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27 Bethel | (Oh for a closer walk with God) |
28b Wells | (Life is the time to serve the Lord) |
31t Ninety-Third Psalm | (Grace! Tis a charming sound) |
32t Corinth | (Jesus, and shall it ever be) |
34b St. Thomas | (Come, sound His praise abroad) |
38b Windham | (Broad is the road that leads to death) |
39t Detroit | (Do not I love Thee, Oh my Lord?) |
45t New Britain | (Amazing grace! how sweet the sound) |
47t Primrose | (Salvation, Oh the joyful sound) |
47b Idumea | (And am I born to die?) |
48t Devotion | (Sweet is the day of sacred rest) |
49t Old Hundred | (Oh come, loud anthems let us sing) |
49b Mear | (Will God forever cast us off?) |
59 Holy Manna | (Brethren, we have met to worship) |
61 Sweet Rivers | (Sweet rivers of redeeming love) |
66 Jordan | (There is a land of pure delight) |
68b Ortonville | (How sweet the name of Jesus sounds) |
74b King of Peace | (Lord, I cannot let Thee go) |
84 Amsterdam | (Rise my soul and stretch thy wings) |
86 Poland | (God of my life, look gently down) |
87 Sweet Canaan | (Oh who will come and go with me?) |
107 Russia | (My spirit looks to God alone) |
117 Babylon Is Fallen | (Hail the day so long expected) |
145t Warrenton | (Come, Thou Fount of ev'ry blessing) |
146 Hallelujah | (And let this feeble body fail) |
147t Boylston | (My God, my life, my love) |
147b Laban | (My soul, be on thy guard) |
159 Wondrous Love | (What wondrous love is this!) |
178 Africa | (Now shall my inward joys arise,) |
207 Louisiana | (Come, little children, now we may) |
267 Parting Friends | (Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan) |
268 David's Lamentation | (David the king was grieved and moved) |
274t The Golden Harp | (Farewell, vain world, I'm going home) |
276 Bridgewater | (From all that dwell below the skies) |
287 Cambridge | (The Lord will happiness divine) |
335 Return Again | (Savior, visit Thy plantation) |
448t Consecration | (There then to Thee Thine own I leave) |
448b The Grieved Soul | "Therapy Song" (Come, my soul and let us try) |
457 Wayfaring Stranger | (I am a poor, wayfaring stranger) |
473 Carmarthen | (Rejoice! the Lord is King) |
479 Chester | (Let the high heav'ns your songs invite) |
489 The Savior's Call | (Come, wand'ring sheep, oh, come!) |
503 Lloyd | (My Savior and my King) |
515b Federal Street | (My dear Redeemer and my Lord) |
566 Hebron | (Thus far the Lord hath led me on) |
569t Emmaus | (Dear Lord, what heav'nly wonders dwell) |
569b Sacred Throne | (Beneath the sacred throne of God) |
29b Tribulation |
54 The Blessed Lamb |
70 Save Mighty Lord (from Social Harp) |
82b Edgefield |
108b The Traveler |
116 Union |
118 Stockwood |
138t Adoration |
160 War Department |
230 Converting Grace |
271t Arkansas |
284 Garden Hymn (added in 1991) |
338 Sawyer's Exit |
346 The American Star |
348t Ainslie (added in 1991) |
355 Anthem on the Saviour |
359b The Bride's Farewell |
407 Charlton |
435b Sacred Rest |
449 Fatherland |
451 Mary's Joy and Grief |
36b Ninety Fifth |
40 Lenox |
46 Let Us Sing |
63 Coronation |
66 Jordan |
99 Gospel Trumpet |
107 minor Russia |
110 minor Mount Vernon |
155 Northfield |
168 Cowper |
177 The Christian's Flight |
192 Schenectady |
209 Evening Shade |
268 David's Lamentation |
276 Bridgewater |
318 Present Joys |
551 Jacob's Vision |
196 (minor) | Alabama |
203 (minor) | Florida |
216 | Delight |
218 | Mount Pleasant |
299 | New Jerusalem |
300 (minor) | Calvary |
315 | Immensity |
340 | Odem (Second) |
371 | Heavenly Dove |
372 (minor) | Rockport |
440 (minor) | North Salem |
441 | Raymond |
442 | New Jordan |
454 | Better Land |
455 (minor) | Soar Away |
456 | Sacred Mount |
474 | Mount Desert |
475 | A Thankful Heart |
481 (minor) | Novakoski |
485 | New Agatite |
504 (minor) | Wood Street |
506 (minor) | The Ark |
133 Hebrew Children | (Way Down Yonder in the Paw-Paw Patch) |
145b Sweet Affliction | (Go Tell Aunt Rhody) (Rousseau) |
162 Plenary | (Auld Lang Syne) |
223 Portuguese Hymn | (Adeste Fideles) |
339 When I Am Gone | (Long Long Ago) |
334 Oh Come Away | (Come Sign the Pledge) |
27 Bethel | O for a closer walk with God |
30 Love Divine | All loves excelling |
128 The Promised Land (minor) | On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (in 1881, the hymnals changed to major.) |
314 Cleburne | All hail the power of Jesus' name |
330 Fellowship | Blest be the tie that binds |
336 Eternal Home | O God our help in ages past |
349 A Cross For Me | Must Jesus bear the Cross alone? |
395 New Bethel | O for a thousand tongues to sing |
397 The Fountain | There is a fountain filled with blood |
452 Martin | Jesus lover of my soul |
478 My Rising Sun | God moves in a mysterious way |
Rarely sung.
We're not going to get into a discussion.
'Nuff said.
115 Edmonds | (Adam's Ribs) |
78 Stafford | (In spite of env'ous Dudes) |
72 | Bellevue |
117 (minor) | Babylon is Fallen |
274t (minor) | The Golden Harp |
312b | Restoration (first) |
345b (minor) | I'm On My Journey Home |
401 | Cuba |
145 Warrington |
270 Confidence |
424 Sweet Union |
48b Kedron |
56b Villulia |
65 Sweet Prospect |
77t The Child of Grace |
82b Edgefield |
85 The Morning Trumpet |
89 The Church's Desolation |
95b Vernon |
102 Fulfillment |
108b The Traveler |
114 Saint's Delight |
122 All Is Well |
125 Expression |
128 The Promised Land |
143 Pleyel's Hymn (first) |
148 Jefferson |
157 Essay |
163t Morning |
163b China |
179 The Christian Warfare |
207 Louisiana |
213t The Good Old Way |
235 Long Sought Home |
277 Antioch |
284 Garden Hymn |
285t Arnold |
290 Victoria |
297 Conversion |
319 Religion Is a Fortune |
324 North Port |
332 Sons of Sorrow |
334 Oh Come Away |
341 The Lone Pilgrim |
348b Fleeting Days |
354b Happy Land |
358 Murillo's Lesson |
375 Love the Lord (minor) |
378t Heavenly Port |
378b Never Turn Back |
385t Fight On |
421 Sweet Morning |
489 The Savior's Call |
497 Natick |
501 O'Leary |
523 Pleyel's Hymn (second) |
535 Shawmut |
567 The Great Day |
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