." }, "426b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Time is Rolling On", "Collation": "Time is Rolling On, The", "Alternative Title": "Shiloah", "Page": "426b", "Tune Composer": "Waller, Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Sellers, Julia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hicks, Berryman T.", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The time is swiftly rolling on\nWhen I must faint and die,\nMy body to the dust return,\nAnd there forgotten lie.\n\nLet persecutions rage around,\nAnd Antichrist appear,\nMy silent dust beneath the ground,\nThere’s no disturbance there." }, "427": { "metadata": { "Title": "Babylon is Fallen", "Collation": "Babylon is Fallen", "Page": "427", "Tune Composer": "Shaker tune; Chute, W. E. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "ca. 1820; 1875 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "McNemar, Richard (1st & 2nd Verse); Chute, W. E. (3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1813 (1st & 2nd Verse); 1875 (3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,7,8,7,8,7" }, "lyrics": "Hail! the day so long expected,\nHail! the year of full release;\nZion’s walls are now erected;\nAnd her watchmen publish peace.\nThro’ our Shiloh’s wide dominion,\nHere the trumpet loudly roar\n\nChorus:\n\nBabylon is fallen to rise no more.\n\nAll her merchants stand with wonder,\nWhat is this that comes to pass?\nMurm’ring like the distant thunder,\nCrying, ‘O, alas! alas!’\nSwell the sound, ye kings and nobles,\nPriest and people, rich and poor\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBlow the trumpet in Mount Zion!\nChrist shall come the second time;\nRuling with a rod of iron,\nAll who now as foes combine.\nBabel’s garments we’ve rejected,\nAnd our fellowship is o’er\n\n(Chorus)" }, "428": { "metadata": { "Title": "World Unknown", "Collation": "World Unknown", "Page": "428", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1763", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "And am I born to die?\nTo lay this body down?\nAnd must my trembling spirit fly,\nInto a world unknown?" }, "429": { "metadata": { "Title": "Christian’s Delight", "Collation": "Christian’s Delight", "Page": "429", "Tune Composer": "Williams, William L. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Ecking, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1778", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Peace, troubled soul, thou need not fear,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end;\nThy great Provider still is near,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end,\n\nChorus:\n\nAnd He has been with us,\nAnd He yet is with us,\nAnd He’s promised to be with us to the end.\n\nThe Lord, who built the earth and sky,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end;\nIn mercy stoops to hear thy cry,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end,\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHis promise all may freely claim,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end;\nAsk, and receive in Jesus’ name,\nJesus says He will be with us to the end,\n\n(Chorus)" }, "430": { "metadata": { "Title": "Land of Rest", "Collation": "Land of Rest", "Page": "430", "Tune Composer": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1840-1904", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest, for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moment come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell at peace at home.\n\nChorus:\n\nO Heaven! sweet Heaven!\nHome of the blest!\nHow I long to be there,\nIn its glories to share,\nAnd to lean on my Savior’s breast.\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful shelt’ring dome;\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not my home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nTo Jesus Christ, I sought for rest,\nHe bid me cease to roam,\nAnd fly for refuge to His breast,\nAnd He’d conduct me home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "431": { "metadata": { "Title": "New Bethany", "Collation": "New Bethany", "Page": "431", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.; Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 2012 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Auber, Harriet", "Lyrics Date": "1829", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Ere mountains reared their forms sublime,\nOr heav’n and earth in order stood,\nBefore the birth of ancient times,\nFrom everlasting, Thou art God." }, "432": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Heavenly Mansion", "Collation": "Heavenly Mansion, The", "Page": "432", "Tune Composer": "Miller, William (Dr.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1854", "Lyrics": "Hunter, William", "Lyrics Date": "1838", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "My heav’nly home is bright and fair,\nWe’ll be gathered home;\nNor death nor sighing visit there,\nWe’ll be gathered home.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’ll wait ’till Jesus comes,\nAnd we’ll be gathered home.\n\nIts glitt’ring tow’rs the sun outshines,\nWe’ll be gathered home;\nThat heav’nly mansion shall be mine,\nWe’ll be gathered home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy Father’s home is built on high,\nWe’ll be gathered home;\nAbove the arched and starry sky\nWe’ll be gathered home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "433": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rejoice", "Collation": "Rejoice", "Page": "433", "Tune Composer": "Stevens, D. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes,\nAnd send your fears away;\nNews from the regions of the skies,\nA Savior’s born today.\nJesus, the God, whom angels fear,\nComes down to dwell with you,\nToday, He makes his entrance here,\nBut not as monarchs do." }, "434": { "metadata": { "Title": "Thus Will I Sing", "Collation": "Thus Will I Sing", "Alternative Title": "Fillmore", "Page": "434", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Heginbothom, Ottiwell", "Lyrics Date": "1794", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Great God, let all my tuneful pow’rs\nAwake and sing Thy mighty name;\nThy hand revolves my circling hours,\nThy hand from whence my being came.\nThus I will sing ’till nature cease,\n’Till sense and language are no more,\nAnd after death Thy boundless grace\nThro’ everlasting years adore." }, "435": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sacred Rest", "Collation": "Sacred Rest", "Page": "435", "Tune Composer": "Jones, W. D.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet is the day of sacred rest,\nNo mortal care shall fill my breast;\nO may my heart in tune be found\nLike David’s harp of solemn sound." }, "436t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Humble Penitent", "Collation": "Humble Penitent", "Page": "436t", "Tune Composer": "Walker, William; Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1835; 1869 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Elliott, Charlotte", "Lyrics Date": "1835", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Just as I am without one plea,\nO pity me, my Saviour,\nLove that the blood was shed for me,\nO pity me, my Saviour;\n\nChorus:\n\nIs there any mercy here,\nO pity me, O Lord,\nAnd I’ll sing halle, hallelujah." }, "436b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Infant Request", "Collation": "Infant Request, The", "Page": "436b", "Tune Composer": "Webb, W. T.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "For just before the fatal hour,\nIn which cold death did nip the flower,\nHe begged me —and it makes me weep —\nTo sing my little one to sleep.\n\nThe flower budded, hope was strong,\nBut hope could not its life prolong;\nFor soon, too soon, alas! I’m made\nTo see it blossom but to fade." }, "437": { "metadata": { "Title": "Ester", "Collation": "Ester", "Page": "437", "Tune Composer": "Terry, John S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Religious Telescope, The", "Lyrics Date": "1842", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Young ladies, all, attention give,\nYou that in wicked pleasures live;\nOne of your sex the other day,\nWas called by death’s cold hand away.\n\nThis lesson she has left for you,\nTo teach the careless what to do;\nTo seek Jehovah while you live,\nAnd everlasting honors give.\n\nHer honored mother she addressed,\nWhile tears were streaming down her breast;\nShe grasped her tender hands and said:\n‘Remember me when I am dead.’\n\nShe called her father to her bed,\nAnd thus, in dying anguish said:\n‘My days on earth are at an end,\nMy soul is summoned to attend.’\n\n‘Before Jehovah’s awful bar,\nTo hear my awful sentence there;\nAnd now, dear father, do repent,\nAnd read the holy Testament.’" }, "438t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Missouri", "Collation": "Missouri", "Page": "438t", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King", "Lyrics Date": "1837", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O land of rest, for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moment come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell at peace at home.\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful shelt’ring dome;\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not my home." }, "438b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jewett", "Collation": "Jewett", "Page": "438b", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,\nThat saved a wretch like me!\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\nChorus:\n\nShout, shout for glory,\nShout, shout aloud for glory,\nBrother, sister, mourner,\nAll shout glory hallelujah!" }, "439": { "metadata": { "Title": "Adoration", "Collation": "Adoration", "Page": "439", "Tune Composer": "Parks, W. W.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Steele, Anne", "Lyrics Date": "1760", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, when my raptured tho’t surveys\nCreation’s beauties o’er,\nAll nature joins to teach Thy praise,\nAnd bid my soul adore." }, "440t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Shady Grove", "Collation": "Shady Grove", "Page": "440t", "Tune Composer": "Arnold, J. D.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O how stupendous was the pow’r\nThat raised me with a word;\nAnd ev’ry day and ev’ry hour\nI lean up on the Lord." }, "440b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sharpsburg", "Collation": "Sharpsburg", "Page": "440b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer; Shell, J. A. Z.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Atkinson, Clara (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Blest Jesus, while in mortal flesh\nI hold my frail abode,\nStill would my spirit rest on Thee,\nMy Saviour and my God.\n\nOn Thy dear cross I fix my eyes,\nThen raise them to Thy seat,\nTill love dissolves my inmost soul\nAt my Redeemer’s feet.\n\nBe dead, my heart, to worldly charms,\nBe dead to ev’ry sin,\nAnd tell the boldest foe without\nThat Jesus reigns within." }, "441": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Saint’s Delight", "Collation": "Saint’s Delight, The", "Page": "441", "Tune Composer": "Price, F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1835", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When I can read my title clear\nTo mansions in the skies,\nI’ll bid farewell to ev’ry fear,\nAnd wipe my weeping eyes.\n\nChorus:\n\nI feel like\nI’m on my journey home.\n\nShould earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts be hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nLet cares like a wild deluge come,\nLet storms of sorrow fall,\nSo I but safely reach my home,\nMy God, my heaven, my all.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere I shall bathe my weary soul\nIn seas of heavenly rest,\nAnd not a wave of trouble roll\nAcross my peaceful breast.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "442t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Blooming Youth", "Collation": "Blooming Youth", "Page": "442t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, Henry Goodwin", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Gibbons, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1769", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "In the bright season of thy youth,\nIn nature’s smiling bloom,\nEre age arrives and trembling waits,\nIt summons to the tomb.\n\nRemember thy Creator, God;\nFor him thy pow’rs employ,\nMake him thy fear, thy love, thy hope,\nThy portion and thy joy." }, "442b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pickard’s Hymn", "Collation": "Pickard’s Hymn", "Page": "442b", "Tune Composer": "Waller, Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "In vain my fancy tries to paint\nThe moment after death;\nThe glories that surround the saints\nWhen yielding up their breath.\nOne gentle sigh their fetter breaks,\nWe scarce can say their gone,\nBefore the willing spirit takes\nHer mansion near the throne." }, "443": { "metadata": { "Title": "Beatrice", "Collation": "Beatrice", "Page": "443", "Tune Composer": "Hill, I. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1721", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O that I knew the secret place\nWhere I might find my God!\nI’d spread my wants before His face,\nAnd pour my woes abroad.\n\nI’d tell Him how my sins arise,\nWhat sorrows I sustain;\nHow grace decays and comfort dies,\nAnd leaves my heart in pain.\n\nArise, my soul, from deep distress,\nAnd banish ev’ry fear,\nHe calls thee to His throne of grace,\nTo spread thy sorrows there." }, "444t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Gospel Pool", "Collation": "Gospel Pool, The", "Page": "444t", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Beside the gospel pool,\nAppointed for the poor,\nFrom time to time my helpless soul\nHas waited for a cure.\n\nO would the Lord appear,\nMy malady to heal!\nHe knows how long I’ve languished here,\nAnd what distress I feel.\n\nHere then from day to day,\nI’ll wait and hope and try;\nCan Jesus hear a sinner pray,\nYet Suffer him to die?\n\nNo, He is full of grace,\nHe never will permit,\nA soul that fain would see His face,\nTo perish at His feet." }, "444b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Teacher’s Farewell", "Collation": "Teacher’s Farewell, The", "Page": "444b", "Tune Composer": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1858", "Alto Composer": "McCoy, Lina (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Dumas, Edmund (Eld.)", "Lyrics Date": "1858", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Our school now closes out,\nAnd we today must part;\nHow sad the thought to part with you,\nI hope we’ll meet again.\n\nChorus:\n\nO let us meet in heav’n,\nThe Christian’s happy home,\nThe house above, where all is love,\nThere’ll be no parting there.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nYou’ve been so kind to me,\nHow can I bear the thought\nTo part with you, It grieves my heart,\nPerhaps to meet no more.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWherever you may go,\nDear students, think of me,\nO pray for me where’er you go,\nThat we may meet in heav’n.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "445t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hill of Zion", "Collation": "Hill of Zion", "Page": "445t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, B. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The hill of Zion yields\nA thousand sacred sweets,\nBefore we reach the heav’nly field,\nOr walk the golden streets,\nGlory, glory hallelujah! Amen." }, "445b": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Last Moments", "Collation": "My Last Moments", "Page": "445b", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1840", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When the last moments come,\nO watch my dying face,\nAnd catch the bright, seraphic gleam,\nWhich o’er each feature plays." }, "446t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sharon’s Lovely Rose", "Collation": "Sharon’s Lovely Rose", "Page": "446t", "Tune Composer": "Mann, Henry Goodwin", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Dobell, John", "Lyrics Date": "1810", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "In Sharon’s lovely rose\nImmortal beauties shine;\nIts sweet, refreshing fragrance shows\nIts origin divine.\n\nHow blooming and how fair!\nO may my happy breast\nThis lovely rose forever wear,\nAnd be supremely blest." }, "446b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Charming Sound", "Collation": "Charming Sound", "Page": "446b", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1858", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Grace! ’tis a charming sound,\nHarmonious to the ear;\nHeav’n with the echo shall resound,\nAnd all the earth shall hear,\nGlory hallelujah!" }, "447t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Boylston", "Collation": "Boylston", "Page": "447t", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1832", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My God, my Life, my Love,\nTo Thee, to Thee I call;\nI cannot live if Thou remove,\nFor Thou art all in all.\n\nThy shining grace can cheer\nThis dungeon where I dwell;\n’Tis paradise when Thou art here,\nIf Thou depart, ’tis hell.\n\nThe smilings of Thy face,\nHow amiable they are!\n’Tis heav’n to rest in Thine embrace,\nAnd nowhere else but there.\n\nTo Thee, and Thee alone,\nThe angels owe their bliss;\nThey sit around Thy gracious throne,\nAnd dwell where Jesus is." }, "447b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Laban", "Collation": "Laban", "Page": "447b", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1831", "Lyrics": "Heath, George", "Lyrics Date": "1781", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My soul, be on thy guard;\nTen thousand foes arise;\nThe hosts of sin are pressing hard\nTo draw thee from the skies.\n\nO watch, and fight, and pray;\nThe battle ne’er give o’er,\nRenew the conflict ev’ry day;\nAnd help divine implore.\n\nNe’er think the vict’ry won,\nNor lay Thine armor down;\nThe work of faith will not be done\n’Till thou obtain the crown." }, "448": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Love Thy Kingdon", "Collation": "I Love Thy Kingdon", "Page": "448", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Dwight, Timothy", "Lyrics Date": "1808", "Meter": "Short Meter Double (6,6,8,6,6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I love Thy kingdom, Lord,\nThe house of Thine abode,\nThe church our blest Redeemer saved\nWith His own precious blood.\nI love thy church, O God!\nHer walls before Thee stand,\nDear as the apple of Thine eye,\nAnd graven on Thy hand.\n\nFor her my tears shall fall,\nFor her my pray’rs ascend;\nTo her my toils and cares be giv’n,\n’Till toils and cares shall end.\nBeyond my highest joy\nI prize her heav’nly ways,\nHer sweet communion, solemn vows,\nHer hymns of love and praise.\n\nJesus, Thou Friend Divine,\nOur Savior and our King,\nThy hand from ev’ry snare and foe\nShall great deliv’rance bring.\nSure as thy truth shall last,\nTo Zion shall be giv’n\nThe brightest glories earth can yield,\nAnd brighter bliss of heav’n." }, "449": { "metadata": { "Title": "Beautiful River", "Collation": "Beautiful River", "Page": "449", "Tune Composer": "Lowry, Robert (Rev.); Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1864; 1902 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Lowry, Robert (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1864", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Shall we gather at the river,\nWhere bright angel feet have trod,\nWith its crystal waters ever\nFlowing from the throne of God?\n\nChorus:\n\nYes, we will gather at the river,\nThe beautiful, the beautiful river,\nGather with the saints, at the river,\nThat flows from the throne of God.\n\nEre we reach the shining river,\nLay we ev’ry burden down;\nGrace our spirits will deliver,\nAnd provide a robe and crown.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nOn the margin of the river,\nWashing up its silver spray,\nWe will walk and worship ever,\nAll the happy, golden day.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSoon we’ll reach the shining river,\nThen our pilgrimage will cease,\nThen our happy hearts will quiver\nWith the melody of peace.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "450": { "metadata": { "Title": "Leaning on Jesus’ Breast", "Collation": "Leaning on Jesus’ Breast", "Page": "450", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Maud Lee", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O that my Lord would come and meet,\nMy soul would stretch her wings in haste,\nFly fearless thro’ death’s iron gate,\nNor feel the terrors as she passed.\nJesus can make a dying bed\nFeel soft as downy pillows are,\nWhile on His breast I lean my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there." }, "451": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rock of Ages", "Collation": "Rock of Ages", "Alternative Title": "Toplady", "Page": "451", "Tune Composer": "Hastings, Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "1830", "Lyrics": "Toplady, Augustus Montague (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1776", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Rock of Ages, cleft for me,\nLet me hide myself in Thee.\nLet the water and the blood,\nFrom Thy riven side which flowed,\nBe of sin the double cure,\nSave me from its guilt and pow’r.\n\nWhile I draw this fleeting breath,\nWhen mine eyes shall close in death,\nWhen I soar to worlds unknown,\nSee Thee on Thy judgment throne,\nRock of Ages, cleft for me,\nLet me hide myself in Thee." }, "452": { "metadata": { "Title": "Elder", "Collation": "Elder", "Page": "452", "Tune Composer": "Wynne, M. Mark", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "American Sunday School Psalmody", "Lyrics Date": "1832", "Meter": "7s Double (7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Gently glides the stream of life\nOft along the flow’ry vale,\nOr impetuous down the cliff,\nRushing, roars, when storms assail.\nLife’s an ever varied flood,\nAlways rolling toward its sea;\nSlow, or quick, or mild or rude,\nTending to eternity." }, "453t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Clark", "Collation": "Clark", "Page": "453t", "Tune Composer": "Smith, Stanley (arranger); Cagle, Kim; Cagle, Hazel", "Tune Composition Date": "1987", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1775", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I know that my Redeemer lives;\nWhat comfort this sweet sentence gives;\nHe lives, He lives, who once was dead,\nHe lives, my everlasting Head.\n\nHe lives to give me full supply;\nHe lives to bless me with his eyes,\nHe lives to comfort me when faint,\nHe lives to hear my soul’s complaint.\n\nHe lives, all glory to his name!\nHe lives, my Jesus, still the same,\nO the sweet joy this sentence gives,\n‘I know that my Redeemer lives.’" }, "453b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Highlands of Heaven", "Collation": "Highlands of Heaven", "Page": "453b", "Tune Composer": "Arnold, J. D. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Second Advent Hymn Book", "Lyrics Date": "1850", "Meter": "6s,7s Double (6,7,6,7,6,7,6,7)" }, "lyrics": "Sinner go, will you go,\nTo the highlands of heaven,\nWhere the storms never blow,\nAnd the long summer’s given?\nWhere the bright blooming flowers\nAre their odors emitting,\nAnd the leaves on the bow’rs\nOn the breezes are flitting.\n\nWhere the saints robed in white,\nCleansed in life’s flowing fountain,\nShining, beauteous, and bright,\nShall inhabit the mountain.\nWhere no sin, nor dismay,\nNeither trouble, nor sorrow,\nWill be felt for today,\nNor be feared for the morrow." }, "454": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Blessed Lamb", "Collation": "Blessed Lamb, The", "Page": "454", "Tune Composer": "Sacred Harp, The; Pope, Mattie (Miss) (arranger); Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 1907 (arrangement); 2011 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1827", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "See the happy spirits waiting\nOn the banks beyond the stream;\nSweet responses, still repeating,\nJesus, Jesus is their theme.\nSee! They whisper; Hark! They call me,\nSister spirit, come away;\nLo! I come, earth can’t contain me;\nHail, ye realms of endless day!\n\nChorus:\n\nHail, hail, hail, hail, hail, the blessed Lamb,\nGlory, glory, glory to His name." }, "455t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Vesper", "Collation": "Vesper", "Page": "455t", "Tune Composer": "Letson, C. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Duncan, Mary Lundie", "Lyrics Date": "1839", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Savior, tender Shepherd, hear me,\nBless thy little lamb tonight;\nThrough the darkness be Thou near me,\nWatch me ’till the morning light.\n\nAll this day Thy hand has led me,\nAnd I thank Thee for Thy care:\nKindly Thou hast clothed me, fed me’\nListen to my ev’ning pray’r." }, "455b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Still Better", "Collation": "Still Better", "Page": "455b", "Tune Composer": "Mayfield, Israel (arranger); Meggs, J. L. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Teach me how to do my duty\nIn the service of my Lord,\nThen when time with me is over,\nI’ll receive the great reward,\nAnd with Jesus, Christ, my Saviour,\nI shall live in endless day,\nWhen my sorrows and my toiling\nShall be banished far away." }, "456": { "metadata": { "Title": "Almighty Father", "Collation": "Almighty Father", "Page": "456", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger); Willard, Karen (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 2012 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Hymns for Sunday Schools", "Lyrics Date": "1842", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Up to Thee, Almighty Father,\nAncient of eternal days;\nThroned in uncreated glory,\nHear us while our songs we raise.\nPraise for Thy unceasing bounty,\nPoured with an indulgent hand,\nPraise for blessings still increasing,\nCrowning freedom’s favored land.\n\nWhile a nation’s heart is leaping,\nMighty in its gushing joy,\nMay the song of adoration\nAll its grateful pow’rs employ.\nThine, O Lord, shall be the Kingdom,\nThine the pow’r and glory be;\nThine through endless ages rolling,\nThine throughout eternity." }, "457": { "metadata": { "Title": "Zion’s Ship", "Collation": "Zion’s Ship", "Page": "457", "Tune Composer": "Arnold, J. D.; White, C. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing thy grace;\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nZion’s ship is on the ocean,\nBound for Canaan’s happy shore.\n\nO to grace how great a debtor\nDaily I’m constrained to be!\nLet Thy goodness, like a fetter,\nBind my wand’ring heart to Thee.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "458": { "metadata": { "Title": "Friendship", "Collation": "Friendship", "Page": "458", "Tune Composer": "Williams, E. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "‘Mercy, O Thou son of David,’\nThus poor blind Bartimeus prayed;\n‘Others by Thy grace are saved,\nNow to me afford Thine aid.’\nMany for his crying chide him,\nBut he called the louder still,\n’Till the gracious Savior bid him\n‘Come and ask me what you will.’\n\nOh, methinks I hear him praising,\nPublishing to all around,\n‘Friends, is not my case amazing?\nWhat a Savior I have found!’\n‘Oh that all the blind but knew Him,\nAnd would be advised by me:\nSurely they would hasten to Him,\nHe would cause them all to see.’" }, "459": { "metadata": { "Title": "Tolling Bell", "Collation": "Tolling Bell", "Page": "459", "Tune Composer": "Mann, R. F. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1868", "Alto Composer": "Blackshear, Anna L. (Cooper) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Dana", "Lyrics Date": "1841", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 10,8,10,8,10,10,10,7" }, "lyrics": "Shed not a tear o’er your friend’s early bier,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone;\nSmile when the slow tolling bell you shall hear,\nWhen I am gone, when I am gone.\nWeep not for me when you stand round my grave,\nThink who has died His beloved to save,\nThink of the crown all the ransomed shall wear,\nWhen I am gone, I am gone." }, "460": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Soul Abounds with Joy", "Collation": "My Soul Abounds with Joy", "Page": "460", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1929", "Lyrics": "Beck, George L.", "Lyrics Date": "1929", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While trav’ling thro’ this world below\nWhere sore affliction come\nMy soul abounds with joy to know\nThat I will rest at home.\nYes, when my eyes are closed in death,\nMy body cease to roam,\nI’ll bid farewell to all below,\nAnd meet my friends at home." }, "461": { "metadata": { "Title": "Let Us Sing", "Collation": "Let Us Sing", "Page": "461", "Tune Composer": "Moore, W. F. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1867", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Moore, W. F. (1st Verse); Masters, Mary", "Lyrics Date": "1867 (1st Verse); 1755", "Meter": "7s Half (7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Shall we ever meet again at the house,\nThen to make the chorus ring at the house of God?\n\nChorus:\n\nLet us sing, sweetly sing,\nAt the house then we’ll sing,\nSweetly sing at the house of God.\n\nBe the living God our Friend at the house,\nThen our bliss shall never end at the house of God.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "462": { "metadata": { "Title": "Fatherland", "Collation": "Fatherland", "Page": "462", "Tune Composer": "Wakefield, Samuel; Jones (Miss) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1843; 1869 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Hunter, William", "Lyrics Date": "1843", "Meter": "9s,8s Double (9,8,9,8,9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "There is a place where my hopes are stayed,\nMy heart and my treasures are there;\nWhere virtue and blessings never fade,\nAnd fields are eternally fair.\nThat blissful place is my fatherland,\nBy faith its delights I explore,\nCome, favor my flight, angelic band,\nAnd waft me in peace to the shore." }, "463": { "metadata": { "Title": "Angel Band", "Collation": "Angel Band", "Alternative Title": "Land of Beulah", "Page": "463", "Tune Composer": "Bradbury, William Batchelder", "Tune Composition Date": "1862", "Lyrics": "Haskell, Jefferson (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1860", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My latest sun is sinking fast,\nMy race is nearly run;\nMy strongest trials now are past,\nMy triumph is begun.\n\nChorus:\n\nO come, angel band,\nCome and around me stand;\nO bear me away on your snowy wings,\nTo my immortal home.\n\nI know I’m near the holy ranks\nOf friends and kindred dear,\nI brush the dew on Jordan’s bank,\nThe crossing must be near.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI’ve almost gained my heav’nly home;\nMy spirit loudly sings,\nThe holy ones behold they come!\nI hear the noise of wings.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "464": { "metadata": { "Title": "Hocutt", "Collation": "Hocutt", "Page": "464", "Tune Composer": "Hocutt, John", "Tune Composition Date": "1997", "Lyrics": "Keeton, Margaret", "Lyrics Date": "1997", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When Christ the Lord was crucified,\nHe paid death’s penalty.\nHis rising from the grave revealed\nHis death’s sufficiency.\n\nChorus:\n\nDear Jesus take my heart and soul,\nAnd mold me this I pray,\nThat I thro’ Your free grace may grow\nMore like You day by day.\n\nForever gone the sins He bore,\nHis work is so complete\nThat He’ll remember them no more;\nThey’re on the mercy seat.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "465": { "metadata": { "Title": "Trusting", "Collation": "Trusting", "Page": "465", "Tune Composer": "Davis, Mary E.", "Lyrics": "Davis, Mary E.", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Eer since I knew His wond’rous love,\nI’m trusting on the Lord;\nHe’s promised me a home above,\nI’m trusting in His word." }, "466": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Flight", "Collation": "Christian’s Flight, The", "Page": "466", "Tune Composer": "Moore, W. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1866", "Lyrics": "Doddridge, Philip", "Lyrics Date": "1755", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,5,6,8,6,8,6" }, "lyrics": "Not many years their rounds shall roll;\nEach moment brings it nigh,\nWhen the Christian’s soul\nTo heav’n above shall fly.\nYe wheels of nature speed your course,\nYe mortal powers decay,\nFast as ye bring the night of death\nYe bring eternal day." }, "467": { "metadata": { "Title": "Pray, Brethren, Pray", "Collation": "Pray, Brethren, Pray", "Page": "467", "Tune Composer": "Minstrel of Zion, The", "Tune Composition Date": "1845", "Treble Composer": "Wood, U. G.", "Treble Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Lyrics": "Hunter, William", "Lyrics Date": "1855", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 4,7,4,6" }, "lyrics": "Pray, brethren, pray,\nThe pray’r of faith availeth;\nPray, brethren, pray,\nOn God your spirit stay.\n\nChorus:\n\nA few more days of sorrow\nAnd the Lord will call us home,\nTo walk the golden streets\nOf the new Jerusalem.\n\nSing, brethren, sing,\nRejoice with joy and gladness;\nSing, brethren, sing,\nYour songs of triumph bring.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nRise, brethren, rise,\nYour souls by faith ascending;\nRise, brethren, rise,\nYour home is in the skies.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "468": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Thought", "Collation": "Sweet Thought", "Page": "468", "Tune Composer": "Vaughn, Robert Lee (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1982", "Lyrics": "Vaughn, Robert Lee (Eld.)", "Lyrics Date": "1982", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,8,8,6" }, "lyrics": "How sweet to think He died for me\nUpon the cruel tree;\nIt brings me pain and agony,\nBut, yet it brings me ecstasy.\nJust think He died for me.\n\nA wretched sinner vile am I\nFor whom the Lord did die.\nHe sent His own begotten Son,\nRedemption paid for everyone.\nJust think He died for you." }, "469": { "metadata": { "Title": "Winning Souls", "Collation": "Winning Souls", "Page": "469", "Tune Composer": "Stevens, D. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Purify’s Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1823", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "See how the wicked kingdom\nIs falling every day,\nAnd still our blessed Jesus\nIs winning souls away;\nBut O how I am tempted,\nNo mortal tongue can tell,\nSo often I’m surrounded\nWith enemies from hell.\n\nWith weeping and with praying,\nMy Jesus I have found,\nTo crucify old nature,\nAnd make His grace abound.\nDear children, don’t be weary,\nBut march on in the way;\nFor Jesus will stand by you\nAnd be your guard and stay." }, "470": { "metadata": { "Title": "There We Our Jesus Shall Adore", "Collation": "There We Our Jesus Shall Adore", "Alternative Title": "Sardis", "Page": "470", "Tune Composer": "Lancaster, Sarah (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Charles’ Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1803", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,8,4" }, "lyrics": "Come on, my fellow pilgrims, come,\nAnd let us all be hast’ning home.\nWe soon shall land on yon blest shore\nWhere pains and sorrows are no more,\nThere we our Jesus shall adore,\nForever blest." }, "471": { "metadata": { "Title": "Come On, My Fellow Pilgrims", "Collation": "Come On, My Fellow Pilgrims", "Page": "471", "Tune Composer": "Medley, P. T.", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Alto Composer": "Scarbrough, Minnie Lee (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Charles’ Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1803", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,8,8,8,4" }, "lyrics": "Come on, my fellow pilgrims, come,\nAnd let us all be hast’ning home.\nWe soon shall land on yon blest shore\nWhere pains and sorrows are no more,\nThere we our Jesus shall adore,\nForever blest." }, "472": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Sinner’s Friend", "Collation": "Sinner’s Friend, The", "Page": "472", "Tune Composer": "Rees, John Palmer", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "He dies! the friend of sinners dies;\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners;\nLo! Salem’s daughters weep around;\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners.\n\nChorus:\n\nI love my Lord, for He first loved me,\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners.\n\nCome, saints, and drop a tear or two,\nFor He died on the cross for sinners;\nFor him who groaned beneath your load!\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHe shed a thousand drops for you,\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners;\nA thousand drops of richer blood!\nAnd He died on the cross for sinners.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "473": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Rose", "Collation": "Jesus Rose", "Page": "473", "Tune Composer": "Rees, Henry Smith (Rev.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Sacred Harp, The", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "Go and tell his disciples,\nHe has risen from the dead.\nJesus rose, brethren,\nHe has risen from the dead,\nThro’ the earth and thro’ the sky." }, "474": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rest for the Weary", "Collation": "Rest for the Weary", "Page": "474", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Robinson, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1758", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise;\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,\nSung by flaming tongues above;\nPraise the mount ’ I’m fixed upon it!\nMount of Thy redeeming love.\n\nChorus:\n\nThere is rest for the weary,\nThere is rest for you.\n\nHere I’ll raise my Ebenezer;\nHither by Thy help I’m come;\nAnd I hope by Thy good pleasure.\nSafely to arrive at home.\nJesus sought me when a stranger,\nWand’ring from the fold of God;\nHe, to rescue me from danger,\nInterposed his precious blood." }, "475": { "metadata": { "Title": "Lover of the Lord", "Collation": "Lover of the Lord", "Page": "475", "Tune Composer": "Reeves, Robert H. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1749", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Lovers of pleasure more than God,\nFor you He suffered pain;\nFor you the Saviour spilt His blood,\nAnd shall He bleed in vain?\n\nChorus:\n\nO you must be a lover of the Lord,\nOr you can’t go to heaven when you die.\n\nThe God of love to earth He came,\nThat you might come to heav’n,\nBelieve, believe in Jesus’ name,\nAnd all your sins forgiv’n.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "476": { "metadata": { "Title": "At the Golden Gates", "Collation": "At the Golden Gates", "Page": "476", "Tune Composer": "Taylor, C. E.", "Tune Composition Date": "1949", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "At the golden gates of glory,\nClad in garments pure and white,\nSee our loved and lost stand waiting,\nTo receive us into light.\n\nChorus:\n\nThey are waiting for you and me,\nYes, they are waiting for you and me.\n\nThere they tell the old, old story,\nOf the dying Savior’s love,\nHow He went up to Mount Calv’ry,\nHow for us His life He gave.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nNow so peacefully they are resting,\nOn their loving Savior’s breast,\nFor in Jesus’ blood they trusted,\nWhile they lived upon the earth.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "477": { "metadata": { "Title": "Let the Saints Appear", "Collation": "Let the Saints Appear", "Page": "477", "Tune Composer": "Thompson, William R. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1949", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (1st Verse & Chorus)", "Lyrics Date": "1719 (1st Verse & Chorus)", "Meter": "Common Meter Half (8.6)" }, "lyrics": "With rev’rence let the saints appear,\nAnd bow before the Lord.\n\nChorus:\n\nHis high command with rev’rence hear,\nAnd tremble at His Word.\nAnd tremble at His feet because\nThe message we have heard.\n\nLet angels bow before the Lord,\nAnd praise His holy name.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "478": { "metadata": { "Title": "March On", "Collation": "March On", "Page": "478", "Tune Composer": "Thompson, William R.", "Tune Composition Date": "1949", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye,\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nMarch on, march on,\nWe are bound for the promised land.\n\nO, the transporting rapt’rous scene\nThat rises to my sight,\nSweet fields arrayed in living green,\nAnd rivers of delight.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere, on those high and flow’ry plains,\nOur spirits ne’er shall tire,\nBut in perpetual, joyful strains,\nRedeeming love admire.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "479": { "metadata": { "Title": "Behold A Sinner", "Collation": "Behold A Sinner", "Page": "479", "Tune Composer": "Bartlett, W. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1941", "Alto Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Alto Composition Date": "1941", "Lyrics": "Dobell’s New Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1810", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Behold a sinner dearest Lord,\nEncouraged by Thy gracious Word.\nWould venture near to seek that Bread,\nBy which Thy children here are fed.\n\nChorus:\n\nTravel on, travel on, to the home of the blest,\nWhere the Savior has gone to prepare us a place,\nThere to rest, then we’ll meet round the throne,\nWhere the saints have a home with the Lord.\n\nDo not the humble suit deny,\nOf such a guilty wretch as I.\nBut let me feed on crumbs tho’ small,\nWhich from Thy bounteous table fall.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI am a sinner, Lord I own,\nMy sin and guilt I am undone.\nYet will I wait and plead and pray,\nSince none are empty sent away.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nFarewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nIt won’t be long I’ll travel on,\nI hope to meet the saints above,\nAnd shout and sing redeeming love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "480": { "metadata": { "Title": "Leaning on Jesus’ Breast No. 2", "Collation": "Leaning on Jesus’ Breast No. 2", "Page": "480", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1950", "Treble Composer": "Beck, G. L. (Mrs.)", "Treble Composition Date": "1950", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Oh if my Lord would come and meet,\nMy soul would stretch her wings in haste,\nFly fearless thro’ death’s iron gates,\nNor feel the terrors as she passed.\nJesus can make a dying bed\nFeel soft as downy pillows are,\nWhile on His breast I lean my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there." }, "482": { "metadata": { "Title": "Amazing Love", "Collation": "Amazing Love", "Page": "482", "Tune Composer": "Sanders, Thomas Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1950", "Alto Composer": "Sanders, Euva Priscilla (Renfroe) (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1950", "Lyrics": "Parkinson’s A Selection of Hymns and Sacred Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1809", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "When Jesus for His people died,\nThe holy law was satisfied;\nIts awful penalties He bore;\nIt can command nor curse no more.\n\nChorus:\n\nAmazing love how rich how free’\nThat Christ should die for such as we;\nFrom hence the holiest duties flow,\nOf saints above and saints below.\n\nHe having suffered in their stead,\nThe law in cov’nant form is dead;\nHe rules them with a gentle sway,\nAnd they with sweet delight obey.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "483": { "metadata": { "Title": "Where the Saints Are Passing Over", "Collation": "Where the Saints Are Passing Over", "Page": "483", "Tune Composer": "Doane, William Howard; Andrews, Bertie (Mrs.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1869; 1907 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Kidder, Mary Ann (Mrs.)", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Only just across the river,\nOver on the other side,\nWhere the angels are in waiting,\nAnd the pure in heart abide;\nWhere there is no pain or sorrow\nTo intrude on heav’nly rest,\nOnly just across the river,\nStand the mansions of the blest.\n\nChorus:\n\nOnly just across the river,\nWhere the saints are passing over,\nOnly just across the river,\nOver on the other side.\n\nOnly just across the river,\nAre the friends we loved below,\nClad in pure and spotless garments,\nThat are whiter than the snow;\nThey have brav’d cold Jordan’s billows,\nAnd have pass’d thro’ death’s alarms,\nAnd are safe, forever safe,\nWithin the Savior’s loving arms.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nOnly just across the river,\nWhere the hills of glory shine,\nThere the pearly gates stand open\nWide, that leads to joy divine;\nThere the tree of life is blooming,\nAnd the living waters glide,\nOnly just across the river,\nOver on the other side.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nOnly just across the river,\nAre the robes of spotless white;\nOnly just across the river\nAre the crowns of glory bright;\nAnd the saints and angels joining\nIn the songs of one accord,\nOnly just across the river,\nSing the praises of the Lord.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "484": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Country ’Tis of Thee", "Collation": "My Country ’Tis of Thee", "Alternative Title": "America", "Page": "484", "Lyrics": "Smith, Samuel Francis (D. D.)", "Lyrics Date": "1832", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,6,4,6,6,6,4" }, "lyrics": "My country, ’tis of thee,\nSweet land of liberty,\nOf thee I sing;\nLand where my fathers died,\nLand of the pilgrim’s pride,\nFrom ev’ry mountainside,\nLet freedom ring.\n\nMy native country, thee,\nLand of the noble free,\nThy name I love;\nI love thy rocks and rills,\nThy woods and templed hills,\nMy heart with rapture thrills,\nLike that above.\n\nLet music swell the breeze,\nAnd ring from all the trees,\nSweet freedom’s song;\nLet mortal tongues awake,\nLet all that breathe partake,\nLet rocks their silence break,\nThy sound prolong.\n\nOur fathers’ God, to Thee,\nAuthor of liberty,\nTo Thee we sing;\nLong may our land be bright,\nWith freedom’s holy light,\nProtect us by Thy might,\nGreat God our King." }, "485": { "metadata": { "Title": "Christ Jesus Died for Sinners", "Collation": "Christ Jesus Died for Sinners", "Page": "485", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,8,9,7" }, "lyrics": "There’s a wonderful theme in the gospel tongue,\nAs e’er was heard, as e’er was sung,\nAnd thro’ all the world the message rung,\n‘Christ Jesus died for sinners.’\n\nChorus:\n\nTell the message o’er again,\nJesus died for sinful men;\nSound the word and make it plain,\n‘Christ Jesus died for sinners.’\n\n’Tis a wonderful theme, and I oft have read\nHow Jesus bowed His weary head;\n‘’Tis finished,’ to the world He said,\n‘Christ Jesus died for sinners.’\n\n(Chorus)\n\n’Tis a wonderful theme, that the Lord should give\nHis life that I might life receive;\nAnd now He bids me look and live,\n‘Christ Jesus died for sinners.’\n\n(Chorus)" }, "486": { "metadata": { "Title": "No Night on That Golden Shore", "Collation": "No Night on That Golden Shore", "Page": "486", "Tune Composer": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Tune Composition Date": "1874", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Meter": "8s Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "O when shall we sweetly remove,\nO when shall we enter our rest,\nReturn to the Zion above,\nThe mother of spirits distressed?\nThat City of God, the great King,\nWhere sorrow and death are no more,\nWhere saints our Immanuel sing,\nAnd cherubs and seraphs adore.\n\nChorus:\n\nThere is no night on that golden shore;\nThere we shall suffer and sigh no more;\nThere shall the weary be ever blest,\nSinging glad songs in the land of rest.\n\nBut angels themselves cannot tell\nThe joy of that holiest place,\nWhere Jesus is pleas’d to reveal\nThe light of His heavenly face;\nWhen caught in the rapturous flame,\nThe sight beatific they prove;\nAnd walk in the light of the Lamb,\nEnjoying the beams of His love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "488": { "metadata": { "Title": "Unity", "Collation": "Unity", "Page": "488", "Tune Composer": "Street, Maggie (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1877", "Lyrics": "Hunter, William", "Lyrics Date": "1843", "Meter": "7,7,7,5 Double (7,7,7,5,7,7,7,5)" }, "lyrics": "Firmly, brethren, firmly stand,\nAll united heart and hand,\nOne unbroken valiant band,\nDauntless, brave and true.\nLift your standard, hoist it high,\nRaise the singers’ battle cry;\nChrist, your glorious Leader, nigh,\nCalls to victory.\n\nOnce our fathers ‘freedom’ cried,\n‘Victory or death betide:’\nBut with Jesus on our side,\nDeath and vict’ry, too.\nThere to die, the battle won,\nThere to fall, the warfare done,\nGlory brighter than the sun,\nThen our promised due." }, "489": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cooper", "Collation": "Cooper", "Alternative Title": "Jordan", "Page": "489", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1786", "Treble Composer": "McNath, H. (arranger)", "Treble Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\nSweet fields beyond the swelling flood,\nStand dressed in living green;\nSo to the Jews old Canaan stood,\nWhilst Jordan roll’d between." }, "490": { "metadata": { "Title": "Canaan’s Peaceful Shore", "Collation": "Canaan’s Peaceful Shore", "Page": "490", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Alto Composer": "Givens, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1909", "Meter": "6s (6,6,6,6)" }, "lyrics": "I’m on my journey home,\nTo Canaan’s peaceful shore,\nWhere troubles never come\nAnd partings are no more.\n\nChorus:\n\nO Canaan, sweet Canaan,\nI’m bound for Canaan’s land to dwell.\n\nWhen earthly cares are o’er,\nOn angel’s wings I’ll fly,\nTo Canaan’s happy shore,\nA brighter world on high.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "491": { "metadata": { "Title": "Closer Walk With God", "Collation": "Closer Walk With God", "Page": "491", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Alto Composer": "Wiggins, Claudia (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O for a closer walk with God,\nA calm and heav’nly frame;\nA light to shine upon the road,\nThat leads me to the Lamb.\n\nChorus:\n\nI want my friends to go with me\nTo my eternal home;\nI want my friends to go with me\nTo the New Jerusalem.\n\nWhere is the blessedness I knew,\nWhen first I saw the Lord?\nWhere is the soul’s refreshing view\nOf Jesus and His word.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "492": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Poor, Wayfaring Stranger", "Collation": "Poor, Wayfaring Stranger, The", "Alternative Title": "Wayfaring Stranger", "Page": "492", "Tune Composer": "Keith, Colonel Gipson (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1908", "Lyrics": "Bever’s Christian Songster", "Lyrics Date": "1858", "Meter": "9s,8s Double (9,8,9,8,9,8,9,8)" }, "lyrics": "I am a poor, wayfaring stranger,\nWhile journeying thro’ this world of woe;\nYet there’s no sickness, toil, nor danger\nIn that bright world to which I go.\nI’m going there to see my father,\nI’m going there, no more to roam;\nI’m only going over Jordan,\nI’m only going over home.\n\nI know dark cloud will gather round me,\nI know my way is rough and steep;\nYet beauteous fields lie just before me,\nWhere God’s redeemed vigil keep.\nI’m going there to see my mother,\nShe said she’d meet me when I come;\nI’m only going over Jordan,\nI’m only going over home.\n\nI’ll soon be freed from ev’ry trial,\nMy body’ll sleep in the old churchyard;\nI’ll drop the cross of selfdenial,\nAnd enter on my great reward.\nI’m going there to see my classmates,\nWho’ve gone before me one by one;\nI’m only going over Jordan,\nI’m only going over home.\n\nI want to wear a crown of glory,\nWhen I get home to that good land;\nI want to shout salvation’s story,\nIn concert with the blood-washed band.\nI’m going there to see my Savior,\nTo sing His praise for evermore;\nI’m only going over Jordan,\nI’m only going over home." }, "493": { "metadata": { "Title": "Where Heavenly Joy Imparts", "Collation": "Where Heavenly Joy Imparts", "Page": "493", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C.", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1789", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O what amazing words of grace\nAre in the gospel found;\nSuited to ev’ry sinner’s case\nWho knows the joyful sound.\n\nChorus:\n\nCome, then, with all your wants and wounds,\nYour ev’ry burden bring;\nHere love, unchanging love, abounds,\nA deep celestial spring.\n\nThis spring with living water flows,\nAnd heav’nly joy imparts;\nCome, thirsty souls, your wants disclose,\nAnd drink with thankful hearts.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "494": { "metadata": { "Title": "If Christ Be in My Arms", "Collation": "If Christ Be in My Arms", "Alternative Title": "Grafton", "Page": "494", "Tune Composer": "Stone, Joseph; Livings, J. W. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1793; 1909 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus the vision of Thy face,\nHath overpow’ring charms;\nScarce shall I feel death’s cold embrace\nIf Christ be in my arms.\nThen while you hear my heartstrings break,\nHow sweet the minutes roll,\nA mortal paleness on my cheeks\nAnd glory in my soul." }, "495": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Nearness to God", "Collation": "Nearness to God, A", "Alternative Title": "Eliza", "Page": "495", "Tune Composer": "Hauser, William (Dr.) (arranger); Livings, J. W. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1848; 1909 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Cleveland, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O could I find from day to day,\nA nearness to my God,\nThen should my hours glide sweet away,\nNor sin, nor fear intrude." }, "496t": { "metadata": { "Title": "We Shall Meet Again", "Collation": "We Shall Meet Again", "Page": "496t", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Maud Lee (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1907", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Come, Holy Spirit, now impart,\nJoin ev’ry voice, join ev’ry heart;\nHelp us, O Lord, our voices raise,\nAnd sing the great Redeemer’s praise.\n\nDear brethren, we may meet no more\nThis side the bright, celestial shore;\nBut when relieved from toil and pain,\nDear brethren, we shall meet again." }, "496b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Master’s Call", "Collation": "Master’s Call, The", "Page": "496b", "Tune Composer": "Keith, Colonel Gipson (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "1905", "Lyrics": "Haweis, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "My Master calls, and I must go,\nTo warn poor sinners here below;\nHis cause is great, I can’t forbear,\nTo them His word of truth declare.\n\nThro’ heat and cold I often went\nTo call poor sinners to repent;\nMy wife and children left alone,\nFor them I often weep and mourn.\n\nBut then my Master speaks to cheer,\nAnd says, poor servant, never fear;\nYour loved ones I will always keep,\nAnd where I am there you shall meet.\n\nThis hope inspires my weary soul,\nTis more to me than Ophir’s gold;\nI would not from it e’er depart,\nTo comfort and console my heart.\n\nTis not for money, nor for fame,\nI go to preach in Jesus’ name,\nMy life and all I freely give,\nThat I may with my Master live.\n\nMy Lord did more than this for me\nUpon the cross of Calvary;\nIn sweat and tears was crucified,\nAnd thus for me my Master died." }, "497": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Bitter Cup", "Collation": "Bitter Cup, The", "Page": "497", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Haweis, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1792", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Father, remove this bitter cup,\nIf such Thy sacred will;\nIf not, content to drink it up,\nThy pleasure I fulfill.\nGo to the garden, sinner, see\nThose precious drops that flow,\nThe heavy load He bore for thee,\nFor thee He lies so low." }, "498": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Living Stone", "Collation": "Living Stone, The", "Page": "498", "Tune Composer": "Read, Daniel; Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1782; 1909 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "See what a living stone\nThe builders did refuse,\nYet God hath built His church thereon,\nIn spite of envious Jews.\n\nThis is the glorious day,\nThat our Redeemer made;\nLet us rejoice and sing and pray,\nLet all the church be glad." }, "499": { "metadata": { "Title": "Where Love In Glory Shines", "Collation": "Where Love In Glory Shines", "Page": "499", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1908", "Lyrics": "Beddome, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "God, in the gospel of His Son,\nMakes His eternal counsels known.\nWhere love in all His glory shines,\nAnd truth is drawn in fairest lines.\n\nOh, grant us grace, almighty Lord,\nTo read and mark thy holy word.\nIts truth with meekness to receive,\nAnd by its holy precepts live." }, "500": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet By and By", "Collation": "Sweet By and By", "Page": "500", "Tune Composer": "Webster, Joseph Philbrick; Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1867; 1907 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Bennett, Sanford Fillmore", "Lyrics Date": "1867", "Meter": "9s (9,9,9,9)" }, "lyrics": "There’s a land that is fairer than day,\nAnd by faith we shall see it afar,\nFor the Father waits over the way,\nTo prepare us a dwelling place there.\n\nChorus:\n\nIn the sweet by and by,\nWe shall meet on that beautiful shore.\n\nWe shall sing on that beautiful shore,\nThe melodious songs of the blest,\nAnd our spirits shall sorrow no more,\nNot a sigh for the blessings of rest.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nTo our bountiful Father above,\nWe will offer our tribute of praise,\nFor the glorious gift of His Son,\nAnd the blessings that hallow our days.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "501": { "metadata": { "Title": "That Beautiful Land", "Collation": "That Beautiful Land", "Page": "501", "Tune Composer": "Engle, H. E.", "Tune Composition Date": "1843", "Lyrics": "New Starry Crown", "Lyrics Date": "1877", "Meter": "11s,9s (11,9,11,9)" }, "lyrics": "There’s a beautiful land far beyond the sky,\nAnd Jesus my Savior is there;\nHe has gone to prepare me a home on high,\nO I long, O I long to be there!\n\nChorus:\n\nIn that beautiful land,\nWhere the angels stand,\nWe shall meet in that beautiful land.\n\nI have friends who have gone to that land on high,\nThey are free from all sorrow and care;\nAnd I trust I shall meet them above the sky,\nO I long, O I long to be there!\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWe shall meet in that beautiful land on high,\nAnd be with the bright and the fair,\nWhere the waters of life sweetly murmur by,\nO I long, O I long to be there!\n\n(Chorus)" }, "502": { "metadata": { "Title": "Wilson", "Collation": "Wilson", "Page": "502", "Tune Composer": "Wilson, Vera (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Toplady, Augustus Montague (Rev.) (1st Verse); Bromehead, Joseph (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1759 (1st Verse); 1795 (2nd & 3rd Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How happy are the souls above,\nFrom sin and sorrow free,\nWith Jesus they are now at rest,\nAnd all His glory see.\n\nChorus:\n\nAnd all His glory see,\nWith Jesus they are now at rest,\nAnd all his glory see.\n\nJerusalem! My happy home!\nName ever dear to me,\nWhen shall my labors have an end,\nThy sweet peace shall I see.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nApostles, martyrs, prophets, there,\nAround my Savior stand,\nAnd soon my friends in Christ below,\nJoin the glorious band.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "503": { "metadata": { "Title": "That Beautiful Land On High", "Collation": "That Beautiful Land On High", "Page": "503", "Tune Composer": "Pippin, Eveleta (Miss)", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Nicholson, James", "Lyrics Date": "1870", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,6,5,8" }, "lyrics": "There’s a beautiful land on high,\nTo its glory I fain would fly,\nWhen by sorrow press’d down,\nI long for my crown,\nIn that beautiful land on high.\n\nChorus:\n\nIn that beautiful land I will be...\nFrom earth and its cares set free;\nMy Jesus is there,\nHe has gone to prepare\nA place in that land for me.\n\nThere’s a beautiful land on high,\nI shall enter it by and by,\nThere with friend, hand in hand,\nI shall walk on the strand\nIn that beautiful land on high.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere’s a beautiful land on high,\nWhere they never shall weep or sigh,\nFor my Father has said,\nThat no tears shall be shed\nIn that beautiful land on high.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "504t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Peterborough", "Collation": "Peterborough", "Page": "504t", "Tune Composer": "Harrison, Ralph", "Tune Composition Date": "1786", "Lyrics": "Newton, John", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat,\nWhere Jesus answers prayer;\nThere humbly fall before his feet,\nFor none can perish there.\n\nThy promise is my only plea,\nWith this I venture nigh;\nThou callest burdened souls to thee,\nAnd such, O Lord, am I." }, "504b": { "metadata": { "Title": "North Jersey", "Collation": "North Jersey", "Page": "504b", "Tune Composer": "Ceresa, Aldo Thomas", "Tune Composition Date": "2008", "Lyrics": "Christian’s Magazine, The", "Lyrics Date": "1760", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "See the leaves around ye falling,\nDry and withered to the ground,\nThus to thoughtless mortals calling,\nIn a sad and solemn sound.\nSons of Adam, once in Eden,\nWhen like us he blighted fell;\nHear the lecture we are reading,\n’Tis alas, the truth we tell.\n\nYouth, tho’ yet no losses grieve you,\nGay in health and many a grace,\nLet not cloudless skies deceive you,\nSummer gives to Autumn place.\nOn the tree of life eternal,\nMan, let all thy hopes be stayed;\nWhich alone, forever vernal,\nBears the leaves that never fade." }, "505": { "metadata": { "Title": "Cleansing Fountain", "Collation": "Cleansing Fountain", "Page": "505", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a fountain filled with blood,\nDrawn from Immanuel’s veins;\nAnd sinners plung’d beneath that flood,\nLose all their guilty stains.\n\nThe dying thief rejoiced to see,\nThat fountain in his day;\nO may I there, tho’ vile as he\nWash all my sins away.\n\nThou dying Lamb, Thy precious blood\nShall never lose its pow’r,\n’Till all the ransomed church of God\nAre saved to sin no more.\n\nE’er since by faith I saw the stream\nThy flowing wounds supply,\nRedeeming love has been my theme\nAnd shall be ’till I die\n\nAnd when this feeble, falt’ring tongue\nLies silent in the grave,\nThen in a nobler, sweeter song,\nI’ll sing His pow’r to save." }, "506": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Orphan Girl", "Collation": "Orphan Girl, The", "Page": "506", "Tune Composer": "Keith, Colonel Gipson (Eld.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1906", "Lyrics": "Cornett, Joseph Enoch", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,8,10,7" }, "lyrics": "‘No home, no home,’ plead a little girl,\nAt the door of a princely hall,\nAs she trembling stood on the polished step,\nAnd leaned on the marble wall.\n\n‘My father, alas! I never knew,’\nAnd a tear dim’d her eyes so bright;\n‘My mother sleeps in a new made grave,\n’Tis an orphan begs tonight.’\n\nHer clothes were thin and her feet were bare,\nBut the snow had covered her head;\n‘O! give me a home,’ she feebly said;\n‘A home and a bit of bread.’\n\nThe night was dark and the snow fell fast,\nBut the rich man closed his door,\nAnd his proud face frowned, as he scornfully said:\n‘No room, no bread for the poor.’\n\nThe morning dawned, and the orphan girl\nStill lay at the rich man’s door;\nBut her soul had fled to a home above,\nWhere there’s room and bread for the poor." }, "507t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jackson", "Collation": "Jackson", "Page": "507t", "Tune Composer": "McWhorter, M. F.", "Tune Composition Date": "1908", "Lyrics": "Clay’s Hymns and Spiritual Songs", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I am a stranger here below,\nAnd what I am is hard to know;\nI am so vile, so prone to sin,\nI fear that I’m not born again.\n\nWhen I experience call to mind,\nMy understanding is so blind;\nAll feeling sense seems to be gone,\nWhich makes me think that I am wrong.\n\nI find myself out of the way,\nMy thoughts are often gone astray;\nLike one alone I seem to be,\nO, is there any one like me?\n\nMy nature is so prone to sin,\nWhich makes my doing so unclean;\nThat when I count up all the cost,\nIf not free grace, then I am lost." }, "507b": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Glory of the Cross", "Collation": "Glory of the Cross, The", "Page": "507b", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C.; Adams, Syble (Wootten) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1908; 2010 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I’m not ashamed to own my Lord,\nOr to defend His cause;\nMaintain the honor of His word,\nThe glory of His cross.\n\nJesus, my God, I know His name,\nHis name is all my trust;\nNor will He put my soul to shame,\nNor let my hope be lost.\n\nThere will He own my worthless name,\nBefore His Father’s face,\nAnd in the New Jerusalem,\nAppoint my soul a place." }, "508": { "metadata": { "Title": "Amsterdam", "Collation": "Amsterdam", "Page": "508", "Tune Composer": "Nares, James", "Tune Composition Date": "1742", "Lyrics": "Seagrave, Robert", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,7,7,6" }, "lyrics": "Rise my soul, and stretch thy wings,\nThy better portion trace,\nRise from all terrestrial things,\nT’wards heav’n thy native place:\nSun and moon and stars decay;\nTime shall soon this earth remove:\nRise my soul and haste away,\nTo seats prepared above.\n\nRivers to the ocean run,\nNor stay in all their course,\nFire, ascending, seeks the sun;\nBoth speed them to their source:\nSo a soul that’s born of God,\nPants to view His glorious face,\nUpward tends to His abode,\nTo rest in His embrace.\n\nFly my riches! Fly my cares\nWhile that coast I explore,\nFlatt’ring world with all your snares\nSolicit me no more.\nPilgrims fix not here their home,\nStrangers tarry but a night;\nWhen the last bright morn shall come,\nWe’ll rise to joyful light.\n\nCease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn,\nPress onward to the prize;\nSoon the Savior will return,\nTriumphant thro’ the skies.\nYet a season, and you know,\nHappy entrance will be giv’n;\nAll your sorrows left below,\nAnd earth exchanged for heav’n." }, "509": { "metadata": { "Title": "We Are Going Home", "Collation": "We Are Going Home", "Page": "509", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Maud Lee", "Alto Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Lyrics Date": "1907", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "When I am called by death to go,\nWhere sin can never come,\nFrom this dark world of sin and woe,\nThe Christian’s happy home.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe’re going home to die no more,\nWhere clouds can never come,\nTo meet with loved ones gone before,\nTo that celestial home.\n\nIn that bright land of rest and peace,\nI’ll join the angel band,\nAnd rest and joy shall never cease,\nI’ll sing at God’s right hand.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nO land of light, O land of love,\nTo thee I long to go,\nTo dwell with Jesus there above,\nAnd sing forever more.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere we shall meet to part no more,\nBe free from ev’ry care,\nWe’ll shout and sing around God’s throne,\nWith all our loved ones there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "510": { "metadata": { "Title": "Miller", "Collation": "Miller", "Page": "510", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,9,9,7" }, "lyrics": "Jesus paid the debt on Calvary,\nJesus paid the debt for you and me;\nSavior, in our hearts do Thou abide,\nSavior, fill our hearts with praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nJesus died on Calvary,\nJesus paid the debt for me,\nHe alone can make me free,\nO halle, hallelujah\n\nTeach us how to do Thy holy will,\nOn the cross I see Thy bleeding side,\nHow my heart abounds with joy to know,\nJesus paid the debt for me.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nNow rejoice, go tell the news abroad,\nJesus is the bleeding sacrifice,\nSinner, list, O list, yes, list today,\nSinner, come without delay.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "511t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Brown", "Collation": "Brown", "Page": "511t", "Tune Composer": "Bradbury, William Batchelder", "Lyrics": "Brown, Phoebe (Hinsdale) (Mrs.)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I love to steal a while away\nFrom ev’ry cumb’ring care,\nAnd spend the hours of setting day,\nIn humble, grateful, pray’r.\n\nChorus:\n\nI want to go, I want to go,\nI want to go there, too;\nI want to go where Jesus is,\nI want to go there, too.\n\nI love in solitude to shed\nThe penitential tear,\nAnd all His promises to plead,\nWhere none but God can hear.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI love to think on mercies past,\nAnd future good implore,\nAnd all my cares and sorrows cast,\nOn Him whom I adore.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI love by faith to take a view\nOf brighter scenes in heav’n;\nThe prospect doth my strength renew,\nWhile here by tempest driv’n.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThus, when life’s toil some day is o’er,\nMay its departing ray,\nBe calm as this impressive hour,\nAnd lead to endless day.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "511b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Died for Me", "Collation": "Jesus Died for Me", "Page": "511b", "Tune Composer": "Cofer, Pleasant Asbury", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Cofer, Pleasant Asbury", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "8s,7s Double Iambic (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Whene’er I cross the stream of death,\nI’ll be happy with the blest,\nFor Jesus, Christ, the Son of God,\nCame to earth to die for me.\nI love to tell of that sweet home,\nO glory to the Lamb of God,\nAnd this I know, I’m on my way,\nTo the home prepared for me.\n\nFor some sweet day, some happy day,\nI will join the happy throng,\nFarewell, dear friends, I’m going home,\nFor my Saviour bids me come.\nFor I’m a pilgrim on my way,\nTo that sweet home of endless day,\nO let us sing and praise the Lord,\nFor the gift of His dear Son." }, "512": { "metadata": { "Title": "Oh, How Wonderful!", "Collation": "Oh, How Wonderful!", "Page": "512", "Tune Composer": "Leopard, Herbert; McGraw, Hugh (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1984; 1984 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Leopard, Herbert", "Lyrics Date": "1984", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,8,7" }, "lyrics": "My God is real, oh, yes, He’s real,\nMy friend, oh, can’t you see?\nHe made the heavens and the earth,\nThe little birds and the trees.\n\nChorus:\n\nOh, how wonderful,\nWhat a wonderful day that will be.\n\nHe bled and died upon the cross\nFor sinners like you and me,\nHe raised old Laz’rus from the grave,\nHe set Paul and Silas free.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nHe said one day He would return,\nMy friends, don’t you believe?\nHe’s coming back just like He said,\nA wonderful day that will be.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "513t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Christian’s Desire", "Collation": "Christian’s Desire, The", "Alternative Title": "Avon", "Page": "513t", "Tune Composer": "Wilson, Hugh; Cooper, Wilson Marion (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1825; 1907 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Cowper, William", "Lyrics Date": "1779", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Oh, for a closer walk with God!\nA calm and heav’nly frame!\nA light to shine upon the road\nThat leads me to the Lamb.\n\nChorus:\n\nI do believe with all my heart\nThat Jesus died for me,\nHe died, the Friend of sinners died,\nPoor sinners now, rejoice.\n\nWhere is the blessedness I knew\nWhen first I saw the Lord?\nWhere is the soul-refreshing view\nOf Jesus and His word?\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhat peaceful hours I then enjoyed!\nHow sweet their mem’ry still!\nBut now I find an aching void,\nThe world can never fill.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSo shall my walk be close with God,\nCalm and serene my frame;\nSo purer light shall mark the road,\nThat leads me to the Lamb." }, "513b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Whosoever Will", "Collation": "Whosoever Will", "Page": "513b", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson; Smith, Stanley (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907; 2006 (arrangement)", "Alto Composer": "Allen, Maud Lee", "Alto Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1802", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O what amazing words of grace\nAre in the gospel found;\nSuited to ev’ry sinner’s case,\nWho knows the joyful sound.\n\nPoor, sinful, needy, thirsty souls\nAre freely welcomed here;\nSalvation like a river rolls,\nAbundant, free and clear.\n\n‘Whoever will,’ O gracious word!\nShall of this stream partake;\nCome thirsty souls, and bless the Lord,\nAnd drink for Jesus’ sake." }, "514": { "metadata": { "Title": "Wiley", "Collation": "Wiley", "Page": "514", "Tune Composer": "Vaughn, Robert Lee (Eld.)", "Tune Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Askins, George", "Lyrics Date": "1819", "Meter": "6,6,7,6,6,7 Double (6,6,7,6,6,7,6,6,7,6,6,7)" }, "lyrics": "Dear brethren, I have found,\nA land which doth abound,\nWith fruits as sweet as manna,\nThe more I eat I find,\nThe more I am inclined,\nTo sing and shout ‘hosanna!’\nMy soul doth long to go,\nWhere it may fully know,\nThe glory of the Savior;\nAnd as I pass along,\nI’ll sing the Christian’s song,\nI hope to live forever.\n\nWhat must this fountain be,\nFrom which grace flows so free,\nIt yields both peace and pleasure;\nThere’s no terrestrial bliss,\nCan ever equal this,\nA foretaste of my Savior.\nMy soul doth long to go,\nWhere it may fully know,\nThe glory of the Savior;\nAnd as I pass along,\nI’ll sing the Christian’s song,\nI hope to live forever." }, "515": { "metadata": { "Title": "When the Lord Shall Come for Me", "Collation": "When the Lord Shall Come for Me", "Page": "515", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Kieffer, Aldine Silliman", "Lyrics Date": "1880", "Meter": "10s Half (10,10)" }, "lyrics": "O the night of time shall soon pass away,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\nWhen the pilgrim’s staff shall be laid aside,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\n\nChorus:\n\nWhen the Lord shall come for me,\nAnd His nailed, pierced hands I see,\nWill my soul be washed in His precious blood,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me.\n\nO the happy day that shall gild the hills,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\nO the happy hearts that shall welcome Him,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhat a joyful time when the earth shall gleam,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\nWhen the saints shall sing unto Christ, their King,\nWhen the Lord shall come for me;\n\n(Chorus)" }, "516": { "metadata": { "Title": "Tallahassee", "Collation": "Tallahassee", "Page": "516", "Tune Composer": "Bunch, Morgan", "Tune Composition Date": "2006", "Lyrics": "Reed, Andrew", "Lyrics Date": "1829", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Spirit Divine, attend our pray’rs,\nAnd make this house Thy home;\nDescend with all Thy gracious pow’rs,\nOh come, Great Spirit, come!\nCome as the light; to us reveal\nOur emptiness and woe;\nAnd lead us in those paths of life\nWhere all the righteous go.\n\nCome as the dove, and spread thy wings,\nThe wings of peaceful love;\nAnd let Thy church on earth become\nBlest as Thy church above.\nCome as the fire, and purge our hearts\nLike sacrificial flame;\nLet our whole soul an off’ring be\nTo our Redeemer’s name." }, "517": { "metadata": { "Title": "We’ll Wear a Crown", "Collation": "We’ll Wear a Crown", "Page": "517", "Tune Composer": "Senn, C. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Treble Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Treble Composition Date": "1909", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The Savior stands and pleads for thee,\nBehold the dying Son,\nWhen Jesus comes a crown we’ll wear,\nAnd we’ll be gathered home." }, "518": { "metadata": { "Title": "Love At Home", "Collation": "Love At Home", "Page": "518", "Tune Composer": "McNaughton, John H.", "Tune Composition Date": "1860", "Lyrics": "McNaughton, John H.", "Lyrics Date": "1860", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,7,7" }, "lyrics": "There is beauty all around,\nWhen there’s love at home;\nThere is joy in ev’ry sound,\nWhen there’s love at home.\nPeace and plenty here abide,\nSmiling fair on ev’ry side;\nTime doth softly, sweetly glide,\nWhen there’s love at home.\n\nChorus:\n\nLove at home, love at home;\nTime doth softly, sweetly glide,\nWhen there’s love at home.\n\nIn the cottage there is joy,\nWhen there’s love at home;\nHate and envy ne’er annoy,\nWhen there’s love at home.\nRoses blossom ’neath our feet,\nAll the earth’s a garden sweet;\nMaking life a bliss complete\nWhen there’s love at home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nKindly heaven smiles above,\nWhen there’s love at home;\nAll the earth is filled with love,\nWhen there’s love at home.\nSweeter sings the brooklet by,\nBrighter beams the azure sky;\nO, there’s One who smiles on high,\nWhen there’s love at home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nJesus make me wholly Thine,\nThen there’s love at home;\nMay Thy sacrifice be mine,\nThen there’s love at home.\nSafely from all harm I’ll rest,\nWith no sinful care distressed\nThro’ Thy tender mercy blessed,\nWhen there’s love at home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "519": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Mother’s Gone", "Collation": "My Mother’s Gone", "Page": "519", "Tune Composer": "Jackson, Judge", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Jackson, Judge", "Lyrics Date": "1904", "Meter": "Irregular" }, "lyrics": "I have a father way in glory,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\nChorus:\n\nGathering, gathering,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\nI have a mother way in glory,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI have a brother way in glory,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI have a sister way in glory,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhen Christ will say, ‘Well done,’ my brother,\nOne by one we’ll gather home.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "520": { "metadata": { "Title": "Rest for the Soul", "Collation": "Rest for the Soul", "Page": "520", "Tune Composer": "Hogan, Bill", "Tune Composition Date": "2009", "Lyrics": "Hogan, Bill", "Lyrics Date": "2009", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 9,9,9" }, "lyrics": "Stand ye in the way, and see, and ask\nFor the old paths where is the good way,\nTherein shall ye find rest for your soul.\n\nChorus:\n\nCome unto me all ye that labor,\nCome unto me ye heavy laden,\nAnd I will give you rest.\nTake up my yoke and learn of me\nFor I am meek and lowly in heart,\nAnd find rest unto your soul.\n\nLove the Lord, your God, with all your heart\nAnd your soul, and your mind, and your strength,\nAnd your neighbor love, love as yourself." }, "521": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Golden Crown to Wear", "Collation": "Golden Crown to Wear, A", "Page": "521", "Tune Composer": "Vaughn, Benjamin Lewis", "Tune Composition Date": "1910", "Lyrics": "Vaughn, Benjamin Lewis", "Lyrics Date": "1910", "Meter": "6s (6,6,6,6)" }, "lyrics": "Life’s sun is sinking down,\nThe shade of night draws nigh,\nIn death we’ll soon be found,\nTo meet the Lord on high.\n\nChorus:\n\nO time speed on and bring the hour,\nWhen I shall meet with Christ in pow’r;\nYes, let me then to glory rise,\nAnd wear a crown beyond the skies.\n\nWhen time shall be no more,\nAnd we from sin are free;\nThe Lord we will adore,\nThro’ one eternity.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhat joy, indeed, to know,\nFor me is waiting there,\nInside those pearly gates,\nA golden crown to wear.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "522": { "metadata": { "Title": "Shades of Night", "Collation": "Shades of Night", "Page": "522", "Tune Composer": "Miller, John Wesley", "Tune Composition Date": "1911", "Lyrics": "Miller, John Wesley", "Lyrics Date": "1911", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "The shades of night are drawing near,\nLife’s sun so fast is passing by;\nWe soon death’s river o’er must steer,\nFor all life lives, but once, then dies.\n\nChorus:\n\nO shades of night so soon pass o’er\nAnd let the light of heaven shine,\nThat we in realms of bliss may soar,\nAnd then the praise shall all be Thine.\n\nSure is the road that leads to death,\nAnd soon our earthly joys will fly,\nThe life of man is short at best,\nAnd pleasures only bloom to die.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "524": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Home Above", "Collation": "My Home Above", "Page": "524", "Tune Composer": "Miller, John Wesley", "Tune Composition Date": "ca. 1913", "Lyrics": "Miller, John Wesley", "Lyrics Date": "ca. 1913", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "While tenting here I have no home,\nI’ll work and toil ’till death shall come,\nFor in this world I find no rest,\nI’ll seek a home among the blest.\n\nChorus:\n\nO Lord, if I must live this life,\nThen let me spend my days for Christ;\nLet not my work of life be vain,\nLord help me sing a sweeter strain,\nO Lord if I must live this life,\nPray help me spend my days for Christ.\n\nMy home is not beneath the skies,\nWhere tempests rage and storms arise;\nI have a home that’s built above,\nWhere all is peace, and joy and love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere in that home above the skies,\nThey know no aches, or sobs, or sighs;\nBut all is joy and peace and love,\nAnd Christ shall lead the host above.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "526": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Joy", "Collation": "Heavenly Joy", "Page": "526", "Tune Composer": "Davis, Robert J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Davis, Robert J.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,8,11,10" }, "lyrics": "There’ll be joy in heaven when we reach that land,\nAnd we’ll sing with the angels fair,\nThere with Christ who’s gone to prepare a home,\nAnd shall see His glories over there.\n\nChorus:\n\nOh, may we meet in heaven,\nOn Canaan’s happy shore,\nTo sing aloud his praises\nWith joy for evermore.\n\nThen we’ll meet our loved ones on that shining shore’\nAnd we’ll dwell with them on high,\nWhat a happy time when we all reach heav’n\nSinging hallelujah by and by.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "527": { "metadata": { "Title": "Heavenly Grace", "Collation": "Heavenly Grace", "Page": "527", "Tune Composer": "Loftin, Thomas Willard", "Tune Composition Date": "1911", "Lyrics": "Loftin, Thomas Willard", "Lyrics Date": "1911", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Lord, when together here we meet,\nAnd taste Thy heav’nly grace,\nThy smiles are so divinely sweet,\nWe’re loathe to leave the place.\n\nYet, Father, since it is Thy will,\nThat we must part again,\nOh let Thy gracious pardon still\nWith ev’ry soul remain." }, "528t": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Gospel Sound", "Collation": "Gospel Sound, The", "Page": "528t", "Tune Composer": "Davis, Robert J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Maxwell, James", "Lyrics Date": "1759", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Go forth, ye heralds, in My Name,\nSweetly the gospel trumpet sound;\nThe glorious jubilee proclaim,\nWhere’er the human race is found.\n\nThe joyful news to all impart,\nAnd teach them where salvation lies;\nWith care bind up the broken heart,\nAnd wipe the tears from weeping eyes." }, "528b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Peaceful Shore", "Collation": "Peaceful Shore", "Page": "528b", "Tune Composer": "Wilkinson, Leila (Wilson) (Mrs.); Wilson, Robert Guy", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Dover Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1828", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "A few more days on earth to spend,\nAnd all my toils and cares shall end;\nAnd I shall see my God and friend,\nAnd praise and sing for evermore.\n\nThen, O my soul, despond no more,\nThe storm of life will soon be o’er,\nAnd I shall find the peaceful shore\nOf everlasting heav’nly rest." }, "529": { "metadata": { "Title": "When Jesus Calls", "Collation": "When Jesus Calls", "Page": "529", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Riley, E. W.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "When Jesus calls me I must go,\nAnd leave my loved ones here below;\nBut when I reach that home above,\nI’ll rest forever in His love.\n\nChorus:\n\nWhen Jesus calls,\nThen I will go\nTo that bright home above,\nWhere all is joy and peace and love,\nAnd live for evermore.\n\nThe Savior stands and bids thee come,\nDirects you to Jerusalem;\nWhere none but saints and angels dwell,\nWhile sinners have their part in hell.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nAnd when I reach that heav’nly home,\nIn this vain world no more to roam,\nI’ll walk the golden streets and sing,\nAnd praise my Savior, Lord and King.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "530": { "metadata": { "Title": "God’s Unchanging Hand", "Collation": "God’s Unchanging Hand", "Page": "530", "Tune Composer": "Faust, Bascom Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Hunter, J. M. (Mrs.)", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Thro’ a sinful world I journey,\nDangers thick on ev’ry side,\nSeeing not the path before me,\nKnowing not what shall betide;\nOh, I need a guide and helper,\nOne who can my foes withstand,\nThis the pray’r I lift to heaven,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand.\n\nChorus:\n\nGive me God’s unchanging hand,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand,\nWhile I live and when I’m dying,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand;\nI’m a pilgrim, I’m a stranger,\nIn a dark and dreary land,\n’Till I reach the gates of glory,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand.\n\nEarthly friends may soon forsake us,\nClouds may darken all my sky,\nBut there’s One above all others,\nWho can ev’ry need supply;\nHe is called the friend of sinners,\nOur salvation He has planned,\nUnto Him my spirit whispers,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI am poor, dear Lord, and helpless,\nLet me lay my hand in Thine,\nLet me feel Thy strength unfailing,\nLet me trust Thy love divine;\n’Till by angels bright attended,\nI shall reach the golden strand,\nGrant, O, grant my soul’s petition,\nGive me God’s unchanging hand.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "532": { "metadata": { "Title": "O Jesus, Ever with Us Stay", "Collation": "O Jesus, Ever with Us Stay", "Page": "532", "Tune Composer": "Cagle, Alfred Marcus; Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1908; 1927 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Grigg, Joseph", "Lyrics Date": "1765", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Jesus, and shall it ever be,\nA mortal man ashamed of Thee?\n\nChorus:\n\nO Jesus, ever with us stay,\nMake all our moments calm and bright,\nChase the dark night of sin away,\nShed o’er the world Thy holy light.\n\nAshamed of Thee whom angels praise,\nWhose glories shine through endless days.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "533": { "metadata": { "Title": "Thy Love Proclaim", "Collation": "Thy Love Proclaim", "Page": "533", "Tune Composer": "Riley, E. W.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Newton, John (Verses); Perronet, Edward (Chorus)", "Lyrics Date": "1779 (Verses); 1779 (Chorus)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Weak is the effort of my heart,\nAnd cold my warmest tho’ts;\nBut when I see Thee as Thou art,\nI’ll praise Thee as I ought.\n\nChorus:\n\nYe seed of Israel’s chosen race,\nYe ransomed of the fall;\nHail Him who saves you by His Grace,\nAnd crown him Lord of all.\n\n’Till then I would Thy love proclaim,\nWith ev’ry fleeting breath;\nAnd may the music of Thy name,\nRefresh my soul in death.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "534": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Saints Will Be Gathered There", "Collation": "Saints Will Be Gathered There, The", "Page": "534", "Tune Composer": "Senn, C. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Senn, C. M.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I want my friends to go with me\nTo that eternal home,\nWhere we shall be forever there,\nAnd sing around the throne.\nThe saints will all be gathered there,\nFor evermore to stay,\nWe’ll talk and sing about His love,\nOn that great judgment day." }, "535t": { "metadata": { "Title": "Kelley", "Collation": "Kelley", "Page": "535t", "Tune Composer": "Denson, Amanda Burdette", "Tune Composition Date": "1908", "Lyrics": "Denson, Amanda Burdette", "Lyrics Date": "1908", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My Christian friends to whom I speak,\nI have a crown in view.\nMy sinner friends, now will you seek,\nHow stands the case with you?\nI know there is a paradise,\nThe saints all bid us come.\nAnd He who reigns, rules earth and sky,\nO heaven is my home." }, "535b": { "metadata": { "Title": "Take Me Home", "Collation": "Take Me Home", "Page": "535b", "Tune Composer": "Whitehead, William P.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Whitehead, William P.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,6,10,6,6" }, "lyrics": "My life on earth is out,\nMy work on earth is done,\nAnd I’ll go home to my Maker and rest,\nI feel my road is clear,\nO Savior, take me home." }, "536": { "metadata": { "Title": "Thy Love", "Collation": "Thy Love", "Alternative Title": "North Salem", "Page": "536", "Tune Composer": "Jenks, Stephen; Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1799; 1927 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1780", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Talk with us, Lord, Thyself reveal\nWhile here on earth we rove.\nSpeak to our hearts and let us feel\nThe kindling of Thy love." }, "537": { "metadata": { "Title": "Praise the Lord", "Collation": "Praise the Lord", "Page": "537", "Tune Composer": "Faust, Bascom Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "11s Half (11,11)" }, "lyrics": "I am walking with my Savior ev’ry day,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord;\nAnd He’s promised to go with me all the way,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord.\n\nChorus:\n\nPraise the Lord on high, O praise the Lord on high,\nHallelujah! praise ye the Lord on high.\n\nWhen I’m weary then He gives me blessed rest,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord;\nAnd in tender love He holds me to His breast,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nSoon He’ll lead me home to glory ne’er to roam,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord;\nTo that place of blessing on the happy shore,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "538": { "metadata": { "Title": "Praising Jesus", "Collation": "Praising Jesus", "Page": "538", "Tune Composer": "Byrd, S. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Come, dear brethren, praise your Jesus,\nPraise Him, praise Him evermore;\nMay His great love now constrain us,\nHis great name for to adore.\nOh, then let us join together,\nCrown of glory to obtain,\nHe is Christ and our salvation,\nHe is our exalted King." }, "539": { "metadata": { "Title": "Bidding Farewell to Loved Ones", "Collation": "Bidding Farewell to Loved Ones", "Page": "539", "Tune Composer": "Park, Louis (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Alto Composer": "Park, Julia (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "McLendon, A. J.", "Lyrics Date": "1905", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Farewell, dear brothers, fare you well,\nPray, do not weep for me,\nI’m going home with Christ to dwell,\nThroughout eternity.\nWhen I get home to that bright world,\nAnd meet my Savior there,\nAnd all the loved ones gone before,\nI’ll no more shed a tear.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am marching away,\nTo that great judgment day.\nFarewell to all below,\nFor I’m called, I must go.\n\nDear sister, thou are left alone,\nBut thou art kind and true,\nAnd when God calls you to come home,\nI hope to meet with you.\nThus we’ll surround the great white throne,\nAnd dwell forever there,\nAnd sing God’s praise through endless days,\nFrom sorrow, pain and care.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nDear father, you’ve been kind to me,\nWhen I was young and wild,\nBut now, dear father, do not weep,\nForgive your dying child.\nO, father, don’t forget my wife,\nMy children, my dear ones,\nThe time has come when I must say,\nFarewell, farewell to all.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nMy loving mother, fare you well,\nBut do not fear alarm,\nThe Savior dear is always near,\nTo shield you from all harm.\nYet may we meet and be complete\nWith all the blood washed throng,\nAnd cast our crown at Jesus’ feet,\nAnd sing redemption’s song.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "540": { "metadata": { "Title": "She Is Sleeping", "Collation": "She Is Sleeping", "Page": "540", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Alto Composer": "Dauphin, Beulah (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "There’s a land beyond the river,\nWhere the skies are ever fair;\nAnd I have an angel mother,\nWho is waiting for me there.\n\nChorus:\n\nCome, O boatman, row me over,\nTo a fairer land than this;\nFor my heart grows weary waiting,\nFor my angel mother’s kiss.\n\nShe went o’er the silent waters,\nAt the setting of the sun;\nAnd I know that she is happy,\nFor the Christian’s course is run.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nIn that land where she is waiting,\nFor the ones she loved on earth;\nSin and sorrow never enter,\nBut eternal days have birth.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhen the solemn summons calls us,\nTo the mansions of the blest;\nWe shall lose our earthly sorrows,\nIn a sense of blissful rest.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "541": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’m Going Home to Die No More", "Collation": "I’m Going Home to Die No More", "Page": "541", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Why should we start or fear to die,\nWhat tim’rous worms we mortals are,\nDeath is the gate to endless joy,\nAnd yet we fear to enter there.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’m going home to die no more,\nWhen this mortal life is o’er;\nI’m going home to die no more,\nYes, I’m going home to die no more.\n\nThe pains, the groans, the dying strife,\nFright our approaching souls away,\nAgain our souls spring back to life,\nFond of its prison and its clay,\n\n(Chorus)\n\nJesus can make a dying bed\nFeel soft as downy pillows are,\nAnd on His breast I’ll lay my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "542": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Judgment Day", "Collation": "Judgment Day, The", "Page": "542", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Rueben Purcer", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,11,7,7,11" }, "lyrics": "Are you ready for the day,\nThat is coming by and by,\nWhen the saints of earth shall gather over there;\nCan we face the heav’nly band,\nWith the saints in glory stand,\nWhen the roll is called up yonder on that day?\n\nChorus:\n\nOn that day, the judgment day,\nWill we all then ready be?\nWhen He comes, the Savior comes,\nOn that awful judgment day.\n\nWhen the final day shall dawn,\nAnd the glorious King shall come,\nAnd our earthly time has swiftly passed away;\nWill you hear the sinner’s cry,\nWill you hear the King’s reply,\nWill you see the heav’nly mansions built on high?\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWill we all then ready be,\nWhen the glorious King we see,\nAnd the host of saints comes forth in bright array;\nOh the joy that we shall know,\nWhat hosannahs we’ll outpour,\nWhen we meet our loved ones on that final day.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "543": { "metadata": { "Title": "Consecration", "Collation": "Consecration", "Page": "543", "Tune Composer": "Turner, William S.", "Tune Composition Date": "1866", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1745", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "There then to Thee Thine own I leave,\nMould as Thou wilt Thy passive clay;\nBut let me all Thy stamp receive,\nBut let me all Thy words obey:\nServe with a single heart and eye,\nAnd to Thy glory live or die.\n\nMy ev’ry weak, tho’ good design,\nO’errule, or change, as seems thee meet;\nJesus, let all my work be Thine.\nThy work, O Lord, is all complete:\nAnd pleasing in thy Father’s sight;\nThou only hast done all things right." }, "544": { "metadata": { "Title": "My Eternal Home", "Collation": "My Eternal Home", "Alternative Title": "Home", "Page": "544", "Tune Composer": "Montague, W. L.; Hughes, H. D. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1866; 1927 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Christian Harmony", "Lyrics Date": "1866", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My Father’s house on high,\nIs my eternal home,\nO God forbid that I should fail,\nWhile trav’ling here below.\n\nChorus:\n\nThen join the heav’nly throng,\nTo sing redeeming love,\nWhile endless ages roll along,\nWe’ll praise our God above.\n\nMy Father and my God,\nOh lead me safely on,\nTill in that heav’nly world above,\nI feel my work is done.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "545": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Have a Precious Friend", "Collation": "I Have a Precious Friend", "Page": "545", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Hunter, J. M. (Mrs.)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "I need not feel one anxious thought,\nOr know one pressing care,\nBut that I may —His word has taught,\nTake unto Him in pray’r.\n\nChorus:\n\nI have a precious friend,\nWho keeps me day by day;\nOn whom my hopes of heav’n depend,\nWho is my guide and stay.\n\nO sinner, take Him for your friend,\nHis grace is free to all,\nHe will the trusting soul defend,\nNor suffer it to fall.\n\n(Chorus)\n\n’Tis sweet to feel His presence near,\nAnd on His strength rely,\nTo know that He through life will cheer,\nSupport when death is nigh.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "546": { "metadata": { "Title": "Farther On", "Collation": "Farther On", "Page": "546", "Tune Composer": "Lowry, R. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1923", "Lyrics": "Battle’s Collection of Hymns", "Lyrics Date": "1814", "Meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)" }, "lyrics": "Dark and stormy is the desert,\nThro’ which pilgrims make their way,\nJust beyond this vale of sorrow,\nLies the fields of endless day.\n\nChorus:\n\nFarther on, but how much farther?\nCount the milestones one by one,\nJesus will forsake us never,\nIt is better farther on.\n\nThere on flow’ry hills of pleasure,\nLie the fields of endless rest;\nLove and joy peace forever,\nReign and triumph in each breast.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "547": { "metadata": { "Title": "All Is Peace and Love", "Collation": "All Is Peace and Love", "Page": "547", "Tune Composer": "Helms, W. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "8,8,8,6 (8,8,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "We have our troubles here below,\nAnd travel thro’ this world of woe,\nTo that bright world where angels dwell,\nWhere all is peace and love.\n\nChorus:\n\nWhere all is peace and love,\nTo that bright world where angels dwell,\nWhere all is peace and love.\nWhere all is peace and love,\nTo guide my weary feet above,\nWhere all is peace and love.\n\nI feel no way like getting tired,\nI’m trusting in His holy word,\nTo guide my weary feet above,\nWhere all is peace and love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "548": { "metadata": { "Title": "The God of Love", "Collation": "God of Love, The", "Page": "548", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "Long Particular Meter (8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "To thee the gracious Lord and King,\nWe lift our voice aloud and sing,\nThou art the God of host above,\nOn earth you are the God of Love.\nHigh was Thy throne e’er heav’n was made,\nOr earth Thy humble footstool laid." }, "549": { "metadata": { "Title": "That Sweet Home", "Collation": "That Sweet Home", "Page": "549", "Tune Composer": "Wilson, Robert Guy (arranger); Weeks, Vera (Wilson) (Mrs.) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Cofer, Pleasant Asbury", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "When we have crossed the stream of death,\nO let us sing and praise the Lord,\nFor Jesus Christ, the Son of God,\nCame down to earth to die for me.\n\nChorus:\n\nI love to tell of that sweet home,\nO glory to the Lamb of God.\n\nFor some sweet time I’m going home,\nTo join the praise of endless joy,\nOf this I know, I’m on my way,\nTo that sweet home prepared for me.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "550": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gone Home", "Collation": "Gone Home", "Page": "550", "Tune Composer": "Dale, W. T. (Rev.); Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1888; 1927 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Dale, W. T. (Rev.)", "Lyrics Date": "1886", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Oh, where is now our brother dear?\nGone home to mansions bright and fair;\nNo more he’ll shed the bitter tear;\nHe’s happy in his mansion there.\n\nChorus:\n\nGone home, gone home,\nWith Jesus there to dwell;\nGone home, gone home,\nHis praises there to swell.\n\nNo more he’ll meet us here below;\nHis toil and sacrifice are o’er;\nAnd by the river’s gentle flow,\nHe stands upon the golden shore.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBut though he’ll visit us no more,\nYet may we go to Him at last;\nAnd then we’ll sing our troubles o’er,\nWhen all life’s labors here are past.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nFarewell, dear brother, ’till we meet\nBefore the throne of God above;\nAnd cast our crowns at Jesus’ feet,\nAnd sing the triumph of His love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "551": { "metadata": { "Title": "World Above", "Collation": "World Above", "Page": "551", "Tune Composer": "Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Mead’s General Selection", "Lyrics Date": "1807", "Meter": "7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a holy city,\nA happy world above;\nBeyond the starry regions,\nBuilt by the God of love.\nAnd everlasting temples,\nAnd saints arrayed in white,\nThey serve their great Redeemer,\nAnd dwell with Him in light.\n\nThat is no world of trouble,\nThe God of peace is there;\nHe wipes away their sorrows,\nHe banishes their care.\nTheir joys are still increasing,\nTheir songs are ever new,\nThey praise th’eternal Father,\nThe Son and Spirit, too." }, "552": { "metadata": { "Title": "And Live Through Endless Day", "Collation": "And Live Through Endless Day", "Page": "552", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Should earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts be hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world.\nSo pilgrims, we are marching home,\nOn earth no more to stay,\nLong for the welcome call to come,\nAnd live thro’ endless day." }, "553": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Hill of Zion", "Collation": "Hill of Zion, The", "Page": "553", "Tune Composer": "White, Benjamin Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Alto Composer": "Floyd, Minnie (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The hill of Zion yields,\nA thousand sacred sweets,\nBefore we reach the heav’nly fields,\nOr walk the golden streets.\n\nThen let our songs abound,\nAnd ev’ry tear be dry;\nWe’re marching thro’ Immanuel’s ground,\nTo fairer worlds on high." }, "554": { "metadata": { "Title": "Where the Soul Shall Never Die", "Collation": "Where the Soul Shall Never Die", "Page": "554", "Tune Composer": "Senn, C. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Senn, C. M.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,8,8,7,7,6,7,7" }, "lyrics": "Our mother’s gone to heaven,\nTo a mansion bright and fair;\nHer picture hangs up yonder,\nBut there’s a vacant chair.\nWe’re on our way to Canaan,\nTo that sweet home on high,\nWe’ll shout and sing forever,\nWhere the soul shall never die.\n\nShe’s gone up there with Jesus,\nThere forever more to stay;\nSo I trust in God to meet her,\nIn a better world some day.\nShe has crossed o’er Jordan’s river,\nSafe on the other side,\nBut when we get to heaven,\nThen the gates will open wide.\n\nWe know the Savior’s coming,\nComing in the clouds someday;\nWe believe the Bible story,\nTo catch His bride away.\nWe only hear the message,\nWhen He is passing by,\nHe’ll take us all up yonder,\nTo that bright land on high." }, "555": { "metadata": { "Title": "Praise the Redeemer", "Collation": "Praise the Redeemer", "Alternative Title": "New Hope", "Page": "555", "Tune Composer": "Cagle, Alfred Marcus; Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1908; 1927 (arrangement)", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (Verses); Ken, Thomas (Chorus)", "Lyrics Date": "1719 (Verses); 1697 (Chorus)", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "From all that dwell below the skies,\nLet the Redeemer’s praise arise,\nLet the Creator’s name be sung,\nThro’ ev’ry land by ev’ry tongue.\n\nChorus:\n\nPraise God from whom all blessings flow,\nPraise Him all creatures here below,\nPraise Him above, ye heav’nly host,\nPraise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.\n\nEternal are Thy mercies, Lord,\nEternal truth attends Thy word;\nThy praise shall sound from shore to shore,\n’Till suns shall rise and set no more.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "556": { "metadata": { "Title": "A Prayerful Heart", "Collation": "Prayerful Heart, A", "Page": "556", "Tune Composer": "Faust, Bascom Franklin", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1742", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O, for a heart to praise my God,\nA heart from sin set free;\nA heart that always feels Thy blood,\nSo freely shed for me.\n\nA heart resigned, submissive, meek,\nMy great Redeemer’s throne;\nWhere only Christ is heard to speak,\nWhere Jesus reigns alone.\n\nO, for a lowly, contrite heart,\nBelieving, true and clean;\nWhich neither life nor death can part,\nFrom Him that dwells within." }, "557": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jordan’s Banks", "Collation": "Jordan’s Banks", "Page": "557", "Tune Composer": "Loftin, Thomas Willard", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Stennett, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1787", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAn cast a wishful eye,\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\n\nChorus:\n\nI am bound, yes I’m bound,\nI am bound for the promised land;\nWon’t you come and go with me?\nI am bound for the promised land." }, "558": { "metadata": { "Title": "I’ll Praise My Master", "Collation": "I’ll Praise My Master", "Page": "558", "Tune Composer": "Byrd, Henry Isom", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Baltimore Collection", "Lyrics Date": "1801", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I’ll praise my Master while I’ve breath,\nI hope to praise Him after death,\nI hope to praise Him when I die,\nAnd shout salvation as I fly.\n\nI soon shall pass the vale of death,\nAnd in His arms I’ll lose my breath,\nAnd then my happy soul shall tell\nMy Jesus hath done all things well.\n\nThen I shall see my blessed God,\nAnd praise Him in His bright abode,\nMy theme in blest eternity,\nShall glory, glory, glory be." }, "559": { "metadata": { "Title": "Will You Meet Me?", "Collation": "Will You Meet Me?", "Page": "559", "Tune Composer": "Parris, O. A.", "Tune Composition Date": "1954", "Lyrics": "Parris, O. A.", "Lyrics Date": "1954", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "I am going home today\nIn the narrow gospel way;\nSoon I’ll be at rest above,\nThere to sing redeeming love.\n\nChorus:\n\nWith the angels I shall stand,\nIn that holy happy land,\nBrother, will you meet me there?\nHeaven’s joys with me to share.\n\nJesus will me pilot be,\nO’er the dark uncertain sea;\nWith all pain and sorrow past,\nI will anchor safe at last.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nIn my blessed Savior’s arms,\nI’ll be safe from all alarms;\nFrom all suff’ring I’ll be free,\nBrother will you be with me?\n\n(Chorus)" }, "560": { "metadata": { "Title": "Singing As I Go", "Collation": "Singing As I Go", "Page": "560", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Bright Jewels", "Lyrics Date": "1869", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My life flows on in endless song\nAbove earth’s cares and woes,\nI catch the sweet tho’ far-off hymn,\nThat points to heav’n above.\n\nChorus:\n\nSinging, I journey on my way,\nToward the shining shore;\nThere I shall see His loving face,\nAnd praise Him evermore.\n\nThrough all the tumult and the strife\nI hear sweet music ring,\nIt finds an echo in my heart,\nI’ll trust and hope and sing.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI lift my eyes, the clouds grow thin,\nI see the blue above,\nAnd day by day this pathway smooths,\nSince I first learned of love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "561": { "metadata": { "Title": "Calling Me", "Collation": "Calling Me", "Page": "561", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Beck, George L.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,11,14,10" }, "lyrics": "Yes, I think I hear my Saviour calling me,\nAnd I think I see Him hanging on a tree;\nO the Lamb of Calvary, and His blood He shed for me,\nAnd I know my Savior’s calling now.\n\nChorus:\n\nCalling now, calling now,\nYes I love to think of my Jesus as my Friend,\nCalling now, calling now,\nHe has promised to be with us to the end." }, "562": { "metadata": { "Title": "On To Calvary", "Collation": "On To Calvary", "Page": "562", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Treble Composer": "Beck, G. L. (Mrs.)", "Treble Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Beck, George L. (1st Verse); Medley, Samuel (2nd Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1927 (1st Verse); 1776 (2nd Verse)", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "I love to think of my dear Lord,\nFor He has done so much for me,\nHe’s shown me to the narrow road,\nThat leads me on to Calvary.\n\nNow, in a song of grateful praise,\nTo my dear Lord, my voice I’ll raise;\nWith all His saints, I’ll join to tell,\nThat Jesus hath done all things well." }, "563": { "metadata": { "Title": "Jesus Is Mine", "Collation": "Jesus Is Mine", "Page": "563", "Tune Composer": "Tenney, John Harrison", "Tune Composition Date": "1888", "Lyrics": "Hope, Henry J. M.", "Lyrics Date": "1852", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 6,6,6,6,6" }, "lyrics": "Now I have a dear Friend,\nJesus is mine,\nHis love shall never end,\nJesus is mine;\nThough earthly joys decrease,\nThough earthly friendships cease,\nNow I have lasting peace,\nJesus is mine.\n\nThough I grow poor and old,\nJesus is mine,\nThough I grow pale and cold,\nJesus is mine;\nHe shall my wants supply,\nHis precious blood is nigh,\nNaught can my hopes destroy,\nJesus is mine.\n\nWhen earth shall pass away,\nJesus is mine,\nIn the great judgment day,\nJesus is mine;\nOh, what a glorious thing,\nThen to behold my King,\nOn tuneful harps to sing,\nJesus is mine." }, "564": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Home", "Collation": "Sweet Home", "Page": "564", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Beck, George L.", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a home, a peaceful home,\nA home of joy and love,\nAnd them that bear the cross below,\nShall wear a crown above.\n\nChorus:\n\nMy home, sweet home,\nMy beautiful home above,\nSweet home of love,\nMy beautiful home above." }, "565": { "metadata": { "Title": "Marching to That Home", "Collation": "Marching to That Home", "Page": "565", "Tune Composer": "Phillips, J. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,8,4,6,8,8,6" }, "lyrics": "We’re marching thru this world below,\nWe’re trav’ling thru this world of woe,\nTo that bright world\nWhere all is peace and love.\nWe’re marching thru this world below,\nWe’re marching to a world above,\nWhere all is peace and love." }, "566": { "metadata": { "Title": "O Blessed Day", "Collation": "O Blessed Day", "Page": "566", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Rueben Perser", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Allen, Rueben Perser", "Lyrics Date": "1927", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,8,7,10" }, "lyrics": "I have friends beyond the sky,\nDwelling in that peaceful land,\nSome day we’ll meet them by and by,\nAnd join the heav’nly band,\nSome day we’ll join that happy angel band.\n\nChorus:\n\nO blessed day when I shall be\nWith Him who died for me,\nWith Him who made me free,\nWe’ll join the happy angel band,\nAnd sing at God’s right hand.\n\nWill you come and go with me,\nTo the land beyond death’s sea?\nWith friends and loved ones there to be,\nIs a home for you and me,\nWe’re going home to that sweet home some day.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "567": { "metadata": { "Title": "Child of Thine", "Collation": "Child of Thine", "Page": "567", "Tune Composer": "Faust, Bascom Franklin (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1907", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Father, I wait before Thy throne,\nCall me a child of Thine,\nSend down the Spirit of Thy Son,\nTo form my heart divine.\n\nThen shed Thy promised love abroad,\nAnd make my comfort strong.\nThen shall I say my Father God,\nWith an unwav’ring tongue." }, "568": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gone to Rest", "Collation": "Gone to Rest", "Page": "568", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Psalmist, The", "Lyrics Date": "1843", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,8,6" }, "lyrics": "Brother, thou art gone to rest,\nWe will not weep for thee;\nFor thou art now when oft on earth,\nThy spirit longed to be,\n\nChorus:\n\nGone to rest, with the blest,\nTo that bright beautiful shore,\nThere to sing to the King,\nSafe at home for evermore.\n\nBrother, thou art gone to rest,\nThy toils and cares are o’er,\nAnd sorrow, pain and suffering now,\nShall never grieve thee more.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBrother, thou art gone to rest,\nThy sins are all forgiven,\nAnd saints in light have welcomed thee,\nTo share the joys of heav’n.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nBrother, thou art gone to rest,\nAnd this shall be our pray’r,\nThat when we reach our journey’s end,\nThy glory we may share.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "569": { "metadata": { "Title": "He Leads Me All the Way", "Collation": "He Leads Me All the Way", "Page": "569", "Tune Composer": "Rountree, Dennis Wilson", "Lyrics": "Rountree, Dennis Wilson", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My Savior leads me ev’ry day,\nThrough life’s long weary road;\nHe guides my feet along the way,\nAnd to the throne of grace.\nMy Savior leads me ev’ry day,\nThro’ ev’ry trial and fear;\nIs ever near, my heart to cheer,\nHe leads me all the way." }, "570": { "metadata": { "Title": "Our King Above the Sky", "Collation": "Our King Above the Sky", "Page": "570", "Tune Composer": "Beck, George L.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac (1st Half)", "Lyrics Date": "1707 (1st Half); 1719 (2nd Half)", "Meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Life is the time to serve the Lord,\nThe time to seek the great reward,\nAnd while the lamp holds out to burn,\nThe vilest sinner may return.\nThe God we worship here below,\nWill guide us all until we die,\nHe is our Saviour as we go,\nOur King above the sky." }, "571": { "metadata": { "Title": "Not Made With Hands", "Collation": "Not Made With Hands", "Page": "571", "Tune Composer": "Dyer, Avanelle (Miss) (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1904", "Lyrics": "Brown, John S.", "Lyrics Date": "1900", "Meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Christ went a building to prepare,\nNot made with hands,\nAnd ’twill be decked with jewels rare,\nNot made with hands.\n\nChorus:\n\nI know, I know\nI have another building;\nI know, I know\nNot made with hands.\n\nPut on the armour of our God,\nNot made with hands,\nAnd take the path our captain trod,\nNot made with hands.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWith shield of faith defy the foe,\nNot made with hands,\nUntil you hear the trumpet blow,\nNot made with hands.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThat city’s built with precious stone,\nNot made with hands,\nWithin we’ll gather round the throne,\nNot made with hands.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "572": { "metadata": { "Title": "We Will Sing with Angels There", "Collation": "We Will Sing with Angels There", "Page": "572", "Tune Composer": "Givens, D. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1926", "Lyrics": "Adkins, H. R.", "Lyrics Date": "1917", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,8,6" }, "lyrics": "There is a place called heaven,\nThe homeland of the soul,\nThe angels will be singing there,\nWhile endless ages roll.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe will sing with the angels there,\nIn that happy home so fair,\nIn heaven above where all is love,\nWe will sing with the angels there.\n\nThat home is made of jasper,\nIts walks are laid with gold,\nThe beauties of that heav’nly place,\nHave never yet been told.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere we shall live forever,\nIn that eternal home,\nWe’ll meet our Savior face to face,\nAround that happy throne.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "573": { "metadata": { "Title": "Trusting Jesus", "Collation": "Trusting Jesus", "Page": "573", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Stites, Edgar Page", "Lyrics Date": "1876", "Meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)" }, "lyrics": "Brightly doth His spirit shine,\nInto this poor heart of mine,\nWhile He leads I cannot fall,\nTrusting Jesus, that is all.\n\nChorus:\n\nTrusting as the moments fly,\nTrusting as the days go by,\nTrusting Him whate’er may fall,\nTrusting Jesus, that is all.\n\nSinging if my way is clear,\nPraying if the path is drear,\nIf in danger for Him call,\nTrusting Jesus, that is all.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nTrusting Him while life shall last,\nTrusting Him till earth is past,\n’Till within the jasper walls,\nTrusting Jesus, that is all.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "574": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Peace", "Collation": "Sweet Peace", "Page": "574", "Tune Composer": "Davis, R. M.", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Alto Composer": "Davis, Lena Mae (Miss)", "Alto Composition Date": "1927", "Meter": "4s (4,4,4,4)" }, "lyrics": "May grace and truth,\nSweet peace and rest\nDwell in each breast,\nSweet peace and rest." }, "575": { "metadata": { "Title": "Davis", "Collation": "Davis", "Alternative Title": "Lonsdale", "Page": "575", "Tune Composer": "Davis, R. M. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1927", "Lyrics": "Hammond, William", "Lyrics Date": "1745", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Awake and sing the song,\nOf Moses and the Lamb,\nTune ev’ry heart and ev’ry tongue,\nTo praise the Savior’s name.\n\nSoon shall we hear Him say,\n‘Ye blessed children, come!’\nSoon will He call us hence away\nTo our eternal home." }, "576": { "metadata": { "Title": "Allen", "Collation": "Allen", "Page": "576", "Tune Composer": "Cooper, Wilson Marion", "Tune Composition Date": "1910", "Lyrics": "Medley, Samuel", "Lyrics Date": "1802", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "O what amazing words of grace\nAre in the gospel found;\nSuited to ev’ry sinner’s case,\nWho knows the joyful sound.\n\nChorus:\n\nWho knows the gospel sound,\nSuited to ev’ry sinner’s case,\nWho knows the joyful gospel sound.\n\nPoor, sinful, needy, thirsty souls\nAre freely welcomed here;\nSalvation like a river rolls,\nAbundant, free and clear.\n\n(Chorus)\n\n‘Whoever will,’ O gracious word!\nShall of this stream partake;\nCome, thirsty souls, and bless the Lord,\nAnd drink for Jesus’ sake.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "577": { "metadata": { "Title": "Forever Blest", "Collation": "Forever Blest", "Page": "577", "Tune Composer": "Galloway, A. J.", "Tune Composition Date": "1912", "Lyrics": "Mills, Elizabeth King (1st, 2nd, & 3rd Verses); Broaddus and Broaddus’ Collection of Sacred Ballads (4th Verse)", "Lyrics Date": "1837 (1st, 2nd, & 3rd Verses); 1790 (4th Verse)", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "Sweet land of rest for thee I sigh,\nWhen will the moments come,\nWhen I shall lay my armor by,\nAnd dwell with Christ at home.\n\nChorus:\n\nCome sinner to the gospel feast\nAnd be forever blest.\n\nNo tranquil joys on earth I know,\nNo peaceful shelt’ring dome;\nThis world’s a wilderness of woe,\nThis world is not my home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWeary of wand’ring round and round\nThis vale of sin and gloom,\nI long to leave the unhallowed ground,\nAnd dwell with Christ at home.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nWhen we’ve been there ten thousand years\nBright shining as the sun;\nWe’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,\nThan when we first begun.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "578": { "metadata": { "Title": "God’s Wondrous Love", "Collation": "God’s Wondrous Love", "Page": "578", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Lyrics Date": "1907", "Meter": "13s Half (13,13)" }, "lyrics": "I have heard the gospel message sent to us today,\nGod is love, God is love,\nAnd I know that Christ redeemed me, He’s the truth, the way,\nHallelujah! God is love, God is love.\n\nChorus:\n\nI’ve heard the news, the Savior reigns,\nA place in heav’n for all remains,\nHis blood has cleansed sin’s deepest stains;\nGod is love, God is love, our God is love.\n\nCan my lips be mute then longer when such gifts are mine,\nGod is love, God is love,\nWhen the Savior says so sweetly, ‘All is freely thine,’\nHallelujah! God is love, God is love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nThere’ll be shouting at the coming of the Lord and King,\nGod is love, God is love,\nAnd His loyal ones will gather round the throne and sing,\nHallelujah! God is love, God is love.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nI will sing the glad new anthem with the host above,\nGod is love, God is love,\nWith the saved I am now sharing in His wondrous love,\nHallelujah! God is love, God is love.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "580": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Gates of Paradise", "Collation": "Gates of Paradise, The", "Page": "580", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Jernigan, Emma (Mrs.)", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 7,6,7,7,7,6,7,6" }, "lyrics": "Lord Jesus, I’m not worthy\nOn Thee to call or look,\nNor have my name recorded\nIn the everlasting Book;\nFor wealth and earthly pleasures,\nBut little do I care;\nO give to me a welcome\nTo mansions over there.\n\nChorus:\n\nWe may not know of the joy untold,\nThe bliss in paradise;\nBut when I come to the gate of gold,\nI believe it will open wide.\n\nThe walls of heaven’s garnished\nWith jewels rich and rare,\nThis is the place He promised\nThat He would for us prepare;\nThe crystal sea there glistens,\nThe Book of Life is there,\nAnd John did look and listen\nTo wonders over there.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "581": { "metadata": { "Title": "Wells Second", "Collation": "Wells Second", "Page": "581", "Tune Composer": "Wright, David", "Tune Composition Date": "2001", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1709", "Meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "There is a house not made with hands,\nEternal and on high;\nAnd here my spirit waiting stands,\n’Till God shall bid it fly.\n\nShortly this prison of my clay,\nMust be dissolved and fall;\nThen O, my soul, with joy obey,\nThy heav’nly Father’s call.\n\nI long to see my friends again,\nAnd hear them sweetly say;\n‘Come, weary dove, here is thy home,\nThen fold thy wings and stay.’" }, "582": { "metadata": { "Title": "Long Ago, Comrades", "Collation": "Long Ago, Comrades", "Page": "582", "Tune Composer": "Andrews, Benjamin L. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Carmichael, J. M. (Judge)", "Lyrics Date": "1907", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 11,9,10,9" }, "lyrics": "Long ago we were boys in the ranks, comrades,\nOur hearts light, and happy as the day,\nCheeks were ruddy, eyes bright, locks were dark, comrades,\nAs we marched from our home far away.\n\nChorus:\n\nBut now we are aged and gray, comrades,\nThe trials of life are nearly done,\nBut to us life’s as dear as it was, comrades,\nWhen you and I were young.\n\nLong ago we were marching away, comrades,\nOur flags to the breeze gaily flung,\nOur bosoms were bare to the foe, comrades,\nWhen you and I were young.\n\n(Chorus)\n\nLong ago we were camping in storms, comrades,\nOur courage and muscles tautly strung,\nOur hearts set on vict’ry or death, comrades,\nWhen you and I were young.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "583": { "metadata": { "Title": "Savannah", "Collation": "Savannah", "Page": "583", "Tune Composer": "Billings, William", "Tune Composition Date": "1778", "Lyrics": "Baldwin, Thomas", "Lyrics Date": "1793", "Meter": "8s (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "From whence does this union arise,\nThat hatred is conquer’d by love?\nIt fastens our souls with such ties,\nThat distance and time can’t remove.\n\nIt cannot in Eden be found,\nNor yet in Paradise lost;\nIt grows on Immanuel’s ground,\nAnd Jesus’ dear blood it did cost.\n\nMy friends once so dear unto me,\nOur souls so united in love:\nWhere Jesus is gone we shall be,\nIn yonder blest mansions above." }, "584": { "metadata": { "Title": "I Love to Sing of Jesus", "Collation": "I Love to Sing of Jesus", "Page": "584", "Tune Composer": "Allen, Thomas Jefferson", "Tune Composition Date": "1909", "Lyrics": "Jernigan, Emma (Mrs.)", "Lyrics Date": "1909", "Meter": "7s,6s (7,6,7,6)" }, "lyrics": "I love to sing of Jesus,\nAnd of the wondrous plan,\nHe has laid for our salvation,\nRedeeming sinful man.\n\nChorus:\n\nHe is Alpha, and Omega,\nLet the people praise the Lord from shore to shore.\nHallelujah, hallelujah,\nPraise the Lord, O praise the Lord for evermore.\n\nI love to read of beauties\nIn Revelation’s Book,\nWhen the doors of heaven opened,\nAnd John did take a look.\n\n(Chorus)" }, "585": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Gospel Feast", "Collation": "Gospel Feast, The", "Page": "585", "Tune Composer": "Givens, W. C. (arranger)", "Tune Composition Date": "1907", "Lyrics": "Wesley, Charles", "Lyrics Date": "1747", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Come, sinners, to the gospel feast,\nLet ev’ry soul be Jesus’ guest,\nYe need not one be left behind,\nFor God hath bidden all mankind.\n\nSent by my Lord, on thee I call,\nThe invitation is to all;\nCome, all the world, come sinner, thou,\nAll things in Christ are ready now.\n\nSee Him set forth before your eyes,\nThat precious, bleeding sacrifice;\nHis offered benefits embrace,\nAnd freely now be saved by grace." }, "586": { "metadata": { "Title": "Traveler’s Rest – Samson", "Collation": "Traveler’s Rest’Samson", "Page": "586", "Tune Composer": "Gilmore, Timothy", "Tune Composition Date": "1999", "Lyrics": "Merritt, John Newton", "Lyrics Date": "2010", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "While trav’ling down life’s weary road,\nI often turn aside\nIn answer to my Master’s call,\nHe says ‘Come rest, abide.’\nHe sets me by a cooling stream,\nTo rest in Eden’s shade,\nAnd wipes this dusty pilgrim’s feet,\nIf I have but obeyed.\n\nAnd countless days of mirth I’ve spent,\nAnd sweet has been the wine,\nWhile trav’ling thru this world below,\nMy will suborned to thine.\nHis own soft hand shall dry my tears,\nAnd hold me to his breast,\nThen take me homeward thru the skies,\nUnto the trav’ler’s rest." }, "587": { "metadata": { "Title": "Nearer, My God, To Thee", "Collation": "Nearer, My God, To Thee", "Alternative Title": "Bethany", "Page": "587", "Tune Composer": "Mason, Lowell", "Tune Composition Date": "1859", "Lyrics": "Adams, Sarah Fuller (Flower)", "Lyrics Date": "1841", "Meter": "6s,4s (6,4,6,4)" }, "lyrics": "Nearer, my God, to Thee;\nNearer to Thee;\nE’en tho’ it be a cross\nThat raiseth me!\nStill all my song shall be,\nNearer my, God, to Thee!\n\nTho’ like a wanderer,\nDaylight all gone,\nDarkness be over me,\nMy rest a stone;\nYet in my dreams I’d be,\nNearer, my God, to Thee.\n\nThere let the way appear,\nSteps unto heav’n,\nAll that Thou sendest me,\nIn mercy giv’n;\nAngels to beckon me,\nNearer, my God, to Thee.\n\nOr if on joyful wing,\nCleaving the sky,\nSun, moon and stars forgot,\nUpward I fly,\nStill all my song shall be,\nNearer, my God, to Thee." }, "588": { "metadata": { "Title": "Worchester", "Collation": "Worchester", "Page": "588", "Tune Composer": "Wood, Abraham", "Tune Composition Date": "1778", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1707", "Meter": "Short Meter Double (6,6,8,6,6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "How beauteous are their feet,\nWho stand on Zion’s hill;\nWho bring salvation on their tongues,\nAnd words of peace reveal;\nHow charming, charming is their voice,\nHow sweet the tidings are!\nZion, behold thy Saviour King,\nHe reigns and triumphs here!" }, "589": { "metadata": { "Title": "Gosia", "Collation": "Gosia", "Page": "589", "Tune Composer": "Helwig, Steve", "Tune Composition Date": "2011", "Lyrics": "Beddome, Benjamin", "Lyrics Date": "1794", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,10,8,8" }, "lyrics": "If I must die, O let me die\nWith hope in Jesus’ blood,\nThat saves from sin and reconciles to God.\nO let me die in peace with God\nAnd leave these fleeting joys below." }, "590": { "metadata": { "Title": "Every Grace", "Collation": "Every Grace", "Page": "590", "Tune Composer": "Wright, David", "Tune Composition Date": "1999", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "My Savior and my King,\nThy beauties are divine,\nThy lips with blessings overflow,\nAnd ev’ry grace is thine.\n\nThe smilings of Thy face,\nHow amiable they are;\n’Tis heav’n to rest in thine embrace\nAnd nowhere else but there." }, "591": { "metadata": { "Title": "Sweet Reunion", "Collation": "Sweet Reunion", "Page": "591", "Tune Composer": "Whitehurst, Mary", "Tune Composition Date": "2009", "Lyrics": "Whitehurst, Mary", "Lyrics Date": "2009", "Meter": "Particular Meter: 8,6,8,6,7,6,8,6" }, "lyrics": "Our fathers who have gone before,\nHave set before our eyes,\nThe path that we should follow on,\nUntil we reach the skies.\nWe call to mind their kind ways,\nTheir tender mercies giv’n,\nWe feel their presence ever near,\nWhen e’er we sing of heav’n.\n\nOur tears of grief shall be replaced,\nWith mem’ries sweet and clear,\nAnd owe to Jesus boundless grace,\nThe hope that we hold dear.\nOf sweet reunion on high.\nWith those who’ve gone before,\nWhose faith already is made sight,\nAnd praise Him evermore.\n\nThe fellowship by Adam lost,\nHas been to us restored,\nThe penalty of sin was paid,\nBy Jesus Christ, our Lord.\nThe Spirit in our heart moves,\nAnd testifies of grace,\nWe long to residence above,\nAnd see His loving face." }, "592": { "metadata": { "Title": "The Judgment", "Collation": "Judgment, The", "Page": "592", "Tune Composer": "Shaw, John Malcolm Cruse", "Tune Composition Date": "1902", "Alto Composer": "Quick, Bamma (Mrs.)", "Alto Composition Date": "1902", "Lyrics": "Watts, Isaac", "Lyrics Date": "1719", "Meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)" }, "lyrics": "The Lord, the Judge, before His throne\nBids all the earth draw near;\nThe nations near the rising sun,\nAnd near the western sky.\nThroned on a cloud our God shall come,\nBright flames prepare His way,\nThunder and darkness, fire and smoke,\nLead on the dreadful day.\n\n‘But gather all my saints,’ He cries,\n‘That made their peace with God\nBy the Redeemer’s sacrifice,\nAnd seal’d it with His blood.\nTheir faith and works, brought forth to light\nShall make the world confess\nMy sentence of reward is right,\nAnd heav’n adore my grace.’" }, "594": { "metadata": { "Title": "National Blessings", "Collation": "National Blessings", "Alternative Title": "A Glimpse of Thee", "Page": "594", "Tune Composer": "Karlsberg, Jesse Pearlman", "Tune Composition Date": "2009", "Lyrics": "Woodhull, A. A.", "Lyrics Date": "1831", "Meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)" }, "lyrics": "Great God of nations now to Thee,\nOur hymn of gratitude we raise,\nWith humble heart and bending knee,\nWe offer Thee our song of praise.\n\nChorus:\n\nGreat God preserve us in thy fear;\nIn dangers still our guardian be:\nO spread Thy truth’s bright precepts here;\nLet all the people worship Thee.\n\nThy name we bless, Almighty God,\nFor all the kindness Thou hast shown,\nTo this fair land the Pilgrims trod,\nThis land we fondly call our own.\n\n(Chorus)" } }