The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship

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THE OTTERBEIN HYMNAL.

1 Gloria Patri.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, and to the Holy Ghost,

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, world without end.

Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen.

3 Old Hundred. L.M.

(1) Psalm 100.

Before Jehovah's awful throne,

Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;

Know that the Lord is God alone;

He can create, and he destroy.

2 His sovereign power, without our aid,

Made us of clay, and formed us men;

And when like wandering sheep we strayed,

He brought us to his fold again.

3 We are his people, we his care--

Our souls, and all our mortal frame;

What lasting honors shall we rear,

Almighty Maker, to thy name?

4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,

High as the heavens our voices raise;

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,

Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is thy command;

Vast as eternity thy love;

Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,

When rolling years shall cease to move.

Isaac Watts.

(3) All Men Invited to Praise God.

From all that dwell below the skies

Let the Creator's praise arise;

Let the Redeemer's name be sung,

Through every land, by every tongue.

2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;

Eternal truth attends thy word;

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,

Till suns shall rise and set no more.

3 Your lofty themes, ye mortals, bring,

In songs of praise divinely sing:

The great salvation loud proclaim,

And shout for joy the Savior's name.

4 In every land begin the song;

To every land the strains belong;

In cheerful sounds all voices raise,

And till the world with loudest praise.

Isaac Watts, 1713.

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(6) Psalm 103.

Awake, my soul, awake my tongue,

My God demands the grateful song;

Let all my inmost powers record

The wondrous mercy of the Lord.

2 Divinely free his mercy flows,

Forgives my sins, allays my woes,

And bids approaching death remove,

And crowns me with indulgent love.

3 His mercy, with unchanging rays,

Forever shines, while time decays;

And children's children shall record

The truth and goodness of the Lord.

4 While all his works his praise proclaim

And men and angels bless his name,

Oh, let my heart, my life, my tongue

Attend, and join the blissful song!

Anne Steele, 1760.

Doxology.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise him, all creatures here below;

Praise him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Thos. Ken.

7 Lord of All Being. L.M.

(17) Omnipresence.

Lord of all being! throned afar,

Thy glory flames from sun and star;

Center and soul of ev'ry sphere,

Yet to each loving heart how near!

2 Sun of our life! thy quick'ning ray

Sheds on our path the glow of day;

Star of our hope! thy softened light

Cheers the long watches of the night.

3 Our midnight is thy smile withdrawn;

Our noontide is thy gracious dawn;

Our rainbow arch thy mercy's sign;

All, save the clouds of sin, are thine....