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A HYMN FOR TODAY – The Master Has Come

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

The Master has come, and He calls us to follow
The track of the footprints He leaves on our way;
Far over the mountain and through the deep hollow,
The path leads us on to the mansions of day.

The Master has called us, the children who fear Him,
Who march ‘neath Christ’s banner, His own little band;
We love Him and seek Him, we long to be near Him,
And rest in the light of His beautiful land.

The Master has called us, in life’s early morning,
With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod;
We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning,
To cast in our lot with the people of God.

The Master has called us, His sons and His daughters;
We plead for His blessing and trust in His love;
And through the green pastures, beside the still waters,
He’ll lead us at last to His kingdom above.

12.11.12.11.D – Sarah Doudney, 1871

Tune: ASH GROVE – Jones’ Bardic Museum, 1802

arr. Katherine K. Davis – 1939

#637 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012

A HYMN FOR TODAY – My God, I Thank You, Who Have Made The Earth So Bright

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

My God, I thank You, who have made

The earth so bright

So full of splendor and of joy,

Beauty and light,

So many glorious things are here,

Noble and right.

I thank You more that all our joy

Is touched with pain,

That shadows fall on brightest hours,

That thorns remain;

So that earth’s bliss may be our guide

And not our chain.

I thank You, Lord, that you have kept

The best in store;

We have enough, yet not too much

To long for more:

A yearning for a deeper peace

Not known before.

I thank You, Lord, that here our souls,

Though Amply blessed,

Can never find, although they seek,

A perfect rest;

Nor ever shall, until they lean

On Jesus’ breast.

8.4.8.4.8.4 – Adelaide Anne Proctor, 1884

Tune: EULOGIA – Matthew Harber, 2011

#415 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012

A HYMN FOR TODAY – There Is a Land of Pure Delight

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

There everlasting spring abides,
And never-with’ring flow’rs:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav’nly land from ours.
But timid mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea;
And linger, shiv’ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

O could we make our doubts remove
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes!
Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood
Should fright us from the shore.

CMD (8.6.8.6.D) – Isaac Watts, 1707

Tune: JORDAN – William Billings, 1786

Arr. Charles L. Willis, 2010

#751 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012

A HYMN FOR TODAY – O Word of God incarnate

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

O Word of God incarnate,

O Wisdom from on high,

O Truth unchanged, unchanging,

O Light of our dark sky:

We praise you for the radiance

That from the hallowed page,

A lantern to our footsteps,

Shines on from age to age.

The Scripture is a banner

Before God’s host unfurled;

It is a shining beacon

Above the darkling world.

It is a sacred vessel

Where gems of truth are stored;

It is the heav’n-drawn picture

Of Christ, the living Word.

O make Your church, dear Savior,

A lamp of purest gold,

To bear before the nations

Your true light as of old.

O teach your wand’ring pilgrims

By this their path to trace,

Till, clouds and darkness ended,

They see You face to face.

7.6.7.6.D – William W. How, 1867

Tune: MUNICH – Neuvermehrtes Gesangbuch, 1693

#279 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012