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Shall We Gather at the River
Author: Robert Lowry, b. 1826-1899 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 746 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals Refrain First Line: Yes, we'll gather at the river Lyrics: 1 Shall we gather at the river,
where bright angel feet have trod,
with its crystal tide forever
flowing by the throne of God?
Refrain:
Yes, we'll gather at the river,
the beautiful, the beautiful river;
gather with the saints at the river
that flows by the throne of God.
2 On the margin of the river,
washing up its silver spray,
we will walk and worship ever,
all the happy golden day.
(Refrain)
3 Ere we reach the shining river,
lay we ev'ry burden down;
grace our spirits will deliver,
and provide a robe and crown.
(Refrain)
4 Soon we'll reach the shining river,
soon our pilgrimage will cease;
soon our happy hearts will quiver
with the melody of peace.
(Refrain)
Scripture: Ezekiel 47:1-12 Used With Tune: HANSON PLACE
Shall We Gather at the River
Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love
Author: William W. How, 1823-97 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 166 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 Jesus! Name of wondrous love,
Name all other names above,
Unto which must ev'ry 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 sons of 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 man, to sin enslaved,
Burst his fetters and is saved.
6 Jesus! Name of wondrous love,
Human name of God above;
Pleading your redemption true,
We flee, helpless, Lord, to you. Used With Tune: GOTT SEI DANK
Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love
By All Your Saints in Warfare
Author: Horatio Bolton Nelson, 1823-1913 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 96 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals; Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 By all your saints in warfare,
For all your saints at rest,
Your holy name, O Jesus,
Forevermore be blest!
For you have won the battle
That they might wear the crown;
And now they shine in glory
Reflected from your throne.
2 (Insert the stanza appropriate to the day.)
3 Then let us praise the Father
And worship God the Son
And sing to God the Spirit,
Eternal Three in One.
Till all the ransomed number
Fall down before the throne,
Ascribing pow'r and glory
And praise to God alone.
Saints and martyr (general):
4 Apostles, prophets, martyrs,
And all the noble throng
Who wear the spotless raiment
And raise the ceaseless song -
For these passed on before us,
We offer praises due
And walking in their footsteps,
Would live our lives for you.
St. Andrew, Apostle:
5 All praise, O Lord, for Andrew,
The first to welcome you,
Whose witness to his brother
Named you Messiah true.
May we, with hearts kept open
To you throughout the year,
Confess to friend and neighbor
Your advent ever near.
St. Thomas, Apostle:
6 All praise for your apostle
Whose short-lived doubtings prove
Your perfect two-fold nature,
And all our depth of love.
We who await your coming
Desire your peace, O Lord;
Grant us true faith to know you,
Made flesh, yet God and Lord.
St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr:
7 Praise for the first of martyrs
Who saw you ready stand
To help in time of torment,
To plead at God's right hand.
They share with him who, steadfast,
In death their master own,
On earth the faithful witness,
On high the martyr's crown.
St. John, Apostle and Evangelist:
8 For your beloved disciple
Exiled to Patmos' shore,
And for his faithful record,
We praise you evermore.
Praise for the mystic vision
His words to us unfold.
Instill in us his longing
Your glory to behold.
The Holy Innocents, Martyrs:
9 All praise for infant martyrs
Whom your mysterious love
Called early from their warfare
To share your home above.
O Rachel, cease your weeping;
They rest from earthbound cares.
Lord, grant us hearts as guileless
And crowns as bright as theirs.
The Confession of St. Peter:
10 Praise for your great apostle
so eager and so bold,
Thrice falling, yet repentant,
Thrice charged to feed your fold.
Lord, make your pastors faithful
To guard your flock from harm,
And hold them when they waver
With your almighty arm.
The Conversion of St. Paul:
11 All praise for light from heaven
And for the voice of awe,
All praise for glorious visions
The persecutor saw.
O Lord, for Paul's conversion
We bless your name today;
Come, lighten all our darkness,
And guide us on our way.
St. Matthias, Apostle:
12 Lord, your abiding presence
Mysterious made the choice;
For one in place of Judas
The faithful now rejoice.
From all such false apostles
Your holy Church defend,
And by your parting promise
Be with us to the end.
Used With Tune: KING'S LYNN
By All Your Saints in Warfare
Across the Sky the Shades of Night
Author: James Hamilton, 1819-96 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 Across the sky the shades of night
This New Year's eve are fleeting.
We deck your altar, Lord, with light,
In solemn worship meeting:
And as the year's last hours go by,
We raise to you our earnest cry,
Once more your love entreating.
2 Before the cross subdued we bow,
To you our prayer addressing,
Recounting all your mercies now,
And all our sins confessing,
Beseeching you this coming year
To keep us in your faith and fear,
To crown us with your blessing.
3 We gather up in this brief hour
The mem'ry of your mercies:
Your wondrous goodness, love, and pow'r
Our grateful song rehearses;
For you have been our strength and stay
In many a dark and dreary day
Of sorrow and reverses.
4 Then, gracious God, in years to come,
We pray your hand may guide us,
And, onward through our journey home,
Your mercy walk beside us
Until at last our ransomed life
Is safe from peril, toil, and strife
When heav'n itself shall hide us.
Used With Tune: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH
Across the Sky the Shades of Night
For All the Saints
Author: William W. How, 1823-97 Meter: 10.10.10 wiht alleluias Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals First Line: For all the saint who from their labors rest Lyrics: 1 For all the saints who from their labors rest,
All who by faith before the world confessed,
Your name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 You were their rock, their fortress, and their might;
You, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
You,in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 Oh, may your soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old
And win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 Oh, blest communion, fellowship divine,
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one within your great design.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
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.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
6 The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
7 But then there breaks a yet more glorious day:
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of glory passes on his way.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
8 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:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE
For All the Saints
For All Your Saints, O Lord
Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals 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
For All Your Saints, O Lord
Oh, What Their Joy
Author: Peter Abelard, 1079-1142; John M. Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 137 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals All Saints' Day First Line: Oh, what their joy and their glory must be Lyrics: 1 Oh, what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless Sabbaths the blessed ones see!
Crowns for the valiant, to weary ones rest;
God shall be all, and in all ever blest.
2 In new Jerusalem joy shall be found,
Blessings of peace shall forever abound;
Wish and fufillment are not severed there,
Nor the things prayed for come short of the prayer.
3 We, where no trouble distraction can bring,
Safely the anthems of Zion shall sing;
While for Your grace, Lord, their voices of praise
Your blessed people shall evermore raise.
4 Now let us worship our Lord and our King,
Joyfully raising our voices to sing:
Praise to the Father, and praise to the Son,
Praise to the Spirit, to God, Three in One.
Scripture: Revelation 7:10-17 Used With Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA
Oh, What Their Joy
At the Name of Jesus
Author: Caroline M. Noel, 1817-1877 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 253 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals; Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 At the name of Jesus
Ev'ry knee shall bow,
Ev'ry tongue confess him
King of glory now.
’Tis the Father’s pleasure
We should call him Lord,
Who from the beginning
Was the mighty Word.
2 At his voice creation
Sprang at once to sight,
All the angel faces,
All the hosts of light,
Thrones and dominations,
Stars upon their way,
All the heav'nly orders
In their great array.
3 Humbled for a season,
To receive a name
From the lips of sinners
Unto whom he came,
Faithfully he bore it
Spotless to the last;
Brought it back victorious
When from death he passed;
4 Bore it up triumphant
With its human light,
Through all ranks of creatures
To the central height,
To the throne of Godhead,
To the Father’s breast;
Filled it with the glory
Of that perfect rest.
5 In your hearts enthrone him;
There let him subdue
All that is not holy,
All that is not true.
Crown him as your captain
In temptation's hour;
Let his will enfold you
In its light and pow'r.
6 Christians, this Lord Jesus
Shall return again
In his Father's glory,
With his angel train;
For all wreaths of empire
Meet upon his brow,
And our hearts confess him
King of glory now.
7 Glory then to Jesus,
Who, the Prince of light,
To a world in darkness
Brought the gift of sight;
Praise to God the Father;
In the Spirit's love
Praise we all together
Him who reigns above.
Used With Tune: KING'S WESTON
At the Name of Jesus
The Son of God Goes Forth to War
Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 837 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals; Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 The Son of God goes forth to war
A kingly crown to gain.
His blood-red banner streams afar;
Who follows in his train?
Who best can drink his cup of woe,
Triumphant over pain;
Who patient bears his cross below -
He follows in his train.
2 The martyr first, whose eagle eye
Could pierce beyond the grave,
Who saw his master in the sky
And called on him to save.
Like him, with pardon on his tongue
In midst of mortal pain,
He prayed for those who did the wrong -
Who follows in his train?
3 A glorious band, the chosen few,
On whom the Spirit came,
Twelve valiant saints; their hope they knew
And mocked the cross and flame.
They met the tyrant's brandished steel,
The lion's gory mane;
They bowed their necks the death to feel -
Who follows in their train?
4 A noble army, girls and boys,
With men and women saved,
Around the Savior's throne rejoice,
In robes of light arrayed.
They climbed the steep ascent of heav'n
Through peril, toil, and pain.
O God, to us may grace be giv'n
To follow in their train! Used With Tune: ALL SAINTS NEW
The Son of God Goes Forth to War
Stars of the Morning, So Gloriously Bright
Author: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, c. 800-83; John M. Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 69 hymnals Topics: Lesser Festivals Lyrics: 1 Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright,
Filled with celestial resplendence and light,
These, where no darkness the glory can dim,
Praise the Thrice Holy One, serving but him.
2 These are your ministers, these are your own,
Lord God of Sabaoth, nearest your throne;
These are your messengers, these whom you send,
Helping your helpless ones, Helper and Friend.
3 Then, when the earth was first poised in mid-space,
Then, when the planets first sped on their race,
Then, when were ended the six days' employ,
Then all the sons of God shouted for joy.
4 Still let them be with us, still let them fight,
Lord of angelic hosts, battling for right,
Till, where their anthems they ceaselessly pour,
We with the angels may bow and adore.
Used With Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA
Stars of the Morning, So Gloriously Bright
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