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Courage, brother! Do not stumble

Author: Norman MacLeod Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 181 hymnals Topics: Brotherhoods and Men's Guilds; Church Work; Duty, Voice of; Social Progress Used With Tune: COURAGE, BROTHER

Bright source of everlasting love!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 71 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Bright source of everlasting love! To thee our souls we raise; And to thy matchless bounty rear A monument of praise. 2 Thy mercy gilds the path of life With ev'ry cheering ray; Kindly restrains the rising tear, Or wipes that tear away. 3 When, sunk in guilt, our race approach'd The borders of despair; Thy grace through Jesus' blood proclaim'd A free salvation near. 4 What shall we render, bounteous Lord, For all the grace we see? Alas! the goodness worms can yield Extendeth not to thee. 5 To tents of woe, to beds of pain, Our cheerful feet repair; And, with the gifts thy hand bestows, Relieve the mourners there. 6 The widow's heart shall sing for joy; The orphan shall be glad; And hung'ring souls we'll gladly point To Christ the living bread. 7 Thus, passing through this vale of tears, Our useful light shall shine; And other learn to glorify Our Father's name divine.

Daughters of pity, tune the lay

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Daughters of pity, tune the lay; To mourners joy belongs; While he, that wipes all tears away, Accepts our thankful songs. 2 No altars smoke, no off'rings bleed, No guiltless lives expire; To help a brother in his need, Is all our rites require. 3 Our off'ring is a willing mind To comfort the distrust; In others' good our own we find, In others' blessing blest. 4 Go to the pillow of disease, Where night gives no repose, And on the cheek, where sickness preys, Bid health to plant a rose. 5 Go where the friendless stranger lies; To perish is his doom: Snatch from the grave his closing eyes, And bring his blessing home. 6 Thus, what our heav'nly Father gave, Shall we as freely give; Thus copy him, who liv'd to save, And died that we might live.

Blest is the man whose heart expands

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Blest is the man whose heart expands At melting pity's call, And the rich blessings of whose hands Like heav'nly manna fall. 2 Be ours the bliss in wisdom's way To guide untutor'd youth, And lead the mind that went astray To virtue and to truth. 3 Children our kind protection claim, And God will well approve, When infants learn to lisp his name, And their Creator love. 4 Delightful work, young souls to win, And turn the rising race From the deceitful paths of sin, To seek redeeming grace! 5 Almighty God! thy influence shed To aid this good design: The honours of thy name be spread, And all the glory thine.

Absurd and vain attempt! to bind

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 50 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Absurd and vain attempt! to bind With iron chains the free-born mind, To force conviction, and reclaim The wand'ring by destructive flame. 2 Bold arrogance! to snatch from heav'n Dominion not to mortals giv'n; O'er conscience to usurp the throne, Accountable to God alone. 3 Jesus! thy gentle law of love Does no such cruelties approve; Mild as thy self, thy doctrine wields No arms but what persuasion yields. 4 By proofs divine, and reason strong, It draws the willing soul along; And conquests to thy church acquires By eloquence which heav'n inspires. 5 O happy, who are thus compell'd To the rich feast, by Jesus held! May we this blessing know, and prize The light which liberty supplies.

Great God! whilst I thy love admire

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Great God! whilst I thy love admire, Grant me to catch the sacred fire: Thus shall my heav'nly birth be known, And as thy child thou wilt me own. 2 Father, I see thy sun arise, To cheer thy friends and enemies; And when from heav'n thy rain descends, Thy bounty both alike befriends. 3 Enlarge my soul with love like thine; My mortal pow'rs by grace refine: So shall I feel another's woe, And freely feed a hungry foe. 4 I hope for pardon, through thy Son, For all the crimes which I have done: Then may the grace, that pardons me, Constrain me to forgive like thee.

Behold, where, breathing love

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 50 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Behold, where, breathing love, Our dying Master stands! His weeping follow'rs, gath'ring round, Receive his last commands. 2 From that mild Saviour's lips What tender accents fell! The gentle precept, which he gave, Became its author well. 3 Blest is the man, whose heart Feels all another's pain; To whom the supplicating eye Was never rais'd in vain; 4 Whose breast expands with warmth, A stranger's woe to feel, And bleeds in pity o'er the wound He wants the pow'r to heal. 5 To offices of love His feet are never slow; He views through mercy's melting eye A brother in a foe. 6 Peace from his Father God, My peace to him I give; And, when he kneels before the throne, His trembling soul shall live. 7 To him shall grace be shewn; And mercy from above Descend on those, who thus fulfill The perfect law of love.

All-seeing God! 'tis thine to know

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 69 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 All-seeing God! ’tis Thine to know The springs whence wrong opinions flow,— To judge, from principles within, When frailty errs, and when we sin. 2 Who, among men, great Lord of all! Thy servant to his bar shall call? Judge him, for modes of faith, thy foe, And doom him to the realms of woe? 3 Who with another’s eye can read, Or worship by another’s creed? Trusting thy grace, we form our own, And bow to thy commands alone. 4 If wrong, correct; accept, if right; While faithful we improve our light, Condemning none, but zealous still To learn and follow all thy will.

If high or low our station be

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 21 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 If high or low our station be, Of noble or ignoble name; By uncorrupted honesty, Thy blessing, Lord, we'll humbly claim. 2 Enrich'd with that, no want we'll fear, Thy providence shall be our trust. Thou wilt supply our portion here, Thou friend and guardian of the just! 3 Oh! may we, with sincere delight, To all the task of duty pay; Tender of ev'ry social right, Obedient to thy lawful sway! 4 Such virtue thou wilt not forget In that blest world, where virtue shares A fit reward; though not of debt, But what thy boundless grace prepares.

Blest is the man whose heart is kind

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Social Duties Lyrics: 1 Blest is the man, whose heart is kind And melts with pity to the poor; Who, with a sympathizing mind, Feels what his fellowmen endure. 2 His heart contrives for their relief More good than his own hands can do; He in the time of gen'ral grief Shall find, the Lord hath pity too. 3 This man shall live secure on earth, With secret blessings on his head; Though sword, or pestilence, or dearth Around him multiply their dead. 4 Or, if with mortal suff'rings try'd, Suff'rings shall all his soul refine, Sweet hope his refuge shall provide, And minister a bliss divine.