Category: 501 – 600

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Loving Service

581 – When the Church of Jesus

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When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
Lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers, Lord make up ten times more aware
That the world we banish is our Christian care.

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If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
High above this hungry suffering world of ours:
Lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
Forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.

3
Lest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time,
Serve to salve our conscience to our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
Teach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Loving Service

582 – Working, O Christ, With Thee

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Working, O Christ, with Thee, working with Thee,
Unworthy, sinful, weak, though we may be;
Our all to Thee we give, for Thee alone we live,
And by Thy grace achieve, working with Thee.

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Along the city’s waste, working with Thee,
Our eager footsteps haste, like Thee to be;
The poor we gather in, the outcasts raise from sin,
And labor souls to win, working with Thee.

3
Savior, we weary not, working with Thee,
As hard as Thine our lot can never be;
Our joy and comfort this, “Thy grace sufficent is;”
This changes toil to bliss, working with Thee.

4
So let us labor on, working with Thee,
Till earth to Thee is won, from sin set free;
Till men, from shore to shore, receive Thee, and adore,
And join us evermore, working with Thee.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Cyril A. Alington Loving Service

583 – You That Know the Lord

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You that know the Lord is gracious,
You for whom a cornerstone
Stands, of God elect and precious,
Laid that you may build there-on,
See that on that sure foundation
You a living temple raise.
Towers that may tell forth salvation,
Walls that may reech-o praise.

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Living stones by God appointed
Each to his allotted place,
Kings and priests, by God anointed,
Shall you not declare His grace?
You, a royal generation,
Tell the tidings of your birth,
Tidings of a new creation
To an old and weary earth.

3
Tell the praise of Him who called you
Out of darkness into light,
Broke the fetters that enthralled you,
Gave you freedom, peace, and sight:
Tell the tale of sins forgiven,
Strength renewed and hope restored,
Till the earth, in tune with heaven,
Praise and magnify the Lord.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Loving Service

584 – There's a Spirit in the Air

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There’s a Spirit in the air, telling Christians everywhere
“Praise the love that Christ revealed, living, working in our world.”

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Lose your shyness, find your tongue; tell the world what God has done:
God in Christ has come to stay, we can see His pow’r today.

3
When believers break the bread, when a hungry child is fed:
Praise the love that Christ revealed, living, working in our world.

4
Still His Spirit leads the fight, seeing wrong and setting right:
God in Christ has come to stay, we can see His pow’r today.

5
When a stranger’s not alone, where the homeless find a home,
Praise the love that Christ revealed, living, working in our world.

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May His Spirit fill our praise, guide our thoughts and change our ways.
God in Christ has come to stay, we can see His power today.

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There’s a Spirit in the air, calling people everywhere;
Praise the love that Christ revealed: living, working in our world.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Love for One Another

585 – When Christ Was Lifted From the Earth

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When Christ was lifted from the earth His arms stretched out above
Through every culture, every birth, to draw an answering love.

2
Still east and west His love extends and always, near or far,
He calls and claims us as His friends and loves us as we are.

3
Where generation, class, or race divides us to our shame,
He sees not labels but a face, a person and a name.

4
Thus freely loved, tho’ fully known, may I in Christ be free
To welcome and accept His own as Christ accepted me.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Love for One Another

586 – What Joy It Is to Worship Here

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What joy it is to worship here,
And find ourselves at home,
Where God, who uses every gift,
Has room for all who come!

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Yet are no two of us alike
Of all the human race,
And we must seek a common ground
If we would share His grace.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Love for One Another

587 – In Christ There Is No East nor West

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In Christ there is no east nor west,
In Him no south or north;
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.

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In Him shall true heart everywhere
Their high communion find;
His service is the golden cord
Close binding all mankind.

3
Join hands, then, brothers of the faith,
Whate’er your race may be.
Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me.

4
In Christ now meet both east and west,
In Him meet south and north;
All Christly souls are one in Him
Throughout the whole wide earth.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Love for One Another

588 – Lord of All Nations

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Lord of all nations, grant me grace
To love all people, every race,
And in each person may I see
My kindred loved, redeemed by Thee.

2
Break down the wall that would divide
Thy children, Lord, on every side.
My neighbor’s good let me pursue;
Let Christian love bind warm and true.

3
Forgive me, Lord, where I have erred
By loveless act and thoughtless word.
Make me to see the wrong I do
Will crucify my Lord anew.

4
Give me Thy courage, Lord, to speak
Whenever strong oppress the weak.
Should I myself the victim be,
Help me forgive, remembering Thee.

5
With Thine own love may I be filled
And by Thy Holy Spirit willed,
That all I touch, where’er I be,
May be divinely touched by Thee.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE Love for One Another

589 – Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest

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Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
Hear and grant our heart’s request
For that gift supreme and best:
Holy heav’nly love.

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Faith that mountains could remove,
Tongues of earth or heaven above,
Knowledge, all things, empty prove
If I have no love.

3
Though I as a martyr bleed,
Give my goods the poor to feed,
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.

4
Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is pure and thinks no wrong,
Love than death it self more strong:
Therefore give us love.

5
Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.

6
Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in hand agree-
But the greatest of the three,
And the best is love.

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501 - 600 CHRISTIAN LIFE NUMBER Obedience T

590 – Trust and Obey

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When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.

Refrain
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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Not a shadow can rise,
not a cloud in the skies,
but his smile quickly drives it away;
not a doubt nor a fear,
not a sigh nor a tear,
can abide while we trust and obey.

3
Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil he doth richly repay;
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey.

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But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows,
and the joy he bestows,
are for them who will trust and obey.

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Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we’ll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go;
never fear, only trust and obey.