Sunday Hymn
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace!
My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of Thy Name.
Jesus! the Name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
’Tis life, and health, and peace.
He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me.
He speaks, and, listening to His voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.
Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.
In Christ your Head, you then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.
Glory to God, and praise and love
Be ever, ever given,
By saints below and saints above,
The church in earth and heaven.
On this glad day the glorious Sun
Of Righteousness arose;
On my benighted soul He shone
And filled it with repose.
Sudden expired the legal strife,
’Twas then I ceased to grieve;
My second, real, living life
I then began to live.
Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed with faith divine,
Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Savior mine.
I felt my Lord’s atoning blood
Close to my soul applied;
Me, me He loved, the Son of God,
For me, for me He died!
I found and owned His promise true,
Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I knew
When written on my heart.
Look unto Him, ye nations, own
Your God, ye fallen race;
Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.
See all your sins on Jesus laid:
The Lamb of God was slain,
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.
Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Æthiop white.
Harlots and publicans and thieves
In holy triumph join!
Saved is the sinner that believes
From crimes as great as mine.
Murderers and all ye hellish crew
In holy triumph join!
Believe the Savior died for you;
For me the Savior died.
With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.
—Charles Wesley
Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:
- Update: One There Is, Above All Others at Tried With Fire
- How Blessed Is Life If Lived for Thee at Whatever Things
- Jesus Paid It All at Rosemary at Home
- Jesus Is All the World to Me at Wordwise Hymns
- Grander Than the Ocean’s Story at The Happy Wonderer
- Peace, Perfect Peace at Field Stone Cottage
- Be Not Dismayed at Hiraeth
- No Form of Human Framing at Conjubilant with Song
- Lord’s Day 45, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
- Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon: Sufficient for All, Efficacious for the Elect at Pyromaniacs
- Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Cove Farms
Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.
Reader Comments (4)
I combined my Sunday's hymn and my Thanksgiving post for today:
http://deldobuss.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/now-thank-we-all-our-god/
Peace!
I love this hymn, and thanks for posting all the stanzas that aren't usually included in hymnals.
I teach at the school connected to this church! We have chapel every week in this sanctuary. I was surprised to see this clip -- but it is lovely, isn't it?
Well! That's really interesting Laura.This was the best rendition of this hymn that I could find on YouTube.