![[Video+Lyrics] Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above](https://songsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/video-lyrics-pleasant-are-thy-courts-above-1080x675.jpg)
by Songs Archive | Jan 21, 2021 | Hymns, Lyrics, Video
LYRICS
1 PLEASANT are thy courts above,
In the land of light and love;
Pleasant are thy courts below,
In this land of sin and woe.
O! my spirit longs and faints
For the converse of thy saints,
For the brightness of thy face,
For thy fullness, God of grace!
2 Happy birds that sing and fly
Round thy altars, O most High!
Happier souls that find a rest
In a heavenly Father’s breast!
Like the wandering dove that found
No repose on earth around,
The can to their ark repair,
And enjoy it ever there.
3 Happy souls! their praises flow
Even in this vale of woe;
Waters in the desert rise,
Manna feeds them from the skies
On they go from strength to strength,
Till they reach thy throne at length;
At thy feet adoring fall,
Who hast led them safe through all.
4 Lord be mine this prize to win:
Guide me through a world of sin;
Keep me by Thy saving grace;
Give me by Thy side a place
Sun and shield alike thou art,
Guide and guard my erring heart;
Grace and glory flow from thee:
Shower, O shower them, Lord, on me!
Lyrics: H. F. Lyte
Tune: W. B. Gilbert
![[Video+Lyrics] Praise to The Lord](https://songsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/video-lyrics-praise-to-the-lord-1080x675.jpg)
by Songs Archive | Jan 21, 2021 | Hymns, Lyrics, Video
LYRICS
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,
the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy
health and salvation!
All ye who hear,
Now to His temple draw near;
Sing now in glad adoration!
Praise to the Lord, who o’er all
things so wondrously reigneth,
Who, as on wings of an eagle,
uplifteth, sustaineth.
Hast thou not seen
How thy desires all have been
Granted in what He ordaineth?
Praise to the Lord, who hath fearfully,
wondrously, made thee!
Health hath vouchsafed and, when
heedlessly falling, hath stayed thee.
What need or grief
Ever hath failed of relief?
Wings of His mercy did shade thee.
Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper
thy work and defend thee,
Surely His goodness and mercy
shall daily attend thee Ponder anew
What the Almighty can do,
If to the end He befriend thee.
Praise to the Lord! Oh, let all that
is in me adore Him!
All that hath life and breath, come
now with praises before Him!
Let the Amen
Sound from His people again;
Gladly for aye we adore Him.
Lyrics: Joachim Neander Translated by Catherine Winkworth
![[Video+Lyrics] Onward Christian Soldiers](https://songsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/video-lyrics-onward-christian-soldiers-1080x675.jpg)
by Songs Archive | Jan 21, 2021 | Hymns, Lyrics, Video
LYRICS
1. Onward Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See, His banners go!
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus,
Going on before.
2.At the sign of triumph
Satan’s host doth flee;
On then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise:
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise!
3. Like a mighty army
Moves the Church of God:
Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod;
We are not divided,
All one Body we—
One in faith and Spirit,
One eternally.
4. Crowns and thrones may perish,
Kingdoms rise and wane;
But the Church of Jesus
Constant will remain.
Gates of hell can never
’Gainst the Church prevail;
We have Christ’s own promise,
Which can never fail.
5. Onward, then, ye people!
Join our happy throng;
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor
Unto Christ, the King;
This through countless ages
Men and angels sing.
Lyrics: Sabine Baring-Gould
Tune: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
![[Video+Lyrics] Thine Arm, O Lord](https://songsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/video-lyrics-thine-arm-o-lord-1080x675.jpg)
by Songs Archive | Jan 21, 2021 | Hymns, Lyrics, Video
LYRICS
Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old,
Was strong to heal and save;
It triumphed o’er disease and death,
O’er darkness and the grave.
To Thee they went, the blind, the dumb,
The palsied and the lame,
The leper with his tainted life,
The sick with fevered frame.
And lo! Thy touch brought life and health,
Gave speech, and strength and sight;
And youth renewed and fear relieved
Owned Thee, the Lord of light;
And now, O Lord, be near to bless,
Almighty as of yore,
In crowded street, by restless couch,
As by Gennesaret’s shore.
Be Thou our great deliverer still,
Thou Lord of life and death;
Restore and quicken, soothe and bless,
With Thine almighty breath.
To hands that work and eyes that see,
Give wisdom’s heavenly lore,
That whole and sick, and weak and strong,
May praise Thee evermore.
Lyrics: Edward H. Plumptre (1864)
Tune: William Croft (1708)
![[Video+Lyrics] Dear Lord and Father of Mankind](https://songsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/video-lyrics-dear-lord-and-father-of-mankind-1080x675.jpg)
by Songs Archive | Jan 21, 2021 | Hymns, Lyrics, Video
LYRICS
1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
reclothe us in our rightful mind,
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard
beside the Syrian sea
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow thee.
3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
4 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
5 Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (1872)
