NUMBER Archive

168 – And Have the Bright Immensities

1 And have the bright immensities Received our risen Lord, Where light years frame the Pleiades And point Orion’s sword? Do flaming suns His footsteps trace Thro’corridors sublime, The Lord of inter stellar space And conqueror of time? 2 The heav’n that hides …

169 – Come, You Faithful

1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness; God has brought His people Now rejoice, Jerusalem, And with true affection Welcome in unwearied strains Jesus’resurrection. 2 ‘Tis the spring of souls today; Christ has burst His prison From the frost and …

170 – Come, You Faithful

1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness; God has brought His Israel Into joy from sadness; Loosed from Pharoah’s bitter yoke Jacob’s sons and daughters; Led them with unmoistened foot Through the Red Sea waters. 2 ‘Tis the spring of …

171 – Thine Is the Glory

1 Thine is the glory, Risen, conquering Son; Endless is the victory thou o’er death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, Kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay. Refrain : Thine is the glory, Risen, conquering Son; Endless …

172 – The Strife Is O'er

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 1 The strife is o’er, the battle done; Now is the victor’s triumph won! Now be the song of praise begun. Alleluia! 2 The pow’rs of death have done their worst, But Christ their legions has dispersed. Let shouts of …

173 – Good Christian Friends, Rejoice!

1 Good Christian friends, rejoice and sing! Now is the triumph of our King! To all the world glad news we bring: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2 The Lord of life is risen for aye; Bring flowers of song to strew His way; Let …

174 – Star of Our Hope

1 Star of our hope! He’ll soon appear, The last loud trumpet speaks Him near; Hail Him, all saints, from pole to pole- How welcome to the faithful soul! 2 From heaven angelic voices sound: Behold the Lord of glory crowned, Arrayed in …

175 – Now the Green Blade Rises

1 Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, What that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been; Love is come again like wheat arising green. 2 In the grave they laid Him, …

176 – Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise

1 Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia! Glorious to His native skies; Alleluia! Christ, awhile to mortals giv’n, Alleluia! Enters now the highest heav’n! Alleluia! 2 There the glorious triumph waits; Alleluia! Lift your heads, eternal gates! Alleluia! Wide unfold the …

177 – Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness

1 Jesus, your blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in that great day, Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay; For …