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Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father
Author: Harriet Parr, 1828— Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Private Devotions Used With Tune: STUTTGART
Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father
While Thee I seek, protecting Power
Author: Helen Maria Williams, 1762-1827 Appears in 684 hymnals Topics: Private Devotions Used With Tune: ST. PETER
While Thee I seek, protecting Power
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee
Author: William Cowper Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 268 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Far from the world, O Lord, I flee,
From strife and tumult far;
From scenes where Satan wages still
His most successful war.
2 The calm retreat, the silent shade,
With prayer and praise agree;
And seem by Thy sweet bounty made
For those who follow Thee.
3 There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul,
And grace her mean abode,
O with what peace, and joy, and love,
She communes with her God!
4 There, like the nightingale, she pours
Her solitary lays;
Nor asks a witness of her song,
Nor thirsts for human praise.
5 Author and Guardian of my life,
Sweet Source of light divine,
And, all harmonious names in one,
My Saviour,--Thou art mine!
6 What thanks I owe Thee, and what love,
A boundless, endless store,
Shall echo through the realms above
When time shall be no more! Used With Tune: REDHEAD, 66
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee
Do not I love Thee, O my Lord?
Author: Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 320 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Do not I love Thee, O my Lord?
Behold my heart and see;
And cast each idol from its throne,
That dares to rival Thee.
2 Is not Thy Name melodious still
To my attentive ear?
Doth not each pulse with pleasure bound,
My Saviour's voice to hear?
3 Hast Thou a lamb in all Thy flock
I would disdain to feed?
Hast Thou a foe, before whose face
I fear Thy cause to plead?
4 Thou know'st I love Thee, dearest Lord;
But O, I long to soar
Far from the sphere of mortal joys,
That I may love Thee more. Used With Tune: ST. FULBERT
Do not I love Thee, O my Lord?
Let sinners take their course
Author: Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 162 hymnals Topics: The Christian Family Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Let sinners take their course,
And choose the road to death;
But in the worship of my God,
I'll spend my daily breath.
2 My thoughts address his throne,
When morning brings the light;
I seek his blessing every noon,
And pay my vows at night.
3 Thou wilt regard my cries,
O my eternal God,
While sinners perish in surprise
Beneath thine angry rod.
Scripture: Psalm 55
Let sinners take their course
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Author: Sarah Flower Adams Meter: 6.4 Appears in 2,490 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee;
Nearer to Thee!
2 Though, like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee;
Nearer to Thee!
3 There let my way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that Thou sendest me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee;
Nearer to Thee!
4 Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to Thee;
Nearer to Thee!
5 Or if on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upwards I fly;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee;
Nearer to Thee!
Used With Tune: HORBURY
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Father Divine, thy piercing eye
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 103 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Father Divine, thy piercing eye
Sees thro' the darkest night;
In deep retirement thou art nigh,
With heart-discerning sight.
2 There may thy piercing eye survey
My solemn homage paid,
With ev'ry morning's dawning ray,
And ev'ry evening's shade.
3 Oh, let thy own celestial fire
The incense still inflame;
While my warm vows to thee aspire,
Thro' my Redeemer's name.
4 So shall the visits of thy love
My soul in secret bless;
So shalt thou deign in worlds above
Thy suppliant to confess. Scripture: Matthew 6:6
Father Divine, thy piercing eye
With years opprest, with sorrow worn
Author: Sir Robert Grant Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 With years opprest, with sorrow worn,
Dejected, harassed, sick, forlorn,
To Thee, O God, I pray:
To Thee my withered hands arise,
To Thee I left these failing eyes;
O cast me not away!
2 Thy mercy heard my infant prayer:
Thy Love, with all a mother's care,
Sustained my childish days:
Thy goodness watched my ripening youth,
And formed my heart to love Thy truth,
And filled my lips with praise.
3 O Saviour, has Thy grace declined?
Can years affect the eternal Mind,
Or time its Love decay?
A thousand ages in Thy sight,
And all their long and weary flight,
Are gone like yesterday.
4 Then, even in age and grief, Thy Name
Shall still my languid heart inflame,
And bow my faltering knee:
O yet this bosom feels the fire;
This trembling hand and drooping lyre
Have yet a strain for Thee!
5 Yes, broken, tuneless, still, O Lord,
This voice, transported, shall record
Thy goodness, tried so long;
Till, sinking slow with calm decay,
Its feeble murmurs melt away
Into a seraph's song.
Used With Tune: ST. SIMEON
With years opprest, with sorrow worn
I love to steal awhile away
Author: Phoebe H. Brown Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 631 hymnals Topics: Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
2 I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear,
And all His promises to plead
Where none but God can hear.
3 I love to think on mercies past,
And future good implore,
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.
4 I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes in heaven;
The prospect doth my strength renew,
While here by tempests driven.
5 Thus when life's toilsome day is o'er,
May its departing ray
Be calm as this impressive hour,
And lead to endless day. Used With Tune: WOLVERHAMPTON
I love to steal awhile away
Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream
Author: Anon. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 85 hymnals Topics: The Christian Family Private Devotion Lyrics: 1 Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream
In earnest pleading flows;
Devotion dwells upon the theme,
And warm and warmer glows.
2 Faith grasps the blessing she desires;
Hope points the upward gaze;
And Love, celestial Love inspires
The eloquence of praise.
3 But sweeter far the still small voice
Unheard by human ear,
When God has made the heart rejoice
And dried the bitter tear.
4 No accents flow, no words ascend;
All utterance faileth there;
But sainted spirits comprehend,
And God accepts the prayer.
Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream
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