Hymns

“Amazing Grace!”   UMH #378     All verses

Words: John Newton, st. 6 anon.; phonetic transcription Cherokee, Kiowa Creek, Choctaw as sung in Oklahoma Indian Missionary  Conference; Navaho phonetic transcription by Albert Tsosi   (1 Chr. 17:16-17); 

Music: 19th cent. USA melody; harm. by Edwin O. Exell                                                                                           

1. Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
was blind, but now I see. 

2. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed. 

3. Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home. 

4. The Lord has promised good to me,
his word my hope secures;
he will my shield and portion be,
as long as life endures. 

5. Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
and mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
a life of joy and peace. 

6. When we've been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we'd first begun. 

“I Surrender All”          UMH #354     

Words: J. W. Van Deventer; Music: W.S. Weeden

1.All to Jesus I surrender;
all to him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust him,
in his presence daily live.

[Refrain]
I surrender all, I surrender all,
all to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all. 

2. All to Jesus I surrender;
humbly at his feet I bow,
worldly pleasures all forsaken;
take me, Jesus, take me now. 

[Refrain]

I surrender all, I surrender all,
all to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all. 

3. All to Jesus I surrender;
make me, Savior, wholly thine;
let me feel the Holy Spirit,
truly know that thou art mine. [Refrain]

4. All to Jesus I surrender;
Lord, I give myself to thee;
fill me with thy love and power;
let thy blessing fall on me. [Refrain]

5. All to Jesus I surrender;
now I feel the sacred flame.
O the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory to his name! [Refrain]

“It Came upon the Midnight Clear” UMH #218   4 verses

Words: Edmund H. Sears; Music: Richard Storrs Willis   

1. It came upon the midnight clear,
that glorious song of old,
from angels bending near the earth
to touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, good will to men,
from heaven's all-gracious King."
The world in solemn stillness lay,
to hear the angels sing. 

2. Still through the cloven skies they come
with peaceful wings unfurled,
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world;
above its sad and lowly plains,
they bend on hovering wing,
and ever o'er its Babel sounds
the blessed angels sing. 

3. And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
whose forms are bending low,
who toil along the climbing way
with painful steps and slow,
look now! for glad and golden hours
come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
and hear the angels sing! 

4. For lo! the days are hastening on,
by prophet seen of old,
when with the ever-circling years
shall come the time foretold
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world send back the song
which now the angels sing.