Union HymnsAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1845 - 352 pages |
Common terms and phrases
adore Almighty angels Art thou behold bless blest bliss breath bright canst cheer Christ crown dear death delight divine dwell earth ESUS eternal everlasting song evermore eyes faith Father favour fear forgive friends give glorious glory God's gospel gracious happy hast hath hear heart heathen heaven heavenly hell Holy Spirit hope hosannas hour humble Hymn infant Jehovah Jesus join joyful King King of kings Lamb let thy light live Lord meet mercy morning never night o'er pain pardon peace pray prayer Redeemer reigns rest rise Sabbath Sabbath-school sacred saints salvation Saviour Saviour bleed seek shine sing sinners sins skies song Songs of praise sorrow soul sweet teach teachers tears temple ring thee thine thou art thou hast thought thy face thy grace thy love thy name thy throne thy word tongue truth Twill voice wisdom worship young youth
Popular passages
Page 125 - Dear dying Lamb ! Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved, to sin no more.
Page 130 - JOY to the world, the Lord is come, Let earth receive her King ; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth, the Saviour reigns, Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground: He comes to make his blessings flow, Far as the curse is found.
Page 173 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So, to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 98 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death : One army of the living God, To His command we bow ; Part of His host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 49 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream. Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 6 Our God, our help in ages past...
Page 123 - Fear not," said he ; (for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind;) " Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind.
Page 315 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, — Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills ; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 292 - Amazing grace! (How sweet the sound!) That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.
Page 287 - Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought ; Do I love the Lord, or no ? Am I his, or am I not ? 2 If I love, why am I thus?
Page 117 - What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.