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Rise Up, O Saints of God!

Author: Norman O. Forness, b. 1936 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Vocation, Ministry; Witness; Commitment, Discipleship; Vocation, Ministry; Witness Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Give to the Winds Your Fears

Author: Paul Gerhardt; John Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 518 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Give to the winds your fears, hope, and be undismayed; God hears your sighs and counts your tears, God shall lift up your head. 2 Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears the way; wait for His time, so shall the night soon end in joyous day. 3 Far, far above your thought His counsel shall appear, when fully He the work has wrought that caused your needless fear. 4 Leave to His sovereign will to choose and to command: with wonder filled, you then shall know how wise, how strong His hand. Topics: God the Father Sustainer; Assurance; Comfort Scripture: Psalm 37 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Rise Up, O Men of God

Author: William P. Merrill Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 253 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Rise up, O men* of God! Have done with lesser things. Give heart and mind and soul and strength to serve the King of kings. 2. Rise up, O men of God! The kingdom tarries long. Bring in the day of brotherhood and end the night of wrong. 3. Rise up, O men of God! The church for you doth wait, her strength unequal to her task; rise up, and make her great! 4. Lift high the cross of Christ! Tread where his feet have trod. As brothers of the Son of Man, rise up, O men of God! * "Ye saints" may be substituted for "O men" Topics: The Nature of the Church Called to God's Mission; Mission and Outreach; Social Concerns; Stewardship; Zeal Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Stand Up and Bless the Lord

Author: James Montgomery Appears in 398 hymnals Topics: God; Praise; Worship Scripture: Psalm 63:4 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Come, We That Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,787 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne. 2. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God; But children of the heav'nly King May speak their joys abroad. 3. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heav'nly fields, Or walk the golden streets. 4. Then let our songs abound, And ev'ry tear be dry; We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground, To fairer worlds on high. Scripture: Ephesians 5:20 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Ye Messengers of Christ

Author: Mrs. Vokes Appears in 182 hymnals First Line: Ye messengers of Christ! Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Christian Life Witnessing, Speaking of Jesus Scripture: Luke 14:23 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

My Heart Doth Overflow

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: 1 My heart doth overflow, a goodly theme is mine; my eager tongue with joyful song doth praise the King Divine. 2 Supremely fair Thou art, Thy lips with grace o'erflow; His richest blessings evermore doth God on Thee bestow. 3 Now gird Thee with Thy sword, O strong and mighty One, in splendid majesty arrayed, more glorious than the sun. 4 Triumphantly ride forth for meekness, truth, and right; Thy arm shall gain the victory in wondrous deeds of might. 5 Thy strength shall overcome all those that hate the King, and under Thy dominion strong the nations Thou shalt bring. 6 Thy royal throne, O God, forevermore shall stand; eternal truth and justice wield the scepter in Thy hand. 7 Since Thou art sinless found, the Lord, Thy God confessed, anointeth Thee with perfect joy, Thou art supremely blessed. 8 Thy garments breathe of myrrh and spices sweet and rare; glad strains of heavenly music ring throughout Thy palace fair. 9 Amid Thy glorious train kings’ daughters waiting stand, and fairest gems bedeck Thy bride, the queen at Thy right hand. 10 O King of royal race, Thy sons of heavenly birth Thou wilt endow with kingly gifts As princes in the earth. 11 Thy name shall be proclaimed Through all succeeding days, And all the nations of the earth Shall give Thee endless praise. Topics: Revelation Scripture: Psalm 45 Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

Believe not those who say

Author: Anne Brontë Appears in 67 hymnals Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

Rejoice, ye pure in heart

Author: Dean E. H. Plumptre Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 426 hymnals Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving; Lay Helpers and Teachers Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

For All Your Saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For all your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to live, who followed you, obeyed, adored, our grateful hymn receive. 2 For all your saints, O Lord, who strove in you to die, who counted you their great reward, accept our thankful cry. 3 They all in life and death, with you, their Lord, in view, learned from your Holy Spirit's breath to suffer and to do. 4 For this, your name we bless and humbly pray anew that we like them in holiness may live and die in you. 5 To God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest, the One in Three, the Three in One, be endless praise addressed. Topics: Festivals, Commemorations; Festivals, Commemorations Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG