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Come, Let Us Join with One Accord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 142 hymnals Topics: Church Communion of Saints Lyrics: 1 Come, let us join with one accord in hymns around the throne: this is the day our rising Lord has made and called his own. 2 This is the day that God has blessed, the brightest of the sev'n, type of that everlasting rest the saints enjoy in heav'n. 3 Then let us in his name sing on, and hasten to that day when our Redeemer shall come down, and shadows pass away. 4 Not one, but all our days below, let us in hymns employ; and in our Lord rejoicing, go to his eternal joy. Scripture: Hebrews 4:9 Used With Tune: BEATITUDO Text Sources: Mod.

When We All Get to Heaven

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt, 1851-1920 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 298 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints First Line: Sing the wondrous love of Jesus Scripture: Isaiah 35:10 Used With Tune: HEAVEN

For All Your Saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints 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. Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG

How Firm a Foundation

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,128 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints First Line: How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in Christ Jesus, the Word! What more can God say than to you has been said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 2 "Fear not, I am with you, O be not dismayed, For I am your God, and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 3 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, The rivers of woe shall not you overflow; For I will be with you, your troubles to bless, And sanctify to you your deepest distress. 4 "The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose, I will not, I will not desert to its foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake!" Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: FOUNDATION Text Sources: "K" in Rippon's A Selection of Hymns, 1787, alt.

Jerusalem the golden

Author: Bernard of Cluny; Rev. J. M. Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 911 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Used With Tune: EWING

Let Saints on Earth in Concert Sing

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 175 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints Lyrics: 1 Let saints on earth in concert sing with those whose work is done; for all the servants of our King in earth and heaven, are one. 2 One family, we live in him, one church above, beneath, though now divided by the stream, the narrow stream of death. 3 One army of the living God, to his command we bow; part of his host have crossed the flood and part are crossing now. 4 But all unite in Christ their head, and love to sing his praise: Lord of the living and the dead, direct our earthly ways! 5 So we shall join our friends above who have obtained the prize; and on the eagle wings of love to joys celestial rise. Scripture: Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-16 Used With Tune: DUNDEE Text Sources: Rev. Hymns for Today's Church

For the Beauty of the Earth

Author: Folliot S. Pierpont, 1835-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 633 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 2 For the beauty of each hour Of the day and of the night, Hill and vale, and tree and flow'r, Sun and moon, and stars of light: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 3 For the joy of ear and eye, For the heart and mind’s delight, For the mystic harmony Linking sense to sound and sight: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 4 For the joy of human love, Brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth, and friends above; For all gentle thoughts and mild: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 5 For your church, that evermore Lifts its holy hands above; Off'ring up on every shore Its pure sacrifice of love: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. 6 For yourself, best Gift Divine! To this world so freely giv'n; Word Incarnate, God's design, Peace on earth and joy in heav'n: Lord of all, to you we raise This our hymn of grateful praise. Scripture: Psalm 105 Used With Tune: LUCERNA LAUDONIAE

One bread, one body, one Lord of all

Author: John Foley, SJ (b. 1939) Appears in 36 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints First Line: Gentile or Jew Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 Used With Tune: [Gentile or Jew]

For All the Saints

Author: William W. How Meter: 10.10.10 with alleluias Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: New Heaven and a New Earth Communion of the Saints; New Heaven and a New Earth Communion of the Saints First Line: For all the saints who from their labors rest Refrain First Line: Alleluia, Alleluia Lyrics: 1. For all the saints, who from their labors rest, who thee by faith before the world confessed, thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest. Refrain: Alleluia, Alleluia! 2. Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might; thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight; thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light. [Refrain] 3. O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, and win with them the victor's crown of gold. [Refrain] 4. O blest communion, fellowship divine! We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. [Refrain] 5. And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, steals on the ear the distant triumph song, and hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. [Refrain] 6. From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: (Refrain) Scripture: Hebrews 12:1 Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE

Ten thousand times ten thousand

Author: Henry Alford, 1810-1871 Meter: 7.6.8.6 D Appears in 434 hymnals Topics: The Church The Communion of Saints Used With Tune: ALFORD