STAND UP, AND BLESS THE LORD,
Ye people of His choice;
Stand up, and bless the Lord your God
With heart, and soul, and voice.
Though high above all praise,
Above all blessing high,
Who would not fear His holy name,
And laud and magnify?
O for the living flame
From His own altar brought,
To touch our lips, our minds inspire,
And wing to heaven our thought!
God is our strength and song,
And His salvation ours;
Then be His love in Christ proclaimed
With all our ransomed powers.
Stand up, and bless the Lord,
The Lord your God adore;
Stand up, and bless His glorious name
Henceforth for evermore.
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(2nd Hymn) Andrew Reed 806
SPIRIT DIVINE, ATTEND OUR PRAYERS
And make this house your home;
Descend with all your gracious powers:
O come, great Spirit, come!
Come as the light: To us reveal
Our emptiness and woe,
And lead us in those paths of life
Where all the righteous go.
Come as the fire; And purge our hearts
Like sacrificial flame;
Let our whole life an offering be
To our Redeemer’s name.
Come as the dove; and spread your wings,
The wings of peaceful love;
And let your church on earth become
Blest as the church above.
Come as the wind, With rushing sound
And Pentecostal grace,
That all of woman born may see
The glory of your face.
Spirit divine, attend our prayers;
Make this lost world your home;
Descend with all your gracious powers;
O come, great Spirit, come!
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(3rd Hymn)Charles Wesley
SING TO THE GREAT JEHOVAH’S PRAISE;
All praise to him belongs;
Who kindly lengthens out our days
Demands our choicest songs.
His providence has brought us through
Another various year;
We all with vows and anthems new
Before our God appear.
Father, thy mercies past we own,
Thy still continued care;
To thee presenting, through thy Son,
Whate’er we have or are.
Our lips and lives shall gladly show
`The wonders of thy love,
While on in Jesus’ steps we go
To see thy face above.
Our residue of days or hours
Thine, wholly thine, shall be,
And all our consecrated powers
A sacrifice to thee.
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(4th Hymn) Isaac Watts
SWEET IS THE WORK, MY GOD, MY KING,
To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;
To show thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth at night.
Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No mortal cares disturb my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David’s harp of solemn sound!
My heart shall triumph in my Lord,
And bless his works, and bless his word:
Thy works of grace, how bright they shine!
How deep thy counsels, how divine!
Then shall I bear a glorious part,
When grace has well refined my heart,
And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
Like holy oil to cheer my head.
Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired or wished below;
And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.
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(5th Hymn)Robert Robinson
COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Calls for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious measure
Sung by flaming tongues above;
O the vast, the boundless treasure
Of my Lord’s unchanging love!
Here I find my greatest treasure;
‘Hither by thy help I’ve come’.
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Take my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.
