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Arise, Your Light Has Come

Author: Ruth Duck, b. 1947 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Topics: Society; Epiphany Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Hail to the Brightness of Zion's Glad Morning!

Author: Thomas Hastings Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 486 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning! Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain! Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning; Zion in triumph begins her mild reign. 2 Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning! Long by the prophets of Israel foretold! Hail to the millions from bondage returning! Gentiles and Jews the blest vision behold. 3 Lo, in the desert rich flowers are springing, streams ever copious are gliding along; loud from the mountain-tops echoes are ringing, wastes rise in verdure and mingle in song. 4 See, from all lands, from the isles of the ocean, praise to Jehovah ascending on high; fall'n are the engines of war and commotion, shouts of salvation are rending the sky. Topics: The Church The Church of Christ Used With Tune: WESLEY

On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry

Author: Charles Coffin (1676-1749); John Chandler (1806-1876) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 250 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry announces that the Lord is nigh; awake and hearken for he brings glad tidings of the King of kings. 2 Then cleansed be every heart from sin; make straight the way for God within; prepare we in our hearts a home, where such a mighty Guest may come. 3 For you are our salvation, Lord, our refuge and our great reward; without your grace we waste away, like flowers that wither and decay. 4 Stretch out your hand, to heal our sore, and make us rise to fall no more; once more upon your people shine, and fill the world with love divine. 5 All praise to you, eternal Son, whose advent has our freedom won, whom with the Father we adore, and Holy Spirit, evermore. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Public Ministry; Christian Year Lent; Christian Year Season of Epiphany; Jesus baptism Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW (CRASSELIUS)

Rise, crowned with light, great Salem, rise!

Author: Pope Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 222 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 Rise, crowned with light, great Salem, rise! Exalt thine head and lift thine eyes; See a long race thy courts adorn, Of sons and daughters yet unborn. 2 See nations at thy gates attend, And lowly in thy temple bend; See crowds on every side arise, Eager to mount above the skies. 3 See heaven its portals wide display, And pour on thee a flood of day! Thy day shall shine forever bright, For God himself shall be thy light. 4 What though the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall, and mountains melt away! Fixed in his word, his power remains: Thy glorious King, Messiah, reigns! Topics: Christ Intercession and Reign; Reign of the Messiah

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-1875) Meter: 12.10.12.10 Appears in 156 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; bow down before him, His glory proclaim; gold of obedience and incense of lowliness bring, and adore him; the Lord is his Name! 2 Low at his feet lay thy burden of carefulness; high on his heart he will bear it for thee, comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness, guiding thy steps as may best for thee be. 3 Fear not to enter his courts, in the slenderness of the poor wealth thou canst reckon as thine; truth in its beauty and love in its tenderness, these are the offerings to lay on His shrine. 4 These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness, he will accept for the Name that is dear, mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness, trust for our trembling, and hope for our fear. 5 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; bow down before him, His glory proclaim; gold of obedience and incense of lowliness bring, and adore him; the Lord is his Name! Topics: Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; Our Response to Christ In Dedication; Adoration Of God; Beauty; Offering of gifts; Offering of self Used With Tune: MOREDUN

Rise, Shine, You People

Author: Ronald A. Klug Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: First Line: Rise, shine, you people! Christ the Lord has entered Topics: The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Opening Hymns; Testimony and Witness Used With Tune: WOJTKIEWIECZ

Arise, Shine

Appears in 2,815 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 60 First Line: Arise, shine out, for your light has come, Topics: Scripture Readings

Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning

Author: Reginald Heber Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 940 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 Brightest and best of the Sons of the Morning, dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; star of the East, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Cold on his cradle the dewdrops are shining; low lies his head with the beasts of the stall: angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch, and Savior of all! 3 Shall we not yield him in costly devotion, odors of Edom and offerings divine, gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine? 4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts would his favor secure: richer by far is the heart's adoration, dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. Topics: Jesus Christ Epiphany and Youth Used With Tune: MORNING STAR

We Three Kings of Orient Are

Author: John Henry Hopkins Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.6 with refrain Appears in 346 hymnals Scripture: Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of night Lyrics: 1 We three kings of Orient are; bearing gifts we traverse afar, field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star. Refrain: O star of wonder, star of night, star with royal beauty bright, westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light! 2 Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain, gold I bring to crown him again, King forever, ceasing never over us all to reign. [Refrain] 3 Frankincense to offer have I; incense owns a deity nigh; prayer and praising gladly raising, worshiping God Most High. [Refrain] 4 Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom; sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone-cold tomb. [Refrain] 5 Glorious now behold him arise, King and God and Sacrifice: Alleluia! Alleluia! sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain] Topics: Christian Year Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Birth Used With Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT

Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying

Author: Philipp Nicolai; Catherine Winkworth Meter: Irregular Appears in 223 hymnals Scripture: Lyrics: 1 Wake, awake, for night is flying, the watchmen on the heights are crying; awake, Jerusalem, at last. Midnight hears the welcome voices, and at the thrilling cry rejoices: "Come forth, you maidens! Night is past. The bridegroom comes! Awake; your lamps with gladness take!" Alleluia! Prepare yourselves to meet the Lord, whose light has stirred the waiting guard. 2 Zion hears the watchmen singing, and in her heart new joy is springing. She wakes, she rises from her gloom, for her Lord comes down all-glorious, and strong in grace, in truth victorious. Her star is risen; her light is come. O, come, you Blessed One, Lord Jesus, God's own Son. Sing hosanna! We go until the halls we view where you have bid us dine with you. 3 Now let all the heavens adore you, and saints and angels sing before you. The harps and cymbals all unite. Of one pearl each shining portal, where, dwelling with the choir immortal, we gather round your dazzling light. No eye has seen, no ear has yet been trained to hear what joy is ours! Crescendos rise; your halls resound; hosannas blend in cosmic sound. Topics: Advent Season; Advent Season; Heaven; Jesus Christ Bridegroom; Jesus Christ Light; Jesus Christ Lord; Jesus Christ Son of God; Music and Singing Used With Tune: WACHET AUF