HYMNS. First Dibision.. THE WORSHIP, THE ATTRIBUTES, AND THE WORKS OF GOD. HYMNS CONCERNING THE WORSHIP OF GOD. 1 (97) FOR a thousand tongues to sing The glories of my God and King, 2 My gracious Master, and my God, To spread through all the earth abroad 3 Jesus! the Name that charms our fears That bids our sorrows cease; "Tis music in the sinner's ears, 4 He breaks the power of cancelled sin, His blood can make the foulest clean; 5 He speaks, and listening to His voice, New life the dead receive; The mournful, broken hearts rejoice, 6 Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb, 7 Look unto Him, ye nations; own Look, and be saved through faith alone, 8 See all your sins on Jesus laid: His soul was once an offering made 9 Awake from guilty nature's sleep, 10 With me, your chief, ye then shall know, 2 (206) MEET and fine and place, EET and right it is to sing, Glory to our heavenly King, Eternal praise be Thine! 2 Thee, the first-born sons of light, 3 Vying with that happy choir, We on eagles' wings aspire, 4 Father, God, Thy love we praise, Spirit, Comforter divine, grace, Praise by all to Thee be given, And earth is turned to heaven. 3 (337) L.M. 6 lines. Gen. xxviii. 16, 17. J. WESLEY. From the German of G. TERSTEEGEN. O! God is here! let us adore, L And own, how dreadful is this place! Let all within us feel His power, And silent bow before His face; Who know His power, His grace who prove, 2 Lo! God is here! Him day and night 3 Gladly the toys of earth we leave, 4 Being of beings, may our praise 4 Still may we stand before Thy face, 5 In Thee we move :-all things of Thee (Fall prostrate, lost in wonder, fall, Ye sons of men; for God is man!) All may we lose, so Thee we gain ! 6 As flowers their opening leaves display, And glad drink in the solar fire, So may we catch Thy every ray, So may Thy influence us inspire; Thou Beam of the eternal Beam, Thou purging Fire, Thou quickening Flame! From cherubim and seraphim, We too are Thine, and with them sing, We too are Thine, and with them sing, Even by seraph's tongue, We too are Thine, and with them sing, 5 (16) L.M. WATTS. ETERNAL Power, whose high abode Becomes the grandeur of a God, Infinite lengths beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds: 2 Thee, while the first archangel sings, He hides his face behind his wings; And ranks of shining thrones around Fall worshipping, and spread the ground. 3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too! From sin and dust to Thee we cry, The Great, the Holy, and the High. 4 Earth from afar hath heard Thy fame; And worms have learn'd to lisp Thy name; But, O! the glories of Thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind! 5 God is in heaven, and men below: Be short our tunes, our words be few; A sacred reverence checks our songs, And praise sits silent on our tongues. 6 L.M. 6 lines, triplets. C. WESLEY. SING unto God, His praise proclaim, |