Name that hymn

[MotherBluestocking]

A man that looks on glass
On it may stay his eye

Larry is good! Here's another puzzler...

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be.......

Yes Effiels, love In Christ Alone!

Acasualobserver
'Nearer and nearer draws the time....'
It is a missionary hymn apparently...my father, who was a mid-high church Anglican clergyman was horrified when DH and I chose that hymn for our wedding in 1994. We stuck with it as we both loved it so much...but not only was it not very apposite for a wedding, but no-one knew it and the wonder of it was lost among the odd reedy voice, DF's and ours!

Grammar I love that hymn. I envy anyone who was ever a cathedral chorister. I would love to do that. Shame I can't sing well enough or read music.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE HYMNS but they became ruined for me by an ex who was a great singer and sang in church. I hear them in his voice. I love Servant King, gots an appointment so got to dash, placemarking to come back with my faves.

I think I've only ever sung this hymn once but these words sent a shiver down my spine and I've remembered them ever since:

Soon shall close thy earthly mission,
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days

Any takers? By one of the best known hymn writers and probably my favourite.

Now let the world sing praises
And earth her song begin
The round world make high triumph
And all that is therein!

Bumpsie is that Now the green blade riseth?

All these old old methodist/missionary type hymns remind me of my dad. He used to play " there is a happy land" on the piano and sing his own words...

There is a happy land far far away
Where they eat bread and jam three times a day
Oh how they sweetly sing when the bread and jam comes in
Oh how they sweetly sing
Three times a day !

And i have no idea what the right words are!

Another one from dad and a real one was

Stand up clap hands shout that you Lord!

Thank you for the world I'm in.

The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;

o let it freely burn,
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
and let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.

(spot the connection).

Ah yes, another lovely one Effiel - Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

Also Wesleyan, of course

Emily that's the one I started earlier, For All the Saints. Isn't it a fantastic one to belt out?

Used to sing it in the cathedral every Ascension Day, while processing round with palm branches, and the sunlight pouring in through the stained glass. Then they put the whole school on a coach and took us to Alton Towers I am unsure of the religious significance of this

Here's another one:

His chariots of wrath
The deep thunder clouds form
And dark is his path
On the wings of the storm

PS are they both Wesley tunes and/or words?

O, Worship the King.
BogBurglar99 Both Ralph Vaughan Williams. (Sorry I missed it before).
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea (always had mental image of celestial curling match).

Which wert and art and ever more shall be

That's two of the better tunes Vaughan Williams ever wrote then! (Not prejudiced )

Same image exactly! 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty'.

Re dear lord and father - It's reclothe us in our rightful minds, isn't it? A beautiful phrase I always think, especially if on has sometimes not been in one's rightful mind...

Can't believe hobgoblins and foul fiends have been written out. How stupid. I would sing the original!

The first is For all the saints and the second is Come down O love divine, and the connection is I think the tune for both is by Vaughn Williams?

Oh don't say that - I love RVW and think the Five Mystical songs are amazing especially as he was an agnostic
I nothing lack if I am his
And he is mine for e-e-ver.

Quite right Throughthickandthing aaargh, that thread!

Emily Alice I was just going to put in Come Down oh Love Divine. Reminds me of my (Methodist) teacher training college. Sung at Pentecost.

Low at His feet lay thy burden of carefulness,
High on His heart He will bear it for thee,
Comfort thy sorrows and answer thy prayerfulness,
Guiding thy steps as may best for thee be.

Sang Five Mystical Songs a few Easters ago - love them, and we had a wonderful Baritone with us.

Bowdlerisation is awful - there is an alternative version of For all the Saints which I hate (ditto for most of the changed ones - esp getting rid of hobgoblins and foul fiends.)

Oh, let me hear Thee speaking,
In accents clear and still,
Above the storms of passion,
The murmurs of self-will;
Oh, speak to reassure me,
To hasten, or control;
Oh, speak, and make me listen,
Thou Guardian of my soul.

Lumpy Oceans ?