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Oh, for a closer walk with God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,368 hymnals Topics: God the Father Desire For Lyrics: 1 Oh, for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and His word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove! return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb. Used With Tune: EVAN

The Penitent's Hope

Appears in 44 hymnals Topics: Aspirations For Christ; Aspirations For Grace; Assurance Desired; Christians Believers; Christians Saved by Grace; Faith Act of; Gospel Fullness of; Hope in God; Pardon; Penitence; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Pardon; Repentance; Salvation From Sin and Troubled; Salvation God's Gift; Sin Confessed; Sin Salvation from; Waiting on God First Line: From the depth do I invoke thee Refrain First Line: I am waiting, I am waiting Scripture: Psalm 130 Used With Tune: [From the depth do I invoke thee]

As the Deer Pants for the Water

Author: Greg Scheer Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Desiring God Refrain First Line: Why should I let this sorrow fill my soul? Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: [As the deer pants for the water]

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EVENING PRAYER

Appears in 211 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George C. Stebbins Topics: Aspirations For Christ; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Holiness; Assurance Desired; Christians Believers; Faith Act of; Gospel Fulness of ; Hope; Pardon Set Forth; Pardon Sought; Penitence; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Pardon; Prayer Importunity in ; Resignation; Salvation From Sin and Trouble; Salvation God's Gift; Sin Confession of; Sin Salvation from; Waiting upon God ; Watchfulness Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56655 11716 55676 Used With Text: Waiting Upon God

[Praise waits for thee in Zion]

Appears in 366 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Dr. L. Mason Topics: Access to God; Aspirations For Church Privileges; Aspirations For Heaven; Assurance Desired; Blessedness Of God's Chosen; Christ Grace and Love of; Christ The Savior; Christ Worshiped; Christians Fellowship of; Christians Saved by Grace; Deliverance From Sin; Election Divine; Faith Confession of; God Good; God Hearer of Prayer; God Loving and Merciful; Gospel Privileges of; Missions Influence of; Pardon; Praise A Part of Public Worship; Praise By Saints; Praise By the Entire Creation; Praise For Work of Redemption; Prayer Confession in; Prayer confidence in; Prayer For the Church; Prayer God Hears; Sin Confessed; Sin Salvation from; Vows; Worship Delightful to Saints Incipit: 12333 21215 13555 Used With Text: God's grace magnified

REFUGE

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 281 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph P. Holbrook Topics: Christian Activity; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Holiness; Assurance Desired; Baptism; Character Depraved from Birth; Character New Birth Essential to Good; Christ Confessing; Christians Debt of; Christians Duties of; Christians Evangelists; Christians Graces of; Christians Saved by Grace; Deliverance From Sin; Faith Act of; Faith Walking by; God Love and Mercy; Gospel Freeness of ; Gospel Preaching of; Gospel Prevalence and Power of; Gospel Sanctifying and Saving; Grace Justifying; Grace Restoring; Grace Sovereign ; Heart Claimed of God; Heart Good, Perfect, Pure and Upright; Holiness Of Christians; The Holy Spirit; Humility; Joy Prayer for; Man Sinful and Lost Condition; Pardon Sought; Parents and Children; Penitence; Praise For Work of Redemption; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Grace and Salvation; Prayer For Pardon; Regeneration; Repentance; Revival; The Righteous Contrasted with the Wicked; Sin Confession of; Sin Conviction of; Sin Hatred of; Sin Original; Sin Salvation from; Sin Washed away; Thanksgiving For God's Mercies; Truth; Worship Sincerity in Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33314 33112 34654 Used With Text: A Penitent's Plea

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Let This Be My Supreme Desire

Author: Michael Perry Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #729 (2013) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Desiring God Lyrics: 1 Let this be my supreme desire, my object and my prayer, until I stand before your throne to glorify you there: 2 To lead a blameless life, O Lord, to trust you without fear, to bring my humble heart to you and know your love is near: 3 To walk before you in the truth, to shun all evil ways, to come into your house to pray and shout aloud your praise: 4 Let this be my supreme desire, my object and my prayer, until I stand before your throne to glorify you there! Scripture: Psalm 26 Languages: English Tune Title: WINCHESTER OLD

How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #84E (2012) Topics: Desiring God; God Desire for Lyrics: 1 How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts, to me! My thirsty soul desires and longs within thy courts to be; my very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 2 Beside thine altars, gracious Lord, the swallows find a nest; how happy they who dwell with thee and praise thee without rest, and happy they whose hearts are set upon the pilgrims' quest. 3 They who go through the desert vale will find it filled with springs, and they shall climb from height to height till Zion's temple rings with praise to thee, in glory throned, Lord God, great King of kings. 4 One day within thy courts excels a thousand spent away; how happy they who keep thy laws nor from thy precepts stray, for thou shalt surely bless all those who live the words they pray. Optional stanza from Psalm 23: Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me, and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be; and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 84 Tune Title: BROTHER JAMES' AIR

As the Deer

Author: Martin Nystrom Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #42D (2012) Topics: Desiring God First Line: As the deer pants for the water Scripture: Psalm 42 Languages: English Tune Title: [As the deer pants for the water]

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Joseph Addison

1672 - 1719 Topics: God; Chorus (If Desired) Author of "The Spacious Firmament on High" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through his contributions to The Spectator, The Toiler, The Guardian, and The Freeholder. To the first of these he contributed his hymns. His Cato, a tragedy, is well known and highly esteemed. Addison's claims to the authorship of the hymns usually ascribed to him, or to certain of them, have been called in question on two occasions. The first was the publication, by Captain Thompson, of certain of those hymns in his edition of the Works of Andrew Marvell, 1776, as the undoubted compositions of Marvell; and the second, a claim in the Athenaeum, July 10th, 1880, on behalf of the Rev. Richard Richmond. Fully to elucidate the subject it will be necessary, therefore, to give a chronological history of the hymns as they appeared in the Spectator from time to time. i. The History of the Hymns in The Spectator. This, as furnished in successive numbers of the Spectator is :— 1. The first of these hymns appeared in the Spectator of Saturday, July 26, 1712, No. 441, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. The article in which it appeared was on Divine Providence, signed “C." The hymn itself, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," was introduced with these words:— "David has very beautifully represented this steady reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third psalm, which is a kind of pastoral hymn, and filled with those allusions which are usual in that kind of writing As the poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it." (Orig. Broadsheet, Brit. Mus.) 2. The second hymn appeared in the Spectator on Saturday, Aug. 9, 1712, No. 453, in 13 st. of 4 1., and forms the conclusion of an essay on " Gratitude." It is also signed " C," and is thus introduced:— “I have already obliged the public with some pieces of divine poetry which have fallen into my hands, and as they have met with the reception which they deserve, I shall, from time to time, communicate any work of the same nature which has not appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum) Then follows the hymn:—"When all Thy mercies, 0 my God." 3. The number of the Spectator for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1712, No. 461, is composed of three parts. The first is an introductory paragraph by Addison, the second, an unsigned letter from Isaac Watts, together with a rendering by him of Ps. 114th; and the third, a letter from Steele. It is with the first two we have to deal. The opening paragraph by Addison is:— “For want of time to substitute something else in the Boom of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters. It is no small Satisfaction, to have given Occasion to ingenious Men to employ their Thoughts upon sacred Subjects from the Approbation of such Pieces of Poetry as they have seen in my Saturday's papers. I shall never publish Verse on that Day but what is written by the same Hand; yet shall I not accompany those Writings with Eulogiums, but leave them to speak for themselves." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum

Stuart K. Hine

1899 - 1989 Topics: God; Chorus (If Desired) Author of "How Great Thou Art" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns Stuart K. Hine was born in 1899 in Great Britain. In much of Stuart’s earlier years he and his wife were missionaries in the Western Ukraine of Russia, where they evangelized as Christian workers and singers. In 1931, Stuart K. Hine and his wife returned to Britain and conducted gospel campaigns throughout Great Britain. During those years, Stuart published many song books and wrote many of his beloved gospel songs. Stuart retired from the active ministry but continued to publish his song books and his music and contributed the majority of his income to various missionary endeavors around the world…Stuart K. Hine’s most popular composition is “How Great Thou Art,” which is recognized in many polls as the number one Hymn in America. Among his other compositions are “Can There Be One,” “O Savior Mine?”, “Faith Is The Bridge,” and “What Can Cleanse My heart?” Mr. Hine died in 1989. --www.gmahalloffame.org/site/stuart-k-hine/

Joseph Haydn

1732 - 1809 Person Name: Haydn Topics: God; Chorus (If Desired) Composer of "[The spacious firmament on high]" in Church Gospel Songs and Hymns Franz Joseph Haydn (b. Rohrau, Austria, 1732; d. Vienna, Austria, 1809) Haydn's life was relatively uneventful, but his artistic legacy was truly astounding. He began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, spent some years in that city making a precarious living as a music teacher and composer, and then served as music director for the Esterhazy family from 1761 to 1790. Haydn became a most productive and widely respected composer of symphonies, chamber music, and piano sonatas. In his retirement years he took two extended tours to England, which resulted in his "London" symphonies and (because of G. F. Handel's influence) in oratorios. Haydn's church music includes six great Masses and a few original hymn tunes. Hymnal editors have also arranged hymn tunes from various themes in Haydn's music. Bert Polman

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