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[
{
"song_number": "26",
"bare_song_number": 26,
"song_title": "Samaria",
"composer_source": "Maggie Denson Cagle",
"composition_date": 1936,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "My spirit looks to God alone,\nMy rock and refuge is His throne;\nIn all my fears, in all my straits,\nMy soul on His salvation waits.\nTrust Him ye saints in all your ways,\nPour out your hearts before His face;\nWhen helpers fail, and foes invade,\nGod is our all-sufficient aid.\nMake not increasing gold your trust,\nNor set your hearts on glitt’ring dust;\nWhy will you grasp the fleeting smoke,\nAnd not believe what God hath spoke?\nFor sov’reign pow’r reign not alone,\nGrace is the partner of the throne;\nThy grace and justice mighty Lord,\nShall well divide our last reward.",
"time_signature": "6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "27",
"bare_song_number": 27,
"song_title": "Bethel",
"composer_source": "",
"composition_date": "",
"poet_source": "William Cowper",
"poet_date": 1772,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Oh for a closer walk with God,\nA calm and heav’nly frame,\nA light to shine upon the road\nThat leads me to the Lamb!\nWhere is the blessedness I knew,\nWhen first I saw the Lord?\nWhere is the soul-refreshing view\nOf Jesus and His word?\nWhat peaceful hours I once enjoyed!\nHow sweet their mem’ry still!\nBut they have left an aching void\nThe world can never fill.\nReturn Oh holy Dove, return,\nSweet messenger of rest!\nI hate the sins that made Thee mourn,\nAnd drove Thee from my breast.\nThe dearest idol I have known,\nWhate’er that idol be,\nHelp me to tear it from Thy throne,\nAnd worship only Thee.\nSo shall my walk be close with God,\nCalm and serene my frame,\nSo purer light shall mark the road\nThat leads me to the Lamb.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "28b",
"bare_song_number": 28,
"song_title": "Wells",
"composer_source": "Israel Holdroyd",
"composition_date": 1724,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Life is the time to serve the Lord,\nThe time t’insure the great reward;\nAnd while the lamp holds out to burn\nThe vilest sinner may return.\nLife is the hour that God has giv’n,\nTo escape hell and fly to heav’n;\nThe day of grace, and mortals may\nSecure the blessing of the day.\nThe living know that they must die,\nBut all the dead forgotten lie;\nTheir mem’ry and their sense is gone,\nAlike unknowing and unknown.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "28t",
"bare_song_number": 28,
"song_title": "Aylesbury",
"composer_source": "A Book of Psalmody",
"composition_date": 1718,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "The God we worship now,\nWill guide us till we die,\nWill be our God while here below,\nAnd ours above the sky.\nHow decent and how wise!\nHow glorious to behold,\nBeyond the pomp that charms the eye,\nAnd rites adorned with gold.\nFar as Thy name is known,\nThe world declares Thy praise;\nThy saints, Oh Lord, before Thy throne\nTheir songs of honor raise.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "29b",
"bare_song_number": 29,
"song_title": "Tribulation",
"composer_source": "Patterson’s Church Music",
"composition_date": 1813,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1709,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Death, ’tis a melancholy day\nTo those who have no God,\nWhen the poor soul is forced away,\nTo seek her last abode.\nIn vain to heav’n she lifts her eyes,\nFor guilt, a heavy chain,\nStill drags her downward from the skies\nTo darkness, fire, and pain.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "29t",
"bare_song_number": 29,
"song_title": "Fairfield",
"composer_source": "Hitchcock",
"composition_date": "",
"poet_source": "Edmund Jones",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast\nA thousand thoughts revolve,\nCome, with your guilt and fear oppressed,\nAnd make this last resolve.\nI’ll go to Jesus, though my sin\nHath like a mountain rose;\nI know His courts, I’ll enter in,\nWhatever may oppose.\nI can but perish if I go,\nI am resolved to try,\nFor if I stay away I know\nI must forever die.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "30b",
"bare_song_number": 30,
"song_title": "Prospect",
"composer_source": "Graham",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Why should we start and fear to die?\nWhat tim’rous worms we mortals are!\nDeath is the gate to endless joy,\nAnd yet we dread to enter there.\nThe pains, the groans, the dying strife,\nFright our approaching souls away;\nAnd we shrink back again to life,\nFond of our prison and our clay.\nOh if my Lord would come and meet,\nMy soul would stretch her wings in haste,\nFly fearless through death’s iron gate,\nNor feel the terrors as she passed.\nJesus can make a dying bed\nFeel soft as downy pillows are;\nWhile on His breast I lean my head,\nAnd breathe my life out sweetly there.",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "30t",
"bare_song_number": 30,
"song_title": "Love Divine",
"composer_source": "Thomas Waller",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1747,
"meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "Love divine, all love excelling,\nJoy of heav’n to earth come down;\nFix in us Thy humble dwelling,\nAll Thy faithful mercies crown!\nJesus, Thou art all compassion,\nPure, unbounded love Thou art;\nVisit us with Thy Salvation;\nEnter ev’ry trembling heart.",
"time_signature": "2/4"
},
{
"song_number": "31b",
"bare_song_number": 31,
"song_title": "Webster",
"composer_source": "Southern Harmony",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Come, we who love the Lord,\nAnd let our joys be known:\nJoin in a song with sweet accord\nAnd thus surround the throne.\nLet those refuse to sing\nWho never knew our God;\nBut servants of the heav’nly King\nMay speak their joys abroad.\nThe God that rules on high,\nThat all the earth surveys,\nThat rides upon the stormy sky,\nAnd calms the roaring sea.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "31t",
"bare_song_number": 31,
"song_title": "Ninety-Third Psalm",
"composer_source": "Lucius Chapin",
"composition_date": 1812,
"poet_source": "Philip Doddridge",
"poet_date": 1755,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Grace! ’Tis a charming sound,\nHarmonious to the ear;\nHeav’n with the echo shall resound,\nAnd all the earth shall hear.\nGrace first contrived the way\nTo save rebellious man;\nAnd all the steps that grace display,\nWhich drew the wondrous plan.\nGrace taught my wand’ring feet\nTo tread the heav’nly road;\nAnd new supplies each hour I meet,\nWhile pressing on to God.\nGrace all the work shall crown\nThrough everlasting days;\nIt lays in heav’n the topmost stone,\nAnd well deserves our praise.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "32b",
"bare_song_number": 32,
"song_title": "Distress",
"composer_source": "Southern Harmony",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Anne Steele",
"poet_date": 1760,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "So fades the lovely blooming flow’r,\nFrail, smiling solace of an hour;\nSo soon our transient comforts fly,\nAnd pleasure only blooms to die.\nIs there no kind, no healing art,\nTo soothe the anguish of the heart?\nSpirit of grace, be ever nigh;\nThy comforts are not made to die.\nLet gentle patience smile on pain,\nTill dying hope revives again,\nHope wipes the tear from sorrow’s eye,\nAnd faith points upward to the sky.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "32t",
"bare_song_number": 32,
"song_title": "Corinth",
"composer_source": "John Massengale",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Joseph Grigg",
"poet_date": 1765,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Jesus, and shall it ever be,\nA mortal man ashamed of Thee?\nAshamed of Thee whom angels praise,\nWhose glories shine through endless days.\nAshamed of Jesus! just as soon\nLet midnight be ashamed of noon;\n’Tis midnight with my soul till He,\nBright morning star, bids darkness flee.\nAshamed of Jesus, sooner far\nLet evening blush to own a star;\nHe sheds the beams of light divine\nO’er this benighted soul of mine.\nAshamed of Jesus, that dear Friend\nOn whom my hopes of heav’n depend!\nNo, when I blush, be this my shame,\nThat I no more revere His name.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "33b",
"bare_song_number": 33,
"song_title": "Abbeville",
"composer_source": "E. J. King",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Benjamin Beddome",
"poet_date": 1800,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Come, Holy Spirit come,\nWith energy divine,\nAnd on this poor, benighted soul,\nWith beams of mercy shine.\nMelt, melt this frozen heart;\nThis stubborn will subdue;\nEach evil passion overcome,\nAnd form me all anew.\nMine will the profit be,\nBut Thine shall be the praise;\nAnd unto Thee will I devote\nThe remnant of my days.",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "33t",
"bare_song_number": 33,
"song_title": "Weeping Savior",
"composer_source": "E. J. King",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Benjamin Beddome",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Did Christ o’er sinners weep?\nAnd shall our cheeks be dry?\nLet floods of penitential grief\nBurst forth from ev’ry eye.\nThe Son of God in tears\nThe wond’ring angels see;\nBe thou astonished, Oh my soul,\nHe shed those tears for thee.\nHe wept that we might weep;\nEach sin demands a tear;\nIn heav’n alone no sin is found,\nAnd there’s no weeping there.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "34b",
"bare_song_number": 34,
"song_title": "St. Thomas",
"composer_source": "Aaron Williams",
"composition_date": 1770,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Come, sound His praise abroad,\nAnd hymns of glory sing;\nJehovah is the sov’reign God,\nThe universal King.\nHe formed the deeps unknown;\nHe gave the seas their bound;\nThe wat’ry worlds are all His own,\nAnd all the solid ground.\nCome, worship at His throne,\nCome bow before the Lord;\nWe are His works, and not our own,\nHe formed us by His word.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "34t",
"bare_song_number": 34,
"song_title": "The Gospel Pool",
"composer_source": "Edmund Dumas",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Beside the gospel pool,\nAppointed for the poor,\nFrom time to time my helpless soul,\nHas waited for a cure.\nBut whither can I go?\nThere is no other pool,\nWhere streams of sov’reign virtue flow,\nTo make a sinner whole.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "35",
"bare_song_number": 35,
"song_title": "Saints Bound For Heaven",
"composer_source": "J. King",
"composition_date": 1840,
"poet_source": "Elliott’s Sacred Lyre",
"poet_date": 1828,
"meter": "Particular Meter: 7,3,7,7,7,3",
"lyrics": "Our bondage it shall end\nBy and by,\nFrom Egypt’s yoke set free;\nHail the glorious jubilee,\nAnd to Canaan we’ll return,\nBy and by.\nOur deliverer He shall come\nBy and by,\nAnd our sorrows have an end,\nWith our three score years and ten,\nAnd vast glory crown the day\nBy and by.\nThough our enemies are strong,\nWe’ll go on,\nThough our hearts dissolve with fear,\nLo, Sinai’s God is near,\nWhile the fiery pillar moves,\nWe’ll go on.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "36b",
"bare_song_number": 36,
"song_title": "Ninety-Fifth",
"composer_source": "Patterson’s Church Music",
"composition_date": 1813,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "When I can read my title clear,\nTo mansions in the skies,\nI’ll bid farewell to ev’ry fear,\nAnd wipe my weeping eyes.\nShould earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts be hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world.\nThere I shall bathe my weary soul\nIn seas of heav’nly rest,\nAnd not a wave of trouble roll\nAcross my peaceful breast.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "36t",
"bare_song_number": 36,
"song_title": "America",
"composer_source": "Truman S. Wetmore",
"composition_date": 1798,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "My soul repeat His praise,\nWhose mercies are so great,\nWhose anger is so slow to rise,\nSo ready to abate.\nHigh as the heav’ns are raised,\nAbove the ground we tread,\nSo far the riches of His grace,\nOur highest thoughts exceed.\nHis pow’r subdues our sins,\nAnd His forgiving love,\nFar as the east is from the west,\nDoth all our guilt remove.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "37b",
"bare_song_number": 37,
"song_title": "Liverpool",
"composer_source": "M. C. H. Davis",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Hall’s New Collection",
"poet_date": 1804,
"meter": "",
"lyrics": "Young people, all attention give,\nAnd hear what I shall say;\nI wish your souls with Christ to live\nIn everlasting day.\n\nRemember you are hast’ning on\nTo death’s dark, gloomy shade;\nYour joys on earth will soon be gone,\nYour flesh in dust be laid.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "37t",
"bare_song_number": 37,
"song_title": "Ester",
"composer_source": "John S. Terry",
"composition_date": 1859,
"poet_source": "Hall’s New Collection",
"poet_date": 1804,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Young ladies, all attention give,\nYou that in wicked pleasures live;\nOne of your sex, the other day,\nWas called by death’s cold hand away.\nThis lesson she has left for you,\nTo teach the careless what to do;\nTo seek Jehovah while you live,\nAnd everlasting honors give.\nHer honored mother she addressed,\nWhile tears were streaming down her breast;\nShe grasped her tender hands and said,\n“Remember me when I am dead.”\nShe called her father to her bed,\nAnd thus, in dying anguish said:\n“My days on earth are at an end,\nMy soul is summoned to attend.\n“Before Jehovah’s awful bar,\nTo hear my awful sentence there;\nAnd now, dear father, do repent,\nAnd read the holy Testament.”",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "38b",
"bare_song_number": 38,
"song_title": "Windham",
"composer_source": "Daniel Read",
"composition_date": 1785,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Broad is the road that leads to death\nAnd thousands walk together there;\nBut wisdom shows a narrow path,\nWith here and there a traveler.\n“Deny thyself, and take thy cross,”\nIs the Redeemer’s great command;\nNature must count her gold but dross,\nIf she would gain this heav’nly land.\nThe fearful soul that tires and faints\nAnd walks the ways of God no more,\nIs but esteemed almost a saint,\nAnd makes his own destruction sure.\nLord, let not all my hopes be vain,\nCreate my heart entirely new,\nWhich hypocrites could ne’er attain,\nWhich false apostates never knew.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "38t",
"bare_song_number": 38,
"song_title": "Winter",
"composer_source": "Daniel Read",
"composition_date": 1785,
"poet_source": "Cole’s Pocket Edition",
"poet_date": 1834,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "His hoary frost, His fleecy snow,\nDescend and clothe the ground;\nThe liquid streams forbear to flow,\nIn icy fetters bound.\nHe sends His word, and melts the snow,\nThe fields no longer mourn;\nHe calls the warmer gales to blow,\nAnd bids the spring return.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "39b",
"bare_song_number": 39,
"song_title": "Sharpsburg",
"composer_source": "J. P. Reese",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "Philip Doddridge",
"poet_date": 1755,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Blest Jesus while in mortal flesh\nI hold my frail abode\nStill would my spirit rest on Thee,\nMy Savior and my God.\nOn Thy dear cross I fix my eyes,\nMy trust on Thee complete,\nTill love dissolves my inmost soul\nAt my Redeemer’s feet.\nBe dead my heart, to worldly charms,\nBe dead to ev’ry sin;\nAnd tell the boldest foe without\nThat Jesus reigns within.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "39t",
"bare_song_number": 39,
"song_title": "Detroit",
"composer_source": "Bradshaw",
"composition_date": 1820,
"poet_source": "Philip Doddridge",
"poet_date": 1755,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Do not I love Thee, Oh my Lord?\nBehold my heart, and see,\nAnd turn each cursed idol out,\nThat dares to rival Thee.\nDo not I love Thee from my soul?\nThen let me nothing love;\nDead be my heart to ev’ry joy\nWhen Jesus cannot move.\nThou know’st I love Thee, dearest Lord,\nBut Oh I long to soar\nFar from the sphere of mortal joys,\nAnd learn to love Thee more.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "40",
"bare_song_number": 40,
"song_title": "Lenox",
"composer_source": "Lewis Edson",
"composition_date": 1782,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1750,
"meter": "Meter Hallelujah (6,6,6,6,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Blow ye the trumpet blow,\nThe gladly solemn sound;\nLet all the nations know,\nTo earth’s remotest bound,\nThe year of Jubilee is come;\nReturn, ye ransomed sinners, home.\nExtol the Lamb of God,\nThe all-atoning Lamb;\nRedemption through his blood\nThroughout the world proclaim.\nThe gospel trumpet hear,\nThe news of heav’nly grace;\nAnd saved from earth appear\nBefore your Savior’s face.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "41",
"bare_song_number": 41,
"song_title": "Home in Heaven",
"composer_source": "W. W. Parks",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "William Hunter",
"poet_date": 1843,
"meter": "9s,10s (9,10,9,10)",
"lyrics": "A home in heaven! What a joyful thought,\nAs the poor man toils in his weary lot:\nHis heart oppressed, and with anguish driv’n\nFrom his home below to his home in heav’n.\nA home in heav’n as the sufferer lies\nOn his bed of pain, and uplifts his eyes\nTo that bright home, what a joy is giv’n,\nFrom the blessed thought of his home in heav’n.\nA home in heaven when the faint heart bleeds\nBy the Spirit stroke for its evil deeds;\nOh! then what bliss in that heart forgiven,\nDoes the hope inspire of its home in heav’n.\nA home in heaven when our friends are fled\nTo the cheerless gloom of the mould’ring dead;\nWe wait in hope on the promise given,\nThat we’ll meet up there in our home in heav’n.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "42",
"bare_song_number": 42,
"song_title": "Clamanda",
"composer_source": "",
"composition_date": "",
"poet_source": "Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs",
"poet_date": 1814,
"meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Say, now ye lovely social band,\nWho walk the way to Canaan’s land;\nYe who have fled from Sodom’s plain,\nSay do you wish to turn again?\nOh have you ventured to the field,\nWell armed with helmet, sword and shield?\nAnd shall the world, with dread alarms,\nCompel you now to ground your arms?",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "43",
"bare_song_number": 43,
"song_title": "Primrose Hill",
"composer_source": "",
"composition_date": "",
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "When I can read my title clear,\nTo mansions in the skies,\nI’ll bid farewell to ev’ry fear,\nAnd wipe my weeping eyes.\nShould earth against my soul engage,\nAnd fiery darts be hurled,\nThen I can smile at Satan’s rage,\nAnd face a frowning world.\nLet cares, like a wild deluge, come,\nLet storms of sorrow fall,\nSo I but safely reach my home,\nMy God, my heav’n, my all.\nThere I shall bathe my weary soul\nIn seas of heav’nly rest,\nAnd not a wave of trouble roll\nAcross my peaceful breast.",
"time_signature": "6/8, 3/4, 6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "44",
"bare_song_number": 44,
"song_title": "The Converted Thief",
"composer_source": "William Moore",
"composition_date": 1825,
"poet_source": "Samuel Stennett",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "As on the cross the Savior hung,\nAnd wept, and bled, and died;\nHe poured salvation on a wretch\nThat languished at His side.\nHis crimes, with inward grief and shame,\nThe penitent confessed,\nThen turned his dying eyes to Christ,\nAnd thus his prayer addressed.\n“Jesus Thou Son and heir of heav’n?\nThou spotless Lamb of God!\nI see Thee bathed in sweat and tears,\nAnd welt’ring in Thy blood.\n“Yet quickly from these scenes of woe\nIn triumph Thou shalt rise,\nBurst through the gloomy shades of death,\nAnd shine above the skies.\n“Amid the glories of that world,\nDear Savior, think on me,\nAnd in the victories of Thy death\nLet me a sharer be.”\nHis prayer the dying Jesus hears,\nAnd instantly replies,\n“Today thy parting soul shall be\nWith me in paradise.”",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "45b",
"bare_song_number": 45,
"song_title": "Imandra",
"composer_source": "Southern Harmony",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Thomas Cleland",
"poet_date": 1807,
"meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)",
"lyrics": "Farewell, my dear brethren, the time is at hand,\nWhen we must be parted from this social band;\nOur several engagements now call us away,\nOur parting is needful and we must obey.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "45t",
"bare_song_number": 45,
"song_title": "New Britain",
"composer_source": "Columbian Harmony",
"composition_date": 1829,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,\nThat saved a wretch like me!\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind but now I see.\n’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\nAnd grace my fears relieved;\nHow precious did that grace appear\nThe hour I first believed.\nThrough many dangers, toils and snares,\nI have already come;\n’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,\nAnd grace will lead me home.\nThe Lord has promised good to me,\nHis word my hope secures;\nHe will my shield and portion be\nAs long as life endures.\nThe earth shall soon dissolve like snow,\nThe sun forbear to shine;\nBut God, who called me here below,\nWill be forever mine.",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "46",
"bare_song_number": 46,
"song_title": "Let Us Sing",
"composer_source": "W. F. Moore",
"composition_date": 1867,
"poet_source": "W. F. Moore",
"poet_date": 1867,
"meter": "Irregular",
"lyrics": "Shall we ever meet again at the house,\nThen to make the chorus ring at the house of God?\nLet us sing, sweetly sing,\nAt the house then we’ll sing,\nSweetly sing at the house of God.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "47b",
"bare_song_number": 47,
"song_title": "Idumea",
"composer_source": "Ananias Davisson",
"composition_date": 1816,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1763,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "And am I born to die?\nTo lay this body down!\nAnd must my trembling spirit fly\nInto a world unknown?\nA land of deepest shade,\nUnpierced by human thought;\nThe dreary regions of the dead,\nWhere all things are forgot!\nSoon as from earth I go,\nWhat will become of me?\nEternal happiness or woe\nMust then my portion be!\nWaked by the trumpet sound,\nI from my grave shall rise;\nAnd see the Judge with glory crowned,\nAnd see the flaming skies!",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "47t",
"bare_song_number": 47,
"song_title": "Primrose",
"composer_source": "Amzi Chapin",
"composition_date": 1812,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Salvation, Oh the joyful sound,\n’Tis pleasure to our ears;\nA sov’reign balm for ev’ry wound,\nA cordial for our fears.\nBuried in sorrow and in sin,\nAt hell’s dark door we lay;\nBut we arise by grace divine,\nTo see a heav’nly day.\nSalvation! let the echo fly\nThe spacious earth around;\nWhile all the armies of the sky\nConspire to raise the sound.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "48b",
"bare_song_number": 48,
"song_title": "Kedron",
"composer_source": "United States Sacred Harmony",
"composition_date": 1799,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1762,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Thou Man of grief, remember me,\nThou never canst Thyself forget.\nThy last expiring agony,\nThy fainting pangs and bloody sweat.\nFather, if I may call Thee so,\nRegard my fearful heart’s desire;\nRemove this load of guilty woe,\nNor let me in my sins expire!\nI tremble, lest the wrath divine,\nWhich bruises now my wretched soul,\nShould bruise this wretched soul of mine,\nLong as eternal ages roll.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "48t",
"bare_song_number": 48,
"song_title": "Devotion",
"composer_source": "Alexander Johnson",
"composition_date": 1818,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Sweet is the day of sacred rest;\nNo mortal cares shall seize my breast.\nOh, may my heart in tune be found,\nLike David’s harp of solemn sound.\nThen shall I share a glorious part,\nWhen grace hath well refined my heart,\nAnd fresh supplies of joy are shed,\nLike holy oil, to cheer my head.\nThen shall I see, and hear, and know\nAll I desired and wished below;\nAnd ev’ry pow’r find sweet employ,\nIn that eternal world of joy.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "49b",
"bare_song_number": 49,
"song_title": "Mear",
"composer_source": "A Sett of Tunes",
"composition_date": 1720,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Will God forever cast us off?\nHis wrath forever smoke\nAgainst the people of His love,\nHis little chosen flock.\nThink of the tribes so dearly bought\nWith the Redeemer’s blood,\nNor let Thy Zion be forgot,\nWhere once Thy glory stood.\nWhere once Thy churches prayed and sang\nThy foes profanely rage;\nAmid Thy gates their ensigns hang,\nAnd there their host engage.\nAnd still to heighten our distress,\nThy presence is withdrawn;\nThy wonted signs of pow’r and grace\nThy pow’r and grace are gone.\nNo prophet speaks to calm our grief,\nBut all in silence mourn;\nNor know the hour of our relief,\nThe hour of Thy return.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "49t",
"bare_song_number": 49,
"song_title": "Old Hundred",
"composer_source": "Psaumes de David",
"composition_date": 1551,
"poet_source": "New Version",
"poet_date": 1696,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Oh come, loud anthems let us sing,\nLoud thanks to our Almighty King.\nFor we our voices high should raise,\nWhen our salvation’s Rock we praise.",
"time_signature": "2/2"
},
{
"song_number": "50b",
"bare_song_number": 50,
"song_title": "Humility",
"composer_source": "David Grant",
"composition_date": 1988,
"poet_source": "William Hammond",
"poet_date": 1745,
"meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)",
"lyrics": "Lord, we come before Thee now,\nAt Thy feet we humbly bow;\nOh do not our suit disdain!\nShall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain?\nIn Thine own appointed way,\nNow we seek Thee, here we stay;\nLord from hence we would not go,\nTill a blessing Thou bestow.\nGrant that all may seek and find\nThee a God supremely kind;\nHeal the sick, the captive free.\nLet us all rejoice in Thee.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "50t",
"bare_song_number": 50,
"song_title": "Mortality",
"composer_source": "Daniel Read",
"composition_date": 1785,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Death, like an overflowing stream,\nSweeps us away; our life’s a dream,\nAn empty tale, a morning flow’r,\nCut down and withered in an hour.\nOur age to sev’nty years is set;\nHow short the time! How frail the state!\nAnd if to eighty we arrive,\nWe’d rather sigh and groan than live.\nTeach us, Oh Lord, how frail is man;\nAnd kindly lengthen out the span,\nTill a wise care of piety\nFit us to die and dwell with Thee.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "51",
"bare_song_number": 51,
"song_title": "My Home",
"composer_source": "C. F. Letson",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "Samuel Stennett",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\nDon’t you feel like going home,\nMy home it is in the promised land,\nAnd I feel like going home.\nOh, the transporting rapt’rous scene,\nThat rises to my sight.\nSweet fields arrayed in living green,\nAnd rivers of delight.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "52b",
"bare_song_number": 52,
"song_title": "Charlestown",
"composer_source": "United States Sacred Harmony",
"composition_date": 1799,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "“Mercy, Oh Thou Son of David,”\nThus poor blind Bartimeus prayed,\n“Others by Thy Word are saved,\nNow to me afford Thine aid.”\nMany for his crying chid him,\nBut he called the louder still,\nTill the gracious Savior bid him,\n“Come and ask me what you will.”",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "52t",
"bare_song_number": 52,
"song_title": "Albion",
"composer_source": "Robert Boyd",
"composition_date": 1816,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Come, ye that love the Lord,\nAnd let your joys be known;\nJoin in a song with sweet accord,\nWhile ye surround His throne.\nLet those refuse to sing\nWho never knew our God;\nBut servants of the heav’nly King\nMay speak their joys abroad.\nThe men of grace have found\nGlory begun below;\nCelestial fruit on earthly ground\nFrom faith and hope may grow.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "53",
"bare_song_number": 53,
"song_title": "Jerusalem",
"composer_source": "William Walker",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "John Cennick",
"poet_date": 1743,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Jesus, my all to heav’n is gone,\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon;\nHis track I see, and I’ll pursue\nThe narrow way till Him I view.\nI’m on my journey home to the new Jerusalem,\nSo fare you well, I am going home.\nThe way the holy prophets went,\nThe road that leads from banishment,\nThe King’s highway of holiness\nI’ll go, for all His paths are peace.\nThis is the way I long have sought,\nAnd mourned because I found it not;\nMy grief a burden long has been,\nBecause I was not saved from sin.\nThen will I tell to sinners ’round,\nWhat a dear Savior I have found;\nI’ll point to Thy redeeming blood,\nAnd say, “Behold the way to God.”\nLo! glad I come, and thou, blest Lamb,\nShalt take me to Thee, whose I am;\nNothing but sin have I to give,\nNothing but love shall I receive.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "54",
"bare_song_number": 54,
"song_title": "The Blessed Lamb",
"composer_source": "",
"composition_date": "",
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "See the happy spirits waiting\nOn the banks beyond the stream;\nSweet responses still repeating\nJesus, Jesus is their theme.\nSee they whisper; Hark! they call me,\nSister spirit, come away;\nLo, I come, earth can’t contain me;\nHail, ye realms of endless day!\nHail the blessed Lamb,\nGlory to His name.",
"time_signature": "3/4, 4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "55",
"bare_song_number": 55,
"song_title": "Sister’s Farewell",
"composer_source": "A. J. McLendon",
"composition_date": 1905,
"poet_source": "A. J. McLendon",
"poet_date": 1905,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Farewell, dear brothers, fare you well,\nPray do not weep for me,\nI’m going home to Christ to dwell\nThroughout eternity.\nWhen I get home to that bright world,\nAnd meet my Savior there,\nAnd all the loved ones gone before,\nI’ll need no more shed a tear.\nDear sister, thou art left alone,\nBut thou art kind and true,\nAnd when God calls you to come home,\nI hope to meet you, too.\nThus we’ll surround the great white throne,\nAnd dwell forever there,\nAnd sing God’s praise through endless days,\nFrom sorrow, pain and care.\nDear father, you’ve been kind to me,\nWhen I was young and wild,\nBut now, dear father, do not weep,\nForgive your loving child.\nOh may we all together meet,\nAnd shout, and praise and sing\nHallelujah then to our God,\nOur Savior and our King.\nMy loving mother, fare you well,\nBut do not fear alarm,\nThe Savior dear is ever near,\nTo shield you from all harm.\nYet may we meet and be complete,\nWith all the blood-washed throng,\nAnd cast our crown at Jesus’ feet,\nAnd sing redemption’s song.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "56b",
"bare_song_number": 56,
"song_title": "Villulia",
"composer_source": "J. M. Day",
"composition_date": 1850,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "Mercy Oh Thou Son of David,\nThus poor blind Bartimeus prayed,\nOthers by Thy grace are saved,\nNow to me afford Thine aid.\nMoney was not what he wanted,\nThough by begging used to live;\nBut he asked and Jesus granted,\nAlms which none but he could give.\n“Lord, remove this grievous blindness,\nLet mine eyes behold the day;”\nStraight he saw, and, won by kindness,\nFollowed Jesus in the way.",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "56t",
"bare_song_number": 56,
"song_title": "Columbiana",
"composer_source": "D. P. White",
"composition_date": 1850,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "May the grace of Christ our Savior,\nAnd the Father’s boundless love,\nWith the Holy Spirit’s favor,\nRest upon us from above.\nThus may we abide in union\nWith each other and the Lord;\nAnd possess, in sweet communion,\nJoys which earth cannot afford.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "57",
"bare_song_number": 57,
"song_title": "Christian Soldier",
"composer_source": "F. Price",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1724,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Am I a soldier of the cross,\nA foll’wer of the Lamb?\nAnd shall I fear to own His cause,\nOr blush to speak His name?\nMust I be carried to the skies\nOn flow’ry beds of ease,\nWhile others fought to win the prize,\nAnd sailed through bloody seas?\nAre there no foes for me to face?\nMust I not stem the flood?\nIs this vile world a friend to grace,\nTo help me on to God?\nSure I must fight if I would reign;\nIncrease my courage, Lord,\nI’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,\nSupported by Thy word.",
"time_signature": "6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "58",
"bare_song_number": 58,
"song_title": "Pisgah",
"composer_source": "J. C. Lowry",
"composition_date": 1817,
"poet_source": "Richard Burnham",
"poet_date": 1783,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Jesus, Thou art the sinner’s friend,\nAs such I look to Thee,\nNow in the bowels of Thy love,\nOh Lord, remember me.\nRemember the pure word of grace,\nRemember Calvary,\nRemember all Thy dying groans,\nAnd then remember me.\nThou wondrous advocate with God,\nI yield myself to Thee,\nWhile Thou art sitting on Thy throne,\nOh Lord, remember me.\nAnd when I close my eyes in death,\nAnd creature helps all flee,\nThen, Oh my great Redeemer, God,\nI pray remember me.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "59",
"bare_song_number": 59,
"song_title": "Holy Manna",
"composer_source": "William Moore",
"composition_date": 1825,
"poet_source": "George Atkin",
"poet_date": 1819,
"meter": "8s,7s Double (8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "Brethren, we have met to worship,\nAnd adore the Lord our God;\nWill you pray with all your power,\nWhile we try to preach the Word?\nAll is vain unless the Spirit\nOf the Holy One comes down;\nBrethren, pray and holy manna\nWill be showered all around.\nBrethren, see poor sinners ’round you,\nTrembling on the brink of woe;\nDeath is coming, hell is moving,\nCan you bear to let them go?\nSee our fathers, see our mothers,\nAnd our children sinking down;\nBrethren, pray, and holy manna\nWill be showered all around.\nSisters, will you join and help us?\nMoses’ sisters aided him;\nWill you help the trembling mourners,\nWho are struggling hard with sin?\nTell them all about the Savior,\nTell them that He will be found;\nSisters, pray, and holy manna\nWill be showered all around.\nIs there here a trembling jailer,\nSeeking grace, and filled with tears?\nIs there here a weeping Mary,\nPouring forth a flood of tears?\nBrethren, join your cries to help them;\nSisters, let your prayers abound;\nPray, Oh pray that holy manna\nMay be scattered all around.\nLet us love our God supremely,\nLet us love each other, too;\nLet us love and pray for sinners,\nTill our God makes all things new.\nThen He’ll call us home to heaven,\nAt His table we’ll sit down;\nChrist will gird Himself, and serve us\nWith sweet manna all around.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "60",
"bare_song_number": 60,
"song_title": "Day of Worship",
"composer_source": "E. K. Davis",
"composition_date": 1848,
"poet_source": "Zion’s Hymns",
"poet_date": 1854,
"meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Dear people we have met today,\nTo sing, to hear, to preach and pray;\nIt is our Father’s great command,\nThe road that leads to His right hand;\nBut Oh the sad and awful state,\nOf those that stand and come too late,\nThe foolish virgins did begin,\nTo knock, but could not enter in.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "61",
"bare_song_number": 61,
"song_title": "Sweet Rivers",
"composer_source": "William Moore",
"composition_date": 1825,
"poet_source": "John Adam Granade",
"poet_date": 1803,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Sweet rivers of redeeming love\nLie just before mine eye,\nHad I the pinions of a dove\nI’d to those rivers fly;\nI’d rise superior to my pain,\nWith joy outstrip the wind,\nI’d cross o’er Jordan’s stormy waves,\nAnd leave the world behind.\nA few more days, or years at most,\nMy troubles will be o’er;\nI hope to join the heav’nly host\nOn Canaan’s happy shore.\nMy raptured soul shall drink and feast\nIn love’s unbounded sea:\nThe glorious hope of endless rest\nIs ravishing for me.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "62",
"bare_song_number": 62,
"song_title": "Parting Hand",
"composer_source": "William Walker",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "John Blain",
"poet_date": 1818,
"meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "My Christian friends, in bonds of love,\nWhose hearts in sweetest union join,\nYour friendship’s like a drawing band,\nYet we must take the parting hand.\nYour company’s sweet, your union dear,\nYour words delightful to my ear;\nYet when I see that we must part\nYou draw like cords around my heart.\nHow sweet the hours have passed away\nSince we have met to sing and pray;\nHow loath we are to leave the place\nWhere Jesus shows His smiling face.\nOh could I stay with friends so kind,\nHow would it cheer my drooping mind!\nBut duty makes me understand\nThat we must take the parting hand.\nAnd since it is God’s holy will,\nWe must be parted for a while,\nIn sweet submission, all as one,\nWe’ll say, our Father’s will be done.\nMy youthful friends, in Christian ties,\nWho seek for mansions in the skies,\nFight on, we’ll gain that happy shore,\nWhere parting will be known no more.\nHow oft I’ve seen your flowing tears,\nAnd heard you tell your hopes and fears!\nYour hearts with love were seen to flame,\nWhich makes me hope we’ll meet again.\nYe mourning souls, lift up your eyes\nTo glorious mansions in the skies;\nOh trust His grace — in Canaan’s land\nWe’ll no more take the parting hand.\nAnd now, my friends, both old and young,\nI hope in Christ you’ll still go on;\nAnd if on earth we meet no more,\nOh may we meet on Canaan’s shore.\nI hope you’ll all remember me\nIf on earth no more I see;\nAn int’rest in your prayers I crave,\nThat we meet beyond the grave.\nOh glorious day! Oh blessed hope!\nMy soul leaps forward at the thought\nWhen, on that happy, happy land,\nWe’ll no more take the parting hand.\nBut with our blessed holy Lord\nWe’ll shout and sing with one accord,\nAnd there we’ll all with Jesus dwell,\nSo, loving Christians, fare you well.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "63",
"bare_song_number": 63,
"song_title": "Coronation",
"composer_source": "Oliver Holden",
"composition_date": 1793,
"poet_source": "Edward Perronet",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ name!\nLet angels prostrate fall,\nBring forth the royal diadem,\nAnd crown Him Lord of all.\nYe chosen seed of Israel’s race,\nA remnant weak and small;\nHail Him who saves you by His grace;\nAnd crown Him Lord of all.\nOh that with yonder sacred throng,\nWe at His feet may fall!\nWe’ll join the everlasting song,\nAnd crown Him Lord of all.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "64",
"bare_song_number": 64,
"song_title": "Nashville",
"composer_source": "Alexander Johnson",
"composition_date": 1821,
"poet_source": "J. Leavitte",
"poet_date": 1830,
"meter": "Common Particular Meter (8,8,6,8,8,6)",
"lyrics": "The Lord into His garden comes,\nThe spices yield their rich perfumes,\nThe lilies grow and thrive;\nRefreshing show’rs of grace divine\nFrom Jesus flow to ev’ry vine,\nWhich make the dead revive.\nOh that this dry and barren ground\nIn springs of water may abound,\nA fruitful soil become;\nThe desert blossoms as the rose,\nWhile Jesus conquers all His foes,\nAnd makes His people one.\nCome, brethren, ye that love the Lord,\nWho taste the sweetness of His word,\nIn Jesus’ ways go on;\nOur troubles and our trials here\nWill only make us richer there,\nWhen we arrive at home.\nThe glorious time is rolling on,\nThe gracious work is now begun,\nMy soul a witness is;\nI taste and see the pardon free\nFor all mankind as well as me,\nWho come to Christ may live.",
"time_signature": "6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "65",
"bare_song_number": 65,
"song_title": "Sweet Prospect",
"composer_source": "William Walker",
"composition_date": 1833,
"poet_source": "Samuel Stennett",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,\nAnd cast a wishful eye,\nTo Canaan’s fair and happy land,\nWhere my possessions lie.\nOh, the transporting, rapt’rous scene,\nThat rises to my sight,\nSweet fields arrayed in living green,\nAnd rivers of delight.\nO’er all those wide extended plains,\nShines one eternal day;\nThere God the Son forever reigns,\nAnd scatters night away.\nNo chilling winds, or pois’nous breath,\nCan reach that healthful shore;\nSickness and sorrow, pain and death,\nAre felt and feared no more.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "66",
"bare_song_number": 66,
"song_title": "Jordan",
"composer_source": "William Billings",
"composition_date": 1786,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign,\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\nSweet fields beyond the swelling flood,\nStand dressed in living green,\nSo to the Jews old Canaan stood,\nWhile Jordan rolled between.\nOh could we make our doubts remove,\nThose gloomy doubts that rise,\nAnd see the Canaan that we love\nWith unbeclouded eyes.\nCould we but climb where Moses stood,\nAnd view the landscape o’er,\nNot Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood\nShould fright us from the shore.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "67",
"bare_song_number": 67,
"song_title": "Columbus",
"composer_source": "Columbian Harmony",
"composition_date": 1829,
"poet_source": "Mercer’s Cluster",
"poet_date": 1823,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Oh, once I had a glorious view\nOf my redeeming Lord,\nHe said, “I’ll be a God to you,”\nAnd I believed His word.\nBut now I have a deeper stroke\nThan all my groanings are;\nMy God has me of late forsook;\nHe’s gone, I know not where.\nOh, what immortal joys I felt,\nOn that celestial day,\nWhen my hard heart began to melt,\nBy love dissolved away!\nBy my complaint is bitter now,\nFor all my joys are gone;\nI’ve strayed! I’m left! I know not how;\nThe light’s from me withdrawn.\nOnce I could joy the saints to meet,\nTo me they were most dear;\nI then could stoop to wash their feet,\nAnd shed a joyful tear;\nBut now I meet them as the rest,\nAnd with them joyless stay;\nMy conversation’s spiritless,\nOr else I’ve nought to say.\nI once could mourn o’er dying men,\nAnd longed their souls to win;\nI travailed for their poor children,\nAnd warned them of their sin;\nBut now my heart’s so careless grown,\nAlthough they’re drowned in vice,\nMy bowels o’er them cease to yearn —\nMy tears have left mine eyes.\nI forward go in duty’s way,\nBut can’t perceive Him there;\nThen backward on the road I stray,\nBut cannot find Him there;\nOn the left hand, where He doth work,\nAmong the wicked crew,\nAnd on the right I find Him not\nAmong the favored few.\nWhat shall I do? Shall I lie down\nAnd sink in deep despair?\nWill He forever frown,\nNor hear my feeble prayer?\nNo; He will put His strength in me,\nHe knows the way I’ve strolled,\nAnd when I’m tried sufficiently\nI shall come forth as gold.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "68b",
"bare_song_number": 68,
"song_title": "Ortonville",
"composer_source": "Thomas Hastings",
"composition_date": 1837,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds\nIn a believer’s ear!\nIt soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,\nAnd drives away his fears.\nIt makes the wounded spirit whole,\nAnd calms the troubled breast;\n’Tis manna to the hungry soul,\nAnd to the weary rest.\nDear name! the rock on which I build,\nMy shield and hiding place;\nMy never-failing treasury filled\nWith boundless stores of grace.",
"time_signature": "3/4"
},
{
"song_number": "68t",
"bare_song_number": 68,
"song_title": "Salem",
"composer_source": "Bovelle",
"composition_date": 1817,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1709,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "He dies, the friend of sinners dies!\nLo Salem’s daughters weep around;\nA solemn darkness veils the skies,\nA sudden trembling shakes the ground.\nSay, “Live forever, glorious King,\nBorn to redeem and strong to save!”\nThen ask, “Oh Death, where is thy sting,\nAnd where is thy vict’ry, boasting Grave?",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "69b",
"bare_song_number": 69,
"song_title": "Farewell to All",
"composer_source": "J. P. Reese",
"composition_date": 1859,
"poet_source": "John Blain",
"poet_date": 1818,
"meter": "Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "And now, my friends, both old and young,\nI hope in Christ you will go on;\nAnd if on earth we meet no more,\nOh, may we meet on Canaan’s shore.\nI hope you’ll all remember me,\nIf you on earth no more I see.\nAn int’rest in your prayers I crave,\nThat we may meet beyond the grave.",
"time_signature": "6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "69t",
"bare_song_number": 69,
"song_title": "Minister’s Farewell",
"composer_source": "Wyeth’s Repository, Part Second",
"composition_date": 1813,
"poet_source": "The A.M.E. Hymnal",
"poet_date": 1837,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Dear friends, farewell! I do you tell,\nSince you and I must part;\nYour love to me has been most free,\nYour conversation sweet;\nHow can I bear to journey where\nWith you I cannot meet?\nI go away, and here you stay,\nBut still we’re joined at heart.\nI trust you’ll pray both night and day,\nAnd keep your garments white;\nIf you die first, anon you must,\nThe will of God be done;\nI hope the Lord will you reward\nWith an immortal crown.\nFor you and me that we may be\nThe children of the Light.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "70b",
"bare_song_number": 70,
"song_title": "Save, Mighty Lord",
"composer_source": "J. A. Wade",
"composition_date": 1854,
"poet_source": "John Cennick",
"poet_date": 1743,
"meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)",
"lyrics": "Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,\nHe whom I fix my hopes upon.\nOh, save mighty Lord,\nAnd send converting power down,\nThe way the holy prophets went,\nThe road that leads from banishment.\nThe King’s highway of holiness,\nI’ll go, for all His paths are peace.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "70t",
"bare_song_number": 70,
"song_title": "Gainsville",
"composer_source": "W. D. Jones",
"composition_date": 1869,
"poet_source": "William Hammond",
"poet_date": 1745,
"meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)",
"lyrics": "Lord, we come before Thee now,\nAt Thy feet we humbly bow;\nOh do not our suit disdain;\nShall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain?\nLord, on Thee our souls depend;\nIn compassion new descend;\nFill our hearts with Thy rich grace,\nTune our lips to sing Thy praise.\nIn Thine own appointed way\nNow we seek Thee, here we stay;\nLord, we know not how to go,\nTill a blessing Thou bestow.\nSend some message from Thy word\nThat may joy and peace afford;\nLet Thy Spirit now impart\nFull salvation to each heart.\nComfort those who weep and mourn;\nLet the time of joy return;\nThose who are cast down lift up,\nStrong in faith, in love and hope.\nGrant that all may seek and find\nThee a God supremely kind;\nHeal the sick, the captive free,\nLet us all rejoice in Thee.",
"time_signature": "2/2"
},
{
"song_number": "71",
"bare_song_number": 71,
"song_title": "Leander",
"composer_source": "Tennessee Harmony",
"composition_date": 1818,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "My soul forsakes her vain delight\nAnd bids the world farewell;\nBase as the dirt beneath the feet\nAnd mischievous as hell.\nNo longer will I ask your love,\nNor seek your friendship more;\nThe happiness that I approve\nIs not within your pow’r.\nThere’s nothing ’round this spacious earth\nThat suits my soul’s desire;\nTo boundless joy and solid mirth\nMy nobler thoughts aspire.\nOh, for the pinions of a dove\nTo mount the heav’nly road;\nThere shall I share my Savior’s love,\nThere shall I dwell with God.",
"time_signature": "6/8"
},
{
"song_number": "72b",
"bare_song_number": 72,
"song_title": "Bellevue",
"composer_source": "Z. Chambless",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Rippon’s Selection",
"poet_date": 1787,
"meter": "11s (11,11,11,11)",
"lyrics": "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,\nIs laid for your faith in His excellent word,\nWhat more can He say than to you He hath said,\nYe who unto Jesus for refuge have fled.\n“Fear not, I am with thee; Oh be not dismayed!\nI, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;\nI’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,\nUpheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.\n“When through the deep waters I call thee to go,\nThe rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;\nFor I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,\nAnd sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.\n“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,\nI will not, I will not desert to His foes.\nThe soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,\nI’ll never, no never, no never forsake.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "72t",
"bare_song_number": 72,
"song_title": "The Weary Soul",
"composer_source": "J. T. White",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "John Adam Granade",
"poet_date": 1803,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Ye weary, heavy-laden souls\nWho are oppressed and sore,\nYe trav’lers through the wilderness\nTo Canaan’s peaceful shore,\nThough chilling winds and beating rains,\nAnd waters deep and cold,\nAnd enemies surrounding us,\nTake courage and be bold.\nFarewell, my brethren in the Lord,\nWho are for Canaan bound,\nAnd should we never meet again\nTill Gabriel’s trump shall sound,\nI hope that I shall meet you there\nOn that delightful shore,\nIn mansions of eternal bliss,\nWhere parting is no more.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "73b",
"bare_song_number": 73,
"song_title": "Arlington",
"composer_source": "Thomas A. Arne",
"composition_date": 1762,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1720,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "I’m not ashamed to own my Lord\nOr to defend His cause;\nMaintain the honor of His word,\nThe glory of His cross.\nJesus, my God! I know His name;\nHis name is all my trust;\nNor will He put my soul to shame,\nNor let my hope be lost.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "73t",
"bare_song_number": 73,
"song_title": "Cusseta",
"composer_source": "John Massengale",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Erhart Hegenwalt",
"poet_date": 1524,
"meter": "Long Meter (8,8,8,8)",
"lyrics": "Show pity, Lord, Oh Lord, forgive;\nLet a repenting rebel live:\nAre not Thy mercies large and free?\nMay not a sinner trust in Thee?\nMy crimes, though great, cannot surpass\nThe pow’r and glory of Thy grace;\nGreat God, Thy nature hath no bound;\nSo let Thy pard’ning love be found.\nYet save a trembling sinner, Lord,\nWhose hope still hov’ring ’round Thy word\nWould light on some sweet promise there,\nSome sure support against despair.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "74b",
"bare_song_number": 74,
"song_title": "King of Peace",
"composer_source": "F. Price",
"composition_date": 1835,
"poet_source": "John Newton",
"poet_date": 1779,
"meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)",
"lyrics": "Lord, I cannot let Thee go,\nTill a blessing Thou bestow:\nDo not turn away Thy face,\nMine’s an urgent, pressing case.\nDost Thou ask me who I am?\nAh, my Lord, Thou know’st my name:\nYet the question gives a plea\nTo support my suit with Thee.\nThou didst once a wretch behold,\nIn rebellion blindly bold,\nScorn Thy grace, Thy pow’r defy;\nThat poor rebel, Lord, was I.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "74t",
"bare_song_number": 74,
"song_title": "The Enquirer",
"composer_source": "B. F. White",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1707,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "I’m not ashamed to own my Lord\nOr to defend His cause;\nMaintain the honor of His word,\nThe glory of His cross.\nJesus, my God! I know His name;\nHis name is all my trust;\nNor will He put my soul to shame,\nNor let my hope be lost.\nFirm as His throne His promise stands\nAnd He can well secure\nWhat I’ve committed to His hands\nTill the decisive hour.\nThen will He own my worthless name\nBefore His Father’s face,\nAnd in the new Jerusalem\nAppoint my soul a place.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "75",
"bare_song_number": 75,
"song_title": "I Would See Jesus",
"composer_source": "Leonard P. Breedlove",
"composition_date": 1867,
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "I would see Jesus when the flow’rs\nOf joy adorn my way;\nWhen sunshine and when hope surrounds\nMy path from day to day.\nWhen friends I cherish most are near,\nAnd hearts encircle mine,\nThen, Father, would I turn from all\nTo lean alone on Thine.\nI heard the voice of Jesus say,\n“Behold, I freely give\nThe living water, thirsty one;\nStoop down and drink and live!”\nI came to Jesus and I drank\nOf that life-giving stream;\nMy thirst was quenched,\nMy soul revived,\nAnd now I live in Him.\nI heard the voice of Jesus say,\n“I am this dark world’s light,\nLook unto me, thy morn shall rise,\nAnd all thy day shall be bright!”\nI looked to Jesus and I found\nIn Him my star, my sun;\nAnd in that light of life I’ll walk,\nTill trav’ling days are done.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "76b",
"bare_song_number": 76,
"song_title": "Desire For Piety",
"composer_source": "B. F. White",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)",
"lyrics": "’Tis my desire with God to walk,\nTill the warfare is over, hallelujah.\nAnd with His children pray and talk,\nTill the warfare is over, hallelujah.\nCry Amen, pray on\nTill the warfare is over, hallelujah.",
"time_signature": "2/4"
},
{
"song_number": "76t",
"bare_song_number": 76,
"song_title": "Holiness",
"composer_source": "E. J. King",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Providence Selection of Hymns",
"poet_date": 1820,
"meter": "Particular Meter: 7,7,7,7,7,7",
"lyrics": "Daniel’s wisdom may I know,\nStephen’s faith and spirit show;\nJohn’s divine communion feel,\nMoses’ meekness, Joshua’s zeal;\nRun like the unwearied Paul,\nWin the day and conquer all.",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "77b",
"bare_song_number": 77,
"song_title": "Holcombe",
"composer_source": "Charlene Wallace",
"composition_date": 1986,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Common Meter (8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hear\nMy voice ascending high;\nTo Thee will I direct my prayer,\nTo Thee lift up mine eye.\nOh may the Spirit guide my feet\nIn ways of righteousness!\nMake ev’ry path of duty straight\nAnd plain before my face.",
"time_signature": "3/2"
},
{
"song_number": "77t",
"bare_song_number": 77,
"song_title": "The Child of Grace",
"composer_source": "E. J. King",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1759,
"meter": "Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "How happy’s ev’ry child of grace,\nWho feels his sins forgiv’n;\nThis world, he cries, is not my place;\nI seek a place in heav’n.\nA country far from mortal sight,\nYet, oh! by faith I see\nThe land of rest, the saints’ delight,\nA heav’n prepared for me.\nOh, what a blessed hope is ours\nWhile here on earth we stay,\nWe more than taste the heav’nly pow’rs\nAnd antedate that day.\nWe feel the resurrection near,\nOur life in Christ concealed,\nAnd with His glorious presence here\nOur earthen vessels filled.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "78",
"bare_song_number": 78,
"song_title": "Stafford",
"composer_source": "Daniel Read",
"composition_date": 1782,
"poet_source": "Isaac Watts",
"poet_date": 1719,
"meter": "Short Meter (6,6,8,6)",
"lyrics": "See what a living stone\nThe builders did refuse,\nYet God hath built His Church thereon,\nIn spite of env’ous Jews.",
"time_signature": "4/4"
},
{
"song_number": "79",
"bare_song_number": 79,
"song_title": "The Old Ship of Zion",
"composer_source": "Thomas W. Carter",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "Irregular",
"lyrics": "What ship is this that will take us all home,\nOh, glory hallelujah,\nAnd safely land us on Canaan’s bright shore?\nOh, glory hallelujah.\n’Tis the old ship of Zion, hallelujah.\nThe winds may blow and the billows may foam,\nOh, glory hallelujah,\nBut she is able to land us all home.\nOh, glory hallelujah.\nShe landed all who have gone before,\nOh, glory hallelujah,\nAnd yet she is able to land still more,\nOh, glory hallelujah.\nIf I arrive there, then, before you do,\nOh, glory hallelujah,\nI’ll tell them that you are coming up, too,\nOh, glory hallelujah.",
"time_signature": "2/4"
},
{
"song_number": "80b",
"bare_song_number": 80,
"song_title": "Service of the Lord",
"composer_source": "E. J. King",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "Long Meter Half (8,8)",
"lyrics": "Farewell, vain world, I’m going home,\nI am bound to die in the army,\nMy Savior smiles and bids me come,\nI am bound to die in the army.\nI am bound to live in the service of the Lord,\nI am bound to die in the army.\nSweet angels beckon me away,\nI am bound to die in the army,\nTo sing God’s praise in endless day,\nI am bound to die in the army.",
"time_signature": "2/4"
},
{
"song_number": "80t",
"bare_song_number": 80,
"song_title": "Shouting Song",
"composer_source": "B. F. White",
"composition_date": 1844,
"poet_source": "",
"poet_date": "",
"meter": "8s,7s (8,7,8,7)",
"lyrics": "Jesus, grant us all a blessing,\nShouting, singing, send it down;\nLord, above, may we go praying,\nAnd rejoicing in Thy love.\nShout, Oh glory! Sing glory, hallelujah!\nI’m going where pleasure never dies.\nJesus, pardon all our follies,\nSince together we have been,\nMake us humble, make us holy\nCleanse us all from ev’ry sin.",
"time_signature": "2/4"
},
{
"song_number": "81b",
"bare_song_number": 81,
"song_title": "Cookham",
"composer_source": "Harmonia Sacra",
"composition_date": 1760,
"poet_source": "Charles Wesley",
"poet_date": 1735,
"meter": "7s (7,7,7,7)",
"lyrics": "Hark! the Herald angels sing,\n“Glory to the newborn King;\nPeace on earth, and mercy mild,\nGod and sinners reconciled!”\nSee, He lays His glory by;\nBorn that man no more may die;\nBorn to raise the sons of earth;\nBorn to give them second birth.\nHail, the holy Prince of Peace!\nHail the Sun of righteousness;\nLight and life to all He brings,\nRis’n with healing in His wings.\nLet us all then with angels sing,\n“Glory to the newborn King!\nPeace on earth and mercy mild,\nGod and sinners reconciled!”",
"time_signature": "6/4"
},
{
"song_number": "81t",
"bare_song_number": 81,