tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94987782011-04-21T14:00:27.806-07:00bknoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-88472843785190010612008-06-16T13:24:00.000-07:002008-06-16T13:30:54.709-07:00Long Ago and Faraway <br />Copyright © 2008 James W. King and Christopher E. King <br />All Rights Reserved Worldwide<br /><br />LONG AGO AND FARAWAY. These are a few of my favorite things and I hope yours too. It's also a wonderful resource locator for many areas that would be of interest to a parent or teacher or children. This is an extremely extensive resource for education, research and just plain fun. LAFA covers poetry, music, stories, places, biographies, architecture, travel resorts and innocent art to explore with your child. Have fun and good hunting ... <br /> <br />abbey aldrich rockefeller museum of americana <br /><br />acropolis, athens greece <br /><br />alma-tadema, lawrence sir, paintings <br /><br />americana <br /><br />american flag <br /><br />anri italian woodcarvings <br /><br />ansel adams photographs <br /><br />antique metal toys <br /><br />arboretums (tree museums) <br /><br />arch de triomphe, paris france <br /><br />architecture <br /><br />atlantic city, maryland <br /><br />audubon, james j. wildlife paintings <br /><br />baldwin brass hurricane lamp <br /><br />baseball cards and collectibles <br /><br />beatrix potter stories and characters <br /><br />bennetton clothing <br /><br />benton, thomas hart benton paintings <br /><br />bible, the holy <br /><br />big sur, california <br /><br />biltmore estate, north carolina <br /><br />blake, william engravings <br /><br />blenheim palace in france <br /><br />bonsai trees <br /><br />brown, ford madox 'last of england' painting <br /><br />burne-jones, edward coley ptgs-briar rose series <br /><br />busch gardens tampa <br /><br />calligraphy <br /><br />cameos <br /><br />canada <br /><br />cape breton, prince edward isle <br /><br />cape cod massachussetts <br /><br />capitol at williamsburg <br /><br />carefree, arizona <br /><br />carmel by the sea california <br /><br />carnation, lily, lily, rose painting in tate gallery <br /><br />carters grove mansion (colonial williamsburg) <br /><br />cartoon figures <br /><br />carved horses <br /><br />cassatt, mary impressionist paintings <br /><br />ceramic tiles, hand painted <br /><br />childrens characters <br /><br />chippendale furniture <br /><br />chocolates, imported <br /><br />christ of the andes statue, chile <br /><br />christina campbells tavern, williamsburg <br /><br />church spires by christopher wren <br /><br />civil war battlefields (gettsyburg, manassas, antietam, appomattox) <br /><br />civil war series on pbs <br /><br />classic and antique autos <br /><br />clydesdale horses <br /><br />cn tower, toronto, ontario, canada <br /><br />collectors plates <br /><br />colonial williamsburg reproductions <br /><br />colonial williamsburg, virginia <br /><br />computers <br /><br />corning glass museum, corning ny <br /><br />cosanti village, exp. city by paolo soleri phoenix <br /><br />counted cross-stitch <br /><br />currier and ives prints <br /><br />cypress gardens florida <br /><br />david, jacques louis david paintings <br /><br />degas, edgar paintings impressionist paintings <br /><br />delftware, blue delft tiles, kitchenware <br /><br />doll houses, especially victorian handmade <br /><br />durer, albrecht engravings <br /><br />emmett kelley dolls <br /><br />engraved lead crystal especially steuben glass <br /><br />escher, m. c. prints <br /><br />ethan allen furniture <br /><br />factory pottery outlet williamsburg <br /><br />familiar quotations bartletts <br /><br />fenton art glass <br /><br />folger shakespeare library washington dc <br /><br />folk art (naive painting) <br /><br />fostoria glass <br /><br />francis ford coppola movies <br /><br />franciscan dinnerware <br /><br />garrison keillor's lake wobegon stories <br /><br />gateway arch, st louis missouri <br /><br />gemeinhardt silver flutes <br /><br />gettsyburg, pennsylvania <br /><br />glackens, william impressionist paintings <br /><br />gnomes <br /><br />governors palace at williamsburg <br /><br />grand canyon <br /><br />grandfather clocks <br /><br />great books collection of 100 books (encylcopedia britannica) <br /><br />greenaway, kate childrens books <br /><br />grimm brothers tales <br /><br />halifax, nova scotia <br /><br />hallmark christmas ornaments <br /><br />hans christian andersen tales <br /><br />harnett, william michael paintings <br /><br />herhey kisses lamposts on chocolate avenue in hershey, pennsylvania <br /><br />hershey gardens, hershey pennsylvania <br /><br />high technology <br /><br />hitchcock hand decorated chairs <br /><br />hogarth prints <br /><br />holden arboretum (tree museum) cleveland ohio <br /><br />holograms <br /><br />house plans <br /><br />hughes, arthur victorian narrative paintings <br /><br />hummel figurines <br /><br />humphrey bogart movies <br /><br />i. m. pei architecture <br /><br />ice carvings for a banquet table <br /><br />ideals magazine <br /><br />illuminated manuscripts <br /><br />impressionist paintings <br /><br />inlaid wood furniture <br /><br />irish beleek dinnerware <br /><br />jockeys ridge, nags head nc <br /><br />kaufmann house fallingwater by frank lloyd wright <br /><br />kennedy spaceport, cape canaveral florida <br /><br />key west florida <br /><br />king ludwig's palaces in bavaria germany <br /><br />l. l. bean clothing <br /><br />lake tahoe nevada <br /><br />lands end clothing <br /><br />lapidary (semi-precious stones) <br /><br />laser cut paper cards <br /><br />laser cut wood products <br /><br />leather bound books <br /><br />leighton, lord paintings <br /><br />library of congress <br /><br />limoge <br /><br />lincoln memorial <br /><br />lincoln's gettysburg address <br /><br />little house stories <br /><br />lladro figurines (spanish) <br /><br />longwood gardens near philadelphia <br /><br />louisa may alcott books <br /><br />louvre, paris france, the <br /><br />m. i. hummel figurines by goebel porzellanfabrik <br /><br />manet, edouard paintings impressionist <br /><br />mark twain tonight (hal holbrook) <br /><br />mary gregory paintings on sandwich glass <br /><br />maxfield parrish illustrations <br /><br />metropolitan museum of art, new york city <br /><br />monterey california <br /><br />monticello (thomas jefferson's home near charlottesville va.) <br /><br />morisot, berthe impressionist paintings <br /><br />mount desert isle, acadia national park, maine <br /><br />mount olympia near seattle washington <br /><br />mount rushmore in the black hills of south dakota <br /><br />museum of fine arts, boston <br /><br />museum of modern art, new york city <br /><br />music suitable for children <br /><br />musical intruments <br /><br />mystic seaport connecticut <br /><br />nags head north carolina <br /><br />nasa photos <br /><br />nast, thomas political cartoons <br /><br />national air and space museum <br /><br />national gallery of art <br /><br />national geographic maps <br /><br />national parks (grand canyon, yellowstone, bryce) <br /><br />needlepoint <br /><br />niagara falls ontario canada <br /><br />nova series on pbs <br /><br />o'keeffe, georgia prints <br /><br />old advertising posters <br /><br />old board games <br /><br />old country busch gardens, the williamsburg <br /><br />old german paperworking - lace cut cards <br /><br />old movie posters <br /><br />old photos of children <br /><br />old picture postcards <br /><br />old sturbridge village, mass <br /><br />old valentines day cards <br /><br />ontario science centre, toronto ontario canada <br /><br />oriental rugs <br /><br />origami (oriental paper artwork) <br /><br />outer banks nc, the <br /><br />pacific grove california <br /><br />parc de la verendrye, quebec canada <br /><br />parthenon <br /><br />pebble beach california <br /><br />persian rugs <br /><br />photo montages <br /><br />pissaro, camille paintings impressionist <br /><br />poetry <br /><br />porcelain santas <br /><br />postage stamp artwork <br /><br />potter, beatrix illustrations and stories <br /><br />preamble to the constitution <br /><br />precious moments figurines <br /><br />prendergast, maurice brazil, watercolorist <br /><br />provincetown, cape cod, massachussetts <br /><br />pulaski furniture <br /><br />pyle, howard childrens books illustrations <br /><br />rackham, arthur childrens books illustrations <br /><br />raggedy ann and andy dolls and stories <br /><br />rare timepieces <br /><br />redwoods at sequioa national forest, california <br /><br />remington, frederick statues and drawings <br /><br />renoir, auguste, paintings impressionist <br /><br />rice, helen steiner inspirational poetry <br /><br />ripley's believe it or not (museum in niagara falls) <br /><br />rockwell, norman prints <br /><br />rosetti, christina giorgina poetry <br /><br />royal doulton toby mugs , figurines, plates <br /><br />russell, charles prints and statues <br /><br />sandra kuck plates and paintings <br /><br />sandwich glass museum, cape cod (deming jarves) <br /><br />sargent, john singer paintings impressionist paintings <br /><br />saturday evening post covers - norman rockwells and maxfield parrish <br /><br />scrimshaw <br /><br />scuplture by rodin (the thinker) <br /><br />sears tower, chicago, illinois <br /><br />sedona, arizona church of the rock (carved into hillside) <br /><br />sheet music (popular) <br /><br />shepard, ernest illustrations in childrens books <br /><br />smithsonian institution <br /><br />south of the border Interstate I-95 NC/SC line <br /><br />sports celebrities <br /><br />statue of liberty, the <br /><br />steam calliopes <br /><br />steinway pianos <br /><br />stereo opticon cards and viewer <br /><br />steuben engraved crystal <br /><br />steven spielberg movies <br /><br />svarovski crytal figurines <br /><br />swiss alps <br /><br />swiss army knives <br /><br />tapestries <br /><br />tate gallery paintings, london <br /><br />teddy bears <br /><br />this old house series on pbs <br /><br />tiffany lamps <br /><br />tiffany, louis comfort stained glass windows <br /><br />times square new york city <br /><br />tom clark gnomes <br /><br />topiary (plants shaped like animals) <br /><br />university of virginia at charlottesville (jefferson designed) <br /><br />vancouver, british columbia (steam clock and hovercraft) <br /><br />versailles palace france <br /><br />victorian narrative paintings <br /><br />victoriana <br /><br />villeroy and booch crystal <br /><br />walt disney movies <br /><br />walt disney world <br /><br />washington monument, the <br /><br />wedgwood (jasper ware) <br /><br />wedgwood, josiah <br /><br />white house, the <br /><br />williamsburg paint (martin-senour) <br /><br />winterthur museum, delaware (du pont estate) <br /><br />wooden carousels or merry-go-rounds <br /><br />wooden items, handmade <br /><br />wren christopher, architect, english, 19th century <br /><br />wright brothers monument kitty hawk nc <br /><br />wyeth paintings, andrew, n. c. and jamie (chadds ford, pa.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-8847284378519001061?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-20302851780283313252008-06-16T12:38:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:40:09.864-07:00Even Santa Claus Believes in You<br />(Just Imagine That!)<br />By Bill King and Friends<br />Copyright (c) 2008 Christopher E. King<br />All Rights Reserved Worldwide<br /><br />An Anthology of Memorable Quotes<br /><br />[Ed. Note: We believe this material is in the Public Domain <br />except where noted and items we wrote personally. <br />If you find something that is your intellectual property and <br />you can document your claim we will remove the <br />offending material. See the contact information at the <br />end of this document.]<br /><br /><br />If man can create the wonderful things he creates, <br />just imagine what God could do if He really put His mind to it.<br /> - Bill King<br /><br />Humanity is a painting on an earthy canvas splashed with Divine paint. <br />- Bill King<br /><br />Be of good cheer and filled with joy, for you have walked with the King.<br />And the King has graciously called you his child. Can you imagine.<br />A child of the King, no longer to be called a commoner or a peasant.<br />But you and yours, until well beyond the edge of time,<br />Shall be called Beautiful, Children of his Majesty, heirs to all he possesses.<br /><br />- Bill King, July 6, 2004<br /><br /><br />JFK said, we can't protect the rights of the rich if we can't protect the rights of the poor...<br /> <br />let your light so shine before men that they see your father which is in heaven and glorify him...<br /> <br />it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness...<br /> <br />do not hide your light under a basket...<br /> <br />live more simply so others may simply live...<br /> <br /> <br />My Quest for Heaven's Gate by Bill King<br /> <br />I fly high on my Heavenly Father's wings,<br />It's a high and lofty view of the world sitting here on His lap.<br />He inspires every breath I take and every move I make.<br />I cannot live alone without Him, I dare not dream a life alone.<br />But I do not need to worry, for walking in the Garden with Him<br />I see a statue of me wrapped in the loving arms of Jesus,<br />I am at peace, at rest, at one with the Master and Maker of the Universe<br />And I sing out loud, Glory to God in the Highest, it is well with my soul.<br /><br />July 13, 2004 Bill King<br /><br /> <br />Dear Heavenly Father,<br /><br />The heavens display Your Power and Awe, O Mighty King,<br />The angels sing in a ring around Your Throne,<br />The Universe bows down as You pass in reverence,<br />Birds and butterflies blush at the mere mention of Your Name,<br />He who was from before time, is now and always shall be,<br />The One who designed me, sustained me and then died to redeem me,<br />I hold You in Wonder and the highest point a human heart can aspire to,<br />It's the fairy tale come true, better than all of my wishes and dreams,<br />I have found my Delight in You, let me run to be with You,<br />Please do not look at how I failed You, rather look at how I loved You,<br />I shed no tears on leaving this world to enter into Your world,<br />I leave with a heart filled with joy for I know You are mighty to save,<br />And I come to sing Your wonders and praise Your Holy Name. Amen.<br /> <br />Your unworthy Child,<br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Meredith Nicholson, Hoosier journalist and poet, <br />penned "Christmas in the Pines" in the 1800s. <br />He relates that on Christmas Eve, a fierce gale sprang up, <br />bringing fresh snow for Christmas. On Christmas morning <br />he woke to find a still, beautiful world and ventured out: <br /><br />"Into the pathless waste I go, <br />With muffled steps among the pines <br />That, robed in sunlight and soft snow, <br />Stand like a thousand radiant shrines. <br />"Save for a boy's song, far and faint, <br />There is no sound at all in the wood; <br />The murmuring pines are still; their plaint <br />At last was heard and understood. <br />"Here floats no chime or Christmas bells, <br />There is no voice to give me cheer; <br />But through the pine woods all is well, <br />For God and love and peace are here." <br /><br />The poem was published in Poets and Poetry of Indiana, <br />a collection of poems written in the 1800s compiled <br />by Benjamin S. Parker and Enos B. Heiney, and published <br />in 1900 by Silver, Burdett and Company. <br />Adapted by James W. King - 2004.<br /><br />Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. <br />"The True Story of My Life" <br />by Hans Christian Andersen <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />FAIRYTAIL KINGDOM<br /><br />Dream a fairytale dream with me,<br />Come to the land of faraway and long ago,<br />Where every wish your heart makes comes true,<br />Where children reign forever and evermore,<br />This land of the faithful, the true and the brave<br />With handsome knights and pretty princesses,<br />And a mouse who would-be king,<br />Here life unfolds in all of it's radiant beauty,<br />Here everyone is truly beautiful and young and strong.<br />Neighbors do not hate, they help and say, Friend.<br />A Rainbow over head and a path of Golden bricks,<br />Lead us to a Paradise where plenty and peace abound.<br />The factory here makes dreams and clouds and<br />in the background bluebirds sing a happy song.<br />There are no tears or dark clouds to be found,<br />They've all been chased and swept away.<br />The children spend their time at play or<br />once-in-awhile making Teddy Bear picnic baskets<br />for the day. There is no other way to be happy,<br />you see. It's Yes, Sir and No, Ma'm and<br />Oh Yes, If You Please. And Thank You and <br />You are Welcome, we sing it all day long.<br />No laws, there is no need. The only law here<br />is to love one another better than ourselves.<br />For everyone here is beautiful, there is no strife.<br />The Golden Rule is the only rule and one we must abide.<br />And FairyTail Kingdom and the King of Mice<br />Will reign in the hearts of its children forever.<br />And Christmas Castle will always be a place<br />where any child can go and be free from<br />fear and want. A place where every dream comes true.<br /><br />You can see with your heart.<br />Make the dark skies depart.<br />All you need is some love to start with.<br />You can see with your heart.<br /><br />Sing a song of innocence.<br />Whisper of dreams and hope to me,<br />For these are the permanent things.<br />World's unseen, memories tidied up,<br />These are the stuff dreams are made of.<br />Here everyone is an artist, all are musicians,<br />for we all have a song to sing,<br />a picture to paint, a story to tell. And<br />that is why FairyTail Kingdom is <br />The Fairest of Them All... For here,<br />Everyone, no matter how small,<br />has a dream and a fairytale to tell.<br />And they all lived happily ever after.<br />God Bless Us Everyone...<br />Amen.<br /><br /><br /><br />In Hans Christian Andersen's <br />The Last Dream of the Oak Tree, <br />the oak tree and the mayfly discuss death: <br /><br />'Over, what is over?' asks the little fly. <br />'Will all the beauty in the world die when you die?' she asks the oak tree. <br />'It will last longer, infinitely longer than I am able to imagine,' replies the great oak tree.<br /><br /><br />Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.<br />Gloria in Excelsis Deo.<br /><br /><br />It Was The Birthday Of A King<br /> <br />In the little village of Bethlehem,<br />There lay a Child one day,<br />And the sky was bright With a Holy light<br />O'er the place where Jesus lay.<br /><br />Alleluia! O how the angels sang,<br />Alleluia! How it rang!<br />And the sky was bright with a Holy light,<br />'Twas the birthday of a King! <br /><br />'Twas a humble birthplace, but oh, how much<br />God gave to us that day,<br />From the manger bed What a path has led,<br />What a perfect Holy way.<br /><br />Alleluia! O how the angels sang,<br />Alleluia! How it rang!<br />And the sky was bright with a Holy light,<br />'Twas the birthday of a King! <br /><br /><br /><br />Do You Hear What I Hear?<br />Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne <br /><br />Said the night wind to the little lamb<br />Do you see what I see?<br />'Way up in the sky, little lamb<br />Do you see what I see?<br /><br />A star, a star<br />Dancing in the night<br />With a tail as big as a kite<br />With a tail as big as a kite<br /><br />Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy<br />Do you hear what I hear?<br />Ringing thru the sky, shepherd boy<br />Do you hear what I hear?<br /><br />A song, a song<br />High above the tree<br />With a voice as big as the sea<br />With a voice as big as the sea<br /> Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king<br />Do you know what I know?<br />In your palace warm, mighty king<br />Do you know what I know?<br /><br />A Child, a Child<br />Shivers in the cold<br />Let us bring Him silver and gold<br />Let us bring Him silver and gold<br /><br />Said the king to the people ev'rywhere<br />Listen to what I say!<br />Pray for peace ev'rywhere<br />Listen to what I say!<br /><br />The Child, the Child<br />Sleeping in the night<br />He will bring us goodness and light<br />He will bring us goodness and light <br /><br /><br /><br />The Greatest Gift of All<br />John Jarvis <br /><br />Dawn is slowly breaking<br />Our friends have all gone home<br />You and I are waiting<br />For Santa Claus to come<br /><br />There's a present by the tree<br />Stockings on the wall<br />Knocking you're in love with me<br />Is the greatest gift of all<br /><br />The fire is slowly fading<br />Chill is in the air<br />All the gifts are waiting<br />For children ev'rywhere <br /><br />Through the window I can see<br />Snow begin to fall<br />Knowing you're in love with me<br />Is the greatest gift of all<br /><br />Just before I go to sleep<br />I hear a church bell ring<br />Merry Christmas ev'ryone<br />Is the song it sings<br /><br />So I say a silent prayer<br />For creatures great and small<br />Peace on earth goodwill to men<br />Is the greatest gift of all<br />Peace on earth goodwill to men<br />Is the greatest gift of all. <br /><br /><br /><br />We Shall Behold Him<br />Dottie Rambo<br /><br />For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and <br /><br />with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain <br /><br />shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we <br /><br />ever be with the Lord.<br /> - The Holy Bible, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 <br /><br />The sky shall unfold, preparing His entrance;<br />The stars shall applaud Him with thunders of praise.<br />The sweet light in His eyes shall enhance those a waiting,<br />And we shall behold Him then face to face. <br /><br />Chorus<br />And we shall behold Him, we shall behold Him<br />Face to face in all of His glory;<br />And we shall behold Him, Yes, we shall behold Him<br />Face to face, our Saviour and Lord.<br />The angels shall sound the shout of His coming,<br />The sleeping shall rise from their slumbering place.<br />And those who remain shall be changed in a moment,<br />And we shall behold Him then face to face. <br /><br />Chorus<br />And we shall behold Him, we shall behold Him<br />Face to face in all of His glory;<br />And we shall behold Him, Yes, we shall behold Him<br />Face to face, our Saviour and Lord.<br />We shall behold Him, our Saviour and Lord.<br /><br /><br />LORD OF THE DANCE <br /><br /><br />Also Known As:<br /><br />SIMPLE GIFTS<br /><br />'Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free<br />'Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be<br />And when we find we're in the place just right<br />We'll be in the valley of love and delight<br /><br /><br />Dance, Dance, wherever you may be.<br />I am the Lord of the Dance, said he.<br />And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,<br />And I'll lead you all, in the dance said he.<br /><br /><br />When true simplicity is gained,<br />To bow and to bend, we shan't be ashamed.<br />To turn, turn, will be our delight<br />'Til by turning, turning, we come 'round right<br /><br /><br />Dance, Dance, wherever you may be.<br />I am the Lord of the Dance, said he.<br />And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,<br />And I'll lead you all, in the dance said he.<br /><br /><br />Dance, Dance, wherever you may be.<br />I am the Lord of the Dance, said he.<br />And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be,<br />And I'll lead you all, in the dance said he.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />I Believe<br />Words and Music by Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman, and Irvin Graham<br /><br /><br />I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows<br />I believe that somewhere in the darkest night a candle glows<br />I believe for everyone who goes astray someone will come to show the way<br />I believe, I believe<br /><br />I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard<br />I believe that someone in the great somewhere hears every word<br />Every time I hear a newborn baby cry or touch a leaf or see the sky<br />Then I know why I believe<br /><br />Every time I hear a newborn baby cry or touch a leaf or see the sky<br />Then I know why I believe (why I believe)<br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br />You Can<br />=======<br /><br />If you can't feed a billion people,<br />then feed just one.<br /><br />If you can't hire twenty million unemployed,<br />then hire just one.<br /><br />If you can't support an army,<br />then pray for one soldier. <br /><br />If you can't cure disease,<br />then visit one person in the hospital.<br />One smile provides healing. <br /><br />If you can't save the world,<br />then improve your community;<br />and if you can't improve your community,<br />then help your next-door neighbor.<br /><br />We can't save the world,<br />but we can save those within hugging distance.<br /><br />Don't give up.<br />Don't become overwhelmed.<br />We are responsible only for the people in our breathing space.<br /><br />Charity begins with the next person you see.<br />Charity begins with just you and just me.<br />If everyone on earth felt this way, what kind of planet would it be?<br /><br /><br /><br />Beyond the Cross<br /><br />His life was filled with purpose to do his Father’s will. <br />The essence of his mission drove Jesus up that hill. <br />And at his crucifixion, no human eye could see, <br />That love’s finest hour was just beyond the tree. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br /><br />And now each day of living begins with sacrifice, <br />For now it is my bidding to offer up my life. <br />And each new day, the crucifixion humbles me again, <br />As I die to my ambitions and remember once again. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br /><br />Through the pain of life, I find a hidden strength, <br />To rise and see what waits for me. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br />Beyond the cross.<br /><br /><br />Let There Be Peace On Earth<br />Sy Miller and Bill Jackson<br /><br />Let there be peace on earth<br />And let it begin with me<br />Let there be peace on earth<br />The peace that was meant to be <br />With God as our Father<br />Brothers all are we<br />Let me walk with my brother<br />In perfect harmony<br /><br />Let peace begin with me<br />Let this be the moment now<br />With every step I take<br />Let this be my solemn vow<br />To take each moment<br />And live each moment<br />In peace eternally<br />Let there be peace on earth<br />And let it begin with me<br /><br />Let there be peace on earth<br />And let it begin with me<br />Let there be peace on earth<br />The peace that was meant to be <br />With God as our Father<br />Brothers all are we<br />Let me walk with my brother<br />In perfect harmony<br /><br />Let peace begin with me<br />Let this be the moment now<br />With every step I take<br />Let this be my solemn vow<br />To take each moment<br />And live each moment<br />In peace eternally<br />Let there be peace on earth<br />And let it begin <br />With me<br /><br />In the circle of family and friends, <br />may we find a world <br />of love and peace.<br /><br /><br />Amazing Grace Will Always Be My Song<br />Dottie Rambo<br /><br /><br />Blessed Assurance<br />Frances Jane Crosby - Fanny Crosby<br /><br /><br />The King is Coming<br />The Lord's Prayer<br />The Savior is Waiting<br />The Potter's Hand<br />The Wedding Song<br />The Wonder of It All<br />Through It All<br /><br /><br />My Tribute <br />Andrae Crouch<br /><br />"To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent.<br />O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever." <br /> - The Holy Bible, Psalm 30:12 <br /><br />How can I say thanks for the things you have done for me?<br />Things so undeserved, yet You gave to prove your love for me.<br />The voices of a million angels could not express my gratitude.<br />All that I am and ever hope to be I owe it all to thee. <br /><br />To God be the glory, to God be the glory,<br />To God be the glory, for the things He has done.<br />With His blood He has saved me<br />With His power He has raised me<br />To God be the glory, for the things He has done. <br /><br />Just let me live my life and let it be pleasing Lord to thee<br />And should I gain any praise let it go to Calvary.<br />With His blood He has saved me,<br />With His power He has raised me<br />To God be the glory for the things He has done. <br /><br />To God be the glory, to God be the glory,<br />To God be the glory, for the things He has done.<br />With His blood He has saved me<br />With His power He has raised me<br />To God be the glory, for the things He has done.<br /><br /><br /><br />Teach Your Children <br />Graham Nash<br /><br />You who are on the road<br />must have a code that you can live by<br />and so become yourself<br />because the past is just a goodbye.<br /><br />Teach your children well<br />their father's hell<br />will slowly go by<br />and feed them on your dreams<br />the one they picks<br />the one you'll know by.<br /><br />Don't you ever ask them why<br />if they told you, you would cry<br />so just look at them and sigh<br />and know they love you.<br /><br />And you, of tender years<br />can't know the fears<br />that your elders grew by<br />and so please help them with your youth<br />they seek the truth<br />before they can die.<br /><br />(Can you hear and do you care<br />and can't you see we must be free<br />to teach our children what you believe in<br />make a world that we can believe in)<br /><br />Teach your parents well<br />their children's hell<br />will slowly go by<br />and feed them on your dreams<br />the one they picks<br />the one you'll know by.<br /><br />Don't you ever ask them why<br />if they told you, you would cry<br />so just look at them and sigh<br />and know they love you<br /><br /><br /><br />Down from His Glory<br />William E. Booth-Clibborn, w<br />Eduardo di Capua, m (1921) <br /> <br />"For I came down from heaven, not to do mine<br />own will, but the will of him that sent me." <br /> - The Holy Bible, John 6:38 <br /> <br />Down from His glory, ever living story,<br />My God and Savior came, and Jesus was His name;<br />Born in a manger to His own a stranger,<br />A man of sorrows, tears and agony! <br /><br />Chorus<br />Oh how I love Him! How I adore Him!<br />My breath, my sunshine, my all in all!<br />The great Creator became my Savior,<br />And all God's fullness dwelleth in Him!<br />What condescension, bringing us redemption,<br />That in the dead of night, not one faint hope in sight,<br />God gracious, tender laid aside His splendor,<br />Stooping to woo, to win, to save my soul! <br /><br />Chorus<br />Oh how I love Him! How I adore Him!<br />My breath, my sunshine, my all in all!<br />The great Creator became my Savior,<br />And all God's fullness dwelleth in Him!<br />Without reluctance, flesh and blood His substance,<br />He took the form of man, revealed the hidden plan;<br />O glorious mystery sacrifice of Calvary!<br />And now I know He is the great "I AM"! <br /><br />Chorus<br />Oh how I love Him! How I adore Him!<br />My breath, my sunshine, my all in all!<br />The great Creator became my Savior,<br />And all God's fullness dwelleth in Him!<br /><br /> <br />Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere <br />Tennessee Ernie Ford <br /><br />Somewhere the sun is shining,<br />Somewhere the songbirds dwell;<br />Hush, then, thy sad repining,<br />God lives, and all is well.<br /><br />Somewhere, somewhere,<br />Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!<br />Land of the true, where we live anew,<br />Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!<br /><br />Somewhere the day is longer,<br />Somewhere the task is done;<br />Somewhere the heart is stronger,<br />Somewhere the guardian won.<br /><br />Somewhere the load is lifted,<br />Close by an open door;<br />Somewhere the clouds are rifted,<br />Somewhere the angels sing.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Young At Heart<br />Johnny Richards, m, Carolyn Leigh, w.<br />Performed by Jimmy Durante<br /><br />Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you<br />If you're young at heart<br />For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind<br />If you're young at heart.<br /><br />You can go to extremes with impossible schemes<br />You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams<br />And life gets more exciting with each passing day<br />And love is either in your heart or on its way.<br /><br />Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on Earth<br />To be young at heart<br />For as rich as you are it's much better by far<br />To be young at heart. <br /><br />And if you should survive to 105<br />Look at all you'll derive out of being alive<br />Then here is the best part<br />You have a head start<br />If you are among the very young at heart.<br /><br />And if you should survive to 105<br />Look at all you'll derive out of being alive<br />Then here is the best part<br />You have a head start<br />If you are among the very young at heart.<br /><br /><br /><br />Return to Pooh Corner<br />Performed by Kenny Loggins<br /><br />Christopher Robin and I walked along<br />Under branches lit up by the moon.<br />Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore<br />As our days disappeared all too soon.<br />But I've wandered much further today than I should<br />And I can't seeem to find my way back to the wood.<br /><br />So, help me if you can I've got to get<br />Back to the house at Pooh Corner by One.<br />You'd be surprised there's so much to be done,<br />Count all the bees in the hive,<br />Chase all the clouds from the sky.<br />Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh.<br /><br />Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do,<br />Got a honey jar stuck on his nose.<br />He came to me asking help and advice<br />And from here no one knows where he goes.<br />So I sent him to ask of the Owl if he's there,<br />How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear?<br /><br />So, help me if you can I've got to get<br />Back to the house at Pooh corner by one<br />You'd be surprised there's so much to be done,<br />Count all the bees in the hive,<br />Chase all the clouds from the sky .<br />Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh,<br />Back to the days of Christopher Robin,<br />Back to the ways of Pooh.<br /><br />It's hard to explain how a few precious<br />Things seem to follow throughout all our lives<br />After all's said and done I was watching my son,<br />Sleeping there with my bear by his side.<br />So I tucked him in, I kissed him and as I was going,<br />I swear that old bear whispered "boy welcome home".<br /><br />Believe me if you can I've finally <br />Come back to the house at Pooh Corner by One.<br />What do you, there's so much to be done.<br />Count all the bees in the hive, <br />Chase all the clouds from the sky<br />Back to the days of Christopher Robin<br />Back to the days of Christopher Robin<br />Back to the ways of Pooh.<br /><br /><br />The Teddy Bear's Picnic<br />Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy, lyrics<br /><br />If you go down in the woods today<br />You're sure of a big surprise.<br />If you go down in the woods today<br />You'd better go in disguise.<br /><br />For every Bear that ever there was<br />Will gather there for certain, because<br />Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic.<br /><br />Picnic time for Teddy Bears,<br />The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.<br />Watch them, catch them unawares<br />And see them picnic on their holiday.<br /><br />See them gaily gad about,<br />They love to play and shout;<br />They never have any care;<br />At six o'clock when Mommies and Daddies<br />will take them home to bed,<br />Because they're tired little Teddy bears.<br /><br />Every Teddy bear who's been good<br />Is sure of a treat today.<br />There's a lot of marvellous things to eat,<br />And wonderful games to play.<br /><br />Beneath the trees where nobody sees<br />They'll hide and seek as long as they please,<br />Cause that's the way the Teddy Bears have their picnic.<br /><br />Picnic time for Teddy Bears,<br />The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.<br />Watch them, catch them unawares<br />And see them picnic on their holiday.<br /><br />If you go down in the woods today<br />You'd better not go alone.<br />It's lovely down in the woods today<br />But safer to stay at home.<br /><br />For every Bear that ever there was<br />Will gather there for certain, because<br />Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic.<br /><br />Picnic time for Teddy Bears,<br />The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.<br />Watch them, catch them unawares<br />And see them picnic on their holiday.<br /><br /><br /><br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, close your eyes. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, be surprised. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, climb up the stairs. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say good night. <br />- Teddy Bear, Traditional Child's Skipping Song <br /><br /><br />I Believe<br />Erwin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman<br /><br />I believe, for every drop of rain that falls, <br />A flower grows...<br /><br />I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, <br />A candle glows...<br /><br />I believe for everyone who goes astray, <br />Someone will come, to show the way,<br />I believe, I believe...<br /><br />I believe, above the storm the smallest prayer, <br />Will still be heard...<br /><br />I believe, that someone in the great somewhere, <br />Hears every word...<br /><br />Everytime I hear a newborn baby cry, <br />Or touch a leaf, or see the sky, <br />Then I know why, I believe! <br /><br />I believe, above the storm the smallest prayer, <br />Will still be heard...<br /><br />I believe, that someone in the great somewhere, <br />Hears every word...<br /><br />Everytime I hear a newborn baby cry, <br />Or touch a leaf, or see the sky, <br />Then I know why, I believe! <br /><br /><br /><br />He<br />Jack Mullan, w, Jack Richards, m, B. Feldman<br />McGuire Sisters<br />Jo Stafford<br /><br />He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea,<br />He alone decides who writes the symphony.<br />He lights every star that makes our darkness bright.<br />He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night.<br />He still finds the time to hear a child's first prayer,<br />Saint or sinner call and always find Him there,<br />Though it makes Him sad to see the way we live,<br />He'll always say, "I forgive." <br /><br />He still finds the time to hear a child's first prayer,<br />Saint or sinner call and always find Him there,<br />Though it makes Him sad to see the way we live,<br />He'll always say, "I forgive!"<br /><br />He can grant a wish or make a dream come true.<br />He can paint the clouds and turn the grey to blue.<br />He alone knows where to find the rainbow's end,<br />He alone can see what lies beyond the bend.<br />He can touch a tree and turn the leaves to gold.<br />He knows every lie that you and I have told,<br />Though it makes Him sad to see the way we live,<br />He'll always say, "I forgive." <br /><br />He can touch a tree and turn the leaves to gold.<br />He knows every lie that you and I have told,<br />Though it makes Him sad to see the way we live,<br />He will always say, "I forgive! I forgive!"<br /><br /><br /><br />Everything is Beautiful<br />Ray Stevens<br />"Jesus Loves the Little Children"<br />C. Herbert Woolston and George F. Root <br /><br />Jesus loves the little children,<br />All the children of the world;<br />Red and yellow, black and white,<br />They are precious in His sight;<br />Jesus loves the little children of the world. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />There is none so blind as he who will not see.<br />We must not close our minds,<br /> we must let our thoughts be free.<br />For every hour that passes by,<br /> you know the world gets a little bit older.<br />It's time to realize that beauty lies<br /> in the eyes of the beholder. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />We shouldn't care about the length of his hair<br /> or the color of his skin.<br />Don't worry about what shows from without<br /> but the loves that lives within.<br />We're gonna get it all together<br />And everything's gonna work out just fine.<br />Just take a little time to look on the good side<br /> and straighten it out in your mind. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way.<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way.<br /><br /><br /><br />Happy Trails to You<br />Dale Evans-Rogers (Mrs. Roy Rogers) <br /><br />Some trails are happy ones,<br />Others are blue.<br />It's the way you ride the trail that counts,<br />Here's a happy one for you. <br />Happy trails to you, it's great to say "hello".<br />And to share with you the trail we've come to know.<br />It started on the day that we met Jesus,<br />He came into our hearts and then He freed us.<br />For a life that's true, a happy trail to you.<br /><br /><br /><br />Muppet Show Theme<br />Jim Henson and Company<br /><br />It's time to play the music<br />It's time to light the lights<br />It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight<br /><br />It's time to put on make up<br />It's time to dress up right<br />It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight<br /><br />To introduce this record<br />That's what I'm here to do<br />So it really makes me happy<br />To introduce to you<br /><br />The first, original, genuine, no money back guarantee<br />Muppet Show Cast Album!<br /><br />It''s time to put on make up<br />It's time to dress up right<br />It's time to get things started on the most sensational<br />Inspirational, celebrational, muppetational<br />This is what we call the Muppet Show!<br /><br /><br /><br />The Rainbow Connection<br />Written by Paul Williams<br />Performed by Kermit the Frog<br />The Muppets, Jim Henson Productions<br /><br /><br />Why are there so many songs about rainbows<br />And what's on the other side?<br />Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,<br />And rainbows have nothing to hide.<br />So we've been told and some choose to believe it<br />I know they're wrong, wait and see.<br />Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,<br />The lovers, the dreamers and me.<br /><br />Who said that every wish would be heard and answered<br />when wished on the morning star?<br />Somebody thought of that<br />and someone believed it,<br />and look what it's done so far.<br />What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing?<br />And what do we think we might see?<br />Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,<br />the lovers, the dreamers and me.<br /><br />All of us under its spell,<br />we know that it's probably magic....<br /><br />Have you been half asleep<br />and have you heard voices?<br />I've heard them calling my name.<br />Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?<br />The voice might be one and the same.<br />I've heard it too many times to ignore it.<br />It's something that I'm supposed to be.<br />Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,<br />the lovers, the dreamers and me.<br />La, la la, La, la la la, La Laa, la la, La, La la laaaaaaa.<br /><br /><br /><br />Snoopy versus The Red Baron<br />The Royal Guardsmen<br /><br /><br />The news had come out in the First World War <br />The bloody Red Baron was flying once more<br />The Allied command ignored all of its men<br />And called on Snoopy to do it again.<br /><br />Twas the night before Christmas, 40 below<br />When Snoopy went up in search of his foe<br />He spied the Red Baron, fiercely they fought<br />With ice on his wings Snoopy knew he was caught.<br /><br />Christmas bells those Christmas bells<br />Ring out from the land<br />Asking peace of all the world<br />And good will to man<br /><br />The Baron had Snoopy dead in his sights<br />He reached for the trigger to pull it up tight<br />Why he didn't shoot, well, we'll never know<br />Or was it the bells from the village below.<br /><br />Christmas bells those Christmas bells<br />Ringing through the land<br />Bringing peace to all the world<br />And good will to man<br /><br />The Baron made Snoopy fly to the Rhine<br />And forced him to land behind the enemy lines<br />Snoopy was certain that this was the end<br />When the Baron cried out, "Merry Christmas, my friend"<br /><br />The Baron then offered a holiday toast<br />And Snoopy, our hero, saluted his host<br />And then with a roar they were both on their way<br />Each knowing they'd meet on some other day.<br /><br />Christmas bells those Christmas bells<br />Ringing through the land<br />Bringing peace to all the world<br />And good will to man.<br /><br /><br /><br />One Tin Soldier<br />The Legend of Billy Jack<br />by Lambert-Potter<br /><br /><br />Listen, children, to a story<br />That was written long ago,<br />'Bout a kingdom on a mountain<br />And the valley-folk below.<br /><br />On the mountain was a treasure<br />Buried deep beneath the stone,<br />And the valley-people swore<br />They'd have it for their very own.<br /><br />Go ahead and hate your neighbor,<br />Go ahead and cheat a friend.<br />Do it in the name of Heaven,<br />You can justify it in the end.<br />There won't be any trumpets blowing<br />Come the judgement day,<br />On the bloody morning after....<br />One tin soldier rides away.<br /><br />So the people of the valley<br />Sent a message up the hill,<br />Asking for the buried treasure,<br />Tons of gold for which they'd kill.<br /><br />Came an answer from the kingdom,<br />"With our brothers we will share<br />All the secrets of our mountain,<br />All the riches buried there."<br /><br />Go ahead and hate your neighbor,<br />Go ahead and cheat a friend.<br />Do it in the name of Heaven,<br />You can justify it in the end.<br />There won't be any trumpets blowing<br />Come the judgement day,<br />On the bloody morning after....<br />One tin soldier rides away.<br /><br />Now the valley cried with anger,<br />"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"<br />And they killed the mountain-people,<br />So they won their just reward.<br /><br />Now they stood beside the treasure,<br />On the mountain, dark and red.<br />Turned the stone and looked beneath it...<br />"Peace on Earth" was all it said.<br /><br />Go ahead and hate your neighbor,<br />Go ahead and cheat a friend.<br />Do it in the name of Heaven,<br />You can justify it in the end.<br />There won't be any trumpets blowing<br />Come the judgement day,<br />On the bloody morning after....<br />One tin soldier rides away.<br /><br />Go ahead and hate your neighbor,<br />Go ahead and cheat a friend.<br />Do it in the name of Heaven,<br />You can justify it in the end.<br />There won't be any trumpets blowing<br />Come the judgement day,<br />On the bloody morning after....<br />One tin soldier rides away.<br /><br /><br /><br />Little White Cloud That Cried<br />Johnnie Ray<br /><br /><br />I went walkin' down by the river<br />Feeling very sad inside<br />When all at once I saw in the sky<br />The little white cloud that cried.<br /><br />He told me he was very lonesome<br />And no one cared if he lived or died<br />And said sometimes the thunder and lightning<br />Make all little clouds hide.<br /><br />He said "Have faith in all kinds of weather"<br />"For the sun will always shine"<br />"Do your best and always remember"<br />"The dark clouds pass with time".<br /><br />He asked if I'd tell all my world<br />Just how hard those little clouds try<br />That's how I know I'll always remember<br />The little white cloud that sat right down and cried.<br /><br /><br /><br />Marshmallow World<br />Carl Sigman <br />(with all due respect to Carl, I can't help thinking<br />of the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man in<br />Ghostbusters when I read this... hahaha...)<br /><br /><br />Ahhhh, it's a marshmallow world in the winter,<br />When the snow comes to cover the ground.<br />It's the time for play, it's a whipped cream day,<br />I wait for it the whole year round!<br /><br />Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly,<br />In the arms of the evergreen trees;<br />And the sun is red like a pumpkin head,<br />It's shining so your nose won't freeze!<br /><br />The world is your snowball, see how it grows,<br />That's how it goes, whenever it snows.<br />The world is your snowball just for a song,<br />Get out and roll it along!<br /><br />It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts,<br />Take a walk with your favorite girl.<br />It's a sugar date, so what if spring is late,<br />In winter it's a marshmallow world!<br /><br />It's a marshmallow day in the winter,<br />When the snow comes to cover the ground.<br />It's the time for play, it's a whipped cream day,<br />And we wait for it the whole year round!<br /><br />Just you remember that,<br /><br />Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly,<br />In the arms of the evergreen trees;<br />And the sun is red like a pumpkin head,<br />It's shining so your nose won't freeze!<br /><br />You must remember that,<br /><br />The world is your snowball, see how it grows,<br />That's how it goes whenever it snows.<br />The world is your snowball just for a song,<br />Get out and roll it along!<br /><br />It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts,<br />Take a walk with your favorite girl.<br />It's a sugary date, so what if spring is late,<br />In winter it's a marshmallow world...<br />In winter it's a marshmallow world...<br />In winter it's a marshmallow world...<br /><br /><br /><br />It's Not Easy Being Green<br />Kermit The Frog<br />Jim Henson Productions - The Muppets<br /><br /><br />It's not that easy being green;<br />Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.<br />When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold...<br />or something much more colorful like that.<br /><br />It's not easy being green.<br />It seems you blend in with so many other ord'nary things.<br />And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're<br />not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water <br />or stars in the sky.<br /><br />But green's the color of Spring.<br />And green can be cool and friendly-like.<br />And green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain,<br />or tall like a tree.<br /><br />When green is all there is to be<br />It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?<br />Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful!<br />And I think it's what I want to be.<br /><br /><br /><br />Our House<br />Crosby, Stills and Nash<br /><br />I'll light the fire, while you place the flowers <br />In the vase that you bought today. <br />Staring at the fire for hours and hours, <br />While I listen to you play your love songs <br />All night long for me, only for me. <br /><br />Our house, is a very, very, very fine house. <br />With two cats in the yard, <br />Life used to be so hard, <br />Now everything is easy 'cause of you. <br /><br />Come to me now, and rest your head for just five minutes, <br />Everything is done. <br />Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated <br />By the evening sunshine through them, <br />Fiery gems for you, only for you. <br /><br />Our house, is a very, very, very fine house. <br />With two cats in the yard, <br />Life used to be so hard, <br />Now everything is easy 'cause of you. <br /><br /><br /><br />When my brother Tommy<br /> Sleeps in bed with me,<br /> He doubles up<br /> and makes<br /> him self<br /> exactly<br /> like<br /> a<br /> V<br /><br />And 'cause the bed is not so wide, <br />A part of him is on my side. <br />- Two In Bed, Abram Bunn Ross <br /><br /><br /><br />A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes<br />Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston<br />Performed by Ilene Woods (Cinderella) <br /><br />A dream is wish your heart makes<br />When you're past asleep<br />In dreams, you will lose your heartache<br />Whatever you wished for, you keep<br /><br />Have faith in your dream and someday<br />Your rainbow will come smiling too<br />No matter how your heart is grieving<br />If you keep on believing<br />The dream that you wish will come true<br /> <br />La la la la la la la la la la la rin<br />Ohh oh la ra la ra la rin<br />Ohh oh la ra la ra la rin<br /><br />No matter how your heart is grieving<br />If you keep on believing<br />The dream tha you wish will come true<br /><br />No matter how your heart is grieving<br />If you keep on believing<br />The dream that you wish will come true.<br /> <br /> <br /><br />I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing <br />(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)<br />Sung by The Hillside Singers<br /><br />I'd like to build the world a home<br />And furnish it with love<br />Grow apple trees and honey bees<br />And snow-white turtle doves<br /><br />Chorus:<br />I'd like to teach the world to sing<br />In perfect harmony<br />I'd like to hold it in my arms<br />And keep it company<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />I'd like to see the world for once<br />(Let the world sing today)<br />All standing hand in hand<br />And hear them echo through the hills<br />For peace throughout the land<br />That's the song I hear<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />Let the world sing today<br />(Let the whole wide world keep singing)<br />A song of peace that echoes on<br />And never goes away<br /> <br />(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)<br /><br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Let's begin today<br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Help me find a way<br /><br />(Repeat Chorus til fade)<br /><br /><br /><br />SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW<br />(H. Arlen/E.Y. Harburgh)<br />Sung by Judy Garland (Dorothy) in<br />The Wizard of Oz (1939)<br /><br />Somewhere over the rainbow way up high<br />There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby<br />Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue<br />And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.<br /><br />Someday I wish upon a star<br />And wake up where the clouds are far behind me<br />Where troubles melt like lemon drops<br />Away above the chimney tops<br />That's where you find me.<br /><br />Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly<br />Birds fly over the rainbow<br />Why then, oh why can't I.<br /><br />(Instrumental)<br /><br />Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly<br />Birds fly over the rainbow<br />Why then, oh why can't I.<br /><br />If happy little blue birds fly<br />Beyond the rainbow<br />Why, oh why, can't I.<br /><br /><br /> <br />Sing <br />Raposo<br /><br />Sing, sing a song<br />Sing out loud, sing out strong<br />Sing of good things, not bad<br />Sing out happy, not sad<br /><br />Sing, sing a song<br />Make it simple<br />To last your whole life long<br />Don't worry if it's not good enough<br />For anyone else to hear<br />Just sing, sing a song<br /><br />La la la la la La la la la la la<br />La la la la la la la<br /> <br />Chorus:<br />Sing, sing a song<br />Let the world sing along<br />Sing of love there could be<br />Sing for you and for me<br /><br />Sing, sing a song<br />Make it simple<br />To last your whole life long<br />Don't worry if it's not good enough<br />For anyone else to hear<br />Just sing, sing a song<br />(Just sing, sing a song)<br />Just sing, sing a song<br /><br />La la la la la La la la la la la<br />La la la la la la la<br /><br />La la la la la La la la la la la<br />La la la la la la la (to fade)<br /> <br /> <br /><br />When You Wish Upon A Star <br />N. Washington, L. Harling<br /><br />When you wish upon a star<br />Makes no difference who you are<br />Anything your heart desires<br />Will come to you.<br /><br />If your heart is in a dream<br />No request is too extreme<br />When you wish upon a star<br />Your dreams come true.<br /> <br />Refrain:<br />Fate is kind<br />She brings to those who love<br />The sweet fulfillment of<br />Their secret longing.<br /><br />Like a bolt out on the blue<br />Fate steps in and sees you through<br />When you wish upon a star<br />Your dreams come true.<br /><br />(Repeat Refrain and last stanza)<br /><br /> <br /> <br />Tomorrow (Annie)<br />C. Strousse, M. Charmin<br /><br />The sun will come out, tomorrow<br />Bet your bottom dollar<br />That tomorrow, there'll be sun<br />Jus' thinkin' about, tomorrow<br />Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow<br />'Til there's none.<br /><br />When I'm stuck with the day that's gray and lonely<br />I just stick out my chin and grin and say, ohhh.<br /><br />The sun will come out, tomorrow<br />So you gotta hang on 'til tomorrow<br />Come what may...<br /><br />Chorus:<br />Tomorrow, tomorrow<br />I love ya, tomorrow<br />You're always a day away.<br /> <br /> (Instrumental)<br /><br />The sun will come out, tomorrow<br />So you gotta hang on 'til tomorrow<br />Come what may...<br /><br />(Repeat Chorus)<br /><br />Tomorrow, tomorrow<br />I love ya, tomorrow<br />You're always a day a- way!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Turn Around<br />Harry Belafonte, Alan Greene, Malvina Reynolds <br /><br /><br />Where are you going my little one, little one <br />Where are you going my baby, my own <br />Turn around and you're two <br />Turn around and you're four <br />Turn around and you're a young girl <br />Going out of the door.<br /><br />Turn around <br />Turn around <br />Turn around and you're a young girl <br />Going out of the door.<br /><br />Where are you going my little one, little one <br />Little pigtails and petticoats <br />Where have you gone <br />Turn around and you're tiny <br />Turn around and you're grown <br />Turn around and you're a young wife <br />With babes of your own.<br /><br />Turn around <br />Turn around <br />Turn around and you're a young wife <br />With babes of your own.<br /><br />Where are you going my little one, little one <br />Where are you going my baby, my own?<br /><br />[Ed. note: That may be "Growing" out of the door. <br />The little girl in the Kodak commercial was being<br />measured on a heighth chart on the back of a door.]<br /><br /><br />Grandfather's Clock (1876)<br />Henry C. Work<br /><br />My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,<br />So it stood ninety years on the floor;<br />It was taller by half than the old man himself,<br />Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.<br />It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,<br />And was always his treasure and pride.<br />But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,<br />When the old man died..<br /><br />Chorus<br />Ninety years without slumbering<br />Tick, tock, tick, tock,<br />His life seconds numbering,<br />Tick, tock, tick, tock<br />It stopp'd short, Never to go again<br />When the old man died.<br /><br />In watching its pendulum swing to and fro,<br />Many hours had he spent while a boy;<br />And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know,<br />And to share both his grief and his joy.<br />For it struck twenty-four when he entered the door,<br />With a blooming and beautiful bride.<br />But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,<br />When the old man died..<br /><br />My grandfather said, that of those he could hire,<br />Not a servant so faithful he found:<br />For it wasted no time, and had but one desire,<br />At the close of each week to be wound.<br />And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face,<br />And its hands never hung by its side;<br />But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,<br />When the old man died..<br /><br />It rang an alarm in the dead of the night,<br />And alarm that for years had been dumb;<br />And we know that his spirit was pluming its flight,<br />That his hour of departure had come.<br />Still the clock kept the time, with a soft muffled chime,<br />As we silently stood by his side;<br />But it stopp'd short, Never to go again,<br />When the old man died..<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-2030285178028331325?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-44447849754269261842008-06-16T12:36:00.000-07:002008-06-16T13:34:00.169-07:00After The Sunrise <br /><br />Blessed Assurance<br /><br />Kneel At The Cross <br /> <br />Redemption Draweth Nigh <br />Heaven Will Surely Be Worth It All <br />I'm Standing On The Solid Rock <br />Heaven <br />Beneath The Cross Of Jesus <br />I'll Fly Away <br />The Rainbow Of Love <br />He Keeps Me Singing <br />Victory In Jesus <br />Where The Roses Never Fade <br />O The Glory Did Roll <br />The King Is Coming <br />Abide With Me <br />You Can Have A Song In Your Heart <br />We Shall Be Like Him <br />Never Alone <br />I've Got Peace Like A River <br />'Neath The Old Olive Trees <br />Where Could I Go? <br />Lord, Lay Some Soul Upon My Heart <br />Let Me Live Close To Thee <br />Heaven Is Waiting For Me <br />Standing On The Promises <br />Remember Me <br />The Love Of God <br />This Is The Day (That The Lord Hath Made) <br />There Will Be Showers Of Blessing <br />He Leadeth Me <br />I'd Rather Have Jesus <br />Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow <br />What A Day That Will Be <br />Hold To God's Unchanging Hand <br />Some Glad Day After A While <br />Without Him <br />I'll Meet You By The River <br />Blest Be The Tie <br />His Eye Is On The Sparrow <br />Rock Of Ages <br />Rescue The Perishing <br />Wonderful Words Of Life <br />When We Sing Around The Throne Eternal <br />The Old Rugged Cross Made The Difference <br />Just A Rose Will Do <br />Shelter From The Storms <br />He Lifted Me <br />That Glad Reunion Day <br />When I've Traveled My Last Mile (He'll Hold My <br />Hand) <br />Sunlight <br />Isn't The Love Of Jesus Something Wonderful <br />The Beautiful Garden Of Prayer <br />He Whispers Sweet Peace To Me <br />I Will Sing The Wondrous Story <br />Precious Memories <br />Send The Light <br />When The Savior Reached Down For Me <br />He Will Pilot Me <br />Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me <br />Another Look At Calvary <br />Were You There? <br />The Old Rugged Cross <br />At The Cross <br />In The Garden <br />Hallelujah! We Shall Rise <br />Because He Lives <br />All Hail The Power <br />He Lives <br />Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone? <br />How Great Thou Art <br />When I Survey The Wondrous Cross <br />Rise Again <br />At Calvary <br />Christ Arose! <br />The Blood That Stained The Old Rugged Cross <br />I'd Rather Have Jesus <br />Ring The Bells Of Heaven <br />Only Believe <br />Make Me A Blessing <br />Great Is Thy Faithfulness <br />Leave It There <br />Stand Up For Jesus <br />Whiter Than Snow <br />Jesus, We Just Want To Thank You <br />My Savior's Love <br />Hide Thou Me <br />My Faith Looks Up To Thee <br />How Long Has It Been <br />I Cannot Find The Way Alone <br />Springs Of Living Water <br />America, The Beautiful <br />The Star-Spangled Banner <br />America <br />Battle Hymn Of The Republic <br />Stepping In The Light <br />This World Is Not My Home <br />Blessed Be The Name <br />Precious Lord, Lead Me <br />Press On, It Won't Be Long <br />The Sweetest Song I Know <br />Learning To Lean <br />Won't It Be Wonderful There? <br />Sweeter Each Day <br />Count Your Blessings <br />What A Friend We Have In Jesus <br />Just A Little Talk With Jesus <br />My Jesus, I Love Thee <br />It Is No Secret <br />The Family Of God <br />He Is Mine And I Am His <br />Go To Jesus In Prayer <br />I Will Sing Of My Redeemer <br />Angels From The Realms Of Glory <br />The First Noel <br />What Child Is This? <br />O Little Town Of Bethlehem <br />We Three Kings <br />Hark, The Herald Angels Sing <br />O Come, All Ye Faithful <br />It Came Upon A Midnight Clear <br />O Beautiful Night <br />Joy To The World! <br />Angels We Have Heard On High <br />Silent Night! Holy Night! <br />Away In A Manger <br />While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks <br />I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day <br />Go Tell It On The Mountain <br />Spirit Of The Living God <br />Sheltered In The Arms Of God <br />He Is Lord <br />Will There Be Any Stars? <br />Heavenly Sunlight <br />Palms Of Victory <br />He Set Me Free <br />He Bore It All <br />Pour Through Me <br />Hallelujah! He's Coming Again <br />His Touch Means So Much <br />The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power <br />Let Us Break Bread Together <br />Wonderful Grace Of Jesus <br />Praise Shall Be My Song <br />Looking For A City <br />Surely Goodness And Mercy <br />Jesus, Hold My Hand <br />Rise And Be Healed <br />There's Something About That Name <br />O Why Not Tonight? <br />Where He Leads Me <br />Jesus Calls Us <br />Softly And Tenderly <br />Lord, I'm Coming Home <br />Let Jesus Come Into Your Heart <br />Room At The Cross For You <br />The Savior Is Waiting <br />Jesus Is Calling <br />Just As I Am <br />Only Trust Him <br />I Surrender All <br />Have Thine Own Way, Lord! <br />Pass Me Not <br />I Have Decided To Follow Jesus <br />Nothing But The Blood <br />Closer To You <br />When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder <br />The Haven Of Rest <br />The Stranger Of Galilee <br />Send A Great Revival <br />Glory To His Name <br />Some Morning Fair <br />I'll Have A New Life <br />I'll Meet You In The Morning <br />Are You Washed In The Blood? <br />O I Want To See Him <br />I Must Tell Jesus <br />In The Sweet By And By <br />When We All Get To Heaven <br />I'll Live On <br />Tell It To Jesus <br />The Last Mile Of The Way <br />Song Of Calvary <br />Just A Closer Walk With Thee <br />Ten Thousand Angels <br />Headin' For Gloryland <br />There Is Sunshine In My Soul <br />He'll Understand (And Say, "Well Done") <br />Let's Just Praise The Lord <br />Beyond The Sunset <br />Love Lifted Me <br />There Is A Fountain <br />I've Got That Old Time Religion <br />What Will I Leave Behind? <br />O It Thrills Me <br />Footsteps Of Jesus <br />Dwelling In Beulah Land <br />He Paid A Debt He Did Not Owe <br />Praise Him! Praise Him! <br />'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus <br />Onward, Christian Soldiers <br />Does Jesus Care? <br />For Those Tears I Died <br />Take Time To Be Holy <br />I Am Thine, O Lord <br />In My Heart There Rings A Melody <br />Ten Thousand Years <br />I Need Thee Every Hour <br />No, Not One! <br />To God Be The Glory <br />Sweet Beulah Land <br />He Did It All For Me <br />The Next Time He Comes <br />Old-Time Power <br />Touring That City <br />If We Never Meet Again <br />Heaven Came Down (And Glory Filled My Soul) <br />He's Everything To Me <br />Jesus Is All The World To Me <br />It Took A Miracle <br />Lord, Lead Me On <br />Take My Hand, Precious Lord <br />In Times Like These <br />I Will Serve Thee <br />Each Step I Take <br />I'll Be Satisfied <br />Jesus Is The Sweetest Name (I Know) <br />Sunset Is Coming (But The Sunrise We'll See) <br />His Name Is Wonderful <br />O, How I Love Jesus <br />Someone To Care <br />I Feel Like Traveling On <br />Faith Of Our Fathers <br />He Is All I Need <br />All That Thrills My Soul <br />Over The Sunset Mountains <br />More Love To Thee <br />Jesus Paid It All <br />He's Coming After Me <br />Beautiful Isle <br />Cleanse Me <br />I Will Praise Him <br />Revive Us Again <br />Help Is On The Way <br />Amazing Grace <br />In The Sweet Forever <br />Hallelujah, What A Savior! <br />Holy, Holy, Holy <br />A Mighty Fortress <br />How Firm A Foundation <br />Sweet, Sweet Spirit <br />By His Holy Name <br />Farther Along <br />What A Meeting In The Air <br />Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome <br />The Way Of The Cross Leads Home <br />Yield Not To Temptation <br />God Will Take Care Of You <br />A New Name In Glory <br />Little Is Much, When God Is In It <br />He Touched Me <br />I Offer Up My Praise <br />Bringing In The Sheaves <br />The Lily Of The Valley <br />Wouldn't This Be A Good Time To Pray? <br />Now I Belong To Jesus <br />Something Worth Living For <br />Redeemed <br />I Will Not Be A Stranger <br />There Is Power In The Blood <br />Jesus Saves <br />Since Jesus Came Into My Heart <br />Drifting Too Far From The Shore <br />When They Ring The Golden Bells <br />Let Us Sing <br />We'll Talk It Over <br />I Gave My Life For Thee <br />God Answers Prayer <br />I'm Winging My Way Back Home <br />No One Ever Cared For Me (Like Jesus) <br />Nails Held Him There (But Love Made Him Stay) <br />I Am Free <br />Praise Him <br />Mansion Over The Hilltop <br />Take Up Thy Cross <br />Greater Is He That Is In Me <br />Wounded For Me <br />One Day At A Time <br />My Tribute <br />It's Real <br />When We See Christ (It Will Be Worth It All) <br />Living For Jesus <br />More About Jesus <br />Leaning On The Everlasting Arms <br />Higher Ground <br />What A Lovely Name <br />Whisper A Prayer <br />Jesus Is Coming Again <br />It Is Well With My Soul <br />Hand In Hand With Jesus <br />Give Me Oil In My Lamp <br />Jesus Is Lord Of All <br />Reach Out To Jesus <br />O For A Thousand Tongues <br />Where The Soul Never Dies <br />Never Say Good-Bye <br />God Be With You <br /><br />1 5 4 Searchin' Talley Trio <br />2 1 6 Praise God, It's Settled, I'm Saved Perrys <br />3 3 5 The Blood McKameys <br />4 4 6 I Believe Greater Vision <br />5 9 4 On The Road To Emmaus Steeles <br />6 7 5 I Stand Redeemed Legacy Five <br />7 6 6 Somewhere In Gloryland Won By One <br />8 2 7 Through The Fire Crabb Family <br />9 12 4 Not For Sale Michael Combs <br />10 11 4 Morning's Coming Jeff & Sheri Easter <br />11 16 5 Dare To Be A Daniel Brian Free <br />12 14 5 I'm No Stranger To The Valley Mike Bowling <br />13 8 7 God Is Good All The Time Gaither Vocal Band <br />14 22 4 Somebody Say Amen Galloways <br />15 27 3 Hide Me Behind The Cross Gold City <br />16 20 4 He's Alive Heirline <br />17 42 2 Getcha To The Other Side Kingsmen <br />18 15 6 I'll Stand Kingdom Heirs <br />19 25 5 Help Me Stand, Lord Hoskins Family <br />20 61 2 Four Days Late Karen Peck & New River <br />21 29 3 They That Wait Whisnants <br />22 32 3 Isn't The Love Of Jesus Something Wonderful Hayes Family <br />23 21 5 He Said It All Bishops <br />24 10 9 Glorious City Of God Greenes <br />25 35 3 What A Morning Anchormen <br />26 34 4 Keep Me In Your Will Jessica King <br />27 28 4 By The Way Of The Cross Ruppes <br />28 37 3 It's Too Late Standing Tall <br />29 53 3 Covered In Red Tony Gore & Majesty <br />30 13 6 What I Found At The Altar Kingsmen <br />31 19 6 Don't Wanna Miss A Thing Martins <br />32 18 8 Trying To Get A Glimpse Cathedral Quartet <br />33 41 3 Redeemed and Washed White As Snow Kirk Talley <br />34 30 5 Second Birth Comptons <br />35 70 2 If I Had A Dollar Carroll Roberson <br />36 46 3 Reunion In Heaven Primitive Quartet <br />37 26 5 He's Got A Way With Words Freemans <br />38 43 3 Christians Never Say Good Bye Nelons <br />39 55 2 On The Road Home Steve Lacey Trio <br />40 17 8 Stepping On The Clouds Hoppers <br />41 44 4 This One's With Me Gann Brothers <br />42 54 3 Gonna Walk Poet Voices <br />43 52 3 Joy In The Camp Ponder, Sykes & Wright <br />44 49 4 More Than Ready Higher Faith <br />45 1 I'll Consider My Source LordSong <br />46 47 5 It'll Be Jesus Encouragers <br />47 57 3 No Place To Quit Or Turn Around Browders <br />48 58 3 Just Remember The Hill Common Bond <br />49 67 2 Forgiven, Forgotten, Forever Greenes <br />50 1 Out Of The Blue N'Harmony <br />51 45 5 Heaven Can You Imagine Rochesters <br />52 1 Something Out Of Nothing Freemans <br />53 64 3 Fountain Of Youth Ronny Hinson <br />54 74 3 Somebody Run Southern Brothers <br />55 1 Great Day In The Morning Regents <br />56 1 Occupy Till I Come Hoppers <br />57 62 4 I Will Shine New Hinsons <br />58 66 2 Put Your Hand In The Hand Mended Wings <br />59 1 When It's My Time Crabb Family <br />60 78 2 I Have An Anchor Shulers <br />61 69 2 Hold Me Lord Jody Brown Indian Family <br />62 1 Operator Dove Brothers Quartet <br />63 76 2 Shoutin'! Singin'! Happy! Four Fold <br />64 65 2 See You In The Morning Kevin Spencer & Friends <br />65 51 3 I Can't Lose For Winning Amy Lambert <br />66 71 2 Jesus Took Care Of It All Veterans Quartet <br />67 1 The Sun Will Shine Again Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />68 60 3 Up Above My Head Jake Hess <br />69 1 Blood On The Mercy Seat Tennessee Harmony <br />70 1 Will Jimmy Make It Home Inspirations <br />71 73 2 That's What Grace Is For Melody Boys Quartet <br />72 1 Mighty is the Word Exalt! <br />73 48 4 He Took The Grave Clothes Perry Sisters <br />74 1 When Jesus Comes In The Clouds Ernie Haase <br />75 1 The Cross Was Built To Last McKeithen & Company <br />76 1 The Lamb Booth Brothers <br />77 1 I'm Glad Arnolds <br />78 1 In The Midst Of The Flame Williams <br />79 63 3 Tomorrow Jerry & Tammy Sullivan <br />80 80 3 I'm Going To Reach Heaven Melody Trio <br />1 3 5 Four Days Late Karen Peck & New River <br />2 4 5 Getcha To The Other Side Kingsmen <br />3 7 4 When It's My Time Crabb Family <br />4 2 7 On The Road To Emmaus Steeles <br />5 1 7 Searchin' Talley Trio <br />6 8 7 Somebody Say Amen Galloways <br />7 6 7 Not For Sale Michael Combs <br />8 23 3 Yes I Am Hoppers <br />9 13 5 If I Had A Dollar Carroll Roberson <br />10 10 7 Keep Me In Your Will Jessica King <br />11 40 2 Get Up, Get Ready Gold City <br />12 15 4 Something Out Of Nothing Freemans <br />13 5 8 The Blood McKameys <br />14 12 6 They That Wait Whisnants <br />15 16 4 Out Of The Blue N'Harmony <br />16 11 6 Isn't The Love Of Jesus Something Wonderful Hayes Family <br />17 29 3 Great Things Bishops <br />18 9 6 Hide Me Behind The Cross Gold City <br />19 35 2 We're Not Gonna Bow Jeff & Sheri Easter <br />20 14 7 He's Alive Heirline <br />21 41 3 He Lifted Me Kingdom Heirs <br />22 17 5 On The Road Home Steve Lacey Trio <br />23 21 4 I'll Consider My Source LordSong <br />24 26 4 Will Jimmy Make It Home Inspirations <br />25 32 4 In The Midst Of The Flame Williams <br />26 50 2 Joyful Morning Hoskins Family <br />27 57 2 Somebody Did Some Praying For Me Mike Bowling <br />28 45 2 I'm Still Amazed Perrys <br />29 1 He's Still Waiting By The Well Greater Vision <br />30 25 6 What A Morning Anchormen <br />31 30 4 Operator Dove Brothers Quartet <br />32 18 9 Praise God, It's Settled, I'm Saved Perrys <br />33 65 2 When I Reached Up Won By One <br />34 60 2 Go Tell The People Cumberland Quartet <br />35 1 More Like You Perry Sisters <br />36 73 2 Strong In The Strength Legacy Five <br />37 19 9 I Believe Greater Vision <br />38 24 7 Morning's Coming Jeff & Sheri Easter <br />39 53 2 Still Go Free New Hinsons <br />40 22 8 Dare To Be A Daniel Brian Free <br />41 1 Even The Valley McKameys <br />42 52 2 Jesus Is Coming Soon Happy Goodmans <br />43 69 2 Final Chapter Tony Gore & Majesty <br />44 56 2 Because God's Good Martins <br />45 44 4 The Lamb Booth Brothers <br />46 1 The Great Escape Appointed <br />47 47 4 When Jesus Comes In The Clouds Ernie Haase <br />48 51 2 Holy Ghost Revival Gospel Enforcers <br />49 46 4 The Cross Was Built To Last McKeithen & Company <br />50 1 I'm So Happy Greenes <br />51 75 2 We Shall Get Home Squire Parsons <br />52 1 I Believe In The Children Randy Stalls <br />53 43 6 Fountain Of Youth Ronny Hinson <br />54 1 Gift of Grace Jessica King <br />55 48 5 Jesus Took Care Of It All Veterans Quartet <br />56 67 2 I Feel A Brand New Blessing Rabbit Easter Band <br />57 1 I'm Forgiven Florida Boys <br />58 1 My Wants Been Changed Ruppes <br />59 70 2 Because Of Your Mercy Carla Jo Carr <br />60 64 3 He Saved The Best Till Last Squire Parsons Trio <br />61 1 Mister Mister Ricky Perkins <br />62 1 Homesick For Heaven A Little South Of Heaven <br />63 1 First Things First Tim & Mary Alice Lovelace <br />64 78 3 How Much Do You Love Me Don Frost <br />65 62 4 The Sun Will Shine Again Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />66 1 I'll Praise The Lamb Dove Brothers Quartet <br />67 42 7 More Than Ready Higher Faith <br />68 49 2 I Got It All Kyla Rowland & Deliverance <br />69 54 8 Heaven Can You Imagine Rochesters <br />70 1 I Am What I Am Talley Trio <br />71 1 I Think I'll Tell It Again Southern Harmony <br />72 1 At Calvary Marshalls <br />73 79 3 A Blessing On The Way David Harvell <br />74 55 5 Shoutin'! Singin'! Happy! Four Fold <br />75 1 Just Because Chosen Few <br />76 1 Here Comes The Bride Gann Brothers <br />77 68 5 See You In The Morning Kevin Spencer & Friends <br />78 2 Family Chain Isaacs <br />79 1 Where Sin Has Been Pardoned Nelons <br />80 1 With You Howard & Vestal Goodman <br />1 3 6 Thank God For The Preacher Mike Bowling <br />2 4 7 Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord Tony Gore & Majesty <br />3 1 7 I've Won McKameys <br />4 6 6 God Wants To Hear You Sing Greater Vision <br />5 2 7 That's No Mountain Crabb Family <br />6 18 3 I'll Not Turn My Back On Him Now Inspirations <br />7 17 3 The Day Will Come Whisnants <br />8 10 4 You're Already Gonna Live Forever Bishops <br />9 13 4 He Understands My Tears Isaacs <br />10 7 6 I Wouldn't Trade One Minute Of It Hoskins Family <br />11 5 7 Marriage Supper Of The Lamb Hoppers <br />12 9 5 Joy's Gonna Come Kingsmen <br />13 15 5 We Will Stand With The Holy Ones Poet Voices <br />14 27 3 Good Time Steeles <br />15 22 4 Somebody's Here Singing Echoes <br />16 25 3 When The Clouds Roll Back Southern Brothers <br />17 11 6 One Of These Mornings Palmetto State Quartet <br />18 26 3 He's Watching Me Gaither Vocal Band <br />19 1 The Reason That I'm Standing Crabb Family <br />20 8 8 Testify Talley Trio <br />21 35 4 That's My Boy Wilburns <br />22 24 6 The Truth Is Karen Peck & New River <br />23 19 6 Everybody Praise The Lord Ivan Parker <br />24 12 7 Joy's Gonna Come Rejoice! <br />25 48 2 Jesus Can Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />26 40 3 The Devil Tried His Best N'Harmony <br />27 20 6 God Walks The Dark Hills Perrys <br />28 49 3 Singin' In The Rain Ruppes <br />29 1 I Believe Gold City <br />30 37 4 Mom And Dad Raised Me Right Browders <br />31 44 3 Go Forth Journeymen Quartet <br />32 38 3 The Dream Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet <br />33 45 3 Get On Your Feet Won By One <br />34 50 2 Take Me Up The Hill Greenes <br />35 31 6 The Gospel Cumberland Quartet <br />36 30 4 Jesus I Believe What You Said About Heaven The Trio <br />37 14 8 Still Feeling Fine Booth Brothers <br />38 21 7 When Nothing But A Miracle Will Do Arnolds <br />39 73 2 Heroes Of The Faith Legacy Five <br />40 41 4 It's Him Primitive Quartet <br />41 1 So Much God Greater Vision <br />42 58 2 God Made It Kingdom Heirs <br />43 1 He Laid His Hand On Me Lauren Talley <br />44 54 2 I Know (My Name Is Written There) Michael Combs <br />45 76 2 I've Got Me A Home Reggie Saddler Family <br />46 1 Day Three LordSong <br />47 70 2 It Will Pass Redeemed <br />48 1 Talk About The Weather Tim & Mary Alice Lovelace <br />49 42 5 Family Tree Lesters <br />50 78 2 The Lamb Is Within Standing Tall <br />51 43 6 Without A Valley Florida Boys <br />52 53 3 Jesus You're So Wonderful Mast Brothers <br />53 57 3 Is Your House Built Upon The Rock Carroll Roberson <br />54 1 The Old Time Way Brian Free & Assurance <br />55 63 2 The Blood Cried Out Ernie Haase <br />56 66 3 He Knows The Way Home David Patillo <br />57 1 Restore Me One More Time Galloways <br />58 1 Try Jesus Booth Brothers <br />59 65 2 I Want To Walk Your Way Ev'ry Day Hayes Family <br />60 47 3 I Know God Pfeifers <br />61 62 5 Solid Ground David Livingston <br />62 79 2 Lean On The Rock Perry Sisters <br />63 1 When He Reigns Jessica King <br />64 67 3 He's My Comfort Judah <br />65 1 Just Like You Robin Rabon <br />66 1 Running to the Cross Haire Family <br />67 1 So You Would Know Comptons <br />68 52 4 He Will Provide All Star Quartet <br />69 77 2 I'll Take The Old Highway Undivided <br />70 59 5 Miracles In Zion Brenda Whitlock <br />71 1 Born To Mourn Kirk Talley <br />72 72 2 Heaven Bound HeavenBound <br />73 61 3 It'll Be Joy Laymen Quartet <br />74 71 2 I Am Lesters <br />75 1 Landmark Called Calvary Eventide <br />76 1 He Calms Me McKameys <br />77 51 2 I Wonder Stephen Hill <br />78 1 Count Me In Mended Wings <br />79 64 5 Our First Day In Heaven Paid In Full <br />80 46 6 When I Start My Day With You Sons Family <br />1 2 7 Safe Thus Far Hoskins Family <br />2 4 7 The Other Side McKameys <br />3 7 6 I Will Overcome McRae’s <br />4 10 4 Still Blessed Perrys <br />5 3 7 Land Of The Free Whisnants <br />6 17 3 Please Come Down To Me Crabb Family <br />7 1 7 The Healer Talley Trio <br />8 12 4 Another Valley Left Behind Mike Bowling <br />9 14 4 He Ain't Never Done Me Nothin' But Good Isaacs <br />10 8 7 So Close To Home Brian Free & Assurance <br />11 20 5 Jesus Is Coming, Get Ready Anchormen <br />12 15 6 Gonna Rise Dove Brothers Quartet <br />13 11 6 My Life Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />14 13 6 Death Valley Days Wilburns <br />15 23 3 I Don't Know How They Make It Tony Gore <br />16 34 2 I'm Gonna Sing Gaither Vocal Band <br />17 27 3 Now That You Know Karen Peck & New River <br />18 42 2 A Pile Of Crowns Greater Vision <br />19 5 7 I'm Not What I Was Gold City <br />20 37 2 We Need To Thank God Inspirations <br />21 26 3 Learn To Love Again Jeff & Sheri Easter <br />22 32 4 Jesus Can Lift You Up Mark Bishop <br />23 38 3 Where Is Your Faith? Jody Brown Indian Family <br />24 6 7 Don't You Wanna Go? Crabb Family <br />25 43 2 On My Journey Home Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet <br />26 41 4 Calvary's The Reason Why Redeemed <br />27 45 3 Sailing Toward Home Paid In Full <br />28 44 2 Land Of No Time Gold City <br />29 39 3 Heaven Is Real Arnolds <br />30 9 7 More Than Just A Hill Perry Sisters <br />31 30 4 Stranger Things Have Happened Cumberland Quartet <br />32 1 Made By Mercy Ruppes <br />33 46 3 Standing On The Promises Martins <br />34 1 The Answer Is Christ Talley Trio <br />35 22 5 Be Blessed Ivan Parker <br />36 24 8 It Was Me Michael Combs <br />37 33 5 Death Could Not Hold Him Roarks <br />38 56 2 He Rolled Back The Stone Nelons <br />39 28 6 Everlasting Peace Palmetto State Quartet <br />40 50 3 The Little Things Chosen Few <br />41 48 2 He Had To Be Poet Voices <br />42 64 2 By Grace Through Faith Steeles <br />43 1 But For The Blood Hoppers <br />44 47 5 Reigning In Mt Zion Eventide <br />45 49 4 Oh, This Is It Bradys <br />46 55 2 A Holy Place Robin Rabon <br />47 1 I Know Him Kirk Talley <br />48 54 2 Judgement Passed Christlike <br />49 65 4 He Is Leading Crossmen Quartet <br />50 63 4 I'll Be There Rochesters <br />51 70 2 Oh, What A Day New Ground <br />52 1 An Everlasting Song Mended Wings <br />53 1 God Sits On High Carolina Boys <br />54 1 Oh Yes He Is Shepherd’s <br />55 51 3 Keep Going On Laymen Quartet <br />56 75 2 Mary You Knew David Livingston <br />57 1 I Will Trust Him Pfeifers <br />58 1 Walk On Water Kind Of Day CrossWay <br />59 66 2 Call On Me Randy Stalls <br />60 62 2 Tree Of Life Dixie Echoes <br />61 2 Entertaining Angels Encouragers <br />62 69 2 I Don't Want To Die In The Wilderness N'Harmony <br />63 79 2 I Can Mend Your Fences Jessica King <br />64 1 Doubter To A Shouter Testify <br />65 1 This Love Is Mine Booth Brothers <br />66 68 2 Run To The Cross Kellie Blackman <br />67 76 2 God Made A Way New Plainsmen <br />68 1 One Day Telestials <br />69 1 As Good As Goodbye Gets Tim & Mary Alice Lovelace <br />70 73 3 When He Set Me Free Four Fold <br />71 71 6 Some Of These Days Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver <br />72 1 No Doubt Sounds Of Victory <br />73 1 Let Me Be The One Steeles <br />74 1 Hold Fast Your Profession Of Faith Brothers In Christ <br />75 1 He Called Me Out Down East Boys <br />76 57 5 The Glorious Gospel Road Journeymen Quartet <br />77 1 Mission Of Mercy Safely Anchored <br />78 1 I'll Still Be Loving You Dunaways <br />79 52 5 I've Made Up My Mind Heirline <br />80 1 What A Morning Southern Sound <br />1 The Reason That I'm Standing Crabb Family <br />2 I Believe Gold City <br />3 I Wanna Know How It Feels Karen Peck & New River <br />4 The Healer Talley Trio <br />5 He Calms Me McKameys <br />6 The Key Poet Voices <br />7 I Rest My Case At The Cross Perrys <br />8 The Call Mike Bowling <br />9 Don't You Wanna Go? Crabb Family <br />10 I'll Not Turn My Back On Him Now Inspirations <br />11 I'm Not What I Was Gold City <br />12 Teardrops Tony Gore & Majesty <br />13 Soon We Will See Greater Vision <br />14 Safe Thus Far Hoskins Family <br />15 So Much God Greater Vision <br />16 Sheltered Haire Family <br />17 The Day Will Come Whisnants <br />18 Jesus Buried My Past Steeles <br />19 Land Of The Free Whisnants <br />20 The Other Side McKameys <br />21 Jesus Can Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />22 Moving Up To Heaven Palmetto State Quartet <br />23 Heroes Of The Faith Legacy Five <br />24 So Close To Home Brian Free & Assurance <br />25 Perfectly Honest Mark Bishop <br />26 Father's House Pfeifers <br />27 I Will Overcome McRae’s <br />28 His Blood No Longer Leaves A Stain Greenes <br />29 He Understands My Tears Isaacs <br />30 Here They Come Hoppers <br />31 He Laid His Hand On Me Lauren Talley <br />32 I've Been Rescued Kingdom Heirs <br />33 It Was Me Michael Combs <br />34 Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord Tony Gore & Majesty <br />35 I Rose To Riches Ivan Parker <br />36 More Than Just A Hill Perry Sisters <br />37 What Judas Didn't Know Misty Freeman <br />38 Thank God For The Preacher Mike Bowling <br />39 One Way Jeff & Sheri Easter <br />40 My Life Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />1 1 6 The Cross Crabb Family <br />2 4 6 He Is To Me Greater Vision <br />3 3 7 Mighty Deep Well Kingdom Heirs <br />4 8 4 When The Savior Wipes The Tears From Our Eyes Hoskins Family <br />5 5 7 A Trophy Of Grace McKameys <br />6 9 4 The Next Time That You See Me Whisnants <br />7 10 4 The Maker Of The Cross Mike Bowling <br />8 2 8 God Handled It All Gold City <br />9 7 7 Justified Carolina Boys <br />10 23 2 The Promise Martins <br />11 16 4 You're Invited To My Mansion Michael Combs <br />12 15 5 Praying For Deliverance CrossWay <br />13 19 5 Who's At The Door Steeles <br />14 6 8 I Love The Lord Talley Trio <br />15 14 7 Under The Ocean Floor Kirk Talley <br />16 28 3 While I Wait LordSong <br />17 27 4 I'm Blessed Ricky Atkinson & Compassion <br />18 12 7 Just Another Hill Dove Brothers Quartet <br />19 29 3 Calvary Answers For me Perrys <br />20 18 6 Jumpin' In Pfeifers <br />21 25 4 Everyday Will Be Sunday Anchormen <br />22 17 7 Don't Sit In My Pew Tim & Mary Alice Lovelace <br />23 20 5 No Doubt About It Ivan Parker <br />24 35 3 I Just Can't Imagine Safely Anchored <br />25 37 2 I'm A Soldier Three Bridges <br />26 11 9 I Found Grace Legacy Five <br />27 56 2 Mountain Top For Me McRae’s <br />28 54 2 Life Is Good Jody Brown Indian Family <br />29 13 9 Put Your New White Robe On Freemans <br />30 22 5 When We All Get To Heaven Brian Free & Assurance <br />31 32 4 I Know He Cares Hayes Family <br />32 49 2 Oh, How The Sun Does Shine Tony Gore <br />33 47 3 That's God Heirline <br />34 44 2 Walking In The Highway Primitive Quartet <br />35 42 3 One Day Jesus Will Call My Name Promise <br />36 57 2 It's Still True Florida Boys <br />37 45 3 Labor Of Love Cumberland Quartet <br />38 39 5 A Friend Of God Shepherds <br />39 38 5 Here I Am Carroll Roberson <br />40 52 3 We're Gonna Have A Meeting Northmen <br />41 53 3 I Can't Make It Lord Without You Misty Freeman <br />42 48 2 My Father's House Paid In Full <br />43 46 4 In God We Trust Testify <br />44 1 Everything Good Gaither Vocal Band <br />45 59 2 Hands Scarred By The Nails New Ground <br />46 1 God Is Good Hoppers <br />47 50 6 Nothing Just Happens David Livingston <br />48 61 4 The Blood Is Still Enough Wilburns <br />49 68 2 Unconditional Love Browders <br />50 70 3 I Believe In The Lord Lesters <br />51 78 2 Under God Booth Brothers <br />52 43 5 Yes I Can Palmetto State Quartet <br />53 67 2 Without Jesus You Won't Make Heaven Galloways <br />54 65 3 How Can I Hold My Peace McGruders <br />55 1 Looking To Live Inspirations <br />56 71 2 Keep On Keepin' On Hope’s Call <br />57 1 Beautiful Day Dunaways <br />58 41 5 I'm Saved Hoppers <br />59 1 I Bring You Forgiveness Integrity Quartet <br />60 51 3 The Road Home Kim Hopper <br />61 80 2 I Am The Man Chosen Few <br />62 1 I Have Seen The Lord Signature Sound <br />63 1 Pray Safe Harbor <br />64 1 That's Why They Call It Grace Karen Peck & New River <br />65 60 2 We're Not Gonna Do It Toney Brothers <br />66 1 Almost Time To Say Goodbye Christlike <br />67 1 He Included Me Journeymen Quartet <br />68 1 I Know He's Coming Back Again Skyline Boys <br />69 58 4 The House That Love Built Amy Lambert <br />70 1 Mercy Came Running Cricket Lee <br />71 1 I Have Never Walked Alone Jake Hess <br />72 1 I'm Gonna Leave Here Shouting Dottie Rambo <br />73 1 Just On The Other Side Redeemed <br />74 74 2 Plead The Blood Big Mo <br />75 69 3 Open Up Them Pearly Gates Chuck Wagon Gang <br />76 55 5 Heavenly Honey Mended Wings <br />77 1 Grace Stepped In Alleluia <br />78 1 Gonna Move On Out Of Here Praters <br />79 1 The Hand Of The Savior Sounds Of Victory <br />80 62 2 Glory Jamie Anderson <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />FARTHER ALONG <br />Words and Music by J.R.Baxter and W.B.Stevens<br />© 1937 Stamps-Baxter Music <br /><br /><br />Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder<br />Why it should be thus all the day long,<br />While there are others living about us,<br />Never molested, though in the wrong. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Farther along we'll know all about it,<br />Farther along we'll understand why;<br />Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,<br />We'll understand it all by and by. <br />When death has come and taken our loved ones,<br />It leaves our home so lonely and drear,<br />Then do we wonder why others prosper<br />Living so wicked year after year. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Farther along we'll know all about it,<br />Farther along we'll understand why;<br />Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,<br />We'll understand it all by and by. <br />Faithful til death, said our loving Master<br />A few more days to labor and wait,<br />Toils of the road will then seem as nothing<br />As we sweet through the beautiful gate. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Farther along we'll know all about it,<br />Farther along we'll understand why;<br />Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,<br />We'll understand it all by and by. <br />When we see Jesus, coming in glory,<br />When He comes from His home in the sky,<br />Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion,<br />We'll understand it all by and by. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Farther along we'll know all about it,<br />Farther along we'll understand why;<br />Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,<br />We'll understand it all by and by. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Amazing Grace<br />Words by John Newton - 1779<br />Music - 19th Century American Melody <br />Ephesians 2:8-9<br />8. "For by grace are ye saved through faith;<br />and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:<br />9. Not of works, lest any man should boast." <br /><br />Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound<br />that saved a wretch like me!<br />I once was lost but now am found,<br />was blind but now I see. <br />'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear<br />and grace my fears relieved;<br />how precious did that grace appear<br />the hour I first believed. <br /><br />Through many dangers, toils and snares<br />I have already come;<br />'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,<br />and grace will lead me home. <br /><br />When we've been there ten thousand years<br />bright shinning as the sun,<br />We've no less days to sing God's Praise<br />than when we first begun!<br /><br /><br /><br />Church in The Wildwood <br /> Words and music by William S. Pitts <br />Hebrews 10:25<br />"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,<br />as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another;<br />and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." <br /><br /><br />There's a church in the valley by the wildwood,<br />No lovelier spot in the dale;<br />No place is so dear to my childhood,<br />As the little brown church in the vale. <br /><br />Chorus<br />(oh, come, come, come, come)<br />Come to the church in the wildwood,<br />Oh come to the church in the vale,<br />No spot is so dear to my childhood,<br />As the little brown church in the vale.<br />How sweet on a clear Sabbath morning,<br />To list'n to the clear ringing bells;<br />It's tones are so sweetly calling,<br />Oh come to the church in the vale. <br /><br />Chorus<br />(oh, come, come, come, come)<br />Come to the church in the wildwood,<br />Oh come to the church in the vale,<br />No spot is so dear to my childhood,<br />As the little brown church in the vale.<br />There, close by the church in the valley,<br />Lies one that I loved so well;<br />She sleeps, sweetly sleeps, 'neath the willow,<br />Disturb not her rest in the vale. <br /><br />Chorus<br />(oh, come, come, come, come)<br />Come to the church in the wildwood,<br />Oh come to the church in the vale,<br />No spot is so dear to my childhood,<br />As the little brown church in the vale.<br />There, close by the side of that loved one,<br />'Neath the tree where the wild flowers bloom,<br />When farewell hymns shall be chanted,<br />I shall rest by her side in the tomb. <br /><br />Chorus<br />(oh, come, come, come, come)<br />Come to the church in the wildwood,<br />Oh come to the church in the vale,<br />No spot is so dear to my childhood,<br />As the little brown church in the vale.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Everything is Beautiful<br />Words and Music by Ray Stevens<br />© 1970<br />"Jesus Loves the Little Children"<br />Words and Music by C. Herbert Woolston and George F. Root <br /><br /><br />Jesus loves the little children,<br />All the children of the world;<br />Red and yellow, black and white,<br />They are precious in His sight;<br />Jesus loves the little children of the world. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />There is none so blind as he who will not see.<br />We must not close our minds,<br /> we must let our thoughts be free.<br />For every hour that passes by,<br /> you know the world gets a little bit older.<br />It's time to realize that beauty lies<br /> in the eyes of the beholder. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />We shouldn't care about the length of his hair<br /> or the color of his skin.<br />Don't worry about what shows from without<br /> but the loves that lives within.<br />We're gonna get it all together<br />And everything's gonna work out just fine.<br />Just take a little time to look on the good side<br /> and straighten it out in your mind. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br />Everything is beautiful in its' own way,<br />Like a starry summer night<br /> or a snow covered winter's day.<br />Everybody's beautiful in their own way,<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way.<br />Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way. <br /><br /><br /><br />Every Day with Jesus<br />Words by Robert C. Loveless<br />Music by Wendell P. Loveless<br />© 1936 - Percy B. Crawford <br /><br />Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before.<br />Every day with Jesus, I love Him more and more;<br />Jesus saves and keeps me, and He's the One I'm waiting for.<br />Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before. <br /><br /><br /><br />BEYOND THE SUNSET <br />Words by Josephine Pollard<br />Music by Dr. W. O. Perkins<br /><br />Beyond the sunset's radiant glow<br />There is a brighter world, I know,<br />Where golden glories ever shine,<br />Beyond the thought of day's decline.<br /><br />Beyond the sunset's radiant glow,<br />There is a brighter world, I know;<br />Beyond the sunset where I may spend<br />Delightful days that never end.<br /><br />Beyond the sunset's purple rim,<br />Beyond the twilight, deep and dim,<br />Where clouds and darkness never come,<br />My soul shall find its heav'nly home.<br /><br />Beyond the sunset's radiant glow,<br />There is a brighter world, I know;<br />Beyond the sunset where I may spend<br />Delightful days that never end.<br /><br />Beyond the desert, dark and drear,<br />The golden city will appear;<br />And morning's lovely beams arise<br />Upon my mansion in the skies.<br /><br />Beyond the sunset's radiant glow,<br />There is a brighter world, I know;<br />Beyond the sunset where I may spend<br />Delightful days that never end.<br /><br /><br /><br />I SURRENDER ALL<br />Words by Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896<br />Music by Winfield S. Weeden, 1896<br /><br /><br />All to Jesus I surrender<br />All to Him I freely give;<br />I will ever love and trust Him,<br />In his presence daily live.<br /><br />I surrender all, I surrender all;<br />All to thee, my blessed Savior,<br />I surrender all.<br /><br />All to Jesus I surrender,<br />Humbly at His feet I bow,<br />Worldly pleasures all forsaken,<br />Take me Jesus, take me now.<br /><br />I surrender all, I surrender all;<br />All to thee, my blessed Savior,<br />I surrender all.<br /><br />Van DeVenter wrote this song in East Palestine, Ohio, in the home of George Sebring (later the <br /><br />developer of the town of Sebring, Florida). At the time, Judson was undecided about whether to <br /><br />continue his career in art or going into full-time evangelistic work. After writing this song, he <br /><br />decided to become an evangelist and was notably successful in that field. While Weeden <br /><br />published a number of books of religious music, this may have been his favorite, it's title was on <br /><br />his tombstone. <br /> <br /><br /> <br />Joyful, joyful, we adore thee<br /> <br /><br />Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,<br />God of glory, Lord of love;<br />Hearts unfold like flow'rs before Thee,<br />Opening to the sun above.<br />Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;<br />Drive the dark of doubt away;<br />Giver of immortal gladness,<br />Fill us with the light of day!<br /><br />All Thy works with joy surround Thee,<br />Earth and heav'n reflect Thy rays,<br />Stars and angels sing around Thee,<br />Centre of unbroken praise.<br />Field and forest, vale and mountain,<br />Flowery meadow, flashing sea,<br />Chanting bird and flowing fountain<br />Call us to rejoice in Thee.<br /><br />Thou art giving and forgiving,<br />Ever blessing, ever blessed,<br />Wellspring of the joy of living,<br />Ocean-depth of happy rest!<br />Thou, our Father; Christ, our Brother,<br />All who live in love are Thine;<br />Teach us how to love each other;<br />Lift us to the joy divine.<br /><br />Mortals, join the mighty chorus,<br />Which the morning stars began.<br />Father-love is reigning o'er us,<br />Brother-love binds man to man.<br />Ever singing, march we onward,<br />Victors in the midst of strife;<br />Joyful music leads us sunward,<br />In the triumphant song of life.<br /><br /><br /><br />This Is My Father's World<br />Text: Maltbie D. Babcock <br />Music: Trad. English melody; adapt. by Franklin L. Sheppard <br />Tune: TERRA BEATA, Meter: SMD <br /><br /><br />1. This is my Father's world, <br /> and to my listening ears <br /> all nature sings, and round me rings <br /> the music of the spheres. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> I rest me in the thought <br /> of rocks and trees, of skies and seas; <br /> his hand the wonders wrought.<br /><br />2. This is my Father's world, <br /> the birds their carols raise, <br /> the morning light, the lily white, <br /> declare their maker's praise. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> he shines in all that's fair; <br /> in the rustling grass I hear him pass; <br /> he speaks to me everywhere.<br /><br />3. This is my Father's world. <br /> O let me ne'er forget <br /> that though the wrong seems oft so strong, <br /> God is the ruler yet. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> why should my heart be sad? <br /> The Lord is King; let the heavens ring! <br /> God reigns; let the earth be glad!<br /><br /><br /><br />We're Marching to Zion<br />Text: Isaac Watts; refrain by Robert Lowry <br />Music: Robert Lowry <br />Tune: MARCHING TO ZION, Meter: SM with Refrain <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />1. Come, we that love the Lord, <br /> and let our joys be known; <br /> join in a song with sweet accord, <br /> join in a song with sweet accord <br /> and thus surround the throne,<br /> and thus surround the throne. <br />Refrain:<br /> We're marching to Zion, <br /> beautiful, beautiful Zion; <br /> we're marching upward to Zion, <br /> the beautiful city of God. <br /><br />2. Let those refuse to sing <br /> who never knew our God; <br /> but children of the heavenly King, <br /> but children of the heavenly King <br /> may speak their joys abroad,<br /> may speak their joys abroad. <br /> (Refrain) <br /><br />3. The hill of Zion yields <br /> a thousand sacred sweets <br /> before we reach the heavenly fields, <br /> before we reach the heavenly fields, <br /> or walk the golden streets, <br /> or walk the golden streets. <br /> (Refrain) <br /><br />4. Then let our songs abound, <br /> and every tear be dry; <br /> we're marching through Emmanuel's ground, <br /> we're marching through Emmanuel's ground,<br /> to fairer worlds on high, <br /> to fairer worlds on high. <br /> (Refrain) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />All Things Bright and Beautiful<br />Text: Cecil Frances Alexander <br />Music: 17th cent. English melody; arr. by Martin Shaw <br />Tune: ROYAL OAK, Meter: 76.76 with Refrain <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Refrain:<br /> All things bright and beautiful, <br /> all creatures great and small, <br /> all things wise and wonderful: <br /> the Lord God made them all.<br /><br />1. Each little flower that opens, <br /> each little bird that sings, <br /> God made their glowing colors, <br /> and made their tiny wings. <br /> (Refrain)<br /><br />2. The purple-headed mountains, <br /> the river running by, <br /> the sunset and the morning <br /> that brightens up the sky. <br /> (Refrain)<br /><br />3. The cold wind in the winter, <br /> the pleasant summer sun, <br /> the ripe fruits in the garden: <br /> God made them every one. <br /> (Refrain)<br /><br />4. God gave us eyes to see them, <br /> and lips that we might tell <br /> how great is God Almighty, <br /> who has made all things well. <br /> (Refrain)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There Is a Fountain<br />William Cowper, pub.1772<br />Copyright: Public Domain <br />Main subject: Blood<br />Scripture: Zechariah 13:1<br />Cleansing Fountain<br />attr. to Lowell Mason<br /><br /><br />There is a fountain filled with blood,<br />Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,<br />And sinners plunged beneath that flood<br />Lose all their guilty stains. <br />The dying thief rejoiced to see<br />That fountain in His day;<br />And there have I, though vile as he,<br />Washed all my sins away. <br />Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood<br />Shall never lose its pow’r,<br />Till all the ransomed church of God<br />Are safe, to sin no more. <br />E’er since by faith I saw the stream<br />Thy flowing wounds supply,<br />Redeeming love has been my theme,<br />And shall be till I die. <br />Then in a nobler, sweeter song,<br />I’ll sing Thy pow’r to save,<br />When this poor, lisping, stamm’ring tongue<br />Lies silent in the grave.<br /><br /><br /><br />LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS<br /><br />“I will extend peace to her like a river, <br />and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream.” <br />Isaiah 66:12<br /><br />Words by Frances R. Havergal, 1876; <br />first appeared in Hymns of Consecration and Faith.<br />Music: “Wye Valley,” James Mountain, 1876 <br /><br /><br />Like a river glorious, is God’s perfect peace,<br />Over all victorious, in its bright increase;<br />Perfect, yet it floweth, fuller every day,<br />Perfect, yet it groweth, deeper all the way.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest<br />Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.<br /><br />Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,<br />Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;<br />Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,<br />Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Every joy or trial falleth from above,<br />Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love;<br />We may trust Him fully all for us to do.<br />They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />HALLELUJAH FOR THE CROSS!<br /> <br /><br />“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 6:14<br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Cour­te­sy of Free Church of Scot­land Words: Ho­ra­ti­us Bo­nar (1808-1889).<br />Music: James McGrana­han (1840-1907) (MI­DI, score).<br /><br />If you know when the words or mu­sic were writ­ten, would you send us an e-mail? Thanks!<br /> <br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />The cross, it standeth fast—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />Defying every blast—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />The winds of hell have blown,<br />The world its hate hath shown,<br />Yet it is not overthrown—<br />Hallelujah for the cross!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Hallelujah, hallelujah,<br />Hallelujah for the cross;<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah,<br />It shall never suffer loss!<br /><br />It is the old cross still—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />Its triumph let us tell—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />The grace of God here shone<br />Thru Christ, the blessèd Son,<br />Who did for sin atone—<br />Hallelujah for the cross!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />’Twas here the debt was paid—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />Our sins on Jesus laid—<br />Hallelujah, hallelujah!<br />So round the cross we sing<br />Of Christ, our offering,<br />Of Christ, our living King—<br />Hallelujah for the cross!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br /> King James Bible Believers<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />Redemption Song Lyrics<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />BLESSED ASSURANCE<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Fanny J. Crosby<br /><br />Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp<br /><br />Tune: Assurance (Knapp)<br /><br />Scripture: Col 2:2; Heb 10:22<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! <br />Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! <br />Heir of salvation, purchase of God, <br />Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.<br /><br /> <br /><br />2 Perfect submission, perfect delight, <br />Visions of rapture now burst on my sight: <br />Angels descending bring from above <br />Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.<br /><br />3 Perfect submission, all is at rest, <br />I in my Savior am happy and blest: <br />Watching and waiting, looking above, <br />Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.<br /><br />Chorus<br /><br />This is my story, this is my song, <br />Praising my Saviour all the day long; <br />This is my story, this is my song, <br />Praising my Saviour all the day long.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Robert Lowry<br /><br />Composer: Robert Lowry<br /><br />Tune: Plainfield (Lowry)<br /><br />Scripture: Heb 9:22; Rom 3:25; Rev 1:25; 7:14<br /><br />1 What can wash away my sin? <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus; <br />What can make me whole again? <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus.<br /><br />2 For my pardon, this I see, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus; <br />For my cleansing this my plea, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus.<br /><br />3 Nothing can for sin atone, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus; <br />Naught of good that I have done, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus.<br /><br />4 This is all my hope and peace, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus; <br />This is all my righteousness, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus.<br /><br />Chorus Oh! precious is the flow <br />That makes me white as snow; <br />No other fount I know, <br />Nothing but the blood of Jesus. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Horatio G. Spafford<br /><br />Composer: Philip P. Bliss<br /><br />Tune: Ville Du Havre (Bliss)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 49:15; 3 Jn 2<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 When peace like a river, attendeth my way, <br />When sorrows like the sea billows roll; <br />Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, <br />‘It is well with my soul.’<br /><br />2 Tho’ Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come, <br />Let this blest assurance control, <br />That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, <br />And hath shed His own blood for my soul.<br /><br />3 My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious tho’t!— <br />My sin, not in part, but the whole, <br />Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, <br />Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!<br /><br />4 And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, <br />The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, <br />The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, <br />‘Even so,’ it is well with my soul.<br /><br />Chorus It is well with my soul,<br /><br />It is well, it is well with my soul.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ROCK OF AGES<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Rev. Augustus M. Toplady<br /><br />Composer: Thomas Hastings<br /><br />Tune: Toplady (Hastings)<br /><br />Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:4; Ps 94:22<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, <br />Let me hide myself in Thee; <br />Let the water and the blood, <br />From Thy wounded side which flowed, <br />Be of sin the double cure, <br />Save from wrath and make me pure.<br /><br />2 Not the labors of my hands <br />Can fulfill Thy law’s demands; <br />These for sin could not atone; <br />Thou must save, and Thou alone: <br />In my hand no price I bring, <br />Simply to Thy cross I cling.<br /><br />3 While I draw this fleeting breath, <br />When mine eyes shall close in death, <br />When I rise to worlds unknown, <br />And behold Thee on Thy throne, <br />Rock of ages cleft for me, <br />Let me hide myself in Thee. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />NEARER, MY GOD TO THEE<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Mrs. Sarah F. Adams<br /><br />Composer: Lowell Mason<br /><br />Tune: Bethany (Mason)<br /><br />Scripture: Gen. 28:10-19; Is 57:19; Gen 28:10-22<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Nearer, my God, to Thee, <br />Nearer to Thee! <br />E’en tho’ it be a cross <br />That raiseth me; <br />Still all my song shall be, <br />Nearer, my God, to Thee! <br />Nearer, my God to Thee, <br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br />There let the way appear, <br />Steps unto heav’n; <br />All that Thou sendest me, <br />In mercy giv’n; <br />Angels to beckon me <br />Nearer, my God, to Thee! <br />Nearer, my God to Thee, <br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />3 Then with my waking tho’ts <br />Bright with Thy praise, <br />Out of my stony griefs <br />Bethel I’ll raise; <br />So by my woes to be <br />Nearer, my God, to Thee! <br />Nearer, my God, to Thee, <br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Lewis E. Jones<br /><br />Composer: Lewis E. Jones<br /><br />Tune: Power in the Blood (Jones)<br /><br />Scripture: Rev. 1:5-5; 7:12-5; John 1:12-3; Rev. 12:10-1<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Would you be free from the burden of sin? <br />There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood; <br />Would you o’er evil a victory win? <br />There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.<br /><br />2 Would you be free from your passion and pride? <br />There’s pow’r in the blood; pow’r in the blood; <br />Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide; <br />There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.<br /><br />3 Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow? <br />There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood: <br />Sin stains are lost in the life-giving flow; <br />There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.<br /><br />4 Would you do service for Jesus your King? <br />There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood; <br />Would you live daily His praises to sing? <br />There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.<br /><br />Chorus There is pow’r, pow’r, <br />Wonder-working pow’r <br />In the blood of the Lamb; <br />There is pow’r, pow’r, <br />Wonder-working pow’r <br />In the precious blood of the Lamb.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />AMAZING GRACE <br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: 1-3:John Newton; 4:John P. Rees<br /><br />Composer: American melody; Carrell ’ Clayton’s "Virginia Harmony<br /><br />Tune: Amazing Grace (American trad, harm Excell)<br /><br />Scripture: John 1:16-7; Luke 15:32; Rom. 3:24; 4:4-8;<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, <br />That saved a wretch like me! <br />I once was lost, but now am found, <br />Was blind, but now I see.<br /><br />2 ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, <br />And grace my fears relieved; <br />How precious did that grace appear <br />The hour I first believed!<br /><br />Thro’ many dangers, toils, and snares, <br />I have already come; <br />’Tis grace hath bro’t me safe this far, <br />And grace will lead me home. <br /><br />The Lord has promised good to me, <br />His Word my hope secures; <br />He will my shield and portion be <br />As long as life endures.<br /><br />5 When we’ve been there ten thousand years, <br />Bright shining as the sun, <br />We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise <br />Than when we’d first begun.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />THE OLD RUGGED CROSS<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Rev. George Bennard<br /><br />Composer: Rev. George Bennard<br /><br />Tune: Old Rugged Cross (Bennard)<br /><br />Scripture: Jn 19:17-18<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, <br />The emblem of suffering and shame; <br />And I love that old cross where the dearest and best <br />For a world of lost sinners was slain.<br /><br />2 Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, <br />Has a wondrous attraction for me; <br />For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above, <br />To bear it to dark Calvary.<br /><br />3 In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, <br />Such a wonderful beauty I see; <br />For ‘twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, <br />To pardon and sanctify me.<br /><br />4 To the old rugged cross I will ever be true, <br />Its shame and reproach gladly bear; <br />Then He’ll call me some day to my home far way, <br />Where His glory forever I’ll share.<br /><br />Chorus So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, <br />Till my trophies at last I lay down; <br />I will cling to the old rugged cross <br />And exchange it someday for a crown.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: an Indian prince, as sung in Garo, Assam<br /><br />Composer: Folk melody from India<br /><br />Tune: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (Indian trad?)<br /><br />Scripture: Matt 8:19-20; Luke 9:61-2; Matt 16:24; Mark 8<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 I have decided to follow Jesus; <br />I have decided to follow Jesus; <br />I have decided to follow Jesus; <br />No turning back, no turning back.<br /><br />2 Tho’ none go with me, I still will follow, <br />Tho’ none go with me I still will follow, <br />Tho’ none go with me, I still will follow; <br />No turning back, no turning back.<br /><br />My cross I’ll carry, till I see Jesus; <br />My cross I’ll carry till I see Jesus, <br />my cross I’ll carry till I see Jesus; <br />No turning back, No turning back.<br /><br />The world behind me, the cross before me, <br />The world behind me, the cross before me; <br />The world behind me, the cross before me; <br />No turning back, no turning back.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />AT THE CROSS <br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Isaac Watts; Chorus:Ralph E. Hudson<br /><br />Composer: Ralph E. Hudson<br /><br />Tune: Hudson (Hudson)<br /><br />Scripture: Rom 5:8; Jn 19:34<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Alas, and did my Savior bleed, <br />And did my Sov’reign die? <br />Would He devote that sacred head <br />For such a worm as I?<br /><br />2 Was it for crimes that I had done <br />He groaned upon the tree? <br />Amazing pity, grace unknown, <br />And love beyond degree!<br /><br />3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, <br />And shut his glories in, <br />When Christ the mighty Maker died <br />For man, the creature’s sin.<br /><br />4 Thus might I hide my blushing face <br />While Calvary’s cross appears, <br />Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, <br />And melt mine eyes to tears.<br /><br />But drops of grief can ne’er repay <br />The debt of love I owe; <br />Here, Lord, I give myself away, <br />’Tis all that I can do.<br /><br />Chorus At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, <br />And the burden of my heart rolled away <br />It was there by faith I received my sight, <br />And now I am happy all the day!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />FAITH IS THE VICTORY<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: John H. Yates<br /><br />Composer: Ira D. Sankey<br /><br />Tune: Sankey (Sankey)<br /><br />Scripture: 1 Jn 5:4-5<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Encamped along the hills of light, <br />Ye Christian soldiers, rise, <br />And press the battle ere the night <br />Shall veil the glowing skies. <br />Against the foe in vales below, <br />Let all our strength be hurled; <br />Faith is the victory, we know, <br />That overcomes the world.<br /><br />His banner over us in love, <br />Our sword the Word of God; <br />We tread the road the saints above <br />With shouts of triumph trod. <br />By faith they, like whirlwind’s breath, <br />Swept on o’er ev’ry field; <br />The faith by which they conquered death <br />Is still our shining shield.<br /><br />3 To him who overcomes the foe <br />White raiment shall be giv’n; <br />Before the angels he shall know <br />His name confessed in heav’n. <br />Then onward from the hills of light, <br />Our hearts with love aflame; <br />We’ll vanquish all the hosts of night, <br />In Jesus’ conq’ring name.<br /><br />Chorus Faith is the victory! <br />Faith is the victory! <br />Oh, glorious victory <br />That overcomes the world.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS<br /><br />Author: Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould<br /><br />Composer: Arthur Seymour Sullivan<br /><br />Tune: St. Gertrude (Sullivan)<br /><br />Scripture: Matthew 16:18 <br /><br />1 Onward Christian soldiers, <br />Marching as to war, <br />With the cross of Jesus <br />Going on before! <br />Christ, the royal Master, <br />Leads against the foe; <br />Forward into battle, <br />See His banner go!<br /><br />2 At the sign of triumph <br />Satan’s host doth flee; <br />On, then, Christian soldiers, <br />On to victory! <br />Hell’s foundation quiver <br />At the shout of praise; <br />Brothers, lift your voices, <br />Loud your anthems raise!<br /><br />3 Like a mighty army <br />Moves the church of God; <br />Brothers, we are treading <br />Where the saints have trod; <br />We are not divided; <br />All one body we <br />One in hope and doctrine, <br />One in charity.<br /><br />4 Onward, then, ye people, <br />Join our happy throng, <br />Blend with ours your voices <br />In the triumph song; <br />Glory, laud, and Honor, <br />Unto Christ the King; <br />This thro’ countless ages <br />Men and angels sing.<br /><br />Chorus Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, <br />With the cross of Jesus going on before!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />HOLY, HOLY, HOLY<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Bishop Reginald Heber<br /><br />Composer: Rev. John B. Dykes<br /><br />Tune: Nicaea (Dykes)<br /><br />Scripture: Rev. 4:8-11; Is 6:1-8<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! <br />Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee; <br />Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty! <br />God in three persons, blessed Trinity!<br /><br />2 Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee, <br />Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; <br />Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee, <br />Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.<br /><br />3 Holy, holy, holy! tho’ the darkness hide Thee <br />Tho’ the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see; <br />Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee, <br />Perfect in pow’r, in love, and purity.<br /><br />4 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! <br />All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth and sky, and sea; <br />Holy, holy, holy; merciful and mighty! <br />God in three persons, blessed Trinity!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />STAND UP, STANDUP FOR JESUS<br /><br />Author: George Duffield, Jr.<br /><br />Composer: George J. Webb<br /><br />Tune: Webb (Webb)<br /><br />Scripture: Luke 12:8<br /><br />1 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, <br />Ye soldiers of the cross; <br />Lift high His royal banner, <br />It must not suffer loss: <br />From vict’ry unto vict’ry <br />His army shall He lead, <br />Till ev’ry foe is vanquished, <br />And Christ is Lord indeed.<br /><br />2 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, <br />The trumpet call obey; <br />Forth to the mighty conflict, <br />In this His glorious day: <br />Ye who are men, now serve Him <br />Against unnumbered foes; <br />Let courage rise with danger, <br />And strength to strength oppose.<br /><br />3 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, <br />Stand in His strength alone; <br />The arm of flesh will fail you, <br />Ye dare not trust your own: <br />Put out the gospel armor, <br />Each piece put on with pray’r; <br />Where duty calls, or danger, <br />Be never wanting there.<br /><br />4 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, <br />The strife will not be long; <br />This day the noise of battle, <br /><br />The next the victor’s song:<br />To him who overcometh <br />A crown of life shall be; <br />He, with the King of glory, <br />Shall reign eternally.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: R. Kelso Carter<br /><br />Composer: R. Kelso Carter<br /><br />Tune: Promises (Carter)<br /><br />Scripture: 2 Peter 1:4<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Standing on the promises of Christ my King, <br />Thro’ eternal ages let His praises ring; <br />Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing, <br />Standing on the promises of God.<br /><br />2 Standing on the promises that cannot fail, <br />When the howling storms of doubt assail, <br />By the living Word of God I shall prevail, <br />Standing on the promises of God.<br /><br />3 Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord, <br />Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord, <br />Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword, <br />Standing on the promises of God.<br /><br />4 Standing on the promises I cannot fall, <br />List’ning ev’ry moment to the Spirit’s call, <br />Resting in my Saviour as my all in all, <br />Standing on the promises of God.<br /><br />Chorus Standing, standing, <br />Standing on the promises of God my Saviour; <br />Standing, standing, <br />I’m standing on the promises of God.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />BLESSED BE THE NAME<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: 1-4:William H. Clark; Refrain:Ralph E. Hudson<br /><br />Composer: Source unknown<br /><br />Tune: Blessed Name (---,arr Hudson’Kirkpatrick)<br /><br />Scripture: Phil 2:9<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 All praise to Him who reigns above <br />In majesty supreme, <br />Who gave His Son for man to die, <br />That He might man redeem!<br /><br />2 His name above all names shall stand, <br />Exalted more and more, <br />At God the Father’s own right hand, <br />Where angel hosts adore.<br /><br />3 His name shall be the Counselor, <br />The mighty Prince of Peace, <br />Of all earth’s kingdoms Conqueror, <br />Whose reign shall never cease.<br /><br />Chorus Blessed be the name, <br />Blessed be the name, <br />Blessed be the name of the Lord! <br />Blessed be the name! <br />Blessed be the name, <br />Blessed be the name of the Lord!<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />I SURRENDER ALL<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Judson W. Van de Venter<br /><br />Composer: Winfield S. Weeden<br /><br />Tune: Surrender (Weeden)<br /><br />Scripture: Lk 18:28<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 All to Jesus I surrender, <br />All to Him I freely give; <br />I will ever love and trust Him, <br />In His presence daily live.<br /><br />2 All to Jesus I surrender, <br />Make me, Saviour, wholly Thine; <br />Let me feel Thy Holy Spirit, <br />Truly knowing that Thou art mine.<br /><br />3 All to Jesus I surrender, <br />Lord, I give myself to Thee; <br />Fill me with Thy love and power, <br />Let Thy blessing fall on me.<br /><br />Chorus I surrender all, <br />I surrender all, <br />All to Thee, <br />I surrender all, <br />I surrender all, <br />My blessed Saviour, <br />I surrender all.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ABIDE WITH ME<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />COMPOSER - William H. Monk<br /><br />TUNE - EVENTIDE <br /><br />AUTHOR - Henry Francis Lyte<br /><br /> <br /><br />SCRIPTURE - [1]Luke 24:29 [2]Mal 3:6 [4]1 Cor 15:55<br /><br /> <br /><br />1<br />Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;<br />The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide!<br />When other helpers fail and comforts flee,<br />Help of the helpless, O abide with me. <br /><br />2<br />Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;<br />Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away;<br />Change and decay in all around I see;<br />O Thou who changest not, abide with me. <br /><br />3<br />I need Thy presence every passing hour.<br />What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?<br />Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?<br />Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me. <br /><br />4<br />I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;<br />Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.<br />Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory?<br />I triumph still, if Thou abide with me!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />TRUST AND OBEY<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Rev. John H. Sammis<br /><br />Composer: Daniel B. Towner<br /><br />Tune: Trust and Obey (Towner)<br /><br />Scripture: Gen 5:24<br /><br /> <br /><br />When we walk with the Lord <br />In the light of His Word <br />What a glory He sheds on our way! <br />While we do His good will; <br />He abides with us still, <br />And with all who will trust and obey.<br /><br />Not a shadow can rise,<br /><br />Not a cloud in the skies,<br /><br />But His smile quickly drives it away:<br /><br />Not a doubt nor a fear;<br /><br />Not a sigh nor a tear,<br /><br />Can abide when we trust and obey.<br /><br />3 Not a burden we bear, <br />Not a sorrow we share, <br />But our toil He doth richly repay; <br />Not a grief or a loss, <br />Not a frown or a cross, <br />But is blest if we trust and obey.<br /><br />4 But we never can prove <br />The delights of His love <br />Until all on the altar we lay; <br />For the favor He shows <br />And the joy He bestows <br />Are for them who will trust and obey.<br /><br />5 Then in fellowship sweet <br />We will sit at His feet <br />Or we’ll walk by His side in the way; <br />What He says we will do, <br />Where He sends we will go; <br />Never fear, only trust and obey.<br /><br />Chorus Trust and obey, for there’s no other way <br />To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />TO GOD BE THE GLORY<br /><br />Author: Fanny J. Crosby<br />Composer: William H. Doane<br />Tune: To God Be the Glory (Doane)<br />Scripture: Gal 1:3-5, Ps 96:8, John 3:16, Rom 5:16, Ps 126:3<br /> <br /><br />To God be the glory, great things he hath done; <br />So loved he the world that he gave us His Son, <br />Who yielded his life an atonement for sin, <br />And opened the lifegate that all may go in.<br /><br />O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, <br />To ev’ry believer the promise of God; <br />The vilest offender who truly believes, <br />That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.<br /><br />Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, <br />And great our rejoicing thro’ Jesus the Son; <br />But purer, and higher, and greater will be <br />Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.<br /><br />Chorus Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, <br />Let the earth hear his Voice! <br />Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, <br />Let the people rejoice! <br />O come to the Father thro’ Jesus the Son, <br />And give him the glory, great things he hath done.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Living by Faith<br />James Wells, 1918<br />Scripture: Romans 1:17<br />J. L. Heath, 1918<br /><br />I care not today what the morrow may bring,<br />If shadow or sunshine or rain,<br />The Lord I know ruleth o’er everything,<br />And all of my worries are vain.<br /><br />Refrain:<br />Living by faith in Jesus above,<br />Trusting, confiding in His great love;<br />From all harm safe in His sheltering arm,<br />I’m living by faith and feel no alarm.<br /><br />Though tempests may blow and the storm clouds arise,<br />Obscuring the brightness of life,<br />I’m never alarmed at the overcast skies—<br />The Master looks on at the strife. <br /><br />I know that He safely will carry me through,<br />No matter what evils betide;<br />Why should I then care though the tempest may blow,<br />If Jesus walks close to my side. <br /><br /><br /><br />When He Shall Come<br />Almeda J. Pearce <br /><br />When He shall come resplendent in His glory<br />To take His own from out the vale of night<br />O may I know the joy at His appearing<br />Only at morn, to walk with Him in white!<br /><br />When I shall stand within the court of heaven<br />Where white-robed pilgrims pass before my sight<br />Earth’s martyred saints and blood-washed overcomers<br />These then are they who walk with Him in white!<br /><br />When He shall call, from earth’s remotest corners<br />All who have stood triumphant in His might<br />O to be worthy then to stand beside them<br />And in that morn, to walk with Him in white!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Day by Day<br />Words by Lina Sandell Berg<br />translated by Andrew L. Skogg<br />Music by Oscar Ahnfelt <br /><br /><br /><br />Day by day and with each passing moment,<br />Strength I find to meet my trials here;<br />Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment,<br />I've no cause for worry or for fear.<br />He whose heart is kind beyond all measure<br />Gives unto each day what He deems best<br />Lovingly, it's part of pain and pleasure,<br />Mingling toil with peace and with rest. <br />Ev'ry day the Lord Himself is near me<br />With a special mercy for each hour;<br />All my cares He fain would bear, and cheer me,<br />He whose name is Counselor and Pow'r.<br />The protection of His child and treasure<br />Is a charge that on Himself He laid;<br />"As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure,"<br />This the pledge to me He hath made. <br /><br />Help me then in ev'ry tribulation<br />So to trust thy promises, O Lord,<br />That I lose not faith's sweet consolation<br />Offered me within Thy Holy Word.<br />Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,<br />E'er to take, as from a father's hand,<br />One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,<br />'Til I reach the blessed, promised land.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ten Thousand Angels<br />Words and Music by Ray Overholt <br />Matthew 26:53<br />"Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father,<br />and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />They bound the hands of Jesus in the garden where He prayed;<br />They led Him thro' the streets in shame.<br />They spat upon the Savior so pure and free from sin;<br />They said, "Crucify Him; He's to blame." <br /><br />Refrain<br />He could have called ten thousand angels<br />To destroy the world and set Him free.<br />He could have called ten thousand angels,<br />But He died alone, for you and me. <br />Upon His precious head they placed a crown of thorns;<br />They laughed and said, "Behold the King!"<br />They struck Him and they cursed Him and mocked His holy name<br />All alone He suffered everything. <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />He could have called ten thousand angels<br />To destroy the world and set Him free.<br />He could have called ten thousand angels,<br />But He died alone, for you and me. <br />When they nailed Him to the cross, His mother stood nearby,<br />He said, "Woman, behold thy son!"<br />He cried, "I thirst for water," but they gave Him none to drink.<br />Then the sinful work of man was done. <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />He could have called ten thousand angels<br />To destroy the world and set Him free.<br />He could have called ten thousand angels,<br />But He died alone, for you and me. <br />To the howling mob He yielded; He did not for mercy cry.<br />The cross of shame He took alone.<br />And when He cried, "It's finished," He gave Himself to die;<br />Salvation's wondrous plan was done. <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />He could have called ten thousand angels<br />To destroy the world and set Him free.<br />He could have called ten thousand angels,<br />But He died alone, for you and me. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />THE LORD'S PRAYER <br />Words: Matthew 6:9-13<br />Music: Lowell Mason, 1841<br /><br />Our Father, Who art in heaven,<br />Hallow'd be Thy Name.<br />Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done<br />On earth as it is in heaven.<br />Give us this day our daily bread,<br />And forgive us our debts,<br />As we forgive our debtors.<br />And lead us not into temptation,<br />But deliver us from evil,<br />For Thine is the kingdom<br />And the power, and the glory, forever.<br />Amen.<br /><br /><br /><br />When the roll is called up yonder<br />James M. Black, 1893<br /><br />When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,<br />And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;<br />When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,<br />And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.<br /><br />Refrain:<br />When the roll is called up yonder,<br />When the roll is called up yonder,<br />When the roll is called up yonder,<br />When the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.<br /><br />On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise,<br />And the glory of His resurrection share;<br />When His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies,<br />And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. <br /><br />Repeat Refrain<br /><br />Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun,<br />Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care;<br />Then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done,<br />And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.<br /><br />Repeat Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />More Love to Thee, O Christ<br />Words by Elizabeth P. Prentiss, 1818-1878 <br />Music by William H. Doane, 1832-1915 <br /><br />More love to thee, O Christ, more love to thee! <br />Hear thou the prayer I make on bended knee. <br />This is my earnest plea: More love, O Christ, to thee; <br />more love to thee, more love to thee! <br /><br />Once earthly joy I craved, sought peace and rest; <br />now thee alone I seek, give what is best. <br />This all my prayer shall be: More love, O Christ, to thee; <br />more love to thee, more love to thee! <br /><br />Let sorrow do its work, come grief and pain; <br />sweet are thy messengers, sweet their refrain, <br />when they can sing with me: More love, O Christ, to thee; <br />more love to thee, more love to thee! <br /><br />Then shall my latest breath whisper thy praise; <br />this be the parting cry my heart shall raise; <br />this still its prayer shall be: More love, O Christ, to thee; <br />more love to thee, more love to thee!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Close to Thee<br />Words by Fanny J. Crosby <br />Music by Silas J. Vail <br /><br />Thou my everlasting portion, <br />more than friend or life to me, <br />all along my pilgrim journey, <br />Savior, let me walk with thee. <br /><br />Refrain:<br />Close to thee, close to thee, <br />close to thee, close to thee, <br />all along my pilgrim journey, <br />Savior, let me walk with thee. <br /><br />Not for ease or worldly pleasure, <br />nor for fame my prayer shall be; <br />gladly will I toil and suffer, <br />only let me walk with thee. <br />(Refrain) <br /><br />Lead me through the vale of shadows, <br />bear me o'er life's fitful sea; <br />then the gate of life eternal <br />may I enter, Lord, with thee. <br />(Refrain) <br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />IN THE SWEET BY AND BY<br />COMPOSER J. E. White<br />AUTHOR S. F. Bennett<br />SCRIPTURE [2]Isa 35:10<br /><br /><br />There's a land that is fairer than day,<br />And by faith we can see it afar;<br />For the Father waits over the way,<br />To prepare us a dwelling place there.<br /><br />Refrain<br />In the sweet by and by,<br />We shall meet on that beautiful shore;<br />In the sweet by and by,<br />We shall meet on that beautiful shore;<br /><br />We shall sing on that beautiful shore<br />The melodious songs of the blest,<br />And our spirits shall sorrow no more,<br />Not a sigh for the blessings of rest.<br /><br />To our bountiful Father above,<br />We will offer a tribute of praise,<br />For the glorious gift of His love,<br />And the blessings that hallow our days.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />AND CAN IT BE<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Charles Wesley<br /><br />Composer: Thomas Campbell<br /><br />Tune: Sagina (Campbell)<br /><br />Scripture: Eph 2:7<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 And can it be that I should gain <br />An int’rest in the Savior’s blood? <br />Died He for me, who caused His pain? <br />For me, who Him to death pursued? <br />Amazing love! how can it be <br />That Thou, my God shouldst die for me?<br /><br />2 He left His Father’s throne above, <br />So free, so infinite His grace! <br />Emptied Himself of all but love, <br />And bled for Adam’s helpless race! <br />’Tis mercy all, immense and free, <br />For, O my God, it found out me.<br /><br />3 Long my imprisoned spirit lay <br />Fast bound in sin and nature’s night. <br />Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray: <br />I woke—the dungeon flamed with light! <br />My chains fell off, my heart was free, <br />I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.<br /><br />4 No condemnation now I dread: <br />Jesus, and all in Him, is mine! <br />Alive in Him, my living Head, <br />And clothed in righteousness divine, <br />Bold I approach th’eternal throne, <br />And claim the crown, through Christ my own.<br /><br />Chorus Amazing love! how can it be <br />That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />JESUS LOVES ME <br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Anna B. Warner<br /><br />Composer: William B. Bradbury<br /><br />Tune: China (Bradbury)<br /><br />Scripture: 1 Cor 6:19-20; Matt 19:13-15<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Jesus loves me! this I know, <br />For the Bible tells me so; <br />Little ones to Him belong; <br />They are weak, but He is strong.<br /><br />2 Jesus loves me! He who died <br />Heaven’s gates to open wide! <br />He will wash away my sin, <br />Let His little child come in.<br /><br />3 Jesus loves me! loves me still, <br />Tho’ I’m very weak and ill; <br />From His shining throne on high, <br />Comes to watch me where I lie.<br /><br />4 Jesus loves me! He will stay <br />Close beside me all the way; <br />If I love Him, when I die <br />He will take me home on high.<br /><br />Chorus Yes, Jesus loves me, <br />Yes, Jesus loves me, <br />Yes, Jesus loves me, <br />The Bible tells me so.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS<br /><br />Author: 1, 2, 4:Matthew Bridges; 3:Godfrey Thring<br /><br />Composer: George J. Elvey<br /><br />Tune: Diademata (Elvey)<br /><br />Scripture: Rev. 19:12<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Crown Him with many crowns, <br />The Lamb upon His throne; <br />Hark! how the heav’nly anthem drowns <br />All music but its own; <br />Awake my soul, and sing <br />Of Him who died for thee, <br />And hail Him as thy matchless King <br />Thro’ all eternity.<br /><br />2 Crown Him Lord of life, <br />Who triumphed o’er the grave, <br />And rose victorious in the strife <br />For those He came to save; <br />His glories now we sing <br />Who died, and rose on high, <br />Who died eternal life to bring, <br />And lives that death may die.<br /><br />Crown Him the Lord of peace, <br />Whose pow’r a scepter sways <br />From pole to pole, that wars may cease, <br />And all be pray’r and praise: <br />His reign shall know no end, <br />And round His pierced feet <br />Fair flow’rs of paradise extend <br />Their fragrance ever sweet.<br /><br />4 Crown Him the Lord of love; <br />Behold His hands and side, <br />Those wounds, yet visible above, <br />In beauty glorified: <br />All hail, Redeemer, hail! <br />For Thou hast died for me: <br />Thy praise and glory shall not fail <br />Thro’out eternity.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />29<br /><br />REDEEMED<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Fanny J. Crosby<br /><br />Composer: William J. Kirkpatrick<br /><br />Tune: Redeemed (Kirkpatrick)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 107:2<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it! <br />Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; <br />Redeemed thro’ His infinite mercy, <br />His child and forever I am.<br /><br />2 Redeemed, and so happy in Jesus, <br />No language my rapture can tell; <br />I know that the light of His presence <br />With me doth continually dwell.<br /><br />I think of my blessed Redeemer, <br />I think of Him all the day long: <br />I sing, for I cannot be silent; <br />His love is the theme of my song.<br /><br />Chorus <br /><br />Redeemed, redeemed, <br />Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; <br />Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it! <br />His child and forever I am.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS <br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Joseph M. Scriven<br /><br />Composer: Charles Crozat Converse<br /><br />Tune: Converse (Converse)<br /><br />Scripture: Matt. 21:22; Prov. 18:24; Jn 15:13-15<br /><br /> <br /><br /> What a friend we have in Jesus, <br />All our sins and griefs to bear! <br />What a privilege to carry <br />Ev’rything to God in prayer! <br />Oh, what peace we often forfeit, <br />Oh, what needless pain we bear, <br />All because we do not carry <br />Ev’rything to God in prayer!<br /><br />Have we trials and temptations? <br />Is there trouble anywhere? <br />We should never be discouraged, <br />Take it to the Lord in prayer: <br />Can we find a friend so faithful <br />Who will all our sorrows share? <br />Jesus knows our ev’ry weakness, <br />Take it to the Lord in prayer.<br /><br /> Are we weak and heavy laden, <br /> Cumbered with a load of care? <br /> Precious Savior, still our refuge; <br /> Take it to the Lord in prayer: <br /> Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? <br /> Take it to the Lord in prayer; <br /> In His arms He’ll take and shield thee; <br /> Thou wilt find a solace there.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />THERE IS A FOUNTAIN<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: William Cowper<br /><br />Composer: American melody? Lowell Mason?<br /><br />Tune: Cleansing Fountain (American trad? Mason?)<br /><br />Scripture: Zechariah 13:1<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 There is a fountain filled with blood <br />Drawn from Immanuel’s veins; <br />And sinners plunged beneath that flood <br />Lose all their guilty stains; <br />Lose all their guilty stains; <br />Lose all their guilty stains; <br />And sinners plunged beneath that flood <br />Lose all their guilty stains.<br /><br />2 The dying thief rejoiced to see <br />That fountain in His day; <br />And there may I, though vile as he, <br />Wash all my sins away; <br />Wash all my sins away; <br />Wash all my sins away; <br />And there may I, though vile as he, <br />Wash all my sins away.<br /><br />3 Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood <br />Shall never lose its pow’r <br />Till all the ransomed church of God <br />Be saved to sin no more; <br />Be saved to sin no more; <br />Be saved to sin no more; <br />Till all the ransomed church of God <br />Be saved to sin no more.<br /><br />4 E’er since by faith I saw the stream <br />Thy flowing wounds supply, <br />Redeeming love has been my theme, <br />And shall be till I die; <br />And shall be till I die; <br />And shall be till I die; <br />Redeeming love has been my theme <br />And shall be till I die.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: A. Catherine Hankey<br /><br />Composer: William G. Fischer<br /><br />Tune: Hankey (Fischer)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 145:5; Acts 8:4-5; Ps 89:1<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 I love to tell the story <br />Of unseen things above, <br />Of Jesus and His glory, <br />Of Jesus and His love: <br />I love to tell the story <br />Because I know ’tis true; <br />It satisfies my longings <br />As nothing else can do.<br /><br />2 I love to tell the story; <br />’Tis pleasant to repeat <br />What seems each time I tell it, <br />More wonderfully sweet: <br />I love to tell the story, <br />For some have never heard <br />The message of Salvation <br />From God’s own holy Word.<br /><br />3 I love to tell the story; <br />For those who know it best <br />Seem hungering and thirsting <br />To hear it, like the rest: <br />And when, in scenes of glory, <br />I sing the new, new song, <br />‘Twill be the old, old story <br />That I have loved so long.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Chorus I love to tell the story, <br />‘Twill be my theme in glory <br />To tell the old, old story of <br />Jesus and His love.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />33<br /><br />O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Charles Wesley<br /><br />Composer: Carl G. Glaser; Lowell Mason’s "Modern Psalmody<br /><br />Tune: Azmon (Glaser, arr Mason)<br /><br />Scripture: Rev 7:9-17<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 O for a thousand tongues to sing <br />My great Redeemer’s praise, <br />The glories of my God and King, <br />The triumphs of His grace.<br /><br />2 Jesus, the name that calms my fears, <br />That bids our sorrows cease, <br />’Tis music in the sinner’s ears, <br />’Tis life and health and peace.<br /><br />3 He breaks the pow’r of canceled sin, <br />He sets the prisoner pree; <br />His blood can make the foulest clean, <br />His blood availed for me.<br /><br />4 Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb, <br />Your loosened tongues employ; <br />Ye blind, behold your Savior come; <br />And leap, ye lame, for joy.<br /><br />5 My gracious Master and my God, <br />Assist me to proclaim, <br />To spread thro’ all the earth abroad, <br />The honors of Thy name.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />JUST AS I AM<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Charlotte Elliott<br /><br />Composer: William B. Bradbury<br /><br />Tune: Woodworth (Bradbury)<br /><br />Scripture: John 6:37; Ps 51:2<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Just as I am, without one plea, <br />But that Thy blood was shed for me, <br />And that Thou bidd’st me come to Thee, <br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br />2 Just as I am, and waiting not <br />To rid my soul of one dark blot, <br />To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot, <br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br />3 Just as I am, Thy love unknown <br />Has broken ev’ry barrier down; <br />Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone, <br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br />4 Just as I am, tho’ tossed about <br />With many a conflict, many a doubt, <br />Fightings and fears within, without, <br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br />5 Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind— <br />Sight, riches, healing of the mind, <br />Yea, all I need in Thee to find— <br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br />6 Just as I am, Thou wilt receive, <br />Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve, <br />Because Thy promise I believe, <br />O Lamb of God, I come! I come!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />35<br /><br />IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Walter Chalmers Smith<br /><br />Composer: Welsh melody; Robert’s "Caniadau y Cyssegr<br /><br />Tune: St. Denio (Robert, "CyC", ad Roberts)<br /><br />Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:17<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Immortal, invisible God only wise, <br />In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, <br />Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, <br />Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.<br /><br />2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, <br />Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might; <br />Thy justice, like mountains, high soaring above <br />Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.<br /><br />3 To all, life Thou givest, to both great and small; <br />In all life Thou livest, the true life of all; <br />We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, <br />And wither and perish—but naught changeth Thee.<br /><br />4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, <br />Thine angels adore Thee, all veiling their sight; <br />All praise we would render; O help us to see <br />’Tis only the splendor of light hideth Thee!.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ALAS! AND DID MY SAVIOUR BLEED<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Isaac Watts<br /><br />Composer: Hugh Wilson<br /><br />Tune: Martyrdom (Wilson)<br /><br />Scripture: Luke 23:44-46 Matt 26:28<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Alas and did my Savior bleed <br />And did my Sov’reign die? <br />Would he devote that sacred head <br />for sinners such as I?<br /><br />2 Was it for crimes that I had done <br />He groaned upon the tree? <br />Amazing pity, grace unknown, <br />And love beyond degree!<br /><br />3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, <br />And shut His glories in, <br />When Christ the mighty Maker died <br />For man, the creature’s sin.<br /><br />4 But drops of grief can ne’er repay <br />The debt of love I owe; <br />Here, Lord I give myself away, <br />’Tis all that I can do.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />HE LIVES<br /><br /> <br /><br />AUTHOR Alfred H. Ackley, 1933<br /><br />SCRIPTURE [1]Matt 28:6 [2]Tit 2:13 [3]Phil 4:4 [r]Matt 7:14, Eph 3:17<br /><br /> <br /><br />I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today;<br />I know that He is living, whatever men may say;<br />I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer<br />And just the time I need Him He's always near. <br /><br />Refrain<br />He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!<br />He walks with me and talks with me<br />along life's narrow way.<br />He lives, He lives, salvation to impart!<br />You ask me how I know He lives?<br />He lives within my heart. <br /><br />2<br />In all the world around me I see His loving care,<br />And tho' my heart grows weary <br />I never will despair;<br />I know that He is leading thru all the stormy blast,<br />The day of His appearing will come at last. <br /><br />3<br />Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian, lift up <br />your voice and sing,<br />Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ the King!<br />The hope of all who seek Him,<br />the help of all who find,<br />None other is so loving, so good and kind. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />SOFTLY AND TENDERLY<br /><br /> <br /><br />COMPOSER Will L. Thompson<br /><br />AUTHOR Will L. Thompson<br /><br />SCRIPTURE [1]Matt 11:28<br /><br /> <br /><br />1<br />Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, <br />calling for you and for me; <br />see, on the portals he's waiting and watching, <br />watching for you and for me. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Come home, come home; <br />ye who are weary come home; <br />earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, <br />calling, O sinner, come home! <br /><br />2<br />Why should we tary when Jesus is pleading, <br />pleading for you and for me? <br />Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, <br />mercies for you and for me? <br /><br />3<br />Think of the wonderful love he has promised, <br />promised for you and for me! <br />Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, <br />pardon for you and for me. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />39<br /><br />O HOLY NIGHT<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: John S. Dwight<br /><br />Composer: Adolphe Adam<br /><br />Tune: O Holy Night (Adam)<br /><br />Scripture: Luke 2:7-18<br /><br />1 O holy night! the stars are brightly shining— <br />It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth! <br />Long lay the world in sin and darkness pining— <br />Till He appeared, gift of infinite worth! <br />Behold the Babe in yonder manger lowly— <br />’Tis God’s own Son come down in human form: <br />Fall on your knees before the Lord most holy!<br /><br />2 With humble hearts we bow in adoration <br />Before this Child, gift of God’s matchless love, <br />Sent from on high to purchase our salvation— <br />That we might dwell with Him ever above. <br />What grace untold—to leave the bliss of glory <br />And die for sinners guilty and forlorn: <br />Fall on your knees! repeat the wondrous story!<br /><br />3 O day of joy, when in eternal splendor <br />He shall return in His glory to reign, <br />When ev’ry tongue due praise to Him shall render, <br />His pow’r and might to all nations proclaim! <br />A thrill of hope our longong hearts rejoices, <br />For soon shall dawn that glad eternal morn: <br />Fall on your knees! with joy lift up your voices!<br /><br /> <br /><br />Chorus <br /><br />O night divine—O night when Christ was born! <br />O night divine—O night, O night divine!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />SILENT NIGHT HOLY NIGHT<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Joseph Mohr<br /><br />Composer: Franz Gruber<br /><br />Tune: Stille Nacht (Gruber)<br /><br />Scripture: Luke 2:6-8<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Silent night, holy night, <br />All is calm, all is bright <br />Round yon virgin mother and child! <br />Holy Infant so tender and mild, <br />Sleep in heavenly peace, <br />Sleep in heavenly peace.<br /><br />2 Silent night, holy night, <br />Darkness flies, all is light; <br />Shepherds hear the angels sing, <br />‘Alleluia! hail the King! <br />Christ the Saviour is born, <br />Christ the Saviour is born.’<br /><br />3 Silent night, holy night, <br />Son of God, love’s pure light <br />Radiant beams from Thy holy face, <br />With the dawn of redeeming grace, <br />Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth, <br />Jesus, Lord at Thy birth.<br /><br />4 Silent night, holy night, <br />Wondrous star, lend thy light; <br />With angels let us sing <br />Alleluia to our King; <br />Christ the Saviour is born, <br />Christ the Saviour is born.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING<br /><br />Author: Charles Wesley, et. al.)<br /><br />Composer: Felix Mendelssohn<br /><br />Tune: Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn)<br /><br />Scripture: Luke 2:14; Lk 2:10-14<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Hark! The herald angels sing <br />‘Glory to the newborn King;’ <br />Peace on earth and mercy mild; <br />God and sinners reconciled.’ <br />Joyful, all ye nations rise, <br />join the triumph in skies; <br />with angelic host proclaim, <br />‘Christ is born in Bethlehem!’ <br />Hark the herald angels sing, <br />‘Glory to the newborn King.’<br /><br />2 Christ by highest heav’n adored, <br />Christ the everlasting Lord: <br />Late in time, behold Him come, <br />Offspring of a virgin’s womb. <br />Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, <br />Hail th’incarnate Deity! <br />Pleased as man with men to dwell, <br />Jesus our Immanuel. <br />Hark! the herald angels sing, <br />‘Glory to the newborn King.’<br /><br />3 Hail the heav’n born Prince of Peace! <br />Hail the Sun of righteousness! <br />Light and life to all He brings, <br />Ris’n with healing in His wings. <br />Mild He lays His glory by, <br />Born that man no more may die, <br />Born to raise the sons of earth, <br />Born to give them second birth. <br />Hark! the herald angels sing, <br />‘Glory to the newborn King.’<br /><br />4 Come, Desire of nations, come,<br />Fix in us Thy humble home;<br />Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed,<br />Bruise in us the serpent’s head.<br />Now display Thy saving power,<br />Ruined nature now restore;<br />Now in mystic union join<br />Thine to ours, and ours to Thine.<br /><br />Hark! the herald angels sing, <br />‘Glory to the newborn King.’<br /><br />5 Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface,<br />Stamp Thine image in its place:<br />Second Adam from above,<br />Reinstate us in Thy love.<br />Let us Thee, though lost, regain,<br />Thee, the Life, the inner man:<br />O, to all Thyself impart,<br />Formed in each believing heart.<br /><br />Hark! the herald angels sing, <br />‘Glory to the newborn King.’<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />JOY TO THE WORLD<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Isaac Watts<br /><br />Composer: George Frederick Handel<br /><br />Tune: Antioch (Handel, arr Mason)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 98; Luke 2:10<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come; <br />Let earth receive her King. <br />Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room, <br />And heav’n and nature sing, <br />And heav’n and nature sing, <br />And heav’n and heav’n and nature sing.<br /><br />2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns; <br />Let men their songs employ; <br />While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains <br />Repeat the sounding joy, <br />Repeat the sounding joy, <br />Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.<br /><br />3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, <br />Nor thorns infest the ground; <br />He comes to make His blessings flow <br />Far as the curse is found, <br />Far as the curse is found, <br />Far as, far as the curse is found<br /><br />4 He rules the world with truth and grace, <br />And makes the nations prove <br />The glories of His righteousness, <br />And wonders of His love, <br />And wonders of His love, <br />And wonders, and wonders of His love.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Latin hymn, 18th century<br /><br />Composer: John Francis Wade’s "Cantus Diversi", 1751<br /><br />Tune: Adeste Fideles (Wade, "CD", 1751)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 30:4<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 O come all ye faithful, joyful, and triumphant, <br />O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem! <br />Come and behold Him born the King of angels!<br /><br />2 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, <br />O sing, all ye bright hosts of heav’n above! <br />Glory to God, all glory in the highest!<br /><br />3 Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, born this happy morning, <br />Jesus, to Thee be all glory giv’n; <br />Word of the Father, now in the flesh appearing!<br /><br />Chorus O come, let us adore Him, <br />O come, let us adore Him, <br />O come, let us adore Him, <br />Christ our Lord!<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />He Hideth My Soul<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />COMPOSER William J. Kirkpatrick <br /><br />AUTHOR Fanny J. Crosby<br /><br />SCRIPTURE [1]Isa 9:6, Ex 33:22 [2]Ps 16:8, Deut 33:25 [3]Eph 3:19 [4]1 Thess 4:17 [r]Isa 32:2 <br /><br />1<br />A wonderful Saviour<br />is Jesus my Lord,<br />A wonderful<br />Saviour to me,<br />He hideth my soul in<br />the cleft of the rock,<br />Where rivers of<br />pleasure I see.<br /><br />Refrain<br />He hideth my soul in<br />the cleft of the rock<br />That shadows a<br />dry, thirsty land;<br />he hideth my life in<br />the depths of His love,<br />And covers me<br />there with His hand,<br />And covers me<br />there with His hand.<br /><br />2<br />A wonderful Saviour<br />is Jesus my Lord,<br />He taketh my<br />burden away,<br />He holdeth me up, and<br />I shall not be moved,<br />He giveth me<br />strength as my day.<br /><br />3<br />With numberless blessings<br />each moment He crowns,<br />And filled with<br />His fullness divine,<br />I sing in my rapture,<br />Oh, Glory to God<br />For such a<br />Redeemer as mine.<br /><br />4<br />When clothed in His<br />brightness, transported I rise<br />To meet Him in<br />clouds of the sky,<br />His perfect salvation,<br />His wonderful love,<br />I'll shout with<br />the millions on high. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />Draw Me Nearer<br /><br /> <br /><br />COMPOSER William H. Doane<br /><br />AUTHOR Fanny J. Crosby, 1875<br /><br />SCRIPTURE [2]2 Chron 29:31 [3]Ps 4:4 [r]Heb 10:22<br /><br /> <br /><br />1<br />I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice, <br />and it told thy love to me; <br />but I long to rise in the arms of faith <br />and be closer drawn to thee. <br /><br />Refrain<br />Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, <br />to the cross where thou hast died. <br />Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, <br />to thy precious, bleeding side. <br /><br />2<br />Consecrate me now to thy service, Lord, <br />by the power of grace divine; <br />let my soul look up with a steadfast hope, <br />and my will be lost in thine. <br /><br />3<br />O the pure delight of a single hour <br />that before thy throne I spend, <br />when I kneel in prayer, and with thee, my God, <br />I commune as friend with friend!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: 1-3:Latin carol, 14th century; 4:Charles Wesley<br /><br />Composer: Lyra Davidica", London, 1708<br /><br />Tune: Easter Hymn ("LD", 1708)<br /><br />Scripture: 1 Cor 15:20; Matt 28:5-10<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 Christ the Lord is ris’n today, Alleluia! <br />Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia! <br />Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! <br />Sing ye heav’ns, and earth reply, Alleluia!<br /><br />2 Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! <br />Where, O Death is now thy sting? Alleluia! <br />Dying once He all doth save, Alleluia! <br />Where thy victory, O Grave? Alleluia!<br /><br />3 Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia! <br />Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! <br />Death in vain forbids Him rise, Alleluia! <br />Christ hath opened Paradise, Alleluia!<br /><br />4 Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! <br />Foll’wing our exalted Head, Alleluia! <br />Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia! <br />Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ONLY A SINNER<br /><br /> <br /><br />Naught have I gotten but what I received;<br />Grace hath bestowed it since I have believed;<br />Boasting excluded, pride I abase;<br />I’m only a sinner, saved by grace!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Only a sinner, saved by grace!<br />Only a sinner, saved by grace!<br />This is my story, to God be the glory—<br />I’m only a sinner, saved by grace!<br /><br />Once I was foolish, sin ruled my heart,<br />Causing my footsteps from God to depart;<br />Jesus hath found me, happy my case;<br />I now am a sinner, saved by grace!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Tears unavailing, no merit had I;<br />Mercy had saved me, or else I must die;<br />Sin had alarmed me fearing God’s face;<br />But now I’m a sinner saved by grace!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Suffer a sinner whose heart overflows,<br />Loving his Savior to tell what he knows;<br />Once more to tell it would I embrace—<br />I’m only a sinner saved by grace!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING<br /><br /> <br /><br />Author: Francis of Assisi<br /><br />Composer: Melody from "Geistliche Kirchengesang", Cologne, 1623<br /><br />Tune: Lasst uns Erfreuen ("GK",1623)<br /><br />Scripture: Ps 66:1-3<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 All creatures of our God and King, <br />Lift up your voice and with us sing, <br />Alleluia! Alleluia! <br />Thou burning sun with golden beam, <br />Thou silver moon with softer gleam!<br /><br />2 Thou rushing wind that art so strong, <br />Ye clouds that sail in heav’n along, <br />O praise Him! Alleluia! <br />Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice, <br />Ye lights of evening find a voice!<br /><br />3 And all ye men of tender heart, <br />Forgiving others, take your part, <br />O sing ye! Alleluia! <br />Ye who long pain and sorrow bear, <br />Praise God and on Him cast your care!<br /><br />4 Let all things their Creator bless, <br />And worship Him in humbleness, <br />O praise Him! Alleluia! <br />Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son, <br />And praise the Spirit, Three in One!<br /><br />5 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; <br />Praise Him, all creatures here below; <br />O praise Him! Alleluia! <br />Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host; <br />Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.<br /><br />Chorus O praise Him, O praise Him! <br />Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />Jesus Saves<br /><br /><br />Priscilla Owens, 1882 <br />William J. Kirkpatrick, 1882<br /><br /> <br /><br />We have heard the joyful sound: Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Spread the tidings all around; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Bear the news to ev'ry land, Climb the steeps and cross the waves <br />Onward! 'tis our Lord's command; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br /><br /> <br /><br />Waft it on the rolling tide; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Tell to sinners far and wide; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Sing, ye islands of the sea; Echo back ye ocean caves; <br />Earth shall keep her jubilee; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br /><br /> <br /><br />Sing above the battle strife; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />By His death and endless life, Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Sing it softly thro' the gloom, When the heart for mercy craves; <br />Sing in triumph o'er the tomb, Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br /><br /> <br /><br />Give the winds a mighty voice; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Let the nations now rejoice, Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br />Shout salvation full and free; Highest hills and deepest caves, <br />This our song of victory; Jesus saves! Jesus saves! <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />50<br /><br />Just A Closer Walk With Thee <br /> <br /><br />Anonymous<br /><br /> <br /><br />I am weak but Thou art strong; Jesus, keep me from all wrong; <br />I'll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee. <br />Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, <br />Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Thru this world of toil and snares, If I falter, Lord, who cares? <br />Who with me my burden shares? None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee. <br />Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, <br />Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. <br /><br /> <br /><br />When my feeble life is o'er, Time for me will be no more; <br />Guide me gently, safely o'er To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore. <br />Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, <br />Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />The Lord's My Shepherd <br /> <br /><br />Psalm 23 <br />Crimond <br />David Grant<br /><br /> <br /><br />The Lord's my shepherd I'll not want. <br />He makes me down to lie <br />In pastures green; He leadeth me <br />The quiet waters by. <br /><br />My soul He doth restore again; <br />And me to walk doth make <br />Within the paths of righteousness, <br />E'en for His own name's sake. <br /><br />Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, <br />Yet will I fear none ill; <br />For Thou art with me; and Thy rod <br />And staff me comfort still. <br /><br />My table Thou hast furnished <br />In presence of my foes; <br />My head Thou dost with oil anoint, <br />And my cup overflows. <br /><br />Goodness and mercy all my life <br />Shall surely follow me; <br />And in God's house forevermore <br />My dwelling place shall be. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD<br /><br /> <br /><br />Words & Music: Elisha A. Hoffman, Spiritual Songs<br /><br /> for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School (<br /><br />Cleveland, Ohio: Barker & Smellie, 1878) <br /><br /> <br /><br />Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?<br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br />Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?<br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Are you washed in the blood,<br />In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?<br />Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?<br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? <br /><br />Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?<br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br />Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?<br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br />Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright,<br />And be washed in the blood of the Lamb?<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,<br />And be washed in the blood of the Lamb;<br />There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,<br />O be washed in the blood of the Lamb!<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br />FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH<br />“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.” Isaiah 6:3<br />Words: Folliot S. Pierpoint, in Lyra Eucharistica, by Orby Shipley, second edition, 1864.<br />Music: “Dix,” Conrad Kocher, 1838 Alternate tunes:<br />“England’s Lane,” English melody, adapted by Geoffrey Shaw, 1919 <br />“Ratisbon,” Johann G. Werner, 1815 <br />“Warden,” James Turle, in A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, by Turle and E. Taylor, 1844 <br /><br />For the beauty of the earth<br />For the glory of the skies,<br />For the love which from our birth<br />Over and around us lies.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Lord of all, to Thee we raise,<br />This our hymn of grateful praise.<br /><br />For the beauty of each hour,<br />Of the day and of the night,<br />Hill and vale, and tree and flower,<br />Sun and moon, and stars of light.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For the joy of ear and eye,<br />For the heart and mind’s delight,<br />For the mystic harmony<br />Linking sense to sound and sight.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For the joy of human love,<br />Brother, sister, parent, child,<br />Friends on earth and friends above,<br />For all gentle thoughts and mild.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For Thy Church, that evermore<br />Lifteth holy hands above,<br />Offering upon every shore<br />Her pure sacrifice of love.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For the martyrs’ crown of light,<br />For Thy prophets’ eagle eye,<br />For Thy bold confessors’ might,<br />For the lips of infancy.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For Thy virgins’ robes of snow,<br />For Thy maiden mother mild,<br />For Thyself, with hearts aglow,<br />Jesu, Victim undefiled.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />For each perfect gift of Thine,<br />To our race so freely given,<br />Graces human and divine,<br />Flowers of earth and buds of Heaven.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br />COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS <br />Words by Johnson Oatman, 1897<br /><br /><br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your blessings<br />See what God has done<br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your many blessings<br />See what God has done<br /><br /><br />When upon life's billows<br />You are tempest tossed<br />When you are discouraged<br />Thinking all is lost<br />Count your many blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />And it will surprise you<br />What the Lord has done<br /><br /><br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your blessings<br />See what God has done<br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your many blessings<br />See what God has done<br /><br /><br />Are you ever burdened<br />With a load of care<br />Does the cross seem heavy<br />You are called to bear<br />Count your many blessings<br />Every doubt will fly<br />And you will be singing<br />As the days go by<br /><br /><br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your blessings<br />See what God has done<br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your many blessings<br />See what God has done<br /><br /><br />When you look at others<br />With their lands and gold<br />Think that Christ has promised<br />You His wealth untold<br />Count your many blessings<br />Money cannot buy<br />Your reward in heaven<br />Nor your home on high<br /><br /><br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your blessings<br />See what God has done<br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your many blessings<br />See what God has done<br /><br /><br />So, amid the conflict<br />Whether great or small<br />Do not be discouraged<br />God is over all<br />Count your many blessings<br />Angels will attend<br />Help and comfort give you<br />To your journey's end<br /><br /><br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your blessings<br />See what God has done<br />Count your blessings<br />Name them one by one<br />Count your many blessings<br />See what God has done<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rejoice, the Lord Is King<br />Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 <br />Music: John Darwall, 1731-1789; harm. from The English Hymnal <br />Tune: DARWALL'S 148TH, Meter: 66.66.88 <br /><br />1. Rejoice, the Lord is King! <br /> Your Lord and King adore; <br /> mortals, give thanks and sing, <br /> and triumph evermore. <br /> Lift up your heart, <br /> lift up your voice; rejoice; <br /> again I say, rejoice. <br /><br />2. Jesus the Savior reigns, <br /> the God of truth and love; <br /> when he had purged our stains, <br /> he took his seat above. <br /> Lift up your heart, <br /> lift up your voice; rejoice, <br /> again I say, rejoice. <br /><br />3. His kingdom cannot fail; <br /> he rules o'er earth and heaven; <br /> the keys of earth and hell <br /> are to our Jesus given. <br /> Lift up your heart, <br /> lift up your voice; rejoice, <br /> again I say, rejoice. <br /><br />4. Rejoice in glorious hope! <br /> Jesus the Judge shall come, <br /> and take his servants up <br /> to their eternal home. <br /> We soon shall hear <br /> th'archangel's voice; the trump of God <br /> shall sound, rejoice!<br /><br /><br /><br />JUST AS I AM <br />Words: Charlotte Elliott, 1835<br />Music: William B. Bradbury, 1839<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, without one plea,<br />But that Thy blood was shed for me,<br />And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, and waiting not<br />To rid my soul of one dark blot,<br />To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, though tossed about<br />With many a conflict, many a doubt,<br />Fightings and fears within, without,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;<br />Sight, riches, healing of the mind,<br />Yea, all I need in Thee to find,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,<br />Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;<br />Because Thy promise I believe,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, Thy love unknown<br />Hath broken every barrier down;<br />Now, to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come.<br /><br /><br />Just as I am, of that free love,<br />The breadth, length, depth, and height to prove,<br />Here for a season, then above,<br />O Lamb of God, I come, I come!<br /><br /><br />Miss Charlotte Elliott was visiting some friends in the West End of London, and there met the <br /><br />eminent minister, Cesar Malan. While seated at supper, the minister said he hoped that she was a <br /><br />Christian. She took offense at this, and replied that she would rather not discuss that question. <br /><br />Dr. Malan said that he was sorry if he had offended her, that he always liked to speak a word for <br /><br />his Master, and that he hoped that the young lady would some day become a worker for Christ.<br />When they met again at the home of a mutual friend, three weeks later, Miss Elliott told the <br /><br />minister that ever since he had spoken to her she had been trying to find her Saviour, and that she <br /><br />now wished him to tell her how to come to Christ.<br />"Just come to him as you are," Dr. Malan said. This she did, and went happily away. Shortly <br /><br />afterward she wrote this hymn.<br />About these words, her brother said:<br />"In the course of a long ministry, I hope I have been permitted to see some of the fruit of my <br /><br />labor, but I feel that far more has been done by a single hymn of my sister's." <br /> <br /><br /><br />TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE<br /><br />“I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and <br /><br />pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1<br /><br />Words by Frances R. Havergal, February 1874.<br />Music: “Messiah,” Louis J. Hérold, 1830; arranged by George Kingsley, 1838 <br /><br />Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.<br />Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.<br />Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love.<br />Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee.<br /><br />Take my voice, and let me sing always, only, for my King.<br />Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from Thee.<br />Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.<br />Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose.<br /><br />Take my will, and make it Thine; it shall be no longer mine.<br />Take my heart, it is Thine own; it shall be Thy royal throne.<br />Take my love, my Lord, I pour at Thy feet its treasure store.<br />Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee.<br /><br /><br />Alternate tunes:<br />“Hendon,” Henri A. C. Malan, 1827; harmony by Lowell Mason, 1841 <br />“Hollingside,” John B. Dykes, 1861<br />“Mary Magdalene (Sullivan),” Arthur S. Sullivan, 1872<br />“Nottingham,” arranged from Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)<br />“St. Bees,” John B. Dykes, 1862<br />“Yarbrough,” William B. Bradbury <br /><br />I went for a little visit of five days (to Areley House). There were ten per­sons in the house, some <br /><br />un­con­vert­ed and long prayed for, some con­vert­ed, but not re­joic­ing Christians. He gave me <br /><br />the pra­yer, “Lord, give me all in this house!” And He just did. Before I left the house every one <br /><br />had got a bless­ing. The last night of my vis­it af­ter I had re­tired, the gov­ern­ess asked me to <br /><br />go to the two daugh­ters. They were cry­ing, &c.; then and there both of them trust­ed and re­<br /><br />joiced; it was near­ly mid­night. I was too hap­py to sleep, and passed most of the night in praise <br /><br />and renewal of my own con­se­cra­tion; and these little coup­lets formed them­selves, and chimed <br /><br />in my heart one af­ter ano­ther till they fin­ished with “Ever, On­ly, ALL for Thee!”<br /><br />Havergal Manuscripts<br /><br /><br /><br />SOFTLY AND TENDERLY <br />Words & Music: Will L. Thompson, in Sparkling Gems, 1880 <br /><br /><br />Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,<br />Calling for you and for me;<br />See, on the portals He's waiting and watching,<br />Watching for you and for me.<br /><br /><br />Come home, come home,<br />You who are weary, come home;<br />Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br />Calling, O sinner, come home!<br /><br /><br />Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,<br />Pleading for you and for me?<br />Why should we linger and heed not His mercies,<br />Mercies for you and for me?<br /><br /><br />Come home, come home,<br />You who are weary, come home;<br />Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br />Calling, O sinner, come home!<br /><br /><br />Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,<br />Passing from you and from me;<br />Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,<br />Coming for you and for me.<br /><br /><br />Come home, come home,<br />You who are weary, come home;<br />Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br />Calling, O sinner, come home!<br /><br /><br />O for the wonderful love He has promised,<br />Promised for you and for me!<br />Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon,<br />Pardon for you and for me.<br /><br /><br />Come home, come home,<br />You who are weary, come home;<br />Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br />Calling, O sinner, come home!<br /><br /><br />Words & Music: Will L. Thompson, in Sparkling Gems, Nos. 1 and 2, <br />by J. Calvin Bushey (Chicago, Illinois: Will L. Thompson & Company, 1880)<br /><br />When evangelist Dwight Moody was on his deathbed, he told Thompson:<br />"Will, I would rather have written 'Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling' than anything I have been <br /><br />able to do in my whole life."<br />This hymn was sung in the 1985 Academy Award winning movie, "Trip to Bountiful."<br /><br /> <br /><br />WHISPERING HOPE <br />Words & Music by Septimus Winner, 1868<br />Hymnals often list the author as "Alice Hawthorne" <br />one of Winner's several pseudonyms.<br /><br /><br />Soft as the voice of an angel,<br />Breathing a lesson unheard,<br />Hope with a gentle persuasion<br />Whispers her comforting word:<br />Wait till the darkness is over,<br />Wait till the tempest is done,<br />Hope for the sunshine tomorrow,<br />After the shower is gone.<br /><br /><br />Whispering hope, oh how welcome thy voice,<br />Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.<br /><br /><br />If, in the dusk of the twilight,<br />Dim be the region afar,<br />Will not the deepening darkness<br />Brighten the glimmering star?<br />Then when the night is upon us,<br />Why should the heart sink away?<br />When the dark midnight is over,<br />Watch for the breaking of day.<br /><br /><br />Whispering hope, oh how welcome thy voice,<br />Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.<br /><br /><br />Hope, as an anchor so steadfast,<br />Rends the dark veil for the soul,<br />Whither the Master has entered,<br />Robbing the grave of its goal.<br />Come then, O come, glad fruition,<br />Come to my sad weary heart;<br />Come, O Thou blest hope of glory,<br />Never, O never depart.<br /><br /><br />Whispering hope, oh how welcome thy voice,<br />Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE <br />Words by Jessie B. Pounds, 1897<br />Music by John S. Fearis <br /><br /><br />Somewhere the sun is shining,<br />Somewhere the songbirds dwell;<br />Hush, then, thy sad repining,<br />God lives, and all is well.<br /><br /><br />Somewhere, somewhere,<br />Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!<br />Land of the true, where we live anew,<br />Beautiful Isle of Somewhere!<br /><br /><br />Somewhere the day is longer,<br />Somewhere the task is done;<br />Somewhere the heart is stronger,<br />Somewhere the guardian won.<br /><br /><br />Somewhere the load is lifted,<br />Close by an open door;<br />Somewhere the clouds are rifted,<br />Somewhere the angels sing.<br /><br /><br />One Sunday morning, when she had been married only a few weeks, Jessie Pounds was not feeling <br /><br />well, so her husband John went to church (Central Christian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana) <br /><br />without her. Jessie stayed home, and began meditating on heaven. By the time John returned, <br /><br />Jessie had produced these words. Just four years later, this song was sung at the funeral in 1901 of <br /><br />the assassinated U.S. President, William McKinley. It was reported to be his favorite song. <br /> <br /><br /><br />HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW <br />Words by Civilla D. Martin, 1905<br />Music Charles H. Gabriel, 1905<br /><br />Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,<br />Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,<br />When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />I sing because I'm happy,<br />I sing because I'm free,<br />For His eye is on the sparrow,<br />And I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />"Let not your heart be troubled," His tender word I hear,<br />And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;<br />Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />I sing because I'm happy,<br />I sing because I'm free,<br />For His eye is on the sparrow,<br />And I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,<br />When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,<br />I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;<br />His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />I sing because I'm happy,<br />I sing because I'm free,<br />For His eye is on the sparrow,<br />And I know He watches me.<br /><br /><br />Civilla Martin wrote:<br />"Early in the spring of 1905, my husband and I were sojourning in Elmira, New York. We <br /><br />contracted a deep friendship for a couple by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle, true saints of <br /><br />God. Mrs. Doolittle had been bedridden for nigh twenty years. Her husband was an incurable <br /><br />cripple who had to propel himself to and from his business in a wheel chair. Despite their <br /><br />afflictions, they lived happy Christian lives, bringing inspiration and comfort to all who knew <br /><br />them. One day while we were visiting with the Doolittles, my husband commented on their bright <br /><br />hopefulness and asked them for the secret of it. Mrs. Doolittle's reply was simple: "His eye is on <br /><br />the sparrow, and I know He watches me." The beauty of this simple expression of boundless faith <br /><br />gripped the hearts and fired the imagination of Dr. Martin and me. The hymn "His Eye Is on the <br /><br />Sparrow" was the outcome of that experience." The next day she mailed the poem to Charles <br /><br />Gabriel, who supplied the music.<br />Singer Ethel Waters so loved this song that she used its name as the title for her autobiography. <br /> <br /><br /><br />He Hideth My Soul<br />words by Frances Jane Crosby (Fanny Crosby)<br />music by William J. Kirkpatrick<br />Scripture: Exodus 33:22<br /><br />A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,<br />A wonderful Savior to me;<br />He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,<br />Where rivers of pleasure I see.<br /><br />Refrain:<br />He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,<br />That shadows a dry, thirsty land;<br />He hideth my life in the depths of His love,<br />And covers me there with His hand,<br />And covers me there with His hand.<br />A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,<br />He taketh my burden away,<br />He holdeth me up and I shall not be moved,<br />He giveth me strength as my day. <br />With numberless blessings each moment He crowns,<br />And filled with His fullness divine,<br />I sing in my rapture, oh, glory to God!<br />For such a Redeemer as mine. <br />When clothed with His brightness transported I rise<br />To meet Him in clouds of the sky,<br />His perfect salvation, His wonderful love,<br />I’ll shout with the millions on high.<br /><br /><br /><br />I'll Meet You In The Morning<br /> <br />I'll meet you in the morning by the bright riverside<br />When all sorrow has drifted away<br />I'll be standin' at the portals when the gates open wide<br />At the close of life's long weary day<br /><br />I'll meet you in the morning with a how do you do<br />And we'll sit down by the river and when all the rapture is renewed<br />You'll know me in the morning by the smile that I wear<br />When I meet you in the morning In the city that is built four square<br /><br />I will meet you in the morning in the sweet by and by<br />And exchange the old cross for a crown<br />There will be no disappointments and nobody shall die<br />In that land when life's sun goeth down<br /><br /> <br /><br />Angel Band<br /> <br />My latest sun is sinking fast<br />My race is nearly run<br />All my trials now are past<br />My triumph has begun<br /><br /> Oh come Angel Band<br /> Come and around me stand<br /> Bear me away on your snow white wings<br /> To my immortal home<br /> Bear me away on your snow white wings <br /> To my immortal home<br /><br />Oh bear my loving heart to him<br />Who bled and died for me<br />Whose blood now cleanses from all sins<br />And gives me victory.<br /><br />I've almost reached my heavenly home<br />My spirit loudly sings<br />The holy ones behold they come<br />I hear the noise of wings.<br /><br /> <br /> <br />Down To The River To Pray <br /> <br />As I went down to the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the starry crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /> Oh sisters let's go down<br /> Let's go down come on down<br /> Oh sisters let's go down<br /> Down to the river to pray<br /><br />As I went down in the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the robe and crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /> Oh brothers let's go down <br /> Let's go down come on down<br /> Oh brothers let's go down<br /> Down to the river to pray<br /><br />As I went down to the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the starry crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /> Oh fathers let's go down <br /> Let's go down come on down<br /> Oh fathers let's go down<br /> Down to the river to pray<br /><br />As I went down to the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the robe and crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /> Oh mothers let's go down <br /> Let's go down come on down<br /> Oh mothers let's go down<br /> Down to the river to pray<br /><br />As I went down to the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the starry crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /> Oh sinners let's go down<br /> Let's go down come on down<br /> Oh sinners let's go down<br /> Down to the river to pray<br /><br />As I went down to the river to pray<br />Studying about that good old way<br />And who shall wear the robe and crown<br />Good Lord show me the way<br /><br /><br /><br />Doxology <br /><br />Praise God from Whom all blessings flow; <br />Praise Him, all creatures here below; <br />Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host; <br />Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee <br /><br />1. Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, <br />God of glory, Lord of love; <br />Hearts unfold like flow'rs before Thee, <br />Hail Thee as the sun above. <br />Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, <br />Drive the dark of doubt away; <br />Giver of immortal gladness, <br />Fill us with the light of day! <br /><br />2. All Thy works surround Thee, <br />Earth and heav'n reflect Thy rays, <br />Stars and angels sing around Thee, <br />Center of unbroken praise. <br />Field and forest, vale and mountain, <br />Flow'ry meadow, flashing sea, <br />Chanting bird and flowing fountain <br />Call us to rejoice in Thee. <br /><br />3. Thou art giving and forgiving, Ever blessing, ever blest, <br />Wellspring of the joy of living, <br />Ocean depth of happy rest! <br />Thou the Father, Christ our Brother-- <br />All who live in love are Thine; <br />Teach us how to love each other, <br />Lift us to the joy divine. <br /><br />4. Mortals, join the mighty chorus <br />Which the morning stars began; <br />Father-love is reigning o'er us, <br />Brother-love binds man to man. <br />Ever singing, march we onward <br />Victors in the midst of strife; <br />Joyful music lifts us sunward <br />In the triumph song of life.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Crown Him with Many Crowns <br /><br />1. Crown Him with many crowns, <br />The Lamb upon His throne: <br />Hark! how the heav'nly anthem drowns <br />All music but its own! <br />Awake my soul, and sing <br />Of Him who died for thee, <br />And hail Him as thy matchless King <br />Thru all eternity. <br /><br />2. Crown Him the Lord of love: <br />Behold His hands and side-- <br />Rich wounds, yet visible above, <br />In beauty glorified. <br />No angel in the sky <br />Can fully bear that sight, <br />But downward bends his wond'ring eye <br />At mysteries so bright. <br /><br />3. Crown Him the Lord of life: <br />Who triumphed o'er the grave, <br />Who rose victorious to the strife <br />For those He came to save. <br />His glories now we sing, <br />Who died and rose on high, <br />Who died eternal life to bring <br />And live that death may die. <br /><br />4. Crown Him the Lord of heav'n: <br />One with the Father known, <br />One with the Spirit thru Him giv'n <br />From yonder glorious throne. <br />To Thee be endless praise, <br />For Thou for us hast died; <br />Be Thou, O Lord, thru endless days <br />Adored and magnified.<br /><br /> <br /><br />How Great Thou Art! <br /><br />1. O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder <br />Consider all the works Thy hands have made, <br />I see the stars, I hear the rolling/mighty thunder, <br />Thy pow'r thru-out the universe displayed! <br /><br />Chorus:<br />Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: <br />How great Thou art, how great Thou art! <br />Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee: <br />How great Thou art, how great Thou art! <br /><br />2. When thru the woods and forest glades I wander <br />And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees, <br />When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur <br />And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze, <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />3. And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, <br />Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in <br />That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, <br />He bled and died to take away my sin! <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />4. When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation <br />And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart! <br />Then I shall bow in humble adoration <br />And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art! <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br /> <br /><br />Old Rugged Cross <br /><br />1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, <br />The emblem suff'ring and shame; <br />And I love that old cross where the dearest and best <br />For world of lost sinners was slain. <br /><br />Chorus: <br />So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, <br />Till my trophies at last I lay down; <br />I will cling to the old rugged cross <br />And exchange it some day for a crown. <br /><br />2. O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, <br />Has a wondrous attraction for me; <br />For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above <br />To bear it to dark Calvary. <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />3. In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, <br />A wondrous beauty I see; <br />For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died <br />To pardon and sanctify me. <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />4. To the old rugged cross I will ever be true, <br />Its shame and reproach gladly bear; <br />Then He'll call me some day to my home far away, <br />Where His glory forever I'll share.<br /><br /> <br /><br />There's Just Something About That Name <br /><br />Jesus, Jesus, Jesus; <br />There's just something about that name! <br />Master, Savior, Jesus, <br />Like the fragrance after the rain; <br />Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, <br />Let all heaven and earth proclaim; <br />Kings and kingdoms will all pass away, <br />But there's something about that name!<br /><br /> <br /><br />Just a Closer Walk With Thee <br /><br />Chorus: <br />Just a closer walk with Thee-- <br />Grant it Jesus, if you please; <br />Daily walking close to Thee-- <br />Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. <br /><br />1. I am weak but Thou art strong-- <br />Jesus, keep me from all wrong; <br />I'll be satisfied as long <br />As I walk, dear Lord, close to Thee. <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />2. Thru this world of toil and snares, <br />If I falter, Lord, who cares? <br />Who with me my burden shares? <br />None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />3. When my feeble life is o'er, <br />Time for me will be no more; <br />On that bright eternal shore <br />I will walk, dear Lord, close to Thee. <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br /> <br /><br />Holy, Holy, Holy <br /><br />1. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! <br />Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee; <br />Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty! <br />God in three persons, blessed Trinity! <br /><br />2. Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee, <br />Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; <br />Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee, <br />Which wert and art and evermore shalt be. <br /><br />3. Holy, holy, holy! Thou the darkness hide Thee, <br />Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see; <br />Only Thou art holy - there is none beside Thee <br />Perfect in pow'r, in love and purity. <br /><br />4. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! <br />All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea; <br />Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty! <br />God in three persons, blessed Trinity!<br /><br /> <br /><br />Because He Lives <br /><br />1. God sent His Son - they called Him Jesus, <br />He came to love, heal and forgive; <br />He lived and died to buy my pardon, <br />An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives. <br /><br />Chorus: <br />Because He lives I can face tomorrow, <br />Because He lives all fear is gone; <br />Because I know He holds the future <br />And life is worth the living just because He lives. <br /><br />2. How sweet to hold a newborn baby <br />And feel the pride and joy he gives; <br />But greater still the calm assurance: <br />This child can face uncertain days because Christ lives. <br /><br />(Chorus) <br /><br />3. And then one day I'll cross the river, <br />I'll fight life's final war with pain; <br />And then, as death gives way to victory, <br />I'll see the lights of glory - and I'll know He lives. <br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br /> <br /><br />Order My Steps <br /><br />1. Order my steps in Your word dear Lord <br />Lead me, guide me, everyday <br />Send Your anointing, Father, I pray <br />Order my steps in Your word. <br />Please order my steps in Your word. <br /><br />2. Humbly I ask Thee, teach me Your will <br />While You are working, help me be still <br />Though Satan is busy, God is real <br />Order my steps in Your word. <br />Please order my steps in Your word. <br /><br />3. Bridle my tongue, let my words edify <br />Let the words of my mouth be acceptable in Thy sight <br />Take charge of my thoughts, both day and night <br />Order my steps in Your word. <br />Please order my steps in Your word. <br /><br />(refrain) <br />I want to walk worthy, my calling to fulfill <br />Please order my steps, Lord, and I'll do Your blessed will <br />The world is ever changing, but You are still the same <br />If You order my steps, I'll praise Your name. <br /><br />Order my steps, in Your word <br />Order my tongue, in Your word <br />Guide my feet, in Your word <br />Wash my heart, in Your word <br />Show me how to walk, in Your word <br />Show me how to talk, in Your word. <br /><br />When I need a brand new song to sing, <br />Show me how to let Your praises ring, in Your word <br />In Your word <br />Please order my steps in Your word. <br />Please order my steps in Your word.<br /><br /> <br /><br />There Is a Fountain <br /><br />1. There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins,<br />And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains:<br />Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains;<br />And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. <br /><br />2. The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day,<br />And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away:<br />Wash all my sins away, Wash all my sins away;<br />And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away. <br /><br />3. Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its pow'r,<br />Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more:<br />Be saved to sin no more, Be saved to sin no more;<br />Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more. <br /><br />4. E'er since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,<br />Redeeming love has been my theme And shall be till I die:<br />And shall be till I die, And shall be till I die;<br />Redeeming love has been my theme And shall be till I die. <br /><br />5. When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue Lies silent in the grave,<br />Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing Thy pow'r to save:<br />I'll sing Thy pow'r to save, I'll sing Thy pow'r to save;<br />Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing Thy pow'r to save.<br /><br /><br /><br />THE LORD'S PRAYER <br />Words: Matthew 6:9-13<br />Music by Lowell Mason, 1841<br /><br />Our Father, Who art in heaven,<br />Hallow'd be Thy Name.<br />Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done<br />On earth as it is in heaven.<br />Give us this day our daily bread,<br />And forgive us our debts,<br />As we forgive our debtors.<br />And lead us not into temptation,<br />But deliver us from evil,<br />For Thine is the kingdom<br />And the power, and the glory, forever.<br />Amen.<br /><br /><br />"A Mighty Fortress" is believed to have been written in 1529 by Martin Luther for the Diet of <br /><br />Spires, the occasion when the term "protestant" was first used.<br /><br />"Amazing Grace" was written in 1779 by a former slave trader and sea captain, John Newton, who <br /><br />was driven to Christ through his fear of being shipwrecked.<br /><br />"Great is Thy Faithfulness" was written by Thomas Chisholm, a man who composed more than <br /><br />1,200 sacred poems and hymn texts during his lifetime. But his career began humbly in a country <br /><br />schoolhouse as a 16-year-old teacher who had only an elementary education.<br /><br />"To God Be the Glory" by Fanny Crosby was first published in 1875 but was not widely known <br /><br />until the song was popularized in evangelistic crusades during the early 1950s.<br /><br />"Jesus Loves Me" by Anna Warner first appeared in 1860 as dialog in a bestselling fiction novel, <br /><br />as one of the characters recited the poem to a dying child. A year later, William Bradbury set the <br /><br />poem to music.<br /><br />"How Great Thou Art" was written by a Swedish pastor in 1886 and later translated into Russian. <br /><br />Some 50 years later, the Russian version was heard by an English missionary to Ukraine, Stuart <br /><br />Hine. When World War II began in 1939, he returned home and translated the hymn into English.<br /><br />In "Lead On, O King Eternal" by Ernest Shurtleff, the words "the day of march has come" refer <br /><br />to a graduation march. He wrote the hymn in 1887 at the request of fellow seminarians who asked <br /><br />Shurtleff to compose their class poem.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A FewHymn Selections<br /> <br />Hymns We Enjoy<br /><br />Listen to music of Hymns and the Liturgy (From The Hymnal 1940 )<br />* An asterisk denotes The Hymnal 1982<br /><br /><br /><br /> I Know not what the future hath...No. 441 <br /> O LOVE,how deep, how broad, how high...No. 344 <br /> I BIND unto myself today...No. 268 <br /> I SING a song of the saints of God...No. 243 <br /> God the Father, God the Son, God the spirit, Three in One...No. 229 <br /> The Snow lay on the ground...No. 41 <br /> Hail thee festival day...No. 86 <br /> For the beauty of the earth...No. 296 <br /> For all the saints, who from their labours rest...No.126 <br /> This is my Father's World...*No. 651 <br /> Ah holy Jesus, how hast thou offended...No. 71 <br /> A mighty fortress is our God...No. 551 <br /> All things bright and beautiful...No. 311 <br /> How bright appears the morning star...No. 329 <br /> He who would valiant be...No. 563 <br /> Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen...No. 204 <br /> Hail, thou once despised Jesus...No. 357 <br /> Watchman, tell us of the night...No. 440 <br /> God of our fathers, whose almighty hand...No. 143 <br /> O GOD! our help in ages past...No. 289 <br /> Come Thou long expected Jesus...No. 1 <br /> Christ the Lord is risen today...No. 95 <br /> It is well with my soul...(not in our hymnal) <br /> Once to Every Man and Nation... No. 519 <br /> Hyfrydol...No.479 <br /> 'Nun Danket' (Now thank we all our God)...No. 276 <br /> Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken...No. 385 <br /> Jerusalem...No. 597, The Hymnal1982 <br /> Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming... No. 81, The Hymnal1982 <br /> My Country, 'tis of Thee <br /> The National Anthem <br /> Mothers' Day Hymn and Prayer <br /><br /><br />I know not what the future hath... No. 441<br /> <br />I Know not what the future hath<br />Of marvel or surprise,<br />Assured alone that life and death<br />God's mercy underlies.<br />And if my heart and flesh are weak<br />To bear an untried pain,<br />The bruised reed he will not break,<br />But strengthen and sustain.<br />No off'ring of my own I have,<br />Nor works my faith to prove;<br />I can but give the gifts he gave,<br />And plead his love for love.<br />And so beside the silent sea<br />I wait the muffled oar;<br />No harm from him can come to me<br />On ocean or on shore.<br />I know not where his islands lift<br />Their fronded palms in air;<br />I only know I cannot drift<br />Beyond his love and care.<br /> WILTSHIRE<br /> George C. Smart, c. 1795<br /> John Greenleaf Whittier, 1867 <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />O love, how deep, how broad, how high...No. 344<br />O love, how deep, how broad, how high,<br />How passing thought and fantasy,<br />That God, the Son of God, should take<br />Our mortal form for mortal's sake.<br /> <br />For us baptized, for us he bore<br />His holy fast, and hunger'd sore;<br />For us temptations sharp he knew;<br />For us the tempter overthrew.<br /> <br />For us he prayed, for us he taught,<br />For us his daily works he wrought,<br />By words and signs and actions, thus<br />Still seeking not himself, but us.<br /> <br />For us to wicked men betrayed,<br />Scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,<br />He bore the shameful cross and death;<br />For us gave up his dying breath.<br /> <br />For us he rose from death again,<br />For us he went on high to reign;<br />For us he sent his Spirit here<br />To guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.<br /> <br />All glory to our Lord and God<br />For love so deep, so high, so broad;<br />The Trinity whom we adore<br />For ever and for evermore. DEUS TUORUM MILITUM<br />French<br />Latin, 15th cent.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I bind unto myself to-day...No. 268<br />1.<br />I bind unto myself to-day<br />The strong Name of the Trinity,<br />By invocation of the same,<br />The Three in One, and One in Three.<br /> <br />2.<br />I bind this day to me for ever,<br />By power of faith, Christ's Incarnation;<br />His baptism in the Jordan river;<br />His death on cross for my salvation;<br />His bursting from the spiced tomb;<br />His riding up the heavenly way;<br />His coming at the day of doom:<br />I bind unto myself to-day.<br /> <br />3.<br />I bind unto myself the power<br />Of the great love of cherubim;<br />The sweet "Well done" in judgement hour;<br />The service of the seraphim;<br />Confessors' faith, apostles' word,<br />The patriarchs' prayers, the prophets' scrolls;<br />All good deeds done unto the Lord,<br />And purity of virgin souls.<br /> <br />4.<br />I bind unto myself to-day<br />The virtues of the star-lit heaven,<br />The glorious sun's life-giving ray,<br />The whiteness of the moon at even,<br />The flashing of the lightning free,<br />The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,<br />The stable earth, the deep salt sea,<br />Around the old eternal rocks.<br /> <br />5.<br />I bind unto myself to-day<br />The power of God to hold and lead,<br />His eye to watch, his might to stay,<br />His ear to hearken to my need;<br />The wisdom of my God to teach,<br />His hand to guide, his shield to ward;<br />The word of God to give me speech,<br />His heavenly host to be my guard.<br /> <br />6.<br />Christ be with me, Christ within me,<br />Christ behind me, Christ before me,<br />Christ beside me, Christ to win me,<br />Christ to comfort and restore me,<br />Christ beneath me, Christ above me,<br />Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,<br />Christ in hearts of all that love me,<br />Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.1-5, 7<br />ST. PATRICK<br />Irish<br />St. Patrick, 372-466<br />6.<br />DEIRDRE<br />Irish<br />St. Patrick, 372-466<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I sing a song of the saints of God...No. 243<br />I sing a song of the saints of God<br />Patient and brave and true,<br />Who toiled and fought and lived and died<br />For the Lord they loved and knew.<br />And one was a doctor, and one was a queen,<br />And one was a shepherdess on the green:<br />They were all of them saints of God --- and I mean<br />God helping, to be one too.<br /> <br />They loved their Lord so dear, so dear,<br />And his love made them strong;<br />And they followed the right for Jesus' sake,<br />The whole of their good lives long.<br />And one was a soldier, and one was a priest,<br />And one was slain by a fierce wild beast;<br />And there's not any reason --- no not the least<br />Why I shouldn't be one too.<br /> <br />They lived not only in ages past,<br />There are hundreds of thousands still,<br />The world is bright with the joyous saints<br />Who love to do Jesus' will.<br />You can meet them in school, or in lanes, or at sea,<br />In church, or in trains, or in shops, or at tea,<br />For the saints of God are just folk like me,<br />And I mean to be one too.GRAND ISLE<br />J.M. Hopkins, 1940<br />Lesbia Scott, 1929<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />God the Father, God the Son...No 229<br />Click here for a graphic of this Litany.<br />God the Father, God the Son,<br />God the Spirit, Three in One,<br />Hear us from thy heavenly throne:<br />Spare us, holy Trinity.<br /> <br />Father, hear thy children's call;<br />Humbly at thy feet we fall,<br />Prodigals, confessing all:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Christ, beneath thy cross, we blame<br />All our life of sin and shame;<br />Penitent we breathe thy Name:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Holy Spirit, grieved and tried,<br />Oft forgotten and defied,<br />Now we mourn our stubborn pride:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Love, that caused us first to be,<br />Love, that bled upon the tree,<br />Love, that draws us lovingly:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />We thy call have disobeyed,<br />Into paths of sin have strayed,<br />And repentance have delayed:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Sick, we come to thee for cure,<br />Guilty, seek thy mercy sure,<br />Evil, long to be made pure:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Blind, we pray that we may see;<br />Bound, we pray to be made free;<br />Stained, we pray for sanctity:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.<br /> <br />Thou who hear'st each contrite sigh,<br />Bidding sinful sould draw nigh,<br />Willing not that one should die:<br />We beseech thee, hear us.LEBBAEUS<br />A.S. Sullivan, 1874<br />T.B. Pollock 1871<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The snow lay on the ground...No. 41<br />The snow lay on the ground,<br />The stars shone bright,<br />When Christ our Lord was born<br />On Christmas night.<br />Venite adoremus<br />Dominum:<br />Venite adoremus<br />Dominum.<br />||Venite adoremus Dominum.||<br /> <br />'Twas Mary, daughter pure<br />Of holy Anne,<br />That brought into this world<br />The God made man.<br />She laid him in a stall<br />At Bethlehem;<br />The ass and oxen shared<br />The roof with them.<br />Refrain<br /> <br />Saint Joseph, too, was by<br />To tend the child;<br />To guard him, and protect<br />His mother mild;<br />The angels hovered round,<br />And sung this song,<br />Venite adoremus<br />Dominum<br />Refrain<br /> <br />And thus that manger poor<br />Became a throne;<br />For he whom Mary bore<br />Was God the Son.<br />O come, then, let us join<br />The heavenly host,<br />To praise the Father, Son,<br />And Holy Ghost.<br />RefrainVENITE ADOREMUS<br />Traditional Carol<br />Traditional Carol<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hail thee, festival day!...No. 86<br />Hail thee, festival day! blest day that art hallowed for ever;<br />Day whereon Christ arose, breaking the kingdom of death.(Repeat as refrain, after choir sings <br /><br />each stanza.)<br />Lo, the fair beauty of the earth, from the death of the winter arising!<br />Every good gift of the year now with its Master returns:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />He who was nailed to the cross is Lord and the ruler of all men;<br />All things created on earth sing to the glory of God:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />Daily the lovliness grows, adorned with the glory of blossom;<br />Heaven her gates unbars, flinging her increase of light:<br />Refrain<br /> <br /> <br />Rise from the grave now, O Lord, who art author of life and creation.<br />Treading the pathway of death, life thou bestowest on man:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />God the All-Father, the Lord, who rulest the earth and the heavens,<br />Guard us from harm without, cleanse us from evil within:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />Jesus the health of the world, enlighten our minds, thou Redeemer,<br />Son of the Father supreme, only begotten of God:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />Spirit of life and power, now flow in us, fount of our being,<br />Light that dost lighten all, life that in all dost abide:<br />Refrain<br /> <br />Praise to the Giver of good! Thou Love who art author of concord,<br />Pour out thy balm on our souls, order our ways in thy peace:<br />RefrainSALVE FESTA DIES<br />R.V. Wiliams, 1906<br />V.H. Fortunatus, 530-609<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />O GOD! our help in ages past...No. 289<br />1 O GOD! our help in ages past,<br />Our hope for years to come,<br />Our shelter from the stormy blast,<br />And our eternal home:<br /> <br />2 Under the shadow of thy throne,<br />Still may we dwell secure;<br />Sufficient is thine arm alone,<br />And our defence is sure.<br /> <br />3 Before the hills in order stood,<br />Or earth received her frame,<br />From everlasting thou art God,<br />To endless years the same.<br /> <br />4 A thousand ages in thy sight<br />Are like an evening gone,<br />Short as the watch that ends the night<br />Before the rising sun.<br /> <br />5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood,<br />With all their cares and fears,<br />Are carried downward by the flood,<br />And lost in following years.<br /> <br />6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,<br />Bears all its sons away;<br />They fly forgotten, as a dream<br />Dies at the opening day.<br /> <br />7 O God! our help in ages past,<br />Our hope for years to come,<br />Be thou our guard while life shall last,<br />And our perpetual home.<br /><br /><br /><br />Come Thou long expected Jesus...No. 1<br />Come Thou long expected Jesus,<br /> Born to set Thy people free;<br />From our fears and sins release us;<br /> Let us find our rest in thee.<br /> <br />Israel's Strength and Consolation,<br /> Hope of all the earth Thou art,<br />Dear Desire of ev'ry nation, <br /> Joy of ev'ry longing heart.<br /> <br />Born thy people to deliver;<br /> Born a Child, and yet a King;<br />Born to reign in us forever,<br /> Now Thy gracious kindom bring.<br /> <br />By Thine own Eternal Spirit<br /> Rule in all our hearts alone;<br />By Thine all-sufficient merit<br /> Raise us to Thy glorious throne.<br /> Charles Wesley, 1744<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Christ, the Lord, is risen today...No. 95<br />Christ, the Lord, is risen today,<br />Sons of men and angels say;<br />Raise your joys and triumphs high;<br />Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply.<br /> <br />Love's redeeming work is done,<br />Fought the fight, the battle won;<br />Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er;<br />Lo! He sets in blood no more.<br /> <br />Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;<br />Christ hath burst the gates of hell!<br />Death in vain forbids His rise;<br />Christ hath opened Paradise.<br /> <br />Lives again our glorious King;<br />Where, O death, is now thy sting?<br />Once He died our souls to save;<br />Where thy victory, O grave?<br /> <br />Soar we now where Christ hath led,<br />Following our exalted Head:<br />Made like Him, like Him we rise;<br />Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.<br /> <br />Hail, the Lord of earth and heaven!<br />Praise to Thee by both be given;<br />Thee we greet triumphant now:<br />Hail, the Resurrection Thou!Charles Wesley, 1739. a<br /><br /><br /><br />For the beauty of the earth...No. 296<br />For the beauty of the earth,<br />For the beauty of the skies,<br />For the love which from our birth<br />Over and around us lies,Lord of all, to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.<br />For the beauty of each hour<br />Of the day and of the night,<br />Hill and vale, and tree and flower,<br />Sun and moon, and stars of light,<br />Refrain<br /> <br />For the joy of ear and eye,<br />For the heart and mind's delight,<br />For the mystic harmony<br />Linking sense to sound and sight,<br />Refrain<br /> <br />For the joy of human love,<br />Brother, sister, parent, child,<br />Friends on earth, and friends above,<br />For all gentle thoughts and mild,<br />Refrain<br /> <br />For each perfect gift of thine<br />To our race so freely given,<br />Graces human and divine,<br />Flowers of earth and buds of heaven.<br />Refrain<br /> ENGLAND'S LANE<br />English<br />F.S. Pierpoint, 1864<br /><br /><br /><br />For All the Saints. Who From Their Labours Rest<br />For all the saints, who from their labours rest,<br />Who thee by faith before the world confessed,<br />Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;<br />Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;<br />Thou, in the darkness drear, the one true light Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,<br />Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,<br />And win, with them, the victor's crown of gold. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />O blest communion, fellowship divine!<br />We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;<br />Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />And when the strife is fiercem the warefare long,<br />Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,<br />And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />The golden evening brightens in the west;<br />Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest;<br />Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />But Lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;<br />The saints triumphant rise in bright array;<br />The King of glory passes on his way. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> <br />From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast,<br />Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,<br />Singing to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia, alleluia!<br /> SINE NOMINE, 1st tune<br />R.V. Williams, 1906<br />W.W. Howe, 1864<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is my Father's World...*No. 651<br />This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears<br />All nature sings and 'round me rings the music of the spheres.<br />This is my Father's world: I rest me in the thought<br />Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas, his hands the wonders wrought.<br /> <br />This is my Father's world, Oh let us not forget <br />That though the wrong is great and strong, God is our Father yet.<br />He trusts us with his world, to keep it clean and fair, <br />All earth and trees, all skies and seas, all creatures everywhere.<br /> MERCER STREET<br />Malcom Williamson (b.1931)<br />Maltbie D. Babcock and Mary Babcock Crawford<br /><br /><br /><br />All Things Bright and Beautiful...No. 311<br />Refrain:<br />All things bright and beautiful,<br />All creatures great and small,<br />All things wise and wonderful,<br />The Lord God made them all.<br />Each little flower that opens,<br />Each little bird that sings,<br />He made their glowing colors,<br />He made their tiny wings<br />REFRAIN<br /> <br />The purple-headed mountain,<br />The river running by,<br />The sunset, and the morning,<br />That brightens up the sky.<br />REFRAIN<br /> <br />The cold wind in the winter,<br />The pleasant summer sun,<br />The ripe fruits in the garden,<br />He made them every one.<br />REFRAIN<br /> <br />He gave us eyes to see them,<br />And lips that we might tell<br />How great is God Almighty,<br />Who has made all things well.<br />REFRAIN<br /> Royal Oak<br />English<br />C.F. Alexander, 1848<br /><br /><br /><br />Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended...No. 71<br />Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,<br />That man to judge thee hath in hate pretended?<br />By foes derided, by thine own rejected,<br />O most afflicted.<br /> <br />Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee?<br />Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee.<br />'Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee:<br />I crucified thee.<br /> <br />Lo, The Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;<br />The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;<br />For man's attonement, while he nothing heedeth,<br />God intercedeth.<br /> <br />For me, kind Jesus, was thy incarnation,<br />Thy mortal sorrow, and thy life's oblation;<br />Thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion,<br />For my salvation.<br /> <br />Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee,<br />I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee,<br />Think on thy pity and thy love unswerving,<br />Not my deserving.<br /> <br /> Herzliebster Jesu<br />Johann Heerman, 1630<br /><br /><br /><br />Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen...No. 204<br />Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen,<br />Who thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean;<br />Lo, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed,<br />Tranced as it beholds thee, shrined within the cloud.<br /> <br />Taste, and touch, and vision, to discern thee fail;<br />Faith, that comes by hearing, pierces through the veil.<br />I believe whate'er the Son of God hath told;<br />What the Truth hath spoken, that for truth I hold.<br /> <br />O memorial wondrous of the Lord's own death;<br />Living Bread, that giveth all thy creatures breath,<br />Grant my spirit ever by thy life may live,<br />To my taste thy sweetness never-failing give.<br /> <br />Jesus, whom now veiled, I by faith decry,<br />What my soul doth thirs for, do not, Lord, deny,<br />That thy face unveiled, I at last may see,<br />With the blissful vision blest, my God, of thee.<br /> ADORO TE DEVOTE<br />Plainsong<br />St. Thomas Aquinas, c. 1260<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />God of our fathers, whose almighty hand...No. 143<br />God of our fathers, whose almighty hand<br />Leads forth in beauty all the starry band<br />Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies,<br />Our grateful songs before thy throne arise.<br /> <br />Thy love divine hath led us in the past,<br />In this free land by thee our lot is cast;<br />Be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay,<br />Thy word our law, thy paths our chosen way.<br /> <br />From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence,<br />Be thy strong arm our ever sure defence;<br />Thy true religion in our hearts increase,<br />Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.<br /> <br />Refresh thy people on their toilsome way,<br />Lead us from night to never-ending day;<br />Fill all our lives with love and grace divine,<br />And glory, laud, and praise be ever thine.<br /> NATIONAL HYMN<br />G.W. Warren, 1892<br />D.C. Roberts, 1876<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />How Bright Appears the Morning Star...No. 329 <br /><br /><br /><br />How bright appears the morning star,<br />With mercy beaming from afar;<br />The host of heaven rejoices;<br />O Righteous Branch, O Jesse's Rod!<br />Thou Son of Man and Son of God!<br />We, too, will lift our voices:<br />Jesus, Jesus!<br />Holy, holy, yet most lowly,<br />Draw thou near us;<br />Great Emmanuel, come and hear us.<br /> <br />Though circled by the hosts on high.<br />He deigned to cast a pitying eye<br />Upon his helpless creature;<br />The whole creation's Head and Lord,<br />By highest seraphim adored,<br />Assumed our very nature;<br />Jesus, grant us,<br />Through thy merit, to inherit<br />Thy salvation;<br />Hear, O hear our supplication.<br /> <br />Rejoice, ye heavens; thou earth, reply;<br />With praise, ye sinners, fill the sky,<br />For this his Incarnation.<br />Incarnate God, put forth thy power,<br />Ride on, ride on, great Conqueror,<br />Till all know thy salvation.<br />Amen, Amen!<br />Alleluia! Alleluia!<br />Praise be given<br />Evermore, by earth and heaven.<br /> FRANKFORT<br />P. Nicolai, 1599<br />Phillip Nicolai 1597<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />He who would valiant be...No. 563<br />He who would valiant be<br />'Gainst all disaster,<br />Let him in constancy<br />Follow the Master.<br />There's no discouragement<br />Shall make him once relent<br />His first avowed intent<br />To be a pilgrim.<br /> <br />Who so beset him round<br />With dismal stories,<br />Do but themselves confound,<br />His strength the more is.<br />No foes shall stay his might,<br />Though he with giants fight;<br />He will make good his right<br />To be a pilgrim.<br /> <br />Since, Lord, thou dost defend<br />Us with thy Spirit,<br />We know we at the end<br />Shall life inherit.<br />Then fancies flee away!<br />I'll fear not what men say,<br />I'll labor night and day<br />To be a pilgrim.<br /> ST. DUNSTAN'S<br />W. Douglas, 1917<br />John Bunyan, 1684<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Watchman, Tell us of the Night...No. 440<br />Watchman, tell us of the night,<br />What its signs of promise are.<br />Traveler, o'er yon mountain's height,<br />See that glory beaming star.<br />Watchman, does its beauteous ray<br />Aught of joy or hope fortell?<br />Traveler, yes; it brings the day,<br />Promised day of Israel.<br /> <br />Watchman, tell us of the night;<br />Higher yet that star ascends.<br />Traveler, blessedness and light,<br />Peace and truth its course portends.<br />Watchman, will its beams alone<br />Gild the spot that gave them birth?<br />Traveler, ages are its own;<br />See, it bursts o'er all the earth.<br /> <br />Watchman, tell us of the night,<br />For the morning seems to dawn.<br />Traveler, darkness takes its flight,<br />Doubt and terror are withdrawn.<br />Watchman, let thy wanderings cease;<br />Hie thee to thy quiet home.<br />Traveler, lo! the Prince of Peace,<br />Lo! the Son of God is come!<br /> WATCHMAN<br />L. Mason, 1830<br />John Bowring, 1825<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hail, thou once despised Jesus...No. 357<br />Hail, thou once despised Jesus!<br />Hail, thou Galilean King!<br />Thou didst suffer to release us;<br />Thou didst free salvation bring.<br />Hail, thou universal Saviour,<br />Bearer of our sin and shame!<br />By thy merit we find favor:<br />Life is given through thy name.<br /> <br />Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,<br />All our sins on thee were laid:<br />By almighty love anointed,<br />Thou hast full attonement made.<br />All thy people are forgiven<br />Through the virtue of thy blood:<br />Opened is the gate of heaven,<br />Peace is made 'twixt man and God.<br /> <br />Jesus, hail! enthroned in glory,<br />There for ever to abide;<br />All the heavenly hosts adore thee,<br />Seated at thy Father's side.<br />There for sinners thou art pleading:<br />There thou dost our place prepare;<br />Ever for us interceding,<br />Til in glory we appear.<br /> <br />Worship, honor, power, and blessing<br />Thou art worthy to receive:<br />Highest praises, without ceasing,<br />Meet it is for us to give.<br />Help, ye bright angelic spirits,<br />Bring your sweetest, noblest lays;<br />Help to sing our Saviour's merits,<br />Help to chant Emmanuel's praise!<br /> IN BABILONE<br />Dutch<br />John Bakewell, 1757; Martin Madan, 1760<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A mighty fortress is our God...No. 551<br />A mighty fortress is our God,<br />A bulwark never failing;<br />Our helper he amid the flood<br />Of mortal ills prevailing:<br />For still our ancient foe<br />Doth seek to work us woe;<br />His craft and power are great,<br />And armed with cruel hate,<br />On earth is not his equal.<br /> <br />Did we in our own strength confide,<br />Our striving would be losing;<br />Were not the right man on our side,<br />The man of God's own choosing:<br />Dost ask who that may be?<br />Christ Jesus, it is he;<br />Lord Sabaoth his Name,<br />From age to age the same,<br />And he must win the battle.<br /> <br />And though this world, with devils filled,<br />Should threaten to undo us;<br />We will not fear, for God hath willed<br />His truth to triumph through us;<br />The prince of darkness grim,<br />We tremble not for him;<br />His rage we can endure,<br />For lo! his doom is sure,<br />One little word shall fell him.<br /> <br />That word above all earthly powers,<br />No thanks to them abideth;<br />The Spirit and the gifts are ours<br />Through him who with us sideth:<br />Let goods and kindred go,<br />This mortal life also;<br />The body they may kill:<br />God's truth abideth still,<br />His kingdom is forever.<br /> <br /> <br /> EIN' FESTE BURG<br />M. Luther, 1529<br />MARTIN LUTHER, 1529<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It is well with my soul...<br />Vs. 1... When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,<br /> When sorrows like sea billows roll;<br /> Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,<br /> It is well, it is well with my soul.<br /> <br /> <br />Vs. 2... Though Satan should buffet, tho' trials should come,<br /> Let this blest assurance control,<br /> That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,<br /> And hath shed His own blood for my soul.<br /> <br />Vs. 3... My sin--oh, the bliss of this glorious tho't--<br /> My sin--not in part, but the whole,<br /> Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more,<br /> Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!<br /> <br />Vs. 4... And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,<br /> The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,<br /> The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend,<br /> "Even so"--it is well with my soul.<br /> <br />Vs. 5... <br /> <br /> 5th Verse Discovered <br /> <br /> When the manuscript for the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul" was<br /> found recently, it was discovered that there was a fifth verse<br /> that is not in the hymnals. The additional verse was found on on<br /> the reverse side of the manuscript.<br /> <br /> This fifth verse also alludes to the tragic death of the<br /> Spafford's daughters, but that victory can be found in the peace<br /> of the Lord:<br /> <br /> "For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live,<br /> If Jordan above me shall roll,<br /> No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life,<br /> Thou will whisper Thy peace to my soul." <br /> <br /> <br /> DU HAVRE<br />HORATIO SPATFORD<br /><br /><br /><br />Once to Every Man and Nation... No. 519<br />(1) Once to every man and nation<br />Comes the moment to decide,<br />In the strife of truth with falsehood,<br />For the good or evil side;<br />Some great cause, God's new Messiah,<br />Offering each the bloom or blight,<br />And the choice goes by for ever<br />'Twixt that darkness and that light.<br /> <br />(2) Then to side with truth is noble,<br />When we share her wretched crust,<br />Ere her cause bring fame and profit<br />And 'tis prosperous to be just;<br />Then it is the brave man chooses,<br />While the coward stands aside<br />Till the multitude make virtue<br />Of the faith they had denied.<br /> <br />(3) By the light of burning martyrs<br />Jesus' bleeding feet I track,<br />Toiling up new Calvaries ever<br />With the cross that turns not back;<br />New occasions teach new duties,<br />Time makes ancient good uncouth;<br />They must upward still and onward<br />Who would keep abreast of truth.<br /> <br />(4) Though the cause of evil prosper,<br />Yet 'tis the truth alone is strong;<br />Though her portion be the scaffold,<br />And upon the throne be wrong,<br />Yet that scaffold sways the future,<br />And, behind the dim unknown,<br />Standeth God within the shadow<br />Keeping watch above his own.<br /> <br />EBENEZER<br />T.J. Williams, 1890<br />J.R. LOWELL, 1845<br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Hyfrydol...No.479 <br />(1) Love divine, all loves excelling,<br />Joy of heaven, to earth come down,<br />Fix in us thy humble dwelling,<br />All thy faithful mercies crown.<br />Jesus, thou art all compassion,<br />Pure, unbounded love thou art;<br />Visit us with thy salvation,<br />Enter every trembling heart.<br /> <br />(2) Come, almighty to deliver,<br />Let us all thy life receive;<br />Suddenly return, and never,<br />Nevermore thy temples leave.<br />Thee we would be alway blessing,<br />Serve thee as thy hosts above,<br />Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,<br />Glory in thy perfect love.<br /> <br />(3) Finish then thy new creation;<br />Pure and spotless let us be:<br />Let us see thy great salvation<br />Perfectly restored in thee:<br />Changed from glory into glory,<br />Till in heaven we take our place,<br />Till we cast our crowns before thee,<br />Lost in wonder, love, and praise.<br /> <br />HYFRYDOL<br />R.H. PRICHARD, c. 1830<br />CHARLES WESLEY, 1747<br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />'Nun Danket' (Now thank we all our God)...No. 276<br />(1) Now thank we all our God,<br />With heart, and hands, and voices,<br />Who wondrous things hath done,<br />In whom his world rejoices;<br />Who from our mother's arms<br />Hath blessed us on our way<br />With countless gifts of love,<br />And still is ours to-day.<br /> <br />(2) O may this bounteous God<br />Through all our life be near us!<br />With ever-joyful hearts<br />And blessed peace to cheer us;<br />And keep us in his grace,<br />And guide us when perplext,<br />And free us from all ills<br />In this world and the next.<br /> <br />(3) All praise and thanks to God<br />The Father now be given,<br />The Son, and him who reigns<br />With them in highest heaven,<br />Eternal, Triune God,<br />Whom heaven and earth adore;<br />For thus it was, is now,<br />And shall be, evermore.<br /> <br />NUN DANKET<br />J. CRUEGER, 1647<br />MARTIN RINKART, C. 1630<br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken...No. 385<br />(1) Glorious things of thee are spoken,<br />Sion, city of our God;<br />He whose word cannot be broken,<br />Formed thee for his own abode;<br />On the Rock of Ages founded,<br />What can shake thy sure repose?<br />With salvation's walls surrounded,<br />Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.<br /> <br />(2) See, the streams of living waters,<br />Springing from eternal love,<br />Well supply thy sons and daughters,<br />And all fear of want remove.<br />Who can faint, when such a river<br />Ever will their thirst assuage?<br />Grace which, like the Lord, the giver,<br />Never fails from age to age.<br /> <br />(3) Round each habitation hovering,<br />See the cloud and fire appear<br />For a glory and a covering,<br />Showing that the Lord is near.<br />Thus deriving from their banner,<br />Light by night, and shade by day,<br />Safe they feed upon the manna<br />Which he gives them when they pray.<br /> <br />(4) Blest inhabitants of Sion,<br />Washed in the Redeemer's blood!<br />Jesus, whom their sould rely on,<br />Makes them kings and priests to God.<br />'Tis his love his people raises<br />Over self to reign as kings:<br />And as priests, his solemn praises<br />Each for a thank-offering brings.<br /> <br /> <br />AUSTRIA<br />F.J. HAYDN, 1797<br />JOHN NEWTON, 1779<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Jerusalem...No. 597*<br />(1)<br />O day of peace that dimly shines through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,<br />Guide us to justice, truth, and love, delivered from our selfish schemes.<br />May swords of hate fall from our hands, our hearts from envy find release,<br />Til by God's grace our warring world shall see Christ's promised reign of peace.<br />(2)<br />Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, nor shall the fierce devour the small;<br />As beasts and cattle calmly graze, a little child shall lead them all.<br />Then enemies shall learn to love, all creatures find their true accord;<br />The hope of peace shall be fulfilled, for all the earth shall know the Lord.<br />JERUSALEM<br />MUSIC: CHARLES HUBERT HASTINGS PARRY (1848-1918)<br />CARL P. DAW, JR (1944)<br /><br /> <br /><br />Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming...No. 81*<br />Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming,<br />From tender stem hath sprung!<br />Of Jesse's lineage coming<br />As men of old have sung.<br />It came, a flow'ret bright,<br />Amid the cold of winter,<br />When half spent was the night.<br /> <br />Isaiah 'twas foretold it,<br />The Rose I have in mind,<br />With Mary we behold it,<br />The Virgin Mother kind.<br />To show God's love aright<br />She bore to men a Saviour,<br />When half spent was the night.<br /> <br />This flower, whose fragrance tender<br />With sweetness fills the air,<br />Dispels with glorious splendor<br />The darkness everywhere.<br />True man, yet very God,<br />From sin and death He saves us<br />And lightens every load.<br /> <br />ES IST EIN ROS<br />German, 15th Century<br /><br /><br /><br />#141: My Country, 'tis of Thee...verse 4<br /> Our fathers' God, to thee,<br /> Author of liberty,<br /> To thee we sing;<br /> Long may our land be bright<br /> With freedom's holy light;<br /> Protect us by thy might,<br /> Great God, our King. <br /> <br /><br /><br />#142: The National Anthem<br />The Star-Spangled Banner<br /> Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,<br />What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?<br />Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight'<br />O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.<br />And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br />Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.<br />Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br />On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mists of the deep,<br />Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,<br />What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,<br />As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br />Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,<br />In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;<br />'Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave<br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br />And where is that band who so vauntingly swore<br />That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion<br />A home and a country should leave us no more?<br />Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.<br />No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br />From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,<br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave<br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br />Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,<br />Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;<br />Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land<br />Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.<br />Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,<br />And this be our motto: "In God is our trust";<br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br />Tune: Anacreon in Heaven <br />Written by Francis Scott Key on September 14th,1814.<br /><br /><br /><br />Beyond the Cross<br />Written by Jeff Lippencott, Mike Harland<br /><br /> <br />His life was filled with purpose to do his Father’s will. <br />The essence of his mission drove Jesus up that hill. <br />And at his crucifixion, no human eye could see, <br />That love’s finest hour was just beyond the tree. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br /><br />And now each day of living begins with sacrifice, <br />For now it is my bidding to offer up my life. <br />And each new day, the crucifixion humbles me again, <br />As I die to my ambitions and remember once again. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br /><br />Through the pain of life, I find a hidden strength, <br />To rise and see what waits for me. <br /><br />Beyond the cross, <br />Beyond the tomb filled with despair, <br />Lies the hope I have inside for all that Christ did there. <br />Though death must come, his light will shine again. <br />Beyond the cross, beyond the cross. <br />Beyond the cross. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Victory in Jesus<br />Words and Music by E.M. Bartlett<br />1 Corinthians 15:57<br />"But thanks be to God, which giveth us <br />the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." <br /><br /><br />I heard an old, old story,<br />How a Savior came from glory,<br />How He gave His life on Calvary<br />To save a wretch like me;<br />I heard about His groaning,<br />Of His precious blood's atoning,<br />Then I repented of my sins<br />And won the victory. <br /><br />Chorus<br />O victory in Jesus,<br />My Savior, forever.<br />He sought me and bought me<br />With His redeeming blood;<br />He loved me ere I knew Him<br />And all my love is due Him,<br />He plunged me to victory,<br />Beneath the cleansing flood. <br />I heard about His healing,<br />Of His cleansing pow'r revealing.<br />How He made the lame to walk again<br />And caused the blind to see;<br />And then I cried, "Dear Jesus,<br />Come and heal my broken spirit,"<br />And somehow Jesus came and bro't<br />To me the victory. <br /><br /><br />Chorus<br />O victory in Jesus,<br />My Savior, forever.<br />He sought me and bought me<br />With His redeeming blood;<br />He loved me ere I knew Him<br />And all my love is due Him,<br />He plunged me to victory,<br />Beneath the cleansing flood. <br />I heard about a mansion<br />He has built for me in glory.<br />And I heard about the streets of gold<br />Beyond the crystal sea;<br />About the angels singing,<br />And the old redemption story,<br />And some sweet day I'll sing up there<br />The song of victory. <br /><br /><br />Chorus<br />O victory in Jesus,<br />My Savior, forever.<br />He sought me and bought me<br />With His redeeming blood;<br />He loved me ere I knew Him<br />And all my love is due Him,<br />He plunged me to victory,<br />Beneath the cleansing flood. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Angel-voices ever singing <br />Words: Francis Pott, 1866 <br />Music: Angel Voices (Monk) <br />Meter: 85 85 843 <br /><br />Angel voices, ever singing, <br />round thy throne of light,<br />angel harps, for ever ringing, <br />rest not day or night;<br />Thousands only live to bless Thee, <br />and confess Thee <br />Lord of might.<br /><br />Thou who art beyond the farthest <br />mortal eye can scan,<br />can it be that thou regardest <br />songs of sinful man?<br />Can we know that thou art near us <br />and wilt hear us?<br />Yea, we can.<br /><br />Yea, we know that thou rejoicest <br />o'er each work of thine;<br />thou didst ears and hands and voices <br />for thy praise design;<br />craftsman's art and music's measure <br />for thy pleasure <br />all combine.<br /><br />In thy house, great God, we offer<br />of thine own to thee;<br />and for thine acceptance proffer, <br />all unworthily,<br />hearts and minds and hands and voices, <br />in our choicest <br />psalmody.<br /><br />Honor, glory, might and merit, <br />thine shall ever be,<br />Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, <br />blessed Trinity!<br />Of the best that thou hast given <br />earth and heaven <br />render thee. <br /><br /><br /><br />Immortal, invisible, God only wise <br />Words: Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908), 1867 <br />MIDI: St. Denio (Welsh, 1839) <br />Meter: 11 11 11 11<br /><br />Immortal, invisible, God only wise,<br />in light inaccessible hid from our eyes,<br />most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,<br />almighty, victorious, thy great Name we praise.<br /><br />Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,<br />nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;<br />thy justice like mountains high soaring above<br />thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.<br /><br />To all life thou givest, to both great and small;<br />in all life thou livest, the true life of all;<br />we blossom and flourish, like leaves on the tree,<br />then wither and perish; but nought changeth thee.<br /><br />Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,<br />thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight;<br />all laud we would render: O help us to see<br />'tis only the splendor of light hideth thee. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I will sing the wondrous story <br />Words: Francis H. Rowley (1854-1952), 1886 <br />MIDI: Hyfrydol (Rowland Hugh Prichard, 1811-1887) <br />Meter: 87 87 D <br /><br />I will sing the wondrous story<br />of the Christ who died for me;<br />how he left his home in glory<br />for the cross of Calvary:<br />Refrain:<br />Yes, I'll sing the wondrous story<br />of the Christ who died for me,<br />sing it with his saints in glory,<br />gathered by the crystal sea.<br /><br />I was lost, but Jesus found me,<br />found the sheep that went astray,<br />threw his loving arms around me,<br />back into the narrow way. Refrain<br /><br />Faint was I, and fears possessed me,<br />bruised was I from many a fall;<br />hope was gone, and shame distressed me,<br />but his love has pardoned all: Refrain<br /><br />Days of darkness still come o'er me,<br />sorrow's path I often tread,<br />but his presence still is with me;<br />by his guiding hand I'm led. Refrain<br /><br />He will keep me till the river<br />rolls its waters at my feet;<br />then He'll bear me safely over,<br />where the loved ones I shall meet. Refrain <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />He Lives<br /><br />I serve a risen Saviour,<br />He's in the world today;<br />I know that He is living,<br />Whatever men may say;<br />I see His hand of mercy,<br />I hear His voice of cheer,<br />And just the time I need Him<br />He's always near.<br /><br />####Chorus:<br /><br />He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives <br />today!<br />He walks with me and He talks with me<br />Along life's narrow way.<br />He lives, He live, salvation to impart!<br />You ask me how I know He lives:<br />He lives within my heart.<br /><br />In all the world around me<br />I see His loving care,<br />And tho my heart grows weary<br />I never will despair;<br />I know that He is leading<br />Thro' all the stormy blast,<br />The day of His appearing<br />Will come at last.<br /><br />####<br /><br />Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian,<br />Lift up your voice and sing<br />Eternal hallelujahs<br />To Jesus Christ the King!<br />The hope of all who seek Him,<br />The help of all who find,<br />None other is so loving,<br />So good and kind.<br /><br />####<br /><br />Rev. Alfred Ackey (1887-1960) was preaching during an evangelistic crusade. After the service he <br /><br />was trying to persuade a young man to give his heart to Christ, when the man said, "Why should <br /><br />I worship a dead Jew?" Ackey stated, "HE LIVES! I tell you, He is not dead, but lives here and <br /><br />now! Jesus Christ is more alive today than ever before. I can prove it by my own experience, as <br /><br />well as the testimony of countless thousands." Later that evening the young man gave his heart to <br /><br />Christ. It was during this experience that Ackey wrote not only the words but also the tune for our <br /><br />hymn, "He Lives."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For the beauty of the earth<br />(there are six stanzas in all) <br /><br />For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies,<br />For the love which from our birth over and around us lies:<br />Christ our God, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. <br /><br />For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night,<br />Hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon, and stars of light:<br />Christ our God, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. <br /><br />For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,<br />Friends on earth, and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild:<br />Christ our God, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. <br /><br />For the church that evermore lifteth holy hands above,<br />Offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love:<br />Christ our God, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.<br /><br />Folliot Sanford Pierpoint (1835-1917) was 29 years old when he returned to the city of his birth, <br /><br />Bath, England. The beauty of the countryside in the late spring inspired him to write the words to <br /><br />the hymn, “For the Beauty of the Earth.” Pierpoint included thanks for God’s creation, social <br /><br />blessings, and also thanked God for his spiritual blessings. This hymn was originally written for <br /><br />the communion service. Each stanza concluded with the words, Christ our God, to thee we raise <br /><br />this our sacrifice of praise, alluding to Hebrews 13:15. <br /><br /><br /><br />Angels from the realms of glory<br />w. m. by James Montgomery<br /><br />Angels from the realms of glory,<br />Wing your flight o'er all the earth;<br />Ye who sang creation's story,<br />Now proclaim Messiah's birth:<br /><br />Shepherds, in the field abiding,<br />Watching o'er your flocks by night,<br />God with man is now residing,<br />Yonder shines the infant light:<br /><br />Sages, leave your contemplations,<br />Brighter visions beam afar;<br />Seek the great Desire of nations,<br />Ye have seen His natal star:<br /><br />Saints before the altar bending,<br />Watching long in hope and fear,<br />Suddenly the Lord, descending,<br />In His temple shall appear:<br /><br />Sinners, wrung with true repentance,<br />Doomed for guilt to endless pains,<br />Justice now revokes the sentence,<br />Mercy calls you, break your chains:<br /><br />Refrain:<br />Come and worship, Come and worship,<br />Worship Christ, the new-born King.<br /><br />James Montgomery's parents died as Moravian missionaries in the West Indies when he was only <br /><br />six years old. James grew up a ward of a Brethren school in England. He grew up an active <br /><br />supporter of foreign missions, Bible societies, and the abolition of slavery. But it wasn't until he <br /><br />was 43 years old that he felt a full assurance of his salvation. Around the age of 45 Montgomery <br /><br />wrote the poem, "Angels from the Realms of Glory." In stanza one he calls the angels to not just <br /><br />remain in Bethlehem but to go to the whole world with the news of Jesus' birth. And this is true <br /><br />for all believers, during this Christmas season we should tell others the story of Messiah's birth.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wonderful Grace of Jesus<br />Words and Music by Haldor Lillenas<br />1918 <br />Ephesians 1:6<br />"To the praise of the glory of his grace,<br />wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wonderful Grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin;<br />How shall my tongue describe it,<br />Where shall its praise begin?<br />Taking away my burden, setting my spirit free;<br />O the Wonderful Grace of Jesus reaches me! <br /><br />Refrain<br />(men) Wonderful the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br /> (women) the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br />(men) Deeper than the mighty rolling sea;<br /> (women) the rolling sea;<br />(women) Wonderful Grace, all sufficient for me, for even me<br />(men) Higher than the mountain, sparkling like a fountain,<br /> All sufficient Grace for even me.<br />(all) Broader than the scope of my transgressions,<br /> (men) sing it!<br />(all) Greater far than all my sin and shame<br /> (men) my sin and shame,<br />(all) O magnify the precious name of Jesus,<br />PRAISE HIS NAME!<br /> <br /><br />Wonderful Grace of Jesus, reaching to all the lost;<br />By it I have been pardoned, saved to the uttermost.<br />Chains have been torn asunder, giving me liberty;<br />O the Wonderful Grace of Jesus, reaches me! <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />(men) Wonderful the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br /> (women) the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br />(men) Deeper than the mighty rolling sea;<br /> (women) the rolling sea;<br />(women) Wonderful Grace, all sufficient for me, for even me<br />(men) Higher than the mountain, sparkling like a fountain,<br /> All sufficient Grace for even me.<br />(all) Broader than the scope of my transgressions,<br /> (men) sing it!<br />(all) Greater far than all my sin and shame<br /> (men) my sin and shame,<br />(all) O magnify the precious name of Jesus,<br />PRAISE HIS NAME!<br /> <br /><br />Wonderful Grace of Jesus, reaching the most defiled;<br />By its transforming power, <br />Making me God's dear child,<br />Purchasing peace and Heaven, for all eternity;<br />And the Wonderful Grace of Jesus, reaches me! <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />(men) Wonderful the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br /> (women) the matchless Grace of Jesus,<br />(men) Deeper than the mighty rolling sea;<br /> (women) the rolling sea;<br />(women) Wonderful Grace, all sufficient for me, for even me<br />(men) Higher than the mountain, sparkling like a fountain,<br /> All sufficient Grace for even me.<br />(all) Broader than the scope of my transgressions,<br /> (men) sing it!<br />(all) Greater far than all my sin and shame<br /> (men) my sin and shame,<br />(all) O magnify the precious name of Jesus,<br />PRAISE HIS NAME!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This Is My Father's World<br />Words by Maltbie D. Babcock <br />Music: Trad. English melody; adapted by Franklin L. Sheppard <br />Tune: TERRA BEATA, Meter: SMD <br /><br />1. This is my Father's world, <br /> and to my listening ears <br /> all nature sings, and round me rings <br /> the music of the spheres. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> I rest me in the thought <br /> of rocks and trees, of skies and seas; <br /> his hand the wonders wrought.<br /><br />2. This is my Father's world, <br /> the birds their carols raise, <br /> the morning light, the lily white, <br /> declare their maker's praise. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> he shines in all that's fair; <br /> in the rustling grass I hear him pass; <br /> he speaks to me everywhere.<br /><br />3. This is my Father's world. <br /> O let me ne'er forget <br /> that though the wrong seems oft so strong, <br /> God is the ruler yet. <br /> This is my Father's world: <br /> why should my heart be sad? <br /> The Lord is King; let the heavens ring! <br /> God reigns; let the earth be glad!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NEARER MY GOD TO THEE <br />Words by Sarah F. Adams, 1841<br />Music by Lowell Mason, 1856, named "Bethany" <br /><br /><br />Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!<br />E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,<br />Still all my song shall be,<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee.<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee,<br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,<br />Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.<br />Yet in my dreams I'd be<br />Nearer, my God to Thee.<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee,<br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />There let the way appear, steps unto heav'n;<br />All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;<br />Angels to beckon me<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee.<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee,<br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,<br />Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;<br />So by my woes to be<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee.<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee,<br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,<br />Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I'll fly,<br />Still all my song shall be,<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee.<br />Nearer, my God, to Thee,<br />Nearer to Thee!<br /><br /><br />Words by Sarah F. Adams, 1841<br />Music by Lowell Mason, 1856, named "Bethany" <br /><br />Mason wrote:<br />One night, sometime after lying awake in the dark, eyes wide open, through the stillness in the <br /><br />house the melody came to me, and the next morning I wrote down the notes.<br /><br /><br />"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is sung at the end of the 1936 movie San Francisco, which was <br /><br />nominated for several Academy Awards. It is also played by the ship's band in Titanic, winner of <br /><br />the Academy Award for best picture of 1997. There are also many inspiring true life stories <br /><br />associated with this hymn. Some Titanic survivors said it was played by the ship's orchestra as <br /><br />the ocean liner went down (though other survivors said it was a different song).<br /><br /><br />Another story concerns the death of American president William McKinley, who was assassinated <br /><br />in 1901. Dr. Mann, the attending physician, reported that among McKinley's last words were <br /><br />"Nearer, my God, to Thee, e'en though it be a cross, has been my constant prayer."<br />On the afternoon of September 3, 1901, after five minutes of silence across the nation, bands in <br /><br />Union and Madison Squares in New York City played the hymn in memory of the fallen president. <br /><br />It was also played at a memorial service for him in Westminster Abbey, London.<br /><br /><br />The hymn was also played as the body of assassinated American President James Garfield was <br /><br />interred at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />He Lives<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />I serve a risen Saviour,<br />He's in the world today;<br />I know that He is living,<br />Whatever men may say;<br />I see His hand of mercy,<br />I hear His voice of cheer,<br />And just the time I need Him<br />He's always near.<br /><br />####Chorus:<br /><br />He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives <br />today!<br />He walks with me and He talks with me<br />Along life's narrow way.<br />He lives, He live, salvation to impart!<br />You ask me how I know He lives:<br />He lives within my heart.<br /><br />In all the world around me<br />I see His loving care,<br />And tho my heart grows weary<br />I never will despair;<br />I know that He is leading<br />Thro' all the stormy blast,<br />The day of His appearing<br />Will come at last.<br /><br />####<br /><br />Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian,<br />Lift up your voice and sing<br />Eternal hallelujahs<br />To Jesus Christ the King!<br />The hope of all who seek Him,<br />The help of all who find,<br />None other is so loving,<br />So good and kind.<br /><br />####<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I SURRENDER ALL<br /><br />All to Jesus I surrender<br />All to Him I freely give;<br />I will ever love and trust Him,<br />In his presence daily live.<br /><br /><br />I surrender all, I surrender all;<br />All to thee, my blessed Savior,<br />I surrender all.<br /><br /><br />All to Jesus I surrender,<br />Humbly at His feet I bow,<br />Worldly pleasures all forsaken,<br />Take me Jesus, take me now.<br /><br /><br />I surrender all, I surrender all;<br />All to thee, my blessed Savior,<br />I surrender all.<br /><br />- Words by Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896<br />- Music by Winfield S. Weeden, 1896<br /><br />Van DeVenter wrote this song in East Palestine, Ohio, in the home of George Sebring (later the <br /><br />developer of the town of Sebring, Florida). At the time, Judson was undecided about whether to <br /><br />continue his career in art or going into full-time evangelistic work. After writing this song, he <br /><br />decided to become an evangelist and was notably successful in that field.<br /><br />While Weeden published a number of books of religious music, this may have been his favorite, <br /><br />it's title was on his tombstone. <br /> <br /><br /><br />not a hymn<br /><br />If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time<br />R. Kelly<br /><br />No mountain's too high for you to climb<br />All you have to do is have some climbing faith (oh yeah)<br />No river's too wide for you to make it across<br />All you have to do is believe it when you pray<br /><br />And then you will see the morning will come<br />And every day will be bright as the sun<br />All of your fears cast them on me<br />I just want you to see<br /><br />I'll be your cloud up in the sky<br />I'll be your shoulder when you cry<br />I'll hear your voices when you're calling<br />I am your angel<br />And when all hope is gone I'm here<br />No matter how far you are I'm near<br />It makes no difference who you are<br />I am your angel<br />I'm your angel<br /><br />I saw your teardrops and I heard you cry<br />All you need is time<br />Seek me and you shall find<br />You have everything and you're still lonely<br />It don't have to be this way<br />Let me show you a better day<br /><br />And then you will see the morning will come<br />And all of your days will be bright as the sun<br />So all of your fears just cast them on me<br />how can I make you see?<br /><br />And when it's time to face the storm<br />I'll be there by your side<br />This place will keep us safe and warm<br />And I know we will survive<br />And when it seems as if forever's drawing near<br />(the end is drawing near)<br />Don't you dare give up the fight<br />Just put your trust beyond the sky<br /><br />Chorus (3x)<br /><br />===========================================================<br /><br />Lord How I Need You Lyrics by Nesby Ann <br />He will come and lift your spirit<br />He will pick you up<br />When men put you down<br />Trust in his name, he's always the same<br />Lord how I need you<br />When your friends come and go<br />Because they depended on you for their own selfish needs<br />The Lord he own't leave you nor will he forsake you<br />He'll be right by your side<br />Lord how I need you<br />He will come oh yes he will<br />He will come and lift your spirit<br />He will pick you up<br />When men put you down<br />Trust in his name, he's always the same<br />Lord how I need you<br />When your friends come and go<br />Because they depended on you for their own selfish needs<br />The Lord he own't leave you nor will he forsake you<br />He'll be right by your side<br />Lord how I need you<br />He will come oh yes he will<br />Lord! Lord we need you<br />Lord! Lord we need you<br />We need your love<br />We need your peace<br />We need your joy<br />We need your spirit<br />Lord how I need you<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS<br /><br />“I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream.” Isaiah <br /><br />66:12<br /><br />Words by Frances R. Havergal 1876<br />Music “Wye Valley” by James Mountain 1876<br />first appeared in Hymns of Consecration and Faith<br /><br /><br />Like a river glorious, is God’s perfect peace,<br />Over all victorious, in its bright increase;<br />Perfect, yet it floweth, fuller every day,<br />Perfect, yet it groweth, deeper all the way.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest<br />Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.<br /><br />Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,<br />Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;<br />Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,<br />Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br />Every joy or trial falleth from above,<br />Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love;<br />We may trust Him fully all for us to do.<br />They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.<br /><br />Refrain<br /><br /><br /><br />I Bowed on My Knees<br />and Cried, "Holy"<br />Words and music by Jimmie Davis <br />Psalm 103:1<br />"Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I dreamed of a city called Glory,<br />So bright and so fair.<br />When I entered that gate I cried, "Holy"<br />The angels all met me there:<br />They carried me from mansion to mansion,<br />And oh what sites I saw.<br />But I said, "I want to see Jesus,<br />He's the One who died for all." <br /><br />Chorus<br />Then I bowed on my knees and cried,<br />"Holy, Holy, Holy."<br />Then I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory,<br />Glory to the Son of God."<br />Then I bowed on my knees and cried,<br />"Holy, Holy, Holy."<br />Then I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory,<br />Glory to the Son of God."<br />I thought as I entered that city,<br />My friends all knew me well.<br />They showed me the streets of Heaven;<br />Such scenes too numerous to tell;<br />I saw Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,<br />Mark, Luke and Timothy.<br />But I said, "I want to see Jesus,<br />He's the One who died for me." <br /><br /><br />Chorus<br />Then I bowed on my knees and cried,<br />"Holy, Holy, Holy."<br />Then I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory,<br />Glory to the Son of God."<br />Then I bowed on my knees and cried,<br />"Holy, Holy, Holy."<br />Then I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory,<br />Glory to the Son of God." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Day by Day<br />Words by Lina Sandell Berg<br />translated by Andrew L. Skogg<br />Music by Oscar Ahnfelt <br /><br />Day by day and with each passing moment,<br />Strength I find to meet my trials here;<br />Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment,<br />I've no cause for worry or for fear.<br />He whose heart is kind beyond all measure<br />Gives unto each day what He deems best<br />Lovingly, it's part of pain and pleasure,<br />Mingling toil with peace and with rest. <br />Ev'ry day the Lord Himself is near me<br />With a special mercy for each hour;<br />All my cares He fain would bear, and cheer me,<br />He whose name is Counselor and Pow'r.<br />The protection of His child and treasure<br />Is a charge that on Himself He laid;<br />"As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure,"<br />This the pledge to me He hath made. <br /><br />Help me then in ev'ry tribulation<br />So to trust thy promises, O Lord,<br />That I lose not faith's sweet consolation<br />Offered me within Thy Holy Word.<br />Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,<br />E'er to take, as from a father's hand,<br />One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,<br />'Til I reach the blessed, promised land.<br /><br /><br /><br />WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS<br /><br />“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13<br /><br />Words: Joseph M. Scriven, 1855. Scriven wrote this hymn to comfort his mother, who was across <br /><br />the sea from him in Ireland. It was originally published anonymously, and Scriven did not receive <br /><br />full credit for almost 30 years.<br />Music: “Erie,” Charles C. Converse, 1868 <br />Alternate tunes:<br /><br />“Beecher,” John Zundel, 1870 <br />“Blaenwern,” William P. Rowlands, 1905<br />“Friend,” George C. Stebbins, 1878 <br /><br /><br />What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!<br />What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!<br />O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,<br />All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.<br /><br />Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?<br />We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.<br />Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?<br />Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.<br /><br />Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?<br />Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.<br />Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!<br />In His arms He’ll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.<br /><br />Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised Thou wilt all our burdens bear<br />May we ever, Lord, be bringing all to Thee in earnest prayer.<br />Soon in glory bright unclouded there will be no need for prayer<br />Rapture, praise and endless worship will be our sweet portion there.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Suppertime<br />Words and Music by Ira Stanphill <br />Revelation 19:9<br />"And he saith unto me, Write,<br />Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb ... " <br /><br /><br />When I was just a boy in days of childhood,<br />I used to play till evening shadows come.<br />Then winding down an old familiar pathway,<br />I heard my mother call at set of sun: <br /><br />Chorus<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />The shadows lengthen fast.<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />We're going home at last. <br />One day beside her bedside I was kneeling,<br />And angel wings were winnowing the air.<br />She heard the call for supper time in heaven,<br />And I know she's waiting for me there. <br /><br /><br />Chorus<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />The shadows lengthen fast.<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />We're going home at last. <br />In visions now I see her standing yonder,<br />And her familiar voice I hear once more.<br />The banquet table's ready up in heaven,<br />It's supper time upon the golden shore. <br /><br /><br />Chorus<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />The shadows lengthen fast.<br />Come home, come home,<br />It's supper time,<br />We're going home at last. <br /><br /><br />In The Garden<br />Words and music by Charles Austin Miles - 1913 <br /><br />Genesis 3:8<br />"And they heard the voice of the Lord God<br />walking in the garden, in the cool of the day:" <br /><br /><br />I come to the garden alone<br />While the dew is still on the roses.<br />And the voice I hear, falling on my ear;<br />The Son of God discloses. <br /><br />Refrain<br />And He walks with me,<br />And He talks with me,<br />And He tells me I am His own,<br />And the joy we share as we tarry there;<br />None other has ever known.<br />He speaks and the sound of His voice<br />Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,<br />And the melody that He gave to me<br />Within my heart is ringing. <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />And He walks with me,<br />And He talks with me,<br />And He tells me I am His own,<br />And the joy we share as we tarry there;<br />None other has ever known.<br />I'd stay in the garden with Him<br />'Tho the night around me be falling,<br />But He bids me go; through the voice of woe,<br />His voice to me is calling. <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />And He walks with me,<br />And He talks with me,<br />And He tells me I am His own,<br />And the joy we share as we tarry there;<br />None other has ever known.<br /><br /><br /><br />Never Alone<br />Author Unknown<br />Arranged by Fred Jacky <br />Hebrews 13:5<br />"... for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I’ve seen the lightning flashing, I’ve heard the thunder roll.<br />I’ve felt sin’s breakers dashing, which almost conquered my soul.<br />I’ve heard the voice of my Savior, bidding me still to fight on.<br />He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone! <br /><br />Refrain<br />No, never alone, no never alone,<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />He’ll claim me for His own;<br />No, never alone, no never alone.<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />Never to leave me alone.<br />The world’s fierce winds are blowing, temptation sharp and keen.<br />I have a peace in knowing my Savior stands between<br />He stands to shield me from danger when my friends are all gone.<br />He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone!<br /><br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />No, never alone, no never alone,<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />He’ll claim me for His own;<br />No, never alone, no never alone.<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />Never to leave me alone.<br />When in affliction’s valley I tread the road of care,<br />My Savior helps me carry the cross so heavy to bear;<br />Though all around me is darkness, earthly joys all flown;<br />My Savior whispers His promise, never to leave me alone! <br /><br /><br />Refrain<br />No, never alone, no never alone,<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />He’ll claim me for His own;<br />No, never alone, no never alone.<br />He promised never to leave me,<br />Never to leave me alone.<br />He died on Calvary’s mountain.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-4444784975426926184?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-51569264609643047552008-06-16T12:27:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:36:13.989-07:00I heard the bells on Christmas Day <br />Their old familiar carols play, <br />And wild and sweet, <br />Their words repeat <br />Of Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men. <br />The Bells of Christmas, adapted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br /><br /><br />It is not a slight thing when they, <br />who are so fresh from God, love us. <br />Charles Dickens, regarding children<br /><br /><br /><br />'God bless us every one.' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. <br />from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<br /><br /><br /><br />Pax Intrantibus, Salve Extrantibus. <br />(Peace to those who enter, Salvation to those who leave)<br /><br /><br /><br />Teach us delight in simple things, <br />And fun that has no bitter springs, <br />Forgiveness free of evil done, <br />And love to all beneath the sun. <br />from Christmas in India , by Rudyard Kipling <br /><br /><br /><br />Serendipity -The pleasant surprise of happening upon a fortunate discovery when you weren't in <br /><br />search of it. <br />Coined by Henry Walpole in The Princess of Serendip (Ceylon), (1754)<br /><br /><br /><br />Here today, up and off somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! <br />Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame <br /><br /><br /><br />The face of a newborn child is as close as we come to seeing the face of God in this life! <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Humanity is a painting on an earthy canvas splashed with Divine paint. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. <br />from The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen <br /><br /><br />In Hans Christian Andersen's The Last Dream of the Oak Tree, <br />the oak tree and the mayfly discuss death: <br /><br />'Over, what is over?' asks the little fly. <br />'Will all the beauty in the world die when you die?' she asks the oak tree. <br />'It will last longer, infinitely longer than I am able to imagine,' <br />replies the great oak tree.<br /><br /><br /><br />'But he hasn't got any clothes on,' a little boy said. <br />The Emperor's New Clothes<br />Hans Christian Andersen <br /><br /><br /><br />They could see she was a real princess because she had felt one pea through 20 feather <br /><br />mattresses. Nobody but a princess could be so delicate. <br />The Princess and the Pea in Fairy Tales (1835)<br />Hans Christian Andersen<br /><br /><br /><br />Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day. <br />1934 song title<br />Al Hoffman (1902-1960) and Maurice Sigler (1901-1961)<br /><br /><br />Turn but a stone, and start a wing! <br /><br />It's you, it's your estranged faces, <br />That miss the many-splendored thing. <br />adapted from The Kingdom of God from Poems (1913) <br />Francis Thompson (1859-1907)<br /><br /><br /><br />Look for me in the nurseries of heaven. <br />from Poems (1913)<br />Francis Thompson (1859-1907)<br /><br /><br /><br />Long ago a Child came down <br />To a little sleepy town, <br />And upon that Christmas morn, <br />Christ the heavenly King was born. <br />Freeman<br /><br /><br /><br />All we see and all we seem, <br />Is but a dream within a dream. <br />from the poem Dream Within a Dream<br />Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br /><br /><br />The English word 'miracle' comes from the Latin words which translate 'a wonderful thing.' <br /><br />While we associate miracles with occasional, supernatural events beyond our ability to <br /><br />comprehend, perhaps we would be better to see a miracle as the daily gifts of God, waking to a <br /><br />new morning, a warm breeze, a newborn baby's face, a rosy sunrise or peach-colored sunset, the <br /><br />glisten of dew or frost on a grassy field and a sparrow singing while it's raining - - all of the daily <br /><br />wonderful things God gives to each of us and that require no great insight to comprehend. <br />from Miracle of Miracles - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. <br />Martin Luther (1483-1536)<br /><br /><br /><br />My delight, and your delight, <br />Walking like two angels white, <br />In the gardens of the night. <br />from My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)<br /><br /><br /><br />Inspiration is the passionate spur of a vague desire... <br />- Bill King, a paraphrase of Michail Vrubel<br /><br /><br /><br />With the rush and flutter of angels wings <br />My prayers float silently up to God. <br />from A Rush of Wings - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. <br />Which of the two has the grander view? <br />from Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo<br /><br /><br /><br />Even Santa Claus believes in YOU, Can you picture that? <br />from 'Can You Picture That?' sung in The Muppet Movie (1979), by Jim Henson's Muppets<br /><br /><br /><br />There is no word yet for old friends who have just met. <br />from The Muppet Movie (1979)<br /><br /><br />Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as <br /><br />simply messing about in boats. <br /><br />Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)<br /><br /><br /><br />A Dream is woven from thin air and nothing, <br />Embroidered with wishes and everything, <br />Then filled with the padding of hope and delight. <br />from Aspiration and Dreams - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />I will believe what <br />I believe until death, <br />Then living once more <br />I will know what <br />I believe to be sure. <br />from Certainty - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. <br />from Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesteron<br /><br /><br /><br />I believe in the ultimate goodness of things. <br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, Bear! said Christopher Robin, <br />How I do love you! <br />So do I, said Pooh. <br />from Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)<br />Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne (1882-1956)<br /><br /><br /><br />The lovable old Pooh Bear was named for Winnie, <br />an American Black Bear who lived at the London Zoo<br />frequented by Milne and his son, Christopher Robin Milne.<br /><br /><br /><br />But now I am six, <br />I'm as clever as clever, <br />So I think I'll be six now, <br />For ever and ever. <br />Now We Are Six (1928)<br />Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne (1882-1956) <br />(The speaker is supposed to be six-year old Christopher Robin Milne.)<br />(ed. note: Sadly, Christopher Robin Milne grew up and resented his father's<br />typecasting of Christopher Robin for the rest of his life.)<br /><br /><br />My spelling is Wobbly. <br />It's good spelling but it Wobbles, <br />and the letters get in the wrong places. <br />from Winnie-the-Pooh<br />A. A. Milne<br /><br /><br /><br />Tiggers don't like hunney. <br />from The House at Pooh Corner (1928)<br />A. A. Milne<br /><br /><br /><br />Isn't it funny <br />How a bear likes honey? <br />Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! <br />I wonder why he does? <br />from Winnie-the-Pooh<br />A. A. Milne<br /><br /><br /><br />Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, <br />Droops on the little hands, little golden head; <br />Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! <br />Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. <br />Vespers <br />A. A. Milne<br /><br /><br /><br />From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggity beasties <br />And things that go bump in the night <br />Good Lord, deliver us! <br />a traditional Cornish Children's Prayer<br /><br /><br /><br />Little children, headache; big children, heartache. <br />Italian Proverb <br /><br /><br />We are the music makers, <br />We are the dreamers of dreams, <br />Wandering by lone sea-breakers, <br />And sitting by desolate streams; - <br />World-losers and world-forsakers, <br />On whom the pale moon gleams: <br />We are the movers and shakers <br />Of the world for ever, it seems. <br />Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881)<br /><br /><br /><br />I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, <br />Just like the ones I used to know, <br />Where the tree tops glisten <br />And children listen <br />To hear sleigh bells in the snow. <br />White Christmas (1942) <br />Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer, lyricist <br />originally performed by Bing Crosby<br /><br /><br /><br />A pretty girl is like a melody <br />That haunts you day and night. <br />from A Pretty Girl is like a Melody (1919) <br />Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer, lyricist<br /><br /><br /><br />Raindrops on roses, <br />Whiskers on kittens, <br />Bright copper kettles and <br />warm woolen mittens, <br />Brown paper packages <br />tied up in strings, <br />These are a few of my favorite things. <br />from My Favorite Things<br />from The Sound of Music (1965)<br />Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II<br />sung by Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp<br /><br /><br /><br />Climb every mountain, <br />Ford every stream, <br />Follow every rainbow, <br />Til you find your dream. <br />from Climb Every Mountain, <br />from The Sound of Music<br />Rodgers and Hammerstein<br />sung by Julie Andrews<br /><br /><br /><br />Life is just a bowl of cherries. <br />song title (1932)<br />Lew Brown (1893-1958) and Ray Henderson<br /><br /><br /><br />Every time it rains, it rains - <br />Pennies from heaven. <br />Don't you know each cloud contains <br />Pennies from heaven? <br />You'll find your fortune falling <br />All over town <br />Be sure that your umbrella <br />Is upside down. <br />Pennies from Heaven (1936)<br />Johnny Burke (1908-1964)<br />and Arthur Johnston, <br /><br /><br />'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, <br />'without pictures or conversations?' <br />from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)<br />Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)<br /><br /><br /><br />Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. <br />from Little Women (1868)<br />Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)<br /><br /><br /><br />My heart is like a singing bird. <br />from A Birthday (1861)<br />Christina Giorgina Rossetti (1830-1894)<br /><br /><br /><br />Sleep that no pain shall wake, <br />Night that no morn shall break. <br />Christina Rossetti<br /><br /><br /><br />Spring is when life's alive in everything. <br />Christina Rossetti<br /><br /><br /><br />All things that pass <br />Are wisdom's looking-glass. <br />Christina Rossetti<br /><br /><br /><br />I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, <br />Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air. <br />from Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (1854)<br />Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)<br /><br /><br /><br />Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, <br />Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee. <br />from Beautiful Dreamer (1864)<br />Stephen Foster<br /><br /><br /><br />I'd like to teach the world to sing <br />In perfect harmony. <br /><br />- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing<br />the Hillside Singers <br />(basis for a Coca-Cola TV commercial)<br /><br /><br /><br />Man is never closer to God than when he is in a garden. <br />Anonymous<br /><br /><br /><br />We wove a web in childhood, <br />A web of sunny air. <br />from Retrospection (1846)<br />Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)<br /><br /><br /><br />Clear and cool, clear and cool, <br />By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool. <br />from Water-Babies (1863)<br />Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)<br /><br /><br /><br />It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me. <br />It's the parts I do understand. <br />Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) <br />American Humorist and Author<br /><br /><br /><br />All this and heaven too. <br />attributed to Matthew Henry (1662-1714)<br /><br /><br /><br />Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. <br />from The Gift of the Magi<br />O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) (1862-1910)<br /><br /><br /><br />Through all of the changing scenes of life, hope abides. <br />- Bill King, a paraphrase of Nahum Tate<br /><br /><br /><br />Let my wealth be stored in vaults no earthly banker can unlock. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />You may still choose to believe something you cannot prove. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Compassion and mercy warm the human soul like sunshine and summer breezes warm the human <br /><br />body. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. <br />from An Essay on Criticism (1711)<br />Alexander Pope (1688-1744)<br /><br /><br /><br />What would God say if He were still on speaking terms with man? <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Both read the Bible day and night, <br />But you read black where I read white. <br />from The Everlasting Gospel<br />William Blake (1757-1827)<br /><br /><br /><br />Whisper of dreams and hopes to me, <br />For these are the permanent things. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Choose your beliefs as carefully as your earthly treasures<br />and you can never be poor. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />LORD, keep me from the things I want and grant me what you think I need. <br />My Life's Prayer - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Daily I compose <br />a symphony in my mind <br />that changes with each playing, <br />But God has written <br />the melody, harmony and <br />lyrics on my heart, <br />Here they are still, <br />constantly at rest and <br />cannot be changed. <br /><br />Symphony of Infinity<br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A snowstorm is the chalkdust from heavenly handwriting. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; <br />Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; <br />And so make Life and Death, and that For Ever, <br />One grand sweet song. <br />from A Farewell to C. E. G.<br />Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)<br /><br /><br /><br />Now I lay me down to sleep, <br />I pray the Lord my soul to keep; <br />If I should die before I wake, <br />I pray the Lord my soul to take. <br />A Child's Bedtime Prayer <br />taken from The New England Primer (1784)<br />earliest known version is by Enchiridion Leonis (1160)<br /><br /><br /><br />Sing a song of innocence, <br />With a joy-filled melody, <br />a happy heart-felt harmony, <br />and lyrics that vibrate with love. <br />Melody, Harmony, Love <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A memory is a wish <br />cast adrift on a sea of dreams, <br />It's the silky wings of hope <br />travelling aloft on the breeze of possibilities. <br />A memory is the world as <br />you want it to be, <br />A vision of some cherished moment <br />no one else can see. <br />What Is A Memory? <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />Fantasy tells us every wish will come true, <br />Magic says we can make it come true, <br />Reality proves every wish does not necessarily come true, <br />Life is not a fairy tale and magic is only from Hollywood, <br />The real thing requires patience and determination, <br />Grit and persistence, desire and vigor, <br />All applied in very liberal doses. <br />- Bill King, 1994<br /><br /><br /><br />Ideas are wings that take flight only when they fly into the winds of inspiration. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Stars are the gleam, glitter and glimmer in God's eyes. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />All Creation is a canvas of green and gold <br />Covered over with a canopy of blue and white. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A sunbeam bouncing off a drop of dew, <br />The gleam in a child's eye, <br />The twinkle of a particularly bright star, <br />The tear stained cheek of a mother praying for her children, <br />And the ripple formed by a droplet of rain in a puddle, <br />All of these combine to form the Glitter in the Eyes of God. <br />The Glitter in God's Eyes <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />While the memory of the mind is only a flickering candle <br />The human heart burns on forever; <br />For some as a hard black lump of anthracite coal, <br />And for others as a blazing white crystalline diamond. <br />Diamonds or Coal? <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />A man of words and not of deeds <br />Is like a garden full of weeds. <br />from an old Nursery Rhyme <br /><br /><br />Hickory, Dickory, Dock, <br />Three mice ran up the clock, <br />The clock struck one and <br />That mouse hired a good personal injury attorney <br />And sued for assault-and-battery. <br />A Surprised Mother Goose <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />The heart filled with hope can never die, for hope lives on forever. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A book that furnishes no quotations is not a book, it's a plaything. <br />Crochet Castle (1831) Chapter 9<br />Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)<br /><br /><br /><br />Unbridled joy is hope with even the slightest doubt removed. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Tell me not, in mournful numbers, <br />Life is but an empty dream! <br />For the soul is dead that slumbers, <br />And things are not what they seem. <br /><br />Life is real, life is earnest, <br />And the grave is not its goal, <br />Dust you are, to dust returnest, <br />Was not said about the soul. <br /><br />Lives of great men all remind us <br />We can make our lives sublime, <br />And, departing, leave behind us <br />Footprints on the sand of time. <br /><br />from A Psalm of Life (1839) <br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), <br />adapted by Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I believe firmly in tomorrow. <br />Yesterday wasn't so great and <br />things aren't looking too good for today either...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />What you see reflected in a child's eyes are all of the hopes and dreams you started out with so <br /><br />many years ago...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I may not have much but then again I don't have to worry about insurance or fixing things that <br /><br />break...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Heartbreak is another name for The Golden Years...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />If I did not know Hope and Faith I would not know their sister Joy...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Pottery breaks, faith doesn't. Place your trust in heavenly things and not the things of earth...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I have trouble remembering my dreams but I recognize them when they come true...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Soon my journey will be finished but the great adventure will have just begun...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />The story of Jesus is called The Greatest Story Ever Told. Notice that it isn't called The Greatest <br /><br />Fairytale Ever Told or The Greatest Myth Ever Told. It is a story just like all of history is a <br /><br />collection of stories, all written by men who weren't eyewitnesses to the events. The four men <br /><br />named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were eyewitnesses to this story - the Story of Jesus, a true <br /><br />story...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Beauty is only skin deep and most times it isn't even found in skin... Man looks on the outside, <br /><br />God looks on the heart...<br />- Bill King and The Holy Bible<br /><br />Tell me the old, old story. Write on my heart every word.<br /><br />Thy WORD have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee...<br /><br />If I seem deeply religious I have failed. If I seem deeply faithful I have succeeded...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I am not concerned about my children. They are on loan from God. They are in far greater hands <br /><br />than I could ever provide.<br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />For of all sad words of tongue or pen, <br />The saddest are these: 'It might have been.' <br />from Maud Muller (1856) by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)<br /><br /><br /><br />I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing <br />(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)<br /><br />I'd like to build the world a home<br />And furnish it with love<br />Grow apple trees and honey bees<br />And snow-white turtle doves<br /><br />Chorus:<br />I'd like to teach the world to sing<br />In perfect harmony<br />I'd like to hold it in my arms<br />And keep it company<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />I'd like to see the world for once<br />(Let the world sing today)<br />All standing hand in hand<br />And hear them echo through the hills<br />For peace throughout the land<br />That's the song I hear<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />Let the world sing today<br />(Let the whole wide world keep singing)<br />A song of peace that echoes on<br />And never goes away<br /> <br />(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)<br /><br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Let's begin today<br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Help me find a way<br /><br />(Repeat Chorus til fade)<br /><br /> <br /><br />The Greatest Love Of All <br />(L. Creed/M. Masser)<br />[Ed. note: Personally I don't believe<br />'loving yourself' is the Greatest Love of All<br />as this song implies. The greatest love of all<br />is to sacrifice your happiness or needs for<br />someone else, then and only then can you<br />find true peace and happiness. This is the<br />love espoused by Jesus Christ, truly the<br />Greatest Love of All. But this song has<br />some nice sentiments to it.]<br /><br />I believe the children are our future<br />Teach them well and let them lead the way<br />Show them all the beauty they possess inside<br />Give them a sense of pride<br />To make it easier<br />Let the children's laughter<br />Remind us how we used to be<br /><br />Everybody's searching for a hero<br />People need someone to look up to<br />I never found anyone who fulfilled my need<br />A lonely place to be<br />So I learned to depend on me<br /> <br /> Chorus:<br />I decided long ago<br />Never to walk in anyone's shadow<br />If I fail, if I succeed<br />At least I lived as I believe<br />No matter what they take from me<br />They can't take away my dignity<br />Because the greatest love of all<br />Is happening to me<br />I found the greatest love of all inside of me<br />The greatest love of all<br />Is easy to achieve<br />Learning to love others<br />Is the greatest love of all<br /><br />(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)<br /><br />And if by chance that special place<br />That you've been dreaming of<br />Leads you to a lonely place<br />Find your strength in love<br /><br /> <br /> <br />The Love of Jesus<br />Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)<br /> <br />Jesus loves me - this I know, <br />For the Bible tells me so, <br />Little ones to Him belong, <br />They are weak but He is strong. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />The Bible tells me so. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Hallelujah Chorus<br />George Frederich Handel<br /> <br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />The kingdom of this world is become<br />the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and of His Christ;<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! <br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br /><br />King of Kings<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />and He shall reign for ever and ever,<br />for ever and ever,<br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever,<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; <br />peacocks and lilies for instance. <br />The Stones of Venice<br />John Ruskin (1819-1900) <br /><br /><br />You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it <br />than you do to consume wealth without producing it. <br />from Candida (1898) Act I<br />George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)<br /><br /><br /><br />There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. <br />The other is to get it. <br />Man and Superman (1903) Act IV<br />George Bernard Shaw<br /><br /><br /><br />'Who will exchange old lamps for new?' <br />The Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights Entertainment<br />The History of Aladdin <br /><br /><br />Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. <br />Three Monkeys carved over door of <br />the Sacred Stable in Nikko, Japan <br />a Japanese legend<br /><br /><br /><br />All the brothers were valiant, <br />and all the sisters virtuous. <br />Inscription on <br />the Duchess of Newcastle's tomb <br />in Westminster Abbey (1673)<br /><br /><br /><br />Speak in silver, reply in gold. <br />Ancient Swahili saying <br /><br /><br />The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, <br />But I have promises to keep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep. <br />from Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost<br /><br /><br /><br />King Winter's in the wood, <br />I saw him go, <br />Crowned with a coronet, <br />Of crystal snow. <br />Eileen Mathias<br /><br /><br /><br />Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: <br />there's always one determined to face in an <br />opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. <br />Marcelene Cox <br /><br /><br />Children are our immortality; <br />in them we see the story of our life <br />rewritten in a fairer hand. <br />Alfred North Whitehead<br /><br /><br /><br />The circus is a place where horses, <br />ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. <br />Ambrose Bierce<br /><br /><br /><br />Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, <br /><br />stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, <br /><br />people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. <br /><br />The story of civilization is what happened on the banks. <br />Will Durant, author (with wife Ariel Durant) <br />of The History of Civilization<br /><br /><br /><br />Failure is God's own tool for carving some of <br />the finest outlines in the character of his children. <br />Thomas Hodgkin<br /><br /><br /><br />Memory is what God gave us <br />so that we might have roses in December. <br />James M. Barrie, English playwright, <br />Author of Peter and Wendy, <br />which later became Peter Pan<br /><br /><br /><br />The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. <br />from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900) <br />Colonel Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), <br />changed to 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' <br />in the movie version by the same name (1939)<br /><br /><br />Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. <br />Dorothy to her dog Toto in the movie <br />The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) starring Judy Garland<br /><br /><br /><br />Somewhere, over the rainbow Bluebirds fly, <br />Birds fly over the rainbow <br />Why then, oh why can't I? <br />lyrics from 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sung in <br />The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) by Judy Garland<br /><br /><br /><br />"Curioser and Curioser!" cried Alice. <br />from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)<br /><br /><br /><br />When the baby laughed for the first time, <br />the laugh broke into a thousand pieces <br />and they all went skipping about, <br />and that was the beginning of fairies. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' <br />there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Do you believe in fairies, if you do then clap your hands. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Imagination creates reality. <br />(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner<br /><br /><br /><br />Love the true because it is also the beautiful. <br />Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />There is nothing like a dream to create the future. <br />Victor Hugo <br /><br />All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother <br />Abraham Lincoln <br /><br />The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />Innocence plays in the backyard, ignorance plays in the front.<br />Bill King<br /><br />Being sorry is good, being innocent is perfect.<br />Bill King <br /><br />Ignorance is sin and innocence is not. <br />Bill King after Robert Browning <br /><br />Innocence is an incredible perfume.<br />Bill King<br /><br />Innocence charms us, ignorance offends us. <br />Bill King after M. McLaughlin <br /><br />Innocence in thinking is like noblesse oblige is to politics.<br />Bill King<br /><br />The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory <br />Mahatma Gandhi <br /><br />That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to <br /><br />believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end <br />Lise Hand <br /><br />It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the <br /><br />essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon. <br />Patricia Linden <br /><br />Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. <br />James Arthur Baldwin<br /><br />Words without thoughts never to heaven go. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />The love of heaven makes one heavenly. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />A happy family is but an earlier heaven. <br />George Bernard Shaw <br /><br />Heaven means to be one with God. <br />Confucius <br /><br />Heaven lives at the feet of mothers <br />Muhammad <br /><br />A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive <br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge <br /><br />Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, <br />Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.<br />Jane Ann Taylor <br /><br />No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life <br />Anonymous <br /><br />In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. <br />Alice Walker <br /><br />A Mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever <br />Unknown <br /><br />Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. <br />George Eliot <br /><br />A mother understands what a child does not say. <br />Anonymous <br /><br />The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. <br />Henry Ward Beecher <br /><br />I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother. <br />Abraham Lincoln <br /><br />Men are what their mothers made them <br />Ralph Waldo Emerson <br /><br />God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />My mother is a walking miracle... <br />Leonardo DiCaprio <br /><br />All mothers are working mothers <br />Unknown <br /><br />Oh, Mother, you go home too early! <br />Edward Albee <br /><br />A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking,<br />it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking <br />Helen Steiner Rice <br /><br />I really learned it all from mothers. <br />Benjamin Spock <br /><br />Step on a crack; break your mother's back <br />American Proverb <br /><br />An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />Even children of the same mother look different <br />Anonymous <br /> <br />There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one <br />Jill Churchill <br /><br />Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. <br />Kahlil Gibran <br /><br />I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.<br />[Ed. note: Now, isn't that sad on both accounts.]<br />Clarence S. Darrow <br /><br />There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. <br />Anonymous <br /><br />I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. <br />Douglas Feaver <br /><br />God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. <br />Henry Ward Beecher <br /><br />It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. <br />Joseph Wood Krutch <br /><br />All the people like us are We, <br />and everyone else is They. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />Teach us delight in simple things, and joy that has no bitter springs <br />Rudyard Kipling [adapted by JWK, joy sub for mirth]<br /><br />Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />He wrapped himself in quotations - <br />as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />All we have of freedom - all we use or know - <br />This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />I keep six honest serving men: <br />They taught me all I knew: <br />Their names are What and Why <br />and When and How <br />and Where and Who <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br /><br />HELLO YOUNG LOVERS<br />Music by Richard Rodgers <br />Words by Oscar Hammerstein<br /><br />Hello, young lovers, whoever you are,<br />I hope that your troubles are few;<br />All my good wishes go with you tonight -<br />I've been in love like you.<br /><br />Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star;<br />Be brave and faithful and true.<br />Cling very close to each other tonight -<br />I've been in love like you.<br /><br />(Bridge:)<br />I know how it feels to have wings on your heels<br />And to fly down the street in a trance;<br />You fly down the street on a chance that you'll meet,<br />And you meet not really by chance.<br /><br />Don't cry, young lovers, whatever you do,<br />Don't cry because I'm alone;<br />All of my mem'ries are happy tonight -<br />I've had a love of my own.<br /><br />(Coda:)<br />I've had a love of my own, like yours,<br />I've had a love of my own.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-5156926460964304755?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-83503766028174119772008-06-16T12:23:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:24:54.263-07:00Through all of the changing scenes of life, hope abides. <br />- Bill King, a paraphrase of Nahum Tate<br /><br /><br /><br />Let my wealth be stored in vaults no earthly banker can unlock. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />You may still choose to believe something you cannot prove. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Compassion and mercy warm the human soul like sunshine and summer breezes warm the human <br /><br />body. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. <br />from An Essay on Criticism (1711)<br />Alexander Pope (1688-1744)<br /><br /><br /><br />What would God say if He were still on speaking terms with man? <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Both read the Bible day and night, <br />But you read black where I read white. <br />from The Everlasting Gospel<br />William Blake (1757-1827)<br /><br /><br /><br />Whisper of dreams and hopes to me, <br />For these are the permanent things. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Choose your beliefs as carefully as your earthly treasures<br />and you can never be poor. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />LORD, keep me from the things I want and grant me what you think I need. <br />My Life's Prayer - Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Daily I compose <br />a symphony in my mind <br />that changes with each playing, <br />But God has written <br />the melody, harmony and <br />lyrics on my heart, <br />Here they are still, <br />constantly at rest and <br />cannot be changed. <br /><br />Symphony of Infinity<br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A snowstorm is the chalkdust from heavenly handwriting. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; <br />Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; <br />And so make Life and Death, and that For Ever, <br />One grand sweet song. <br />from A Farewell to C. E. G.<br />Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)<br /><br /><br /><br />Now I lay me down to sleep, <br />I pray the Lord my soul to keep; <br />If I should die before I wake, <br />I pray the Lord my soul to take. <br />A Child's Bedtime Prayer <br />taken from The New England Primer (1784)<br />earliest known version is by Enchiridion Leonis (1160)<br /><br /><br /><br />Sing a song of innocence, <br />With a joy-filled melody, <br />a happy heart-felt harmony, <br />and lyrics that vibrate with love. <br />Melody, Harmony, Love <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A memory is a wish <br />cast adrift on a sea of dreams, <br />It's the silky wings of hope <br />travelling aloft on the breeze of possibilities. <br />A memory is the world as <br />you want it to be, <br />A vision of some cherished moment <br />no one else can see. <br />What Is A Memory? <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />Fantasy tells us every wish will come true, <br />Magic says we can make it come true, <br />Reality proves every wish does not necessarily come true, <br />Life is not a fairy tale and magic is only from Hollywood, <br />The real thing requires patience and determination, <br />Grit and persistence, desire and vigor, <br />All applied in very liberal doses. <br />- Bill King, 1994<br /><br /><br /><br />Ideas are wings that take flight only when they fly into the winds of inspiration. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Stars are the gleam, glitter and glimmer in God's eyes. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />All Creation is a canvas of green and gold <br />Covered over with a canopy of blue and white. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A sunbeam bouncing off a drop of dew, <br />The gleam in a child's eye, <br />The twinkle of a particularly bright star, <br />The tear stained cheek of a mother praying for her children, <br />And the ripple formed by a droplet of rain in a puddle, <br />All of these combine to form the Glitter in the Eyes of God. <br />The Glitter in God's Eyes <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />While the memory of the mind is only a flickering candle <br />The human heart burns on forever; <br />For some as a hard black lump of anthracite coal, <br />And for others as a blazing white crystalline diamond. <br />Diamonds or Coal? <br />- Bill King, 1993<br /><br /><br /><br />A man of words and not of deeds <br />Is like a garden full of weeds. <br />from an old Nursery Rhyme <br /><br /><br />Hickory, Dickory, Dock, <br />Three mice ran up the clock, <br />The clock struck one and <br />That mouse hired a good personal injury attorney <br />And sued for assault-and-battery. <br />A Surprised Mother Goose <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />The heart filled with hope can never die, for hope lives on forever. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />A book that furnishes no quotations is not a book, it's a plaything. <br />Crochet Castle (1831) Chapter 9<br />Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)<br /><br /><br /><br />Unbridled joy is hope with even the slightest doubt removed. <br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />Tell me not, in mournful numbers, <br />Life is but an empty dream! <br />For the soul is dead that slumbers, <br />And things are not what they seem. <br /><br />Life is real, life is earnest, <br />And the grave is not its goal, <br />Dust you are, to dust returnest, <br />Was not said about the soul. <br /><br />Lives of great men all remind us <br />We can make our lives sublime, <br />And, departing, leave behind us <br />Footprints on the sand of time. <br /><br />from A Psalm of Life (1839) <br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), <br />adapted by Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I believe firmly in tomorrow. <br />Yesterday wasn't so great and <br />things aren't looking too good for today either...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />What you see reflected in a child's eyes are all of the hopes and dreams you started out with so <br /><br />many years ago...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I may not have much but then again I don't have to worry about insurance or fixing things that <br /><br />break...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Heartbreak is another name for The Golden Years...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />If I did not know Hope and Faith I would not know their sister Joy...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Pottery breaks, faith doesn't. Place your trust in heavenly things and not the things of earth...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I have trouble remembering my dreams but I recognize them when they come true...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Soon my journey will be finished but the great adventure will have just begun...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />The story of Jesus is called The Greatest Story Ever Told. Notice that it isn't called The Greatest Fairytale Ever Told or The Greatest Myth Ever Told. It is a story just like all of history is a collection of stories, all written by men who weren't eyewitnesses to the events. The four men named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were eyewitnesses to this story - the Story of Jesus, a true story...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />Beauty is only skin deep and most times it isn't even found in skin... Man looks on the outside, <br /><br />God looks on the heart...<br />- Bill King and The Holy Bible<br /><br />Tell me the old, old story. Write on my heart every word.<br />Thy WORD have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee...<br />If I seem deeply religious I have failed. If I seem deeply faithful I have succeeded...<br />- Bill King<br /><br />I am not concerned about my children. They are on loan from God. They are in far greater hands than I could ever provide.<br />- Bill King<br /><br /><br /><br />For of all sad words of tongue or pen, <br />The saddest are these: 'It might have been.' <br />from Maud Muller (1856) by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-8350376602817411977?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-9604071091502698522008-06-16T12:21:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:23:05.709-07:00I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing <br />(R. Cook/R. Greenway/B. Backer/B. Davis)<br /><br />I'd like to build the world a home<br />And furnish it with love<br />Grow apple trees and honey bees<br />And snow-white turtle doves<br /><br />Chorus:<br />I'd like to teach the world to sing<br />In perfect harmony<br />I'd like to hold it in my arms<br />And keep it company<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />I'd like to see the world for once<br />(Let the world sing today)<br />All standing hand in hand<br />And hear them echo through the hills<br />For peace throughout the land<br />That's the song I hear<br />(That's the song I hear)<br />Let the world sing today<br />(Let the whole wide world keep singing)<br />A song of peace that echoes on<br />And never goes away<br /> <br />(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)<br /><br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Let's begin today<br />Put your hand in my hand<br />Help me find a way<br /><br />(Repeat Chorus til fade)<br /><br /> <br /><br />The Greatest Love Of All <br />(L. Creed/M. Masser)<br />[Ed. note: Personally I don't believe<br />'loving yourself' is the Greatest Love of All<br />as this song implies. The greatest love of all<br />is to sacrifice your happiness or needs for<br />someone else, then and only then can you<br />find true peace and happiness. This is the<br />love espoused by Jesus Christ, truly the<br />Greatest Love of All. But this song has<br />some nice sentiments to it.]<br /><br />I believe the children are our future<br />Teach them well and let them lead the way<br />Show them all the beauty they possess inside<br />Give them a sense of pride<br />To make it easier<br />Let the children's laughter<br />Remind us how we used to be<br /><br />Everybody's searching for a hero<br />People need someone to look up to<br />I never found anyone who fulfilled my need<br />A lonely place to be<br />So I learned to depend on me<br /> <br /> Chorus:<br />I decided long ago<br />Never to walk in anyone's shadow<br />If I fail, if I succeed<br />At least I lived as I believe<br />No matter what they take from me<br />They can't take away my dignity<br />Because the greatest love of all<br />Is happening to me<br />I found the greatest love of all inside of me<br />The greatest love of all<br />Is easy to achieve<br />Learning to love others<br />Is the greatest love of all<br /><br />(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)<br /><br />And if by chance that special place<br />That you've been dreaming of<br />Leads you to a lonely place<br />Find your strength in love<br /><br /> <br /> <br />The Love of Jesus<br />Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)<br /> <br />Jesus loves me - this I know, <br />For the Bible tells me so, <br />Little ones to Him belong, <br />They are weak but He is strong. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />Yes, Jesus loves me. <br />The Bible tells me so. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Hallelujah Chorus<br />George Frederich Handel<br /> <br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />The kingdom of this world is become<br />the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and of His Christ;<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! <br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever<br /><br />King of Kings<br />for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!<br /><br />and He shall reign for ever and ever,<br />for ever and ever,<br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords,<br />and He shall reign for ever and ever,<br /><br />King of Kings,<br />and Lord of Lords.<br />Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; <br />peacocks and lilies for instance. <br />The Stones of Venice<br />John Ruskin (1819-1900) <br /><br /><br />You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it <br />than you do to consume wealth without producing it. <br />from Candida (1898) Act I<br />George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)<br /><br /><br /><br />There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. <br />The other is to get it. <br />Man and Superman (1903) Act IV<br />George Bernard Shaw<br /><br /><br /><br />'Who will exchange old lamps for new?' <br />The Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights Entertainment<br />The History of Aladdin <br /><br /><br />Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. <br />Three Monkeys carved over door of <br />the Sacred Stable in Nikko, Japan <br />a Japanese legend<br /><br /><br /><br />All the brothers were valiant, <br />and all the sisters virtuous. <br />Inscription on <br />the Duchess of Newcastle's tomb <br />in Westminster Abbey (1673)<br /><br /><br /><br />Speak in silver, reply in gold. <br />Ancient Swahili saying <br /><br /><br />The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, <br />But I have promises to keep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep. <br />from Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost<br /><br /><br /><br />King Winter's in the wood, <br />I saw him go, <br />Crowned with a coronet, <br />Of crystal snow. <br />Eileen Mathias<br /><br /><br /><br />Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: <br />there's always one determined to face in an <br />opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. <br />Marcelene Cox <br /><br /><br />Children are our immortality; <br />in them we see the story of our life <br />rewritten in a fairer hand. <br />Alfred North Whitehead<br /><br /><br /><br />The circus is a place where horses, <br />ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. <br />Ambrose Bierce<br /><br /><br /><br />Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, <br /><br />stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, <br /><br />people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. <br /><br />The story of civilization is what happened on the banks. <br />Will Durant, author (with wife Ariel Durant) <br />of The History of Civilization<br /><br /><br /><br />Failure is God's own tool for carving some of <br />the finest outlines in the character of his children. <br />Thomas Hodgkin<br /><br /><br /><br />Memory is what God gave us <br />so that we might have roses in December. <br />James M. Barrie, English playwright, <br />Author of Peter and Wendy, <br />which later became Peter Pan<br /><br /><br /><br />The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. <br />from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900) <br />Colonel Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), <br />changed to 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' <br />in the movie version by the same name (1939)<br /><br /><br />Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. <br />Dorothy to her dog Toto in the movie <br />The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) starring Judy Garland<br /><br /><br /><br />Somewhere, over the rainbow Bluebirds fly, <br />Birds fly over the rainbow <br />Why then, oh why can't I? <br />lyrics from 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sung in <br />The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1939) by Judy Garland<br /><br /><br /><br />"Curioser and Curioser!" cried Alice. <br />from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)<br /><br /><br /><br />When the baby laughed for the first time, <br />the laugh broke into a thousand pieces <br />and they all went skipping about, <br />and that was the beginning of fairies. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' <br />there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Do you believe in fairies, if you do then clap your hands. <br />from Peter Pan (1904) by James M. Barrie (1860-1937)<br /><br /><br /><br />Imagination creates reality. <br />(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner<br /><br /><br /><br />Love the true because it is also the beautiful. <br />Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />There is nothing like a dream to create the future. <br />Victor Hugo <br /><br />All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother <br />Abraham Lincoln <br /><br />The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />Innocence plays in the backyard, ignorance plays in the front.<br />Bill King<br /><br />Being sorry is good, being innocent is perfect.<br />Bill King <br /><br />Ignorance is sin and innocence is not. <br />Bill King after Robert Browning <br /><br />Innocence is an incredible perfume.<br />Bill King<br /><br />Innocence charms us, ignorance offends us. <br />Bill King after M. McLaughlin <br /><br />Innocence in thinking is like noblesse oblige is to politics.<br />Bill King<br /><br />The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory <br />Mahatma Gandhi <br /><br />That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to <br /><br />believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end <br />Lise Hand <br /><br />It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the <br /><br />essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon. <br />Patricia Linden <br /><br />Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. <br />James Arthur Baldwin<br /><br />Words without thoughts never to heaven go. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />The love of heaven makes one heavenly. <br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />A happy family is but an earlier heaven. <br />George Bernard Shaw <br /><br />Heaven means to be one with God. <br />Confucius <br /><br />Heaven lives at the feet of mothers <br />Muhammad <br /><br />A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive <br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge <br /><br />Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, <br />Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.<br />Jane Ann Taylor <br /><br />No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life <br />Anonymous <br /><br />In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. <br />Alice Walker <br /><br />A Mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever <br />Unknown <br /><br />Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. <br />George Eliot <br /><br />A mother understands what a child does not say. <br />Anonymous <br /><br />The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. <br />Henry Ward Beecher <br /><br />I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother. <br />Abraham Lincoln <br /><br />Men are what their mothers made them <br />Ralph Waldo Emerson <br /><br />God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />My mother is a walking miracle... <br />Leonardo DiCaprio <br /><br />All mothers are working mothers <br />Unknown <br /><br />Oh, Mother, you go home too early! <br />Edward Albee <br /><br />A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking,<br />it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking <br />Helen Steiner Rice <br /><br />I really learned it all from mothers. <br />Benjamin Spock <br /><br />Step on a crack; break your mother's back <br />American Proverb <br /><br />An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />Even children of the same mother look different <br />Anonymous <br /> <br />There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one <br />Jill Churchill <br /><br />Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. <br />Kahlil Gibran <br /><br />I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.<br />[Ed. note: Now, isn't that sad on both accounts.]<br />Clarence S. Darrow <br /><br />There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. <br />Anonymous <br /><br />I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. <br />Douglas Feaver <br /><br />God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. <br />Henry Ward Beecher <br /><br />It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. <br />Joseph Wood Krutch <br /><br />All the people like us are We, <br />and everyone else is They. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />Teach us delight in simple things, and joy that has no bitter springs <br />Rudyard Kipling [adapted by JWK, joy sub for mirth]<br /><br />Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />He wrapped himself in quotations - <br />as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />All we have of freedom - all we use or know - <br />This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br />I keep six honest serving men: <br />They taught me all I knew: <br />Their names are What and Why <br />and When and How <br />and Where and Who <br />Rudyard Kipling <br /><br /><br />HELLO YOUNG LOVERS<br />Music by Richard Rodgers <br />Words by Oscar Hammerstein<br /><br />Hello, young lovers, whoever you are,<br />I hope that your troubles are few;<br />All my good wishes go with you tonight -<br />I've been in love like you.<br /><br />Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star;<br />Be brave and faithful and true.<br />Cling very close to each other tonight -<br />I've been in love like you.<br /><br />(Bridge:)<br />I know how it feels to have wings on your heels<br />And to fly down the street in a trance;<br />You fly down the street on a chance that you'll meet,<br />And you meet not really by chance.<br /><br />Don't cry, young lovers, whatever you do,<br />Don't cry because I'm alone;<br />All of my mem'ries are happy tonight -<br />I've had a love of my own.<br /><br />(Coda:)<br />I've had a love of my own, like yours,<br />I've had a love of my own.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-960407109150269852?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-39210443924354330212008-06-16T12:20:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:21:40.093-07:00The Lullaby of Life<br />Compiled, edited and adapted by Bill King<br />Copyright © 2004 Christopher E. King<br />All Rights Reserved Worldwide<br /> <br />This collection of children's poetry was selected with a great deal of care. I've visited the finest <br /><br />libraries in the United States and read over a thousand books of children's poetry, many from the <br /><br />late Victorian period (1870-1910) and from the early modern era (1900-1930). I selected about 500 <br /><br />from the many I've seen and updated any archaic or arcane language as to references a modern <br /><br />child wouldn't understand while trying to keep the same rhyme and metre. - Bill King<br /><br /> <br /><br />People think it's only a garden, <br />With roses along the wall; <br />I'll tell you the truth about it <br />It isn't a garden at all! <br /><br />It's really Robin Hood's forest, <br />And over by that big tree <br />Is the very place where fat Friar Tuck <br />Fought with the Miller of Dee. <br /><br />And back of the barn is the cavern <br />Where Jesse James is hid; <br />On the other side is a big strong box <br />That belongs to Billy the Kid. <br /><br />That isn't a pond you see there, <br />It's the ocean deep and wide, <br />Where six-masted ships are waiting <br />To sail on rising tide. <br /><br />Of course it looks like a garden, <br />It's all so sunny and clear - - <br />You'd be surprised if you really knew <br />The things that have happened here! <br />- The Secrets of Our Garden, Rupert Sargent Holland, (Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When I was down beside the sea <br />A wooden spade they gave to me <br />To dig the sandy shore. <br /><br />My holes were empty like a cup. <br />In every hole the sea came up, <br />Till it could come no more. <br />- At the Seaside, Robert Louis Stevenson <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I'd like to be a lighthouse <br />All scrubbed and painted white. <br />I'd like to be a lighthouse <br />And stay awake all night <br />To keep my eye on everything <br />That sails my patch of sea; <br />I'd like to be a lighthouse <br />With the ships all watching me. <br />- I'd Like to be a Lighthouse, Rachel Lyman Field <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A nice little mermaid lived under the sea, <br />And always combing her hair was she. <br /><br />She put it high up and she put it low down, <br />She twisted it in with a seashell crown; <br /><br />She braided it and curled it for hours and hours, <br />And sprinkled it over with coral flowers. <br /><br />But once she grew tired of combing her hair, <br />And fell to wondering what was where. <br /><br />She climbed on a rock to talk with the gales, <br />And made great eyes at the sharks and whales. <br /><br />Some white-winged gulls flew over her head; <br />'Now where can those things live?' she said. <br /><br />She wondered and wondered, but couldn't guess where, <br />For she thought the whole world was water and air. <br /><br />'And so many great ships sail over the sea; <br />Where they are going is what puzzles me! <br /><br />They will get to the edge of the sea some day, <br />And tumble off in a terrible way. <br /><br />There'll be no one to catch them, I'm afraid - - <br />So they'll tumble forever! said the little mermaid. <br />- The Little Mermaid, Carrie W. Thompson, (Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ferry me across the water, <br />Do boatman, do. <br />If you've a penny in your purse <br />I'll ferry you. <br /><br />I have a penny in my purse, <br />And my eyes are blue; <br />So ferry me across the water, <br />Do, boatman, do. <br /><br />Step into my ferry-boat, <br />Be they back or blue, <br />And for the penny in your purse <br />I'll ferry you. <br />- Boatman, Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Boats sail on the rivers, <br />And ships sail on the seas; <br />But clouds that sail across the sky <br />Are prettier far than these. <br /><br />There are bridges on the rivers, <br />As pretty as you please; <br />But rainbows that bridge heaven, <br />And overtop the trees, <br />And build a road from earth to sky, <br />Are prettier far than these. <br />- Boats Sail on the Rivers, Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When summer's in the city, <br />And roads ablaze with heat, <br />The Ice-Cream Man with his little cart <br />Goes trundling down our street. <br /><br />Beneath his round umbrella, <br />Oh, what a joyful sight, <br />To see him fill the cones with mounds <br />Of cooling brown or white; <br /><br />Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, <br />Or chilly things to drink <br />From bottles full of frosty-fizz, <br />Green, orange, white, or pink. <br /><br />His cart could be a flower bed <br />Of roses and sweet peas, <br />The way the children cluster 'round <br />Like swarms of honeybees. <br />- The Ice-Cream Man, Rachel Lyman Field, (Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I went to the park <br />And I bought a balloon. <br />It sailed through the sky <br />Like a large orange moon. <br />It bumped and it fluttered <br />And swam with the clouds. <br />Small birds flew around it <br />In high chirping crowds. <br />It bounced and it balanced <br />And bowed with the breeze. <br />It skimmed past the leaves <br />On the top of the trees. <br />And then as the day <br />Started turning to night <br />I gave a short jump <br />And I held the string tight <br />And home we all sailed <br />Through the darkening sky <br />The orange balloon, the small birds <br />And I. <br />- The Balloon, Karla Kuskin <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I flew my kite <br />One bright blue day, <br />Light yellow-orangey away <br />Above the tip tall tops of trees, <br />With little drops from breeze to breeze, <br />With little rises and surprises, <br />And the string would sing to these. <br /><br />I flew my kite <br />One white new day, <br />Bright orange-yellowy and gay <br />Against the clouds. I flew it through <br />The cloudiness of one or two - <br />Cheering, veering, disappearing; <br />String to fingers, tight and true. <br /><br />I flew my kite <br />One dole-dark day, <br />Dull orange image in the grey, <br />When not a single bird would fly <br />So windy wet and wild a sky <br />Of little langors and great angers. <br />Kite, good-by, good-by, good-by! <br />- Kite, David McCord <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is my rock, <br />And here I run <br />To steal the secret of the sun; <br /><br />This is my rock, <br />And here I come <br />Before the night has swept the sky; <br /><br />This is my rock, <br />This is the place <br />I meet the evening face to face. <br />- This is My Rock, David McCord <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />People always say to me <br />'What do you think you'd like to be <br />When you grow up?' <br />And, I say, 'Why, <br />I think I'd like to be the sky <br />Or a plane or train or mouse <br />Or maybe be a haunted house <br />Or something furry, rough and wild... <br />Or maybe I will stay a child.' <br />- The Question, Karla Kuskin <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink, <br />That is the finest of suppers, I think; <br />When I'm grown up and can have what I please <br />I think I will always insist upon these. <br /><br />What do you choose when you're offered a treat? <br />When Mother says, 'What would you like best to eat?' <br />Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast? <br />It's cocoa and animal crackers that I love most! <br /><br />The kitchen's the cosiest place I know: <br />The kettle is singing, the stove is aglow, <br />And there in the twilight, how jolly to see <br />The cocoa and animals waiting for me. <br /><br />Daddy and Mother dine later with Kate, <br />With Mary to cook for them, Susan in wait; <br />But they don't have nearly as much fun as I <br />Who eat in the kitchen with Nurse standing by; <br />And Daddy once said, he would like to be me <br />Having cocoa and animals once more for tea! <br />- Animal Crackers, Christopher Morley (Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The stars are made of lemon juice, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />I wear my shoes inside out, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />My house goes walking every day, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Dolls go dancing on the moon, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />The wind blows backwards all night long, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Monkeys mumble in a jelly bean jungle, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Candy tastes like soap, soap, soap, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Monkeys eat the chimney smoke, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Tigers sleep on an elephant snoot, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Clouds hide in a hole in the sky, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br />Salmon slide down a hippos hide, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />My Teddy Bear sings out loud at night, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br />(Oh, you're just talking silly talk) <br /><br />Elbows grow on a tickle tree, <br />and rain makes applesauce. <br /><br />Oh, you're just talking silly, silly talk <br /><br />I know I'm talking silly talk...But <br /><br />Rain makes applesauce. <br />- Rain Makes Applesauce, Julian Scheer and Marvin Bileck <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If you do not shake the bottle, <br />None'll come and then a lot'll. <br />- On Tomato Ketchup, Delmont Hunt Heines <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Goops they lick their fingers, <br />And the Goops they lick their knives; <br />They spill their soup on the tablecloth - - <br />Oh, they lead disgusting lives! <br />The Goops they talk while eating, <br />And loud and fast they chew; <br />And that is why I'm glad that I <br />Am not a Goop - - are you? <br />- Table Manners, Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The meanest trick I ever knew <br />Was one I know you never do. <br />I saw a Goop once try to do it, <br />And there was nothing funny to it. <br />He pulled a chair from under me <br />As I was sitting down; but he <br />Was sent to bed, and rightly, too. <br />It was a horrid thing to do! <br />- A Low Trick, Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I never saw a Purple Cow, <br />I never hope to see one, <br />But I can tell you, anyhow, <br />I'd rather see than be one! <br />- The Purple Cow, Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The pedigree of honey <br />Does not concern the bee; <br />A clover, anytime, to him <br />Is aris/toc/racy. <br />- Pedigree, Emily Dickinson <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />How does the little busy bee <br />Improve each daylight hour, <br />And gather honey all day long <br />From every blossoming flower! <br /><br />How skillfully she builds her cell! <br />How neat she forms the wax! <br />And labors hard to fill it's well <br />With nectar that she makes. <br /><br />At books, or work, or healthy play, <br />Let all my years be passed; <br />That I may give for every day <br />A good account at last. <br />- The Bee, Isaac Watts<br />from 'Divine Songs for Children' 1715 <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear; <br />Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. <br />So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy. Was he? <br />- Fuzzy Wuzzy, Anonymous <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />How large unto the tiny fly <br />Must little things appear! - - <br />A rosebud like a feather bed, <br />It's thorns almost a spear; <br /><br />A dewdrop like like a telescope, <br />A hair like golden wire; <br />The smallest grain of mustard seed <br />As fierce as coals on fire; <br /><br />A loaf of bread, a lofty hill; <br />A wasp, a cruel leopard; <br />And specks of salt as bright to see <br />As lambkins to a shepherd. <br />- The Fly, Walter de la Mare<br />from 'Complete Poems' <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Way down South where bananas grow, <br />A grasshopper stepped on an elephant's toe. <br />The elephant said, with tears in his eyes, <br />'Pick on somebody your own size.' <br />- Way Down South, Anonymous <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A horse and a flea and three blind mice <br />Sat on a curbstone shooting dice. <br />The horse he slipped and fell on the flea. <br />The flea said, 'Whoa, there's a horse on me!' <br />- Whoa Horsey!, Anonymous<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The ptarmigan is strange, <br />As strange as he can be; <br />Never sits on ptelephone poles <br />Or roosts upon a ptree. <br />And the way he ptakes pto spelling <br />Is the strangest pthing pto me. <br />- The Ptarmigan, Anonymous <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I wish that my room had a floor; <br />I don't care so much for a door. <br /> But this walking around <br /> Without touching the ground <br />Is getting to be quite a bore. <br /><br />- I Wish That My Room Had A Floor, <br />Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Arithmetic is where numbers fly <br /> like pigeons in and out of your head. <br />Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win <br /> if you know how many you had <br /> before you lost or won. <br />Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children <br /> go to heaven - - or five six bundle of sticks. <br />Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your <br /> head to your hand to your pencil to your paper <br /> till you get the right answer.... <br />If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, <br /> and you eat one and a striped zebra <br /> with streaks all over him eats the other, <br /> how many animal crackers will you have <br /> if somebody offers you five six seven and you say <br /> No no no and you say Nay nay nay <br /> and you say Nix nix nix? <br />If you ask your mother for one fried egg <br /> for breakfast and she gives you <br /> two fried eggs and you eat <br /> both of them, who is better in arithmetic, <br /> you or your mother? from <br />- 'Arithmetic'<br />Carl Sandburg <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Into the endless dark <br />The lights of the buildings shine, <br />Row upon row, <br />Line upon glistening line. <br />Up and up they mount <br />Till the tallest seems to be <br />The topmost taper set <br />On a towering Christmas tree. <br /><br />- City Lights<br />Rachel Lyman Field <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In the morning the city <br />Spreads its wings <br />Making a song <br />In stone that sings. <br /><br />In the evening the city <br />Goes to bed <br />Hanging lights <br />About its head. <br />- City<br />Langston Hughes <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I'm glad that I <br />Live near a park <br />For in the winter <br />After dark <br />The park lights shine <br />As bright and still <br />As dandelions <br />On a hill. <br /><br />- The Park<br />James S. Tippet <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When the golden day is done, <br />Through the closing portal, <br />Child and garden, flower and sun, <br />Vanish all mortal things. <br /><br />As the blinding shadows fall, <br />As the rays diminish, <br />Under evening's cloak, they all <br />Roll away and vanish. <br /><br />Garden darkened, daisy shut, <br />Child in bed, they slumber - - <br />Glow-worm in the highway rut, <br />Mice among the lumber. <br /><br />In the darkness houses shine, <br />Parents move with candles; <br />Till on all, the night divine <br />Turns the bedroom handles. <br /><br />Till at last the day begins <br />In the east a-breaking, <br />In the hedges and the whins <br />Sleeping birds a-waking. <br /><br />In the darkness shapes of things, <br />Houses, trees and hedges, <br />Clearer grow; and sparrow's wings <br />Beat on window ledges. <br /><br />These shall wake the yawning maid; <br />She the door shall open - - <br />Finding dew on grassy blade <br />And the morning broken. <br /><br />There my garden grows again <br />Green and rosy painted, <br />As at eve behind the pane <br />From my eyes it fainted. <br /><br />Just as it was shut away, <br />Toy-like, in the even, <br />Here I see it glow with day <br />Under glowing heaven. <br /><br />Every path and every plot, <br />Every bush of roses, <br />Every blue forget-me-not <br />Where the dew reposes, <br /><br />'Up!' they cry, 'the day is come <br />On the smiling valleys; <br />We have beat the morning drum; <br />Playmates, join your allies!' <br />- Night and Day<br />Robert Louis Stevenson <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Nothing fairer than the light <br />On petals opening, gold and white, <br />To the morning, to the blue, <br />In a world of song and dew. <br /><br />Nothing fairer than two eyes <br />That behold with shy surprise <br />The miracle that no man can stay - - <br />Darkness turning into day. <br />- Early Morning Song<br />Rachel Lyman Field <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Her feet along the dewy hills <br />Are lighter than blown thistledown; <br />She bears the glamor of one star <br />Upon her violet crwon. <br /><br />With her soft touch of mothering, <br />How soothing to the sense she seems! <br />She holds within her gentle hand <br />The quiet gift of dreams. <br /><br />- Dusk<br />Clifton Scollard (1860-1932) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, <br />The bridal of the earth and sky, <br />The dew will weep your fall tonight, <br /> For you must die. <br /><br />Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, <br />Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, <br />Your root is ever in its grave, <br /> And you must die. <br /><br />Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, <br />A box where sweets compacted lie, <br />My music shows you have your closes, <br /> And all must die. <br /><br />Only a sweet and virtuous soul, <br />Like seasoned timber, never gives, <br />But though the whole world turns to coal, <br /> Then chiefly lives. <br />- Virtue<br />George Herbert (1593-1633) <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />All day long they come and go - - <br />Pittypat and Tipptoe; <br />Footprints up and down the hall, <br />Playthings scattered on the floor, <br />Fingerprints along the wall <br />Telltale smudges on the door - - <br />By these presents you shall know <br />Pittypat and Tippytoe... <br /><br />On the floor and down the hall, <br />Rudely smudged upon each wall, <br />There is proof of every kind, <br />Of the havoc they did wreak, <br />And upon my heart you'd find <br />Just such trademarks, if you seek; <br />Oh, how glad I am it's so, <br />Pittypat and Tippytoe! <br />- Pittypat and Tippytoe<br />Eugene Field <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Someone came knocking <br />At my wee, small door, <br />Someone came knocking, <br />I'm sure - sure - sure; <br />I listened, I opened, <br />I looked left and right, <br />But nothing was stirring <br />In the still dark night. <br />Only the busy chipmunk <br />Tap-tapping in the wall, <br /><br />Only from the forest <br />The hoot owl's call, <br />Only the cricket chirping <br />While the dewdrops fall, <br />So I know not who came knocking, <br />At all - at all - at all! <br />- Someone<br />Walter de la Mare <br />Collected Poems - 1901-1918<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Come along in then, little girl! <br />Or else stay out! <br />But in the open door she stands, <br />And bites her lip and twists her hands, <br />And stares upon me, trouble-eyed; <br />'Mother,' she says, 'I can't decide!' <br />- From A Very Little Sphinx<br />Edna St. Vincent Millay <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I thought myself, indeed, secure, <br />So fast the door, so firm the lock; <br />But, lo! he toddling comes to lure <br />My parent ear with timorous knock. <br /><br />My heart is stone could it withstand <br />The sweetness of my baby's plea, - - <br />That timorous, baby knocking and <br />'Please let me in, - - it's only me.' <br /><br />I throw aside the unfinished book, <br />Regardless of its tempting charms, <br />And, opening wide the door, I take <br />My laughing angel in my arms. <br /><br />Who knows but in Eternity, <br />I, like a truant child, will wait <br />The glories of the life to be, <br />Beyond our Heavenly Father's gate? <br /><br />And will that Heavenly Father heed <br />The truant's little prayerful cry, <br />As at the outer door I plead, <br />'Oh, dear Father, it's only I.' <br />- At The Door<br />Eugene Field <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In evening when the lights are lit, <br />Around the fire my parents sit; <br />They sit at home and talk and sing, <br />And do not play with anything. <br /><br />But, with my little gun, I crawl <br />In the dark and along the wall, <br />And follow round the forest tracks <br />Away behind the sofa backs. <br /><br />There, in dark night, where no one spies, <br />In my camp and tent I lie, <br />And play with books that I have read <br />Until it's time to go to bed. <br /><br />These are the hills, these are the woods, <br />Here is my starry solitude; <br />And there's the river by whose brink <br />The roaring lions come to drink. <br /><br />I see the others far away <br />As if in firelit camp they lay, <br />And I, just like an Indian Scout, <br />Around their campsite prowl about. <br /><br />So, when Mother comes in for me, <br />Back I go across the sea, <br />And go to bed with backward looks <br />At my good land of Storybooks. <br />- The Land of Storybooks<br />Robert Louis Stevenson <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There is no frigate like a book <br />To take us far away, <br />Nor any show horse like a page <br />Of prancing poetry. <br />This journey may the poorest take <br />Without the fear of tolls; <br />How frugal is the chariot <br />That carries human souls! <br />- A Book<br />Emily Dickinson <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Goodnight. <br /><br />Goodnight daylight <br />and playing trains; <br />goodnight books, <br />and bread and butter, <br />and games of make believe, <br />and brothers and sisters, <br />and father and mother. <br /><br />Goodnight, God. <br />Take care of us while we sleep, <br />And you have a good night, too. <br />Amen. <br />- Bedtime<br />Madeline L'Engle <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, close your eyes. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, be surprised. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, climb up the stairs. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light. <br />Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say good night. <br />- Teddy Bear, Traditional Child's Skipping Song <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />'Who are you with clustered light, <br />Little Sisters seven?' <br />'Crickets, chirping all the night <br />On the hearth of heaven.' <br />- The Pleiads<br />John Bannister Tabb <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Stars over snow, <br />And in the west a planet <br />Swinging below a star - - <br />Look for a lovely thing and <br /> you will find it, <br />It is not far - - <br /> It never will be far. <br />- Sara Teasdale <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The midnight plane with its flying lights <br />looks like an unloosed star <br />wandering west through blue-black night <br />to where the mountains are, <br />a star that's come so close to earth <br />to tell each quiet farm <br />and little town, 'Put out your lights, <br />children of earth. Sleep warm.' <br />- Night Plane<br />Frances Frost<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When my brother Tommy<br /> Sleeps in bed with me,<br /> He doubles up<br /> and makes<br /> him self<br /> exactly<br /> like<br /> a<br /> V<br /><br /><br />And 'cause the bed is not so wide, <br />A part of him is on my side. <br />- Two In Bed<br />Abram Bunn Ross <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Lullaby, oh, lullaby! <br />Flowers are closed and lambs are sleeping; <br /> Lullaby, oh, lullaby! <br />Stars are up, the moon is peeping; <br /> Lullaby, oh, lullaby! <br />While the birds are silence keeping, <br /> (lullaby, oh, lullaby.) <br />Sleep, my baby, fall a-sleeping, <br /> Lullaby, oh, lullaby! <br /><br />- Lullaby<br />Christina Georgina Rossetti <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My baby has a wrinkled fist, <br />My baby has a neck in creases; <br />My baby kisses and is kissed, <br />For she's the very thing for kisses. <br />- Baby Kisses<br />Christina Georgina Rossetti <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Last night, my darling, as you slept, <br />I thought I heard you sigh, <br />And to your little crib I crept, <br />To sing a lullaby; <br />Then bending low, I kissed your brow - - <br />For, Oh! I love you so - - <br />You are too young to know it now, <br />But sometime you will know. <br /><br />Sometime, when in a dim, quiet place <br />Where others come to weep, <br />You will behold a careworn face <br />Calm in eternal sleep; <br />The speechless lips, that wrinkled brow, <br />The patient smile will show - - <br />You are too young to know it now, <br />But sometime you will know. <br /><br />Look backward, then, into the years, <br />And you'll see me here tonight - - <br />See how, dearest darling, my tears <br />Are falling as this I write; <br />And feel once more upon your brow <br />The kiss of long ago - - <br />You are too young to know it now, <br />But sometime you will know. <br />- Sometime<br />Eugene Field <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I saw a star slide down the sky, <br />Blind the north as it went by, <br />Too burning and too quick to hold, <br />Too lovely to be bought or sold, <br />Good only to make wishes on <br />And then forever to be gone. <br />- The Falling Star<br />Sara Teasdale <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Twinkle, twinkle, little star, <br />How I wonder what you are, <br />Up above the world so high, <br />Like a diamond in the sky. <br /><br />When the blazing sun is set, <br />And the grass with dew is wet, <br />Then you show your little light, <br />Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. <br /><br />As your bright and tiny spark <br />Lights the traveller in the dark, <br />Though I know not what you are, <br />Twinkle, twinkle, little star. <br />- The Star<br />Jane Taylor <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />All night long and every night, <br />When my mother turns off my light, <br />I see some people marching by, <br />As plain as day, before my eyes. <br /><br />Armies, emperors, elephants, kings, <br />Carrying all different kinds of things, <br />Marching in so grand a way, <br />You never saw the like by day. <br /><br />A finer show was never seen, <br />At the great circus on the green; <br />For every kind of beast and man <br />Was marching in that caravan. <br /><br />At first they move a little slow, <br />But still they faster on they go, <br />And still beside them close I keep <br />Until we reach the town of Sleep. <br />- Young Night Thought<br />Robert Louis Stevenson <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Little wind, blow on the hilltop, <br />Little wind, blow down the plain; <br />Little wind, blow up the sunshine, <br />Little wind, blow off the rain. <br />- Little Wind<br />Kate Greenaway<br />Under The Window - 1910 <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, wind, why do you never rest, <br />Wandering, whistling to and fro, <br />Bringing rain out of the west, <br />From the dim north bringing snow? <br />- Oh, Wind<br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br />'Sing-Song' <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; <br />She shines on thieves climbing garden wall, <br />On streets and fields and harbor bays, <br />And birdies asleep in the forks of trees. <br /><br />Squallering cat and the squeaking mouse, <br />The howling dog by the door of the house, <br />The bat that lies in bed at noon, <br />All love to be out by the light of the moon. <br /><br />But all of the things that belong to the day <br />Cuddle in sleep to stay out of her way; <br />And flowers and children close their eyes <br />Until in the morning the sun will arise. <br />- The Moon<br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In and out, in and out, <br />Through the clouds heaped about, <br /> Wanders the bright moon. <br /><br />What she seeks, I do not know; <br />Where she looks, I cannot go. <br /><br />I am but a little child, <br />And the night is strange and wild. <br /><br />In and out, in and out, <br /> Wanders the bright moon <br />In and out, in and out, <br /> She will find it soon. <br /><br />Here she comes, bright as day, - - <br />Now the clouds have run away. <br />She is smiling, I can see, <br />And she's looking right at me. <br /><br />Pretty moon, all bright and round, <br />Won't you tell me what you have found? <br /><br />- At My Window<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Who has seen the wind? <br />Neither I nor you: <br />But when the leaves hang trembling, <br />The wind is passing through. <br /><br />Who has seen the wind? <br />Neither you nor I: <br />But when the trees bow down their heads, <br />The wind is passing by. <br />- Who Has Seen The Wind?<br />Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Whenever the moon and stars are set, <br />Whenever the wind is high, <br />All night long in the dark and wet, <br />A man goes riding by. <br />Late in the night when the fires are out, <br />Why does he gallop and gallop about? <br /><br />Whenever the trees are crying aloud, <br />And ships are tossed at sea, <br />By, on the highway, low and loud, <br />By at the gallop goes he. <br />By at the gallop he goes, and then <br />By he comes back at the gallop again. <br />- Windy Nights<br />Robert Louis Stevenson <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The north wind does blow <br />And we will have snow, <br />And what will the poor robin do then, poor thing? <br /> He'll sit in a barn, <br /> And keep himself warm, <br />And hide his head under his wing, poor thing! <br /><br />The north wind does blow <br />And we will have snow, <br />And what will the field mouse do then, poor thing? <br /> Roll'd up like a ball, <br /> In his nest snug and small, <br />He'll sleep till warm weather comes in, poor thing! <br /><br />The north wind does blow <br />And we will have snow, <br />And what will the children do then, poor things? <br /> When lessons are done, <br /> They must skip, jump, and run, <br />Until they have made themselves warm, poor things! <br />- The North Wind Does Blow<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Consider <br />The lilies of the field, whose bloom is brief - - <br /> We are as they; <br /> Like them we fade away, <br /> As does a leaf. <br /><br /> Consider <br />The sparrows of the air, of small account: <br /> Dear God does view <br /> Whether they fall or mount - - <br /> He guards us too. <br /><br /> Consider <br />The lilies, that do neither spin nor toil, <br /> Yet are most fair - - <br /> What profits all this care, <br /> And all this coil? <br /><br /> Consider <br />The birds, that have no barns or harvest weeks <br /> God gives them food - - <br /> Much more our Father seeks <br /> To do us good. <br />- Consider<br />Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To every thing there is a season, <br />And a time to every purpose under heaven: <br />A time to be born, <br />And a time to die; <br />A time to plant, <br />And a time to reap; <br />A time to killl, <br />And a time to heal; <br />A time to break down, <br />And a time to build up; <br />A time to weep, <br />And a time to laugh; <br />A time to mourn, <br />And a time to dance; <br />To every thing there is a season under heaven. <br />- Seasons and Time, The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />January cold and desolate; <br />February dripping wet; <br />March wind ranges; <br />April changes; <br />Birds sing in tune <br />To flowers of May, <br />And sunny June <br />Brings longest day; <br />In scorched July <br />The storm-clouds fly, <br />Lightning-torn; <br />August bears corn, <br />September fruit; <br />In rough October <br />Earth must disrobe her; <br />Stars fall and shoot <br />In keen November; <br />And night is long <br />And cold is strong <br />In bleak December. <br />- The Months<br />Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Spring is showery, flowery, bowery. <br />Summer: hoppy, choppy, poppy. <br />Autumn: wheezy, sneezy, freezy. <br />Winter: slippy, drippy, nippy. <br />- Four Seasons<br />Anonymous <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The fog comes <br />on little cat feet. <br />It sits looking <br /><br />over harbor and city <br />on silent haunches <br />and then moves on. <br />- Fog - 1918<br />Carl Sandburg<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Let the rain kiss you. <br />Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. <br />Let the rain sing you a lullaby. <br /><br />The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk. <br />The rain makes running pools in the gutter. <br />The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night - - <br /><br />And I love the rain. <br />- April Rain Song<br />Langston Hughes (1902-1967) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I like it when it's mizzly <br />and just a little drizzly <br />so everything looks far away <br />and make-believe and frizzly. <br /><br />I like it when it's foggy <br />and sounding very froggy. <br />I even like it when it rains <br />on streets and weepy windowpanes <br />and catkins in the polar tree <br />and me. <br /><br />- I Like It When It's Mizzly<br />Aileen Fisher <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The rain it rains both on the just <br />And also on the unjust fella. <br />But mostly on the just, because <br />The unjust steals the just's umbrella. <br /><br />- The Just and The Unjust<br />Charles Bowen <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Great is the sun, and wide he goes <br />Through empty heaven without repose; <br />And in the blue and glowing days <br />More thick than rain he showers his rays. <br />Though closer still the blinds we pull <br />To keep the shady parlor cool, <br />Yet he will find a slit or two <br />To slip his golden fingers through. <br />The dusty attic spider-clad <br />He, through the keyhole, makes it glad; <br />And through the broken edge of tiles, <br />Into a laddered hayloft smiles. <br />Meantime his golden face around <br />He bares to all the garden ground, <br />And sheds a warm and glittering look <br />Among the ivy's hidden nook. <br />Above the hills, along the blue, <br />Round the bright air with footing true, <br />To please a child, to paint a rose, <br />The Gardener of the World, he goes. <br />- Summer Sun<br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br />A Child's Garden of Verse<br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />An emerald is as green as grass; <br />A ruby red as blood; <br />A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; <br />A flint lies in the mud. <br /><br />A diamond is a brilliant stone, <br />To catch the world's desire; <br />An opal holds a fiery spark; <br />But a flint holds all the fire. <br />- Precious Stones<br />Christina Giorgina Rossetti <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To make a prairie takes a clover and one bee, - - <br />One clover, and a bee, <br />And reverie. <br />The reverie alone will do <br />If the bees are few. <br />- To Make A Prairie<br />Emily Dickinson <br />(Adapted by Bill King) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The top of a hill <br />Is not until <br />The bottom is below. <br />And you have to stop <br />When you reach the top <br />For there's no more UP to go. <br /><br />To make it plain <br />Let me explain: <br />The one most reason why <br />You have to stop <br />When you reach the top - - is: <br />The next step up is sky. <br />- How To Tell The Top Of A Hill<br />John Ciardi <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I will be the gladdest thing <br />Under the sun! <br />I will touch a hundred flowers <br />And not pick one. <br /><br />I will look at cliffs and clouds <br />With quiet eyes, <br />Watch the wind bow down the grass, <br />And the grass rise. <br /><br />And when the lights begin to show <br />Up from the town, <br />I will mark which must be mine, <br />And then start down. <br />- Afternoon On A Hill<br />Edna St. Vincent Millay <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If I could see a little fish - - <br />That is what I just now wish! <br />I want to see his great round eyes <br />Always open in surprise. <br /><br />I wish a water-rat would glide <br />Slowly to the other side; <br />Or a dancing spider sit <br />On the yellow flags a bit. <br /><br />I think I'll get some stones to throw, <br />And watch the pretty circles show. <br />Or shall we sail a flower boat, <br />And watch it slowly - - slowly float? <br /><br />That's nice - - because you never know <br />How far away it means to go; <br />And when tomorrow comes, you see, <br />It may be in the great wide sea. <br />- On The Bridge<br />Kate Greenaway<br /><br /> <br /><br />Beautiful Dreamer<br />Stephen Collins Foster <br /><br /><br />Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,<br />Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;<br />Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day,<br />Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!<br />Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,<br />List while I woo thee with soft melody;<br />Gone are the cares of life's busy throng,<br />Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<br />Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<br /><br />Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea<br />Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelie;<br />Over the streamlet vapors are borne,<br />Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.<br />Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,<br />E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;<br />Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,<br />Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<br />Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!<br /><br /><br /><br />Amazing Grace<br />John Newton<br /><br /><br />Amazing grace! How sweet the sound<br />That saved a wretch like me<br />I once was lost but now am found<br />Was blind but now I see<br /><br />Twas grace that taught my heart to fear<br />And grace my fears relieved<br />Oh how precious did that grace appear<br />The hour I first believed<br /><br />Amazing grace! How sweet the sound<br />That saved a wretch like me<br />I once was lost but now am found<br />Was blind but now I see<br /><br />Shall I be wafted to the skies<br />On flowery beds of ease<br />While others strive to win the prize<br />And sail on bloody seas<br /><br />Amazing grace! How sweet the sound<br />That saved a wretch like me<br />I once was lost but now am found<br />Was blind but now I see.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Love of Jesus by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)<br />(known to most as "Jesus Loves Me")<br /><br />Jesus loves me, this I know<br />For the Bible tells me so <br />Little one's to Him belong<br />They are weak but He is strong.<br /><br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />The Bible tells me so.<br /><br />Jesus loves me! He who died<br />Heaven's gate to open wide<br />He will wash away my sin<br />Let His little child come in.<br /><br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />Yes, Jesus loves me!<br />The Bible tells me so.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-3921044392435433021?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-36580534071458555062008-06-16T12:18:00.002-07:002008-06-16T12:20:13.367-07:00There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your <br /><br />values, desires, affections, traditions. <br />- Bill McKibben<br />Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas <br /><br />What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic. <br />- Unknown <br /><br />Christmas waves a wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. <br />- Norman Vincent Peale <br /><br />Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. <br />- Hamilton Wright Mabi <br /><br />Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of <br /><br />others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because <br /><br />it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed <br /><br />all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this <br /><br />beating Christmas heart. <br />- George Matthew Adams <br /><br />It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed <br /><br />the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God <br /><br />Bless Us, Every One! <br />- Charles Dickens <br /><br />Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. <br />- Mary Ellen Chase <br /><br />Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. <br />- Unknown <br /><br />If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. <br />- Unknown <br /><br />Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, <br /><br />left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and <br /><br />hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture <br /><br />shining in our bright young eyes, complete. <br />- Charles Dickens <br /><br />Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I <br /><br />don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. <br />- Phyllis Diller <br /><br />From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of <br /><br />Christmas, brings us closer to each other. <br />- Emily Matthews <br /><br />Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others, <br /><br />Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and <br /><br />sad, The more of your heart's possessing, Returns to you glad. <br />- John Greenleaf Whittier <br /><br />A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing. <br />- Unknown <br /><br />Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry <br /><br />still. <br />- Sir Walter Scott <br /><br />Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display- so much <br /><br />tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree not the firelight's <br /><br />glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again. <br />- Unknown <br /><br />A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While <br /><br />quite unselfish, it grows small. <br />- Eva K. Logue <br /><br />Christmas- that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is <br /><br />like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of <br /><br />prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance- a day in which we think of everything we have <br /><br />ever loved. <br />- Augusta E. Rundel <br /><br />Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in <br /><br />the heart. <br />- Washington Irving <br /><br />Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and <br /><br />kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. <br />- Oren Arnold <br /><br />The merry family gatherings- The old, the very young; The strangely lovely way they Harmonize <br /><br />in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time- Traditions that recall The precious memories <br /><br />down the years, The sameness of them all. <br />- Helen Lowrie Marshall <br /><br />He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree. <br />- Sunshine Magazine <br /><br />The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to <br /><br />touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. <br />- Louisa May Alcott <br /><br />Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be <br /><br />kind. <br />- Helen Steiner Rice <br /><br />From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897 <br /><br />We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the <br /><br />same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The <br /><br />Sun: <br /><br />"Dear Editor- I am 8 years old.<br />"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.<br />"Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.'<br />"Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? <br /><br />Virginia O'Hanlon<br />115 West Ninety-fifth Street<br /><br /><br />Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical <br /><br />age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not <br /><br />comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are <br /><br />little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with <br /><br />the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of <br /><br />truth and knowledge. <br /><br />Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion <br /><br />exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how <br /><br />dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no <br /><br />Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this <br /><br />existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which <br /><br />childhood fills the world would be extinguished. <br /><br />Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to <br /><br />hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did <br /><br />not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is <br /><br />no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither <br /><br />children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's <br /><br />no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen <br /><br />and unseeable in the world. <br /><br />You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering <br /><br />the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest <br /><br />men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that <br /><br />curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in <br /><br />all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. <br /><br />No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, <br /><br />nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. <br /><br />Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be <br /><br />plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. <br />- Calvin Coolidge<br /><br />Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward <br /><br />together in the same direction. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them <br /><br />tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what <br /><br />is essential is invisible to the eye. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, <br /><br />since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a <br /><br />man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into <br /><br />which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that <br /><br />nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a <br /><br />participant? In order to be, I must participate. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but <br /><br />when there is no longer anything to take away. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />from Wind, Sand and Stars <br /><br />For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the <br /><br />true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him <br /><br />the image of a cathedral. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br />There is no hope of joy except in human relations. <br />- Antoine de Saint-Exupery <br /><br /><br />For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him <br /><br />should not perish, but have everlasting life. <br />- John 3:16 <br /><br />God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. <br />- Matthew 5:8 <br /><br />I have shown you in every way by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And <br /><br />remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive. <br />- Acts 20:35 <br /><br />He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. <br />- Psalm 2:4 <br /><br />She brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths. <br />- Luke 2:7 <br /><br />And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch of their flocks at night. An <br /><br />angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were <br /><br />terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that <br /><br />will for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the <br /><br />Lord. <br />- Luke 2:8-11 <br /><br />In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This <br /><br />was the first enrollment, when Quirini-us was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each <br /><br />to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the <br /><br />city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be <br /><br />enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came <br /><br />for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling <br /><br />cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. <br />- The Bible, Luke John 1:12 <br /><br />The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of <br /><br />the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. <br />- Psalm 33:10,11 <br /><br />Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, <br /><br />whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is <br /><br />any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. <br />- Philippians 4:8 <br /><br />The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on Him sincerely. <br />- Psalm 145:18 <br /><br />Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth <br />- 1 Corinthians 13:6 <br /><br />Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves <br /><br />break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not <br /><br />destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart <br /><br />will be also. <br />- Matthew 6:19-21 <br /><br />How many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your <br /><br />creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number - living <br /><br />things both large and small. <br />- Psalm 104:24,25 <br /><br />Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which <br /><br />is in heaven. <br />- Matthew 5:16 <br /><br />When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I <br /><br />became a man, I put away childish things. <br />- 1 Corinthians 13:11 <br /><br />Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. <br />- Ecclesiastes 10:19 <br /><br />Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven - for she loved much. But he who has been <br /><br />forgiven little loves little. <br />- Luke 7:47 <br /><br />For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what will a <br /><br />man give in exchange for his soul? <br />- Matthew 16:26 <br /><br />Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let <br /><br />your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. <br />- John 14:27 <br /><br />Behold, children are a blessing from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like the arrows <br /><br />in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver <br /><br />full of them. <br />- Psalm 127:3-5 <br /><br />If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's <br /><br />commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your <br /><br />joy may be complete. My command is this Love each other as I have loved you. <br />- John 15:10-12 <br /><br />Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. <br />- Romans 12:21 <br /><br />If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or <br /><br />a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, <br /><br />and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I <br /><br />possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love I gain nothing Love is <br /><br />patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not <br /><br />self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil <br /><br />but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails. <br /><br />But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where <br /><br />there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the <br /><br />greatest of these is love. <br />- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 <br /><br />Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world <br />- John 16:33 <br /><br />Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels <br /><br />without realizing it. <br />- Hebrews 13:2 <br /><br />For everything there is a season,<br />And a time for every matter under heaven:<br />A time to be born, and a time to die;<br />A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;<br />A time to kill, and a time to heal;<br />A time to break down, and a time to build up;<br />A time to weep, and a time to laugh;<br />A time to mourn, and a time to dance;<br />A time to throw away stones, And a time to gather stones together;<br />A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;<br />A time to seek, and a time to lose;<br />A time to keep, and a time to throw away;<br />A time to tear, and a time to sew;<br />A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;<br />A time to love, and a time to hate,<br />A time for war, and a time for peace.<br /><br />- Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 <br /><br />But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness <br /><br />and self-control. <br />- Galatians 5:22-23<br /><br /><br />Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. <br />- Anonymous <br /><br />Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. <br />- Jean Anouilh <br /><br />Where there is great love, there are always miracles. <br />- Willa Cather (1876-1947) <br /><br />Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former <br /><br />makes its exit. <br />- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) <br /><br />Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts. <br />- Beatrice Saunders <br /><br />Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, <br /><br />knowing they will be handled with care. <br />- Carl S. Avery <br /><br />Love is not something you feel. It's something you do. <br />- David Wilkerson <br /><br />The only love worthy of a name is unconditional. <br />- John Powell <br /><br />The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, <br /><br />loved in spite of ourselves. <br />- Victor Hugo <br /><br />Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to <br /><br />serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of <br /><br />grace. A soul generated by love. <br />- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) <br /><br />Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at <br /><br />each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each <br /><br />other. <br />- Mother Teresa <br /><br />Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In <br /><br />this sense everything that comes from love is miracle. <br />- Marianne Williamson <br /><br />One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. <br />- Sophocles <br /><br />Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. <br />- Mother Teresa <br /><br />My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It <br /><br />gives a lovely light! <br />- Edna St. Vincent Millay <br /><br />A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love <br /><br />can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather <br /><br />die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. <br />- Rob Cella <br /><br />Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself. <br />- Devan Penegar<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-3658053407145855506?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-90376675822809413792008-06-16T12:18:00.001-07:002008-06-16T12:18:32.542-07:00Why do we selectively pick and choose verses from The Holy Scriptures? I suppose there are as <br /><br />many reasons for that as there are verses in the Bible itself. In 2004 a major reason must be <br /><br />pressure for time. Man has always worked against a deadline, imposed by God, it is the span of a <br /><br />man's lifetime. It's not what God had in mind when He created man but He gave man free will <br /><br />and one instruction. Do not eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for in that day you <br /><br />will surely die. We can prove without fear of being challenged that everyone of God's Promises <br /><br />throughout the history of man have come true. Bible prophecies are specific promises to occur at <br /><br />specified times. Sometimes specified by God and not known by man but always extremely specific <br /><br />and extremely precise. What follows is a list of our favorite Passages, Promises and Prophecies of <br /><br />God and their impact on man. Keep in mind that all of God's Prophecies except those involving <br /><br />the End-Times have already been fulfilled. That is not so with Promises, because promises are <br /><br />ongoing. He has promised to redeem my soul. That promise continues far into eternity. <br /><br />This is a difficult task at best. Who am I to pick and choose among what God has had to say to <br /><br />man? Is the very smallest verse less important than Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible? "I <br /><br />thirst" were two of the last words Christ spoke on the cross. Insignificant? Hardly! But we will <br /><br />attempt this to help the new convert to Christianity. We invite you to study the WHOLE Word <br /><br />and not just our idea of what's best. But until you get your own list going of God's Promises to <br /><br />You perhaps ours will do. May the Holy Spirit Bless these Promises and apply them to your heart <br /><br />and mind and soul. They bring the Peace that Passes All Understanding, it truly is like a healing <br /><br />salve or as the Psalmist put it, the Balm of Gilead...<br /><br />PEACE TO THOSE WHO ENTER + + + + + SALVATION TO THOSE WHO LEAVE<br /><br /><br /><br />God says, His paths are beyond man's tracing out...<br /><br />Can the clay vessel know the intentions of the Potter?<br /><br />These are the Gems of The Bible, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires all nestled among <br /><br />solid rocks of gold...<br /><br />Store your treasure in Heaven... for where your heart is that is where you will be also...<br />The word-for-word is: <br />Matthew 6:19-21<br />19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where <br /><br />thieves break through and steal:<br />20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and <br /><br />where thieves do not break through nor steal:<br />21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.<br /><br />You meant for evil but God meant it for good...<br /><br />I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...<br /><br />We are joint heirs with Jesus...<br /><br />Take up your cross and follow me...<br /><br />Allow the Little Children to come to me, for this is what the Kingdom of Heaven is made of.<br /><br />Cash or Christ, choose now whom you will serve... [severely paraphrased]<br /><br />The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil... Jesus speaking<br /><br />Love your enemy as you love yourself...<br /><br />Go into all the world and spred the Good News... Jesus' Great Commission<br /><br />In my Father's house there are many rooms... I go to prepare a place for you...<br /><br />I shall return for you... if it wasn't so I would tell you so...<br /><br />Whisper of Hope, Faith, Love, Charity, Compassion, Grace, Mercy; for these are the eternal <br /><br />things...<br /><br />He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep for something he can never lose...<br /><br />One of my favorite images is the Kneeling Santa, Santa in a nativity scene on one knee, hat in <br /><br />hand, kneeling at the crude wooden feed trough that was a baby's cradle. It was his Master, his <br /><br />Lord, his Savior, it was God come to earth in the form of baby. Born in a humble stable He was <br /><br />and is The King of Kings. Wise men still seek Him...<br /><br />Isaiah 9:6<br />For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: <br /><br />and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The <br /><br />Prince of Peace. <br /><br />Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord...<br /><br />It was the birth day of a king...<br /><br />Live more simply so others may simply live...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-9037667582280941379?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-5988449487866914742008-06-16T12:17:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:18:08.674-07:00THESE then are a few of My Truly Favorite Things from the Word of God...<br /><br /><br />Promises From God<br />A promise from God is a statement we can depend on with absolute confidence. Here are 12 <br /><br />promises for the Christian to claim.<br /><br />God’s presence— “I will never leave thee” (Hebrews 13:5) <br />God’s protection—”I am thy shield” (Genesis 15:1) <br />God’s power—”I will strengthen thee” (Isaiah 41:10) <br />God’s provision—”I will help thee” (Isaiah 41:10) <br />God’s leading—”And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them” (John 10:4) <br />God’s purposes— “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of <br /><br />peace, and not of evil” (Jeremiah 20:11) <br />God’s rest—”Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” <br /><br />(Matthew 11:28) <br />God’s cleansing— “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to <br /><br />cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9) <br />God’s goodness— “No good thing will He withhold from them that work uprightly” (Psalm <br /><br />84:11) <br />God’s faithfulness—”The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake” (I Samuel <br /><br />12:22) <br />God’s guidance—”The meek will He guide” (Psalm 25:9) <br />God’s wise plan—”All things work together for good to them that love God...” (Romans 8:28) <br /><br />GOD WILL GUIDE ME. Psalm 32:8 "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou <br /><br />shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."<br /><br />GOD WILL PROVIDE MY NEEDS. Psalm 37:25 "I have been young, and now am old; yet have <br /><br />I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."<br /><br />GOD WILL STRENGTHEN ME IN THE DAY I CRY OUT TO HIM. Psalm 138:3 "In the day <br /><br />when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul."<br /><br />GOD'S MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. Lamentations 3:22-23 "It is of the LORD'S <br /><br />mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every <br /><br />morning: great is thy faithfulness."<br /><br />JESUS OFFERS REST FOR THE HEAVY LADEN. Matthew 11:28-30 "Come unto me, all ye <br /><br />that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; <br /><br />for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and <br /><br />my burden is light."<br /><br />GOD GIVES EVERLASTING LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. John 3:16 "For God so loved <br /><br />the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, <br /><br />but have everlasting life."<br /><br />I CAN KNOW SOUND DOCTRINE. John 7:17 "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the <br /><br />doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself."<br /><br />I CAN KNOW THE TRUTH. John 8:31-32 "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on <br /><br />him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and <br /><br />the truth shall make you free."<br /><br />ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD FOR GOD'S PEOPLE. Romans 8:28 "And <br /><br />we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called <br /><br />according to his purpose."<br /><br />THE GOD WHO GAVE HIS SON WILL FREELY GIVES ALL THINGS. Romans 8:32 "He <br /><br />that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely <br /><br />give us all things?"<br /><br />GOD WILL KEEP ME FROM EVIL. 1 Thessalonians 3:3 "But the Lord is faithful, who shall <br /><br />stablish you, and keep you from evil."<br /><br />GOD WILL ESTABLISH ME. 1 Peter 5:10 "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his <br /><br />eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, <br /><br />strengthen, settle you."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9498778-598844948786691474?l=blogz-r-us.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>bknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498778.post-75911900625081892922008-06-16T12:15:00.000-07:002008-06-16T12:17:12.129-07:00Genesis 1:1 Creation<br />In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.<br /><br />Genesis 1:1 NIV<br />The Beginning <br />In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. <br /><br />Genesis 1:1 CEV The Story of Creation<br />In the beginning God <br />created the heavens <br />and the earth. <br /><br />Genesis 1:1 N The History of Creation <br />The Creation <br />In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. <br /><br />Genesis 1:1 KJ21<br />In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.<br /><br /><br /><br />You meant it for evil... but God meant it for good...<br /><br />Genesis 50:20 Joseph to His Brother Captors<br />But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is <br /><br />this day, to save much people alive.<br /><br />Genesis 50:20 NIV<br />You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, <br /><br />the saving of many lives. <br /><br />Genesis 50:20 CEV<br />You tried to harm me, but God made it turn out for the best, so that he could save all these <br /><br />people, as he is now doing.<br /><br />Genesis 50:20 N<br />But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as <br /><br />it is this day, to save many people alive.<br /><br />Genesis 50:20 KJ21<br />But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is <br /><br />this day, to save many people alive.<br /><br /><br />My ways are beyond man's tracing out...<br /><br />Isaiah 55:8-9 <br />8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.<br />9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my <br /><br />thoughts than your thoughts.<br /><br />Isaiah 55 niv<br />8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, <br />neither are your ways my ways," <br />declares the LORD . <br />9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, <br />so are my ways higher than your ways <br />and my thoughts than your thoughts. <br /><br />Isaiah 55 cev<br />8The LORD says: <br />"My thoughts and my ways <br />are not like yours. <br />9Just as the heavens <br />are higher than the earth, <br />my thoughts and my ways <br />are higher than yours. <br /><br />Isaiah 55 n<br />8"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, <br /> Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. <br /> 9"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, <br /> So are My ways higher than your ways, <br /> And My thoughts than your thoughts. <br /><br />Isaiah 55 kj21<br />8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," saith the LORD.<br />9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My <br /><br />thoughts than your thoughts.<br /><br /><br />as for me and my house we will serve the Lord<br /><br />Joshua 24:15 <br /> And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether <br /><br />the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the <br /><br />Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.<br /><br />niv<br />But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you <br /><br />will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, <br /><br />in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD ." <br /><br />cev<br />But if you don't want to worship the LORD, then choose right now! Will you worship the same <br /><br />idols your ancestors did? Or since you're living on land that once belonged to the Amorites, <br /><br />maybe you'll worship their gods. I won't. My family and I are going to worship and obey the <br /><br />LORD!<br /><br />n<br />And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, <br /><br />whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of <br /><br />the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." <br /><br />kj21<br />And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether <br /><br />the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the <br /><br />Amorites in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."<br /><br /><br />3 John 1:4 <br />I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.<br /><br />niv<br />I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.<br /><br />cev<br />Nothing brings me greater happiness than to hear that my children are obeying the truth.<br /><br />n<br />I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.<br /><br />kj21<br />I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.<br /><br /><br />Philippians 3:14 <br />I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.<br /><br />niv<br />I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ <br /><br />Jesus.<br /><br />cev<br />I run toward the goal, so that I can win the prize of being called to heaven. This is the prize that <br /><br />God offers because of what Christ Jesus has done.<br /><br />n<br />I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. <br /><br />kj21<br />I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.<br /><br /><br />Phillipians 4:7 <br />And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through <br /><br />Christ Jesus.<br /><br />niv<br />And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds <br /><br />in Christ Jesus.<br /><br />cev<br />Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can <br /><br />completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel. <br /><br />n<br />and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds <br /><br />through Christ Jesus. <br /><br />kj21<br />And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through <br /><br />Christ Jesus.<br /><br /><br />Philippians 4:8 Think on these things...<br />Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are <br /><br />just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good <br /><br />report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.<br /><br />niv<br />Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever <br /><br />is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. <br /><br />cev<br />Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. <br /><br />Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise. <br /><br />n<br />Meditate on These Things<br />8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, <br /><br />whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is <br /><br />any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.<br /><br />kj21<br />Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are <br /><br />just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good <br /><br />report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.<br /><br /><br />Genesis 6:8<br />Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.<br /><br />Genesis 50:20<br />But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is <br /><br />this day, to save much people alive. [Joseph speaking to his brothers after they sold him into <br /><br />slavery in Egypt. Paraphrase, "You meant for evil but God meant it for good."]<br /><br />Deuteronomy 11<br />18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a <br /><br />sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.<br /><br />Psalm 19:14 <br />Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, <br /><br />my strength, and my redeemer.<br /><br />Psalm 23 The 23rd Psalm<br />1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br />2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.<br />3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.<br />4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art <br /><br />with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.<br />5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head <br /><br />with oil; my cup runneth over.<br />6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house <br /><br />of the LORD for ever.<br /><br />Psalm 106:1<br />Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for <br /><br />ever. <br /><br />Psalm 106:48 <br />Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, <br /><br />Amen. Praise ye the LORD.<br /><br />Psalm 119:16 <br />I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.<br /><br />Psalm 119:105 <br />Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.<br /><br />Proverbs 1:23<br />Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words <br /><br />unto you. <br /><br />Proverbs 2<br />1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;<br />2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;<br />3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;<br />4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;<br />5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.<br />6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.<br />7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.<br />8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.<br />9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.<br />10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;<br />11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:<br />12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;<br />13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;<br />14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;<br />15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:<br />16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her <br /><br />words;<br />17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.<br />18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.<br />19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.<br />20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.<br />21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.<br />22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.<br /><br />Proverbs 4:4<br />He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, <br /><br />and live. <br /><br />Proverbs 4:5<br />Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. <br /><br />Proverbs 4:20<br />My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. <br /><br />Proverbs 5:7<br />Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. <br /><br />Proverbs 7:1<br />My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. <br /><br />Proverbs 7:24<br />Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. <br /><br />Proverbs 8:8<br />All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. <br /><br />Proverbs 19:27<br />Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. <br /><br />Proverbs 22:17<br />Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.<br /><br />Proverbs 31:10<br />Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.<br /><br />Isaiah 52<br />6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he <br /><br />that doth speak: behold, it is I.<br />7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that <br /><br />publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto <br /><br />Zion, Thy God reigneth!<br />8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see <br /><br />eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.<br />9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted <br /><br />his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.<br />10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the <br /><br />earth shall see the salvation of our God.<br /><br /><br />Isaiah 53<br />1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?<br />2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no <br /><br />form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.<br />3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as <br /><br />it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.<br />4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, <br /><br />smitten of God, and afflicted.<br />5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement <br /><br />of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.<br />6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD <br /><br />hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.<br />7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb <br /><br />to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.<br />8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was <br /><br />cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.<br />9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no <br /><br />violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.<br />10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his <br /><br />soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the <br /><br />LORD shall prosper in his hand.<br />11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by