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The God of Harvest Praise

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 190 hymnals Topics: Thanksgiving (Harvest) Lyrics: 1 The God of harvest praise; in loud thanksgivings raise hand, heart, and voice; the valleys laugh and sing, forests and mountains ring, the plains their tribute bring, the streams rejoice. 2 O bless his holy name, and joyful thanks proclaim through all the earth; be grateful and receive God's blessing; and believe; his love does not deceive. Now share your mirth! 3 The God of harvest praise; hands, hearts, and voices raise with sweet accord; from field to store the grain, bearing your sheaves again, and in your glad refrain now bless the Lord. Scripture: Psalm 65:9-13 Used With Tune: ITALIAN HYMN

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Rev. Henry Alford Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 727 hymnals Topics: Special Seasons and Services Thanksgiving and Harvest; Harvest and Thanksgiving Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home: All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide For our wants to be supplied: Come to God's own temple, come, Raise the song of harvest home. 2 All the world is God's own field, Fruit unto His praise to yield; Wheat and tares together sown, Unto joy or sorrow grown; First the blade, and then the ear, Then the full corn shall appear; Lord of harvest, grant that we Wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, And shall take His harvest home; From His field shall in that day All offenses purge away; Give His angels charge at last In the fire the tares to cast, But the fruitful ears to store In His garner evermore. 4 Even so, Lord, quickly come To Thy final harvest home; Gather Thou Thy people in, Free from sorrow, free from sin; There, forever purified, In Thy presence to abide: Come, with all Thine angels, come, Raise the glorious harvest home. Amen. Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S, WINDSOR

All good gifts around us

Author: Jane M. Campbell; Matthias Claudius Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 453 hymnals Topics: Special Seasons and Services Thanksgiving and Harvest; Harvest and Thanksgiving First Line: We plow the fields and scatter Lyrics: 1 We plow the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God's almighty hand; Ht sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell the grain, The breezes and the sunshine, And soft refreshing rain. Refrain: All good gifts around us Are sent from heaven above; Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord For all His love. 2 He only is the Maker Of all things near and far; He paints the wayside flower, He lights the evening star; The winds and waves obey Him, By Him the birds are fed; Much more to us, His children, He gives our daily bread. [Refrain] 3 We thank Thee, then, O Father, For all things bright and good, The seed-time and the harvest, Our life, our health, our food; No gifts have we to offer, For all Thy love imparts, But what Thou most desirest, Our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Amen. Used With Tune: WIR PFLÛGEN

For the Beauty of the Earth

Author: Folliott S. Pierpont, 1835-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 632 hymnals Topics: Harvest Refrain First Line: Christ, our Lord, to you we raise 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, Refrain: Christ, our Lord, to you we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 2 For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light, Refrain 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild, Refrain 4 For yourself, best gift divine, to the world so freely given, agent of God's grand design: peace on earth and joy in heaven. Refrain Scripture: Psalm 33:4-9 Used With Tune: DIX

Sing to the Lord of Harvest

Author: John S. B. Monsell, 1811-75 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 121 hymnals Topics: Harvest and Thanksgiving Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord of harvest, Sing songs of love and praise; With joyful hearts and voices Your alleluias raise. By Him the rolling seasons In fruitful order move; Sing to the Lord of harvest A joyous song of love. 2 God makes the clouds rain goodness, The deserts bloom and spring. The hills leap up in gladness, The valleys laugh and sing. God fills them with His fullness, All things with large increase; He crowns the year with blessing, With plenty and with peace. 3 Bring to this sacred altar The gifts His goodness gave, The golden sheaves of harvest, The souls Christ died to save. Your hearts lay down before Him When at His feet you fall, And with your lives adore Him Who gave His life for all. Scripture: Psalm 65:9-13 Used With Tune: WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN

For the Fruit of All Creation

Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Harvest Lyrics: 1 For the fruit of all creation, thanks be to God. For the gifts to every nation, thanks be to God. For the plowing, sowing, reaping, silent growth while we are sleeping, future needs in earth's safekeeping, thanks be to God. 2 In the just reward of labor, God's will is done. In the help we give our neighbor, God's will is done. In our worldwide task of caring for the hungry and despairing, in the harvests we are sharing, God's will is done. 3 For the harvests of the Spirit, thanks be to God. For the good we all inherit, thanks be to God. For the wonders that astound us, for the truths that still confound us, most of all that love has found us, thanks be to God. Scripture: Deuteronomy 24:19-21 Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

O Worship the King

Author: Robert Grant Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,142 hymnals Topics: Harvest First Line: O worship the King, all glorious above Lyrics: 1 O worship the King all glorious above, O gratefully sing God's power and God's love; our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise. 2 O tell of God's might! O sing of God's grace, whose robe is the light; whose canopy space; whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and broad is God's path on the wings of the storm. 3 The earth with its store of wonders untold, Almighty, your power has founded of old; has stablished it fast by a changeless decree, and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea. 4 Your bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail; your mercies how tender, how firm to the end, our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend. Used With Tune: HANOVER

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm (1866-1960) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 184 hymnals Topics: Harvest Thanksgiving First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not, as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided, great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 2 Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 8:22 Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS

Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Author: Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1908; Gaetano Raphael (Anthony) Petti, 1932-1985 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 211 hymnals Topics: Creation Harvest Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:17 Used With Tune: ST DENIO (JOANNA)

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves

Author: Knowles Shaw Appears in 717 hymnals Topics: Harvest Home First Line: Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness Used With Tune: [Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness]