As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams Tate and Brady

As pants the hart for cooling streams – Tate and Brady Tate and Brady As pants the hart for cooling streams,When heated in the chase, As pants the hart for cooling streams,When heated in the chase,So longs my soul, O God, for thee,And thy refreshing grace. For thee, my God, the living God,My thirsty soul […]

ASHAMED OF JESUS Joseph Grigg

ASHAMED OF JESUS – Joseph Grigg Jesus and shall it ever beA mortal man ashamed of Thee!Ashamed of Thee, whom angels praise,Whose glories shine thro’endless days? Ashamed of Jesus! sooner farLet evening blush to own a star:He sheds the beams of light divineO’er this benighted soul of mine. Ashamed of Jesus! that dear FriendOn whom […]

ABIDING A. B. Simpson

ABIDING – A. B. Simpson I have learned the wondrous secretOf abiding in the Lord;I have found the strength and sweetnessOf confiding in His Word.I have tasted life’s pure fountain,I am trusting in His blood;I have lost myself in Jesus,I am sinking into God. I am crucified with Jesus,And He lives and dwells with me;I […]

A BED IN MY HEART Martin Luther

A BED IN MY HEART – Martin Luther Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child, Make Thee a bed, soft, UN-defiled,Within my heart, that it may be A quiet chamber kept for Thee.My heart for very joy doth leap,My lips no more can silence keep. I too must sing, with joyful tongue, That sweetest ancient cradle song,Glory […]

A Cradle Poem

Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child -Isaac Watts Hush!my dear, lie still and slumber,Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou’rt […]

A SWARM OF FLYS

A SWARM OF FLYS Fly from self, and fly from sn,Fly the world’s tumultuous din;Fly its pleasures, fly its cares,Fly its freindhsip, fly its snares. Fly the sinner’s hast’ning doom,Fly and ‘scape the wrath to come.Fly to Jesus, He’s the road,Fly throu Him alone to God. Fly to mercy’s gracious seat,Fly, ’tis sorrow’s last retreat;Fly […]

A LITTLE BIRD I AM Madame Guyon

A LITTLE BIRD I AM- Madame Guyon A little bird I amShut from the fields of air;Yet in my cage I sit and singTo Him who placed me there;Well pleased a presoner to be,Because my God, it pleases Thee. Naught have I else to do;I sing the whole day long;And He whom most I love […]

All, All Is Known to Thee

All Is Known to Thee “When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then Thou knewest my path.” My God, whose gracious pity I may claim, Calling Thee Father — sweet, endearing name! The sufferings of this weak and weary frame. All, all are known to Thee. From human eye ’tis better to conceal Much that […]

A Little While Jane Crewdson

A Little While – Jane Crewdson Oh! for the peace which floweth as a river, Making life’s desert places bloom and smile ! Oh! for a faith to grasp heaven’s bright ” for ever,” Amid the shadows of earth’s ” little while ! “ “A little while” for patient vigil-keeping, To face the storm, to […]

A Little While Jane Crewdson

A Little While – Jane Crewdson Oh! for the peace which floweth as a river, Making life’s desert places bloom and smile ! Oh! for a faith to grasp heaven’s bright ” for ever,” Amid the shadows of earth’s ” little while ! “ “A little while” for patient vigil-keeping, To face the storm, to […]

Alas, what hourly dangers rise! Anne Steele

Alas, what hourly dangers rise! Anne Steele Alas, what hourly dangers rise!What snares beset my way!To heaven O let me lift my eyes,And hourly watch and pray. How oft my mournful thoughts complain,And melt in flowing tears!My weak resistance, ah, how vain!How strong my foes and fears! O gracious God, in whom I live,My feeble […]

AWAY WITH HIM Hannes Zegement Grove

AWAY WITH HIM Hannes Zegement Grove AWAY WITH HIM Away with Him, the crowd cried out that dayCrucify Him, the crowd wanted Him to payAway, away with Him the crowd did not knowThat God had a plan for humanity to showNow Jesus blood is on their hands, through the choice they made Away with Him, […]

AS THE SPRING Hannes Zegement Grove

AS THE SPRING – Hannes Zegement Grove AS THE SPRING As the spring brings forth new blossomsMy heart and soul seeketh for happier songsAs nature begins to show her beautiful faceOn my knees I fall begging the Lord for more graceFor this year only, winter and sorrow I kindly embraced As spring makes the flowers […]

A MAN ASKED Hannes Zegement Grove

A MAN ASKED – Hannes Zegement Grove A MAN ASKED A man asked 2 pastors,How large is your congregation? Thabo said, “Mine is 300 and still growing … and yours Mpho? “I have 30 members in my church …I am a Shepherd …I know them all by name …Their troubles and difficulties …Where they stand with […]

Another Year Gone By Martha Petrusevich

Another Year Gone – Martha Petrusevich As I look back, at days, that seem to fly,Thinking of this year that has gone by.Knowing, it will never come to me once more,It’s gone forever, and will be no more. As I look at my life to find and see,Was Jesus clearly seen in me?Did His life […]

At the Lord’s Table Horatius Bonar

At the Lord’s Table – Horatius Bonar Horatius Bonar Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen, Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen,Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace,And all my weariness upon Thee […]

As Pants the Hart Tate and Brady

As Pants the Hart – Tate and Brady Tate and Brady As pants the hart for cooling streams,When heated in the chase;So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,And Thy refreshing grace. For Thee, my God, the living God,My thirsty soul doth pine;Oh, when shall I behold Thy face,Thou Majesty divine? Why restless, why cast […]

Allured into the Desert Gerhard Tersteegen

Allured into the Desert – Gerhard Tersteegen Allured into the desert,With God alone, apart,Allured into the desert,With God alone, apart,There spirit meeteth spirit,There speaketh heart to heart. Far, far on that untrodden shore,God’s secret place I find;Alone I pass the golden door,The dearest left behind.There God and I—none other;Oh far from men to be! Nay, […]

All Must Be Well Mary Bowley Peters

All Must Be Well – Mary Bowley Peters Mary Bowley Peters Through the love of God our Saviour,All will be well; Through the love of God our Saviour,All will be well;Free and changeless is His favor,All, all is well;Precious is the blood that heal’d us,Perfect is the grace that seal’d us,Strong the hand stretch’d out […]

Alone, Yet Not Alone

Alone, Yet Not Alone When no kind earthly friend is near,With gentle words my heart to cheer, When no kind earthly friend is near,With gentle words my heart to cheer,Still am I with my Saviour dear:“Alone, yet not alone.” Though no loved forms my path attend,With tender looks o’er me to bend,Yet am I with […]

All Is Light

All Is Light What though storm-clouds gather round me,Hovering darkly o’er my way? What though storm-clouds gather round me,Hovering darkly o’er my way?While I see the cross of CalvaryBeaming with celestial ray,All is light, all is light! What though mortal powers may falter?Earthly plans and prospects fail?With a heaven-born hope which enterethE’en to that within […]

A Quiet Mind

A Quiet Mind I have a treasure which I prize;Its like I cannot find: I have a treasure which I prize;Its like I cannot find:There’s nothing like it on the earth;’Tis this — a quiet mind. But ’tis not that I’m stupefied,Or senseless, dull, or blind;’Tis God’s own peace within my heart,Which forms my quiet […]

All People That on Earth Do Dwell

All People That on Earth Do Dwell All people that on earth do dwell,Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice: All people that on earth do dwell,Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice:Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell;Come ye before him and rejoice. The Lord, ye know, is God indeed;Without our aid he […]

Almighty Maker of My Frame Anne Steele

Almighty Maker of My Frame – Anne Steele Almighty Maker of my frame,Teach me the measure of my days, Almighty Maker of my frame,Teach me the measure of my days,Teach me to know how frail I am,And spend the remnant to thy praise. My days are shorter than a span;A little point my life appears:How […]

A Hymn Repeated by John Brown

A Hymn Repeated by – John Brown for denying the efficacy of the mass O Lord, I yield me to thy grace, Grant me mercy for my trespass; Let never the fiend my soul chase. Lord, I will bow, and thou shalt beat, Let never my soul come in hell-heat. as he was burnt to […]

After

After After the rain, the sunlight is brighter; After a storm, the breezes are lighter; After an absence, friends are the dearer, After a sorrow, God seemeth nearer. After a battle, peace is the sweeter, After a trial, life is completer. After the tempest, clouds shall be riven; After the cross the crown shall be […]

After a While James Rowe

After a While – James Rowe After a while our sky will be bright, Sunshine will banish shadows of night, Evil will cease our souls to defile, We shall be happy after a while. After awhile, the storm will be past, Billows asleep, our anchor be cast, We shall have reached the beautiful isle, Heaven […]

A Touch Of The Master’s Hand Myrna Brooks Welch

A Touch Of The Master’s Hand – Myrna Brooks Welch T’was battered and scarred, and the auctioneer:Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin,But held it up with a smile:“What am I bidden, good folk,” he cried,“Who’ll start the bidding for me?”“A dollar, a dollar”; then “Two!” “Only two?Two dollars, […]

A Woman in Hospital Fay Inchfawn

A Woman in Hospital – Fay Inchfawn I know it all . . . I know.For I am God. I am Jehovah, HeWho made you what you are; and I can seeThe tears that wet your pillow night by night,When nurse has lowered that too-brilliant light;When the talk ceases, and the ward grows still,And you […]