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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Hymns from the German + Translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox + +Author: Various + +Translator: Frances Elizabeth Cox + +Release Date: April 13, 2012 [EBook #39439] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HYMNS FROM THE GERMAN *** + + + + +Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Barbara Tozier, Dave Morgan +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned +images of public domain material from the Google Print +project.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<h1>HYMNS FROM THE GERMAN.</h1> +<p class="tbcenter"><span class="small">TRANSLATED BY</span> +<br />FRANCES ELIZABETH COX.</p> +<p class="tbcenter"><span class="small">“Awake up, my glory: awake, lute and harp.”</span></p> +<p class="tbcenter"><span class="small"><i>SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.</i></span></p> +<p class="tbcenter">RIVINGTONS, +<br /><span class="small">WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON; +<br />HIGH STREET, OXFORD; +<br />TRINITY STREET, CAMBRIDGE. +<br />1864.</span></p> +<div class="pb" id="Page_iii">[iii]</div> +<h2 id="c1"><i>Preface.</i></h2> +<p>Germany, since the time of the +Reformation, has always had its +sacred poets; yet their beautiful +hymns were till of late unknown +in England, except to the few who read them +in the original.</p> +<p>This small selection, now re-published in a +slightly enlarged edition, was perhaps the first +attempt to make them known to English +readers. Some of its former contents are +here replaced by hymns of more value.</p> +<p>Most of these were pointed out to the Translator +as “national treasures” by the late Baron +Bunsen, on whose authority the names and +dates of the authors are given, and from whose +large collection the hymns, with one exception, +<span class="pb" id="Page_iv">[iv]</span> +are taken. That entitled “Gethsemane,” +recently translated for Lyra Mystica, is from +a Treves hymn-book. The proximity of the +German, which, as in the first Edition, is +printed on corresponding pages, will betray +that in this instance, as also in three or four +others, the metre has been changed. In this +hymn especially it was difficult to retain the +short line and double rhyme in English verse, +with sufficient reverence for the solemn theme.</p> +<p>The originals will, it is hoped, recommend +this volume to young students of German, who +may wish to become acquainted with some of +the hymns of Gerhard, Angelus, and others, +without searching through collections which +mostly comprise several hundreds.</p> +<h2 id="c2">HYMNS, +<br /><span class="small">GERMAN AND ENGLISH.</span></h2> +<h2 id="c3">LIEDER. (HYMNS.)</h2> +<div class="hymn" id="h1g" title="Morgenlied."> +<div title="Morgenlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h1e">Morgenlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lobet den Herrn alle seine Werke an allen Orten seiner Herrschaft:</p> +<p class="t0">Lobe den Herrn meine Seele.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern</p> +<p class="t0">Vom Firmament des Himmels fern!</p> +<p class="t0">Die Nacht ist nun vergangen,</p> +<p class="t0">All Creatur macht sich herfür</p> +<p class="t0">Des edlen Lichtes Pracht und Zier</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Freuden zu empfangen:</p> +<p class="t0">Was lebt, Was schwebt</p> +<p class="t0">Hoch in Lüften, Tief in Klüften,</p> +<p class="t0">Lässt zu Ehren</p> +<p class="t0">Seinem Gott ein Danklied hören.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Drum, o mein Herz, dich auch aufricht,</p> +<p class="t0">Erheb dein Stimm und säume nicht</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Herrn dein Lob zu bringen.</p> +<p class="t0">Denn, Herr, Du bist’s, dem Lob gebührt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dess Ruhm niemals vollendet wird,</p> +<p class="t0">Den man lässt innig klingen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Fleiss Dank, Preis,</p> +<p class="t0">Freudensaiten, Dass von weiten</p> +<p class="t0">Man kann hören</p> +<p class="t0">Dich, o meinen Heiland, ehren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich lag in stolzer Sicherheit,</p> +<p class="t0">Sah nicht, mit was Gefährlichkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Ich diese Nacht umgeben:</p> +<p class="t0">Des Teufels List und Büberei,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Höll, des Todes Tyrannei</p> +<p class="t0">Stund mir nach Leib und Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich Schwerlich</p> +<p class="t0">Wär entkommen Und entnommen</p> +<p class="t0">Diesen Banden,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Du mir nicht beigestanden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Allein, o Jesu, meine Freud</p> +<p class="t0">In aller Angst und Traurigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast mich heut befreiet,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast der Feinde Macht gewehrt,</p> +<p class="t0">Mir Schutz und sanfte Ruh beschert,</p> +<p class="t0">Des sei gebenedeiet!</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Muth, Mein Blut</p> +<p class="t0">Soll nun singen, Soll nun springen,</p> +<p class="t0">All mein Leben</p> +<p class="t0">Soll Dir Dankeslieder geben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O mein Herr, süsser Lebenshort,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass ferner deine Gnadenpfort</p> +<p class="t0">Mir heut auch offen bleiben:</p> +<p class="t0">Sei meine Burg und festes Schloss,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lass kein feindliches Geschoss</p> +<p class="t0">Daraus mich immer treiben:</p> +<p class="t0">Stell Dich Für mich</p> +<p class="t0">Hin, zu kämpfen Und zu dämpfen</p> +<p class="t0">Pfeil und Eisen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn der Feind will Macht beweisen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Geuss deiner Gnade reichen Stral</p> +<p class="t0">Auf mich vom hohen Himmelssaal,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herz in mir erneue:</p> +<p class="t0">Dein guter Geist mich leit und führ,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich nach meines Stands Gebühr</p> +<p class="t0">Zu thun mich innig freue.</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb Rath Und That,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mein Sinnen Und Beginnen</p> +<p class="t0">Stets sich wenden,</p> +<p class="t0">Seinen Lauf in Dir zu enden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wend Unfall ab, kanns anders sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo nicht, so geb ich mich darein,</p> +<p class="t0">Und will nicht widerstreben.</p> +<p class="t0">Doch komm, o süsser Morgenthau,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herz erfrisch, dass ich Dir trau,</p> +<p class="t0">Und bleib im Kreuz ergeben,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis ich Endlich</p> +<p class="t0">Nach dem Leiden zu den Freuden</p> +<p class="t0">Werd erhoben,</p> +<p class="t0">Da ich Dich will ewig loben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Indess, mein Herze sing und spring,</p> +<p class="t0">In allem Kreuz sei guter Ding,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Himmel steht dir offen;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass Schwermuth dich nicht nehmen ein,</p> +<p class="t0">Denk, dass die liebsten Kinder sein</p> +<p class="t0">Allzeit das Kreuz betroffen:</p> +<p class="t0">Drum so Sei froh,</p> +<p class="t0">Glaube feste, Dass das Beste,</p> +<p class="t0">So bringt Frommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wir in jener Welt bekommen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Wiesenmayer_B">Burchard Wiesenmayer.</a> <i>Cir.</i> 1680.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h1e" title="Morning Hymn."> +<div title="Morning Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h1g">Morning Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>O speak good of the Lord, all ye Works of His, in all Places of +His Dominion: praise thou the Lord, O my Soul.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> ciii. 22.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">How lovely now the morning-star</p> +<p class="t0">In twilight sky bright gleams afar,</p> +<p class="t">While Night her curtain raiseth;</p> +<p class="t0">Each creature hails, with ravished sight,</p> +<p class="t0">The glories of returning light,</p> +<p class="t">And God its Maker praiseth:</p> +<p class="t3">Both far, And near,</p> +<p class="t0">All things living Thanks are giving,</p> +<p class="t3">There high soaring,</p> +<p class="t0">Here through earth’s wide field adoring.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then haste, my Soul, thy notes to raise,</p> +<p class="t0">Nor spare in thy Redeemer’s Praise</p> +<p class="t">To pour thy due Oblation;</p> +<p class="t0">For glory, Lord, to Thee belongs,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Praise resounds in grateful songs,</p> +<p class="t">With pious emulation:</p> +<p class="t3">Joy rings Glad strings:</p> +<p class="t0">Voices sounding, Hearts rebounding,</p> +<p class="t3">Thus all Nature</p> +<p class="t0">Hymns Thy fame, O great Creator.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Unconscious, I securely slept,</p> +<p class="t0">Nor saw the cruel foes which kept</p> +<p class="t">Close watch about my slumber;</p> +<p class="t0">Though evil spirits, through the night,</p> +<p class="t0">With hellish craft and watchful spite,</p> +<p class="t">Came round me without number;</p> +<p class="t3">Whose hands In bands,</p> +<p class="t0">Mischief brewing For my ruin,</p> +<p class="t3">Had enslaved me,</p> +<p class="t0">Hadst not Thou stood by and saved me.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">For, Jesus, Thou with saving Power,</p> +<p class="t0">Wast near me in that threatening hour,</p> +<p class="t">And warded off their fury;</p> +<p class="t0">And I reposed in quiet sleep,</p> +<p class="t0">Whilst Thou unwearied watch didst keep;</p> +<p class="t">To Thee all Praise and Glory!</p> +<p class="t3">My heart’s Best part,</p> +<p class="t0">Upward springing, Loudly singing,</p> +<p class="t3">Shall adore Thee,</p> +<p class="t0">While on earth I walk before Thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">This day my Fortress, Lord, abide,</p> +<p class="t0">Now ope Thy Gates of Mercy wide,</p> +<p class="t">Within their shelter place me;</p> +<p class="t0">My Castle and my Rock Thou art,</p> +<p class="t0">O let no foeman’s treacherous dart</p> +<p class="t">From Thee, my Stronghold, chase me.</p> +<p class="t3">Help, Lord, Afford!</p> +<p class="t0">Near me tarry, Blows to parry,</p> +<p class="t3">While around me</p> +<p class="t0">Sword and arrow sore confound me.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Pour down Thy grace in cheering streams,</p> +<p class="t0">And warm my heart with Mercy’s beams,</p> +<p class="t">From heaven, Thy Throne of Beauty;</p> +<p class="t0">Let Thy Good Spirit guide my will,</p> +<p class="t0">That I, whate’er my station, still</p> +<p class="t">May seek my Joy in Duty:</p> +<p class="t3">Send Light, And Might,</p> +<p class="t0">That each measure, Scheme and pleasure,</p> +<p class="t3">Heavenward tending,</p> +<p class="t0">Still in Thee may find its ending.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Keep grief, if this may be, away,—</p> +<p class="t0">If not, Thy Will be done, I say,</p> +<p class="t">My choice to Thine resigning;</p> +<p class="t0">O come, and like the morning dew,</p> +<p class="t0">Refresh my heart, and make it new,</p> +<p class="t">That I may, unrepining,</p> +<p class="t3">Bear cross, And loss,</p> +<p class="t0">Till that morrow Chase all sorrow,</p> +<p class="t3">When upraisèd</p> +<p class="t0">Where Thy Name is ever praisèd.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Meanwhile, my heart, both sing and leap,</p> +<p class="t0">Mid cross and loss good courage keep,</p> +<p class="t">To Heaven’s bright Gate you hasten;</p> +<p class="t0">Then lay desponding care aside,</p> +<p class="t0">God ever thus His Own hath tried,</p> +<p class="t">And those He loves doth chasten;</p> +<p class="t3">Hope still, Midst ill,</p> +<p class="t0">Calm though grieving, Firm believing</p> +<p class="t3">Tribulation</p> +<p class="t0">Is the road to sure Salvation.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h2g" title="Abendlied."> +<div title="Abendlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h2e">Abendlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Beschirme mich unter dem Schatten deiner Flügel.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun ruhen alle Wälder,</p> +<p class="t0">Vieh, Menschen, Städt und Felder,</p> +<p class="t0">Es schläft die ganze Welt:</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr aber, meine Sinnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Auf, auf, ihr sollt beginnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Was eurem Schöpfer wohlgefällt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wo bist du, Sonne, blieben?</p> +<p class="t0">Die Nacht hat dich vertrieben,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Nacht, des Tages Feind:</p> +<p class="t0">Fahr hin, ein andre Sonne,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Jesus, meine Wonne,</p> +<p class="t0">Gar hell in meinem Herzen scheint.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Tag ist nun vergangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die goldnen Sternlein prangen</p> +<p class="t0">Am blauen Himmelssaal:</p> +<p class="t0">Also werd ich auch stehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn mich wird heissen gehen</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Gott aus diesem Jammerthal.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Leib eilt nun zur Ruhe,</p> +<p class="t0">Legt ab das Kleid und Schuhe,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Bild der Sterblichkeit:</p> +<p class="t0">Die zieh ich aus, dagegen</p> +<p class="t0">Wird Christus mir anlegen</p> +<p class="t0">Den Rock der Ehr und Herrlichkeit.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Das Haupt, die Füss und Hände</p> +<p class="t0">Sind froh, dass nun zum Ende</p> +<p class="t0">Die Arbeit kommen sei:</p> +<p class="t0">Herz, freu dich, du sollst werden</p> +<p class="t0">Vom Elend dieser Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Und von der Sünden Arbeit frei.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun geht, ihr matten Glieder,</p> +<p class="t0">Geht hin, und legt euch nieder,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Betten ihr begehrt:</p> +<p class="t0">Es kommen Stund und Zeiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Da man euch wird bereiten</p> +<p class="t0">Zur Ruh ein Bettlein in der Erd.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mein Augen stehn verdrossen,</p> +<p class="t0">Im Nu sind sie geschlossen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo bleibt denn Leib und Seel?</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm sie zu Deinen Gnaden,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei gut für allen Schaden,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Aug und Wächter Israel.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Breit aus die Flügel beide,</p> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, meine Freude,</p> +<p class="t0">Und nimm dein Küchlein ein;</p> +<p class="t0">Will Satan mich verschlingen,</p> +<p class="t0">So lass die Englein singen:</p> +<p class="t0">”Diess Kind soll unverletzet sein.“</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auch euch, ihr meine Lieben,</p> +<p class="t0">Soll heunte nicht betrüben</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Unfall noch Gefahr:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott lass euch ruhig schlafen,</p> +<p class="t0">Stell euch die goldnen Waffen</p> +<p class="t0">Ums Bett, und seiner Helden Schaar.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h2e" title="Evening Hymn."> +<div title="Evening Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h2g">Evening Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Hide me under the Shadow of Thy Wings.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xvii. 8.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now hushed are woods and waters,</p> +<p class="t0">At rest toil’s sons and daughters,</p> +<p class="t">The world aslumber lies;</p> +<p class="t0">But thou, my Soul, awake thee,</p> +<p class="t0">To prayer and song betake thee,</p> +<p class="t">And bid their grateful incense rise.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sun, whither hast thou vanished?</p> +<p class="t0">The night, day’s foe, has banished</p> +<p class="t">At length each lingering beam;</p> +<p class="t0">But Jesus now draws nearer,</p> +<p class="t0">A better Sun and dearer</p> +<p class="t">Sheds through my heart a warmer gleam.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The day has fled defeated—</p> +<p class="t0">In heaven’s deep azure seated,</p> +<p class="t">Stars shine, a golden band;</p> +<p class="t0">I too, on that bright morrow,</p> +<p class="t0">Called from this vale of sorrow,</p> +<p class="t">Like them, in heaven with God shall stand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To rest my body hasteth,</p> +<p class="t0">Aside its garments casteth,</p> +<p class="t">Types of our mortal state;</p> +<p class="t0">When I put off this mortal,</p> +<p class="t0">At death’s mysterious portal,</p> +<p class="t">Christ’s pure white Robes my soul await.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">As day’s turmoil is closing,</p> +<p class="t0">Head, hands, and feet reposing,</p> +<p class="t">Welcome the set of sun;</p> +<p class="t0">Cheer up, my heart, with gladness!</p> +<p class="t0">Thou, free from sin and sadness,</p> +<p class="t">Wilt joy when life’s long task is done.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Tired limbs, how toil oppressed you!</p> +<p class="t0">Ye long in bed to rest you,</p> +<p class="t">And thou, my weary head!</p> +<p class="t0">A little longer tarry,</p> +<p class="t0">Till this worn frame they carry,</p> +<p class="t">To rest in earth’s green narrow bed.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sleep o’er mine eyes is creeping—</p> +<p class="t0">Say, while unconscious sleeping,</p> +<p class="t">Where bide the Soul and Sense?</p> +<p class="t0">O Israel’s Eye and Saviour,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down with Grace and Favour,</p> +<p class="t">And be this night my sure Defence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord, as a hen safe gathers</p> +<p class="t0">Her brood beneath her feathers,</p> +<p class="t">Spread Thou Thy sheltering Wing;</p> +<p class="t0">This couch if Satan cumber,</p> +<p class="t0">“My child, still safely slumber,”</p> +<p class="t">Let guardian Angels round me sing.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So, safe ’neath God’s protection,</p> +<p class="t0">Sleep ye whom fond Affection</p> +<p class="t">Within my heart holds dear;</p> +<p class="t0">May His bright Guards attend you,</p> +<p class="t0">And Golden Shields defend you,</p> +<p class="t">If aught of ill approach you near!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h3g" title="Morgenlied."> +<div title="Morgenlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h3e">Morgenlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Sende dein Licht und deine Wahrheit, dass sie mich leiten.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die goldne Sonne</p> +<p class="t0">Voll Freud und Wonne</p> +<p class="t0">Bringt unsern Gränzen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit ihrem Glänzen</p> +<p class="t0">Ein herzerquickendes liebliches Licht.</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Haupt und Glieder</p> +<p class="t0">Die lagen danieder,</p> +<p class="t0">Aber nun steh ich,</p> +<p class="t0">Bin munter und fröhlich,</p> +<p class="t0">Schaue den Himmel mit meinem Gesicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mein Auge schauet,</p> +<p class="t0">Was Gott gebauet</p> +<p class="t0">Zu seinen Ehren,</p> +<p class="t0">Und uns zu lehren,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie sein Vermögen sei mächtig und gross,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wo die Frommen</p> +<p class="t0">Dann sollen hinkommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn sie mit Frieden</p> +<p class="t0">Von hinnen geschieden</p> +<p class="t0">Aus dieser Erden vergänglichem Schoss.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lasset uns singen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Schöpfer bringen</p> +<p class="t0">Güter und Gaben;</p> +<p class="t0">Was wir nur haben,</p> +<p class="t0">Alles sei Gotte zum Opfer gesetzt:</p> +<p class="t0">Die besten Güter</p> +<p class="t0">Sind unsre Gemüther;</p> +<p class="t0">Dankbare Lieder</p> +<p class="t0">Sind Weihrauch und Widder,</p> +<p class="t0">An welchen Er sich am meisten ergötzt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Abend und Morgen</p> +<p class="t0">Sind seine Sorgen:</p> +<p class="t0">Segnen und mehren,</p> +<p class="t0">Unglück verwehren</p> +<p class="t0">Sind seine Werke und Thaten allein:</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn wir uns legen,</p> +<p class="t0">So ist Er zugegen</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn wir aufstehen,</p> +<p class="t0">So lässt Er aufgehen</p> +<p class="t0">Ueber uns seiner Barmherzigkeit Schein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Alles vergehet,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott aber stehet</p> +<p class="t0">Ohn alles Wanken;</p> +<p class="t0">Seine Gedanken,</p> +<p class="t0">Sein Wort und Wille hat ewigen Grund:</p> +<p class="t0">Sein Heil und Gnaden</p> +<p class="t0">Die nehmen nicht Schaden,</p> +<p class="t0">Heilen im Herzen</p> +<p class="t0">Die tödtlichen Schmerzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Halten uns zeitlich und ewig gesund.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott, meine Krone,</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb und schone;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass meine Schulden</p> +<p class="t0">In Gnad und Hulden</p> +<p class="t0">Aus deinen Augen sein abgewandt:</p> +<p class="t0">Sonsten regiere,</p> +<p class="t0">Mich lenke und führe,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie Dir’s gefället,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich hab gestellet</p> +<p class="t0">Alles in deine Beliebung und Hand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Kreuz und Elende</p> +<p class="t0">Das nimmt ein Ende,</p> +<p class="t0">Nach Meeres Brausen</p> +<p class="t0">Und Windes Sausen</p> +<p class="t0">Leuchtet der Sonne gewünschtes Gesicht:</p> +<p class="t0">Freude die Fülle</p> +<p class="t0">Und selige Stille</p> +<p class="t0">Hab ich zu warten</p> +<p class="t0">Im himmlischen Garten,</p> +<p class="t0">Dahin sind meine Gedanken gericht.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h3e" title="Morning Hymn."> +<div title="Morning Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h3g">Morning Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>O send out Thy Light and Thy Truth, that they may lead me.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xliii. 3.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Sunbeams all golden,</p> +<p class="t4">Gladly beholden,</p> +<p class="t4">Nature’s face brightening,</p> +<p class="t4">Man’s sorrow lightening,</p> +<p class="t0">Pierce through the twilight with heart-cheering ray:</p> +<p class="t4">Head and limbs slumbered,</p> +<p class="t4">By dark night encumbered;</p> +<p class="t4">Now blithe and cheerly</p> +<p class="t4">They waken up early,</p> +<p class="t0">Eager to hail the first dawning of day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">In contemplation</p> +<p class="t4">Of God’s Creation,</p> +<p class="t4">How my Soul burneth,</p> +<p class="t4">While it discerneth</p> +<p class="t0">Proofs of His Wisdom, and Goodness, and Might:</p> +<p class="t4">Thus would He teach us</p> +<p class="t4">The Joy that will reach us,</p> +<p class="t4">When to that Heaven</p> +<p class="t4">An entrance is given,</p> +<p class="t0">Where is no need of the sun to give light.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Let us consenting,</p> +<p class="t4">Heart’s gladness venting,</p> +<p class="t4">Tunefully singing,</p> +<p class="t4">Gifts freely bringing,</p> +<p class="t0">Render due praise to the God of all Love:</p> +<p class="t4">Meek adoration</p> +<p class="t4">Is our best oblation;</p> +<p class="t4">Fervent thanksgiving,</p> +<p class="t4">And sanctified living,</p> +<p class="t0">Form the sweet Incense that He will approve.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Evening and morning,</p> +<p class="t4">Sunset and dawning,</p> +<p class="t4">Blessings increasing,</p> +<p class="t4">Burdens releasing,</p> +<p class="t0">Near us He tarries, all evil to chase:</p> +<p class="t4">While we are sleeping</p> +<p class="t4">His Watch He is keeping;</p> +<p class="t4">When we awaken,</p> +<p class="t4">His Goodness, unshaken,</p> +<p class="t0">Showers down riches of Mercy and Grace.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Earthly things alter,</p> +<p class="t4">God cannot falter;</p> +<p class="t4">Wisely ordaining,</p> +<p class="t4">Firmly sustaining,</p> +<p class="t0">His Will and Purpose are steadfast and sure:</p> +<p class="t4">Tried with temptation,</p> +<p class="t4">He brings us Salvation;</p> +<p class="t4">Sorrow and sadness</p> +<p class="t4">He turns into Gladness;</p> +<p class="t0">His Loving Mercies for ever endure.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">King of Creation!</p> +<p class="t4">Lord of Salvation!</p> +<p class="t4">Hear my confessions,</p> +<p class="t4">Blot my transgressions</p> +<p class="t0">Out of the Book where they chronicled stand:</p> +<p class="t4">Gladly confiding,</p> +<p class="t4">I trust to Thy guiding;</p> +<p class="t4">Humbly submitting,</p> +<p class="t4">As Thou seèst fitting,</p> +<p class="t0">All things I take from Thy merciful Hand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Griefs, though heart-rending,</p> +<p class="t4">All have their ending;</p> +<p class="t4">Strong winds may bluster,</p> +<p class="t4">Dark clouds may muster,</p> +<p class="t0">Through them the sun will break forth at the last:</p> +<p class="t4">So, when I languish</p> +<p class="t4">In sorrow and anguish,</p> +<p class="t4">Hoping for pardon,</p> +<p class="t4">I think of that Garden,</p> +<p class="t0">Waiting the just when life’s storms are all past.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h4g" title="Abendlied."> +<div title="Abendlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h4e">Abendlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Herr wird dein ewiges Licht sein:</p> +<p class="t0">Und die Tage deines Leidens sollen ein Ende haben.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Tag ist hin,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Geist und Sinn</p> +<p class="t0">Sehnt sich nach jenem Tage,</p> +<p class="t0">Der uns völlig machen wird</p> +<p class="t0">Frei von aller Plage.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Nacht ist da,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei Du mir nah,</p> +<p class="t0">Jesu, mit hellen Kerzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Treib der Sünde Dunkelheit</p> +<p class="t0">Weg aus meinem Herzen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Sonnen Licht</p> +<p class="t0">Uns jetzt gebricht:</p> +<p class="t0">O unerschaffne Sonne,</p> +<p class="t0">Brich mit deinem Licht hervor</p> +<p class="t0">Mir zur Freud und Wonne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was sich geregt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und vor bewegt,</p> +<p class="t0">Ruht jetzt von seinen Werken:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich, Herr, in stiller Ruh</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Werk in mir merken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wann aber soll</p> +<p class="t0">Der Wechsel wohl</p> +<p class="t0">Der Tag und Nächte weichen?</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn der Tag anbrechen wird,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem kein Tag zu gleichen!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ja dann wird nicht</p> +<p class="t0">Der Sonnen Licht</p> +<p class="t0">Jerusalem verlieren:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn das Lamm ist selbst das Licht,</p> +<p class="t0">Das die Stadt wird zieren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t0">O wär ich da,</p> +<p class="t0">Da alles lieblich klinget,</p> +<p class="t0">Da man ohne Unterlass</p> +<p class="t0">Heilig! heilig! singet.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Jesu Du,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Hülf und Ruh,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich dahin gelangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich mög in deinem Glanz</p> +<p class="t0">Vor Dir ewig prangen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Freylinghausen_JA">Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen.</a> 1670-1739.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h4e" title="Evening Hymn."> +<div title="Evening Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h4g">Evening Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>The Lord shall be thine everlasting Light, and the days of thy +mourning shall be ended.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, lx. 20.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">The day is o’er,</p> +<p class="t3">My soul longs sore</p> +<p class="t0">For that eternal Morrow,</p> +<p class="t">Which at length shall set us free</p> +<p class="t2">From all earthly sorrow.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">Now it is night;</p> +<p class="t3">Christ, let Thy Light</p> +<p class="t0">Sin’s darkness henceforth banish;</p> +<p class="t">As God’s candle in my breast,</p> +<p class="t2">Cause all gloom to vanish.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">The sun is set;</p> +<p class="t3">Do Thou but let</p> +<p class="t0">Thy beams, Sun uncreated,</p> +<p class="t">Shed their radiance o’er my soul,</p> +<p class="t2">I am compensated.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">All are at rest</p> +<p class="t3">Whom work oppressed;</p> +<p class="t0">Let me, in silent wonder,</p> +<p class="t">Thy work, Lord, within my breast,</p> +<p class="t2">Here in silence ponder.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">Divided sway</p> +<p class="t3">Of night and day,</p> +<p class="t0">When shall we see thy Sequel,</p> +<p class="t">That Great Day whose glorious dawn</p> +<p class="t2">Has on earth no equal?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">No light of day,</p> +<p class="t3">Or sunlit ray</p> +<p class="t0">Jerusalem’s City needeth;</p> +<p class="t">Since the Lamb, Who is her Light,</p> +<p class="t2">Far the sun exceedeth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t3">O could I there</p> +<p class="t0">Take part, however lowly,</p> +<p class="t">In those choirs which ever sing,</p> +<p class="t2">Holy! Holy! Holy!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">O Saviour blest,</p> +<p class="t3">My Help and Rest!</p> +<p class="t0">May I soon follow thither,</p> +<p class="t">Where Thy Hand holds out a Crown</p> +<p class="t2">That shall never wither!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h5g" title="Adventlied. I."> +<div title="Adventlied. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h5e">Adventlied. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Das ist der Herr, auf den wir harren:</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir uns freuen und fröhlich sein in seinem Heil.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auf! auf! weil der Tag erschienen,</p> +<p class="t0">Der uns muss zur Freude dienen;</p> +<p class="t0">Auf! es kommt des Herren Jahr,</p> +<p class="t0">Das der frommen Alten Schaar</p> +<p class="t0">Mit so sehnlichem Verlangen</p> +<p class="t0">Hat erwartet, hergegangen;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nunmehr ist die Zeit erwachet,</p> +<p class="t0">Da die Tochter Zion lachet,</p> +<p class="t0">Da sie jauchzt und jubilirt,</p> +<p class="t0">Weil sie dessen Nähe spürt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der ihr Bräutigam und König,</p> +<p class="t0">Ob Ihn gleich erkennen wenig;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Den so viele Majestäten,</p> +<p class="t0">So viel Väter und Propheten</p> +<p class="t0">Ehmals anzuschaun begehrt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dess doch nicht sind gewährt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der hat sich nun eingefunden:</p> +<p class="t0">O der angenehmen Stunden!</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der zum Heiland war erkoren,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dem Abraham geschworen,</p> +<p class="t0">Israelis Kron und Sonn,</p> +<p class="t0">Aller Heiden Trost und Wonn,</p> +<p class="t0">Stehet nun in unsrer Mitten,</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt gen Zion sanft geritten;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er ist da, des Vaters Willen</p> +<p class="t0">In Gehorsam zu erfüllen,</p> +<p class="t0">Er will durch sein eigen Blut</p> +<p class="t0">Alles wieder machen gut,</p> +<p class="t0">Und durch schmerzlich Todesringen</p> +<p class="t0">Was verloren wiederbringen;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er will sich als deinen Bürgen</p> +<p class="t0">An dem Holze lassen würgen:</p> +<p class="t0">Dass der liebliche Geruch</p> +<p class="t0">Seines Segens deinen Fluch</p> +<p class="t0">Ganz verjage, will Er werden</p> +<p class="t0">Selbst ein Fluch auf dieser Erden;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Moses hat nun ausregieret,</p> +<p class="t0">Christi freier Geist uns führet,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Gefangenschaft ist aus;</p> +<p class="t0">Wer gehört in Gottes Haus,</p> +<p class="t0">Kann durch unsers Heilands Büssen,</p> +<p class="t0">Freier Kindschaft nun geniessen;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun der Vorhang ist zerrissen,</p> +<p class="t0">Darf ein jeder sein geflissen,</p> +<p class="t0">In das Heilge einzugehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Und vor Gott ohn Furcht zu stehn:</p> +<p class="t0">Der, so zu uns ist gekommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Hat uns alle Furcht benommen;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Drum auf, Zion! dich dess freue,</p> +<p class="t0">Deinen König benedeie,</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb Ihm Herz und Mund zugleich,</p> +<p class="t0">Du bist Braut, Er will das Reich</p> +<p class="t0">Mit dir theilen; darum bringe</p> +<p class="t0">Dich Ihm selbst zum Opfer! singe:</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Freylinghausen_JA">Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen.</a> 1670-1739.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h5e" title="Advent Hymn. I."> +<div title="Advent Hymn. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h5g">Advent Hymn. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>This is the Lord; we have waited for Him: we will be glad +and rejoice in His salvation.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, xxv. 9.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wake! the welcome Day appeareth,</p> +<p class="t0">How with joy our hearts it cheereth!</p> +<p class="t0">Wake! the Lord’s great Year behold!</p> +<p class="t0">That which holy men of old,</p> +<p class="t0">Those who throng the Sacred Pages,</p> +<p class="t0">Waited for through countless ages;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now the wished for Morning breaketh;</p> +<p class="t0">Hark! how Sion’s daughter waketh</p> +<p class="t0">Shouts of joy and jubilee,</p> +<p class="t0">Thus His Advent-dawn to see:</p> +<p class="t0">King and Bridegroom she enthrones Him,</p> +<p class="t0">Though ’tis but a remnant owns Him;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Patriarchs erst and priests aspiring,</p> +<p class="t0">Kings and prophets long desiring,</p> +<p class="t0">Saw not this before they died:</p> +<p class="t0">Lo! the Light to them denied!</p> +<p class="t0">See its beams to earth directed!</p> +<p class="t0">Welcome, O Thou long-expected!</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">He, the Saviour sent from heaven,</p> +<p class="t0">Once through faith to Abram given,</p> +<p class="t0">Israel’s Sun and glorious King,</p> +<p class="t0">Hope to which the heathen cling,</p> +<p class="t0">Now on earth with men abiding,</p> +<p class="t0">Comes to Zion meekly riding;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lo! He comes, a Victim willing,</p> +<p class="t0">All His Father’s Will fulfilling;</p> +<p class="t0">He will, through His precious Blood,</p> +<p class="t0">All things once again make good,</p> +<p class="t0">Pain and shame of death sustaining,</p> +<p class="t0">What was lost with joy regaining;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In our stead Himself He offers,</p> +<p class="t0">On th’ accursed Tree He suffers,</p> +<p class="t0">That His Death’s sweet savour may</p> +<p class="t0">Take our curse for aye away;</p> +<p class="t0">Cross and curse for us enduring,</p> +<p class="t0">Hope and heaven to us securing;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Moses’ law no longer rules us,</p> +<p class="t0">Christ’s free Spirit gently schools us;</p> +<p class="t0">Ended now our captive thrall,</p> +<p class="t0">He who God obeys in all,</p> +<p class="t0">Through his Saviour’s Death and Merit,</p> +<p class="t0">Now enjoys adoption’s spirit;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Rent the temple curtain’s centre,</p> +<p class="t0">Fearless each may strive to enter,</p> +<p class="t0">Through the veil, the Holy Place,</p> +<p class="t0">There to stand before His Face;</p> +<p class="t0">He Who once came down from heaven,</p> +<p class="t0">Fear from all our breasts hath driven;</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hence thy King, O Zion, praising,</p> +<p class="t0">Heart and voice to Him upraising,</p> +<p class="t0">Shout with joy, for once thou art</p> +<p class="t0">In His Reign to bear thy part.</p> +<p class="t0">Come, thyself as offering bringing,</p> +<p class="t0">Come, thou Bride, for ever singing,</p> +<p class="t2">Alleluia! Alleluia!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h6g" title="Adventlied. II."> +<div title="Adventlied. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h6e">Adventlied. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Siehe, der Bräutigam kömmt:</p> +<p class="t0">Gehet aus Ihm entgegen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme</p> +<p class="t0">Der Wächter sehr hoch auf der Zinne:</p> +<p class="t0">Wach auf, du Stadt Jerusalem!</p> +<p class="t0">Mitternacht heisst diese Stunde,</p> +<p class="t0">Sie rufen uns mit hellem Munde:</p> +<p class="t0">Wo seid ihr klugen Jungfrauen?</p> +<p class="t0">Wohl auf, der Bräutgam kömmt!</p> +<p class="t0">Steht auf, die Lampen nehmt!</p> +<p class="t0">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t0">Macht euch bereit</p> +<p class="t0">Zur Hochzeitfreud:</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr müsset Ihm entgegengehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zion hört die Wächter singen,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Herz thut ihr vor Freude springen,</p> +<p class="t0">Sie wachet und steht eilend auf:</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Freund kommt vom Himmel prächtig,</p> +<p class="t0">Von Gnaden stark, von Wahrheit mächtig,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Licht wird hell, ihr Stern geht auf.</p> +<p class="t0">Nun komm, Du werthe Kron!</p> +<p class="t0">Herr Jesu Gottes Sohn!</p> +<p class="t0">Hosianna!</p> +<p class="t0">Wir folgen all’</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Freudensaal</p> +<p class="t0">Und halten mit das Abendmahl.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ehr und Preis sei Dir gesungen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Menschen- und mit Engelzungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Harfen und mit Zymbeln schön!</p> +<p class="t0">Von zwölf Perlen sind die Thore</p> +<p class="t0">An deiner Stadt, wir stehn im Chore</p> +<p class="t0">Der Engel hoch um deinen Thron:</p> +<p class="t0">Kein Aug hat je gespürt,</p> +<p class="t0">Kein Ohr hat mehr gehört</p> +<p class="t0">Solche Freude:</p> +<p class="t0">Dess jauchzen wir</p> +<p class="t0">Und singen Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Das Alleluia für und für.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Nicolai_P">Philipp Nicolai.</a> 1556-1608.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h6e" title="Advent Hymn. II."> +<div title="Advent Hymn. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h6g">Advent Hymn. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. Matthew</i>, xxv. 6.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wake! the startling watch-cry pealeth,</p> +<p class="t0">While slumber deep each eyelid sealeth;</p> +<p class="t">Awake! Jerusalem, awake!</p> +<p class="t0">Midnight’s solemn hour is tolling,</p> +<p class="t0">And cherub notes are onward rolling;</p> +<p class="t">They call on us our part to take.</p> +<p class="t2">Come forth, ye virgins wise!</p> +<p class="t2">The Bridegroom comes, arise!</p> +<p class="t5">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t5">Each lamp be bright,</p> +<p class="t5">With ready light,</p> +<p class="t">To grace the Marriage-Feast to-night!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zion hears the Voice that singeth;</p> +<p class="t0">With sudden joy her glad heart springeth;</p> +<p class="t">At once she wakes, she stands arrayed:</p> +<p class="t0">See her Light, her Star ascending,</p> +<p class="t0">Lo! girt with truth, with mercy blending,</p> +<p class="t">Her Bridegroom there, so long delayed!</p> +<p class="t2">All hail, God’s glorious Son!</p> +<p class="t2">All hail, our Joy and Crown!</p> +<p class="t5">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t5">The joyful call</p> +<p class="t5">We answer all,</p> +<p class="t">And follow to the Nuptial Hall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Praise to Him Who went before us!</p> +<p class="t0">Let men and angels join in chorus,</p> +<p class="t">Let harp and cymbal add their sound!</p> +<p class="t0">Twelve the gates, a pearl each portal,</p> +<p class="t0">We haste to join the choir immortal,</p> +<p class="t">Within the Holy City’s bound.</p> +<p class="t2">Ear ne’er heard aught like this,</p> +<p class="t2">Nor heart conceived such bliss.</p> +<p class="t5">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t5">We raise the song,</p> +<p class="t5">We swell the throng,</p> +<p class="t">To praise Thee ages all along.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h7g" title="Adventlied. III."> +<div title="Adventlied. III." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h7e">Adventlied. III.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Wache auf, der du schläfst, und stehe auf von den Todten: +So wird dich Christus erleuchten.</p> +</blockquote> +<h4>I.</h4> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wach auf, wach auf, du sichre Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der letzte Tag wird wahrlich kommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn was im Himmel ist bestellt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wird durch die Zeit nicht hingenommen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ja was der Heiland selbst geschworen,</p> +<p class="t0">Soll endlich allzumal geschehn:</p> +<p class="t0">Obgleich die Welt muss untergehn,</p> +<p class="t0">So wird sein Wort doch nicht verloren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wach auf, der Herr kommt zum Gericht</p> +<p class="t0">Er wird sehr prächtig lassen schauen</p> +<p class="t0">Sein richterliches Angesicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Das die Verdammten machet grauen:</p> +<p class="t0">Seht, Den der Vater lässet sitzen</p> +<p class="t0">Zu seiner Rechten, Der die Welt</p> +<p class="t0">Zu seinen Füssen hat gestellt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der kommt mit Donner, Feur und Blitzen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wach auf, wach auf, du sichre Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie schnell wird dieser Tag einbrechen;</p> +<p class="t0">Wer weiss, wie bald es Gott gefällt,</p> +<p class="t0">Sein Will ist gar nicht auszusprechen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach hüte dich vor Geiz und Prassen!</p> +<p class="t0">Gleichwie das Vöglein wird berückt</p> +<p class="t0">Noch eh es seinen Feind erblickt,</p> +<p class="t0">So schnell wird dieser Tag dich fassen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Herr verzeucht die letzte Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dieweil Er uns so herzlich liebet,</p> +<p class="t0">Und nur aus lauter Freundlichkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Uns Frist und Raum zur Busse giebet;</p> +<p class="t0">Er weiss gar sanft mit uns zu fahren,</p> +<p class="t0">Hält auf den lieben jüngsten Tag,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass sich der Frommen Glaube mag</p> +<p class="t0">Sammt Lieb und Hoffnung offenbaren.</p> +</div> +<h4>II.</h4> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erscheinen wird das lieblich Theil,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Tag des Richters, euch, ihr Frommen,</p> +<p class="t0">An welchem eur erwünschtes Heil,</p> +<p class="t0">Euch frei zu machen, ist gekommen!</p> +<p class="t0">Der rechte Josua wird bringen</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seinigen mit starker Hand</p> +<p class="t0">In das gelobte Vaterland,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Siegeslied daselbst zu singen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Frühling ist schon vor der Thür,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Feigenbaum will Laub gewinnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Blümlein schiessen auch herfür,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Zeit erneuert uns die Sinnen:</p> +<p class="t0">Bald kommt das rechte Sommerleben,</p> +<p class="t0">In welchem unser Leib wird sein</p> +<p class="t0">Verkläret wie der Sonnenschein,</p> +<p class="t0">Den uns der jüngste Tag wird geben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohlan! wir wollen Tag und Nacht</p> +<p class="t0">Im Geist und unablässig beten,</p> +<p class="t0">Wir wollen immer geben Acht</p> +<p class="t0">Auf unsern Herrn, und vor Ihn treten:</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt, lasset uns entgegengehen</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Bräutigam zu rechter Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Damit wir in der Ewigkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Sammt allen Engeln vor Ihm stehen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Rist_J">Johann Rist.</a> 1607-1667.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h7e" title="Advent Hymn. III."> +<div title="Advent Hymn. III." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h7g">Advent Hymn. III.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ +shall give thee light.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Eph.</i> v. 14.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<h4>I.</h4> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The Last of Days will come indeed,</p> +<p class="t0">Awake! thou careless world, awake thee!</p> +<p class="t0">’Twill come, for so has Heaven decreed;</p> +<p class="t0">To prayer and watchfulness betake thee</p> +<p class="t0">’Twill come, for what our Lord hath spoken</p> +<p class="t0">Shall stand, although it long delay;</p> +<p class="t0">Though heaven and earth shall pass away,</p> +<p class="t0">Our Saviour’s Word shall not be broken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The Lord to judgment comes, awake!</p> +<p class="t0">Arrayed in Majesty transcendent;</p> +<p class="t0">Accursed sinners groan and quake,</p> +<p class="t0">Awed by His Countenance resplendent:</p> +<p class="t0">Behold Him now, behold and wonder!</p> +<p class="t0">At God’s right Hand He leaves His Seat,</p> +<p class="t0">Where worlds were placed beneath His Feet,</p> +<p class="t0">He comes with Lightning, Fire, and Thunder.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">How soon the Last of Days will dawn!</p> +<p class="t0">Awake! thou careless world, awake thee!</p> +<p class="t0">Who knows how soon the glorious Morn</p> +<p class="t0">Of that dread Day will overtake thee?</p> +<p class="t0">No more let earth’s vain baubles please thee;</p> +<p class="t0">As birds, of danger unaware,</p> +<p class="t0">Are caught within the fowler’s snare,</p> +<p class="t0">E’en so the Last of Days will seize thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The Last of Days the Lord delays,</p> +<p class="t0">Because of that great Love He bears us;</p> +<p class="t0">That men may turn and mend their ways,</p> +<p class="t0">In tender Mercy thus He spares us:</p> +<p class="t0">He gently deals with those He loveth,</p> +<p class="t0">And if He long retards the Day,</p> +<p class="t0">To call them from the world away,</p> +<p class="t0">Their faith, and hope, and love He proveth.</p> +</div> +<h4>II.</h4> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lift up, ye saints, your joyful heads,</p> +<p class="t0">For your redemption now draws nearer;</p> +<p class="t0">There, where a better Joshua leads,</p> +<p class="t0">A Righteous Day will soon dawn clearer,</p> +<p class="t0">When all who follow now His banners,</p> +<p class="t0">Led on by His victorious Hand,</p> +<p class="t0">Shall win once more a Promised Land,</p> +<p class="t0">And sing in triumph loud Hosannas.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">E’en now the Spring is at the door,</p> +<p class="t0">Green leaves shoot forth on fig-branch tender;</p> +<p class="t0">Fresh flowers appear on earth’s green floor;</p> +<p class="t0">New senses God to each will render;</p> +<p class="t0">When, past this night preparatory,</p> +<p class="t0">Our bodies, all their labour done,</p> +<p class="t0">Shall shine for ever like the sun,</p> +<p class="t0">In one long Day of summer glory.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Meantime let us, each day and night,</p> +<p class="t0">Repent of sin with deep compunction;</p> +<p class="t0">More wary walk, as in His Sight,</p> +<p class="t0">And pray with all the Spirit’s Unction:</p> +<p class="t0">Then come He in what watch soever,</p> +<p class="t0">Go forth we will with ready feet,</p> +<p class="t0">The Bridegroom’s angel-host to meet,</p> +<p class="t0">Who stand before Him, weary never.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h8g" title="Weihnachtslied. I."> +<div title="Weihnachtslied. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h8e">Weihnachtslied. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach dass die Hülfe aus Zion über Israel käme, und Gott sein gefangenes Volk erlösete:</p> +<p class="t0">So wurde sich Jacob freuen; und Israel fröhlich seyn.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wir singen Dir, Immanuel,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Lebensfürst und Gnadenquell,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Himmelsblum und Morgenstern,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Jungfrausohn, Herr aller Herrn!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wir singen Dir in deinem Heer</p> +<p class="t0">Aus aller Kraft Lob, Preis und Ehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass Du, o lang gewünschter Gast,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich nunmehr eingestellet hast.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Vom Anfang, da die Welt gemacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Hat so manch Herz nach Dir gewacht;</p> +<p class="t0">Dich hat gehofft so lange Jahr</p> +<p class="t0">Der Väter und Propheten Schaar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, dass der Herr aus Zion käm</p> +<p class="t0">Und unsre Bande von uns nähm:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, dass die Hülfe bräch herein,</p> +<p class="t0">So würde Jacob fröhlich sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun bist Du hier, da liegest Du,</p> +<p class="t0">Hältst in dem Kripplein deine Ruh:</p> +<p class="t0">Bist klein und machst doch alles gross,</p> +<p class="t0">Bekleidst die Welt und kömmst doch bloss.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du kehrst in fremder Hausung ein</p> +<p class="t0">Und sind doch alle Himmel dein,</p> +<p class="t0">Trinkst Milch aus einer Menschenbrust,</p> +<p class="t0">Und bist doch selbst der Engel Lust.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So fass ich Dich nun ohne Scheu,</p> +<p class="t0">Du machst mich alles Jammers frei:</p> +<p class="t0">Du trägst den Zorn, Du zwingst den Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Verkehrst in Freud all Angst und Noth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du bist mein Haupt, hinwiederum</p> +<p class="t0">Bin ich dein Glied und Eigenthum,</p> +<p class="t0">Und will, so viel dein Geist mir giebt,</p> +<p class="t0">Stets dienen Dir, wie Dirs beliebt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich will dein Alleluia hier</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Freuden singen für und für:</p> +<p class="t0">Und dort in deinem Ehrensaal</p> +<p class="t0">Solls schallen ohne Zeit und Zahl.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h8e" title="Christmas Hymn. I."> +<div title="Christmas Hymn. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h8g">Christmas Hymn. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>O that the Salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion! O +that the Lord would deliver His People out of captivity! Then +should Jacob rejoice, and Israel should be right glad.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> liii. 7, 8.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">We sing to Thee, Emmanuel,</p> +<p class="t0">The Prince of Life, Salvation’s Well,</p> +<p class="t0">The Plant of Heaven, the Star of Morn,</p> +<p class="t0">The Lord of lords, the Virgin-born!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">All glory, worship, thanks, and praise,</p> +<p class="t0">That Thou art come in these our days;</p> +<p class="t0">Thou Heavenly Guest expected long,</p> +<p class="t0">We hail Thee with a joyful song.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">For Thee, since first the world was made,</p> +<p class="t0">Men’s hearts have waited, watched, and prayed;</p> +<p class="t0">Prophets and patriarchs, year by year,</p> +<p class="t0">Have longed to see Thy Light appear.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">“O God,” they prayed, “from Sion rise,</p> +<p class="t0">And hear Thy captive people’s cries;</p> +<p class="t0">At length, O Lord, salvation bring,</p> +<p class="t0">Then Jacob shall rejoice and sing!”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now Thou, by Whom the world was made,</p> +<p class="t0">Art in Thy Manger-cradle laid,</p> +<p class="t0">Maker of all things great, art small,</p> +<p class="t0">Naked Thyself, though clothing all.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou Who both Heaven and earth dost sway,</p> +<p class="t0">In strangers’ inn art fain to stay,</p> +<p class="t0">And though Thy power makes angels blest,</p> +<p class="t0">Dost seek Thy food from human breast.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Encouraged thus, our love grows bold</p> +<p class="t0">On Thee to lay our steadfast hold;</p> +<p class="t0">The Cross which Thou didst undergo</p> +<p class="t0">Has vanquished Death, and healed our woe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou art our Head, then, Lord, of Thee</p> +<p class="t0">True living members we will be,</p> +<p class="t0">And, in the strength Thy Grace shall give,</p> +<p class="t0">Will live as Thou wouldst have us live.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">As each short year goes quickly round,</p> +<p class="t0">Our Alleluias shall resound;</p> +<p class="t0">And, when we reckon years no more,</p> +<p class="t0">May we in heaven Thy Name adore.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h9g" title="Weihnachtslied. II."> +<div title="Weihnachtslied. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h9e">Weihnachtslied. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass Er seinen eingebornen Sohn gab.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Auf, schicke dich,</p> +<p class="t4">Recht feierlich</p> +<p class="t0">Des Heilands Fest mit Danken zu begehen:</p> +<p class="t4">Lieb ist der Dank,</p> +<p class="t4">Der Lobgesang,</p> +<p class="t0">Durch den wir Ihn, den Gott der Lieb, erhöhen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Sprich dankbar froh:</p> +<p class="t4">Also, also</p> +<p class="t0">Hat Gott die Welt in seinem Sohn geliebet:</p> +<p class="t4">O wer bin ich,</p> +<p class="t4">Herr, dass Du mich</p> +<p class="t0">So herrlich hoch in deinem Sohn geliebet?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Er, unser Freund,</p> +<p class="t4">Mit uns vereint,</p> +<p class="t0">Zur Zeit, da wir noch seine Feinde waren;</p> +<p class="t4">Er wird uns gleich,</p> +<p class="t4">Um Gottes Reich</p> +<p class="t0">Und seine Lieb im Fleisch zu offenbaren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">An Ihm nimm Theil,</p> +<p class="t4">Er ist das Heil;</p> +<p class="t0">Thu täglich Buss und glaub an seinen Namen:</p> +<p class="t4">Der ehrt Ihn nicht,</p> +<p class="t4">Wer Herr, Herr, spricht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und doch nicht sucht sein Beispiel nachzuahmen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Aus Dank will ich</p> +<p class="t4">In Brüdern Dich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich, Gottessohn, bekleiden, speisen, tränken;</p> +<p class="t4">Der Frommen Herz</p> +<p class="t4">In ihrem Schmerz</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Trost erfreun, und Dein dabei gedenken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Rath, Kraft und Held,</p> +<p class="t4">Durch den die Welt</p> +<p class="t0">Und alles ist im Himmel und auf Erden:</p> +<p class="t4">Die Christenheit</p> +<p class="t4">Preist Dich erfreut,</p> +<p class="t0">Und aller Knie soll Dir gebeuget werden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t4">Erhebt den Herrn,</p> +<p class="t4">Er hilft uns gern,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wer Ihn sucht, den wird sein Name trösten:</p> +<p class="t4">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t4">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t0">Freut euch des Herrn, und jauchzt Ihm, ihr erlösten!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gellert_CF">Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.</a> 1715-1769.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h9e" title="Christmas Hymn. II."> +<div title="Christmas Hymn. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h9g">Christmas Hymn. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. John</i>, iii. 16.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Come, tune your heart,</p> +<p class="t5">To bear its part,</p> +<p class="t0">And celebrate Messiah’s Feast with praises;</p> +<p class="t5">Let love inspire</p> +<p class="t5">The joyful choir,</p> +<p class="t0">While to the God of Love glad hymns it raises.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Exalt His Name!</p> +<p class="t5">With joy proclaim,</p> +<p class="t0">God loved the world, and through His Son forgave us;</p> +<p class="t5">Oh! what are we,</p> +<p class="t5">That, Lord, we see</p> +<p class="t0">Thy wondrous Love, in Christ Who died to save us!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Behold our Friend</p> +<p class="t5">His Love commend,</p> +<p class="t0">In that when foes He died to reconcile us;</p> +<p class="t5">Our flesh He took,</p> +<p class="t5">His Throne forsook,</p> +<p class="t0">That from His Kingdom God might not exile us.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Your refuge place</p> +<p class="t5">In His free Grace,</p> +<p class="t0">Trust in His Name, and day by day repent you;</p> +<p class="t5">Ye mock God’s Word,</p> +<p class="t5">Who call Him Lord,</p> +<p class="t0">And follow not the Pattern He hath lent you.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">O Christ, to prove</p> +<p class="t5">For Thee my love,</p> +<p class="t0">In brethren Thee my hands shall clothe and cherish;</p> +<p class="t5">To each sad heart</p> +<p class="t5">Sweet hope impart,</p> +<p class="t0">When worn with care, with sorrow nigh to perish.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Heaven and earth</p> +<p class="t5">Received their birth</p> +<p class="t0">From Thee, in Whom both Strength and Wisdom blended;</p> +<p class="t5">Let heart and voice</p> +<p class="t5">In Thee rejoice;</p> +<p class="t0">Be every knee in adoration bended.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t5">Come, praise the Lord!</p> +<p class="t5">In heaven are stored</p> +<p class="t0">Rich gifts for those who here His Name esteemèd;</p> +<p class="t5">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t5">Alleluia!</p> +<p class="t0">Rejoice in Christ, and praise Him ye redeemèd!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h10g" title="Epiphaniaslied."> +<div title="Epiphaniaslied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h10e">Epiphaniaslied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich bin die Wurzel des Geschlechts Davids:</p> +<p class="t0">Ein heller Morgenstern.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Im Abend blinkt der Morgenstern,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Weisen nahen sich von fern;</p> +<p class="t0">Im Niedergang entsteht ein Licht,</p> +<p class="t0">Das kennet keinen Aufgang nicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es strahlet aus der Ewigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Und senket sich hier in die Zeit;</p> +<p class="t0">Sein heller Glanz vertreibt die Nacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus Finsterniss wird Tag gemacht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, heller Morgenstern,</p> +<p class="t0">Leucht in die Näh und in die Fern,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass du auch seist zu unsrer Zeit</p> +<p class="t0">Von uns erkannt und benedeit.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Lange_E">Ernst Lange.</a> 1650-1727.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h10e" title="Epiphany Hymn."> +<div title="Epiphany Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h10g">Epiphany Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and +Morning Star.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> xxii. 16.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The wondering sages trace from far</p> +<p class="t0">Bright in the west the Morning-Star</p> +<p class="t0">A Light illumes the western skies,</p> +<p class="t0">Seen never in the east to rise.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity produced its blaze,</p> +<p class="t0">Time’s Fulness hails its nearer rays;</p> +<p class="t0">Its brightness chases night away,</p> +<p class="t0">And kindles darkness into Day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Jesu! brightest Morning-Star!</p> +<p class="t0">Shed forth Thy beams both near and far,</p> +<p class="t0">That all, in these our later days,</p> +<p class="t0">May know Thee, and proclaim Thy praise.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h11g" title="Gethsemane."> +<div title="Gethsemane." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h11e">Gethsemane.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Der Herr warf unser aller Sünde auf Ihn.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Bei stiller Nacht,</p> +<p class="t2">Zur ersten Wach,</p> +<p class="t0">Erscholl ein banges Klagen;</p> +<p class="t2">Am düstern Ort,</p> +<p class="t2">Im Garten dort,</p> +<p class="t0">Begann ein Herz zu zagen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Es war der Herr,</p> +<p class="t2">Er litt so schwer,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seele rang im Qualen;</p> +<p class="t2">In grosser Noth,</p> +<p class="t2">Betrübt zum Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Sünde Sold zu zahlen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Den Adern heiss</p> +<p class="t2">Entquoll der Schweiss,</p> +<p class="t0">In schweren Tropfen Blutes;</p> +<p class="t2">Sein Herz ward leer,</p> +<p class="t2">Stets mehr und mehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Stärke und des Muthes.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Denn grenzenlos,</p> +<p class="t2">Unendlich gross,</p> +<p class="t0">Steht da vor seinem Blicke</p> +<p class="t2">Der Menschen Schuld</p> +<p class="t2">Gen Gottes Huld,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Abgrund voll der Tücke.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Der Bösen Rath,</p> +<p class="t2">Der Frevler That,</p> +<p class="t0">Und aller Menschen Fehle,</p> +<p class="t2">Tritt grauenvoll,</p> +<p class="t2">Wie Höllengroll,</p> +<p class="t0">Vor die erschreckte Seele.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Die Sünden all,</p> +<p class="t2">Von Adams Fall,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis zu dem jüngsten Tage,</p> +<p class="t2">Der ganzen Fluch</p> +<p class="t2">Im Schuldenbuch</p> +<p class="t0">Liegt auf dem Herrn als Klage.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Ihm sich enthüllt,</p> +<p class="t2">Hoch angefüllt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Kelch der bittern Leiden,</p> +<p class="t2">Von Judas Kuss,</p> +<p class="t2">Und falschem Gruss,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis zu der Seele Scheiden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Die Peinigung</p> +<p class="t2">Vom Geisselschwung,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Schmerz der Dornenkrone,</p> +<p class="t2">Und jede Plag,</p> +<p class="t2">Und jede Klag,</p> +<p class="t0">Steht vor dem Menschensohne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Und vor Ihm schwebt—</p> +<p class="t2">Er schaut’s und bebt—</p> +<p class="t0">Das Kreuz, vom Fluch beschweret;</p> +<p class="t2">Er fühlt die Qual,</p> +<p class="t2">Die Ihm am Pfahl</p> +<p class="t0">Des Lebens Mark verzehret.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Zur Erde fällt</p> +<p class="t2">Der Herr der Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihm will die Brust zerspringen;</p> +<p class="t2">Blickt stöhnend dann</p> +<p class="t2">Den Himmel an,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ruft mit Händeringen:</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">O lass an Mir,</p> +<p class="t2">Gefällt es Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Den Kelch vorübergehen!</p> +<p class="t2">Doch, Vater, nicht</p> +<p class="t2">Was mein Herz spricht,</p> +<p class="t0">Was Du willst soll geschehen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Und dreimal schickt,</p> +<p class="t2">In Staub gebückt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Mittler dieses Flehen</p> +<p class="t2">Zum Himmel auf—</p> +<p class="t2">Vom Himmel d’rauf</p> +<p class="t0">Wird Lind’rung seinen Wehen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Heil uns! Er nimmt,</p> +<p class="t2">So Ihm bestimmt,</p> +<p class="t0">Den bittern Kelch der Leiden!</p> +<p class="t2">Anbetung Dir,</p> +<p class="t2">Herr, für und für,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Preis in ew’ge Zeiten!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Anonymous">Ungenannt.</a></span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h11e" title="Gethsemane."> +<div title="Gethsemane." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h11g">Gethsemane.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, liii. 6.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Within a Garden’s bound,</p> +<p class="t2">Where still night reigned around,</p> +<p class="t0">A mournful cry of bitter anguish wailed;</p> +<p class="t2">There, hid from mortal gaze,</p> +<p class="t2">One knelt in deep amaze,</p> +<p class="t0">A Heart oppressed beneath its Burthen quailed.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">That One, in travail sore,</p> +<p class="t2">Was our dear Lord, Who bore</p> +<p class="t0">Our sins’ great burthen that on Him was laid;</p> +<p class="t2">While none could bring relief,</p> +<p class="t2">To that exceeding grief,</p> +<p class="t0">The grief that made His human Soul afraid.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">But lo! from those hot veins,</p> +<p class="t2">Forced out by mental pains,</p> +<p class="t0">Great Drops of Blood adown the verdure fall;</p> +<p class="t2">Such whelming fears assail,</p> +<p class="t2">That heart and courage fail,</p> +<p class="t0">As first essays of sin’s strange load appal.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">No other gaze but His</p> +<p class="t2">Could fathom that abyss,</p> +<p class="t0">Whose lowest depths to Him stood all revealed;</p> +<p class="t2">The sins of Adam’s race,</p> +<p class="t2">Against God’s Love and Grace,</p> +<p class="t0">His thought embraced them all as thus He kneeled.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Ungodly counsels then,</p> +<p class="t2">And deeds of evil men,</p> +<p class="t0">All sins of each degree, of every kind;</p> +<p class="t2">Not as to mortal eyes,</p> +<p class="t2">But in their hellish guise,</p> +<p class="t0">Were then all bared to His Omniscient Mind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">The ponderous weight of all,</p> +<p class="t2">From Adam’s grievous fall,</p> +<p class="t0">Till earth’s Last Day and solemn Reckoning Time;</p> +<p class="t2">Of all God’s Books record,</p> +<p class="t2">The curse, the due reward,</p> +<p class="t0">Th’ iniquity of all now laid on Him!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">That high-filled Cup of Woes,</p> +<p class="t2">His Prescient Mind foreknows,</p> +<p class="t0">From first approach of Judas’ torch-led host;</p> +<p class="t2">That false disciple’s kiss,</p> +<p class="t2">And all that followed this,</p> +<p class="t0">Till on the Cross He yielded up the ghost.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Each furrowed, bleeding gash,</p> +<p class="t2">From cruel scourge’s lash,</p> +<p class="t0">And sharpest pricks of that mock thorny Crown;</p> +<p class="t2">The insults, blows, and scorn,</p> +<p class="t2">That must be meekly borne,</p> +<p class="t0">These weigh the Son of Man’s meek Spirit down.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">He sees with vision clear,</p> +<p class="t2">And shrinks with human fear,</p> +<p class="t0">The Cross with curse o’erlaid and angry doom;</p> +<p class="t2">The hours of racking pain</p> +<p class="t2">He must, nailed there, sustain,</p> +<p class="t0">While lingering death life’s marrow shall consume.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Maker and Lord of all!</p> +<p class="t2">Behold Him prostrate fall,</p> +<p class="t0">And humbly kneel in silent anguish there;</p> +<p class="t2">Till, with an inward groan,</p> +<p class="t2">Towards the Heavenly Throne,</p> +<p class="t0">With earnest pleading, He directs His Prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">“Father, to Thee I pray,</p> +<p class="t2">O take this Cup away!</p> +<p class="t0">Thou hast all power to do Thy Will Divine;</p> +<p class="t2">Remove, if it may be,</p> +<p class="t2">This Cup away from Me!</p> +<p class="t0">Yet, Father, not My Will be done, but Thine.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Thus thrice our suffering Lord,</p> +<p class="t2">With Prostrate Form implored,</p> +<p class="t0">That even then that Hour might pass away;</p> +<p class="t2">Until from heaven, at length,</p> +<p class="t2">An angel brought Him strength,</p> +<p class="t0">And healing balm His troubled Soul to stay.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">O well for us, indeed!</p> +<p class="t2">He took, as was decreed,</p> +<p class="t0">And drained the Cup His Heavenly Father gave;</p> +<p class="t2">And therefore songs of praise</p> +<p class="t2">We ransomed sinners raise,</p> +<p class="t0">To Him Who meekly died our souls to save.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h12g" title="Lied für den Charfreitag. I."> +<div title="Lied für den Charfreitag. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h12e">Lied für den Charfreitag. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er ist um unsrer Missethat willen verwundet,</p> +<p class="t0">Und um unsrer Sünde willen zerschlagen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herzliebster Jesu, was hast Du verbrochen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass man ein solch scharf Urtheil hat gesprochen?</p> +<p class="t0">Was ist die Schuld? in was für Missethaten</p> +<p class="t4">Bist Du gerathen?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du wirst verspeit, geschlagen und verhöhnet,</p> +<p class="t0">Gegeisselt und mit Dornen scharf gekrönet,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Essig, als man Dich ans Kreuz gehenket,</p> +<p class="t4">Wirst Du getränket.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was ist die Ursach aller solcher Plagen?</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, meine Sünden haben Dich geschlagen;</p> +<p class="t0">Ich, ach Herr Jesu! habe diess verschuldet,</p> +<p class="t4">Was Du erduldet.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe!</p> +<p class="t0">Der gute Hirte leidet für die Schaafe,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Schuld bezahlt der Herre, der Gerechte,</p> +<p class="t4">Für seine Knechte.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Fromme stirbt, der recht und richtig wandelt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Böse lebt, der wider Gott misshandelt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Mensch verwirkt den Tod, und ist entgangen,</p> +<p class="t4">Gott wird gefangen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich war von Fuss auf voller Schand und Sünden,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis zu dem Scheitel war nichts Guts zu finden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dafür hätt ich dort in der Höllen müssen</p> +<p class="t4">Ewiglich büssen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O grosse Lieb, o Lieb ohn alle Masse,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Dich gebracht auf diese Marterstrasse!</p> +<p class="t0">Ich lebte mit der Welt in Lust und Freuden,</p> +<p class="t4">Und Du musst leiden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, grosser König, gross zu allen Zeiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie kann ich gnugsam solche Treu ausbreiten?</p> +<p class="t0">Kein menschlich Herze mag ihm diess ausdenken,</p> +<p class="t4">Was Dir zu schenken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich kanns mit meinen Sinnen nicht erreichen,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit was doch dein Erbarmung zu vergleichen:</p> +<p class="t0">Wie kann ich Dir denn deine Liebesthaten</p> +<p class="t4">Im Werk erstatten!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Doch ist noch etwas, das Dir angenehme,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich des Fleisches Lüfte dämpf und zähme,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass sie aufs Neu mein Herze nicht entzünden</p> +<p class="t4">Mit alten Sünden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weil aber diess nicht steht in eignen Kräften,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Kreuze die Begierden anzuheften,</p> +<p class="t0">So gieb mir deinen Geist, Der mich regiere,</p> +<p class="t4">Zum Guten führe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Alsdann so werd ich deine Huld betrachten,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus Lieb zu Dir die Welt für gar nichts achten,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich werde mich bemühen, deinen Willen</p> +<p class="t4">Stets zu erfüllen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich werde Dir zu Ehren alles wagen,</p> +<p class="t0">Kein Kreuz nicht achten, keine Schmach und Plagen,</p> +<p class="t0">Nichts von Verfolgung, nichts von Todesschmerzen</p> +<p class="t4">Nehmen zu Herzen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Diess alles, obs für schlecht zwar ist zu schätzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wirst Du es doch nicht gar bei Seite setzen,</p> +<p class="t0">In Gnaden wirst Du diess von mir annehmen,</p> +<p class="t4">Mich nicht beschämen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn dort, Herr Jesu, wird vor deinem Throne</p> +<p class="t0">Auf meinem Haupte stehn die Ehrenkrone,</p> +<p class="t0">Da will ich Dir, wenn alles wird wohlklingen,</p> +<p class="t4">Lob und Dank singen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Heermann_J">Johann Heermann.</a> 1585-1647.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h12e" title="Hymn for Good Friday. I."> +<div title="Hymn for Good Friday. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h12g">Hymn for Good Friday. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our +iniquities.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, liii. 5.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What laws, my blessed Saviour, hast Thou broken,</p> +<p class="t0">That so severe a sentence should be spoken?</p> +<p class="t0">How hast Thou ’gainst Thy Father’s Will contended,</p> +<p class="t5">In what offended?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With scourges, blows, and spitting they reviled Thee,</p> +<p class="t0">They crowned Thy Brow with thorns while King they styled Thee;</p> +<p class="t0">When faint with pains Thy tortured Body suffered,</p> +<p class="t5">Then gall they offered.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Say! wherefore thus by woes wast Thou surrounded?</p> +<p class="t0">Ah! Lord, for my transgressions Thou wast wounded:</p> +<p class="t0">God took the guilt from me, who should have paid it,</p> +<p class="t5">On Thee He laid it.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">How strange and marvellous was this correction!</p> +<p class="t0">Falls the good Shepherd in His sheep’s protection;</p> +<p class="t0">The servants’ debt behold the Master paying,</p> +<p class="t5">For them obeying.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The Righteous dies, Who walked with God true-hearted,</p> +<p class="t0">The sinner lives, who has from God departed;</p> +<p class="t0">By man came death, yet man its setters breaketh,</p> +<p class="t5">God it o’ertaketh.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The guilt and shame of sin had whelmed me over,</p> +<p class="t0">From head to foot no good couldst Thou discover;</p> +<p class="t0">For this in hell should I, with deep lamenting,</p> +<p class="t5">Be aye repenting.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">But oh! the depth of love beyond comparing,</p> +<p class="t0">That brought Thee down from heaven, our burden bearing!</p> +<p class="t0">I taste all peace and joy that life can offer,</p> +<p class="t5">Whilst Thou must suffer!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternal King! in power and love excelling,</p> +<p class="t0">Fain would my heart and mouth Thy praise be telling,</p> +<p class="t0">But how can man’s weak powers at all come nigh Thee?</p> +<p class="t5">How magnify Thee?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Such wondrous love would baffle my endeavour,</p> +<p class="t0">To find its equal should I strive for ever:</p> +<p class="t0">How should my works, could I in all obey Thee,</p> +<p class="t5">Ever repay Thee!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Yet this shall please Thee, if devoutly trying</p> +<p class="t0">To keep Thy laws, mine own wrong will denying,</p> +<p class="t0">I watch my heart, lest sin again ensnare it,</p> +<p class="t5">And from Thee tear it.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">But since I have not strength to flee temptation,</p> +<p class="t0">To crucify each sinful inclination,</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! let Thy Spirit grace and strength provide me,</p> +<p class="t5">And gently guide me.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then shall I see Thy grace, and duly prize it,</p> +<p class="t0">For Thee renounce the world, for Thee despise it;</p> +<p class="t0">Then of my life Thy Laws shall be the measure,</p> +<p class="t5">Thy Will my pleasure.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">For Thee I fain will bear all griefs and losses,</p> +<p class="t0">No persecution, no disgrace or crosses,</p> +<p class="t0">No pains of death or tortures e’er shall move me,</p> +<p class="t5">Howe’er they prove me.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">This, though at little value Thou dost set it,</p> +<p class="t0">Yet Thou, O gracious Lord, wilt not forget it;</p> +<p class="t0">E’en this Thou wilt accept with grace and favour,</p> +<p class="t5">My blessed Saviour.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">And when, O Christ, before Thy Throne so glorious,</p> +<p class="t0">Upon my head is placed the crown victorious,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy praise I will, while heaven’s full choir is ringing,</p> +<p class="t5">Be ever singing.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h13g" title="Lied für den Charfreitag. II."> +<div title="Lied für den Charfreitag. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h13e">Lied für den Charfreitag. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Worte, die Ich rede,</p> +<p class="t0">Die sind Geist und sind Leben.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Da Jesus an des Kreuzes Stamm</p> +<p class="t0">Der ganzen Welt Sünd auf sich nahm,</p> +<p class="t0">Sprach Er in seinen Schmerzen</p> +<p class="t0">Noch sieben Wort, die lasset uns</p> +<p class="t0">Erwägen wohl im Herzen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum ersten: Vater, strafe nicht</p> +<p class="t0">An ihnen, was mir jetzt geschieht,</p> +<p class="t0">Weil sie es nicht verstehen:</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb uns, Gott, wenn wir auch noch</p> +<p class="t0">Aus Irrthum Sünd begehen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum andern Er des Schächers dacht:</p> +<p class="t0">Fürwahr, du wirst noch vor der Nacht</p> +<p class="t0">In meinem Reich heut leben:</p> +<p class="t0">O Herr, nimm uns auch bald zu Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Die wir im Elend schweben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum dritten: deinen Sohn sieh, Weib:</p> +<p class="t0">Johannes, ihr zu Dienste bleib</p> +<p class="t0">Und sie als Mutter liebe:</p> +<p class="t0">Versorg, Herr, die wir lassen hie,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass niemand sie betrübe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum vierten sagte Er: mich dürst!</p> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, grosser Lebensfürst,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast Durst und Verlangen</p> +<p class="t0">Nach unsrer Seligkeit, drum hilf,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir sie auch empfangen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum fünften: o mein Gott! mein Gott!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lässt Du Mich so in der Noth!</p> +<p class="t0">Hier wirst Du, Herr, verlassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass uns Gott wieder dort aufnehm:</p> +<p class="t0">Den Trost lass uns wohl fassen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum sechsten: hiermit ists vollbracht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und alles nunmehr gut gemacht!</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass wir auch durchdringen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und was Du, Herr, uns auferlegt,</p> +<p class="t0">Hilf seliglich vollbringen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zum siebenten: Ich meine Seel,</p> +<p class="t0">O Gott, mein Vater, Dir befehl</p> +<p class="t0">Zu deinen treuen Händen:</p> +<p class="t0">Diess Wort sei unser letzter Wunsch,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn wir das Leben enden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer oft an diese Wort gedenkt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn seine Missethat ihn kränkt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der wird es wohl geniessen:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn er durch Gottes Gnad erlangt</p> +<p class="t0">Ein ruhiges Gewissen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Verleih uns diess, Herr Jesus Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Du für uns gestorben bist;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass wir deine Wunden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Leiden, Marter, Kreuz und Tod</p> +<p class="t0">Betrachten alle Stunden.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Zwick_J">Johann Zwick.</a> Died 1542.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h13e" title="Hymn for Good Friday. II."> +<div title="Hymn for Good Friday. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h13g">Hymn for Good Friday. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. John</i>, vi. 63.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Seven Times our blessed Saviour spoke,</p> +<p class="t0">When on the Cross our sins He took,</p> +<p class="t">And died lest man should perish:</p> +<p class="t0">Let us His last and dying Words</p> +<p class="t">In our remembrance cherish.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">“Forgive them, Father, just and true,</p> +<p class="t0">Forgive! they know not what they do;”</p> +<p class="t">So far His Love extended:</p> +<p class="t0">Forgive us, Lord, where we too have</p> +<p class="t">Through ignorance offended.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now to the contrite thief He cries,</p> +<p class="t0">“Thou, verily, in Paradise</p> +<p class="t">Shall meet Me ere to-morrow:”</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, take us to Thy Kingdom soon,</p> +<p class="t">Who linger here in sorrow.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To weeping Mary standing by,</p> +<p class="t0">“Behold thy son!” now hear him cry,</p> +<p class="t">To John, “Behold thy mother!”</p> +<p class="t0">Protect, Lord, those we leave behind,</p> +<p class="t">Let each befriend the other.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now from His Frame exhausted burst</p> +<p class="t0">Those few faint Words, “I thirst! I thirst!”</p> +<p class="t">O Lord! for our salvation</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Thirst was great: then help us still</p> +<p class="t">To overcome temptation.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then rose that Cry, “My God, oh why</p> +<p class="t0">Forsake me in my Agony?”</p> +<p class="t">Lord, Thou wast here forsaken,</p> +<p class="t0">That we might be received on high;</p> +<p class="t">Let this our hope awaken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Next, hear Him, ere His Spirit fled,</p> +<p class="t0">Proclaim aloud, “’Tis finishèd:”</p> +<p class="t">To Thee our work commending,</p> +<p class="t0">May we each talk Thou dost impose</p> +<p class="t">Bring to a joyful ending.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">One piercing Cry, and all is done!</p> +<p class="t0">“Father, to Thy true Hands alone</p> +<p class="t">I now commend My Spirit:”</p> +<p class="t0">Be this, when sinks our dying heart,</p> +<p class="t">The wish that last shall stir it.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Whoe’er, by sense of sin opprest,</p> +<p class="t0">On These blest Words his thoughts doth rest,</p> +<p class="t">Thence joy and hope obtaineth:</p> +<p class="t0">And, through God’s Love and boundless Grace,</p> +<p class="t">A peaceful conscience gaineth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Jesu Christ! our Lord and Guide,</p> +<p class="t0">Who hast for our salvation died!</p> +<p class="t">On this for ever dwelling,</p> +<p class="t0">May we each hour Thy Death regard,</p> +<p class="t">Thy Grief, all grief excelling!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h14g" title="Osterlied."> +<div title="Osterlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h14e">Osterlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Christum von den Todten auferwecket hat,</p> +<p class="t0">Der wird auch eure sterblichen Leiber lebendig machen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt, mit Ihm auch ich:</p> +<p class="t0">Tod, wo sind nun deine Schrecken?</p> +<p class="t0">Er, Er lebt und wird auch mich</p> +<p class="t0">Von den Todten auferwecken:</p> +<p class="t0">Er verklärt mich in sein Licht;</p> +<p class="t0">Diess ist meine Zuversicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt, Ihm ist das Reich</p> +<p class="t0">Ueber alle Welt gegeben;</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ihm werd auch ich zugleich</p> +<p class="t0">Ewig herrschen, ewig leben:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott erfüllt was Er verspricht;</p> +<p class="t0">Diess ist meine Zuversicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt, wer nun verzagt,</p> +<p class="t0">Lästert Ihn und Gottes Ehre;</p> +<p class="t0">Gnade hat Er zugesagt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass der Sünder sich bekehre:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott verstösst in Christo nicht;</p> +<p class="t0">Diess ist meine Zuversicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt, sein Heil ist mein,</p> +<p class="t0">Sein sei auch mein ganzes Leben;</p> +<p class="t0">Reines Herzens will ich sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Und den Lüsten widerstreben:</p> +<p class="t0">Er verlässt den Schwachen nicht;</p> +<p class="t0">Diess ist meine Zuversicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt; ich bin gewiss,</p> +<p class="t0">Nichts soll mich von Jesu scheiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Keine Macht der Finsterniss,</p> +<p class="t0">Keine Herrlichkeit, kein Leiden:</p> +<p class="t0">Er giebt Kraft zu dieser Pflicht;</p> +<p class="t0">Diess ist meine Zuversicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lebt, nun ist der Tod</p> +<p class="t0">Mir der Eingang in das Leben:</p> +<p class="t0">Welchen Trost in Todesnoth</p> +<p class="t0">Wird Er meiner Seele geben,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn sie gläubig zu Ihm spricht:</p> +<p class="t0">Herr, Herr, meine Zuversicht!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gellert_CF">Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.</a> 1715-1769.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h14e" title="Easter Hymn."> +<div title="Easter Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h14g">Easter Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your +mortal bodies.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rom.</i> viii. 11.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! no longer now</p> +<p class="t">Can thy terrors, Death, appal me;</p> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! by this I know</p> +<p class="t">From the grave He will recall me;</p> +<p class="t0">Brighter scenes at death commence;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall be my confidence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! to Him the Throne</p> +<p class="t">High o’er heaven and earth is given;</p> +<p class="t0">I may go where He is gone,</p> +<p class="t">Live and reign with Him in heaven:</p> +<p class="t0">God through Christ forgives offence;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall be my confidence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! Who now despairs,</p> +<p class="t">Spurns the Word which God hath spoken:</p> +<p class="t0">Grace to all that Word declares,</p> +<p class="t">Grace whereby sin’s yoke is broken:</p> +<p class="t0">Christ rejects not penitence;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall be my confidence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! for me He died;</p> +<p class="t">Hence will I, to Jesus living,</p> +<p class="t0">Pure in heart and act abide,</p> +<p class="t">Praise to Him and glory giving:</p> +<p class="t0">Freely God doth aid dispense;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall be my confidence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! my heart knows well</p> +<p class="t">Nought from me His Love shall sever;</p> +<p class="t0">Life, nor death, nor powers of hell,</p> +<p class="t">Part me now from Christ for ever:</p> +<p class="t0">God will be a sure Defence;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall be my confidence.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus lives! henceforth is death</p> +<p class="t">Entrance-gate of life immortal;</p> +<p class="t0">This shall calm my trembling breath,</p> +<p class="t">When I pass its gloomy portal:</p> +<p class="t0">Faith shall cry, as fails each sense,</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, Thou art my Confidence.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h15g" title="Himmelfahrtslied."> +<div title="Himmelfahrtslied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h15e">Himmelfahrtslied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und der Herr mit heller Posaune.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott fähret auf gen Himmel</p> +<p class="t0">Mit frohem Jubelschall,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit prächtigem Getümmel</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit Posaunenhall:</p> +<p class="t0">Lobsingt, lobsinget Gott,</p> +<p class="t0">Lobsingt, lobsingt mit Freuden</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Könige der Heiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Herren Zebaoth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Herr wird aufgenommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Der ganze Himmel lacht;</p> +<p class="t0">Um Ihn gehn alle Frommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Er hat frei gemacht:</p> +<p class="t0">Es holen Jesum ein</p> +<p class="t0">Die lauten Seraphinen;</p> +<p class="t0">Den hellen Cherubinen</p> +<p class="t0">Muss Er willkommen sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wir wissen nun die Stiege,</p> +<p class="t0">Die unser Haupt erhöht;</p> +<p class="t0">Wir wissen zur Genüge,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie man zum Himmel geht:</p> +<p class="t0">Der Heiland geht voran,</p> +<p class="t0">Will uns nicht nach sich lassen;</p> +<p class="t0">Er zeiget uns die Strassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Er bricht uns sichre Bahn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wir sollen himmlisch werden,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Herre macht uns Platz;</p> +<p class="t0">Wir gehen von der Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Dorthin, wo unser Schatz:</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Herzen, macht euch auf!</p> +<p class="t0">Wo Jesus hingegangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dahin sei das Verlangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dahin sei euer Lauf.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lasst uns gen Himmel dringen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit herzlicher Begier;</p> +<p class="t0">Lasst uns zugleich auch singen:</p> +<p class="t0">Dich, Jesu, suchen wir!</p> +<p class="t0">Dich, o Du Gottes Sohn,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich Weg, Dich wahres Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem alle Macht gegeben,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich unsers Herzens Kron!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wann soll es doch geschehen?</p> +<p class="t0">Wann kommt die liebe Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir Ihn werden sehen</p> +<p class="t0">In seiner Herrlichkeit?</p> +<p class="t0">Du Tag, wann wirst du sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir den Heiland grüssen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir den Heiland küssen:</p> +<p class="t0">Komm, stelle dich doch ein!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Sacer_GW">Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer.</a> 1635-1699.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h15e" title="Hymn for Ascension Day."> +<div title="Hymn for Ascension Day." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h15g">Hymn for Ascension Day.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xlvii. 5.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lo! God to heaven ascendeth!</p> +<p class="t">Throughout its regions vast,</p> +<p class="t0">With shouts triumphant blendeth</p> +<p class="t">The trumpet’s thrilling blast:</p> +<p class="t0">Sing praise to Christ the Lord,</p> +<p class="t">Sing praise with exultation!</p> +<p class="t">King of each heathen nation!</p> +<p class="t0">The God of Hosts adored!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With joy is heaven resounding,</p> +<p class="t">Christ’s glad return to see;</p> +<p class="t0">Behold the saints surrounding</p> +<p class="t">The Lord who set them free:</p> +<p class="t0">Bright myriads thronging come;</p> +<p class="t">The cherub-band rejoices,</p> +<p class="t">And loud seraphic voices</p> +<p class="t0">Welcome Messiah home.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No more the way is hidden,</p> +<p class="t">Since Christ our Head arose:</p> +<p class="t0">No more to man forbidden</p> +<p class="t">The road to heaven that goes.</p> +<p class="t0">Our Lord is gone before,</p> +<p class="t">Yet here He will not leave us,</p> +<p class="t">But soon in heaven receive us;</p> +<p class="t0">He opens wide the door.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Christ is our place preparing,</p> +<p class="t">To heaven we too shall rise,</p> +<p class="t0">And, joys angelic sharing,</p> +<p class="t">Be where our treasure lies:</p> +<p class="t0">There may each heart be found!</p> +<p class="t">Where Jesus Christ has entered,</p> +<p class="t">There let our hopes be centred,</p> +<p class="t0">Our course still heavenward bound!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">May we, His servants, thither</p> +<p class="t">In heart and mind ascend,</p> +<p class="t0">And let us sing together—</p> +<p class="t">We seek Thee, Christ our Friend,</p> +<p class="t0">Thee, God’s Anointed Son,</p> +<p class="t">Our Life, and Way to Heaven,</p> +<p class="t">To Whom all power is given,</p> +<p class="t0">Our Joy, and Hope, and Crown.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When, on our vision dawning,</p> +<p class="t">Will break the wished-for hour</p> +<p class="t0">Of that all glorious Morning,</p> +<p class="t">When Christ shall come with power?</p> +<p class="t0">O come, thou welcome Day!</p> +<p class="t">When we, our Saviour meeting,</p> +<p class="t">His second Advent greeting,</p> +<p class="t0">Shall hail the Heaven-sent Ray.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h16g" title="Pfingstlied."> +<div title="Pfingstlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h16e">Pfingstlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Schaff in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz:</p> +<p class="t0">Und gieb mir einen neuen gewissen Geist.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Geist des Herrn, nur deine Kraft,</p> +<p class="t0">Ists, die uns neue Herzen schafft!</p> +<p class="t0">Du bists, der uns zum Guten treibt,</p> +<p class="t0">Uns lehrt, uns stärket, bei uns bleibt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du machst, dass froh die Seele singt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Angst und Elend uns umringt;</p> +<p class="t0">Du machst uns Jesu Christo gleich,</p> +<p class="t0">Bist Pfand uns auf sein himmlisch Reich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O du des Himmels beste Gab,</p> +<p class="t0">O senke dich ins Herz herab;</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm Dir uns ganz zu eigen hin,</p> +<p class="t0">Und schenk uns Jesu Christi Sinn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lehr uns des Vaters Willen thun,</p> +<p class="t0">In seiner Führung kindlich ruhn:</p> +<p class="t0">Erleuchte den Verstand; dein Trieb</p> +<p class="t0">Mach alles, was Gott liebt, uns lieb!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erquick uns in der Dunkelheit,</p> +<p class="t0">Versichr’ uns unsrer Seligkeit;</p> +<p class="t0">Mach uns von jedem Flecken rein,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lehr uns, uns des Todes freun.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Lavater_JC2">Johann Caspar Lavater.</a> 1741-1801.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h16e" title="Hymn for Whit-Sunday."> +<div title="Hymn for Whit-Sunday." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h16g">Hymn for Whit-Sunday.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> li. 10.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Holy Ghost! Thy heavenly dew</p> +<p class="t0">The hearts of sinners can renew;</p> +<p class="t0">Thou dost within our breasts abide,</p> +<p class="t0">And still to holy actions guide.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Through Thee the soul is fain to sing</p> +<p class="t0">When sorrow’s clouds are deepening;</p> +<p class="t0">With Jesus Christ Thou mak’st us one,</p> +<p class="t0">Earnest of heaven, from God’s High Throne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Best Gift of God, and man’s true Friend,</p> +<p class="t0">Now to my inmost soul descend;</p> +<p class="t0">The mind of Jesus Christ impart,</p> +<p class="t0">And consecrate to Thee my heart.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Teach me to do my Father’s Will,</p> +<p class="t0">To lie, beneath His guidance, still;</p> +<p class="t0">Lighten my mind, my heart incline</p> +<p class="t0">To make henceforth His Pleasure mine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">From spot and blemish make me pure,</p> +<p class="t0">My future bliss in heaven secure;</p> +<p class="t0">When lost in darkness, give me light,</p> +<p class="t0">And cheer me through death’s dreary night.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h17g" title="Lied für die Trinitatiszeit."> +<div title="Lied für die Trinitatiszeit." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h17e">Lied für die Trinitatiszeit.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Heilig, Heilig, Heilig, ist der Herr Zebaoth.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hochheilige Dreieinigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Du so süss und milde</p> +<p class="t0">Mich hast geschaffen in der Zeit</p> +<p class="t0">Zu deinem Ebenbilde:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, dass ich Dich von Herzensgrund</p> +<p class="t0">Doch lieben möchte alle Stund!</p> +<p class="t0">Drum komm doch und zeuch ein bei mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Mach Wohnung und bereit mich Dir.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Vater, nimm ganz kräftig ein</p> +<p class="t0">Das sehnende Gemüthe;</p> +<p class="t0">Mach es zu deinem innern Schrein</p> +<p class="t0">Und deiner stillen Hütte;</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb, dass meine Seele sich</p> +<p class="t0">So oft zerstreuet jämmerlich;</p> +<p class="t0">Versetze sie in deine Ruh,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass nichts in ihr sei als nur Du.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott Sohn, erleuchte den Verstand</p> +<p class="t0">Mit deiner Weisheit Lichte;</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb, dass er sich oft gewandt</p> +<p class="t0">Zu eitelem Gedichte:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass Thun und Denken nur allein</p> +<p class="t0">Auf Dich hinfort gerichtet sein;</p> +<p class="t0">Zeuch mich, dass ich hier allbereit</p> +<p class="t0">Entreisse mich vom Tand der Zeit.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O heilger Geist, Du Liebesfeur,</p> +<p class="t0">Entzünde meinen Willen;</p> +<p class="t0">Stärk ihn, komm mir zu Hülf und Steur,</p> +<p class="t0">Den deinen zu erfüllen:</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb, dass ich so oft gewollt</p> +<p class="t0">Was ich als sündlich nicht gesollt;</p> +<p class="t0">Verleih, dass ich mit reiner Brunst</p> +<p class="t0">Dich ewig lieb und deine Gunst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O heilige Dreieinigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Führ mich nur ganz von hinnen;</p> +<p class="t0">Richt zu dem Lauf der Ewigkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seel und alle Sinnen:</p> +<p class="t0">Vereinge mich, und lass mich hier</p> +<p class="t0">Eins mit Dir sein, dass ich mit Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Auch dort sei in der Herrlichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">O heiligste Dreieinigkeit.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Angelus_J">Johann Angelus.</a> 1624-1677.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h17e" title="Hymn for Trinity Sunday."> +<div title="Hymn for Trinity Sunday." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h17g">Hymn for Trinity Sunday.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isa.</i> vi. 3.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Most high and holy Trinity!</p> +<p class="t">Thou God of all Compassion!</p> +<p class="t0">Who, in Thy Godhead’s Likeness, me</p> +<p class="t">From nothing once didst fashion;</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! that my secret soul might be</p> +<p class="t0">Filled only with the Love of Thee!</p> +<p class="t0">Do Thou Thyself my heart prepare,</p> +<p class="t0">Then come and make Thy Dwelling there.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bend, Father, with a force divine,</p> +<p class="t">To Thee each inclination;</p> +<p class="t0">And make my soul Thine inmost shrine,</p> +<p class="t">And peaceful habitation.</p> +<p class="t0">Forgive me, Lord, that day by day,</p> +<p class="t0">Vain joys have drawn my heart astray;</p> +<p class="t0">Now filled with Thee, let nought beside</p> +<p class="t0">O Father! in my soul abide.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O God the Son! Thy Truth make plain,</p> +<p class="t">With That my mind awaken;</p> +<p class="t0">Forgive, that oft by fictions vain</p> +<p class="t">It has been captive taken;</p> +<p class="t0">Henceforth let every deed and thought</p> +<p class="t0">Into Thy Service, Lord, be brought;</p> +<p class="t0">Draw me to Thee, and Grace bestow,</p> +<p class="t0">To wean me from the joys below.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Holy Ghost! Thou Fire of Love,</p> +<p class="t">My slothful will inflaming,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Work to do, Thy Will to prove,</p> +<p class="t">Let me be ever aiming:</p> +<p class="t0">Forgive me, that my wayward mind</p> +<p class="t0">So oft to sin has been inclined;</p> +<p class="t0">Now let me in Thy Favour rest,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Love implanted in my breast.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Most high and holy Trinity!</p> +<p class="t">Lead me from earth to Heaven;</p> +<p class="t0">To Thee and to Eternity</p> +<p class="t">Let all my thoughts be given:</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! make me one with Thee below,</p> +<p class="t0">That when from earth’s dark scenes I go,</p> +<p class="t0">In Glory I may dwell with Thee,</p> +<p class="t0">Most high and holy Trinity!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h18g" title="Tauflied."> +<div title="Tauflied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h18e">Tauflied.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Lasset die Kindlein zu mir kommen, und wehret ihnen nicht; +denn solcher ist das Reich Gottes.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebster Jesu, hier sind wir,</p> +<p class="t0">Deinem Worte nachzuleben:</p> +<p class="t0">Dieses Kindlein kommt zu Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Weil Du den Befehl gegeben,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass man sie zu Christo führe,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn das Himmelreich ist ihre.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ja, es schallet allermeist</p> +<p class="t0">Dieses Wort in unsern Ohren:</p> +<p class="t0">Wer durch Wasser und durch Geist</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht zuvor ist neu geboren,</p> +<p class="t0">Wird von Dir nicht aufgenommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wird in Gottes Reich nicht kommen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Darum eilen wir zu Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm das Pfand von unsern Armen;</p> +<p class="t0">Tritt mit deinem Glanz herfür</p> +<p class="t0">Und erzeige dein Erbarmen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass es dein Kind hier auf Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Und im Himmel möge werden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mache Licht aus Finsterniss,</p> +<p class="t0">Setz es aus dem Zorn zur Gnade;</p> +<p class="t0">Heil den tiefen Schlangenbiss,</p> +<p class="t0">Durch die Kraft im Wunderbade;</p> +<p class="t0">Vor des heilgen Geistes Wehen</p> +<p class="t0">Lass den Sündenwust vergehen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hirte, nimm dein Schäflein an,</p> +<p class="t0">Haupt, mach es zu deinem Gliede;</p> +<p class="t0">Himmelsweg, zeig ihm die Bahn,</p> +<p class="t0">Friedefürst, schenk ihm den Friede,</p> +<p class="t0">Weinstock, hilf, dass diese Rebe</p> +<p class="t0">Auch im Glauben Dich umgebe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun wir legen an dein Herz</p> +<p class="t0">Was von Herzen ist gegangen;</p> +<p class="t0">Führ die Seufzer himmelwärts,</p> +<p class="t0">Und erfülle das Verlangen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ja, den Namen, den wir geben,</p> +<p class="t0">Schreib ins Lebensbuch zum Leben.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Schmolck_B">Benjamin Schmolck.</a> 1672-1737.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h18e" title="Baptismal Hymn."> +<div title="Baptismal Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h18g">Baptismal Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them +not; for of such is the kingdom of God.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. Mark</i>, x. 14.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus, Lord, Thy servants see,</p> +<p class="t">Yielding here obedience willing;</p> +<p class="t0">Lo! this infant comes to Thee,</p> +<p class="t">Thus Thy mandate blest fulfilling:</p> +<p class="t0">’Tis for such, Thyself declarest,</p> +<p class="t0">Thou the Kingdom now preparest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Loudly sounds Thy warning plain,</p> +<p class="t">Us with holy fear imbuing,</p> +<p class="t0">“He must here be born again,</p> +<p class="t">Heart and mind and life renewing,</p> +<p class="t0">Born of water and the Spirit,</p> +<p class="t0">Who My Kingdom will inherit.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Take the pledge we offer now,</p> +<p class="t">To Thy font baptismal hastening;</p> +<p class="t0">Make him, Lord, Thy child below,</p> +<p class="t">Let him feel Thy tender chastening,</p> +<p class="t0">That he here may love and fear Thee,</p> +<p class="t0">And in heaven dwell ever near Thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let Thy Light from darkness shine,</p> +<p class="t">Grace instead of wrath revealing,</p> +<p class="t0">Through the water’s power divine,</p> +<p class="t">Satan’s venomed death-sting healing;</p> +<p class="t0">Make his soul Thy Spirit’s dwelling,</p> +<p class="t0">By His Breath all sin expelling.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Prince of Peace, Thy Peace bestow,</p> +<p class="t">Shepherd, to Thy sheep-fold take him,</p> +<p class="t0">Way of Life, his pathway shew,</p> +<p class="t">Head, Thy living member make him,</p> +<p class="t0">Vine, abundant fruit providing,</p> +<p class="t0">Keep this branch in Thee abiding.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord of Grace! to Thee we cry,</p> +<p class="t">Filled our hearts to overflowing;</p> +<p class="t0">Heavenward take the burdened sigh,</p> +<p class="t">Blessings on the babe bestowing:</p> +<p class="t0">Write the name we now have given,</p> +<p class="t0">Write it in the Book of Heaven.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h19g" title="Lied zur Heiligen Communion."> +<div title="Lied zur Heiligen Communion." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h19e">Lied zur Heiligen Communion.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Wer mein Fleisch isset, und trinket mein Blut, der hat das +ewige Leben.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mein Jesu, der Du vor dem Scheiden,</p> +<p class="t0">In deiner letzten Trauernacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Uns hast die Früchte deiner Leiden</p> +<p class="t0">Im Mahl des neuen Bunds vermacht:</p> +<p class="t0">Es preisen gläubige Gemüther</p> +<p class="t0">Dich, Stifter dieser hohen Güter.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So oft wir dieses Mahl geniessen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wird dein Gedächtniss bei uns neu,</p> +<p class="t0">Und neue Lebensströme fliessen</p> +<p class="t0">Uns zu von deiner Lieb und Treu:</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Blut, dein Tod und deine Schmerzen</p> +<p class="t0">Erneuern sich in unsern Herzen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es wird dem zitternden Gewissen</p> +<p class="t0">Ein neues Siegel aufgedrückt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass unser Schuldbrief sei zerrissen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass unsre Handschrift sei zerstückt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass wir Vergebung unsrer Sünden</p> +<p class="t0">In deinen blutgen Wunden finden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Das Band wird inniger geschlungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Dich und uns zusammenfügt;</p> +<p class="t0">Die Liebe, die uns schon durchdrungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu Dir, o Heiland, steigt und siegt:</p> +<p class="t0">Wir werden neu in solchen Stunden</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Dir zu Einem Geist verbunden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Diess Brod kann wahre Nahrung geben,</p> +<p class="t0">Diess Blut erquicket unsern Geist.</p> +<p class="t0">Es mehrt sich unser innres Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn unser Glaube dich geneusst:</p> +<p class="t0">Wir fühlen neue Kraft und Stärke</p> +<p class="t0">In unserm Kampf und Glaubenswerke.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wir treten in genaure Bande</p> +<p class="t0">Mit deines Leibes Gliedern ein,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit denen wir im Bundeslande</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Herz und Eine Seele sein:</p> +<p class="t0">Der Geist muss mehr zusammenfliessen,</p> +<p class="t0">Da wir Ein Fleisch und Blut geniessen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dein Fleisch muss uns zum Pfande dienen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass unser Fleisch, so schwachheitvoll,</p> +<p class="t0">Einst herrlich aus dem Staube grünen</p> +<p class="t0">Und unverweslich werden soll;</p> +<p class="t0">Ja, dass Du uns ein ewig Leben</p> +<p class="t0">Nach dieser Pilgerzeit wirst geben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O theures Lamm, so edle Gaben</p> +<p class="t0">Hast Du in dieses Mahl gelegt!</p> +<p class="t0">Da wir Dich selbst zur Speise haben,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie wohl ist unser Geist gepflegt!</p> +<p class="t0">Diess Mahl ist unter allen Leiden</p> +<p class="t0">Ein wahrer Vorschmack jener Freuden.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Rambach_JJ6">Johann Jacob Rambach.</a> 1693-1735.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h19e" title="Hymn for Holy Communion."> +<div title="Hymn for Holy Communion." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h19g">Hymn for Holy Communion.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Whoso eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood, hath eternal Life.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. John</i>, vi. 54.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Lord, Who on that last sad eve,</p> +<p class="t">Ere Thou didst die to save our race,</p> +<p class="t0">The fruits of this Thy Death didst leave</p> +<p class="t">In our New-covenant Meal of Grace;</p> +<p class="t0">For this, of all Thy Gifts the best,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Holy Name be praised and blest!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">New life, through Thy life-giving Blood,</p> +<p class="t">This Sacramental Cup bestows;</p> +<p class="t0">We take and eat this hallowed Food,</p> +<p class="t">And call to mind Thy dying Woes;</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Wounds, Thy Cross, Thy bitter Pain,</p> +<p class="t0">Our thoughts recall them each again.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">We hail an added Sign and Seal,</p> +<p class="t">Anew on burdened hearts impressed,</p> +<p class="t0">That Thy deep Wounds our wounds can heal;</p> +<p class="t">Thy Love has set our fears at rest,</p> +<p class="t0">Cancelled the debt we could not pay,</p> +<p class="t0">Torn up and thrown the bond away.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The cords more firmly here we tie,</p> +<p class="t">That close with Thee our souls unite;</p> +<p class="t0">The flame of Love mounts up on high,</p> +<p class="t">And rules with all-subduing might:</p> +<p class="t0">This sacred Rite can grace afford,</p> +<p class="t0">To make us one with Thee, O Lord.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With strength anew from Thee derived,</p> +<p class="t">The strength Thy Flesh and Blood impart,</p> +<p class="t0">Here feels his inner life revived</p> +<p class="t">Each guest who comes with faithful heart;</p> +<p class="t0">With fresh resolve once more begin</p> +<p class="t0">The works of Faith, the wars with sin.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With all Thy members, Christ our Head,</p> +<p class="t">We cherish thus communion sweet;</p> +<p class="t0">To drink One Cup, to eat One Bread,</p> +<p class="t">This makes our union more complete:</p> +<p class="t0">One Soul unites our brother-band,</p> +<p class="t0">Possessors of this Covenant land.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thy Flesh a solemn pledge conveys,</p> +<p class="t">That our weak flesh, though here it dies,</p> +<p class="t0">Like herbs brought forth by dews and rays,</p> +<p class="t">A glorious body shall arise,</p> +<p class="t0">Which, when this pilgrim state is o’er,</p> +<p class="t0">Shall live with Thee for evermore.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Lamb of God, such precious gifts</p> +<p class="t">Are in this holy Banquet stored,</p> +<p class="t0">The soul from earth to heaven it lifts,</p> +<p class="t">In faith to feed at this Thy Board:</p> +<p class="t0">How high the Feast, the gain how vast,</p> +<p class="t0">Where Thou Thyself art our Repast.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h20g" title="Trauungslied."> +<div title="Trauungslied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h20e">Trauungslied.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Herr segne dich und behüte dich:</p> +<p class="t0">Er erleuchte sein Angesicht über dich und gebe dir Frieden.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erhebt euch, frohe Jubellieder,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu Gottes lichtem Thron empor;</p> +<p class="t0">Es hört, es neigt zu uns hernieder</p> +<p class="t0">Der Weltenherr sein Vaterohr:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, der da ist, sein wird und war,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ja, möge Gott euch beide segnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Mög Er, ohn Den kein Haupthaar fällt,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Licht und Kraft euch stets begegnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Beim Gang durch diese dunkle Welt:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit ihm heut, seis immerdar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lasst euch vom Worte Gottes leiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Nach Christus bildet euren Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Stets eingedenk der Ewigkeiten;</p> +<p class="t0">Dort führt das Pilgerleben hin:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit ihm heut, seis immerdar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Schämt euch nicht, Gott um Gnad zu flehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Ohn Den euch keine Freude blüht;</p> +<p class="t0">Seid nicht zu träg vor Gott zu stehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis ihr in Liebe zu Ihm glüht:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit ihm heut und immerdar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohlan, ergreift mit Gottes Freude</p> +<p class="t0">Und voll Vertraun den Pilgerstab,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass euch nichts von einander scheide,</p> +<p class="t0">Von Gott nichts bis ins stille Grab:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit ihm heut und immerdar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohlan, es sei mit euch der Friede,</p> +<p class="t0">Die treuste Liebe Lebenslang;</p> +<p class="t0">Beim Morgen- und beim Abendliede</p> +<p class="t0">Stärkt täglich euch im Christengang:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott, segne dieses neue Paar,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit ihm heut und immerdar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohlan, sprecht nun: Herr, wir geloben</p> +<p class="t0">Dir ewge Treue, Hand in Hand!</p> +<p class="t0">Bis wir Dich schauen einst dort oben</p> +<p class="t0">In jenem selgen Heimathland:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott der da ist, sein wird und war,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei mit euch heut, seis immerdar.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Anonymous">Ungenannt.</a></span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h20e" title="Wedding Hymn."> +<div title="Wedding Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h20g">Wedding Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; the Lord make His face +shine upon thee, and give thee peace.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Numb.</i> vi. 24-26.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Rise high, ye notes, a glad ovation,</p> +<p class="t">To God’s bright Throne, with accents clear;</p> +<p class="t0">The Author blest of man’s creation</p> +<p class="t">Now lends our song a Father’s ear;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O’er each event of life presiding,</p> +<p class="t">May God rich gifts on both bestow,</p> +<p class="t0">With heavenly light your footsteps guiding,</p> +<p class="t">As through the world’s dark wild ye go;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">By God’s own Word each action measure,</p> +<p class="t">And follow Christ in earnest race;</p> +<p class="t0">Still fix your hearts on Heavenly Treasure,</p> +<p class="t">This pilgrim life fleets on apace.</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Together bend, God’s grace imploring,</p> +<p class="t">Or no true joy your love will know;</p> +<p class="t0">Your voices blend, His Name adoring,</p> +<p class="t">Till Love to God each heart o’erflow;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With cheerful faith in God confide ye,</p> +<p class="t">The pilgrim’s staff with courage take,</p> +<p class="t0">And, till the silent grave divide ye,</p> +<p class="t">God and each other ne’er forsake;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">May peace and love, your lives adorning,</p> +<p class="t">Attend you all your course along;</p> +<p class="t0">Your Christian walk, each night and morning,</p> +<p class="t">More steadfast make with prayer and song;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Together now your voices raising,</p> +<p class="t">Vow truth to God, hand joined in hand.</p> +<p class="t0">Till, on His Glories ever gazing,</p> +<p class="t">Ye meet in heaven’s own happy land;</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Lord of heaven above,</p> +<p class="t0">Look down and bless their plighted love.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h21g" title="Des Sterbenden Christens Lebewohl."> +<div title="Des Sterbenden Christens Lebewohl." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h21e">Des Sterbenden Christens Lebewohl.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Und bei Christo zu sein.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Geht nun hin und grabt mein Grab,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn ich bin des Wanderns müde,</p> +<p class="t0">Von der Erde scheid ich ab,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn mir ruft des Himmels Friede,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn mir ruft die süsse Ruh</p> +<p class="t0">Von den Engeln droben zu.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Geht nun hin und grabt mein Grab,</p> +<p class="t0">Meinen Lauf hab ich vollendet;</p> +<p class="t0">Lege nun den Wanderstab</p> +<p class="t0">Hin, wo alles Irdsche endet;</p> +<p class="t0">Lege selbst mich nun hinein</p> +<p class="t0">In das Bette sonder Pein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was soll ich hienieden noch</p> +<p class="t0">In dem dunkeln Thale machen?</p> +<p class="t0">Denn wie mächtig, stolz und hoch</p> +<p class="t0">Wir auch stellen unsre Sachen,</p> +<p class="t0">Muss es doch wie Sand zergehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Wann die Winde drüber wehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Darum, Erde fahre wohl,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich nun in Frieden scheiden!</p> +<p class="t0">Deine Hoffnung, ach! ist hohl,</p> +<p class="t0">Deine Freuden selber Leiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Deine Schönheit Unbestand,</p> +<p class="t0">Eitel Wahn und Trug und Tand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Darum letzte gute Nacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Sonn und Mond und liebe Sterne,</p> +<p class="t0">Fahret wohl mit eurer Pracht!</p> +<p class="t0">Denn ich reis’ in weite Ferne,</p> +<p class="t0">Reise hin zu jenem Glanz,</p> +<p class="t0">Worin ihr verschwindet ganz.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ihr, die nun in Trauren geht,</p> +<p class="t0">Fahret wohl, ihr lieben Freunde:</p> +<p class="t0">Was von oben niederweht,</p> +<p class="t0">Tröstet ja des Herrn Gemeinde;</p> +<p class="t0">Weint nicht ob dem eitlen Schein,</p> +<p class="t0">Droben nur kann ewig sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weinet nicht, dass nun ich will</p> +<p class="t0">Von der Welt den Abschied nehmen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich aus dem Irrthum will,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus den Schatten, aus den Schemen,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus dem Eitlen, aus dem Nichts</p> +<p class="t0">Hin ins Land des ewgen Lichts.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weinet nicht, mein süsses Heil,</p> +<p class="t0">Meinen Heiland hab ich funden,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ich habe auch mein Theil</p> +<p class="t0">In den warmen Herzenswunden,</p> +<p class="t0">Woraus einst sein heilges Blut</p> +<p class="t0">Floss der ganzen Welt zu Gut.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weint nicht! mein Erlöser lebt;</p> +<p class="t0">Hoch vom finstern Erdenstaube</p> +<p class="t0">Hell empor die Hoffnung schwebt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und der Himmelsheld, der Glaube,</p> +<p class="t0">Und die ewge Liebe spricht:</p> +<p class="t0">Kind des Vaters, zittre nicht!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Arndt_EM">Ernst Moriz Arndt.</a> 1769-1860.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h21e" title="The dying Christian’s Farewell."> +<div title="The dying Christian’s Farewell." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h21g">The dying Christian’s Farewell.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>I have a desire to depart, and to be with Christ.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Phil.</i> i. 23.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Go! and let my grave be made—</p> +<p class="t">Tired and weary now with straying,</p> +<p class="t0">I farewell to earth have said,</p> +<p class="t">Heaven’s call to peace obeying:</p> +<p class="t0">Calls me now the happy rest</p> +<p class="t0">Of the angels ever blest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Go! and let my grave be made,</p> +<p class="t">Since my days are now expended;</p> +<p class="t0">Let the prilgrim’s staff be laid</p> +<p class="t">Where all earthly things are ended:</p> +<p class="t0">Then lay me too, even me,</p> +<p class="t0">In the bed from anguish free.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In the darksome valley, why</p> +<p class="t">Find delight or occupation?</p> +<p class="t0">Since however great or high,</p> +<p class="t">Proud or rich, may be our station,</p> +<p class="t0">All away, like sand, shall flit,</p> +<p class="t0">When the wind blows over it.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Therefore earth, farewell I say,</p> +<p class="t">False the hopes from thee we borrow!</p> +<p class="t0">Let me now in peace away—</p> +<p class="t">E’en thy very joy is sorrow;</p> +<p class="t0">Fleeting is thy beauty’s glow,</p> +<p class="t0">Vain deceit and empty show.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Therefore, now a last good-night!</p> +<p class="t">Sun, and moon, and stars of fire,</p> +<p class="t0">Farewell, all your splendour bright!</p> +<p class="t">Higher now I soar, far higher,</p> +<p class="t0">Where will dawn such glorious day,</p> +<p class="t0">Ye will vanish quite away.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Fare ye well, beloved friends!</p> +<p class="t">Ye whose tears so fast are flowing;</p> +<p class="t0">God for all will make amends,</p> +<p class="t">Since our griefs are His bestowing:</p> +<p class="t0">Weep not joys that ne’er endure,</p> +<p class="t0">Heavenly joy alone is sure.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weep not that I now farewell</p> +<p class="t">Bid the world and all its errors,</p> +<p class="t0">Far from vain deceits to dwell,</p> +<p class="t">Far from darkness, far from terrors:</p> +<p class="t0">Weep not that I take my flight</p> +<p class="t0">Toward the land of endless light.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weep not—lo! my Saviour there,</p> +<p class="t">Mercy to my soul revealing;</p> +<p class="t0">I too have obtained a share</p> +<p class="t">In His Heart’s deep wounds so healing,</p> +<p class="t0">Whence the Holy Fountain streamed,</p> +<p class="t0">Which this sinful world redeemed.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weep not—my Redeemer lives—</p> +<p class="t">High above dark earth ascending,</p> +<p class="t0">Hope her heavenly comfort gives;</p> +<p class="t">Faith stands by, her shield extending;</p> +<p class="t0">Love eternal whispers near,</p> +<p class="t0">‘Child of God, no longer fear.’</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h22g" title="Beim Begräbniss eines Kindes."> +<div title="Beim Begräbniss eines Kindes." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h22e">Beim Begräbniss eines Kindes.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Selig sind die Todten,</p> +<p class="t0">die in dem Herrn sterben.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So hab ich obgesieget,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Lauf ist nun vollbracht:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich bin gar wohl vergnüget,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu tausend guter Nacht!</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr aber, meine Lieben,</p> +<p class="t0">Thut nicht so ängstiglich:</p> +<p class="t0">Was wollt ihr euch betrüben?</p> +<p class="t0">Stehts doch sehr gut um mich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Fahr hin, o Angst und Schmerzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Fahr immer, immerhin!</p> +<p class="t0">Ich freue mich von Herzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich erlöset bin:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich leb in tausend Freuden</p> +<p class="t0">In meines Schöpfers Hand;</p> +<p class="t0">Mich trifft und rührt kein Leiden,</p> +<p class="t0">So dieser Welt bekannt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die noch auf Erden wallen</p> +<p class="t0">In irrthumsvoller Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Vermögen kaum zu lallen</p> +<p class="t0">Von froher Ewigkeit:</p> +<p class="t0">Viel besser wohl gestorben,</p> +<p class="t0">Als in der Welt gelebt;</p> +<p class="t0">Die Schwachheit ist verdorben,</p> +<p class="t0">Worinnen ich geschwebt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Schmückt meinen Sarg mit Kränzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie sonst ein Siegsmann prangt:</p> +<p class="t0">Aus jenem Himmelslenzen</p> +<p class="t0">Hat meine Seel erlangt</p> +<p class="t0">Die ewig grüne Krone;</p> +<p class="t0">Die werthe Siegespracht</p> +<p class="t0">Rührt her von Gottes Sohne,</p> +<p class="t0">Der hat mich so bedacht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Noch netzet ihr die Wangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Eltern, über mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Euch hat das Leid umfangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Herze bricht euch schier:</p> +<p class="t0">Des Vaters treue Liebe</p> +<p class="t0">Sieht sehnlich in mein Grab,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Mutter stehet trübe</p> +<p class="t0">Und kehrt die Augen ab.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich war euch nur geliehen</p> +<p class="t0">Auf eine kurze Zeit;</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Herren musst ich ziehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Drum werfet hin das Leid,</p> +<p class="t0">Und sprecht: Gott hats gegeben;</p> +<p class="t0">Gott nimms! Du hast es Recht,</p> +<p class="t0">Bei Dir steht Tod und Leben;</p> +<p class="t0">Der Mensch ist Gottes Knecht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dass ihr mein Grab müsst sehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Zeigt unsern schwachen Stand;</p> +<p class="t0">Dass es sobald geschehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Thut Gottes Vaterhand:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott wird das Leid euch stillen,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich sterbe nicht zu jung:</p> +<p class="t0">Wer stirbt nach Gottes Willen,</p> +<p class="t0">Der stirbt schon alt genung.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Fahr wohl, o liebe Seele,</p> +<p class="t0">Geniess der süssen Lust;</p> +<p class="t0">Uns in der Trauerhöhle</p> +<p class="t0">Ist nichts hiervon bewusst:</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn wird doch angelangen</p> +<p class="t0">Des grossen Tages Schein,</p> +<p class="t0">Da du uns wirst umfangen!</p> +<p class="t0">O möcht er heute sein!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Sacer_GW">Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer.</a> 1635-1699.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h22e" title="On the Burial of a Child."> +<div title="On the Burial of a Child." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h22g">On the Burial of a Child.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> xiv. 13.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">My race is now completed,</p> +<p class="t">And were that last good-night</p> +<p class="t0">A thousand times repeated,</p> +<p class="t">My gain would well requite.</p> +<p class="t0">Dear friends! because I leave you,</p> +<p class="t">O be not thus distrest;</p> +<p class="t0">For what indeed should grieve you?</p> +<p class="t">Since I am now at rest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Away! all grief and sadness,</p> +<p class="t">Henceforth away from me!</p> +<p class="t0">My heart o’erflows with gladness,</p> +<p class="t">That I am thus set free:</p> +<p class="t0">Now thousand joys I borrow</p> +<p class="t">From my Creator’s hand;</p> +<p class="t0">And earthly pain and sorrow</p> +<p class="t">Come not in this fair land.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ah! those whom earth yet captures,</p> +<p class="t">Who rove as pilgrims still,</p> +<p class="t0">But faint can lisp the raptures</p> +<p class="t">Eternity which fill:</p> +<p class="t0">To die in God is better</p> +<p class="t">Than in the world to live;</p> +<p class="t0">Now sin can no more fetter,</p> +<p class="t">No frailties pain can give.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then strew my bier with flowers,</p> +<p class="t">As ’twere a conqueror’s car;</p> +<p class="t0">I gain from vernal bowers,</p> +<p class="t">That bloom in heaven afar,</p> +<p class="t0">A crown that ne’er shall wither;</p> +<p class="t">And He Who ever lives,</p> +<p class="t0">God’s Son, Who bears me thither,</p> +<p class="t">The victor’s chaplet gives.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">My father, where I’m sleeping,</p> +<p class="t">To pierce the darkness tries;</p> +<p class="t0">My mother stands by weeping,</p> +<p class="t">And turns away her eyes:</p> +<p class="t0">But though your hearts are breaking,</p> +<p class="t">And anguish whelms you o’er,</p> +<p class="t0">Now heavenly comfort seeking,</p> +<p class="t">Dear parents! weep no more.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A little while but lent you,</p> +<p class="t">Now God has called me home;</p> +<p class="t0">So now, no more lament you</p> +<p class="t">Because my hour is come:</p> +<p class="t0">But say, “the Lord has given,</p> +<p class="t">Then let Him take away;”</p> +<p class="t0">God wills our fate in heaven,</p> +<p class="t">We must His Will obey.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">This shews how frail our state is,</p> +<p class="t">That you my grave must see;</p> +<p class="t0">From God’s own Hand my fate is,</p> +<p class="t">A Father’s hand to me:</p> +<p class="t0">Then comfort take, and think not</p> +<p class="t">Too soon I yield my breath;</p> +<p class="t0">For they too early sink not,</p> +<p class="t">Who please their God in death.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To join God’s seraph-legions</p> +<p class="t">Blest soul! speed on your flight;</p> +<p class="t0">We, in these mournful regions,</p> +<p class="t">Know nought of your delight:</p> +<p class="t0">But though awhile you leave us,</p> +<p class="t">When dawns that glorious ray,</p> +<p class="t0">With joy you will receive us;</p> +<p class="t">Oh! might it be to-day!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h23g" title="Verklärte Heiligen."> +<div title="Verklärte Heiligen." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h23e">Verklärte Heiligen.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer überwindet, der wird es alles ererben:</p> +<p class="t0">Und ich werde sein Gott seyn und er wird mein Sohn seyn.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer sind die vor Gottes Throne?</p> +<p class="t0">Was ist das für eine Schaar?</p> +<p class="t0">Träget jeder eine Krone,</p> +<p class="t0">Glänzen wie die Sterne klar;</p> +<p class="t0">Alleluia singen all,</p> +<p class="t0">Loben Gott mit hohem Schall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer sind die, so Palmen tragen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie ein Sieger, in der Hand,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn er seinen Feind geschlagen,</p> +<p class="t0">Hingestrecket in den Sand?</p> +<p class="t0">Welcher Streit und welcher Krieg</p> +<p class="t0">Hat gezeuget diesen Sieg?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer sind die in reiner Seide</p> +<p class="t0">Göttlicher Gerechtigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Angethan mit weissem Kleide,</p> +<p class="t0">Das bestäubet keine Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Das veraltet nimmermehr;</p> +<p class="t0">Wo sind diese kommen her?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es sind die, so wohl gerungen</p> +<p class="t0">Für des grossen Gottes Ehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Haben Welt und Tod bezwungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Folgend nicht dem sündgen Heer;</p> +<p class="t0">Die erlanget auf den Krieg</p> +<p class="t0">Durch des Lammes Blut den Sieg.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es sind die, so viel erlitten,</p> +<p class="t0">Trübsal, Schmerzen, Angst und Noth,</p> +<p class="t0">Im Gebet auch oft gestritten</p> +<p class="t0">Mit dem hochgelobten Gott:</p> +<p class="t0">Nun hat dieser Kampf ein End,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott hat all ihr Leid gewendt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es sind Zweige Eines Stammes,</p> +<p class="t0">Der uns Huld und Heil gebracht;</p> +<p class="t0">Haben in dem Blut des Lammes</p> +<p class="t0">Ihre Kleider hell gemacht;</p> +<p class="t0">Sind geschmückt mit Heiligkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Prangen nun im Ehrenkleid.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es sind die, so stets erschienen</p> +<p class="t0">Hier als Priester vor dem Herrn,</p> +<p class="t0">Tag und Nacht bereit zu dienen,</p> +<p class="t0">Leib und Seel geopfert gern;</p> +<p class="t0">Nun sie stehen all herum</p> +<p class="t0">Vor dem Stuhl im Heiligthum.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie ein Hirsch am Mittag lechzet</p> +<p class="t0">Nach dem Strom, der frisch und hell,</p> +<p class="t0">So hat ihre Seel geächzet</p> +<p class="t0">Nach der rechten Lebensquell:</p> +<p class="t0">Nun ihr Durst gestillet ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Da sie sind bei Jesu Christ.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auf dem Zionsberg sie weidet</p> +<p class="t0">Gottes Lamm, die Lebenssonn</p> +<p class="t0">Mitten in dem Stuhl sie leitet</p> +<p class="t0">Zu dem rechten Lebensbronn;</p> +<p class="t0">Hirt und Lamm, das ewge Gut,</p> +<p class="t0">Lieblich sie erquicken thut.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dahin streck auch ich die Hände,</p> +<p class="t0">O Herr Jesu, zu Dir aus;</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Gebet ich zu dir wende,</p> +<p class="t0">Der ich noch in deinem Haus</p> +<p class="t0">Hier auf Erden steh im Streit:</p> +<p class="t0">Treibe, Herr, die Feinde weit.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hilf mir in dem Kampfe siegen</p> +<p class="t0">Wider Sünde, Höll und Welt;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich nicht danieder liegen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn ein Sturm mich überfällt:</p> +<p class="t0">Führe mich aus aller Noth,</p> +<p class="t0">Herr, mein Fels, mein treuer Gott.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass ich sei neu geboren;</p> +<p class="t0">An Dir als ein grünes Reis</p> +<p class="t0">Wachse, und sei auserkoren,</p> +<p class="t0">Durch dein Blut gewaschen weiss:</p> +<p class="t0">Meine Kleider wahre rein,</p> +<p class="t0">Meide allen falschen Schein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dass mein Theil sei bei den Frommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Welche, Herr, Dir ähnlich sind,</p> +<p class="t0">Und auch ich, der Noth entnommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Als dein Dir getreues Kind,</p> +<p class="t0">Dann, genahet zu dem Thron,</p> +<p class="t0">Nehme den verheissnen Lohn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Welches Wort fasst diese Wonne,</p> +<p class="t0">Wann ich mit der heilgen Schaar,</p> +<p class="t0">In dem Stral der reinen Sonne,</p> +<p class="t0">Leucht auch, wie die Sterne, klar!</p> +<p class="t0">Amen, Lob sei Dir bereit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dank und Preis in Ewigkeit.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Schenk_HT">Theodor Schenk.</a> Died 1727.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h23e" title="Saints in Glory."> +<div title="Saints in Glory." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h23g">Saints in Glory.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be His +God, and he shall be My son.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> xxi. 7.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Who are these, like stars appearing,</p> +<p class="t">These before God’s throne who stand?</p> +<p class="t0">Each a golden crown is wearing—</p> +<p class="t">Who are all this glorious band?</p> +<p class="t0">Alleluia, hark! they sing,</p> +<p class="t0">Praising loud their heavenly King.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Who are these, who palms are clasping,</p> +<p class="t">Like a conqueror, in their hand,</p> +<p class="t0">When he sees his foeman gasping,</p> +<p class="t">Stretched before him in the sand?</p> +<p class="t0">What the combat, who the foes,</p> +<p class="t0">Whence this joyful triumph rose?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Who are these, of dazzling brightness,</p> +<p class="t">These in God’s own truth arrayed,</p> +<p class="t0">Clad in robes of purest whiteness,</p> +<p class="t">Robes whose lustre ne’er shall fade,</p> +<p class="t0">Ne’er be touched by Time’s rude hand?</p> +<p class="t0">Whence come all this glorious band?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">These are they who have contended</p> +<p class="t">For their Saviour’s honour long,</p> +<p class="t0">Wrestling on till life was ended,</p> +<p class="t">Following not the sinful throng:</p> +<p class="t0">These, who well the fight sustained,</p> +<p class="t0">Triumph through the Lamb have gained.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">These are they whose hearts were riven,</p> +<p class="t">Sore with woe and anguish tried,</p> +<p class="t0">Who in prayer full oft have striven</p> +<p class="t">With the God they glorified:</p> +<p class="t0">Now, their painful conflict o’er,</p> +<p class="t0">God has bid them weep no more.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Branches of that Stock that saved them,</p> +<p class="t">Where both grace and health unite,</p> +<p class="t0">In the Lamb’s pure Blood they laved them,</p> +<p class="t">Washed their robes and made them white:</p> +<p class="t0">Now adorned with holiness,</p> +<p class="t0">Shine they in their festal dress.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">These like priests have watched and waited,</p> +<p class="t">Offering up to Christ their will,</p> +<p class="t0">Soul and body consecrated,</p> +<p class="t">Day and night to serve Him still:</p> +<p class="t0">Now, in God’s most Holy Place,</p> +<p class="t0">Blest they stand before His Face.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">As the hart at noon-tide panteth</p> +<p class="t">For the brooks of water clear,</p> +<p class="t0">For the life-spring Jesus granteth</p> +<p class="t">These have groaned, with frequent tear:</p> +<p class="t0">Now their thirst is satisfied,</p> +<p class="t0">For they are by Jesus’ side.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lo! the Lamb Himself now feeds them</p> +<p class="t">On Mount Sion’s pastures fair;</p> +<p class="t0">From His central Throne He leads them</p> +<p class="t">By the living fountains there:</p> +<p class="t0">Lamb and Shepherd! Good Supreme!</p> +<p class="t0">Free He gives the cooling stream.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward now my hands extending,</p> +<p class="t">Jesus, Lord, to Thee I pray,</p> +<p class="t0">Low before Thy footstool bending—</p> +<p class="t">Since on earth I still must stay,</p> +<p class="t0">In Thy Church still wage my war,</p> +<p class="t0">Drive, good Lord, my foes afar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In the strife the conquest send me</p> +<p class="t">Over hell, the world, and sin;</p> +<p class="t0">With Thy grace, O Lord, defend me,</p> +<p class="t">When temptation’s storms begin:</p> +<p class="t0">All my dangers bear me through,</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, my Rock, my Saviour true!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Oh that, Lord, with Thee connected</p> +<p class="t">Like a living branch I grew!</p> +<p class="t0">Make me one of Thine elected,</p> +<p class="t">Let me here be born anew;</p> +<p class="t0">Keep from stain my garments free,</p> +<p class="t0">Let me no dissembler be.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With the just, who Thee resemble,</p> +<p class="t">Let, O Lord, my lot be cast;</p> +<p class="t0">Far from all that makes me tremble,</p> +<p class="t">Let Thy faithful child at last</p> +<p class="t0">Make Thy pledged reward his own,</p> +<p class="t0">Ever dwelling near Thy Throne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With that holy throng uniting,</p> +<p class="t">Then what rapture shall be mine!</p> +<p class="t0">In the Sun’s bright beams delighting,</p> +<p class="t">I too like the stars shall shine:</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, for this my voice shall raise</p> +<p class="t0">Thanks to Thee, and endless praise.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h24g" title="Christi Fusstapfen."> +<div title="Christi Fusstapfen." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h24e">Christi Fusstapfen.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Lasset uns laufen durch Geduld in dem Kampf der uns verordnet +ist, und aufsehen auf Jesum, den Anfänger und Vollender +des Glaubens.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lebt, ihr Christen, so allhier auf Erden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ihr Christo möget ähnlich werden,</p> +<p class="t4">Der aus dem Leiden</p> +<p class="t0">Ging zum Vater in das Reich der Freuden.</p> +<p class="t0">Seht auf die mit eifrigem Verlangen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Ihm nach und euch sind vorgegangen;</p> +<p class="t4">Schaut an ihr Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie sie euch dazu ein Beispiel geben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So vollführet eures Herzogs Lehren,</p> +<p class="t0">Folgt Ihm, wo ihr Ihm wollt angehören:</p> +<p class="t4">Entsagt dem allen,</p> +<p class="t0">Was dem Fleisch und Welt noch kann gefallen.</p> +<p class="t0">Opfert euch Ihm auf und eure Glieder,</p> +<p class="t0">Fallet unterm Kreuze vor Ihm nieder;</p> +<p class="t4">Im Kreuzesorden</p> +<p class="t0">Seid ihr seine Knecht und Ritter worden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Haltet euch an Ihn, da ihr müsst streiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Bleibt beständig, Er steht euch zur Seiten:</p> +<p class="t4">Er hilft euch ringen,</p> +<p class="t0">Giebt euch Kraft, den Sieg davon zu bringen.</p> +<p class="t0">Er wird euch, wenn einst es kommt zum Scheiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Statt der Noth mit seiner Ruh bekleiden:</p> +<p class="t4">Ihr habt zu hoffen,</p> +<p class="t0">Was von niemand hier wird angetroffen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nur, dass ihr im Glauben hier recht kämpfet,</p> +<p class="t0">Und die Sünde, euren Feind, stets dämpfet,</p> +<p class="t4">Der euch mit Haufen</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit grossem Sturm pflegt anzulaufen.</p> +<p class="t0">Wer nun glücklich diesen Kampf geendet,</p> +<p class="t0">Und den schweren Kleinodslauf vollendet,</p> +<p class="t4">Dem wird die Krone</p> +<p class="t0">Der Gerechtigkeit geschenkt zu Lohne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die bleibt ihm vom Herren beigeleget,</p> +<p class="t0">Der sein Bildniss ihm ins Herz gepräget,</p> +<p class="t4">Er wird ihn leiten</p> +<p class="t0">Zu den Brunnen aller Seligkeiten.</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, so lohnt der Richter allen denen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Ihn lieben und sich nach Ihm sehnen;</p> +<p class="t4">Er kennt die Seinen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die drauf warten, dass er mög erscheinen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Anonymous">Ungenannt.</a></span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h24e" title="The Footprints of Christ."> +<div title="The Footprints of Christ." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h24g">The Footprints of Christ.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking +unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Hebrews</i> xii. 1.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O fear not, Christians, that rough path to tread,</p> +<p class="t0">Whereon blest Footprints of your Saviour lead,</p> +<p class="t4">His bliss to gain,</p> +<p class="t0">Who went not up to joy but through sharp pain:</p> +<p class="t0">Gaze on that countless host with steadfast eyes,</p> +<p class="t0">His followers, your fore-runners to the skies,</p> +<p class="t4">And scan their life,</p> +<p class="t0">Examples each with holy lessons rife.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Would ye to join those chosen ranks ascend,</p> +<p class="t0">With watchful zeal your King’s commands attend,</p> +<p class="t4">And bid adieu</p> +<p class="t0">To each unhallowed wish and worldly view:</p> +<p class="t0">Take up your Cross, beneath it bending low,</p> +<p class="t0">And for your Master’s Will your own forego,</p> +<p class="t4">Nor count it loss,</p> +<p class="t0">Knights of the Order of the Holy Cross.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Keep close to Christ, if conflict sore betide;</p> +<p class="t0">Stand fast, remembering He is at your side,</p> +<p class="t4">To give you strength</p> +<p class="t0">In battle, and the victor’s crown at length:</p> +<p class="t0">And when from earth’s unquiet scene ye part,</p> +<p class="t0">His rest shall compensate its keenest smart,</p> +<p class="t4">And ye shall know</p> +<p class="t0">Joy ne’er experienced in this world below.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Fight well the fight of faith, and ye shall win;</p> +<p class="t0">And boldly strive against besetting sin,</p> +<p class="t4">Which all the way,</p> +<p class="t0">In varied warfare, shall your progress stay:</p> +<p class="t0">Whoe’er from those dread lists shall come away,</p> +<p class="t0">Unscathed, unvanquished, at his dying day,</p> +<p class="t4">He shall receive</p> +<p class="t0">The crown of righteousness which Christ shall give:</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">That righteous crown by Christ in heaven laid up,</p> +<p class="t0">For those who bear His Image, drink His Cup,</p> +<p class="t4">Whom He will lead,</p> +<p class="t0">By springs of ever new delights to feed:</p> +<p class="t0">Thus will the Judge of all the earth reward</p> +<p class="t0">All those who love and long to meet their Lord,</p> +<p class="t4">Whom He will own,</p> +<p class="t0">At that Great Day, as jewels of His Crown.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h25g" title="Die Himmelsstadt."> +<div title="Die Himmelsstadt." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h25e">Die Himmelsstadt.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Siehe da, eine Hütte Gottes bei den Menschen:</p> +<p class="t0">Und Er wird bei ihnen wohnen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wollt Gott, ich wär in dir!</p> +<p class="t0">Mein sehnlich Herz so gross Verlangen hat,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ist nicht mehr bei mir:</p> +<p class="t0">Weit über Berg und Thale,</p> +<p class="t0">Weit über blache Feld</p> +<p class="t0">Schwingt es sich überalle,</p> +<p class="t0">Und eilt aus dieser Welt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O schöner Tag, und noch viel schönre Stund,</p> +<p class="t0">Wann wirst du kommen schier?</p> +<p class="t0">Da ich mit Lust, mit Freud und freiem Muth</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seele geb von mir</p> +<p class="t0">In Gottes treue Hände,</p> +<p class="t0">Zum auserwählten Pfand,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass sie mit Heil anlände</p> +<p class="t0">In jenem Vaterland.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Im Augenblick wird sie erheben sich</p> +<p class="t0">Bis an das Firmament,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn sie verlässt so sanft, so wunderlich</p> +<p class="t0">Die Stätt der Element:</p> +<p class="t0">Fährt auf Eliä Wagen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit froher Engel Schaar,</p> +<p class="t0">Die sie in Händen tragen,</p> +<p class="t0">Umgeben ganz und gar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ehrenburg, sei nun gegrüsset mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Thu auf der Gnaden Pfort:</p> +<p class="t0">Wie grosse Zeit hat mich verlangt nach dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Eh ich bin kommen fort</p> +<p class="t0">Aus jenem bösen Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus jener Nichtigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Und mir Gott hat gegeben</p> +<p class="t0">Das Erb der Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was für ein Volk, was für ein edle Schaar</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt dort gezogen schon?</p> +<p class="t0">Was in der Welt von Auserwählten war,</p> +<p class="t0">Seh ich, die beste Kron,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Jesus mir, der Herre,</p> +<p class="t0">Entgegen hat gesandt,</p> +<p class="t0">Da ich noch war so ferne</p> +<p class="t0">In meinem Thränenland.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Propheten gross und Patriarchen hoch,</p> +<p class="t0">Auch Christen insgemein,</p> +<p class="t0">Die weiland dort trugen des Kreuzes Joch</p> +<p class="t0">Und der Tyrannen Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">Schau ich in Ehren schweben,</p> +<p class="t0">In Freiheit überall,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Klarheit hell umgeben,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit sonnenlichtem Stral.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn dann zuletzt ich angelanget bin</p> +<p class="t0">Im schönen Paradeis,</p> +<p class="t0">Von höchster Freud erfüllet wird der Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Mund voll Lob und Preis:</p> +<p class="t0">Das Alleluia reine</p> +<p class="t0">Singt man in Heiligkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Hosianna feine</p> +<p class="t0">Ohn End in Ewigkeit.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mit Jubelklang dort vor des Lammes Thron,</p> +<p class="t0">In Chören ohne Zahl,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass von dem Klang und von dem süssen Ton</p> +<p class="t0">Erbebt der Freudensaal:</p> +<p class="t0">Mit hunderttausend Zungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Stimmen noch viel mehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie von Anfang gesungen</p> +<p class="t0">Des Himmels selig Heer.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Meyfart_JM">Johann Matthäus Meyfart.</a> 1590-1642.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h25e" title="The Heavenly City."> +<div title="The Heavenly City." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h25g">The Heavenly City.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell +with them, and they shall be His people.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> xxi. 3.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jerusalem! thou City towering high,</p> +<p class="t">Would God I were in thee!</p> +<p class="t0">My longing soul doth ever pant and sigh</p> +<p class="t">Within thy walls to be;</p> +<p class="t0">By faith from earth it sallies,</p> +<p class="t">And far o’er stretching plains,</p> +<p class="t0">Far over hills and valleys,</p> +<p class="t">Soars till thy gate it gains.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O joyful day, and O thrice joyful hour,</p> +<p class="t">When will thy dawn appear,</p> +<p class="t0">When I, with heart released from sin’s dread power,</p> +<p class="t">And joy unmixed with fear,</p> +<p class="t0">My parting soul commending</p> +<p class="t">To God’s own faithful hand,</p> +<p class="t0">Shall, at my journey’s ending,</p> +<p class="t">Reach that blest Fatherland!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then in a moment shall my spirit quit</p> +<p class="t">This lower element;</p> +<p class="t0">In silent mystery high-soaring flit</p> +<p class="t">To heaven’s bright firmament,</p> +<p class="t0">Elijah’s chariot mounting,</p> +<p class="t">Borne on sustaining hands,</p> +<p class="t0">That baffle powers of counting,</p> +<p class="t">Of joyful angel bands.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hail, glorious City! O that thou wouldst ope</p> +<p class="t">Thy gates of mercy wide,</p> +<p class="t0">To enter which, with still deferrèd hope,</p> +<p class="t">I long have groaned and sighed,</p> +<p class="t0">While here my weary spirit,</p> +<p class="t">In this bleak world of sin,</p> +<p class="t0">The kingdom I inherit</p> +<p class="t">Has thirsted sore to win.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Who are these myriads bright, whose glorious band</p> +<p class="t">In countless throng appears,</p> +<p class="t0">By Jesus sent to meet me on the strand</p> +<p class="t">Of this dark land of tears?</p> +<p class="t0">Of endless life the winners,</p> +<p class="t">These are His joy and crown,</p> +<p class="t0">Whom from this world of sinners</p> +<p class="t">He chose to be His Own.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Prophets and patriarchs there, and Christians all</p> +<p class="t">Who have, in every age,</p> +<p class="t0">Endured the cross, or, at their Master’s call,</p> +<p class="t">Braved persecution’s rage,</p> +<p class="t0">Now, amid joy unbounded,</p> +<p class="t">From earthly care set free,</p> +<p class="t0">With cloudless day surrounded,</p> +<p class="t">A dazzling host I see.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When God to his blest paradise of joy</p> +<p class="t">My soul at length shall raise,</p> +<p class="t0">Pleasures shall fill my mind which never cloy,</p> +<p class="t">My mouth glad notes of praise:</p> +<p class="t0">Voices in concord vying</p> +<p class="t">There Alleluia sing;</p> +<p class="t0">Unwearied still replying,</p> +<p class="t">There loud hosannas ring.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">From choir to choir, before the Lamb’s bright throne,</p> +<p class="t">The sound is borne along,</p> +<p class="t0">Till joy’s bright temple to the wondrous tone</p> +<p class="t">Vibrates in choral song.</p> +<p class="t0">In notes of exultation</p> +<p class="t">Unnumbered voices rise,</p> +<p class="t0">As since the first creation</p> +<p class="t">They echo through the skies.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h26g" title="Das unschuldige Lamm."> +<div title="Das unschuldige Lamm." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h26e">Das unschuldige Lamm.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtbank geführet wird.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld</p> +<p class="t0">Der Welt und ihrer Kinder,</p> +<p class="t0">Es geht und träget in Geduld</p> +<p class="t0">Die Sünden aller Sünder;</p> +<p class="t0">Es geht dahin, wird matt und krank,</p> +<p class="t0">Ergiebt sich auf die Würgebank,</p> +<p class="t0">Verzicht auf alle Freuden,</p> +<p class="t0">Es nimmet an Schmach, Hohn und Spott,</p> +<p class="t0">Angst, Wunden, Striemen, Kreuz und Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Und spricht: Ich wills gern leiden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mein Lebetage will ich Dich</p> +<p class="t0">Aus meinem Sinn nicht lassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich will ich stets, gleich wie Du mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Liebesarmen fassen:</p> +<p class="t0">Du sollst sein meines Herzens Licht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn mein Herz in Stücken bricht,</p> +<p class="t0">Sollst Du mein Herze bleiben:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich will mich Dir, mein höchster Ruhm,</p> +<p class="t0">Hiermit zu deinem Eigenthum</p> +<p class="t0">Beständiglich verschreiben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich will von deiner Lieblichkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Bei Nacht und Tage singen,</p> +<p class="t0">Mich selbst auch Dir zu aller Zeit</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Freudenopfer bringen:</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Bach des Lebens soll sich Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Und deinem Namen für und für</p> +<p class="t0">In Dankbarkeit ergiessen;</p> +<p class="t0">Und was Du mir zu gut gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass will ich stets, so tief ich kann,</p> +<p class="t0">In mein Gedächtniss schliessen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was schadet mir des Todes Gift!</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Blut das ist mein Leben:</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn mich des Kreuzes Hitze trifft,</p> +<p class="t0">So kann mirs Schatten geben;</p> +<p class="t0">Setzt mir der Wehmuth Schmerzen zu,</p> +<p class="t0">So find ich bei Dir meine Ruh,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie auf dem Bett ein Kranker;</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn des Kreuzes Ungestüm</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Schifflein treibet um und um,</p> +<p class="t0">So bist Du dann mein Anker.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich soll endlich treten ein</p> +<p class="t0">In deines Reiches Freuden,</p> +<p class="t0">So soll diess Blut mein Purpur sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich will mich darein kleiden;</p> +<p class="t0">Es soll sein meines Hauptes Kron,</p> +<p class="t0">In welcher ich will vor den Thron</p> +<p class="t0">Des höchsten Vaters gehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Dir, dem er mich anvertraut,</p> +<p class="t0">Als eine wohlgeschmückte Braut</p> +<p class="t0">An deiner Seiten stehen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h26e" title="The Spotless Lamb."> +<div title="The Spotless Lamb." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h26g">The Spotless Lamb.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, liii. 7.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A holy, pure, and spotless Lamb</p> +<p class="t">Once came to earthly regions;</p> +<p class="t0">To bear the weight of sins He came,</p> +<p class="t">Of this world’s countless legions:</p> +<p class="t0">A weary way He humbly trod;</p> +<p class="t0">When scourged by man’s chastising rod,</p> +<p class="t">Bore all with resignation:</p> +<p class="t0">Mid blows and wounds He silent stood,</p> +<p class="t0">Till, laid upon the fatal Wood,</p> +<p class="t">He died, a meek Oblation.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then all day long and every day</p> +<p class="t">My thoughts on this remaining,</p> +<p class="t0">Such love with love I will repay,</p> +<p class="t">Love constant and unwaning.</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, Thou shalt be my Beacon-light,</p> +<p class="t0">To guide me through the world’s dark night,</p> +<p class="t">And cheer my heart in sorrow;</p> +<p class="t0">Henceforth myself and all that’s mine</p> +<p class="t0">To thee entirely I consign,</p> +<p class="t">From Whom all things I borrow.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">By morn and eve my theme shall be</p> +<p class="t">Thy mercy’s wondrous measure;</p> +<p class="t0">To sacrifice myself to Thee</p> +<p class="t">My foremost aim and pleasure:</p> +<p class="t0">As flows my life’s swift stream along,</p> +<p class="t0">Thou still shalt hear a grateful song</p> +<p class="t">Its onward course attending;</p> +<p class="t0">From memory’s clearest fount, the thought</p> +<p class="t0">Of what Thy love for me has wrought,</p> +<p class="t">With all its eddies blending.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No more I fear death’s fatal sting,</p> +<p class="t">Thy Blood ’gainst death shall arm me:</p> +<p class="t0">Beneath the shadow of Thy Wing,</p> +<p class="t">No scorching sun can harm me:</p> +<p class="t0">By weight of anxious thought opprest,</p> +<p class="t0">On Thee my weary soul shall rest,</p> +<p class="t">As sick man on his pillow:</p> +<p class="t0">My Anchor, when ’mid storms of woe,</p> +<p class="t0">My bark is driven to and fro,</p> +<p class="t">On trouble’s restless billow.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">And when I come before Thy Throne</p> +<p class="t">On Resurrection Morning,</p> +<p class="t0">The glorious crown which Thou hast won,</p> +<p class="t">My blissful head adorning,</p> +<p class="t0">May I be placed on Thy right side,</p> +<p class="t0">With Thy loved Church, Thy chosen Bride,</p> +<p class="t">Drawn out from every nation;</p> +<p class="t0">No more of God’s just wrath afraid,</p> +<p class="t0">In Purple of Thy Blood arrayed,</p> +<p class="t">And garments of salvation.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h27g" title="Aufsehend auf Jesum."> +<div title="Aufsehend auf Jesum." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h27e">Aufsehend auf Jesum.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Wachset in der Gnade und Erkenntniss unsers Herrn und +Heilands Jesu Christi.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">O Mensch, Der auf die Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Vom Thron des Himmels kommen ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Bruder da zu werden;</p> +<p class="t0">Vergiss nicht, dass Er dir zu Gut</p> +<p class="t0">Hat angenommen Fleisch und Blut:</p> +<p class="t0">Dank Ihm für diese Liebe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der für dich hat gelitten,</p> +<p class="t0">Ja gar am Kreuz gestorben ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dadurch hat bestritten</p> +<p class="t0">Welt, Sünde, Teufel, Höll und Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dich erlöst aus aller Noth:</p> +<p class="t0">Dank Ihm für diese Liebe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der auch am dritten Tage</p> +<p class="t0">Siegreich vom Tod erstanden ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Befreit von Noth und Plage:</p> +<p class="t0">Bedenke, dass Er Fried gemacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Sein Unschuld Leben wieder bracht:</p> +<p class="t0">Dank Ihm für diese Liebe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der nach den Leidenszeiten</p> +<p class="t0">Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Stätt dir zu bereiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Da du sollst bleiben allezeit</p> +<p class="t0">Und sehen seine Herrlichkeit:</p> +<p class="t0">Dank Ihm für diese Liebe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der einst wird wiederkommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und sich, was todt und lebend ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu richten vorgenommen:</p> +<p class="t0">O denke, dass du da bestehst</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit Ihm in sein Reich eingehst,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihm ewiglich zu danken.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gieb, Jesu, gieb, dass ich Dich kann</p> +<p class="t0">Mit wahrem Glauben fassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und nie, was Du an mir gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">Mög aus dem Herzen lassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass dessen ich in aller Noth</p> +<p class="t0">Mich trösten mög, und durch den Tod</p> +<p class="t0">Zu Dir ins Leben dringen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gunter_C">Cyriacus Günther.</a> 1650-1704.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h27e" title="Looking unto Jesus."> +<div title="Looking unto Jesus." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h27g">Looking unto Jesus.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour +Jesus Christ.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>2 St. Peter</i>, iii. 18.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind,</p> +<p class="t">Who left His heavenly throne,</p> +<p class="t0">And, out of love to humankind,</p> +<p class="t">Put human nature on—</p> +<p class="t0">Our Brother, born of flesh and blood,</p> +<p class="t0">To make His sure salvation good;</p> +<p class="t">Then thank Him for His love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind,</p> +<p class="t">Who sore by grief was tried;</p> +<p class="t0">A Ransom for our souls to find,</p> +<p class="t">Upon the Cross He died:</p> +<p class="t0">He vanquished sin and every foe,</p> +<p class="t0">And saved us from eternal woe;</p> +<p class="t">Then thank Him for His love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind,</p> +<p class="t">Who, freed from grief and pain,</p> +<p class="t0">A Conqueror death hath failed to bind,</p> +<p class="t">The third day rose again;</p> +<p class="t0">The righteous acts of Christ the Lord</p> +<p class="t0">Have life and peace to man restored;</p> +<p class="t">Than thank Him for His love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind,</p> +<p class="t">Who, all His sorrows past,</p> +<p class="t0">In light of those He left behind,</p> +<p class="t">Returned to heaven at last,</p> +<p class="t0">There to prepare for us a place,</p> +<p class="t0">Where we shall always see His face;</p> +<p class="t">Then thank Him for His love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind,</p> +<p class="t">Who, from His throne above,</p> +<p class="t0">Once more will come, the Judge assigned</p> +<p class="t">Both quick and dead to prove;</p> +<p class="t0">Take heed that thou mayst stand the test,</p> +<p class="t0">And enter then His holy rest,</p> +<p class="t">To thank Him for His love.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord, let me ever bear in mind,</p> +<p class="t">And let my faith embrace</p> +<p class="t0">Thy love to me and all mankind,</p> +<p class="t">And may Thy cheering grace</p> +<p class="t0">In hours of sorrow comfort give,</p> +<p class="t0">And cause me after death to live,</p> +<p class="t">And thank Thee for Thy love.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h28g" title="Gottergebenheit."> +<div title="Gottergebenheit." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h28e">Gottergebenheit.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Meine Seele dürstet nach Gott.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nach Dir, o Gott, verlanget mich;</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Gott, ich denke stets an Dich:</p> +<p class="t0">Zieh mich nach Dir, nach Dir mich wend</p> +<p class="t0">Aus Zion deine Hülf mir send.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, wer wird mich befreien doch</p> +<p class="t0">Von diesem schweren Sündenjoch?</p> +<p class="t0">O Herr, ich sehne mich nach Dir;</p> +<p class="t0">Befreie mich und hilf doch mir.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es ist mein Will nach Dir gericht;</p> +<p class="t0">Doch das Vollbringen mir gebricht:</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn ich hab was Guts gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">So klebt doch was Unreines dran.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gedenke, dass ich bin dein Kind,</p> +<p class="t0">Vergieb und tilge meine Sünd;</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich zu Dir, mit freiem Lauf,</p> +<p class="t0">Mich könne schwingen himmelauf.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Den Sinn der Welt rott in mir aus,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei Du nur Herr in meinem Haus;</p> +<p class="t0">Den Schild des Glaubens mir verleih,</p> +<p class="t0">Und brich des Feindes Pfeil entzwei.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nach Dir, mein Gott, lass stets forthin</p> +<p class="t0">Gerichtet sein den ganzen Sinn:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich eigne Dich mir gänzlich zu,</p> +<p class="t0">Und such in Dir nur meine Ruh.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hinweg, hinweg, du schnöde Lust,</p> +<p class="t0">Bleib mir auf Erden unbewusst;</p> +<p class="t0">Was mein Herz fort vergnügen soll,</p> +<p class="t0">Des ist allein der Himmel voll.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, alles was mich reisst von Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">O höchstes Gut, das treib von mir:</p> +<p class="t0">In Dir, mein Gott, in Dir allein</p> +<p class="t0">Lass hinfort meine Freude sein.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Ulrich_A">Anton Ulrich, Herzog zu Braunschweig.</a> 1633-1714.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h28e" title="Devotedness to God."> +<div title="Devotedness to God." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h28g">Devotedness to God.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>My soul is athirst for God.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xlii. 2.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Lord! I long Thy face to see,</p> +<p class="t0">My thoughts for ever dwell with Thee:</p> +<p class="t0">Come, draw my heart, constrain my will,</p> +<p class="t0">And send me help from Sion’s hill.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Oh! who shall now my freedom win,</p> +<p class="t0">And save me from this yoke of sin?</p> +<p class="t0">My God, for Thee my soul doth thirst,</p> +<p class="t0">For Thou alone my bonds canst burst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To keep Thy laws my will is bent,</p> +<p class="t0">But fails in the accomplishment:</p> +<p class="t0">E’en when I follow good, I find</p> +<p class="t0">Some stain of evil lurks behind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord, on Thy child compassion take,</p> +<p class="t0">Blot out my sins for Jesu’s sake;</p> +<p class="t0">That thus my spirit more and more</p> +<p class="t0">With free ascent to heaven may soar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The foolish worldly mind expel,</p> +<p class="t0">Sole Lord within my mansion dwell;</p> +<p class="t0">The shield of faith, my God, bestow,</p> +<p class="t0">And break sin’s poisoned shaft in two.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let every thought and feeling be</p> +<p class="t0">Henceforth directed, Lord, to Thee:</p> +<p class="t0">Let heart and mind, by Thee possest,</p> +<p class="t0">Now seek in Thee alone their rest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Unknown to me while here I stay,</p> +<p class="t0">Earth’s vain delights, away! away!</p> +<p class="t0">For now the joys of heaven above</p> +<p class="t0">Alone have power my heart to move.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then bid, Thou Good Supreme, depart</p> +<p class="t0">Whate’er from Thee withdraws my heart;</p> +<p class="t0">In Thee, my God, and only Thee</p> +<p class="t0">Henceforth my every joy shall be.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h29g" title="Anrufung des Heiligen Geistes."> +<div title="Anrufung des Heiligen Geistes." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h29e">Anrufung des Heiligen Geistes.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Siehe, Ich stehe vor der Thür und klopfe an: So jemand +meine Stimme hören wird, und die Thür aufthun, zu dem +werde Ich eingehen.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zeuch ein zu deinen Thoren,</p> +<p class="t0">Sei meines Herzens Gast,</p> +<p class="t0">Der du, da ich geboren,</p> +<p class="t0">Mich neu geboren hast:</p> +<p class="t0">O hochgeliebter Geist</p> +<p class="t0">Des Vaters und des Sohnes,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Beiden gleichen Thrones,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Beiden gleich gepreist!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zeuch ein, lass mich empfinden</p> +<p class="t0">Und schmecken deine Kraft,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Kraft, die uns von Sünden</p> +<p class="t0">Hülf und Errettung schafft;</p> +<p class="t0">Entsündge meinen Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich mit reinem Geiste</p> +<p class="t0">Dir Ehr und Dienste leiste,</p> +<p class="t0">Die ich dir schuldig bin.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich war ein wilder Reben,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast mich gut gemacht;</p> +<p class="t0">Der Tod durchdrang mein Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast ihn umgebracht</p> +<p class="t0">Und in der Tauf erstickt,</p> +<p class="t0">Als wie in einer Fluthe</p> +<p class="t0">Mit dessen Tod und Blute,</p> +<p class="t0">Der uns im Tod erquickt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du bist das heilge Oele,</p> +<p class="t0">Dadurch gesalbet ist</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Leib und meine Seele</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Herren Jesu Christ</p> +<p class="t0">Zum wahren Eigenthum,</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Priester und Propheten,</p> +<p class="t0">Zum König, den in Nöthen</p> +<p class="t0">Gott schützt im Heiligthum.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du bist ein Geist, der lehret</p> +<p class="t0">Wie man recht beten soll;</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Beten wird erhöret,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Singen klinget wohl;</p> +<p class="t0">Es steigt zum Himmel an,</p> +<p class="t0">Es steigt und lässt nicht abe,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis der geholfen habe,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Allen helfen kann.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du bist ein Geist der Freuden,</p> +<p class="t0">Vom Trauren hältst Du nicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Erleuchtest uns im Leiden</p> +<p class="t0">Mit deines Trostes Licht:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach ja wie manchesmal</p> +<p class="t0">Hast Du mit süssen Worten</p> +<p class="t0">Mir aufgethan die Pforten</p> +<p class="t0">Zum goldnen Freudensaal.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du bist ein Geist der Liebe,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Freund der Freundlichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Willst nicht, dass uns betrübe</p> +<p class="t0">Zorn, Zank, Hass, Neid und Streit:</p> +<p class="t0">Der Feindschaft bist Du feind,</p> +<p class="t0">Willst, dass durch Liebesflammen</p> +<p class="t0">Sich wieder thun zusammen</p> +<p class="t0">Die voller Zwietracht sind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du, Herr, hast selbst in Händen</p> +<p class="t0">Die ganze weite Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Kannst Menschenherzen wenden,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie Dir es wohlgefällt:</p> +<p class="t0">So gieb doch deine Gnad</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Fried und Liebesbanden,</p> +<p class="t0">Verknüpf in allen Landen</p> +<p class="t0">Was sich getrennet hat.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erhebe Dich und steure</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Herzleid auf der Erd,</p> +<p class="t0">Bring wieder und erneure</p> +<p class="t0">Die Wohlfarth deiner Herd:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass blühen wie zuvor</p> +<p class="t0">Die Länder, so verheeret,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Kirchen, so zerstöret</p> +<p class="t0">Durch Krieg und Feuers Zorn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Beschirm die Obrigkeiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Bau unsers Fürsten Thron,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass Segen uns begleiten,</p> +<p class="t0">Schmück als mit einer Kron</p> +<p class="t0">Die Alten mit Verstand,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Frömmigkeit die Jugend,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Gottesfurcht und Tugend</p> +<p class="t0">Das Volk im ganzen Land.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erfülle die Gemüther</p> +<p class="t0">Mit reiner Glaubenszier,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Häuser und die Güter</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Segen für und für:</p> +<p class="t0">Vertreib den bösen Geist,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Dir sich widersetzet,</p> +<p class="t0">Und, was dein Herz ergötzet,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus unserm Herzen reisst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gieb Freudigkeit und Stärke,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu stehen in dem Streit,</p> +<p class="t0">Den Satans Reich und Werke</p> +<p class="t0">Uns täglich anerbeut:</p> +<p class="t0">Hilf kämpfen ritterlich,</p> +<p class="t0">Damit wir überwinden,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ja zum Dienst der Sünden</p> +<p class="t0">Kein Christ ergebe sich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Richt unser ganzes Leben</p> +<p class="t0">Allzeit nach deinem Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn wirs sollen geben</p> +<p class="t0">Ins Todes Rachen hin;</p> +<p class="t0">Wenns mit uns hier wird aus,</p> +<p class="t0">So hilf uns fröhlich sterben</p> +<p class="t0">Und nach dem Tod ererben</p> +<p class="t0">Des ewgen Lebens Haus.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h29e" title="Invocation of the Holy Spirit."> +<div title="Invocation of the Holy Spirit." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h29g">Invocation of the Holy Spirit.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My +Voice, and open the door, I will come in to him.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> iii. 20.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Come, enter Thine own portal,</p> +<p class="t">My heart is Thy domain;</p> +<p class="t0">Through Thee, though first born mortal,</p> +<p class="t">I since was born again;</p> +<p class="t">Thou Holy Spirit blest,</p> +<p class="t0">The Father’s honour bearing,</p> +<p class="t0">The Son’s great glory sharing,</p> +<p class="t">Of equal power possest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Come, my new life to cherish,</p> +<p class="t">My constant Guest abide;</p> +<p class="t0">Lest after all I perish,</p> +<p class="t">Daily new strength provide:</p> +<p class="t">My heart make clean and sound,</p> +<p class="t0">That I due praise may render,</p> +<p class="t0">And worthy service tender,</p> +<p class="t">To Thine allegiance bound.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">An olive wild by nature</p> +<p class="t">Thou grafftest me anew;</p> +<p class="t0">Death claimed me, though Thy creature,</p> +<p class="t">As his own rightful due;</p> +<p class="t">But Christ’s atoning Blood,</p> +<p class="t0">To me new life there granting,</p> +<p class="t0">Drowned Death, with all his vaunting,</p> +<p class="t">In His baptismal flood.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With virtue unabated,</p> +<p class="t">Thou art the Holy Oil,</p> +<p class="t0">Through which are consecrated</p> +<p class="t">Soul, body, ease and toil,</p> +<p class="t">To Christ, Whose guardian wings,</p> +<p class="t0">Where’er their lot appointed,</p> +<p class="t0">Protect His own anointed,</p> +<p class="t">His prophets, priests, and kings.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thy Grace our frail tongue teacheth,</p> +<p class="t">Spirit of Holy Prayer,</p> +<p class="t0">Prayer that God’s Temple reacheth,</p> +<p class="t">Song that mounts heaven’s stair;</p> +<p class="t">Thy suit hath never failed,</p> +<p class="t0">For, skillful weapons using,</p> +<p class="t0">Thou wilt take no refusing,</p> +<p class="t">Until Thou hast prevailed.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thy bliss no sorrow knoweth,</p> +<p class="t">Spirit of Holy Joy!</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Peace true calm bestoweth,</p> +<p class="t">With none of earth’s alloy:</p> +<p class="t">E’en in this mortal state,</p> +<p class="t0">Of pleasure’s golden mansion,</p> +<p class="t0">Oft-times with wide expansion,</p> +<p class="t">Thou openest me the gate.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">All discord wouldst Thou smother,</p> +<p class="t">Spirit of Holy Love!</p> +<p class="t0">Wouldst have men love each other,</p> +<p class="t">As angels do above:</p> +<p class="t">The Friend of all below</p> +<p class="t0">Who act with love’s intention;</p> +<p class="t0">Of envy, strife, dissension,</p> +<p class="t">Thou art the constant Foe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou rulest every nation,</p> +<p class="t">Each widely distant land;</p> +<p class="t0">Where’er men’s occupation,</p> +<p class="t">Their hearts are in Thy Hand:</p> +<p class="t">Let Thy controlling grace</p> +<p class="t0">In holy concord bind them,</p> +<p class="t0">Although dispersed it find them</p> +<p class="t">Through every time and place.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hear us, Thy help imploring,</p> +<p class="t">And make heart-sorrow cease,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy scattered flock restoring</p> +<p class="t">To union, joy, and peace:</p> +<p class="t">Bid flourish once again</p> +<p class="t0">The lands by man forsaken,</p> +<p class="t0">The churches spoiled and shaken</p> +<p class="t">By war’s unhallowed train.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Our rulers’ peace securing,</p> +<p class="t">O shower Thy blessings down,</p> +<p class="t0">And make their thrones enduring;</p> +<p class="t">Adorn, as with a crown,</p> +<p class="t">With piety our youth,</p> +<p class="t0">Old men with wisdom fitting,</p> +<p class="t0">Fathers to sons transmitting,</p> +<p class="t">From age to age, Thy Truth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The true Faith’s influence nourish</p> +<p class="t">Within each heart and mind,</p> +<p class="t0">While house and garner flourish</p> +<p class="t">Beneath Thy favour kind:</p> +<p class="t">Keep far, O far apart</p> +<p class="t0">The foe who makes his pleasure</p> +<p class="t0">To take away good treasure</p> +<p class="t">Once sown within our heart.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With steadfast heart and joyous</p> +<p class="t">Confirm our Christian band,</p> +<p class="t0">While ready to destroy us</p> +<p class="t">The powers of darkness stand;</p> +<p class="t">That so no Christian may,</p> +<p class="t0">With well-proved weapons furnished,</p> +<p class="t0">And armour brightly burnished,</p> +<p class="t">To Satan fall a prey.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">According to Thy pleasure</p> +<p class="t">Our term of days dispose;</p> +<p class="t0">And when they reach their measure,</p> +<p class="t">And earthly scenes must close,</p> +<p class="t">Spirit of Holy Faith!</p> +<p class="t0">In that dread hour be near us,</p> +<p class="t0">With gladsome thoughts to cheer us,</p> +<p class="t">Of life that knows no death!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h30g" title="Gottvertrauen."> +<div title="Gottvertrauen." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h30e">Gottvertrauen.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es ist ein grosser Gewinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Wer gottselig ist und lässet ihm genügen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan;</p> +<p class="t0">So denken Gottes Kinder.</p> +<p class="t0">Wer auch nicht reichlich erndten kann,</p> +<p class="t0">Den liebet Gott nicht minder.</p> +<p class="t2">Er zieht das Herz</p> +<p class="t2">Nur himmelwärts,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Er sie lässt auf Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Beim Mangel traurig werden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan</p> +<p class="t0">Im Nehmen und im Geben;</p> +<p class="t0">Was wir aus seiner Hand empfahn,</p> +<p class="t0">Genüget uns zum Leben.</p> +<p class="t2">Er nimmt und giebt,</p> +<p class="t2">Weil Er uns liebt;</p> +<p class="t0">Lasst uns in Demuth schweigen</p> +<p class="t0">Und vor dem Herrn uns beugen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan;</p> +<p class="t0">Wer darf sein Walten richten,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Er, eh man noch erndten kann,</p> +<p class="t0">Den Segen will vernichten?</p> +<p class="t2">Weil Er allein</p> +<p class="t2">Der Schatz will sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Nimmt Er uns andre Güter,</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Heile der Gemüther.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan;</p> +<p class="t0">Es geh nach seinem Willen.</p> +<p class="t0">Lässt Er uns auch den Mangel nahn,</p> +<p class="t0">Er weiss das Herz zu stillen:</p> +<p class="t2">Wer wie ein Christ</p> +<p class="t2">Genügsam ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Kann auch an wenig Gaben</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Dankbarkeit sich laben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan;</p> +<p class="t0">Lasst in Geduld uns fassen!</p> +<p class="t0">Er nimmt sich unser gnädig an,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wird uns nicht verlassen:</p> +<p class="t2">Er, unser Gott,</p> +<p class="t2">Weiss was uns noth,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wird es gern uns geben.</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt, lasst uns Ihn erheben!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Anonymous">Ungenannt.</a></span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h30e" title="Trust in God."> +<div title="Trust in God." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h30g">Trust in God.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Godliness with contentment is great gain.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef">1 <i>Timothy</i>, vi. 6.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God hath done is done aright,</p> +<p class="t">So think all true believers;</p> +<p class="t0">They feel His love, they own His might,</p> +<p class="t">Though fond hopes prove deceivers:</p> +<p class="t3">Mid seeming ill</p> +<p class="t3">God loves them still,</p> +<p class="t">And, e’en by sorrow’s leaven,</p> +<p class="t">Would raise their hearts to heaven.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God hath done is done aright,</p> +<p class="t">In gifts withheld or sent us;</p> +<p class="t0">And what sufficeth in His sight,</p> +<p class="t">Should always well content us:</p> +<p class="t3">’Tis for our sakes</p> +<p class="t3">He gives or takes;</p> +<p class="t">Then, humbly bowed before Him,</p> +<p class="t">In silence we adore Him.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God hath done is done aright;</p> +<p class="t">Cease, faithless tears, to trickle;</p> +<p class="t0">What though our harvest He doth blight,</p> +<p class="t">Ere we put in the sickle!</p> +<p class="t3">Who dares reprove,</p> +<p class="t3">When, all in love,</p> +<p class="t">He thwarts our will and pleasure,</p> +<p class="t">To be Himself our Treasure?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God hath done is done aright,</p> +<p class="t">Because ’tis His ordaining;</p> +<p class="t0">Though want may press, and cares affright,</p> +<p class="t">He soothes the heart’s complaining:</p> +<p class="t3">The Christian will,</p> +<p class="t3">Contented still,</p> +<p class="t">While fewest gifts possessing,</p> +<p class="t">Rejoice with praise and blessing.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God hath done is done aright,</p> +<p class="t">May He submissive make us!</p> +<p class="t0">His gracious promise He doth plight,</p> +<p class="t">That He will ne’er forsake us:</p> +<p class="t3">Our Saviour knows</p> +<p class="t3">Our wants and woes,</p> +<p class="t">And all we need provideth:</p> +<p class="t">Praise God, whate’er betideth!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h31g" title="Selbstgespräch eines Christen."> +<div title="Selbstgespräch eines Christen." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h31e">Selbstgespräch eines Christen.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr Gott, du bist unsere</p> +<p class="t0">Zuflucht für und für.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Gott ist gut, der aus Erbarmen</p> +<p class="t0">Alle Hülf auf Erden thut,</p> +<p class="t0">Der mit Macht und starken Armen</p> +<p class="t0">Machet alles wohl und gut:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott kann besser als wir denken,</p> +<p class="t0">Alle Noth zum Besten lenken:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Soll Der schlummern oder schlafen,</p> +<p class="t0">Der das Aug hat zugericht?</p> +<p class="t0">Der die Ohren hat erschaffen,</p> +<p class="t0">Sollte Dieser hören nicht?</p> +<p class="t0">Gott ist Gott, der hört und siehet,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo dem Frommen weh geschiehet:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Der den Erdenkreis verhüllet</p> +<p class="t0">Mit den Wolken weit und breit,</p> +<p class="t0">Der die ganze Welt erfüllet,</p> +<p class="t0">Ist von uns nicht fern und weit;</p> +<p class="t0">Wer Gott liebt, dem will Er senden</p> +<p class="t0">Hülf und Trost an allen Enden:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Bist du schwer mit Kreuz beladen,</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm zu Gott nur deinen Lauf,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott ist gross und reich von Gnaden,</p> +<p class="t0">Hilft den Schwachen gnädig auf:</p> +<p class="t0">Gottes Gnade währet immer,</p> +<p class="t0">Seine Treu vergehet nimmer:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn dich deine Sünden kränken,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Verbrechen quält dich sehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Komm zu Gott, Er wird versenken</p> +<p class="t0">Deine Sünden in das Meer;</p> +<p class="t0">Mitten in der Angst der Höllen</p> +<p class="t0">Kann Er dich zufrieden stellen:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Will dich alle Welt verlassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und weisst weder aus noch ein;</p> +<p class="t0">Gott wird dennoch dich umfassen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und im Leiden bei dir sein:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott ist, der es herzlich meinet,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo die Noth am grössten scheinet:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Lass den Himmel sammt der Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Immerhin zu Trümmern gehn;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass die Höll entzündet werden,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass den Feind erbittert stehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Lass den Tod und Teufel blitzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wer Gott traut, den will Er schützen:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Gott lebet noch!</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, was verzagst du doch?</p> +<p class="t0">Musst du schon geängstet wallen</p> +<p class="t0">Auf der harten Dornenbahn;</p> +<p class="t0">Es ist Gottes Wohlgefallen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dich zu führen himmelan:</p> +<p class="t0">Gott will, nach dem Jammerleben,</p> +<p class="t0">Friede, Freud, und Wonne geben:</p> +<p class="t0">Seele, so bedenke doch,</p> +<p class="t0">Lebt doch unser Herr Gott noch.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Zihn_JF">Johann Friedrich Zihn.</a> 1650-1719.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h31e" title="The Christian to his Soul."> +<div title="The Christian to his Soul." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h31g">The Christian to his Soul.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xc. 1.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">God is good; from His compassion</p> +<p class="t">Earthly help and comfort flow;</p> +<p class="t0">Strong is His Right Hand to fashion</p> +<p class="t">All things well for men below:</p> +<p class="t0">Trial, oft the most distressing,</p> +<p class="t0">In the end has proved a blessing:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">He who gave the ear its mission,</p> +<p class="t">Shall He slumber once or sleep?</p> +<p class="t0">He who gave the eye its vision,</p> +<p class="t">Sees He not when mortals weep?</p> +<p class="t0">God is God; His ear attendeth,</p> +<p class="t0">When the sigh our bosom rendeth;</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">He who gives the clouds their measure,</p> +<p class="t">Stretching out the heavens alone;</p> +<p class="t0">He who stores the earth with treasure,</p> +<p class="t">Is not far from every one:</p> +<p class="t0">God in hour of need defendeth</p> +<p class="t0">Him whose heart in love ascendeth:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">Is thy cross too great and pond’rous,</p> +<p class="t">Cast on Him thy grievous load;</p> +<p class="t0">God is great; His love is wondrous,</p> +<p class="t">He will speed thee on thy road:</p> +<p class="t0">Truth and Mercy, sundered never,</p> +<p class="t0">Are His attributes for ever:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">Is thy yoke of sin too galling,</p> +<p class="t">Christ Himself has set you free,</p> +<p class="t0">Borne for you their weight appalling,</p> +<p class="t">Cast them in oblivion’s sea:</p> +<p class="t0">Now in hell no longer living,</p> +<p class="t0">All is peace through God forgiving:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">When the world would let thee perish,</p> +<p class="t">Pathless all thy tangled way,</p> +<p class="t0">God the nearer draws, to cherish</p> +<p class="t">Him who makes the Lord his stay:</p> +<p class="t0">Children oft that most He loveth</p> +<p class="t0">Thus with strictest rod He proveth:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my foul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">Heaven’s huge vault may cleave asunder,</p> +<p class="t">Earth’s round globe in ruins burst;</p> +<p class="t0">Devils’ fellest rage may thunder,</p> +<p class="t">Death and hell may spend their worst</p> +<p class="t0">Then will God keep safe and surely</p> +<p class="t0">Those who trust in Him securely:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t3">God liveth still!</p> +<p class="t">Trust, my soul, and fear no ill:</p> +<p class="t0">Be thy life, until its ending,</p> +<p class="t">One long course of grief or need,</p> +<p class="t0">God, in love the trial sending,</p> +<p class="t">Thus to heaven thy soul would lead:</p> +<p class="t0">There will dawn, when cares are ended,</p> +<p class="t0">Joy and peace for ever blended:</p> +<p class="t">Wherefore then, my soul, despair?</p> +<p class="t">God still lives, Who heareth prayer.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h32g" title="Die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens."> +<div title="Die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h32e">Die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lehre uns bedenken, dass wir sterben müssen:</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dass wir klug werden.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, was ist doch unsre Zeit?</p> +<p class="t4">Flüchtigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Nebel, Rauch und Wind und Schatten:</p> +<p class="t0">Menschen können nicht bestehn;</p> +<p class="t4">Sie vergehn</p> +<p class="t0">Wie die Blumen auf den Matten:</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch das Ende!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Menschen sind zerbrechlich Glas,</p> +<p class="t4">Nichtig Gras,</p> +<p class="t0">Blumen, die nicht lange stehen;</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, wie bald wird ihre Kraft</p> +<p class="t4">Hingerafft,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn die Todeslüfte wehen:</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch das Ende!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jugend, die den Rosen gleicht,</p> +<p class="t4">Die verbleicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihre Schöne muss verschwinden;</p> +<p class="t0">Es vergeht durch Todesnacht</p> +<p class="t4">Alle Pracht,</p> +<p class="t0">Die wir an den Menschen finden:</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch das Ende!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Menschen sind der Zeiten Spiel,</p> +<p class="t4">Und ein Ziel,</p> +<p class="t0">Drauf die Todespfeile fliegen:</p> +<p class="t0">Die wie schlanke Zedern stehn,</p> +<p class="t4">Gross und schön,</p> +<p class="t0">Müssen durch den Tod erliegen.</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch das Ende!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, der Tod ist dir gewiss,</p> +<p class="t4">Drum vergiss</p> +<p class="t0">Alles Eitle dieser Erden;</p> +<p class="t0">Lenke dich zur Ewigkeit</p> +<p class="t4">Jederzeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Willst du dort unsterblich werden:</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch das Ende!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Schwinge dein Gemüth und Herz</p> +<p class="t4">Himmelwärts,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo nicht Tod, nicht Noth, nicht Leiden;</p> +<p class="t0">Denk an das, was ewig ist,</p> +<p class="t4">Lieber Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Soll dich einst der Himmel weiden:</p> +<p class="t0">Unser Leben fleucht behende;</p> +<p class="t0">Mensch, bedenke doch dein Ende!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Anonymous">Ungenannt.</a></span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h32e" title="The shortness of Life."> +<div title="The shortness of Life." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h32g">The shortness of Life.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xc. 12.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What is human life below?</p> +<p class="t4">Passing show!</p> +<p class="t0">Vapour, smoke, and fleeting shade:</p> +<p class="t0">Man, when few short years have flown</p> +<p class="t4">Is cut down,</p> +<p class="t0">As by scythe the springing blade:</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Man is like to fragile glass,</p> +<p class="t4">Fading grass,</p> +<p class="t0">Flower whose petals soon are strewn:</p> +<p class="t0">Ah! how quickly rest of strength,</p> +<p class="t4">When at length</p> +<p class="t0">Death’s cold wind has o’er him blown!</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Youth, to which we may compare</p> +<p class="t4">Roses fair,</p> +<p class="t0">Pales, and must its charms forego:</p> +<p class="t0">All that men of pomp or state,</p> +<p class="t4">Highest rate,</p> +<p class="t0">Soon shall be by death laid low:</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Man’s the mark at which take aim,</p> +<p class="t4">Like some game,</p> +<p class="t0">Darts which death unerring plies;</p> +<p class="t0">Though like cedar fair outspread,</p> +<p class="t4">Soars his head,</p> +<p class="t0">Felled by death, he lifeless lies:</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Death is that which must befall</p> +<p class="t4">Great and small;</p> +<p class="t0">Banish trivial cares of earth:</p> +<p class="t0">Far beyond the things of time</p> +<p class="t4">Thou must climb,</p> +<p class="t0">Wouldst thou win immortal birth:</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let thine heart oft contemplate</p> +<p class="t4">That high state,</p> +<p class="t0">Where no grief shall come, or pain:</p> +<p class="t0">Let this theme thy soul employ,</p> +<p class="t4">Heavenly joy,</p> +<p class="t0">Wouldst thou once that joy obtain:</p> +<p class="t0">Years roll on, and make no stay;</p> +<p class="t0">Ponder, Man, thy latter day.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h33g" title="Ewigkeit."> +<div title="Ewigkeit." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h33e">Ewigkeit.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Ein Tag vor dem Herrn ist wie tausend Jahre, und tausend +Jahre wie ein Tag.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! O Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Doch eilt zu dir der Menschen Zeit</p> +<p class="t0">Gleichwie das kühne Pferd zum Streit,</p> +<p class="t0">Nach Haus der Bot, das Schiff zum Port,</p> +<p class="t0">Der schnelle Pfeil vom Bogen fort:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! O Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Gleichwie en einer Kugel rund</p> +<p class="t0">Kein Anfang und kein End ist kund,</p> +<p class="t0">So auch, o Ewigkeit, an dir</p> +<p class="t0">Bleibt weder Ein- noch Ausgang für:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Du bist ein Ring, unendlich weit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Mittelpunkt heisst Allezeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein runder Umkreis Niemals heisst,</p> +<p class="t0">Dieweil er nie kein Ende weist:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Es trüge wohl ein Vögelein</p> +<p class="t0">Weg aller Berge Sand und Stein,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenns nur käm alle tausend Jahr,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Ewigkeit bleibst immerdar:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">So lange als Gott Gott wird sein,</p> +<p class="t0">So lang wird sein der Höllen Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">So lang wird sein des Himmels Freud:</p> +<p class="t0">O lange Freud! o langes Leid!</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">O Mensch, oft deine Sinnen stell</p> +<p class="t0">Zu denken an die Qual und Höll</p> +<p class="t0">Und an der Frommen Herrlichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Es währet beides ohne Zeit:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie schrecklich bist du in der Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lieblich in der Freuden Schein!</p> +<p class="t0">Hier Gottes Güte noch erfreut,</p> +<p class="t0">Dort schrecket sein Gerechtigkeit:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Der hier gelebet arm und bloss,</p> +<p class="t0">Ruht ewig reich in Gottes Schooss;</p> +<p class="t0">Er liebt und lobt das höchste Gut</p> +<p class="t0">In vollem Trost und Freudenmuth:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Augenblick ist alle Freud,</p> +<p class="t0">Dadurch man kommt in stetes Leid;</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Augenblick ist alles Leid,</p> +<p class="t0">Dadurch man kommt in stete Freud:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Verständig ist, der dich betracht,</p> +<p class="t0">Des Fleisches Lust er leicht veracht;</p> +<p class="t0">Bei ihm die Welt nicht Platz mehr findt,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Lieb zum Eitlen bald verschwindt:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wer dich besinnt, zu Gott so spricht:</p> +<p class="t0">Hier brenn! hier schneid! hier straf und richt!</p> +<p class="t0">Hier handle nach Gerechtigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Verschon nur nach der Gnaden Zeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Ewigkeit! o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lang bist du, o Ewigkeit!</p> +<p class="t0">Ich, Ewigkeit, ermahne dich,</p> +<p class="t0">O Mensch, gedenk nur oft an mich;</p> +<p class="t0">Denn ich der Sünder Straf und Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Gotteslieb ein Lohn soll sein:</p> +<p class="t0">Betracht, o Mensch, die Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Wulffer_D">Daniel Wülffer.</a> 1617-1685.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h33e" title="Eternity."> +<div title="Eternity." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h33g">Eternity.</a><a class="fn" id="fr_1" href="#fn_1">[1]</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand +years as one day.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef">2 <i>St. Peter</i>, iii. 8.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">Yet onward still to thee we speed,</p> +<p class="t0">As to the fight th’ impatient steed,</p> +<p class="t0">As ship to port, or shaft from bow,</p> +<p class="t0">Or swift as couriers homeward go:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">As in a ball’s concentric round</p> +<p class="t0">Nor starting-point nor end is found,</p> +<p class="t0">So thou, Eternity, so vast,</p> +<p class="t0">No entrance and no exit hast:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">A ring whose orbit still extends,</p> +<p class="t0">And, ne’er beginning, never ends;</p> +<p class="t0">‘<i>Always</i>’ thy centre, Ring immense!</p> +<p class="t0">And ‘<i>Never</i>’ thy circumference:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">Came there a bird each thousandth year,</p> +<p class="t0">One sand-grain from the hills to bear,</p> +<p class="t0">When all had vanished, grain by grain,</p> +<p class="t0">Eternity would still remain:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">As long as God shall God remain,</p> +<p class="t0">So long shall last hell’s endless pain,</p> +<p class="t0">So long the joys of heaven shall be;</p> +<p class="t0">O long delight! long misery!</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">O man! let oft thy musings dwell</p> +<p class="t0">Upon the dreadful woes of hell,</p> +<p class="t0">Oft on the saints’ all glorious lot,</p> +<p class="t0">For both shall last when Time <i>is not</i>:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">The thought of thee in pain, how dread!</p> +<p class="t0">In joy how bright thy prospects spread!</p> +<p class="t0">For here God’s Goodness glads our eyes,</p> +<p class="t0">And there His Justice terrifies:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">Who here lived poor and sore distressed,</p> +<p class="t0">Now truly rich, with God doth rest;</p> +<p class="t0">With joys consoled for all his ill,</p> +<p class="t0">He lives to praise God’s Goodness still:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">A moment’s pleasure sinners know,</p> +<p class="t0">Through which they pass to endless woe:</p> +<p class="t0">A moment’s woe the righteous taste,</p> +<p class="t0">Through which to endless joy they haste:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">Who looks to thee alone is wise,</p> +<p class="t0">Sin’s pleasures all he can despise;</p> +<p class="t0">The world attracts him now no more,</p> +<p class="t0">His love for vain delights is o’er:</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">Who thinks on thee speaks thus with God,</p> +<p class="t0">“Here prove me with Thy chastening rod,</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! let me here Thy judgments bear,</p> +<p class="t0">Hereafter, Lord, in mercy spare!”</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eternity! Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">How long art thou, Eternity!</p> +<p class="t0">“O man! I warn thee, think on me,</p> +<p class="t0">Think oft on me, Eternity;</p> +<p class="t0">For I the sinner’s woe shall prove,</p> +<p class="t0">And recompense of pious love:”</p> +<p class="t0">Mark well, O Man, Eternity!</p> +</div> +<div class="fnblock"><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_1" href="#fr_1">[1]</a>This was a favourite hymn of Niebuhr’s. +</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h34g" title="Sommerlied. I."> +<div title="Sommerlied. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h34e">Sommerlied. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Herr, du bist würdig zu nehmen Preis und Ehre und Kraft; +denn du hast alle Dinge geschaffen, und durch deinen Willen +haben sie das Wesen, und sind geschaffen.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Keine Schönheit hat die Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Die mir nicht vor Augen stellt</p> +<p class="t0">Meinen schönsten Jesum Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der der Schönheit Ursprung ist.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn die Morgenröth entsteht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und die goldne Sonn aufgeht,</p> +<p class="t0">So erinnre ich mich bald</p> +<p class="t0">Seiner himmlischen Gestalt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ja, oft denk ich an sein Licht,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn der frühe Tag anbricht:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach was ist für Herrlichkeit</p> +<p class="t0">In dem Licht der Ewigkeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Seh ich dann den Mondenschein,</p> +<p class="t0">Und des Himmels Aeugelein,</p> +<p class="t0">So gedenk ich: Der diess macht,</p> +<p class="t0">Hat viel tausend grössre Pracht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Schau ich, in dem Frühling an,</p> +<p class="t0">Unsern bunten Wiesenplan,</p> +<p class="t0">So bewegt es mich zu schrein:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, wie muss der Schöpfer sein!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich zu dem Quellbrunn geh</p> +<p class="t0">Oder bei dem Bächlein steh;</p> +<p class="t0">So versenkt sich stracks in Ihn,</p> +<p class="t0">Als den reinsten Quell, mein Sinn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lieblich singt die Nachtigall,</p> +<p class="t0">Süsse klingt der Flötenschall;</p> +<p class="t0">Aber über allen Ton</p> +<p class="t0">Ist das Wort: Marien Sohn!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Anmuth giebt es in der Luft,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn die Echo wieder ruft;</p> +<p class="t0">Aber nichts ist überall,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie des Liebsten Wiederhall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ei nun, Schönster, komm herfür,</p> +<p class="t0">Komm und zeige selbst Dich mir;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich sehn dein eigen Licht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dein blosses Angesicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O dass deiner Gottheit Glanz</p> +<p class="t0">Meinen Geist umgäbe ganz,</p> +<p class="t0">Und der Stral der Herrlichkeit</p> +<p class="t0">Mich entrückt aus Ort und Zeit!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, mein Jesu, nimm doch hin,</p> +<p class="t0">Was mir decket Geist und Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich Dich zu jeder Frist</p> +<p class="t0">Sehe, wie Du selber bist.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Angelus_J">Johann Angelus.</a> 1624-1677.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h34e" title="Hymn for Summer. I."> +<div title="Hymn for Summer. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h34g">Hymn for Summer. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and +power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure +they are, and were created.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> iv. 11.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Earth has nothing sweet or fair,</p> +<p class="t0">Lovely forms or beauties rare,</p> +<p class="t0">But before my eyes they bring</p> +<p class="t0">Christ, of beauty Source and Spring.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When the morning paints the skies,</p> +<p class="t0">When the golden sunbeams rise,</p> +<p class="t0">Then my Saviour’s Form I find</p> +<p class="t0">Brightly imaged on my mind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When the day-beams pierce the night,</p> +<p class="t0">Oft I think on Jesus’ Light,</p> +<p class="t0">Think how bright that Light will be,</p> +<p class="t0">Shining through eternity.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When, as moonlight softly steals,</p> +<p class="t0">Heaven its thousand eyes reveals,</p> +<p class="t0">Then I think: Who made their light</p> +<p class="t0">Is a thousand times more bright.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When I see, in spring-tide gay,</p> +<p class="t0">Fields their varied tints display,</p> +<p class="t0">Wakes the awful thought in me,</p> +<p class="t0">What must their Creator be!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">If I trace the fountain’s source,</p> +<p class="t0">Or the brooklet’s devious course,</p> +<p class="t0">Straight my thoughts to Jesus mount,</p> +<p class="t0">As the best and purest fount.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sweet the song the night-bird sings,</p> +<p class="t0">Sweet the lute, with quivering strings;</p> +<p class="t0">Far more sweet than every tone</p> +<p class="t0">Are the words “Maria’s Son.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sweetness fills the air around,</p> +<p class="t0">At the echo’s answering sound;</p> +<p class="t0">Far more sweet than echo’s fall,</p> +<p class="t0">Is to me the Bridegroom’s Call.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord of all that’s fair to see!</p> +<p class="t0">Come, reveal Thyself to me;</p> +<p class="t0">Let me, ’mid Thy radiant Light,</p> +<p class="t0">See Thine unveiled glories bright.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let Thy Deity profound</p> +<p class="t0">Me in heart and soul surround,</p> +<p class="t0">From my mind its idols chase,</p> +<p class="t0">Weaned from joys of time and place.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Come, Lord Jesus! and dispel</p> +<p class="t0">This dark cloud in which I dwell;</p> +<p class="t0">Thus to me the power impart,</p> +<p class="t0">To behold Thee as Thou art.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h35g" title="Sommerlied. II."> +<div title="Sommerlied. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h35e">Sommerlied. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Es sollen Dir danken, Herr, alle deine Werke; und deine +Heiligen Dich loben.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud,</p> +<p class="t0">In dieser lieben Sommerzeit,</p> +<p class="t0">An deines Gottes Gaben:</p> +<p class="t0">Sieh an der schönen Fluren Zier,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie lieblich sie sich dir und mir</p> +<p class="t0">Nun ausgeschmücket haben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Bäume stehen voller Laub,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Erdreich decket seinen Staub</p> +<p class="t0">Mit einem grünen Kleide:</p> +<p class="t0">Narzissen und die Tulipan,</p> +<p class="t0">Die ziehen sich viel schöner an</p> +<p class="t0">Als Salomonis Seide.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Lerche schwingt sich in die Luft,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Täublein fleugt aus seiner Gruft,</p> +<p class="t0">Und macht sich in die Wälder:</p> +<p class="t0">Die hochbegabte Nachtigall</p> +<p class="t0">Ergötzt und füllt mit ihrem Schall</p> +<p class="t0">Schon Hügel, Thal und Felder.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Glucke führt ihr Völklein aus,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Storch baut und bewahrt sein Haus,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Schwälblein speist die Jungen:</p> +<p class="t0">Der schnelle Hirsch, das leichte Reh</p> +<p class="t0">Ist froh, und kommt aus seiner Höh</p> +<p class="t0">Ins tiefe Gras gesprungen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Bächlein rauschen in den Sand,</p> +<p class="t0">Und zieren lieblich ihren Rand</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Bäumen reich an Schatten:</p> +<p class="t0">Der Schaf und Hirten Lustgeschrei</p> +<p class="t0">Erschallet fröhlich hart dabei,</p> +<p class="t0">Von grüner Wiesen Matten.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die unverdrossne Bienenschaar</p> +<p class="t0">Fleucht hin und her, sucht hier und dar</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr edle Honigspeise:</p> +<p class="t0">Des süssen Weinstocks starker Saft</p> +<p class="t0">Bringt täglich neue Stärk und Kraft</p> +<p class="t0">In seinem schwachen Reife.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Weizen wächset mit Gewalt;</p> +<p class="t0">Darüber freut sich Jung und Alt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und rühmt die grosse Güte</p> +<p class="t0">Des, Der so überflüssig labt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit so manchem Gut begabt</p> +<p class="t0">Das menschliche Gemüthe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich selbst, ich kann und mag nicht ruhn,</p> +<p class="t0">Des grossen Gottes grosses Thun</p> +<p class="t0">Erweckt mir alle Sinnen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich singe mit, wenn Alles singt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lasse, was dem Höchsten klingt,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus meinem Herzen rinnen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, denk ich, bist du hier so schön,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lässt Dus uns so lieblich gehn</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dieser armen Erden,</p> +<p class="t0">Was will doch wohl, nach dieser Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dort in dem reichen Himmelszelt</p> +<p class="t0">Und goldnen Schlosse werden!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Welch hohe Lust, welch heller Schein</p> +<p class="t0">Wird wohl in Christi Garten sein!</p> +<p class="t0">Wie muss es da wohl klingen,</p> +<p class="t0">Da so viel tausend Seraphim</p> +<p class="t0">Mit unverdrossnem Mund und Stimm</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Alleluia singen!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O wär ich da, o stünd ich schon,</p> +<p class="t0">Ach süsser Gott, vor deinem Thron,</p> +<p class="t0">Und trüge meine Palmen;</p> +<p class="t0">So wollt ich, nach der Engel Weis,</p> +<p class="t0">Erhöhen deines Namens Preis</p> +<p class="t0">Mit tausend schönen Psalmen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Doch gleichwohl will ich, weil ich noch</p> +<p class="t0">Hier trage dieses Leibes Joch,</p> +<p class="t0">Auch nicht gar stille schweigen:</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herze soll sich fort und fort,</p> +<p class="t0">An diesem und an allem Ort,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu deinem Lobe neigen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hilf nur, und segne meinen Geist</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Segen, der vom Himmel fleusst,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich Dir stetig blühe:</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb dass der Sommer deiner Gnad</p> +<p class="t0">In meinem Herzen früh und spat</p> +<p class="t0">Viel Glaubensfrücht erziehe.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mach in mir deinem Geiste Raum,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich Dir werd ein guter Baum,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lass mich wohl bekleiben:</p> +<p class="t0">Verleihe, dass zu deinem Ruhm</p> +<p class="t0">Ich deines Gartens schöne Blum</p> +<p class="t0">Und Pflanze möge bleiben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Erwähle mich zum Paradeis,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lass mich bis zur letzten Reis</p> +<p class="t0">An Leib und Seele grünen:</p> +<p class="t0">So will ich Dir und deiner Ehr</p> +<p class="t0">Allein und keinem Andern mehr</p> +<p class="t0">Hier und dort ewig dienen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h35e" title="Hymn for Summer. II."> +<div title="Hymn for Summer. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h35g">Hymn for Summer. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>All Thy works praise Thee, O Lord, and Thy saints give +thanks unto Thee.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> cxlv. 10.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Come forth, my heart, and seek delight</p> +<p class="t0">In each delicious sound and sight,</p> +<p class="t">This joyful summer morning:</p> +<p class="t0">See, how God’s goodly gifts abound,</p> +<p class="t0">And mark how all the plains around</p> +<p class="t">His hand hath been adorning.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Rich foliage decks each waving tree,</p> +<p class="t0">And what a rich green mantle, see,</p> +<p class="t">The earth is now arraying:</p> +<p class="t0">Bright lilies and narcissus fair,</p> +<p class="t0">Than robes of Israel’s king more rare,</p> +<p class="t">Their beauties are displaying.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The thrilling lark ascends the sky,</p> +<p class="t0">The dove forsakes her tower on high,</p> +<p class="t">Swift to the woods retiring;</p> +<p class="t0">The richly-gifted nightingale</p> +<p class="t0">Pours forth her notes o’er hill and vale,</p> +<p class="t">Delight her song inspiring.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The hen walks forth her brood among,</p> +<p class="t0">The swallow feeds her clamorous young,</p> +<p class="t">The stork protects her dwelling:</p> +<p class="t0">The stag and roe, with footstep light,</p> +<p class="t0">Come bounding from the neighbouring height,</p> +<p class="t">Joy in each movement telling.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The little brooks run babbling by,</p> +<p class="t0">Their margin bordered beauteously</p> +<p class="t">With trees, in shade abounding:</p> +<p class="t0">The sheep’s low bleat, and shout of joy</p> +<p class="t0">Sent forth by idle shepherd-boy,</p> +<p class="t">From meadows green come sounding.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Th’ unwearied bees, on busy wing,</p> +<p class="t0">From flower to flower flit murmuring,</p> +<p class="t">And seek their honied treasure;</p> +<p class="t0">While on the vine, from day to day,</p> +<p class="t0">New strength the tender shoots display,</p> +<p class="t">Each day increase in measure.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Green ears the wheat-blades now unfold,</p> +<p class="t0">And all rejoice, both young and old,</p> +<p class="t">The God of harvest praising;</p> +<p class="t0">From Whom this rich abundance flows,</p> +<p class="t0">Who every precious gift bestows,</p> +<p class="t">Men’s hearts with gladness raising.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I too my part will gladly take;</p> +<p class="t0">God’s glorious works my heart awake,</p> +<p class="t">And soul and spirit capture:</p> +<p class="t0">Since all are singing, I will sing,</p> +<p class="t0">Will bring my grateful offering,</p> +<p class="t">And join the hymn of rapture.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">If in this earthly scene below</p> +<p class="t0">Thyself so glorious Thou dost shew,</p> +<p class="t">To us poor sinful mortals,</p> +<p class="t0">Then what, when earth is past and gone,</p> +<p class="t0">Will be the joy before Thy Throne,</p> +<p class="t">Within the golden portals?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What matchless rays, what light divine</p> +<p class="t0">In Christ’s own Paradise will shine,</p> +<p class="t">What sounds be ever ringing,</p> +<p class="t0">Where thousand seraph hosts rejoice,</p> +<p class="t0">With ceaseless and unwearied voice</p> +<p class="t">Their Alleluias singing!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Oh! that with God’s exulting band</p> +<p class="t0">I even now might take my stand,</p> +<p class="t">With them might now adore Him,</p> +<p class="t0">And, bearing high victorious palms,</p> +<p class="t0">Sing praise in thousand joyful psalms,</p> +<p class="t">As angels do, before Him!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Yet silence here I will not keep,</p> +<p class="t0">The while on earth I still must creep,</p> +<p class="t">This body’s burden bearing:</p> +<p class="t0">My heart shall evermore be bent</p> +<p class="t0">Its thankful homage to present,</p> +<p class="t">Jehovah’s praise declaring.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord! let my spirit but be filled</p> +<p class="t0">With softening dews from heaven distilled,</p> +<p class="t">That it through Thee may flourish:</p> +<p class="t0">Grant that the summer of Thy Grace,</p> +<p class="t0">Within my heart’s unfertile place,</p> +<p class="t">The fruits of Faith may nourish.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">For Thee within my soul make room,</p> +<p class="t0">Let me a thriving tree become,</p> +<p class="t">Thy bounteous blessing sharing;</p> +<p class="t0">Make me a goodly plant to grow,</p> +<p class="t0">Within thy garden here below,</p> +<p class="t">Abundant blossoms bearing.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let every branch and tender shoot</p> +<p class="t0">Be laden here with precious fruit,</p> +<p class="t">That, when from earth transplanted,</p> +<p class="t0">To Paradise my soul may soar,</p> +<p class="t0">To praise Thee better, love Thee more:</p> +<p class="t">Oh! may this prayer be granted!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h36g" title="Gottes Vorsehung."> +<div title="Gottes Vorsehung." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h36e">Gottes Vorsehung.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Der Herr ist allen gütig, und erbarmet sich aller seine Werke.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich singe Dir mit Herz und Mund,</p> +<p class="t0">Herr, meines Herzens Lust;</p> +<p class="t0">Ich sing und mach auf Erden kund</p> +<p class="t0">Was mir von Dir bewusst.</p> +<p class="t0">Ich weiss, dass Du, der Brunn der Gnad</p> +<p class="t0">Und ewge Quelle seist,</p> +<p class="t0">Daraus uns Allen früh und spat</p> +<p class="t0">Viel Heil und Gutes fleusst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was sind wir doch? was haben wir</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dieser ganzen Erd,</p> +<p class="t0">Das uns, o Vater, nicht von Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Allein gegeben werd?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer hat das schöne Himmelszelt</p> +<p class="t0">Hoch über uns gesetzt?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer ist es, der uns unser Feld</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Thau und Regen netzt?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wer wärmet uns in Kält und Frost?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer schützt uns vor dem Wind?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer macht es, dass man Oel und Most</p> +<p class="t0">Zu seinen Zeiten findt?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer giebt uns Leben und Geblüt?</p> +<p class="t0">Wer hält mit seiner Hand</p> +<p class="t0">Den goldnen, werthen, edlen Fried</p> +<p class="t0">In unserm Vaterland?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ach, Herr mein Gott, das kommt von Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Du, Du musst Alles thun:</p> +<p class="t0">Du hältst die Wach an unsrer Thür,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lässt uns sicher ruhn.</p> +<p class="t0">Du nährest uns von Jahr zu Jahr,</p> +<p class="t0">Bleibst immer fromm und treu,</p> +<p class="t0">Und stehst uns, wenn wir in Gefahr</p> +<p class="t0">Gerathen, herzlich bei.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du strafst uns Sünder mit Geduld,</p> +<p class="t0">Und schlägst nicht allzusehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Ja endlich nimmst du unsre Schuld,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wirfst sie in das Meer.</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn unser Herze seufzt und schreit,</p> +<p class="t0">Wirst du gar leicht erweicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und giebst uns, was uns hoch erfreut,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Dir zur Ehr gereicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du zählst, wie oft ein Christe wein,</p> +<p class="t0">Und was sein Kummer sei;</p> +<p class="t0">Kein stilles Thränlein ist so klein,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hebst und legst es bei.</p> +<p class="t0">Du füllst des Lebens Mangel aus</p> +<p class="t0">Mit dem was ewig steht,</p> +<p class="t0">Und führst uns in des Himmels Haus,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn uns die Erd entgeht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohl auf, mein Herze, sing und spring,</p> +<p class="t0">Und habe guten Muth;</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Gott, der Ursprung aller Ding,</p> +<p class="t0">Ist selbst und bleibt dein Gut.</p> +<p class="t0">Er ist dein Schatz, dein Erb und Theil,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Glanz und Freudenlicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Schirm und Schild, dein Hülf und Heil,</p> +<p class="t0">Schafft Rath und lässt dich nicht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was kränkst du dich in deinem Sinn</p> +<p class="t0">Und grämst dich Tag und Nacht?</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm deine Sorg und wirf sie hin</p> +<p class="t0">Auf Den, Der dich gemacht.</p> +<p class="t0">Hat Er dich nicht von Jugend auf</p> +<p class="t0">Versorget und ernährt?</p> +<p class="t0">Wie manchen schweren Unglückslauf</p> +<p class="t0">Hat Er zurückgekehrt?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er hat noch niemals was versehn</p> +<p class="t0">In seinem Regiment:</p> +<p class="t0">Nein, was Er thut und lässt geschehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Das nimmt ein selig End.</p> +<p class="t0">Ei nun, so lass Ihn ferner thun,</p> +<p class="t0">Und red Ihm nicht darein;</p> +<p class="t0">So wirst du hier in Frieden ruhn,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ewig fröhlich sein.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h36e" title="God’s Providence."> +<div title="God’s Providence." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h36g">God’s Providence.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>The Lord is loving unto every man, and His mercy is over +all His works.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> cxlv. 9.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I sing to Thee with mouth and heart,</p> +<p class="t">Of all my joys the Well;</p> +<p class="t0">I sing, that what I know Thou art</p> +<p class="t">My songs to all may tell:</p> +<p class="t0">That Thou a Fountain art of grace,</p> +<p class="t">With blessings richly stored</p> +<p class="t0">For all, in every time and place,</p> +<p class="t">This, this I know, good Lord.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">For what have all that live, and move</p> +<p class="t">Through this wide world below,</p> +<p class="t0">That does not from Thy bounteous love,</p> +<p class="t">O Heavenly Father, flow?</p> +<p class="t0">Who o’er our heads the curtain drew</p> +<p class="t">Of heaven’s ethereal tent?</p> +<p class="t0">By whom are precious rain and dew</p> +<p class="t">Upon our pastures sent?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In frost and cold, whose hand but Thine</p> +<p class="t">Protects from tempest drear?</p> +<p class="t0">Who gives in season oil and wine</p> +<p class="t">Men’s hearts to brace and cheer?</p> +<p class="t0">Whose impulse sends the life-blood warm</p> +<p class="t">Swift circling through our veins?</p> +<p class="t0">Who guards our land from war’s alarm,</p> +<p class="t">While peace around us reigns?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Lord, of this and all our store</p> +<p class="t">Thou art the Author blest;</p> +<p class="t0">Thou keepest watch before our door,</p> +<p class="t">While we securely rest:</p> +<p class="t0">Thy truth and love from year to year</p> +<p class="t">For all our wants provide;</p> +<p class="t0">With ready help, in times of fear,</p> +<p class="t">Thou standest at our side.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou with us sinners bearest long,</p> +<p class="t">With measured stripes dost prove,</p> +<p class="t0">And drownest all our grievous wrong</p> +<p class="t">In ocean-depths of love.</p> +<p class="t0">When silent woe our bosom rends,</p> +<p class="t">Thy pity sees our grief,</p> +<p class="t0">And gives what to Thy glory tends</p> +<p class="t">No less than our relief.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou knowest when each Christian weeps,</p> +<p class="t">And why the tear-drops fall;</p> +<p class="t0">And in the Book Thy mercy keeps</p> +<p class="t">These things are noted all:</p> +<p class="t0">Thy lasting joys will compensate</p> +<p class="t">For lack of worldly store,</p> +<p class="t0">And heavenly homes the just await,</p> +<p class="t">When earth shall be no more.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Cheer up! my heart, rejoice and sing,</p> +<p class="t">All anxious care resign;</p> +<p class="t0">For God, Creation’s Lord and King,</p> +<p class="t">Is thy God, even thine:</p> +<p class="t0">He is thy Portion, he thy Joy,</p> +<p class="t">Thy Life, and Light, and Lord,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Counsellor when doubts annoy,</p> +<p class="t">Thy Shield and great Reward.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In restless thought, or blank despair,</p> +<p class="t">Why spend each day and night?</p> +<p class="t0">On Him Who made thee cast thy care;</p> +<p class="t">He makes our burdens light:</p> +<p class="t0">Did not His love, and truth, and power</p> +<p class="t">Watch o’er thy childhood’s day?</p> +<p class="t0">Has he not oft, in threatening hour,</p> +<p class="t">Turned dreaded ills away?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">His wisdom never plans in vain,</p> +<p class="t">Ne’er falters or mistakes;</p> +<p class="t0">All that His counsels wife ordain</p> +<p class="t">A happy ending makes;</p> +<p class="t0">Upon thy mouth then lay thy hand,</p> +<p class="t">And trust His guiding love;</p> +<p class="t0">Then firm as rock thy peace shall stand,</p> +<p class="t">In earth and heaven above.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h37g" title="Das Vertrauende Herz."> +<div title="Das Vertrauende Herz." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h37e">Das Vertrauende Herz.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Befiehl dem Herrn deine Wege:</p> +<p class="t0">Und hoffe auf Ihn, Er wirds wohl machen.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Befiehl du deine Wege,</p> +<p class="t0">Und was dein Herze kränkt,</p> +<p class="t0">Der allertreusten Pflege</p> +<p class="t0">Des, Der den Himmel lenkt;</p> +<p class="t0">Der Wolken, Luft und Winden</p> +<p class="t0">Giebt Wege, Lauft und Bahn,</p> +<p class="t0">Der wird auch Wege finden,</p> +<p class="t0">Da dein Fuss gehen kann.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dem Herren musst du trauen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn dirs soll wohl ergehn;</p> +<p class="t0">Auf sein Werk musst du schauen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn dein Werk soll bestehn:</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Sorgen und mit Grämen</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit selbsteigner Pein</p> +<p class="t0">Lässt Gott Ihm gar nichts nehmen;</p> +<p class="t0">Es muss erbeten sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dein ewge Treu und Gnade,</p> +<p class="t0">O Vater, weiss und sieht,</p> +<p class="t0">Was gut sei oder schade</p> +<p class="t0">Dem sterblichen Geblüt;</p> +<p class="t0">Und was Du dann erlesen,</p> +<p class="t0">Das treibst Du, starker Held,</p> +<p class="t0">Und bringst zum Stand und Wesen,</p> +<p class="t0">Was deinem Rath gefällt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weg hast Du allerwegen,</p> +<p class="t0">An Mitteln fehlts Dir nicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Thun ist lauter Segen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Gang ist lauter Licht:</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Werk kann Niemand hindern,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Arbeit darf nicht ruhn,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Du, was deinen Kindern</p> +<p class="t0">Erspriesslich ist, willst thun.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Und obgleich alle Teufel</p> +<p class="t0">Hie wollten widerstehn,</p> +<p class="t0">So wird doch, ohne Zweifel,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott nicht zurücke gehn:</p> +<p class="t0">Was Er Ihm vorgenommen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und was Er haben will,</p> +<p class="t0">Das muss doch endlich kommen</p> +<p class="t0">Zu seinem Zweck und Ziel.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hoff, o du arme Seele,</p> +<p class="t0">Hoff, und sei unverzagt;</p> +<p class="t0">Gott wird dich aus der Höhle,</p> +<p class="t0">Da dich der Kummer jagt,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit grossen Gnaden rücken;</p> +<p class="t0">Erwarte nur der Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">So wirst du schon erblicken</p> +<p class="t0">Die Sonn der schönsten Freud.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auf, auf, gieb deinem Schmerze</p> +<p class="t0">Und Sorgen gute Nacht;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass fahren, was das Herze</p> +<p class="t0">Betrübt und traurig macht:</p> +<p class="t0">Bist du doch nicht Regente;</p> +<p class="t0">Der Alles führen soll,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott sitzt im Regimente,</p> +<p class="t0">Und führet Alles wohl.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ihn, Ihn lass thun und walten,</p> +<p class="t0">Er ist ein weiser Fürst,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wird sich so verhalten,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass du dich wundern wirst,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Er, wie Ihm gebühret,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit wunderbarem Rath</p> +<p class="t0">Die Sach hinausgeführet,</p> +<p class="t0">Die dich bekümmert hat.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er wird zwar eine Weile</p> +<p class="t0">Mit seinem Trost verziehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Und thun an seinem Theile,</p> +<p class="t0">Als hätt in seinem Sinn</p> +<p class="t0">Er deiner sich begeben;</p> +<p class="t0">Und sollst du für und für</p> +<p class="t0">In Angst und Nöthen schweben,</p> +<p class="t0">So frag Er nichts nach dir.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wirds aber sich befinden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass du Ihm treu verbleibst,</p> +<p class="t0">So wird Er dich entbinden,</p> +<p class="t0">Da du’s am mindsten gläubst:</p> +<p class="t0">Er wird dein Herze lösen</p> +<p class="t0">Von der so schweren Last,</p> +<p class="t0">Die du zu keinem Bösen</p> +<p class="t0">Bisher getragen hast.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wohl dir, du Kind der Treue,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast und trägst davon</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ruhm und Dankgeschreie</p> +<p class="t0">Den Sieg und Ehrenkron.</p> +<p class="t0">Gott giebt dir selbst die Palmen</p> +<p class="t0">In deine rechte Hand,</p> +<p class="t0">Und du singst Freudenpsalmen</p> +<p class="t0">Dem, Der dein Leid gewandt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mach End, o Herr, mach Ende</p> +<p class="t0">An aller unsrer Noth;</p> +<p class="t0">Stärk unsre Füss und Hände,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lass bis in den Tod</p> +<p class="t0">Uns allzeit deiner Pflege</p> +<p class="t0">Und Treu empfohlen sein,</p> +<p class="t0">So gehen unsre Wege</p> +<p class="t0">Gewiss zum Himmel ein.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Gerhardt_P">Paul Gerhard.</a> 1606-1676.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h37e" title="The Trusting Heart."> +<div title="The Trusting Heart." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h37g">The Trusting Heart.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in Him, and +He shall bring it to pass.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xxxvii. 5.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To God thy way commending,</p> +<p class="t">Trust Him Whose Arm of might,</p> +<p class="t0">The heavenly circles bending,</p> +<p class="t">Guides every star aright:</p> +<p class="t0">The winds, and clouds, and lightning</p> +<p class="t">By His sure Hand are led;</p> +<p class="t0">And He will, dark shades brightening,</p> +<p class="t">Shew thee what path to tread.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Trust God, His time awaiting,</p> +<p class="t">If thou wilt have success;</p> +<p class="t0">Work, His Work contemplating,</p> +<p class="t">That He thy work may bless:</p> +<p class="t0">Whate’er is worth thy getting</p> +<p class="t">By prayer thou shalt obtain,</p> +<p class="t0">And not by anxious fretting,</p> +<p class="t">Or self-inflicted pain.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thy love, O Father, gloweth</p> +<p class="t">With zeal for mortals’ good,</p> +<p class="t0">And what is hurtful knoweth</p> +<p class="t">To human flesh and blood:</p> +<p class="t0">Our future Thou foreseèst,</p> +<p class="t">And, through Thy strong Right Hand,</p> +<p class="t0">The counsel Thou decreèst</p> +<p class="t">Shall ever firmly stand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Resources rich possessing,</p> +<p class="t">That love still finds a way,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy every act a blessing,</p> +<p class="t">Thy pathway cloudless day;</p> +<p class="t0">In one unbroken tissue,</p> +<p class="t">Which no let e’er withstood,</p> +<p class="t0">It brings to happy issue</p> +<p class="t">Plans for Thy children’s good.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Although to make God falter</p> +<p class="t">The powers of hell combine,</p> +<p class="t0">One jot they cannot alter</p> +<p class="t">Of His all-wise design:</p> +<p class="t0">All projects and volition</p> +<p class="t">Of His eternal Mind,</p> +<p class="t0">Despite all opposition,</p> +<p class="t">Their due fulfilment find.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No more then droop and languish,</p> +<p class="t">Thou sorrow-stricken soul;</p> +<p class="t0">E’en from the depths of anguish,</p> +<p class="t">Whose billows o’er thee roll,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Father’s Hand shall draw thee:</p> +<p class="t">In hope and patience stay,</p> +<p class="t0">And joy will soon shed o’er thee</p> +<p class="t">An ever brightening ray.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">All faithless murmurs leaving,</p> +<p class="t">Bid them a last good-night,</p> +<p class="t0">No more thy vexed soul grieving,</p> +<p class="t">Because things seem not right:</p> +<p class="t0">Wisely His Sceptre wielding,</p> +<p class="t">God sits in regal state,</p> +<p class="t0">No power to mortals yielding,</p> +<p class="t">Events to regulate.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Trust with a faith untiring</p> +<p class="t">In thine Omniscient King,</p> +<p class="t0">And thou shalt see admiring</p> +<p class="t">What He to light will bring:</p> +<p class="t0">Of all thy griefs the reason</p> +<p class="t">Shall at the last appear;</p> +<p class="t0">Why now denied a season,</p> +<p class="t">Will shine in letters clear.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Awhile, perchance to try thee,</p> +<p class="t">He seems to hear thee not,</p> +<p class="t0">All comfort to deny thee,</p> +<p class="t">As if thou wert forgot;</p> +<p class="t0">As though He disregarded</p> +<p class="t">Thy bitter cry and moan,</p> +<p class="t0">His care for thee discarded,</p> +<p class="t">And left thee quite alone.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">But if all ills thou brookest,</p> +<p class="t">With constant faith and love,</p> +<p class="t0">When least for help thou lookest,</p> +<p class="t">Thy cross He will remove:</p> +<p class="t0">At last, compassion taking</p> +<p class="t">On thine estate forlorn,</p> +<p class="t0">Will ease the woe heart-breaking</p> +<p class="t">Which thou hast meekly borne.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then raise thine eyes to heaven,</p> +<p class="t">Thou who canst trust His frown;</p> +<p class="t0">Thence shall thy meed be given,</p> +<p class="t">The chaplet and the crown:</p> +<p class="t0">Then God the palm victorious</p> +<p class="t">In thy right hand shall plant,</p> +<p class="t0">Whilst thou, in accents glorious,</p> +<p class="t">Melodious hymns shalt chant.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">End, if Thou wilt, our sorrow,</p> +<p class="t">And our probation close;</p> +<p class="t0">Till then, we fain would borrow</p> +<p class="t">Strength to support life’s woes:</p> +<p class="t0">To Thee our way commending,</p> +<p class="t">Whose Wisdom orders best,</p> +<p class="t0">We tread the pathway tending</p> +<p class="t">To heaven’s eternal rest.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h38g" title="Lied an dem Treuen Hirte."> +<div title="Lied an dem Treuen Hirte." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h38e">Lied an dem Treuen Hirte.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich bin ein verirrt und verloren Schaf:</p> +<p class="t0">Suche, Herr, deinen Knecht,</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Guter hirte, willst du nicht</p> +<p class="t0">deines schäfleins dich erbarmen,</p> +<p class="t0">und mich nach der hirtenpflicht</p> +<p class="t0">tragen heim auf deinen armen?</p> +<p class="t0">willst du mich nicht aus der qual</p> +<p class="t0">holen in den freudensaal?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">schau wie ich verirret bin</p> +<p class="t0">auf der wüste dieser erden:</p> +<p class="t0">komm und bringe mich doch hin</p> +<p class="t0">zu den schafen deiner heerden:</p> +<p class="t0">führ mich zu den lämmern ein,</p> +<p class="t0">welche labt dein gottesschein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">mich verlangt, dich mit der schaar</p> +<p class="t0">die dich loben anzuschauen,</p> +<p class="t0">die da weiden ohn gefahr</p> +<p class="t0">auf den selgen himmelsauen;</p> +<p class="t0">die nicht in der furcht mehr stehn,</p> +<p class="t0">und nicht können irre gehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">denn ich bin hier sehr bedrängt,</p> +<p class="t0">muss in steten sorgen leben,</p> +<p class="t0">weil die feinde mich umschränkt,</p> +<p class="t0">und mit list und macht umgeben,</p> +<p class="t0">dass ich armes schäfelein</p> +<p class="t0">keinen blick kann sicher sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Herr Jesu, lass mich nicht</p> +<p class="t0">In der Wölfe Rachen kommen;</p> +<p class="t0">Hilf mir nach der Hirten Pflicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich ihnen werd entnommen:</p> +<p class="t0">Hole mich, dein Schäfelein,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu den ewgen Hütten ein.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Angelus_J">Johann Angelus.</a> 1624-1677.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h38e" title="Hymn to the Good Shepherd."> +<div title="Hymn to the Good Shepherd." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h38g">Hymn to the Good Shepherd.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; Lord, seek +Thy servant</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> cxix. 176.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wilt Thou not, my Shepherd true,</p> +<p class="t">Spare Thy sheep, in mercy spare me?</p> +<p class="t0">Wilt Thou not, as shepherds do,</p> +<p class="t">In Thine arms rejoicing bear me;</p> +<p class="t0">Bear me where all troubles cease,</p> +<p class="t0">Home to folds of joy and peace?</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">See, on earth’s wide desert way</p> +<p class="t">How my truant steps mislead me;</p> +<p class="t0">Bring me back, no more to stray,</p> +<p class="t">In Thine own green pastures feed me.</p> +<p class="t0">Gather me within the fold,</p> +<p class="t0">Where Thy lambs Thy light behold.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With Thy flock I long to be,</p> +<p class="t">With the flock to whom ’tis given</p> +<p class="t0">Safe to feed, and, praising Thee,</p> +<p class="t">Roam the happy plains of heaven:</p> +<p class="t0">Free from fear of sinful stain,</p> +<p class="t0">They can never stray again.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord! I here am fore beset,</p> +<p class="t">Fears at every step confound me;</p> +<p class="t0">Lo! my foes have spread their net,</p> +<p class="t">And with craft and might surround me:</p> +<p class="t0">Such their snares on every side,</p> +<p class="t0">Safe Thy sheep can ne’er abide.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Jesus, Lord! my Shepherd true,</p> +<p class="t">Oh from wolves Thy sheep deliver;</p> +<p class="t0">Help, as shepherds wont to do,</p> +<p class="t">From their jaws preserve me ever:</p> +<p class="t0">Bid Thy trembling wanderer come</p> +<p class="t0">To his everlasting home.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h39g" title="Christus unser Licht."> +<div title="Christus unser Licht." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h39e">Christus unser Licht.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Alsdann werden der Blinden Augen aufgethan werden.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was Du vor tausend Jahren,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Heiland, hast gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">Lässt Du noch jetzt erfahren</p> +<p class="t0">Die so Dir gläubig nahn.</p> +<p class="t0">So wie den armen Blinden,</p> +<p class="t0">Nach deines Worts Bericht,</p> +<p class="t0">Liess’st Du mich Gnade finden,</p> +<p class="t0">Und gabst mir Freud und Licht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Betrübt sass ich am Wege,</p> +<p class="t0">Tiefblind in meinem Geist,</p> +<p class="t0">Sehnsucht im Herzen rege,</p> +<p class="t0">Doch Wehmuth allermeist:</p> +<p class="t0">Die Psalmen hört ich singen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Palmen fühlt ich wehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Dir die Gläubgen bringen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und konnte Dich nicht sehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zu gross wards mit dem Schmerze,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu drückend ward die Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">Da fasst ich mir ein Herze,</p> +<p class="t0">Hub an nach dir zu schrein;</p> +<p class="t0">Sohn Davids, rette, heile,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie Du’s verheissen hast;</p> +<p class="t0">O liebster Jesu, eile,</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm von mir Nacht und Last.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Und immer heisser weinend,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit immer lauterm Wort,</p> +<p class="t0">Stets mehr mein Herz entsteinend,</p> +<p class="t0">Fuhr ich zu rufen fort.</p> +<p class="t0">Da ward mein Aengsten minder,</p> +<p class="t0">Da sagte was zu mir:</p> +<p class="t0">Getrost, du armer Blinder,</p> +<p class="t0">Getrost, Er rufet dir!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du standst, ich fühlt es, stille,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich wankte zu Dir hin;</p> +<p class="t0">Abfiel mein eigner Wille,</p> +<p class="t0">Verändert war der Sinn.</p> +<p class="t0">Du sprachst: Was willst du haben?</p> +<p class="t0">O Herr, ich möchte sehn,</p> +<p class="t0">An deinem Blick mich laben.</p> +<p class="t0">Du sprachst: Es soll geschehn!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Und was Du hast gesprochen,</p> +<p class="t0">Das fehlt ja nimmer nicht;</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Zagen ward gebrochen:</p> +<p class="t0">Und meiner Seele Licht.</p> +<p class="t0">Du giebst mir deinen Segen;</p> +<p class="t0">Frei von der alten Schmach,</p> +<p class="t0">Folg ich auf deinen Wegen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dir, Herr, in Freuden nach.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Foque_FHC">Friedrich Freiherr de la Motte Fouqué.</a> 1777-1843.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h39e" title="Christ our Light."> +<div title="Christ our Light." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h39g">Christ our Light.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isa.</i> xxxv. 5.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A thousand years have fleeted,</p> +<p class="t">And, Saviour, still we see</p> +<p class="t0">Thy deed of love repeated,</p> +<p class="t">On all who come to Thee.</p> +<p class="t0">As he who sat benighted,</p> +<p class="t">Afflicted, poor, and blind,</p> +<p class="t0">So now, Thy word is plighted,</p> +<p class="t">Joy, light, and peace I find.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dark gloom my spirit filling,</p> +<p class="t">Beside the way I sat;</p> +<p class="t0">Desire my heart was thrilling,</p> +<p class="t">But anguish more than that:</p> +<p class="t0">To me no ray was granted,</p> +<p class="t">Although I heard the psalms</p> +<p class="t0">The faithful sweetly chanted,</p> +<p class="t">And felt the waving palms.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With grief my heart was aching,</p> +<p class="t">O’erwhelming were my woes,</p> +<p class="t0">Till, heavenborn courage taking,</p> +<p class="t">To Thee my cry arose:</p> +<p class="t0">“O David’s Son! relieve me,</p> +<p class="t">My bitter anguish quell;</p> +<p class="t0">Thy promised succour give me,</p> +<p class="t">And this dark night dispel.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With tears that fast were flowing,</p> +<p class="t">I sought Thee through the crowd,</p> +<p class="t0">My heart more tender growing,</p> +<p class="t">Until I wept aloud:</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! then my grief diminished,</p> +<p class="t">For then they cried to me,</p> +<p class="t0">“Blind man, thy woe is finished,</p> +<p class="t">Arise, He calleth thee.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I came with steps that faltered,</p> +<p class="t">Thy course I felt Thee check;</p> +<p class="t0">Then straight my mind was altered,</p> +<p class="t">And bowed my stubborn neck:</p> +<p class="t0">Thou saidst, “What art thou seeking?”</p> +<p class="t">“O Lord! that I might see.”</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! then I heard Thee speaking;</p> +<p class="t">“Believe, and it shall be.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Our hope, Lord, faileth never,</p> +<p class="t">When Thou Thy word dost plight;</p> +<p class="t0">My fears then ceased for ever,</p> +<p class="t">And all my soul was light.</p> +<p class="t0">Thou gavest me Thy blessing;</p> +<p class="t">From former guilt set free,</p> +<p class="t0">Now heavenly joy possessing,</p> +<p class="t">O Lord! I follow Thee.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h40g" title="Des Sieges Krone."> +<div title="Des Sieges Krone." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h40e">Des Sieges Krone.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sei getreu bis in den Tod:</p> +<p class="t0">So will Ich dir die Krone des Lebens geben.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Steil und dornig ist der Pfad</p> +<p class="t0">Welcher zur Vollendung leitet;</p> +<p class="t0">Selig ist, wer ihn betrat,</p> +<p class="t0">Und als Streiter Jesu streitet:</p> +<p class="t0">Selig, wer den Lauf vollbringt,</p> +<p class="t0">Siegend sich zu Jesu schwingt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ueberschwenglich ist der Lohn</p> +<p class="t0">Der bis in den Tod Getreuen,</p> +<p class="t0">Die der Lust der Welt entflohn,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihrem Heiland ganz sich weihen,</p> +<p class="t0">Deren Hoffnung unverrückt</p> +<p class="t0">Nach der Siegeskrone blickt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Den am Kreuz wir bluten sehn,</p> +<p class="t0">Er hat uns den Lohn errungen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und zu seines Himmels Höhn</p> +<p class="t0">Sich vom Staub emporgeschwungen:</p> +<p class="t0">Sieger in des Todes Nacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Sprach Er selbst: Es ist vollbracht!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zeuch, o Herr, uns hin zu Dir,</p> +<p class="t0">Zeuch uns nach, die Schaar der Streiter:</p> +<p class="t0">Sturm und Nacht umfängt uns hier,</p> +<p class="t0">Droben ist es still und heiter;</p> +<p class="t0">Jenseits, hinter Grab und Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Stralt des Lebens Morgenroth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auf dann, Mitgenossen, geht</p> +<p class="t0">Muthig durch die kurze Wüste:</p> +<p class="t0">Seht auf Jesum, wacht und fleht,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass Gott selbst zum Kampf euch rüste:</p> +<p class="t"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +<p class="t0">Der in Schwachen mächtig ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb uns Sieg durch Jesum Christ.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Burde_SG">Samuel Gottlieb Bürde.</a> 1753-1794.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h40e" title="The Crown of Victory."> +<div title="The Crown of Victory." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h40g">The Crown of Victory.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown +of life.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> ii. 10.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Steep and thorny is the way,</p> +<p class="t">Straight to heaven our home ascending;</p> +<p class="t0">Happy he who every day</p> +<p class="t">Walks therein, for Christ contending;</p> +<p class="t0">Happy when, his journey o’er,</p> +<p class="t0">Conqueror he to Christ shall soar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Great shall be his recompense,</p> +<p class="t">True to death on God who waited,</p> +<p class="t0">Who renounced the joys of sense,</p> +<p class="t">To his Saviour consecrated;</p> +<p class="t0">Who has gazed with steadfast eye</p> +<p class="t0">On the crown of victory.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">On the Cross our dying Lord</p> +<p class="t">Bled for man who had offended,</p> +<p class="t0">Purchased us the great reward,</p> +<p class="t">Then from earth to heaven ascended:</p> +<p class="t0">Victor e’en in death, He said,</p> +<p class="t0">“Father! it is finishèd.”</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">May we soon approach Thee near,</p> +<p class="t">We who long on earth have striven!</p> +<p class="t0">Storms and night surround us here,</p> +<p class="t">Bright and peaceful ’tis in heaven:</p> +<p class="t0">Death may strike, and graves may yawn,</p> +<p class="t0">Yonder beams life’s endless dawn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">On then, comrades, wend your way,</p> +<p class="t">Let not life’s drear waste alarm you;</p> +<p class="t0">Look to Jesus, watch and pray</p> +<p class="t">’Gainst the fight that God would arm you.</p> +<p class="t2"><span class="gs3">* * *</span></p> +<p class="t0">God, Who strong the weak canst make,</p> +<p class="t0">Victory give for Jesus’ sake.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h41g" title="Des Christen Gebet. I."> +<div title="Des Christen Gebet. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h41e">Des Christen Gebet. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Selig sind, die reines Herzens sind; denn sie werden +Gott schauen.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein reines Herz, Herr, schaff in mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Schleuss zu der Sünden Thor und Thür,</p> +<p class="t0">Vertreibe sie, und lass nicht zu,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass sie in meinem Herzen ruh.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dir öffn ich, Jesu, meine Thür,</p> +<p class="t0">Ach komm und wohne Du bei mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Treib all Unreinigkeit hinaus</p> +<p class="t0">Aus deinem Tempel und Wohnhaus.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lass deines guten Geistes Licht</p> +<p class="t0">Und dein hellglänzend Angesicht</p> +<p class="t0">Erleuchten mein Herz und Gemüth,</p> +<p class="t0">O Brunnquell unerschöpfter Güt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Und mache denn mein Herz zugleich</p> +<p class="t0">An Himmelsgut und Segen reich;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb Weisheit, Stärke, Rath, Verstand,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus deiner milden Gnadenhand.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So will ich deines Namens Ruhm</p> +<p class="t0">Ausbreiten als dein Eigenthum,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dieses achten für Gewinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich nur Dir ergeben bin.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Neuss_HG1">Heinrich Georg Neuss.</a> 1664-1716.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h41e" title="The Christian’s Prayer. I."> +<div title="The Christian’s Prayer. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h41g">The Christian’s Prayer. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. Mat.</i> v. 8.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A new and contrite heart create</p> +<p class="t0">In me, Thou God compassionate:</p> +<p class="t0">Shut close the gate, and keep the door,</p> +<p class="t0">That sin may enter in no more.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To Thee my soul I open wide,</p> +<p class="t0">Come, Jesu! and therein abide,</p> +<p class="t0">And from Thy temple, Lord, my heart,</p> +<p class="t0">Bid all unrighteousness depart.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Oh! let Thy Holy Spirit’s light,</p> +<p class="t0">And Thine own heavenly radiance bright,</p> +<p class="t0">O’erflow my spirit like a flood,</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal Source of every good!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thus to my cleansed and contrite heart</p> +<p class="t0">Thy heavenly riches, Lord, impart;</p> +<p class="t0">And let Thy Wisdom, Truth, and Grace</p> +<p class="t0">Take root within the barren place.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then shall I tell in grateful song</p> +<p class="t0">The praises that to Thee belong;</p> +<p class="t0">And while I live, my joy shall be</p> +<p class="t0">To consecrate myself to Thee.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h42g" title="Des Christen Gebet. II."> +<div title="Des Christen Gebet. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h42e">Des Christen Gebet. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Alle gute Gabe, und alle vollkommene Gabe,</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt von oben herab, von dem Vater des Lichts.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Gott, Du frommer Gott,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Brunnquell guter Gaben,</p> +<p class="t0">Ohn Den nichts ist was ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Von Dem wir alles haben:</p> +<p class="t0">Gesunden Leib gieb mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dass in solchem Leib</p> +<p class="t0">Ein unverletzte Seel</p> +<p class="t0">Und rein Gewissen bleib.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass ich thu mit Fleiss</p> +<p class="t0">Was mir zu thun gebühret,</p> +<p class="t0">Wozu mich dein Befehl</p> +<p class="t0">In meinem Stande führet;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb, das ichs thue bald,</p> +<p class="t0">Zu der Zeit da ich soll;</p> +<p class="t0">Und wann ichs thu, so gieb</p> +<p class="t0">Dass es gerathe wohl.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hilf, dass ich rede stets</p> +<p class="t0">Womit ich kann bestehen;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass kein unnützlich Wort</p> +<p class="t0">Aus meinem Munde gehen;</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn in meinem Amt</p> +<p class="t0">Ich reden soll und muss,</p> +<p class="t0">So gieb den Worten Kraft</p> +<p class="t0">Und Nachdruck ohn Verdruss.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Findt sich Gefährlichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">So lass mich nicht verzagen;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb einen Heldenmuth,</p> +<p class="t0">Das Kreuz hilf selber tragen:</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb dass ich meinen Feind</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Sanftmuth überwind,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wenn ich Rath bedarf,</p> +<p class="t0">Auch guten Rath erfind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lass mich mit Jedermann</p> +<p class="t0">In Fried und Freundschaft leben,</p> +<p class="t0">So weit es christlich ist:</p> +<p class="t0">Willst Du mir etwas geben</p> +<p class="t0">An Reichthum, Gut und Geld,</p> +<p class="t0">So gieb auch diess dabei,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass von unrechtem Gut</p> +<p class="t0">Nichts untermenget sei.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Soll ich auf dieser Welt</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Leben höher bringen,</p> +<p class="t0">Durch manchen sauren Tritt</p> +<p class="t0">Hindurch ins Alter dringen;</p> +<p class="t0">So gieb Geduld, vor Sünd</p> +<p class="t0">Und Schanden mich bewahr,</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dass ich tragen mag</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ehren graues Haar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Las mich an meinem End</p> +<p class="t0">Auf Christi Tod abscheiden;</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seele nimm zu Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Hinauf zu deinen Freuden;</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Leib ein Räumlein gönn</p> +<p class="t0">Bei seiner Aeltern Grab,</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dass er seine Ruh</p> +<p class="t0">An ihrer Seiten hab.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn Du die Todten wirst</p> +<p class="t0">An jenem Tag erwecken,</p> +<p class="t0">So thu auch deine Hand</p> +<p class="t0">Zu meinem Grab ausstrecken:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass hören deine Stimm,</p> +<p class="t0">Und meinen Leib weck auf;</p> +<p class="t0">Und führ ihn schön verklärt</p> +<p class="t0">Zum auserwählten Hauf.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Heermann_J">Johann Heermann.</a> 1585-1647.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h42e" title="The Christian’s Prayer. II."> +<div title="The Christian’s Prayer. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h42g">The Christian’s Prayer. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh +down from the Father of Lights.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. James</i>, i. 17.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thou good and gracious God,</p> +<p class="t">Whose care to all extendeth,</p> +<p class="t0">On Whose Almighty Will</p> +<p class="t">Creation all dependeth;</p> +<p class="t0">These my petitions grant,</p> +<p class="t">Within a body found</p> +<p class="t0">A conscience uncorrupt,</p> +<p class="t">A soul without a wound.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Make me with zeal pursue</p> +<p class="t">My rightful occupation,</p> +<p class="t0">Do all as unto Thee,</p> +<p class="t">And as becomes my station;</p> +<p class="t0">With promptness make me act,</p> +<p class="t">And at the time most fit,</p> +<p class="t0">And when the act is done,</p> +<p class="t">Then bless and prosper it.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O let me never speak</p> +<p class="t">What bounds of truth exceedeth,</p> +<p class="t0">But watch that no vain word</p> +<p class="t">From out my mouth proceedeth;</p> +<p class="t0">And when, if need must be,</p> +<p class="t">I speak at duty’s call,</p> +<p class="t0">Grant that without offence</p> +<p class="t">My words with force may fall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In danger’s threatening hour,</p> +<p class="t">Let me not flee despairing,</p> +<p class="t0">But, fighting faith’s good fight,</p> +<p class="t">My Saviour’s standard bearing,</p> +<p class="t0">Let me with deeds of love</p> +<p class="t">Turn fiercest foe to friend,</p> +<p class="t0">And when in doubt I stand,</p> +<p class="t">Do Thou Thy counsel lend.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Make me, as Thou hast taught,</p> +<p class="t">Love Christians all as brothers,</p> +<p class="t0">And, far as Christian ought,</p> +<p class="t">Live peaceably with others.</p> +<p class="t0">Should worldly ease or wealth</p> +<p class="t">E’er be my prosperous lot,</p> +<p class="t0">Let not therein be found</p> +<p class="t">Riches unjustly got.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">If Thou my term of days</p> +<p class="t">In feeble old age lengthen,</p> +<p class="t0">And, with increasing years,</p> +<p class="t">If griefs and troubles strengthen,</p> +<p class="t0">Give patience, faith, and love,</p> +<p class="t">Unmurmuring all to bear,</p> +<p class="t0">And let no spot of sin</p> +<p class="t">Disgrace my hoary hair.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let me in my last hour</p> +<p class="t">Find joy and peace in dying,</p> +<p class="t0">My only hope and trust</p> +<p class="t">On Jesus’ Death relying;</p> +<p class="t0">Then let my soul ascend</p> +<p class="t">To Thee in regions blest,</p> +<p class="t0">And by my parents’ side</p> +<p class="t">My wearied body rest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">And when the last Great Day</p> +<p class="t">Each secret thing revealeth,</p> +<p class="t0">Lord, let it be Thy Hand</p> +<p class="t">Which then my grave unsealeth;</p> +<p class="t0">And let me hear Thy Voice</p> +<p class="t">Bid me awake, arise!</p> +<p class="t0">And join Thy chosen saints,</p> +<p class="t">All glorious in the skies.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h43g" title="Des Kranken Morgenlied."> +<div title="Des Kranken Morgenlied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h43e">Des Kranken Morgenlied.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Ich bin der Herr dein Gott, der deine rechte Hand stärket, +und zu dir spricht: Fürchte dich nicht, Ich helfe dir.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun tret ich wieder aus der Ruh,</p> +<p class="t0">Und geh dem sauern Tage zu,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie mir ist auferleget:</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht weiss ich, was für neue Plag</p> +<p class="t0">Mir heute noch begegnen mag;</p> +<p class="t0">Doch weiss ich, dass mich träget</p> +<p class="t0">Mein frommer Gott in seiner Hut,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass mir die Last nicht Schaden thut.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Zwar meine Bürd ist täglich neu,</p> +<p class="t0">Doch ist mein Gott auch täglich treu,</p> +<p class="t0">Der träget meine Sorgen;</p> +<p class="t0">Vor Abends Keiner recht vernimmt,</p> +<p class="t0">Was ihm den Tag all ist bestimmt:</p> +<p class="t0">Es bahnt ein jeder Morgen</p> +<p class="t0">Mir einen frischen Weg zur Pein,</p> +<p class="t0">Der kann mit Gott erstiegen sein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Weil ich denn das versichert bin,</p> +<p class="t0">Was trauerst du, verzagter Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Bürd auf dich zu legen?</p> +<p class="t0">Trag was du kannst, Gott träget mit,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Herr der Welt, Der strauchelt nicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Bei Ihm ist lauter Segen;</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ihm geh ich stets frisch daran,</p> +<p class="t0">Und scheue nicht die Leidensbahn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So ist getrost mein frischer Muth,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich mich in des Höchsten Gut</p> +<p class="t0">Kann eingeschlossen sehen;</p> +<p class="t0">Doch das ich des versichert sei,</p> +<p class="t0">Muss ich von Sünden leben frei,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Gottes Wege gehen:</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Gott geht nimmer meinen Steg,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo ich nicht wandle seinen Weg.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Drum, liebster Gott, leit meinen Fuss,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich Dir folg in wahrer Buss,</p> +<p class="t0">Und läutre mich von Sünden;</p> +<p class="t0">So kann ich, als ein kühner Held,</p> +<p class="t0">Bestreiten diese böse Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Dir sie überwinden:</p> +<p class="t0">So tret ich muthig an den Tag,</p> +<p class="t0">Und scheue nicht, was kommen mag.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich leg auf Dich, mein Gott und Herr,</p> +<p class="t0">Was mir zu tragen wird zu schwer,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Last, die mich gebogen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich lege meine Würd und Stand</p> +<p class="t0">In deine grosse Allmachtshand,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Du mir nie entzogen:</p> +<p class="t0">Mit der hast Du von Jugend auf</p> +<p class="t0">Geleitet meinen Lebenslauf.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich leg in deinen Schooss hinein</p> +<p class="t0">Die meine Blutsverwandten sein,</p> +<p class="t0">Da sind sie wohl beschlossen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich lege meine arme Seel</p> +<p class="t0">In Jesu sichre Wundenhöhl,</p> +<p class="t0">Du wirst sie nicht verstossen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn sie vom Leibe scheidt der Tod:</p> +<p class="t0">Ich leg mich ganz in Dich, mein Gott.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Ulrich_A">Anton Ulrich</a>, Duke of Brunswick. 1633-1714.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h43e" title="The Invalid’s Morning Hymn."> +<div title="The Invalid’s Morning Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h43g">The Invalid’s Morning Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, +Fear not, I will help thee.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isaiah</i>, xli. 13.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">From blest, unconscious sleep I wake again,</p> +<p class="t0">To sense of cheerless days and wearing pain,</p> +<p class="t2">My sad, appointed lot;</p> +<p class="t0">I know not if to-day my righteous God</p> +<p class="t0">Will add fresh strokes of His chastising rod,</p> +<p class="t2">Yet be it so or not,</p> +<p class="t0">His love will guard me with its watchful care,</p> +<p class="t0">And keep me safe beneath the cross I bear.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Though every morning bring some burden new,</p> +<p class="t0">My heavenly Father every day is true,</p> +<p class="t2">Who all my sorrow feels;</p> +<p class="t0">No man before the evening’s close can say</p> +<p class="t0">What unforeseen event shall mark the day,</p> +<p class="t2">Which time alone reveals:</p> +<p class="t0">Each day may open some new path of pain,</p> +<p class="t0">Yet God will in that path my feet sustain.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then why, faint heart, dost thou still hesitate,</p> +<p class="t0">Appalled and frightened at the burden’s weight</p> +<p class="t2">Upon thy shoulder laid?</p> +<p class="t0">Grasp it more firmly, and the Lord of all,</p> +<p class="t0">Who ne’er was known to stumble or to fall,</p> +<p class="t2">Thy staggering steps will aid:</p> +<p class="t0">Cheered by this thought, thou shalt no longer dread</p> +<p class="t0">The dreary way of that rough road to tread.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Fain would I take this comfort to my heart.</p> +<p class="t0">Could I but feel secure that I have part</p> +<p class="t2">In His almighty love;</p> +<p class="t0">Which blessed hope no flattering view can give,</p> +<p class="t0">Unless a life of holiness I live,</p> +<p class="t2">A saving faith to prove;</p> +<p class="t0">For if I walk not closely with my God,</p> +<p class="t0">I cannot lean on His supporting rod.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now truly contrite, in Thy way direct</p> +<p class="t0">Make me henceforth to walk more circumspect,</p> +<p class="t2">And cleanse me from my sin;</p> +<p class="t0">Then, strengthened by Thy saving Arm of might,</p> +<p class="t0">I ’gainst this evil world shall bravely fight,</p> +<p class="t2">And shall the battle win:</p> +<p class="t0">With this conviction I my road pursue,</p> +<p class="t0">Regardless what each turn may bring to view.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I lay on Thee, my God and Saviour blest,</p> +<p class="t0">The weight which has my failing strength opprest,</p> +<p class="t2">Too ponderous to endure;</p> +<p class="t0">My worldly state with trusting faith I place</p> +<p class="t0">In Thine o’er-ruling Hand, throughout my race</p> +<p class="t2">My tried support and sure,</p> +<p class="t0">Which, from my youth, has never failed to guide</p> +<p class="t0">The changeful course of life’s eventful tide.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Allies and kindred now, and cherished friends,</p> +<p class="t0">To kind, protecting love my prayer commends</p> +<p class="t2">Of Thy paternal Heart;</p> +<p class="t0">To that safe refuge of Christ’s wounded Side</p> +<p class="t0">I trust my soul, its frailties there to hide,</p> +<p class="t2">When soul and body part,</p> +<p class="t0">And from this suffering frame at length set free,</p> +<p class="t0">I lay myself, O God, at rest on Thee.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h44g" title="Trost des Traurenden."> +<div title="Trost des Traurenden." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h44e">Trost des Traurenden.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Unsere Trübsal, die zeitlich und leicht ist, schaffet eine ewige +und über alle Maasse wichtige Herrlichkeit.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wem in Leidenstagen</p> +<p class="t0">Aller Trost steht fern,</p> +<p class="t0">Der vertrau sein Klagen</p> +<p class="t0">Seinem Gott und Herrn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Er blickt in die Kammer,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo der Dulder weint,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn in seinem Jammer</p> +<p class="t0">Er verlassen scheint.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott bleibt nicht verborgen</p> +<p class="t0">Was dich trübt und quält;</p> +<p class="t0">Er kennt deine Sorgen</p> +<p class="t0">Und weiss was dir fehlt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Richte deine Blicke</p> +<p class="t0">Nach Ihm himmelwärts,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn im Missgeschicke</p> +<p class="t0">Zagend ist dein Herz.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auch dir wird Er lindern</p> +<p class="t0">Dein verborgnes Leid,</p> +<p class="t0">Der stets seinen Kindern</p> +<p class="t0">Helfen ist bereit.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Alle deine Leiden</p> +<p class="t0">Sind des Trosts nicht werth,</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht der süssen Freuden,</p> +<p class="t0">Die dein Herz erfährt,</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn Er mit Erbarmen</p> +<p class="t0">An sein Herz dich drückt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und in seinen Armen</p> +<p class="t0">Für dein Leid erquickt.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Oswald_HS1">Heinrich Siegmund Oswald.</a> 1793.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h44e" title="The Mourner’s Consolation."> +<div title="The Mourner’s Consolation." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h44g">The Mourner’s Consolation.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us +a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef">2 <i>Cor.</i> iv. 17.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Oh! let him whose sorrow</p> +<p class="t">No relief can find,</p> +<p class="t0">Trust in God, and borrow</p> +<p class="t">Ease for heart and mind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Where the mourner weeping</p> +<p class="t">Sheds the secret tear,</p> +<p class="t0">God His watch is keeping,</p> +<p class="t">Though none else be near.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">God will never leave thee,</p> +<p class="t">All thy wants He knows,</p> +<p class="t0">Feels the pains that grieve thee,</p> +<p class="t">Sees thy cares and woes.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Raise thine eyes to heaven</p> +<p class="t">When thy spirits quail,</p> +<p class="t0">When, by tempests driven,</p> +<p class="t">Heart and courage fail.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When in grief you languish,</p> +<p class="t">He will dry the tear,</p> +<p class="t0">Who His children’s anguish</p> +<p class="t">Soothes with succour near.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">All thy woe and sadness</p> +<p class="t">In this world below,</p> +<p class="t0">Balance not the gladness</p> +<p class="t">Thou in heaven shalt know,</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When thy gracious Saviour,</p> +<p class="t">In the realms above,</p> +<p class="t0">Crowns thee with His favour,</p> +<p class="t">Fills thee with His love.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h45g" title="Der Leidensweg."> +<div title="Der Leidensweg." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h45e">Der Leidensweg.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Welchen der Herr lieb hat, den züchtiget Er; Er stäupet aber +einen jeglichen Sohn den Er aufnimmt.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott, Den ich als Liebe kenne,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Du Krankheit auf mich legst,</p> +<p class="t0">Und des Leidens Gluth erregst,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich davon stöhn und brenne:</p> +<p class="t0">Brenne doch das Böse ab,</p> +<p class="t0">Das den Geist bisher gehindert,</p> +<p class="t0">Das der Liebe Regung mindert,</p> +<p class="t0">Die ich öfters von Dir hab.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In der Schwachheit sei Du kräftig,</p> +<p class="t0">In den Schmerzen sei mir süss;</p> +<p class="t0">Schaffe, dass ich Dich geniess,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn die Krankheit streng und heftig:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn was jetzt den Leib bewegt,</p> +<p class="t0">Was mein Fleisch und Mark verzehret,</p> +<p class="t0">Was den Körper jetzt beschweret,</p> +<p class="t0">Hat die Liebe selbst erregt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Leiden ist jetzt mein Geschäfte;</p> +<p class="t0">Anders kann ich jetzt nicht thun,</p> +<p class="t0">Als nur in dem Leiden ruhn:</p> +<p class="t0">Leiden müssen meine Kräfte,</p> +<p class="t0">Leiden ist jetzt mein Gewinnst;</p> +<p class="t0">Das ist jetzt des Vaters Wille,</p> +<p class="t0">Den verehr ich sanft und stille,</p> +<p class="t0">Leiden ist mein Gottesdienst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Gott, ich nehms aus deinen Händen</p> +<p class="t0">Als ein Liebeszeichen an,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn in solcher Leidensbahn</p> +<p class="t0">Willst Du meinen Geist vollenden:</p> +<p class="t0">Auch die Labung, die man mir</p> +<p class="t0">Zu des Leibes Nothdurft giebt,</p> +<p class="t0">Kommt von Dir, Der mich geliebet,</p> +<p class="t0">Alles kommt, mein Gott, von Dir.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lass nur nicht den Geist ermüden</p> +<p class="t0">Bei des Leibes Mattigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass er sich zu aller Zeit</p> +<p class="t0">In Dich senk in Lieb und Frieden:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass des Leibes Angst und Schmerz</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht der Seelen Auffahrt hindern</p> +<p class="t0">Und die Ruhe in mir mindern;</p> +<p class="t0">Unterstütze Du das Herz.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hilf mir, dass ich ganz bescheiden</p> +<p class="t0">Und mit aller Freudigkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Ruhe und Gelassenheit,</p> +<p class="t0">Mög auf meinem Bette leiden:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn wer so am Fleische leidt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wird gereinigt von den Sünden,</p> +<p class="t0">Und durch schmerzliches Empfinden</p> +<p class="t0">Nur an seinem Geist erneut.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dir empfehl ich nun mein Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dem Kreuze meinen Leib;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass ich mit Freuden bleib</p> +<p class="t0">An Dich völlig übergeben:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn so weiss ich festiglich,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich mag leben oder sterben,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich nicht mehr kann verderben;</p> +<p class="t0">Denn die Liebe reinigt mich.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Richter_CF">Christian Friedrich Richter.</a> 1676-1711.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h45e" title="The Path of Grief."> +<div title="The Path of Grief." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h45g">The Path of Grief.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every +son whom He receiveth.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Hebrews</i>, xii. 6.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O God, Whose attributes shine forth in turn,</p> +<p class="t">To me conspicuous as a God of Love,</p> +<p class="t">Since with weak health Thou dost my patience prove,</p> +<p class="t0">And kindlest fires of grief that fiercely burn;</p> +<p class="t">Burn in the furnace of affliction’s fire</p> +<p class="t0">All that has been a hindrance and a let,</p> +<p class="t0">When, through Thy grace, my heart was fully set</p> +<p class="t">To serve Thee as Thy righteous laws require.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In hours of weakness, O be Thou my Strength!</p> +<p class="t">My Source of comfort, when by anguish tried;</p> +<p class="t">And let thy joy within my breast abide,</p> +<p class="t0">Through agonizing days of tedious length:</p> +<p class="t">What though incessant pain through weary hours</p> +<p class="t0">My flesh and bones in constant torture keep,</p> +<p class="t0">Though ceaseless throbbings bar my eyes from sleep,</p> +<p class="t">’Tis love that on my head its blessing showers.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">My sole employment now the whole day long,</p> +<p class="t">The only talk my time to occupy,</p> +<p class="t">Is still in meek submission here to lie;</p> +<p class="t0">To suffer weakness makes me grow more strong,</p> +<p class="t">To suffer loss of health is greatest gain;</p> +<p class="t0">Reposing in my heavenly Father’s Will,</p> +<p class="t0">In silent adoration I lie still;</p> +<p class="t">My only service is to suffer pain.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">As token, Lord, of thy great love I take</p> +<p class="t">The pains I suffer, calm in this belief,</p> +<p class="t">That thou dost purpose through my path of grief</p> +<p class="t0">My soul more perfect in thy sight to make:</p> +<p class="t">The tender watchful care of nursing friends,</p> +<p class="t0">With kind attempts my suffering to relieve,</p> +<p class="t0">As from thy gracious Hand I will receive,</p> +<p class="t">Since ’tis thy love the welcome succour sends.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Let not my soul halt in its heavenward race,</p> +<p class="t">By weakness of this woe-worn frame opprest;</p> +<p class="t">But let it evermore find peace and rest</p> +<p class="t0">In Thee, O Lord, and thy refreshing grace:</p> +<p class="t">Then shall no constant ache, or sudden smart</p> +<p class="t0">Impede my spirit in its upward flight,</p> +<p class="t0">Or my repose and inward comfort blight;</p> +<p class="t">O be Thou still the Stay of my poor heart!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">So long as Thou seest fit my faith to try,</p> +<p class="t">Let me with firm, serene, and tranquil mind,</p> +<p class="t">Entirely to thy Holy Will resigned,</p> +<p class="t0">Unmurmuring on my bed of sickness lie;</p> +<p class="t">Since it is through the offending body’s pains,</p> +<p class="t0">The groaning spirit is made white and tried,</p> +<p class="t0">And from that human frailty purified,</p> +<p class="t">Which with each tenant of the earth remains.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">My span of days to Thee I dedicate,</p> +<p class="t">Content to bear with Thee the blessed Cross;</p> +<p class="t">Let me, through joy and grief, in gain or loss,</p> +<p class="t0">With trusting heart commit to Thee my fate:</p> +<p class="t">I fear no ill, of this conviction sure,</p> +<p class="t0">That whether my sad journey’s end be near,</p> +<p class="t0">Or long in weakness I must linger here,</p> +<p class="t">Love works my good by all that I endure.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h46g" title="Kindliches Gemüthe."> +<div title="Kindliches Gemüthe." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h46e">Kindliches Gemüthe.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Es sey denn, dass ihr euch umkehret, und werdet wie die +Kinder, so werdet ihr nicht in das Himmelreich kommen.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O liebe Seele, könntst du werden</p> +<p class="t0">Ein kleines Kindchen noch auf Erden,</p> +<p class="t0">Ich weiss gewiss, es käm noch hier</p> +<p class="t0">Gott und sein Paradies zu dir.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein Kind kann nicht an Gold noch Schätzen,</p> +<p class="t0">Noch Pracht der Reden sich ergötzen:</p> +<p class="t0">Man mach es arm, man mach es reich,</p> +<p class="t0">Es gilt ihm Alles eben gleich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Menschen Ansehn gilt ihm wenig,</p> +<p class="t0">Es fürchtet weder Fürst noch König:</p> +<p class="t0">O Wunder, und ein Kind ist doch</p> +<p class="t0">So arm, so schwach, so kleine noch!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es kennet kein verstelltes Wesen,</p> +<p class="t0">Man kanns aus seinen Augen lesen:</p> +<p class="t0">Es thut einfältig was es thut,</p> +<p class="t0">Und denkt von Andern nichts als gut.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mit Forschen und mit vielem Denken</p> +<p class="t0">Kann sich ein Kind das Haupt nicht kränken:</p> +<p class="t0">Es lebt in süsser Einfalt so</p> +<p class="t0">Im Gegenwärtigen ganz froh.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein Kindchen kann allein nicht stehen,</p> +<p class="t0">Geschweige, dass es weit sollt gehen;</p> +<p class="t0">Es hält die liebe Mutter fest,</p> +<p class="t0">Und so sich führn und tragen lässt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein Kindchen kann nicht überlegen,</p> +<p class="t0">Es lässt sich heben, tragen, legen,</p> +<p class="t0">Denkt nicht an Schaden und Gefahr,</p> +<p class="t0">Es bleibt nur überlassen gar.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein Kind weiss nichts von fremden Sachen;</p> +<p class="t0">Was Andre thun, was Andre machen,</p> +<p class="t0">Was ihm vor Augen wird gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">Schaut es in stiller Unschuld an.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sein liebstes Werk und höchst Vergnügen</p> +<p class="t0">Ist in der Mutter Armen liegen,</p> +<p class="t0">Sie anzusehen spät und früh,</p> +<p class="t0">Und zärtlich zu umarmen sie.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O süsse Unschuld, Kinderwesen!</p> +<p class="t0">Die Weisheit hab ich mir erlesen,</p> +<p class="t0">Wer dich besitzt ist hoch gelehrt</p> +<p class="t0">Und in des Höchsten Augen werth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Kindheit, die Gott selber liebet,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Jesu Geist alleine giebet,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie sehnet sich mein Herz nach Dir!</p> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, bilde Dich in mir!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, lass mich doch auf Erden</p> +<p class="t0">Ein solch unschuldges Kindlein werden;</p> +<p class="t0">Ich weiss gewiss, so kommt schon hier</p> +<p class="t0">Gott und sein Paradies zu mir.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Tersteegen_G">Gerhard Tersteegen.</a> 1697-1769.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h46e" title="Childlike Temper."> +<div title="Childlike Temper." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h46g">Childlike Temper.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall +not enter into the kingdom of heaven.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. Matt.</i> xviii. 3.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Soul, while on earth thou still remainest,</p> +<p class="t0">If thou a childlike frame retainest,</p> +<p class="t0">With thee, e’en here, I know full well,</p> +<p class="t0">God and His Paradise will dwell.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A child does not in gold or treasure,</p> +<p class="t0">Or dazzling pomp of words take pleasure;</p> +<p class="t0">For whether he be poor or rich</p> +<p class="t0">Is one to him, he cares not which.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">He holds not men in admiration;</p> +<p class="t0">Nor prince, nor king, nor lofty station</p> +<p class="t0">Can e’er a little child appal,</p> +<p class="t0">Yet is he poor, and weak, and small.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Still in his eyes his soul revealing,</p> +<p class="t0">He dreams not, knows not of concealing;</p> +<p class="t0">Does all he does with single mind,</p> +<p class="t0">And thinks of others what is kind.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No anxious thoughts his bosom vexing,</p> +<p class="t0">No fond conceits his head perplexing,</p> +<p class="t0">In sweet simplicity he lives,</p> +<p class="t0">Happy in what the present gives.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A child can not go any distance,</p> +<p class="t0">Nay, can not stand without assistance;</p> +<p class="t0">He holds his mother closely pressed,</p> +<p class="t0">And lets her lead where she sees best.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No projects in his mind combining,</p> +<p class="t0">To others’ arms his fate resigning,</p> +<p class="t0">He fears not mischief may befall,</p> +<p class="t0">But passively submits to all.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No care on others’ things bestowing,</p> +<p class="t0">Of others’ actions nothing knowing,</p> +<p class="t0">Whate’er before his eyes is done,</p> +<p class="t0">In innocence he still looks on.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">All day ’tis his beloved employment,</p> +<p class="t0">From morn till eve his chief enjoyment,</p> +<p class="t0">To gaze upon his mother’s face,</p> +<p class="t0">Or cling to her with fond embrace.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O Innocence! sweet child’s existence!</p> +<p class="t0">This have I learnt through God’s assistance—</p> +<p class="t0">He who possesses thee is wise,</p> +<p class="t0">And valued in th’ Almighty’s eyes.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O childhood! well-beloved of heaven!</p> +<p class="t0">Whose mind by Christ alone is given,</p> +<p class="t0">How longs my heart to feel like thee!</p> +<p class="t0">O Jesu! form Thyself in me.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord, let me, while on earth remaining,</p> +<p class="t0">Thus live, a childlike frame retaining;</p> +<p class="t0">Then with me here, I know full well,</p> +<p class="t0">God and His Paradise will dwell.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h47g" title="Lied an dem Gott der Liebe."> +<div title="Lied an dem Gott der Liebe." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h47e">Lied an dem Gott der Liebe.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Darinnen stehet die Liebe: nicht das wir Gott geliebet haben, +sondern dass Er uns geliebet hat.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die Du mich zum Bilde</p> +<p class="t0">Deiner Gottheit hast gemacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die Du mich so milde</p> +<p class="t0">Nach dem Fall hast wiederbracht,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die Du mich erkoren,</p> +<p class="t0">Eh als ich geschaffen war,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die Du Mensch geboren</p> +<p class="t0">Und mir gleich wardst ganz und gar,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die für mich gelitten</p> +<p class="t0">Und gestorben in der Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mir hat erstritten</p> +<p class="t0">Ewge Lust und Seligkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die Du Kunst und Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Licht und Wahrheit, Geist und Wort,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die sich blos ergeben</p> +<p class="t0">Mir zum Heil und Seelenhort,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mich hat gebunden</p> +<p class="t0">An ihr Joch mit Leib und Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mich überwunden</p> +<p class="t0">Und mein Herze hat dahin,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mich ewig liebet,</p> +<p class="t0">Die für meine Seele litt,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die das Lösgeld giebet</p> +<p class="t0">Und mich kräftiglich vertritt,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mich wird erwecken</p> +<p class="t0">Aus dem Grab der Sterblichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, die mich wird umstecken</p> +<p class="t0">Mit dem Laub der Herrlichkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Liebe, Dir ergeb ich mich,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein zu bleiben ewiglich.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Angelus_J">Johann Angelus.</a> 1624-1677.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h47e" title="Hymn to the God of Love."> +<div title="Hymn to the God of Love." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h47g">Hymn to the God of Love.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>1 St. John</i>, iv. 10.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Who in the first beginning</p> +<p class="t">Man in thine own likeness made;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who, when we fell by sinning,</p> +<p class="t">Raised us up no more afraid;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Who once, thy grace bestowing,</p> +<p class="t">Chose me ere life’s breath I drew;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who once, thy mercy showing,</p> +<p class="t">Took my form and nature too;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Who here on earth endurest</p> +<p class="t">Human sorrow, toil, and pain;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who by thy death procuredst</p> +<p class="t">Joy to me and endless gain;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Who by thy Word and Spirit</p> +<p class="t">Life and light to me revealed;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who ’gainst the wrath I merit</p> +<p class="t">Art my soul’s protecting shield;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, to Whom my will submitted,</p> +<p class="t">When I took thine easy yoke;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, to Whom my heart was knitted,</p> +<p class="t">When thy love its love awoke;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Whose wondrous love eternal</p> +<p class="t">Thee my willing Ransom made;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who at the throne supernal</p> +<p class="t">Pleadest now that Ransom paid;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Love, Who wilt to heaven’s bright story</p> +<p class="t">Raise me from my sleep profound;</p> +<p class="t0">Love, Who with the Crown of Glory</p> +<p class="t">Wilt at length my head surround;</p> +<p class="t2">Henceforth I myself resign,</p> +<p class="t2">Love, to be for ever thine.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h48g" title="Das Zerknirschte Herz."> +<div title="Das Zerknirschte Herz." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h48e">Das Zerknirschte Herz.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Bekehre Du mich, so werde ich bekehret.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich will von meiner Missethat</p> +<p class="t0">Zum Herren mich bekehren:</p> +<p class="t0">Du wollest selbst mir Hülf und Rath</p> +<p class="t0">Hiezu, o Gott, bescheren,</p> +<p class="t0">Und deines guten Geistes Kraft,</p> +<p class="t0">Der neue Herzen in uns schafft,</p> +<p class="t0">Aus Gnaden mir gewähren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Mensch kann von Natur doch nicht</p> +<p class="t0">Sein Elend selbst empfinden;</p> +<p class="t0">Er ist ohn deines Geistes Licht</p> +<p class="t0">Blind, taub und todt in Sünden:</p> +<p class="t0">Verkehret ist Sinn, Will und Thun,</p> +<p class="t0">Des grossen Jammers wollst Du nun,</p> +<p class="t0">O Vater, mich entbinden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr, klopf in Gnaden bei mir an</p> +<p class="t0">Und führ mir wohl zu Sinnen</p> +<p class="t0">Was Böses ich vor Dir gethan;</p> +<p class="t0">Du kannst mein Herz gewinnen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich aus Kummer und Beschwer</p> +<p class="t0">Lass über meine Wangen her</p> +<p class="t0">Viel heisse Thränen rinnen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie hast Du doch auf mich gewandt</p> +<p class="t0">Den Reichthum deiner Gnaden!</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Leben dank ich deiner Hand.</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast mich überladen</p> +<p class="t0">Mit manchem Gut, nebst Kleid und Brod;</p> +<p class="t0">Du machst, dass mir noch keine Noth</p> +<p class="t0">Bisher hat können schaden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Du hast in Christo mich erwählt</p> +<p class="t0">Tief aus der Höllen Fluthen;</p> +<p class="t0">Es hat mir sonst auch nicht gefehlt</p> +<p class="t0">An irgend einem Guten;</p> +<p class="t0">Zuweilen bin ich auch dabei,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich nicht sicher leb und frei,</p> +<p class="t0">Gestäupt mit Vaterruthen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hab ich denn nun auch gegen Dir</p> +<p class="t0">Gehorsams mich beflissen?</p> +<p class="t0">Ach nein, ein anders saget mir</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herz und mein Gewissen:</p> +<p class="t0">Darin ist leider nichts gesund,</p> +<p class="t0">An allen Orten ist es wund</p> +<p class="t0">Vom Sündenwurm gebissen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Die Thorheit meiner jungen Jahr</p> +<p class="t0">Und alle schnöde Sachen</p> +<p class="t0">Verklagen mich zu offenbar;</p> +<p class="t0">Was soll ich Armer machen?</p> +<p class="t0">Sie stellen, Herr, mir vors Gesicht</p> +<p class="t0">Dein unerträglich Zorngericht,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Höllen offnen Rachen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Bisher hab ich in Sicherheit</p> +<p class="t0">Fast unbesorgt geschlafen,</p> +<p class="t0">Gedacht, es hat noch lange Zeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Gott pflegt nicht bald zu strafen,</p> +<p class="t0">Er fähret nicht mit unsrer Schuld</p> +<p class="t0">So strenge fort, Er hat Geduld,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Hirte mit den Schafen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Diess alles jetzt zugleich erwacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herz will mir zerspringen;</p> +<p class="t0">Ich sehe deines Donners Macht</p> +<p class="t0">Und Feuer auf mich dringen:</p> +<p class="t0">Du regest wider mich zugleich</p> +<p class="t0">Des Todes und der Höllen Reich,</p> +<p class="t0">Die wollen mich verschlingen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr Jesu Christ, ich flieh allein</p> +<p class="t0">Zu deinen tiefen Wunden;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass mich da eingeschlossen sein</p> +<p class="t0">Und bleiben alle Stunden:</p> +<p class="t0">Dir ist ja, o Du Gotteslamm,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Menschen Sünd am Kreuzesstamm</p> +<p class="t0">Zu tragen aufgebunden.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Diess stelle deinem Vater für,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass Er sein Herze lenke</p> +<p class="t0">Und gnädig wiederkehr zu mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht meiner Schulden denke:</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dass Er meine Sündenlast,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Du auf Dich genommen hast,</p> +<p class="t0">Ins tiefe Meer versenke.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hierauf will ich nun jederzeit</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ernst und Sorgfalt meiden</p> +<p class="t0">Der schnöden Lüste Eitelkeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lieber alles leiden,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn dass ich Sünd mit Willen thu:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, Herr, gieb Du stets Kraft dazu,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis ich von hinnen scheide.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Louisa_H">Luise Henriette</a>, Electress of Brandenburg. 1627-1667.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h48e" title="The Contrite Heart."> +<div title="The Contrite Heart." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h48g">The Contrite Heart.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Turn Thou me, and I shall be turned.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Jer.</i> xxxi. 18.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">With sorrow now for past misdeeds,</p> +<p class="t">I turn to Thee, O Lord,</p> +<p class="t0">Assured the help my conscience needs</p> +<p class="t">Thy mercy will afford,</p> +<p class="t0">And, through thy Spirit, grace instil</p> +<p class="t0">To cleanse my heart, subdue my will,</p> +<p class="t">And make me keep thy Word.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">We see not till renewed in mind</p> +<p class="t">Our lost and sinful state;</p> +<p class="t0">As willing captives, deaf, and blind</p> +<p class="t">To thy good Spirit’s light,</p> +<p class="t0">We follow sin’s perfidious law:</p> +<p class="t0">Father, yet more that veil withdraw</p> +<p class="t">Which has obscured my sight.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Speak, Lord, in love’s awakening tone,</p> +<p class="t">And make me now recall</p> +<p class="t0">The wilful acts that I have done,</p> +<p class="t">And in thy sight done all:</p> +<p class="t0">Thou canst my wandering heart reclaim,</p> +<p class="t0">And cause hot burning tears of shame</p> +<p class="t">And penitence to fall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The riches of thy mercy, Lord,</p> +<p class="t">On me have largely flowed;</p> +<p class="t0">Life, and the joys with which ’tis stored</p> +<p class="t">Thou freely hast bestowed;</p> +<p class="t0">Not only sent me daily bread,</p> +<p class="t0">But blessings showered upon my head,</p> +<p class="t">And fenced from ills my road.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Me Thou hast saved from hell’s dark flood,</p> +<p class="t">Through Christ, the living God,</p> +<p class="t0">And strown with every earthly good</p> +<p class="t">The paths which I have trod;</p> +<p class="t0">My only fear, amidst my bliss,</p> +<p class="t0">Proofs of a Father’s love to miss,</p> +<p class="t">The chastenings of his rod.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Yet in return, should one enquire</p> +<p class="t">If I have served Thee well,</p> +<p class="t0">My heart and conscience both conspire</p> +<p class="t">Another tale to tell:</p> +<p class="t0">In every part the serpent, sin,</p> +<p class="t0">With deadly fang has eaten in;</p> +<p class="t">Remorse I cannot quell.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The sins and follies of my youth</p> +<p class="t">In fearful muster pass,</p> +<p class="t0">With undisguised and naked truth,</p> +<p class="t">Before stern memory’s glass:</p> +<p class="t0">The terrors of thy judgment-seat,</p> +<p class="t0">And hell’s gulf yawning at my feet,</p> +<p class="t">How shall I flee, alas!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I thought, as blindly on I went,</p> +<p class="t">Like one who walks in sleep,—</p> +<p class="t0">Some future day I will repent,</p> +<p class="t">God will his mercy keep;</p> +<p class="t0">Not gladly doth the Lord afflict.</p> +<p class="t0">He suffereth long, He is not strict,</p> +<p class="t">The Shepherd with the sheep.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now all has burst upon my sight,</p> +<p class="t">And I am sore afraid,</p> +<p class="t0">Lest thunder of thy righteous Might</p> +<p class="t">Strike my defenceless head;</p> +<p class="t0">Through fierceness of thy wrathful cup,</p> +<p class="t0">Both death and hell Thou stirrest up,</p> +<p class="t">With threatening aspect dread.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord Jesu Christ, to Thee I flee,</p> +<p class="t">In thy deep Wounds to hide;</p> +<p class="t0">O let my soul’s safe refuge be</p> +<p class="t">Thy pierced and gaping side;</p> +<p class="t0">Since in my stead, Thou Lamb of God,</p> +<p class="t0">Thou hast endured the chastening rod,</p> +<p class="t">And on the Cross hast died.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Thy holy Father’s Throne before,</p> +<p class="t">This Ransom, Lord, present;</p> +<p class="t0">Remembering then my sins no more,</p> +<p class="t">His justice will relent,</p> +<p class="t0">And in the depths of ocean vast</p> +<p class="t0">Thy self-inflicted load will cast,</p> +<p class="t">If truly I repent.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">From this time forth will I begin</p> +<p class="t">With watchful care to shun</p> +<p class="t0">The world’s vain paths, and paths of sin,</p> +<p class="t">And all risk sooner run,</p> +<p class="t0">Than trespass with deliberate will:</p> +<p class="t0">Thy grace sufficient grant me still,</p> +<p class="t">Lord, till my course is done.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h49g" title="Himmelan!"> +<div title="Himmelan!" class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h49e">Himmelan!</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt, sondern die zukünftig +suchen wir.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan geht unsre Bahn</p> +<p class="t0">Wir sind Gäste nur auf Erden,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis wir dort in Canaan</p> +<p class="t0">Durch die Wüste kommen werden;</p> +<p class="t0">Hier ist unser Pilgrimsstand,</p> +<p class="t0">Droben unser Vaterland.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan schwing dich, mein Geist,</p> +<p class="t0">Denn du bist ein himmlisch Wesen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und kannst das, was irdisch heisst,</p> +<p class="t0">Nicht zu deinem Zweck erlesen:</p> +<p class="t0">Ein von Gott erleuchter Sinn</p> +<p class="t0">Kehrt zu seinem Ursprung hin.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan! ruft Er mir zu,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn ich Ihn im Worte höre;</p> +<p class="t0">Das weist mir den Ort der Ruh,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo ich einmal hin gehöre:</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn mich dieses Wort bewahrt,</p> +<p class="t0">Halt ich eine Himmelfahrt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan denk ich allzeit,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Er mir die Tafel decket,</p> +<p class="t0">Und mein Geist hier allbereit</p> +<p class="t0">Eine Kraft des Himmels schmecket:</p> +<p class="t0">Nach der Kost im Jammerthal</p> +<p class="t0">Folgt des Lammes Hochzeitmahl.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan! mein Glaube zeigt</p> +<p class="t0">Mir das schöne Loos von ferne,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass mein Herz schon aufwärts steigt</p> +<p class="t0">Ueber Sonne, Mond und Sterne:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn ihr Licht ist viel zu klein</p> +<p class="t0">Gegen jenen Glanz und Schein.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan wird mich der Tod</p> +<p class="t0">In die rechte Heimath führen,</p> +<p class="t0">Da ich über alle Noth</p> +<p class="t0">Ewig werde triumphiren!</p> +<p class="t0">Jesus geht mir selbst voran,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich freudig folgen kann.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Himmelan, ach himmelan!</p> +<p class="t0">Das soll meine Losung bleiben.</p> +<p class="t0">Ich will allen eiteln Wahn</p> +<p class="t0">Durch die Himmelslust vertreiben:</p> +<p class="t0">Himmelan steht nur mein Sinn,</p> +<p class="t0">Bis ich in dem Himmel bin.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Schmolck_B">Benjamin Schmolck.</a> 1672-1737.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h49e" title="Heavenward still!"> +<div title="Heavenward still!" class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h49g">Heavenward still!</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Heb.</i> xiii. 14.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still our pathway tends;</p> +<p class="t">Here on earth we are but strangers;</p> +<p class="t0">Till our road in Canaan ends,</p> +<p class="t">Safely passed this wild of dangers,</p> +<p class="t0">Pilgrims we, a scattered band,</p> +<p class="t0">Seek above our Fatherland.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still my soul ascend!</p> +<p class="t">Thou art one of heaven’s creations;</p> +<p class="t0">Earth can ne’er give aim or end</p> +<p class="t">Fit to fill thy aspirations:</p> +<p class="t0">Turns a heaven-illumined mind</p> +<p class="t0">Evermore its source to find.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still! God’s volume blest,</p> +<p class="t">Thus, throughout its sacred pages,</p> +<p class="t0">Calls me on, and speaks of rest,</p> +<p class="t">Rest with Him through endless ages;</p> +<p class="t0">While my heart that call attends,</p> +<p class="t0">Still to heaven my path ascends.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still my thoughts arise,</p> +<p class="t">When His festal board invites me;</p> +<p class="t0">Then my spirit upward flies,</p> +<p class="t">Foretaste then of heaven delights me:</p> +<p class="t0">When on earth this food has ceased</p> +<p class="t0">Comes the Lamb’s own Marriage-feast.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still my spirit wends,</p> +<p class="t">That fair land by faith exploring;</p> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still my heart ascends,</p> +<p class="t">Sun and moon and stars out-soaring;</p> +<p class="t0">Their faint rays in vain would try</p> +<p class="t0">Once with light of heaven to vie.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still, when life shall close,</p> +<p class="t">Death to my true home shall guide me;</p> +<p class="t0">There, triumphant o’er my woes,</p> +<p class="t">Lasting bliss shall God provide me;</p> +<p class="t0">Christ Himself the way has led,</p> +<p class="t0">Joyful in His steps I tread.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Still then heavenward! heavenward still!</p> +<p class="t">That shall be my watchword ever!</p> +<p class="t0">Joys of heaven my heart shall fill,</p> +<p class="t">Chasing joys that filled it never:</p> +<p class="t0">Heavenward still my thoughts shall run,</p> +<p class="t0">Till the gate of heaven is won.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h50g" title="Die gute wahl."> +<div title="Die gute wahl." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h50e">Die gute wahl.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Ich habe gesagt, Herr, das soll mein Erbe seyn, dass ich deine +Wege halte.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun so will ich denn mein Leben</p> +<p class="t0">Völlig meinem Gott ergeben;</p> +<p class="t0">Nun wohlan, es ist geschehn!</p> +<p class="t0">Sünd, ich will von dir nicht hören,</p> +<p class="t0">Welt, ich will mich von dir kehren,</p> +<p class="t0">Ohne je zurück zu sehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hab ich sonst mein Herz getheilet,</p> +<p class="t0">Hab ich hie und da verweilet,</p> +<p class="t0">Endlich sei der Schluss gemacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Meinen Willen ganz zu geben,</p> +<p class="t0">Meinem Gott allein zu leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihm zu dienen Tag und Nacht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr, ich opfre Dir zur Gabe</p> +<p class="t0">All mein Liebstes, das ich habe;</p> +<p class="t0">Schau, ich halte nichts zurück:</p> +<p class="t0">Schau und prüfe meine Nieren;</p> +<p class="t0">Solltest Du was Falsches spüren,</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm es diesen Augenblick.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich scheu keine Müh und Schmerzen;</p> +<p class="t0">Gründlich und von ganzem Herzen</p> +<p class="t0">Will ich folgen deinem Zug:</p> +<p class="t0">Kann ich stetig und in Allen</p> +<p class="t0">Deinen Augen nur gefallen,</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, so hab ich ewig gnug.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eines will ich nur betrachten,</p> +<p class="t0">Und nicht wissen, noch drauf achten,</p> +<p class="t0">Was sonst draussen mag geschehn:</p> +<p class="t0">Fremd der Welt und ihren Sorgen</p> +<p class="t0">Will ich hier, in Dir verborgen,</p> +<p class="t0">Als ein wahrer Pilger gehn.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Dich allein will ich erwählen;</p> +<p class="t0">Alle Kräfte meiner Seelen</p> +<p class="t0">Nimm nur ganz in deine Macht:</p> +<p class="t0">Ja, ich will mich Dir verschreiben;</p> +<p class="t0">Lass es ewig feste bleiben,</p> +<p class="t0">Was ich Dir hab zugesagt.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Tersteegen_G">Gerhard Tersteegen.</a> 1697-1769.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h50e" title="The good choice."> +<div title="The good choice." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h50g">The good choice.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Thou art my portion, O Lord; I have promised to keep Thy law.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> cxix. 57.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lo! my choice is now decided,</p> +<p class="t0">Now, with heart no more divided,</p> +<p class="t">I devote to God my days;</p> +<p class="t0">Sin, to thee no more I listen,</p> +<p class="t0">World, howe’er thy gauds may glisten,</p> +<p class="t">I on thee no more will gaze.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Toys my heart away have carried,</p> +<p class="t0">Here and there I oft have tarried,</p> +<p class="t">Now my purpose shall not swerve;</p> +<p class="t0">All my life to God I tender,</p> +<p class="t0">To his Will my own surrender,</p> +<p class="t">Him both day and night to serve.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord, to Thee I yield sincerely</p> +<p class="t0">All that here I prize most dearly,</p> +<p class="t">See, from Thee I nothing keep;</p> +<p class="t0">Search my reins and heart all over,</p> +<p class="t0">Shouldest Thou there deceit discover,</p> +<p class="t">Root it out, though hidden deep.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">No fatigue or pain declining,</p> +<p class="t0">All my heart to Thee resigning,</p> +<p class="t">I will go where Thou dost lead;</p> +<p class="t0">If my every word and action</p> +<p class="t0">In Thy sight give satisfaction,</p> +<p class="t">Nothing more I then can need.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">One thing first and only knowing,</p> +<p class="t0">Elsewhere not a thought bestowing,</p> +<p class="t">Now I quit the paths I trod;</p> +<p class="t0">Stranger now to worldly pleasure,</p> +<p class="t0">Here I lay not up my treasure,</p> +<p class="t">Hid my life with Christ in God.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">This the lot I would inherit;</p> +<p class="t0">Let my heart, and soul, and spirit</p> +<p class="t">In Thy service, Lord, be bowed;</p> +<p class="t0">Thine henceforth, O blessed Saviour,</p> +<p class="t0">May I, in my whole behaviour,</p> +<p class="t">Practise what my lips have vowed.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h51g" title="Eins ist noth."> +<div title="Eins ist noth." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h51e">Eins ist noth.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Eins ist Noth:</p> +<p class="t0">Maria hat das gute Theil erwählet.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Eins ist Noth: ach Herr, dies Eine</p> +<p class="t2">Lehre mich erkennen doch;</p> +<p class="t2">Alles andre, wies auch scheine,</p> +<p class="t2">Ist ja nur ein schweres Joch;</p> +<p class="t0">Darunter das Herze sich naget und plaget,</p> +<p class="t0">Und dennoch kein wahres Vergnügen erjaget:</p> +<p class="t0">Erlang ich dies Eine, das alles ersetzt,</p> +<p class="t0">So werd ich mit Einem in allem ergötzt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Seele, willst du dieses finden,</p> +<p class="t2">Suchs bei keiner Creatur;</p> +<p class="t2">Lass was irdisch ist dahinten,</p> +<p class="t2">Schwing dich über die Natur;</p> +<p class="t0">Wo Gott und die Menschheit in Einem vereinet,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo alle vollkommene Fülle erscheinet,</p> +<p class="t0">Da, da ist das beste, nothwendigste Theil,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Ein und mein Alles, mein seligstes Heil.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Wie Maria war beflissen</p> +<p class="t2">Auf des Ewigen Geniess,</p> +<p class="t2">Da sie sich zu Jesu Füssen</p> +<p class="t2">Voller Andacht niederliess!</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Herze entbrannte, dies einzig zu hören,</p> +<p class="t0">Was Jesus, ihr Heiland, sie wollte belehren;</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Alles war gänzlich in Jesum versenkt,</p> +<p class="t0">Und wurde ihr Alles in Einem geschenkt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Also ist auch mein Verlangen,</p> +<p class="t2">Liebster Jesu, nur nach Dir;</p> +<p class="t2">Lass mich treulich an Dir hangen,</p> +<p class="t2">Schenke Dich zu eigen mir:</p> +<p class="t0">Ob viel auch umkehrten zum grössesten Haufen,</p> +<p class="t0">So will ich Dir dennoch in Liebe nachlaufen:</p> +<p class="t0">Denn dein Wort, o Jesu, ist Leben und Geist,</p> +<p class="t0">Was ist wohl, dass man nicht in Jesu geneusst!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Aller Weisheit höchste Fülle</p> +<p class="t2">In Dir ja verborgen liegt:</p> +<p class="t2">Gieb nur, dass sich auch mein Wille</p> +<p class="t2">Fein in solche Schranken fügt,</p> +<p class="t0">Worinnen die Demuth und Einfalt regieret,</p> +<p class="t0">Und mich zu der Weisheit, die himmlisch ist, führet:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach, wenn ich nur Jesum recht kenne und weiss,</p> +<p class="t0">So hab ich der Weisheit vollkommenen Preis.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Nichts kann ich vor Gott ja bringen,</p> +<p class="t2">Als nur Dich, mein höchstes Gut:</p> +<p class="t2">Jesu, es muss mir gelingen</p> +<p class="t2">Durch dein rosenfarbnes Blut:</p> +<p class="t0">Die höchste Gerechtigkeit ist mir erworben,</p> +<p class="t0">Da Du bist am Stamme des Kreuzes gestorben;</p> +<p class="t0">Die Kleider des Heils ich da habe erlangt,</p> +<p class="t0">Worinnen mein Glaube in Ewigkeit prangt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Nun so gieb, dass meine Seele</p> +<p class="t2">Auch nach deinem Bild erwacht;</p> +<p class="t2">Du bist ja, den ich erwähle,</p> +<p class="t2">Mir zur Heiligung gemacht:</p> +<p class="t0">Was dienet zum göttlichen Wandel und Leben,</p> +<p class="t0">Ist in Dir, mein Heiland, mir alles gegeben:</p> +<p class="t0">Entreisse mich aller vergänglichen Lust,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Leben sei, Jesu, mir einzig bewusst.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Ja, was soll ich mehr verlangen?</p> +<p class="t2">Mich beschwemmt der Gnaden Fluth:</p> +<p class="t2">Du bist einmal eingegangen</p> +<p class="t2">In das Heilge durch dein Blut:</p> +<p class="t0">Da hast Du die ewge Erlösung erfunden,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich nun der höllischen Herrschaft entbunden:</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Eingang die völlige Freiheit mir bringt,</p> +<p class="t0">Im kindlichen Geiste das Abba! nun klingt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Volles Gnügen, Fried und Freude</p> +<p class="t2">Jetzo meine Seel ergötzt,</p> +<p class="t2">Weil auf eine frische Weide</p> +<p class="t2">Mein Hirt Jesus mich gesetzt:</p> +<p class="t0">Nichts Süsses kann also mein Herze erlaben,</p> +<p class="t0">Als wenn ich nur, Jesu, Dich immer soll haben;</p> +<p class="t0">Nichts, nichts ist, das also mich innig erquickt,</p> +<p class="t0">Als wenn ich Dich, Jesu, im Glauben erblickt.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Drum auch, Jesu, Du alleine</p> +<p class="t2">Sollst mein Ein und Alles sein;</p> +<p class="t2">Prüf, erfahre, wie ichs meine,</p> +<p class="t2">Tilge allen Heuchelschein:</p> +<p class="t0">Sieh, ob ich auf bösem, betrüglichen Stege,</p> +<p class="t0">Und leite mich, Höchster, auf ewigem Wege;</p> +<p class="t0">Gieb, dass ich hier alles nur achte für Koth,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Jesum gewinne: dies Eine ist Noth.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Schr_oe_der_h">Johann Heinrich Schröder.</a> 1696.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h51e" title="The one thing needful."> +<div title="The one thing needful." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h51g">The one thing needful.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good +part.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>St. Luke</i>, x. 42.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">One thing needful! then, Lord Jesus,</p> +<p class="t3">Keep this one thing in my mind;</p> +<p class="t2">All beside, though first it please us,</p> +<p class="t3">Soon a grievous yoke we find:</p> +<p class="t0">Beneath it the heart is still fretting and striving,</p> +<p class="t0">No true, lasting happiness ever deriving:</p> +<p class="t0">The gain of this one thing all loss can requite,</p> +<p class="t0">And teach me in all things to find some delight.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Soul, wilt thou this one thing find thee?</p> +<p class="t3">Seek it in no earthly end;</p> +<p class="t2">Leave all Nature far behind thee,</p> +<p class="t3">High above the world ascend:</p> +<p class="t0">For where God and man both in one are united,</p> +<p class="t0">With God’s perfect fulness the heart is delighted;</p> +<p class="t0">There, there is the worthiest lot and the best,</p> +<p class="t0">My one and my all, and my joy, and my rest.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">How were Mary’s thoughts devoted</p> +<p class="t3">Her eternal joy to find,</p> +<p class="t2">As intent each word she noted,</p> +<p class="t3">At her Saviour’s feet reclined!</p> +<p class="t0">How kindled her heart, how devout was its feeling,</p> +<p class="t0">While hearing the lessons that Christ was revealing;</p> +<p class="t0">For Jesus all earthly concerns she forgot,</p> +<p class="t0">And all was repaid in that one happy lot.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Thus my longings, heavenward tending,</p> +<p class="t3">Jesus, rest alone on Thee;</p> +<p class="t2">Help me, thus on Thee depending,</p> +<p class="t3">Saviour! come and dwell in me;</p> +<p class="t0">Although all the world should forsake and forget Thee,</p> +<p class="t0">In love I will follow Thee, ne’er will I quit Thee;</p> +<p class="t0">Lord Jesus, both spirit and life is Thy Word,</p> +<p class="t0">And is there a joy which Thou dost not afford!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Wisdom’s highest noblest treasure,</p> +<p class="t3">Jesus, lies concealed in Thee;</p> +<p class="t2">Grant that this may still the measure</p> +<p class="t3">Of my will and actions be,</p> +<p class="t0">Humility there and simplicity reigning,</p> +<p class="t0">In paths of true wisdom my steps ever training;</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! if I of Christ have this knowledge divine,</p> +<p class="t0">The fulness of heavenly wisdom is mine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Christ, Thou art the sole Oblation</p> +<p class="t3">I will bring before my God;</p> +<p class="t2">In His sight is acceptation</p> +<p class="t3">Only through thy streaming Blood:</p> +<p class="t0">Immaculate righteousness I have acquired,</p> +<p class="t0">Since Thou on the tree of the Cross hast expired;</p> +<p class="t0">The robe of salvation for ever is mine,</p> +<p class="t0">In this shall my faith through eternity shine.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Let my soul, in full exemption,</p> +<p class="t3">Wake up in thy likeness now;</p> +<p class="t2">Thou art made to me redemption,</p> +<p class="t3">My sanctìfication thou.</p> +<p class="t0">What though all through life in good works I had striven,</p> +<p class="t0">For thy sake alone my reward should be given:</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! let me all perishing pleasures forego,</p> +<p class="t0">And thy life, O Jesus, alone let me know.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Where should else my hopes be centred?</p> +<p class="t3">Grace o’erwhelms me with its flood!</p> +<p class="t2">Thou, my Saviour, once hast entered</p> +<p class="t3">Holiest heaven through Thy Blood:</p> +<p class="t0">Eternal redemption for sinners there finding,</p> +<p class="t0">From hell’s dark dominion my spirit unbinding,</p> +<p class="t0">To me perfect freedom thy entrance has brought,</p> +<p class="t0">Who childlike to cry “Abba, Father” am taught.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Christ Himself, my Shepherd, feeds me,</p> +<p class="t3">Peace and joy my spirit fill;</p> +<p class="t2">In a pasture green He leads me</p> +<p class="t3">Forth beside the waters still:</p> +<p class="t0">Oh! nought to my soul is so sweet and reviving,</p> +<p class="t0">As thus unto Jesus alone to be living;</p> +<p class="t0">True happiness this, and this only supplies,</p> +<p class="t0">Through faith on my Saviour to fasten my eyes.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t2">Then, Lord Jesus, my Salvation,</p> +<p class="t3">Thou my One, my All shalt be;</p> +<p class="t2">Prove my fixed determination,</p> +<p class="t3">Root out all hypocrisy:</p> +<p class="t0">Look well if on sin’s slippery paths I am hasting,</p> +<p class="t0">And lead me, O Lord, in the way everlasting;</p> +<p class="t0">This one thing is needful, all others are vain,</p> +<p class="t0">I count all but loss that I Christ may obtain.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h52g" title="Bibellied."> +<div title="Bibellied." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h52e">Bibellied.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Mein Wort soll nicht wieder zu Mir leer kommen; sondern +thun, das Mir gefällt, und soll ihm gelingen, dazu Ich es sende.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Walte, walte nah und fern,</p> +<p class="t0">Allgewaltig Wort des Herrn,</p> +<p class="t0">Wo nur seiner Allmacht Ruf</p> +<p class="t0">Menschen für den Himmel schuf.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wort vom Vater, der die Welt</p> +<p class="t0">Schuf und in den Armen hält,</p> +<p class="t0">Und der Sünder Trost und Rath</p> +<p class="t0">Zu uns hergesendet hat!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wort von des Erlösers Huld,</p> +<p class="t0">Der der Erde schwere Schuld</p> +<p class="t0">Durch des heilgen Todes That</p> +<p class="t0">Ewig weggenommen hat!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Kräftig Wort von Gottes Geist,</p> +<p class="t0">Der den Weg zum Himmel weist,</p> +<p class="t0">Und durch seine heilge Kraft</p> +<p class="t0">Wollen und Vollbringen schafft!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wort des Lebens, stark und rein,</p> +<p class="t0">Alle Völker harren dein:</p> +<p class="t0">Walte fort, bis aus der Nacht</p> +<p class="t0">Alle Welt zum Tag erwacht.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Auf zur Erndt in alle Welt!</p> +<p class="t0">Weithin wogt das reife Feld,</p> +<p class="t0">Klein ist noch der Schnitter Zahl,</p> +<p class="t0">Viel der Garben überall.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr der Erndte, gross und gut,</p> +<p class="t0">Weck zum Werke Lust und Muth:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass die Völker allzumal</p> +<p class="t0">Schauen deines Lichtes Stral.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h52e" title="Bible Hymn."> +<div title="Bible Hymn." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h52g">Bible Hymn.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>My word shall not return unto Me void; but it shall accomplish +that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I +sent it.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isa.</i> lv. 11.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Far and near, almighty Word,</p> +<p class="t0">Spread the name of Christ the Lord;</p> +<p class="t0">Far and near extend your leaven,</p> +<p class="t0">Where there dwells an heir of heaven.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Word by God the Father sent,</p> +<p class="t0">Lord of all, Omnipotent!</p> +<p class="t0">Word for sinners’ need supplied,</p> +<p class="t0">As their comfort and their guide!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Word of our Redeemer’s grace,</p> +<p class="t0">Who, to save our sinful race,</p> +<p class="t0">Of our guilt to pay the price,</p> +<p class="t0">Gave Himself a Sacrifice!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Word of God the Spirit’s might,</p> +<p class="t0">Who our heavenward course doth light,</p> +<p class="t0">Prompteth good, and by his breath</p> +<p class="t0">What He prompts accomplisheth.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Word of life, both pure and strong!</p> +<p class="t0">Word for which the heathen long!</p> +<p class="t0">Spread abroad, till out of night</p> +<p class="t0">All the world awake to light.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Up! for lo! earth’s surface o’er</p> +<p class="t0">Waving fields with ripening store!</p> +<p class="t0">Countless sheaves are spread around,</p> +<p class="t0">Few, oh! few the reapers found!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lord of Harvest, great and kind!</p> +<p class="t0">Rouse to action heart and mind;</p> +<p class="t0">Let the gathering nations all</p> +<p class="t0">See thy light, and hear thy call.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h53g" title="Ein Fels ewiglich."> +<div title="Ein Fels ewiglich." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h53e">Ein Fels ewiglich.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Verlasset euch auf den Herrn ewiglich; denn Gott, der Herr, +ist ein Fels ewiglich.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein gute Wehr und Waffen;</p> +<p class="t0">Er hilft uns frei aus aller Noth,</p> +<p class="t0">Die uns jetzt hat betroffen:</p> +<p class="t0">Der alt böse Feind,</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Ernst ers jetzt meint,</p> +<p class="t0">Gross Macht und viel List</p> +<p class="t0">Sein grausam Rüstung ist,</p> +<p class="t0">Auf Erd’ ist nicht seins Gleichen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Mit unser Macht ist nichts gethan,</p> +<p class="t0">Wir sind gar bald verloren;</p> +<p class="t0">Es streit für uns der rechte Mann,</p> +<p class="t0">Den Gott hat selbst erkoren;</p> +<p class="t0">Fragst du, wer der ist?</p> +<p class="t0">Er heisst Jesus Christ,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Herr Zebaoth,</p> +<p class="t0">Und ist kein ander Gott;</p> +<p class="t0">Das Feld muss Er behalten.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär</p> +<p class="t0">Und wollt uns gar verschlingen,</p> +<p class="t0">So fürchten wir uns nicht so sehr,</p> +<p class="t0">Es soll uns doch gelingen:</p> +<p class="t0">Der Fürst dieser Welt,</p> +<p class="t0">Wie saur er sich stellt,</p> +<p class="t0">Thut er uns doch nicht;</p> +<p class="t0">Das macht, er ist gericht,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fällen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn,</p> +<p class="t0">Und kein Dank dazu haben;</p> +<p class="t0">Er ist bei uns wohl auf dem Plan</p> +<p class="t0">Mit seinem Geist und Gaben:</p> +<p class="t0">Nehmen sie den Leib,</p> +<p class="t0">Gut, Ehr, Kind und Weib:</p> +<p class="t0">Lass fahren dahin,</p> +<p class="t0">Sie habens kein Gewinn;</p> +<p class="t0">Das Reich muss uns doch bleiben!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Luther_M">Martin Luther.</a> 1483-1546.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h53e" title="The Rock of Ages."> +<div title="The Rock of Ages." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h53g">The Rock of Ages.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is +everlasting strength.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Isa.</i> xxiv. 4.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A Fortress firm and stedfast Rock</p> +<p class="t">Is God in time of danger,</p> +<p class="t0">A Shield and Sword in every shock,</p> +<p class="t">From foe well known or stranger.</p> +<p class="t3">The old foe of man,</p> +<p class="t3">Intent on his plan,</p> +<p class="t3">With might and with craft</p> +<p class="t2">Still plies each deadly shaft;</p> +<p class="t">His like earth saw not ever.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">In our own might, so lost our plight,</p> +<p class="t">Our arm no conquest gaineth;</p> +<p class="t0">That Righteous Man must win the fight</p> +<p class="t">Whom God Himself ordaineth:</p> +<p class="t3">Thou askest His Name?</p> +<p class="t3">None else bears the same—</p> +<p class="t3">Christ Jesus the Lord,</p> +<p class="t2">As God of Hosts adored,</p> +<p class="t">’Tis He must win the battle.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">And were the world a hungry crew</p> +<p class="t">Of devils all around us,</p> +<p class="t0">Their leaguered host we could subdue,</p> +<p class="t">The thought need not confound us:</p> +<p class="t3">The world’s vanquished prince</p> +<p class="t3">His doom had long since;</p> +<p class="t3">His fiercest array</p> +<p class="t2">One word of faith can fray,</p> +<p class="t">In spite of threatening gesture.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Unharmed the Word shall yet remain—</p> +<p class="t">For this no thanks they merit—</p> +<p class="t0">He aids us on our battle-plain</p> +<p class="t">With his good gifts and Spirit.</p> +<p class="t3">Then take they our life,</p> +<p class="t3">Wealth, fame, child and wife:</p> +<p class="t3">No triumph they gain,</p> +<p class="t2">For all their boast is vain,</p> +<p class="t">While ours is still the kingdom.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h54g" title="Der Morgenstern."> +<div title="Der Morgenstern." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h54e">Der Morgenstern.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Ich bin die Wurzel des Geschlechts Davids, ein heller Morgenstern.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern</p> +<p class="t0">Voll Gnad und Wahrheit von dem Herrn!</p> +<p class="t0">Du süsse Wurzel Jesse,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Davids Sohn aus Jacobs Stamm,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein König und mein Bräutigam</p> +<p class="t0">Hast mir mein Herz besessen:</p> +<p class="t4">Lieblich,</p> +<p class="t4">Freundlich,</p> +<p class="t0">Schön und herrlich, Gross und ehrlich,</p> +<p class="t3">Reich von Gaben,</p> +<p class="t0">Ueber alles hoch erhaben!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O meine Perl, Du werthe Kron,</p> +<p class="t0">Wahr Gottes und Marien Sohn,</p> +<p class="t0">Ein hochgeborner König!</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Herz erfreut sich deiner Ehr;</p> +<p class="t0">Deins heilgen Wortes süsse Lehr</p> +<p class="t0">Ist lauter Milch und Honig:</p> +<p class="t4">Freudig</p> +<p class="t4">Sing ich</p> +<p class="t0">Hosianna! Himmlisch Manna,</p> +<p class="t3">Das wir essen,</p> +<p class="t0">Deiner kann ich nicht vergessen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Geuss sehr tief in mein Herz hinein,</p> +<p class="t0">Du Gottes Licht und Himmelsschein,</p> +<p class="t0">Die Flamme deiner Liebe;</p> +<p class="t0">Und erfreu mich, dass ich doch bleib</p> +<p class="t0">Ein Glied an deinem heilgen Leib</p> +<p class="t0">In reinem Liebestriebe:</p> +<p class="t4">Nach Dir</p> +<p class="t4">Ist mir,</p> +<p class="t0">O holdselge Himmelslilje,</p> +<p class="t3">Aug und Herze</p> +<p class="t0">Hingerückt in süssem Schmerze.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Von Gott kommt mir ein Freudenlicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Wenn Du mit deinem Angesicht</p> +<p class="t0">Mich freundlich thust anblicken:</p> +<p class="t0">O Jesu, Du mein trautes Gut,</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Wort, dein Geist, dein Leib und Blut</p> +<p class="t0">Mich innerlich erquicken:</p> +<p class="t4">Nimm mich</p> +<p class="t4">Freundlich</p> +<p class="t0">In dein Anne, Das ich warme</p> +<p class="t3">Werd von Gnaden;</p> +<p class="t0">Auf dein Wort komm ich geladen.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Herr Gott Vater, mein starker Held,</p> +<p class="t0">Du hast mich ewig vor der Welt</p> +<p class="t0">In deinem Sohn geliebet;</p> +<p class="t0">Dein Sohn hat mich Ihm selbst vertraut,</p> +<p class="t0">Er ist mein Lieb, ich bin sein Braut,</p> +<p class="t0">Sehr hoch in Ihm erfreuet:</p> +<p class="t4">Ewges,</p> +<p class="t4">Selges,</p> +<p class="t0">Himmlisch Leben wird Er geben</p> +<p class="t3">Mir dort oben,</p> +<p class="t0">Ewig soll mein Herz Ihn loben.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Stimmt an der Jubellieder viel,</p> +<p class="t0">Und lasset süsses Saitenspiel</p> +<p class="t0">Ganz freudenreich erschallen,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass ich mit Jesu mög allein,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem wunderschönen Bräutgam mein,</p> +<p class="t0">In steter Liebe wallen:</p> +<p class="t4">Singet,</p> +<p class="t4">Springet,</p> +<p class="t0">Jubiliret, Triumphiret,</p> +<p class="t3">Dankt dem Herren,</p> +<p class="t0">Gross ist der König der Ehren.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wie bin ich doch so herzlich froh,</p> +<p class="t0">Dass meine Lieb, das A und O,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Anfang und das Ende,</p> +<p class="t0">Er wird mich doch zu seinem Preis</p> +<p class="t0">Aufnehmen in das Paradeis,</p> +<p class="t0">Des will ich fröhlich sterben:</p> +<p class="t4">Amen!</p> +<p class="t4">Amen!</p> +<p class="t0">Komm Du schöne Freudenkrone,</p> +<p class="t3">Bleib nicht lange;</p> +<p class="t0">Deiner wart ich mit Verlangen.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Nicolai_P">Philipp Nicolai.</a> 1556-1608.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h54e" title="The Morning Star."> +<div title="The Morning Star." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h54g">The Morning Star.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>I am the Root and Offspring of David, and the bright and +Morning Star.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Rev.</i> xxii. 16.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">How lovely now the Morning Star,</p> +<p class="t0">Sent forth by God from heaven afar,</p> +<p class="t">With truth and mercy shineth!</p> +<p class="t0">Hail! Jesse’s Root and Jacob’s Rod,</p> +<p class="t0">Hail! David’s Offspring, Son of God,</p> +<p class="t">To Thee my heart inclineth:</p> +<p class="t4">Beauteous,</p> +<p class="t4">Bounteous,</p> +<p class="t0">Prince victorious, Great and glorious,</p> +<p class="t3">Freely giving,</p> +<p class="t0">High enthroned o’er all things living.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Hail! Son of Mary, Pearl and Crown,</p> +<p class="t0">Great Bridegroom, King of high renown,</p> +<p class="t">Of royal race descended!</p> +<p class="t0">Thy glory fills my soul, O Lord;</p> +<p class="t0">The doctrine of thy Holy Word</p> +<p class="t">Is milk and honey blended:</p> +<p class="t4">Glad praise</p> +<p class="t4">I raise;</p> +<p class="t0">Hail, Hosanna! Heavenly Manna,</p> +<p class="t3">Food sustaining</p> +<p class="t0">Faith that else might soon be waning.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Shed deep within this heart of mine,</p> +<p class="t0">Thou Holy Flame, Thou Light Divine,</p> +<p class="t">True love by thine excited;</p> +<p class="t0">Thus let my love to thine respond,</p> +<p class="t0">Now joined to Thee in mystic bond,</p> +<p class="t">A member close united:</p> +<p class="t4">In troth—</p> +<p class="t4">Heaven’s growth,</p> +<p class="t0">Lily fairest, Purest, rarest—</p> +<p class="t3">Nought shall sever</p> +<p class="t0">Heart and eye from Thee for ever.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">A joyful ray from heaven above</p> +<p class="t0">Shoots through me when thy look of love</p> +<p class="t">Thou castest down with favour;</p> +<p class="t0">Lord Jesus Christ, my chiefest good,</p> +<p class="t0">Thy Word and Spirit, Flesh and Blood</p> +<p class="t">Refresh me with their favour:</p> +<p class="t4">Let grace</p> +<p class="t4">Embrace,</p> +<p class="t0">Closely folding, Firmly holding,</p> +<p class="t3">Safe from falling,</p> +<p class="t0">Me who come at thine own calling.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O God the Father, God of might,</p> +<p class="t0">Ere yet the world came out of night,</p> +<p class="t">Thou in thy Son didst love me;</p> +<p class="t0">Now safe beneath his shelter housed,</p> +<p class="t0">To Him in heavenly bonds espoused,</p> +<p class="t">His love to love doth move me.</p> +<p class="t4">Joys pure</p> +<p class="t4">Endure</p> +<p class="t0">High in heaven, When ’tis given,</p> +<p class="t3">Tiring never,</p> +<p class="t0">Still to chant thy praise for ever.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then hymns of tuneful gladness sing,</p> +<p class="t0">And wake to joy the sounding string,</p> +<p class="t">For nought shall break this union;</p> +<p class="t0">Each heart with notes of triumph rouse,</p> +<p class="t0">Because with Christ, the Heavenly Spouse,</p> +<p class="t">I live in blest communion.</p> +<p class="t4">The song</p> +<p class="t4">Prolong;</p> +<p class="t0">Jubilate! Exultate;</p> +<p class="t3">Spread the story,</p> +<p class="t0">Great is Christ the King of glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Now joy is come, and sorrow past;</p> +<p class="t0">Alpha, Omega, First and Last,</p> +<p class="t">Of all the source and ending,</p> +<p class="t0">To Paradise my soul shall raise,</p> +<p class="t0">For evermore to sing his praise,</p> +<p class="t">To death sure comfort lending.</p> +<p class="t4">Amen!</p> +<p class="t4">Amen!</p> +<p class="t0">My chief treasure, Crown and pleasure,</p> +<p class="t3">Wait no longer;</p> +<p class="t0">Evermore my love grows stronger.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h55g" title="Lobgesang. I."> +<div title="Lobgesang. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h55e">Lobgesang. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Bringet her dem Herrn die Ehre seinen Namen.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Vater aller Güte,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Gott, Der alle Wunder thut,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Gott, Der mein Gemüthe</p> +<p class="t0">Mit seinem reichen Trost erfüllt,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Gott, Der allen Jammer stillt:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Es danken Dir die Himmelsheer</p> +<p class="t0">O Herrscher aller Thronen,</p> +<p class="t0">Und die auf Erden, Lust und Meer</p> +<p class="t0">In deinem Schatten wohnen.</p> +<p class="t0">Die preisen deine Schöpfermacht,</p> +<p class="t0">Die alles also wohl bedacht:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Was unser Gott geschaffen hat,</p> +<p class="t0">Das will Er auch erhalten;</p> +<p class="t0">Darüber will Er früh und spat</p> +<p class="t0">Mit seiner Gnade walten:</p> +<p class="t0">In seinem ganzen Königreich</p> +<p class="t0">Ist alles recht, ist alles gleich:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich rief dem Herrn in meiner Noth:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach Gott, vernimm mein Schreien!</p> +<p class="t0">Da half mein Helfer mir vom Tod,</p> +<p class="t0">Und liess mir Trost gedeihen:</p> +<p class="t0">Drum dank, ach Gott, drum dank ich Dir:</p> +<p class="t0">Ach danket, danket Gott mit mir,</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der Herr ist noch und nimmer nicht</p> +<p class="t0">Von seinem Volk geschieden;</p> +<p class="t0">Er bleibet ihre Zuversicht,</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr Segen, Heil und Frieden:</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Mutterhänden leitet Er</p> +<p class="t0">Die Seinen stetig hin und her:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Wenn Trost und Hülf ermangeln muss,</p> +<p class="t0">Die alle Welt erzeiget,</p> +<p class="t0">So kommt und hilft der Ueberfluss,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Schöpfer selbst, und neiget</p> +<p class="t0">Die Vateraugen denen zu,</p> +<p class="t0">Die sonsten nirgends finden Ruh:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ich will Dich all mein Lebelang,</p> +<p class="t0">O Gott, von nun an ehren;</p> +<p class="t0">Man soll, o Gott, dein Lobgesang</p> +<p class="t0">An allen Orten hören:</p> +<p class="t0">Mein ganzes Herz ermuntre sich,</p> +<p class="t0">Mein Seel und Leib, erfreue dich:</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Ihr, die ihr Christi Namen nennt,</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre;</p> +<p class="t0">Ihr, die ihr Gottes Macht bekennt,</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre:</p> +<p class="t0">Die falschen Götzen macht zu Spott,</p> +<p class="t0">Der Herr ist Gott! der Herr ist Gott!</p> +<p class="t0">Gebt unserm Gott die Ehre!</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Schutz_JJ">Johann Jacob Schütz.</a> 1640-1690.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h55e" title="Hymn of Praise. I."> +<div title="Hymn of Praise. I." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h55g">Hymn of Praise. I.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> xcvi. 8.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Sing praise to God Who reigns above,</p> +<p class="t">The God of all creation,</p> +<p class="t0">The God of power, the God of love,</p> +<p class="t">The God of our salvation;</p> +<p class="t0">With healing balm my soul He fills,</p> +<p class="t0">And every faithless murmur stills;</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The angel host, O King of kings,</p> +<p class="t">Thy praise for ever telling,</p> +<p class="t0">In earth and sky all living things</p> +<p class="t">Beneath thy shadow dwelling,</p> +<p class="t0">Adore the wisdom which could span,</p> +<p class="t0">And power which formed creation’s plan;</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">What God’s almighty power hath made</p> +<p class="t">His gracious mercy keepeth;</p> +<p class="t0">By morning glow or evening shade,</p> +<p class="t">His watchful eye ne’er sleepeth:</p> +<p class="t0">Within the Kingdom of his might,</p> +<p class="t0">Lo! all is just, and all is right:</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">I cried to God in my distress—</p> +<p class="t">In mercy hear my calling—</p> +<p class="t0">My Saviour saw my helplessness,</p> +<p class="t">And kept my feet from falling;</p> +<p class="t0">For this, Lord, thanks and praise to Thee!</p> +<p class="t0">Praise God, I say, praise God with me!</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The Lord is never far away,</p> +<p class="t">Throughout all grief distressing</p> +<p class="t0">An ever-present help and stay,</p> +<p class="t">Our peace, and joy, and blessing.</p> +<p class="t0">As with a mother’s tender hand,</p> +<p class="t0">He leads his own, his chosen band;</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">When every earthly hope has flown</p> +<p class="t">From sorrow’s sons and daughters,</p> +<p class="t0">Our Father from his heavenly throne</p> +<p class="t">Beholds the troubled waters;</p> +<p class="t0">And at his Word the storm is stayed</p> +<p class="t0">Which made his children’s hearts afraid;</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Then all my gladsome way along,</p> +<p class="t">I sing aloud Thy praises,</p> +<p class="t0">That men may hear the grateful song</p> +<p class="t">My voice unwearied raises:</p> +<p class="t0">Be joyful in the Lord, my heart!</p> +<p class="t0">Both soul and body bear your part!</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">O ye who name Christ’s holy Name,</p> +<p class="t">Give God all praise and glory!</p> +<p class="t0">All ye who own his power, proclaim</p> +<p class="t">Aloud the wondrous story!</p> +<p class="t0">Cast each false idol from his throne,</p> +<p class="t0">The Lord is God, and He alone;</p> +<p class="t">To God all praise and glory!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h56g" title="Lobgesang. II."> +<div title="Lobgesang. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h56e">Lobgesang. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote><div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Danket dem Herrn, denn Er ist freundlich:</p> +<p class="t0">Und feine Güte währet ewiglich.</p> +</div></blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Nun danket alle Gott</p> +<p class="t0">Mit Herzen, Mund und Händen,</p> +<p class="t0">Der grosse Dinge thut</p> +<p class="t0">An uns und allen Enden;</p> +<p class="t0">Der uns von Mutterleib</p> +<p class="t0">Und Kindesbeinen an</p> +<p class="t0">Unzählig viel zu gut</p> +<p class="t0">Und noch jetzund gethan.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Der ewig reiche Gott</p> +<p class="t0">Woll uns bei unserm Leben</p> +<p class="t0">Ein immer fröhlich Herz</p> +<p class="t0">Und edlen Frieden geben,</p> +<p class="t0">Und uns in seiner Gnad</p> +<p class="t0">Erhalten fort und fort,</p> +<p class="t0">Ja uns aus aller Noth</p> +<p class="t0">Erlösen hier und dort.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lob, Ehr und Preis sei Gott,</p> +<p class="t0">Dem Vater und dem Sohne,</p> +<p class="t0">Und Dem der beiden gleich,</p> +<p class="t0">Im höchsten Himmelsthrone:</p> +<p class="t0">Dem dreimaleinen Gott,</p> +<p class="t0">Als Der ursprünglich war</p> +<p class="t0">Und ist und bleiben wird</p> +<p class="t0">Jetzund und immerdar.</p> +</div> +<span class="author"><a href="#Rinkart_M">Martin Rinckart.</a> 1585-1649.</span> +</div> +</div> +<div class="hymn" id="h56e" title="Hymn of Praise. II."> +<div title="Hymn of Praise. II." class="hymn"> +<h3><a href="#h56g">Hymn of Praise. II.</a></h3> +<blockquote> +<p>O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy +endureth for ever.</p> +<p><span class="lr"><span class="scripRef"><i>Ps.</i> cxxxvi. 1.</span></span></p> +</blockquote> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">Lift heart, and hands, and voice</p> +<p class="t">To God’s bright throne of glory;</p> +<p class="t0">In grateful songs rejoice,</p> +<p class="t">And tell aloud the story,</p> +<p class="t0">How from our natal day</p> +<p class="t">His mercies numberless</p> +<p class="t0">Have blest us on our way,</p> +<p class="t">And still unnumbered bless.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">The ever bounteous Lord,</p> +<p class="t">Throughout our life’s duration,</p> +<p class="t0">Wilt joy of heart afford,</p> +<p class="t">Through hope of his salvation:</p> +<p class="t0">In trial’s grievous hour</p> +<p class="t">His Arm will hold us fast,</p> +<p class="t0">And from temptation’s power</p> +<p class="t">Will set us free at last.</p> +</div> +<div class="verse"> +<p class="t0">To Father and to Son</p> +<p class="t">Be praise and glory given,</p> +<p class="t0">And to that Holy One</p> +<p class="t">Who reigns with them in heaven:</p> +<p class="t0">To God, the One in Three,</p> +<p class="t">The God Who is, and was,</p> +<p class="t0">And evermore shall be:—</p> +<p class="t">The One Eternal Cause!</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="biblio" title="Short Account of the Authors"> +<h2 id="c4">SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHORS.</h2> +<div class="biography" id="Angelus_J" title="Angelus, Johann"> +<p><span class="sc">Angelus, Johann</span>—1624-1677—whose +real name was Scheffler, native of +Breslau, physician in ordinary to the +Emperor Ferdinand the Third. In the +year 1653 he resigned this post, went over to the +Church of Rome, and became a priest, having previously, +by a singular fancy, assumed the name of +Angelus.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Arndt_EM" title="Arndt, Ernst Moritz"> +<p><span class="sc">Arndt, Ernst Moritz</span>—1769-1860—born in +the Isle of Rugen; in 1806 professor of philosophy +at Greifswald, whole political writings so aroused the +national spirit against the hated dominion of Napoleon, +that they may be regarded as having mainly +influenced the combination which eventually restored +the independence of Germany. After the restoration, +he was appointed professor of history at Bonn, in +1816; but in a few years having become an object of +suspicion to the government, he was suspended, and +ultimately deprived of his professorship. From being +a writer of popular songs, he became a writer of sacred +ones. His hymn “Geht nun hin und grabt mein +Grab,” must be reckoned one of the greatest gems of +sacred poetry of the century.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Louisa_H" title="Henrietta Louisa"> +<p><span class="sc">Brandenburg, Luise Henriette, Electress of</span>—1627-1667—the +daughter of Frederick Henry, +and wife of Frederick William, Princes of Orange. +A Princess distinguished for her gentleness and charity. +She was the foundress of the Oranienburg Orphan +Asylum.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Ulrich_A" title="Anton Ulrich"> +<p><span class="sc">Brunswick, Anton Ulrich, Duke of</span>—1633-1714—pupil +of the learned Schottelius; a learned +Prince, who was a popular writer of his time.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Burde_SG" title="Bürde, Samuel Gottlieb"> +<p><span class="sc">Bürde, Samuel Gottlieb</span>—1753-?—native of +Breslau, royal secretary to the board of finances at +that place.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Foque_FHC" title="Fouqué, Friedrich Freiherr, de la Motte"> +<p><span class="sc">Fouqué, Friedrich Freiherr, de la Motte</span>, +born, in 1777, at Neubrandenberg. The worthy +and distinguished descendant of the brave, intellectual, +and pious general of Frederick the Great; he has +given a beautiful and lasting memorial of his poetical +spirit and his Christian mind, in the hymn “Was +du vor tausend Jahren.” He died at Halle in 1843.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Freylinghausen_JA" title="Freylinghausen, Johann Anastasius"> +<p><span class="sc">Freylinghausen, Johann Anastasius</span>—1670-1739—born +at Gandersheim, in Wolfenbüttel; a +clergyman, and director of the Orphan Asylum at +Halle.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Gellert_CF" title="Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott"> +<p><span class="sc">Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott</span>—1715-1769—a +Saxon, native of Haynichen, in Erzgebirge, and +son of the minister of that place. He studied theology, +in distressed circumstances, at Leipzig, but his +bad health did not allow him to preach. He lived +at Leipzig, and gave lectures (first as a master of arts +and afterwards as extraordinary professor) on eloquence +and moral philosophy, and gained as universally +the reputation of an author and a pattern of +pure taste, as he did love and esteem as a man and a +Christian, by his integrity of conduct, and his unaffected +piety and humility. Composing hymns was +his favourite employment, in which, together with +prayer, he spent the happiest hours of his life of +suffering. All his hymns speak the simple Christian +poet of the people, and many of them have lasting +classic merit. His death, as was his life, was worthy +of a Christian. When, in his last illness, his friends +told him, in answer to his question, that the struggle +between life and death might probably last an hour, +he lifted up his hands with a cheerful countenance, +exclaimed, “Now, God be praised, only an hour!” +turned on his side, his eyes gleaming with joy, and +gently breathed his last.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Gerhardt_P" title="Gerhard, Paul"> +<p><span class="sc">Gerhard, Paul</span>—1606-1676—of Gräfenhaynichen, +in the circle of the Electorate; the greatest of +German hymn-writers. Scarcely had he attained his +twelfth year, when the Thirty years’ war broke out. +Forced to quit his native land, he was appointed, in +1631, preacher at the Nicolai Church at Berlin, +where he remained ten years, honoured and respected. +But as his religious opinions differed from those of the +King, he was ordered to quit the country. Utterly +destitute, he and his wife directed their steps towards +his native land, performing the journey on foot. +When evening arrived, they sought repose at a little +village inn, when his wife gave way to a burst of +natural emotion. Gerhard reminded her of the text +beginning “Commit thy way unto the Lord,” and +retiring to an arbour in the garden, he composed the +hymn “Befiehl du deine Wege,” for which of all +others he is most celebrated. When they were about +to retire to rest, two gentlemen entered the parlour +in which they were seated. One of them, in conversing +with the poet, told him they were on their +way to Berlin, in search of the deposed clergyman, +Paul Gerhard, by order of Duke Christian of Merseberg. +Gerhard’s wife turned pale, but he calmly +declared he was the person they were seeking. Great +was the astonishment of both husband and wife, when +one of the strangers delivered to Gerhard a letter from +the duke, informing him that he had settled a considerable +pension on him, as a compensation for +the injustice of which he had been a victim. Then +Gerhard turned to his wife, and gave her the hymn +he had composed, with the words “See how God +provides! did I not bid you to trust in God and all +would be well?”</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Gunter_C" title="Günther, Cyriacus"> +<p><span class="sc">Günther, Cyriacus</span>—1650-1704—born at +Goldbach, a preceptor in the Gymnasium at Gotha.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Heermann_J" title="Heermann, Johann"> +<p><span class="sc">Heermann, Johann</span>—1585-1647—a native of +Silesia, born at Rauden, the son of a furrier, early +destined for the Church by his pious mother. He +was minister at Koban, in Fürstenthum Glogau, but +his bad health obliged him to resign his appointment, +and he spent the last thirteen years of his life at +Lissa. Being much tried during the horrors of the +Thirty years’ war, in which he several times almost +miraculously escaped being murdered, his mind became +more spiritually enlightened through his bodily +sufferings, in the midst of which he wrote the greater +number of his hymns, which are a true picture of +his pious, humble, and prayerful soul. He dedicated +them “Seinen lieben Kindern” (to his dear children).</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Lange_E" title="Lange, Ernst"> +<p><span class="sc">Lange, Ernst</span>—1650-1727—of Dantzic, member +of the town-council of that place. His hymns appeared +in 1701.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Lavater_JC2" title="Lavater, Johann Caspar"> +<p><span class="sc">Lavater, Johann Caspar</span>—1741-1801—minister +in his native town, Zuric; who, with many infirmities +and peculiarities, was an active and sincere +Christian, and a talented orator, writer, and sacred +poet. He died, after having performed the most +blessed actions, and having been tried with many +afflicitons, which he bore with piety and constancy, +in consequence of a fatal shot, which a French soldier +maliciously aimed at him, after the storming of Zuric +in 1799, as he was consoling and administering to +the wants of the sufferers, in the streets. His hymns +are numerous, and have been repeatedly printed.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Luther_M" title="Luther, Doctor Martin"> +<p><span class="sc">Luther, Doctor Martin</span>—1483-1546—born at +Eisleben—the bold and uncompromising Reformer, +whose simple yet vigorous hymns, full of evangelical +doctrine, (for many of which he himself composed +the tunes), found their way to the hearts of his +countrymen; and had, perhaps, as much influence +as his polemical writings in furthering the great work +of the Reformation.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Meyfart_JM" title="Meyfart, Johann Matthias"> +<p><span class="sc">Meyfart, Johann Matthias</span>—1590-1642—born +at Wahlwinkel in the Duchy of Gotha, a learned +and talented theologian. His hymn “Jerusalem, du +hochgebaute Stadt,” in point of simplicity and sweetness +has few equals.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Neuss_HG1" title="Neuss, Heinrich Georg"> +<p><span class="sc">Neuss, Heinrich Georg</span>—1664-1716—native of Elbingerode, +superintendent<a class="fn" id="fr_2" href="#fn_2">[2]</a> +at Wernigerode. He published one hundred and thirty-four hymns in +his “Hebopfer,” (heave-offering).</p> +<div class="fnblock"><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_2" href="#fr_2">[2]</a>That is, in the Lutheran Church, +one who has the ecclesiastical direction of a certain district. +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Nicolai_P" title="Nicolai, Philipp"> +<p><span class="sc">Nicolai, Philipp</span>—1556-1608—a native of +Waldeck, a learned theologian, and a parish priest a +Hamburgh. His hymns “Wachet auf, ruft uns +die Stimme,” and “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern,” +with their incomparable tunes, will ever +remain favourites with the German nation. The +latter was, in earlier times, almost always sung at +weddings, especially of the country people.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Oswald_HS1" title="Oswald, Heinrich Siegmund"> +<p><span class="sc">Oswald, Heinrich Siegmund</span>—privy-counsellor +at Breslau, who published, in 1793, “Gedichte und +Lieder fürs Herz!” He lived to a great age. +From the “Schwanen-lieder,” (swan’s songs) of this +venerable old man, is taken “Wem in Leidenstagen.”</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Rambach_JJ6" title="Rambach, Johann"> +<p><span class="sc">Rambach, Johann</span>—1693-1735—born at Halle, +professor and superintendent at Giessen, a learned +and truly pious man. His hymns combine the simplicity +of the old with the fervour of the later school. +They formed a much needed counterpoise to the +preponderance of most hymn-writers of his day to +sentimental and egotistic effusions.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Richter_CF" title="Richter, Christian Friedrich"> +<p><span class="sc">Richter, Christian Friedrich</span>—1676-1711—a +distinguished and pious physician of Soran, in Lower +Lusatia; he died in the prime of life, as he had +himself predicted, while physician in the Orphan +Asylum at Halle.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Rinkart_M" title="Rinckart, Martin"> +<p><span class="sc">Rinckart, Martin</span>—1585-1649—a Saxon of +Eilenburg in Misnia, where he was an archdeacon. +His hymn “Nun danket alle Gott,” with the fine +tune appropriated to it, has been called the national +Te Deum of Germany.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Rist_J" title="Rist, Johann"> +<p><span class="sc">Rist, Johann</span>—1607-1667—of the province of +Holstein, born at Ottensen, near Altona, member of +the ecclesiastical council and minister at Wedel; one +of the most celebrated and influential poets of his +day. He was, in the pulpit, as well as in sacred +verse, an earnest preacher of Christianity, and was +consequently attacked by the zealots of his time, +because he did not preach enough upon matters in +dispute, and against erroneous doctrine. To this he +replied, that, “In his parish there were scarcely two +persons who held erroneous doctrine, but there were +many who led sinful lives.” He had great trials in +his youth, and in his later years he suffered from +pillage, pestilence, and all the horrors of war. “The +blessed cross,” he says, “has produced from me +many hymns.” Though a great number of his +hymns were adopted by many churches even during +his lifetime, he would never suffer them to be sung +in his own church, with the exception of a Christmas +hymn, which, on one occasion, he allowed the +children of the school to practise, and to begin to +sing on that festival, “Wenn das Volk aus der Kirche +zu gehen beginnt,” as the people were beginning to +go out of church.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Sacer_GW" title="Sacer, Gottfried Wilhelm"> +<p><span class="sc">Sacer, Gottfried Wilhelm</span>—1635-1699—a native +of Naumburg, who was at his death an advocate +and privy-counsellor at Wolfenbüttel, distinguished +in his official duties by a strict conscientiousness, and +the most unbounded benevolence. He wrote the +greater number of his hymns whilst a student at the +university of Greifswald. Only a part of them appeared +during his lifetime: they were collected and +published in 1714, and immediately procured him +the reputation of a distinguished poet.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Schenk_HT" title="Schenk, Theodor"> +<p><span class="sc">Schenk, Theodor</span>—born at Alsfeld, died in +1727, whilst minister of the town of Giessen.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Schmolck_B" title="Schmolck, Benjamin"> +<p><span class="sc">Schmolck, Benjamin</span>—1672-1737—a Silesian +born at Brauchitschdorf, minister at Schweidnitz; a +man of great piety, and very influential in his day. +Most of his hymns (and they were above a thousand +in number) are distinguished by a truly poetical and +peculiar genius. Their characteristic is a simplicity +and sincerity, which emulates that of Paul Gerhard, +but without his sublimity.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Schr_oe_der_h" title="Schröder, Johann Heinrich"> +<p><span class="sc">Schröder, Johann Heinrich</span>—native of Calenberg; +in 1696 he was minister at Magdeburg.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Schutz_JJ" title="Schütz, Johann Jacob"> +<p><span class="sc">Schütz, Johann Jacob</span>—1640-1690—native of +Frankfort, an attorney and member of the council +of that city. His one single hymn “Sei Lob und +Ehr dem höchsten Gut,” appeared anonymously in +1673, and at once excited much interest, being +ascribed to Hugo Grotius and others. It has ever +since been considered one of the chief ornaments of +German hymnology.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Tersteegen_G" title="Tersteegen, Gerhard"> +<p><span class="sc">Tersteegen, Gerhard</span>—1697-1769—born at +Mörs; he resided at Mülheim an der Ruhr, as a +ribbon-maker; a gentle heaven-inspired soul, whose +hymns are the reflection of a heavenly, happy life, +his mind being full of a childlike simplicity.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Wiesenmayer_B" title="Wiesenmayer, Burchard"> +<p><span class="sc">Wiesenmayer</span> (or <span class="sc">Wiedemayer</span>), <span class="sc">Burchard</span>, the +author, not otherwise known, of several hymns. The +first line of his Morning Hymn is in imitation of +Nicolai’s more celebrated hymn, “Wie schön leuchtet +der Morgenstern.”</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Wulffer_D" title="Wülffer, Daniel"> +<p><span class="sc">Wülffer, Daniel</span>—1617-1685—born at Nuremburg, +a professor and minister in that city. The +hymn “O Ewigkeit, O Ewigkeit,” is a serious and +pious consideration of, and apostrophe to, Eternity, +which in the last verse replies to man. The first +seven verses, as far as the words “O lange Freud, +O langes Leid,” Wülffer found in an old hymn-book, +perhaps that of Cologne; he improved them, and +added the spirited conclusion.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Zihn_JF" title="Zihn, Johann Friedrich"> +<p><span class="sc">Zihn, Johann Friedrich</span>—1650-1719—Archdeacon +at Suhla, in the province of Henneberg, of +which place he was a native. He was the author of +six hymns, of which “Gott lebet noch” is the best +known.</p> +</div> +<div class="biography" id="Zwick_J" title="Zwick, Johann"> +<p><span class="sc">Zwick, Johann</span>—of Kostnitz, who died +1542; he was first a jurist, and afterwards a theologian +and minister in his native city; a pious and learned +man.</p> +</div> +</div> +<div title="ALPHABETISCHES REGISTER."> +<h2>ALPHABETISCHES REGISTER.</h2> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt class="jr">Seite</dt> +<dt><a href="#h32g">Ach, was ist doch unsre Zeit?</a> 134</dt> +<dt><a href="#h5g">Auf! auf! weil der Tag erschienen</a> 22</dt> +<dt><a href="#h9g">Auf, schicke dich</a> 38</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h37g">Befiehl du deine Wege</a> 160</dt> +<dt><a href="#h11g">Bei stiller Nacht</a> 44</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h13g">Da Jesus an des Kreuzes Stamm</a> 56</dt> +<dt><a href="#h4g">Der Tag ist hin</a> 18</dt> +<dt><a href="#h3g">Die goldne Sonne</a> 12</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h53g">Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott</a> 226</dt> +<dt><a href="#h26g">Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld</a> 106</dt> +<dt><a href="#h41g">Ein reines Herz, Herr, schaff in mir,</a> 176</dt> +<dt><a href="#h51g">Eins ist Noth: ach Herr, dies Eine</a> 216</dt> +<dt><a href="#h20g">Erhebt euch, frohe Jubellieder</a> 78</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h35g">Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud</a> 148</dt> +<dt><a href="#h21g">Geht nun hin und grabt mein Grab</a> 82</dt> +<dt><a href="#h45g">Gott, Den ich als Liebe kenne</a> 190</dt> +<dt><a href="#h15g">Gott fähret auf gen Himmel</a> 62</dt> +<dt><a href="#h31g">Gott lebet noch!</a> 128</dt> +<dt><a href="#h38g">Guter Hirte, willst Du nicht</a> 168</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h27g">Halt im Gedächtniss Jesum Christ</a> 110</dt> +<dt><a href="#h12g">Herzliebster Jesu, was hast Du verbrochen</a> 50</dt> +<dt><a href="#h49g">Himmelan geht unsre Bahn</a> 210</dt> +<dt><a href="#h17g">Hochheilige Dreieinigkeit</a> 68</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h36g">Ich singe Dir mit Herz und Mund</a> 154</dt> +<dt><a href="#h48g">Ich will von meiner Missethat</a> 204</dt> +<dt><a href="#h10g">Im Abend blinkt der Morgenstern</a> 42</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h25g">Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt</a> 100</dt> +<dt><a href="#h14g">Jesus lebt, mit Ihm auch ich</a> 60</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h34g">Keine Schönheit hat die Welt</a> 144</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h24g">Lebt, ihr Christen, so allhier auf Erden</a> 96</dt> +<dt><a href="#h47g">Liebe, die Du mich zum Bilde</a> 200</dt> +<dt><a href="#h18g">Liebster Jesu, hier sind wir</a> 72</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h19g">Mein Jesu, der Du vor dem Scheiden</a> 74</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h28g">Nach Dir, o Gott, verlanget mich</a> 114</dt> +<dt><a href="#h56g">Nun danket alle Gott</a> 238</dt> +<dt><a href="#h2g">Nun ruhen alle Wälder</a> 8</dt> +<dt><a href="#h50g">Nun so will ich denn mein Leben</a> 234</dt> +<dt><a href="#h43g">Nun tret ich wieder aus der Ruh</a> 184</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h33g">O Ewigkeit! O Ewigkeit!</a> 138</dt> +<dt><a href="#h16g">O Geist des Herrn, nur deine Kraft</a> 66</dt> +<dt><a href="#h42g">O Gott, Du frommer Gott</a> 178</dt> +<dt><a href="#h46g">O Liebe Seele, könntst du werden</a> 196</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h55g">Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut</a> 234</dt> +<dt><a href="#h22g">So hab ich obgesieget</a> 86</dt> +<dt><a href="#h40g">Steil und dornig ist der Pfad</a> 174</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h7g">Wach auf, wach auf, du sichre Welt</a> 30</dt> +<dt><a href="#h6g">Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme</a> 26</dt> +<dt><a href="#h52g">Walte, walte nah und fern</a> 222</dt> +<dt><a href="#h39g">Was Du vor tausend Jahren</a> 170</dt> +<dt><a href="#h30g">Was Gott thut, das ist wohl gethan</a> 124</dt> +<dt><a href="#h44g">Wem in Leidenstagen</a> 188</dt> +<dt><a href="#h23g">Wer sind die vor Gottes Throne?</a> 90</dt> +<dt><a href="#h1g">Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern</a> 2</dt> +<dt><a href="#h54g">Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern</a> 228</dt> +<dt><a href="#h8g">Wir singen Dir, Immanuel</a> 34</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h29g">Zeuch ein zu deinen Thoren</a> 116</dt> +</dl> +</div> +<div title="ALPHABETICAL INDEX."> +<h2>ALPHABETICAL INDEX.</h2> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt class="jr">Page</dt> +<dt><a href="#h53e">A Fortress firm and steadfast Rock</a> 227</dt> +<dt><a href="#h26e">A holy, pure, and spotless Lamb</a> 107</dt> +<dt><a href="#h41e">A new and contrite heart create</a> 177</dt> +<dt><a href="#h39e">A thousand years have fleeted</a> 171</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h27e">Bear Jesus Christ the Lord in mind</a> 111</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h29e">Come, enter Thine own portal</a> 117</dt> +<dt><a href="#h35e">Come forth, my heart, and seek delight</a> 149</dt> +<dt><a href="#h9e">Come, tune your heart</a> 39</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h34e">Earth has nothing sweet or fair</a> 145</dt> +<dt><a href="#h33e">Eternity! Eternity!</a> 139</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h52e">Far and near, almighty Word</a> 223</dt> +<dt><a href="#h43e">From blest, unconscious sleep I wake again</a> 185</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h21e">Go! and let my grave be made</a> 83</dt> +<dt><a href="#h31e">God liveth still!</a> 129</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h49e">Heavenward still our pathway tends</a> 211</dt> +<dt><a href="#h1e">How lovely now the Morning-star</a> 3</dt> +<dt><a href="#h54e">How lovely now the Morning-star</a> 229</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h36e">I sing to Thee with mouth and heart</a> 155</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h25e">Jerusalem! thou City towering high</a> 101</dt> +<dt><a href="#h14e">Jesus lives! no longer now</a> 61</dt> +<dt><a href="#h18e">Jesus, Lord, Thy servants see</a> 73</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h56e">Lift heart, and hands, and voice</a> 239</dt> +<dt><a href="#h15e">Lo! God to heaven ascendeth!</a> 63</dt> +<dt><a href="#h50e">Lo! my choice is now decided</a> 215</dt> +<dt><a href="#h47e">Love, Who in the first beginning</a> 201</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h17e">Most high and holy Trinity!</a> 69</dt> +<dt><a href="#h22e">My race is now completed</a> 87</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h2e">Now hushed are woods and waters</a> 9</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h24e">O fear not, Christians, that rough path to tread</a> 97</dt> +<dt><a href="#h45e">O God, Whose attributes shine forth in turn</a> 191</dt> +<dt><a href="#h16e">O Holy Ghost! thy heavenly dew</a> 67</dt> +<dt><a href="#h28e">O Lord! I long thy face to see</a> 115</dt> +<dt><a href="#h19e">O Lord, Who on that last sad eve</a> 75</dt> +<dt><a href="#h44e">Oh! let him whose sorrow</a> 189</dt> +<dt><a href="#h51e">One thing needful! then, Lord Jesus</a> 217</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h20e">Rise high, ye notes, a glad ovation</a> 79</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h13e">Seven Times our blessed Saviour spoke</a> 57</dt> +<dt><a href="#h55e">Sing praise to God Who reigns above</a> 235</dt> +<dt><a href="#h46e">Soul, while on earth thou still remainest</a> 197</dt> +<dt><a href="#h40e">Steep and thorny is the way</a> 175</dt> +<dt><a href="#h3e">Sunbeams all golden</a> 13</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h4e">The day is o’er</a> 19</dt> +<dt><a href="#h7e">The Last of Days will come indeed</a> 31</dt> +<dt><a href="#h10e">The wondering sages trace from far</a> 43</dt> +<dt><a href="#h42e">Thou good and gracious God</a> 179</dt> +<dt><a href="#h37e">To God thy way commending</a> 161</dt> +</dl> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt><a href="#h6e">Wake! the startling watchcry pealeth</a> 27</dt> +<dt><a href="#h5e">Wake! the welcome Day appeareth</a> 23</dt> +<dt><a href="#h8e">We sing to Thee, Emmanuel</a> 35</dt> +<dt><a href="#h30e">What God bath done is done aright</a> 125</dt> +<dt><a href="#h32e">What is human life below?</a> 135</dt> +<dt><a href="#h12e">What laws, my blessed Saviour, hast Thou broken</a> 51</dt> +<dt><a href="#h23e">Who are these, like stars appearing,</a> 91</dt> +<dt><a href="#h38e">Wilt Thou not, my Shepherd true</a> 169</dt> +<dt><a href="#h48e">With sorrow now for past misdeeds</a> 205</dt> +<dt><a href="#h11e">Within a Garden’s bound</a> 45</dt> +</dl> +</div> +<h2 id="c5">INDEX OF SUBJECTS.</h2> +<div title="INHALTSVERZEICHNIS."> +<h2>INHALTSVERZEICHNIS.</h2> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt class="jr">Seite</dt> +<dt><a href="#h1g">Morgenlied</a> 2</dt> +<dt><a href="#h2g">Abendlied</a> 8</dt> +<dt><a href="#h3g">Morgenlied</a> 12</dt> +<dt><a href="#h4g">Abendlied</a> 18</dt> +<dt><a href="#h5g">Adventlied. I.</a> 22</dt> +<dt><a href="#h6g">Adventlied. II.</a> 26</dt> +<dt><a href="#h7g">Adventlied. III.</a> 30</dt> +<dt><a href="#h8g">Weihnachtslied, I.</a> 34</dt> +<dt><a href="#h9g">Weihnachtslied. II.</a> 38</dt> +<dt><a href="#h10g">Epiphaniaslied</a> 42</dt> +<dt><a href="#h11g">Gethsemane</a> 44</dt> +<dt><a href="#h12g">Lied für den Charfreitag. I.</a> 50</dt> +<dt><a href="#h13g">Lied für den Charfreitag. II.</a> 56</dt> +<dt><a href="#h14g">Osterlied</a> 60</dt> +<dt><a href="#h15g">Himmelfahrtslied</a> 62</dt> +<dt><a href="#h16g">Pfingstlied</a> 66</dt> +<dt><a href="#h17g">Lied für die Trinitatiszeit</a> 68</dt> +<dt><a href="#h18g">Tauflied</a> 72</dt> +<dt><a href="#h19g">Lied zur Heiligen Communion</a> 74</dt> +<dt><a href="#h20g">Trauungslied</a> 78</dt> +<dt><a href="#h21g">Des Sterbenden Christens Lebewohl</a> 82</dt> +<dt><a href="#h22g">Beim Begräbnis eines Kindes</a> 86</dt> +<dt><a href="#h23g">Verklärte Heiligen</a> 90</dt> +<dt><a href="#h24g">Christi Fusstapfen</a> 96</dt> +<dt><a href="#h25g">Die Himmelsstadt</a> 100</dt> +<dt><a href="#h26g">Das unschuldige Lamm</a> 106</dt> +<dt><a href="#h27g">Aufsehend auf Jesum</a> 110</dt> +<dt><a href="#h28g">Gottergebenheit</a> 114</dt> +<dt><a href="#h29g">Anrufung des Heiligen Geistes</a> 116</dt> +<dt><a href="#h30g">Gottvertrauen</a> 124</dt> +<dt><a href="#h31g">Selbstgespräch eines Christen</a> 128</dt> +<dt><a href="#h32g">Die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens</a> 134</dt> +<dt><a href="#h33g">Ewigkeit</a> 138</dt> +<dt><a href="#h34g">Sommerlied. I.</a> 144</dt> +<dt><a href="#h35g">Sommerlied. II.</a> 148</dt> +<dt><a href="#h36g">Gottes Vorsehung</a> 154</dt> +<dt><a href="#h37g">Das Vertrauende Herz</a> 160</dt> +<dt><a href="#h38g">Lied an dem Treuen Hirte</a> 168</dt> +<dt><a href="#h39g">Christus unser Licht</a> 170</dt> +<dt><a href="#h40g">Des Sieges Krone</a> 174</dt> +<dt><a href="#h41g">Des Christen Gebet. I.</a> 176</dt> +<dt><a href="#h42g">Des Christen Gebet. II.</a> 178</dt> +<dt><a href="#h43g">Des Kranken Morgenlied</a> 184</dt> +<dt><a href="#h44g">Trost des Traurenden</a> 188</dt> +<dt><a href="#h45g">Der Leidensweg</a> 190</dt> +<dt><a href="#h46g">Kindliches Gemüthe</a> 196</dt> +<dt><a href="#h47g">Lied an dem Gott der Liebe</a> 200</dt> +<dt><a href="#h48g">Das zerknirschte Herz</a> 204</dt> +<dt><a href="#h49g">Himmelan!</a> 210</dt> +<dt><a href="#h50g">Die gute Wahl</a> 214</dt> +<dt><a href="#h51g">Eins ist noth</a> 216</dt> +<dt><a href="#h52g">Bibellied</a> 222</dt> +<dt><a href="#h53g">Ein Fels ewiglich</a> 226</dt> +<dt><a href="#h54g">Der Morgenstern</a> 228</dt> +<dt><a href="#h55g">Lobgesang. I.</a> 234</dt> +<dt><a href="#h56g">Lobgesang. II.</a> 238</dt> +</dl> +</div> +<div title="INDEX OF SUBJECTS."> +<h2>INDEX OF SUBJECTS.</h2> +<dl class="toc"> +<dt class="jr">Page</dt> +<dt><a href="#h1e">Morning Hymn</a> 3</dt> +<dt><a href="#h2e">Evening Hymn</a> 9</dt> +<dt><a href="#h3e">Morning Hymn</a> 13</dt> +<dt><a href="#h4e">Evening Hymn</a> 19</dt> +<dt><a href="#h5e">Advent Hymn. I.</a> 23</dt> +<dt><a href="#h6e">Advent Hymn. II.</a> 27</dt> +<dt><a href="#h7e">Advent Hymn. III.</a> 31</dt> +<dt><a href="#h8e">Christmas Hymn. I.</a> 35</dt> +<dt><a href="#h9e">Christmas Hymn. II.</a> 39</dt> +<dt><a href="#h10e">Epiphany Hymn</a> 43</dt> +<dt><a href="#h11e">Gethsemane</a> 45</dt> +<dt><a href="#h12e">Hymn for Good Friday. I.</a> 51</dt> +<dt><a href="#h13e">Hymn for Good Friday. II.</a> 57</dt> +<dt><a href="#h14e">Easter Hymn</a> 61</dt> +<dt><a href="#h15e">Hymn for Ascension Day</a> 63</dt> +<dt><a href="#h16e">Hymn for Whit-Sunday</a> 67</dt> +<dt><a href="#h17e">Hymn for Trinity Sunday</a> 69</dt> +<dt><a href="#h18e">Baptismal Hymn</a> 73</dt> +<dt><a href="#h19e">Hymn for Holy Communion</a> 75</dt> +<dt><a href="#h20e">Wedding Hymn</a> 79</dt> +<dt><a href="#h21e">The dying Christian’s Farewell</a> 83</dt> +<dt><a href="#h22e">On the Burial of a Child</a> 87</dt> +<dt><a href="#h23e">Saints in Glory</a> 91</dt> +<dt><a href="#h24e">The Footprints of Christ</a> 97</dt> +<dt><a href="#h25e">The Heavenly City</a> 101</dt> +<dt><a href="#h26e">The Spotless Lamb</a> 107</dt> +<dt><a href="#h27e">Looking unto Jesus</a> 111</dt> +<dt><a href="#h28e">Devotedness to God</a> 115</dt> +<dt><a href="#h29e">Invocation of the Holy Spirit</a> 117</dt> +<dt><a href="#h30e">Trust in God</a> 125</dt> +<dt><a href="#h31e">The Christian to his Soul</a> 129</dt> +<dt><a href="#h32e">The shortness of Life</a> 135</dt> +<dt><a href="#h33e">Eternity</a> 139</dt> +<dt><a href="#h34e">Hymn for Summer. I.</a> 145</dt> +<dt><a href="#h35e">Hymn for Summer. II.</a> 149</dt> +<dt><a href="#h36e">God’s Providence</a> 155</dt> +<dt><a href="#h37e">The Trusting Heart</a> 161</dt> +<dt><a href="#h38e">Hymn to the Good Shepherd</a> 169</dt> +<dt><a href="#h39e">Christ our Light</a> 171</dt> +<dt><a href="#h40e">The Crown of Victory</a> 175</dt> +<dt><a href="#h41e">The Christian’s Prayer. I.</a> 177</dt> +<dt><a href="#h42e">The Christian’s Prayer. II.</a> 179</dt> +<dt><a href="#h43e">The Invalid’s Morning Hymn</a> 185</dt> +<dt><a href="#h44e">The Mourner’s Consolation</a> 189</dt> +<dt><a href="#h45e">The Path of Grief</a> 191</dt> +<dt><a href="#h46e">Childlike Temper</a> 197</dt> +<dt><a href="#h47e">Hymn to the God of Love</a> 201</dt> +<dt><a href="#h48e">The Contrite Heart</a> 205</dt> +<dt><a href="#h49e">Heavenward still!</a> 211</dt> +<dt><a href="#h50e">The good choice</a> 215</dt> +<dt><a href="#h51e">The one thing needful</a> 217</dt> +<dt><a href="#h52e">Bible Hymn</a> 223</dt> +<dt><a href="#h53e">The Rock of Ages</a> 227</dt> +<dt><a href="#h54e">The Morning Star</a> 229</dt> +<dt><a href="#h55e">Hymn of Praise. I.</a> 235</dt> +<dt><a href="#h56e">Hymn of Praise. II.</a> 239</dt> +</dl> +<p class="tbcenter"><span class="small">CHISWICK PRESS:—PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, +<br />TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.</span></p> +</div> +<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2> +<ul><li>Silently corrected some typos (note that the German included archaic and modern spellings both.)</li> +<li>Consistently included author and date on the same line, right justified (the date had often been on a separate line)</li> +<li>Consistently included scripture references on the next line, right justified (some had been on the same line after a dash.)</li> +<li>Re-ordered pages to present each hymn (German and English) as a unit (the original showed German and English interlaced on facing pages.)</li> +<li><a id="Anonymous">Note that there is no source information about anonymous hymns in the original book.</a></li></ul> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Hymns from the German, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HYMNS FROM THE GERMAN *** + +***** This file should be named 39439-h.htm or 39439-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/4/3/39439/ + +Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Barbara Tozier, Dave Morgan +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned +images of public domain material from the Google Print +project.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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