St Mary’s – Ecclesfield
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Shall we evade the conflict, and cast away our crown? Not so: in God's deep counsels some better thing is stored: we will maintain, unflinching, one Church, one Faith, one Lord. 5. Thy mercy will not fail us, nor leave thy work undone; with thy right hand to help us, the vict'ry shall be won; and then by all creation, thy name shall be adored. And this shall be their anthem: One Church, one Faith, one Lord. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
the passing ages pray; and faithful souls have yearned to see on earth that kingdom's day. 2. But the slow watches of the night not less to God belong; and for the everlasting right the silent stars are strong. 3. And lo, already on the hills the flags of dawn appear; gird up your loins, ye prophet souls, proclaim the day is near. 4. The day in whose clear-shining light all wrong shall stand revealed, when justice shall be throned in might, and ev'ry hurt be healed. 5. When knowledge, hand in hand with peace, shall walk the earth abroad: the day of perfect righteousness, the promised day of God. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
thy rule, O Christ, begin; break with thine iron rod the tyrannies of sin. 2. Where is thy reign of peace and purity and love? When shall all hatred cease, as in the realms above? 3. When comes the promised time that war shall be no more, and lust, oppression, crime shall flee thy face before? 4. We pray thee, Lord, arise, and come in thy great might; revive our longing eyes, which languish for thy sight. 5. Some scorn thy sacred name, and wolves devour thy fold; by many deeds of shame we learn that love grows cold. 6. O'er lands both near and far thick darkness broodeth yet: arise, O morning star, arise, and never set. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand, choose out the path for me. 2. Smooth let it be or rough, it will be still the best; winding or straight, it leads right onward to thy rest. 3. I dare not choose my lot; I would not if I might: choose thou for me, my God, so I shall walk aright. 4. The kingdom that I seek is thine, so let the way that leads to it be thine, else I must surely stray. 5. Take thou my cup, and it with joy or sorrow fill, as best to thee may seem; choose thou my good and ill. 6. Choose thou for me my friends, my sickness or my health; choose thou my cares for me, my poverty or wealth. 7. Not mine, not mine, the choice in things or great or small; be thou my guide, my strength, my wisdom, and my all. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
to sit at your feet, where your love surrounds me and makes me complete. This is my desire, O Lord, this is my desire, this is my desire, O Lord, this is my desire. 2. To rest in your presence, not rushing away, to cherish each moment, here I would stay. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
great things he hath done; so loved he the world that he gave us his Son; who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life-gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord! let the earth hear his voice; praise the Lord, praise the Lord! let the people rejoice: O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory; great things he hath done. 2. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood! to ev'ry believer the promise of God; the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. 3. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; but purer, and higher, and greater will be our wonder, our rapture, when Jesus we see. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
to God be the glory, to God be the glory for the things he has done. With his blood he has saved me; with his pow'r he has raised me. To God be the glory for the things he has done. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
in hymns of adoration; to thee bring sacrifice of praise with shouts of exultation: bright robes of gold the fields adorn, the hills with joy are ringing, the valleys stand so thick with corn that even they are singing. 2. And now, on this our festal day, thy bounteous hand confessing, upon thine altar, Lord, we lay the first-fruits of thy blessing: by thee our souls are truly fed with gifts of grace supernal; thou who doss give us earthly bread, give us the bread eternal. 3. We bear the burden of the day, and often toil seems dreary; but labour ends with sunset ray, and rest comes for the weary: may we, the angel-reaping o'er, stand at the last accepted, Christ's golden sheaves for evermore to garners bright elected. 4. O blessed is that land of God, where saints abide for ever; where golden fields spread far and broad, where flows the crystal river: the strains of all its holy throng with ours today are blending; thrice blessed is that harvest-song which never hash an ending. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
laud and honour let us pay, which for many a generation hid in God's foreknowledge lay, but with holy exultation we may sing aloud today. 2. Jesus is the name we treasure, name beyond what words can tell; name of gladness, name of pleasure, ear and heart delighting well; name of sweetness passing measure, saving us from sin and hell. 3. 'Tis the name for adoration, name for songs of victory; name for holy meditation in the vale of misery; name for joyful veneration by the citizens on high. 4. 'Tis the name that whoso preacheth speaks like music to the ear; who in prayer this name beseecheth sweetest comfort findeth near; who its perfect wisdom reacheth heav'nly joy possesseth here. 5. Jesus is the name exalted over ev'ry other name; in this name, whene'er assaulted, we can put our foes to shame: strength to them who else had halted, eyes to blind, and feet to lame. 6. Therefore we in love adoring this most blessed name revere, holy Jesus, thee imploring so to write it in us here, that hereafter, heav'nward soaring,
_________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 687 Puer nobis nascitur 15th century trans. Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) alt. © Oxford University Press 1. Unto us a boy is born! King of all creation; came he to a world forlorn, the Lord of ev'ry nation, the Lord of ev'ry nation.
watched by cows and asses; but the very beasts could see that he the world surpasses, that he the world surpasses.
'Pow'r is mine in Jewry!' So the blameless children died the victims of his fury, the victims of his fury.
long ago to love us, lead us all with hearts aflame unto the joys above us, unto the joys above us.
Let the organ thunder, while the choir with peals of glee shall rend the air asunder, shall rend the air asunder. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 688 Reginald Heber (1783-1826) 1. Virgin-born, we bow before thee: blessèd was the womb that bore thee; Mary, maid and mother mild, blessèd was she in her child. 2. Blessèd was the breast that fed thee; blessèd was the hand that led thee; blessèd was the parent's eye that watched thy slumb'ring infancy. 3. Blessèd she by all creation, who brought forth the world's salvation, blessèd they, for ever blest, who love thee most and serve thee best. 4. Virgin-born, we bow before thee: blessèd was the womb that bore thee; Mary, maid and mother mild, blessèd was she in her child. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
salvation's day is near, and let the dawn of light and truth dispel the night of fear. 2. Let us prepare to face the day of judgement and of grace, to live as people of the light, and perfect truth embrace. 3. Watch then and pray, we cannot know the moment or the hour, when Christ, unheralded, will come with life-renewing power. 4. Then shall the nations gather round as futile conflicts cease, and reinvest the means of war in justice, truth and peace. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
the watchmen all the air are filling: arise, Jerusalem, arise! Midnight strikes! no more delaying, `The hour has come!' we hear them saying. Where are ye all, ye maidens wise? The Bridegroom comes in sight, raise high your torches bright! Alleluia! The wedding song swells loud and strong: go forth and join the festal throng. 2. Sion hears the watchmen shouting, her heart leaps up with joy undoubting, she stands and waits with eager eyes; see her Friend from heav'n descending, adorned with truth and grace unending! her light burns clear, her star doth rise. Now come, thou precious Crown, Lord Jesu, God's own son! Hosanna! Let us prepare to follow there, where in thy supper we may share. 3. Ev'ry soul in thee rejoices; from earthly and angelic voices be glory giv'n to thee alone! Now the gates of pearl receive us, thy presence never more shall leave us, we stand with angels round thy throne. Earth cannot give below the bliss thou doss bestow. Alleluia! Grant us to raise, to length of days, the triumph-chorus of thy praise. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
at the close of day, Adam tried to hide him when he heard God say: `Why are you so frightened, why are you afraid? You have brought the winter in, made the flowers fade.' 2. Walking in a garden where the Lord had gone, three of the disciples, Peter, James, and John; they were very weary, could not keep awake, while the Lord was kneeling there, praying for their sake. 3. Walking in a garden at the break of day, Mary asked the gard'ner where the body lay; but he turned towards her, smiled at her and said: `Mary, spring is here to stay, only death is dead.' _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
We are marching, Oo-ooh! We are marching in the fight of God. (Repeat)
_________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 693 Graham Kendrick (b. 1950) © 1986 Thankyou Music 1. We believe in God the Father, maker of the universe, and in Christ, his Son our Saviour, come to us by virgin birth. We believe he died to save us, bore our sins, was crucified; then from death he rose victorious, ascended to the Father's side. Jesus, Lord of all, Lord of all; (x4) name above all names, name above all names! 2. We believe he sends his Spirit on his Church with gifts of pow'r; God, his word of truth affirming, sends us to the nations now. He will come again in glory, judge the living and the dead: ev'ry knee shall bow before him, then must ev'ry tongue confess. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
our sisters and our brothers in the faith, who are imprisoned, threatened, persecuted, just for believing what we, too, believe. Trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy. 2. We call to mind all those whose lives are blighted by fear of war or terrorist attack, by fam'ly feuding, conflict, degradation, or by the gods of nation and of state. 3. We call to mind those captive to addiction, those kept in chains by bitterness or guilt, grant them assurance, healing, consolation, and life in all its fullness, here and now. 4. We call to mind all those who care for others, and those whose lives depend upon their care, may they be partners in God's work of healing, a sign of hope and joy within God's world. 5. We call to mind all those whose lives have ended, and all who watch and wait where death is near, those who are grieving, praying, giving comfort, and slowly easing sadness into hope. 6. We call to mind the times of pain and anger, when you have loved, encouraged and sustained, through and deserts, flooding, darkened valleys, and we give thanks for all your faithful love. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
or answer ev'ry suff'rer's prayer, yet we believe your grace responds where faith and doubt unite to care. Your hands, though bloodied on the cross, survive to hold and heal and warn, to carry all through death to life and cradle children yet unborn. 2. The pain that will not go away, the guilt that clings from things long past, the fear of what the future holds, are present as if meant to last. But present too is love which tends the hurt we never hoped to find, the private agonies inside, the memories that haunt the mind. 3. So some have come who need your help and some have come to make amends, as hands which shaped and saved the world are present in the touch of friends. Lord, let your Spirit meet us here to mend the body, mind and soul, to disentangle peace from pain and make your broken people whole. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
but it's God who gives the harvest. Cures can be made from herbs and from weeds, but it's God who gives the harvest. Ev'rything beneath the sun, all the things we claim we've done, all are part of God's creation: we can meet people's needs with things we grow from seed, but it's God who gives the harvest. 2. We find the iron and turn it to steel, but it's God who gives the harvest. We pull the levers, we turn the wheels, but it's God who gives the harvest. Ev'rything we say we've made, plastic bags to metal spades, all are part of God's creation: we can make lots of things from microchips to springs, but it's God who gives the harvest. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 697 Susan Sayers (b. 1946) © 2004 Kevin Mayhew Ltd 1. We gather here, we gather now, drawn by the love we know and share. We come to celebrate in our joy the union of this bridal pair. To them our hearts reach out with love, on them the light of heav'n above shines down in grace abundant and free to bless them both eternally. 2. And we who join to wish them well, offer them both our love and pray'r that they may walk in fullness of life the journey they have come to share. That they may know if storms come near that they have friends and fam'ly here for we commit ourselves to pray and love and cherish them each day. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
to God the Father's love for all our comforts here and better hopes above: he sent his own eternal Son, to die for sins that we had done. 2. To God the Son belongs immortal glory too, who bought us with his blood from everlasting woe: and now he lives, and now he reigns, and sees the fruit of all his pains. 3. To God the Spirit's name immortal worship give, whose new-creating pow'r makes the dead sinner live: his work completes the great design, and fills the soul with joy divine. 4. To God the Trinity be endless honours done, the undivided Three, and the mysterious One: where reason fails with all her pow'rs, there faith prevails, and love adores. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
O Christ our great High Priest, o'er sin and death victorious, at thy thanksgiving feast: as thou art interceding for us in heav'n above, thy Church on earth is pleading thy perfect work of love. 2. Through thee in ev'ry nation thine own their hearts upraise, off'ring one pure oblation, one sacrifice of praise: with thee in blest communion the living and the dead are joined in closest union, one Body with one Head. 3. O living bread from heaven, Jesu, our Saviour good, who thine own self hast given to be our souls' true food; for us thy body broken hung on the cross of shame: this bread its hallowed token we break in thy dear name. 4. O stream of love unending, poured from the one true vine, with our weak nature blending the strength of life divine; our thankful faith confessing in thy life-blood outpoured, we drink this cup of blessing and praise thy name, O Lord. 5. May we, thy word believing, thee through thy gifts receive, that, thou within us living, we all to God may live; draw us from earth to heaven till sin and sorrow cease, forgiving and forgiven, in love and joy and peace. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
this nation will arise, and truly live according to its creed, that all are equal in their maker's eyes, and none shall suffer through another's greed. 2. We have a dream that one day we shall see a world of justice, truth and equity, where sons of slaves and daughters of the free will share the banquet of community. 3. We have a dream of deserts brought to flow'r once made infertile by oppression's heat, when love and truth shall end oppressive pow'r, and streams of righteousness and justice meet. 4. We have a dream: our children shall be free from judgements based on colour or on race; free to become whatever they may be, of their own choosing in the light of grace. 5. We have a dream that truth will overcome the fear and anger of our present day; that black and white will share a common home, and hand in hand will walk the pilgrim way. 6. We have a dream: each valley will be raised, and ev'ry mountain, ev'ry hill brought down; then shall creation echo perfect praise, and share God's glory under freedom's crown! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
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