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For thy dear saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saints' Days: All Saints' Day (November 1) Lyrics: 1. For thy dear saints, O Lord, who strove in thee to live, who followed thee, obeyed, adored, our grateful hymn receive. 2. They all in life and death, with thee their Lord in view, learned from thy Holy Spirit's breath to suffer and to do. 3. Thine earthly members fit to join thy saints above, in one communion ever knit, one fellowship of love. 4. Jesus, thy Name we bless and humbly pray that we may follow them in holiness, who lived and died for thee. Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE

We plow the field and scatter

Author: Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815; Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1817-1878 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 453 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Thanksgiving Day 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; he 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 wind 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 seedtime and the harvest, our life, our health, our food: the gifts we have to offer are what thy love imparts, but chiefly thou desirest our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Used With Tune: WIR PFLUGEN

To the Name of our salvation

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 118 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Holy Name: New Year (January 1) Lyrics: 1. To the Name of our salvation laud and honor let us pay, which for many a generation hid in God's foreknowledge lay; but with holy exultation we may sing aloud today. 2. Jesus is the Name we treasure; Name beyond what words can tell; Name of gladness, Name of pleasure, ear and heart delighting well; Name of sweetness, passing measure, saving us from sin and hell. 3. 'Tis the Name that whoso preacheth speaks like music to the ear; who in prayer this Name beseecheth sweetest comfort findeth near; who its perfect wisdom reacheth, heavenly joy possesseth here. 4. Therefore we, in love adoring, this most blessed Name revere, holy Jesus, thee imploring so to write it in us here that hereafter, heavenward soaring, we may sing with angels there. Used With Tune: GRAFTON Text Sources: Latin, 15th cent.; Tr,: Hymns Ancient and Modern,

Hark! the sound of holy voices

Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 236 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saints' Days: All Saints' Day (November 1) Lyrics: 1. Hark! the sound of holy voices, chanting at the crystal sea, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Lord, to thee! Multitude which none can number like the stars in glory stands, clothed in white apparel, holding palms of victory in their hands. 2. Patriarch, and holy prophet, who prepared the way for Christ, king, apostle, saint, confessor, martyr and evangelist, saintly maiden, godly matron, widows who have watched to prayer, joined in holy concert, singing to the Lord of all, are there. 3. Marching with thy cross, their banner, they have triumphed, following thee, the Captain of salvation, thee, their Savior and their King. Gladly, Lord, with thee they suffered; gladly, Lord, with thee they died; and by death to life immortal they were born and glorified. 4. Now they reign in heavenly glory, now they walk in golden light, now they drink, as from a river, holy bliss and infinite; love and peace they taste for ever, and all truth and knowledge see in the beatific vision Of the blessed Trinity. Used With Tune: MOULTRIE

Ye who claim the faith of Jesus

Author: Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles, 1845-1929; F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25); Holy Days and Various Occasions The Visitation (May 31) Used With Tune: JULION Text Sources: Metrical Magnificat

Jesus! Name of wondrous love!

Author: William Walsham How, 1823-1897 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 166 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Holy Name: New Year (January 1) Lyrics: 1. Jesus! Name of wondrous love! Name all other names above! Unto which must every knee bow in deep humility. 2. Jesus! Name decreed of old, to the maiden mother told, kneeling in her lowly cell, by the angel Gabriel. 3. Jesus! Name of priceless worth to the fallen of the earth, for the promise that it gave, "Jesus shall his people save." 4. Jesus! Name of mercy mild, given to the holy child when the cup of human woe first he tasted here below. 5. Jesus! only Name that's given, under all the mighty heaven, whereby those to sin enslaved, burst their fetters and are saved. 6. Jesus! Name of wondrous love! Human Name of God above; pleading only this we flee, helpless, O our God, to thee. Used With Tune: LOUEZ DIEU

The angel Gabriel from heaven came

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould, 1834-1924 Meter: 10.10.12.10 Appears in 36 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Lyrics: 1. The angel Gabriel from heaven came, his wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame; "All hail," said he, "thou lowly maiden Mary, most highly favored lady," Gloria! 2. "For know a blessed Mother thou shalt be, all generations laud and honor thee, thy Son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold, most highly favored lady," Gloria! 3. Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head, "To me be as it pleaseth God," she said, "my soul shall laud and magnify his holy Name." Most highly favored lady, Gloria! 4. Of her, Emmanuel, the Christ, was born in Bethlehem, all on a Christmas morn, and Christian folk throughout the world will ever say— "Most highly favored lady," Gloria! Used With Tune: GABRIEL'S MESSAGE Text Sources: Basque carol

Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Martyrs Lyrics: 1. Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs, holy women, holy men, with affection's recollections greet we your return again. Worthy deeds they wrought, and wonders, worthy of the Name they bore; we, with meetest praise and sweetest, honor them for evermore. 2. Faith prevailing, hope unfailing, loving Christ with single heart, thus they, glorious and victorious, bravely bore the martyr's part, by contempt of every anguish, by unyielding battle done; victors at the last, they triumph, with the host of angels one. 3. Therefore, ye that reign in glory, fellow-heirs with Christ on high, join to ours your supplication when before him we draw nigh, praying that, this life completed, all its fleeting moments past, by his grace we may be worthy of eternal bliss at last. Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA Text Sources: Latin, 12th Cent.

Let us now our voices raise

Author: Joseph the Hymnographer, 9th cent.; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 61 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Martyrs Lyrics: 1. Let us now our voices raise, wake the day with gladness; God himself to joy and praise turns our human sadness; joy that martyrs won their crown, opened heaven's bright portal, when they laid the mortal down for the life immortal. 2. Never flinched they from the flame, from the torture never; vain the tyrant's sharpest aim, vain each fierce endeavor: for by faith they saw the land decked in all its glory, where triumphant now they stand with the victor's story. 3. Up and follow, Christians all: press through toil and sorrow; turn from fear, and heed the call to a glorious morrow! Who will venture on the strife; who will first begin it? Who will grasp the land of Life? Christians, up and win it! Used With Tune: GAUDEAMUS PARITER

Praise we the Lord this day

Author: Anonymous Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 51 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Lyrics: 1. Praise we the Lord this day, this day so long foretold, whose promise shone with cheering ray on waiting saints of old. 2. The prophet gave the sign for faithful folk to read: a virgin born of David's line shall bear the promised seed. 3. Ask not how this should be, but worship and adore, like her whom heaven's Majesty came down to shadow o'er. 4. She meekly bowed her head to hear the gracious word, Mary, the pure and lowly maid, the favored of the Lord. 5. Most blest shall be her name in all the Church on earth, through whom that wondrous mercy came, the incarnate Savior's birth. Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE Text Sources: Hymns for the Festivals and Saints' Days of the Church of England, 1846, alt.