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Heralds of Christ, who bear the King's commands
Author: Laura Scherer Copenhaver, 1868 - 1940 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #320 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Propagation of the Gospel Lyrics: 1 Heralds of Christ, who bear the King's commands,
Immortal tidings in your mortal hands,
Pass on and carry swift the news ye bring:
Make straight, make straight the highway of the King.
2 Through desert ways, dark fen, and deep morass,
Through jungles, sluggish seas, and mountain pass,
Build ye the road, and falter not, nor stay;
Prepare across the earth the King's highway. A-men.
3 Where once the crooked trail in darkness wound
Let marching feet and joyous song resound;
Where burn the funeral pyres, and censers swing,
Make straight, make straight the highway of the King.
4 Lord, give us faith and strength the road to build,
To see the promise of the day fulfilled,
When war shall be no more and strife shall cease
Upon the highway of the Prince of Peace.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: LONGWOOD
Heralds of Christ, who bear the King's commands
Hills of the North, rejoice
Author: Charles Edward Oakley, 1832 - 65 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #321 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Propagation of the Gospel Lyrics: 1 Hills of the North, rejoice;
River and mountain-spring,
Hark to the advent voice!
Valley and lowland, sing!
Though absent long, your Lord is nigh;
He judgment brings, and victory.
2 Isles of the southern seas,
Deep in your coral caves
Pent be each warring breeze,
Lulled be your restless waves;
He comes to reign with boundless sway,
And makes your wastes his great highway.
3 Lands of the East, awake!
Soon shall your sons be free;
The sleep of ages break,
And rise to liberty.
On your far hills, long cold and grey,
Has dawned the everlasting day.
4 Shores of the utmost West,
Ye that have waited long,
Unvisited, unblest,
Break forth to swelling song;
High raise the note, that Jesus died,
Yet lives and reigns, the Crucified.
5 Shout, while ye journey home!
Songs be in every mouth!
Lo, from the North we come,
From East, and West, and South:
City of God, the bond are free,
We come to live and reign in thee!
Languages: English Tune Title: LITTLE CORNARD
Hills of the North, rejoice
Look from thy sphere of endless day
Author: William Cullen Bryant, 1794 - 1878 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #325 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Propagation of the Gospel Lyrics: 1 Look from thy sphere of endless day,
O God of mercy and of might;
In pity look on those who stray,
Benighted in this land of light.
2 In peopled vale, in lonely glen,
In crowded mart, by stream or sea,
How many of the sons of men
Hear not the message sent from thee. A-men.
3 Send forth thy heralds, Lord, to call
The thoughtless young, the hardened old,
A scattered flock, and bring them all
To the good Shepherd's peaceful fold.
4 Send them thy mighty word, to speak
Till faith shall dawn and doubt depart,
To awe the bold, to stay the weak,
And bind and heal the broken heart.
5 Then all these wastes, a dreary scene
On which, with sorrowing eyes, we gaze,
Shall grow with living waters green,
And lift to heaven the voice of praise.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. CRISPIN
Look from thy sphere of endless day
I love to tell the story
Author: Katherine Hankey, 1834 - 1911 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #326 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Propagation of the Gospel First Line: I love to tell the story Lyrics: 1 I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story,
Because I know its true;
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else would do.
Refrain:
I love to tell the story;
'Twill be my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love.
2 I love to tell the story,
'Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it,
More wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story,
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
From God's own holy word. [Refrain]
3 I love to tell the story,
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story,
That I have loved so long. [Refrain]
Languages: English Tune Title: HANKEY
I love to tell the story
The Lord will come and not be slow
Author: John Milton, 1608 - 74 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #327 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Kingdom of God Lyrics: 1 The Lord will come and not be slow,
His footsteps cannot err;
Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.
2 Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then;
And justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men. A-men.
3 Rise, God, judge thou the earth in might,
This wicked earth redress;
For thou art he who shalt by right
The nations all possess.
4 The nations all whom thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before thee, Lord,
And glorify thy Name.
5 For great thou art, and wonders great
By thy strong hand are done:
Thou in thy everlasting seat
Remainest God alone.
Amen. Scripture: Psalm 82:4 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. STEPHEN (NEWINGTON)
The Lord will come and not be slow
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
Author: James Montgomery, 1771 - 1854 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #328 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Kingdom of God Lyrics: 1 Hail to the Lord's Anointed,
Great David's greater Son!
Hail, in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captive free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.
2 He comes with succor speedy
To those who suffer wrong,
To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;
To give them songs for sighing,
Their darkness turn to light,
Whose souls, condemned and dying,
Were precious in his sight.
3 He shall come down like showers
Upon the fruitful earth;
And love, joy, hope, the flowers,
Spring in his path to birth:
Before him on the mountains
Shall peace, the herald, go;
And righteousness in fountains
From hill to valley flow.
4 Kings shall fall down before him,
And gold and incense bring;
All nations shall adore him,
His praise all people sing.
To him shall prayer unceasing
And daily vows ascend;
His kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end. Scripture: Psalm 72 Languages: English Tune Title: WESTWOOD
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
Thy kingdom come, O God
Author: Lewis Hensley, 1824 - 1905 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #329 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Kingdom of God Lyrics: 1 Thy kingdom come, O God,
Thy rule, O Christ, begin;
Break with thine iron rod
The tyrannies of sin.
2 Where is thy reign of peace
And purity and love?
When shall all hatred cease,
As in the realms above? A-men.
3 When comes the promised time
That war shall be no more,
And lust, oppression, crime,
Shall flee thy face before?
4 We pray thee, Lord, arise,
And come in thy great might;
Revive our longing eyes,
Which languish for thy sight.
5 Men scorn thy sacred Name,
And wolves devour thy fold;
By many deeds of shame
We learn that love grows cold.
6 O'er heathen lands afar
Thick darkness broodeth yet;
Arise, O Morning Star,
Arise, and never set!
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. CECILIA
Thy kingdom come, O God
Full many shall come from the east and the west
Author: Peer Olsen Stromme, 1856 - 1921; Laurence N. Field, b.1896; Magnus Brostrup Landstad, 1802 - 80 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #333 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work The Kingdom of God Lyrics: 1 Full many shall come from the east and the west
And sit at the feast of salvation,
With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the blest,
Obeying the Lord's invitation.
Have mercy upon us, O Jesus!
2 May we too give heed when our Saviour doth call
In accents persuasive and tender,
And may we be guests at his feast, one and all,
Our praise and obeisance to render.
Have mercy upon us, O Jesus!
3 Then ended will be, like a dream that is past,
All trial and trouble and sorrow;
All questions and doubts will be answered at last,
When dawneth eternity' morrow.
Have mercy upon us, O Jesus!
4 Then heaven will ring with an anthem more grand
Than ever on earth was recorded,
When all of the saved shall receive at his hand
The crown to the victors awarded.
Have mercy upon us, O Jesus!
Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: STOCKHOLM
Full many shall come from the east and the west
O holy Lord, content to fill
Author: William Walsham How, 1823 - 97 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #334 (1958) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Church Life and Work Home and Family Lyrics: 1 O holy Lord, content to fill
In lowly home the lowliest place,
Thy childhood’s law a mother’s will,
Obedience meek thy brightest grace;
2 Lead every child that bears thy Name
To walk in thine own guileless way,
To dread the touch of sin and shame,
And humbly, like thyself, obey. A-men.
3 Gather thy lambs within thine arm,
And gently in thy bosom bear;
Keep them, O Lord, from hurt and harm,
And bid them rest forever there.
4 So shall they waiting here below,
Like thee their Lord, a little span,
In wisdom and in stature grow,
And favor with both God and man.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ABENDS
O holy Lord, content to fill
Sing to the Lord the children's hymn
Author: Robert Stephen Hawker, 1804 - 75 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #335 (1958) Topics: Church Life and Work Home and Family Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord the children’s hymn,
His gentle love declare,
Who bends amid the seraphim
To hear the children’s prayer.
2 He at a mother’s breast was fed,
Though God’s own Son was he;
He learnt the first small words he said
At a meek mother’s knee. A-men.
3 He held us to his mighty breast,
The children of the earth;
He lifted up his hands and blessed
The babes of human birth.
4 Lo! from the stars his face will turn
On us with glances mild;
The angels of His presence yearn
To bless the little child.
5 Keep us, O Jesus Lord, for thee,
That so by thy dear grace
We, children of the font, may see
Our heavenly Father’s face.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. HUGH
Sing to the Lord the children's hymn
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