Category: Olney Hymns
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Looking at the Cross
Tonight we’ll sing this hymn by John Newton, to the tune Prospect: In evil long I took delight, Unaw’d by shame or fear, Till a new object struck my sight, And stopp’d my wild career. I saw one hanging on a tree, In agonies and blood, Who fix’d his languid…
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What Various Hindrances We Meet
What various hindrances we meet In coming to the mercy seat; Yet who, that knows the worth of prayer, But wishes to be often there! Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw, Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, Brings ev’ry blessing from above. Restraining prayer…
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The Tolling Bell
Oft as the bell, with solemn toll, Speaks the departure of a soul, Let each one ask himself, “Am I Prepar’d, should I be call’d to die?” Only this frail and fleeting breath Preserves me from the jaws of death; Soon as it fails, at once I’m gone, And plung’d…
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Travailing in Birth for Souls
What contradictions meet In ministers’ employ! It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy: No other post affords a place For equal honor, or disgrace! Who can describe the pain Which faithful preachers feel; Constrained to speak, in vain, To hearts as hard as steel? Or who can…
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A Prayer for Power on the Means of Grace
O Thou, at whose almighty word The glorious light from darkness sprung! Thy quick’ning influence afford, And clothe with pow’r the preacher’s tongue. Though ’tis thy truth he hopes to speak, He cannot give the hearing ear: ‘Tis thine, the stubborn heart to break, And make the careless sinner fear.…
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Prayer for Revival
Let our mutual love be fervent, Make us prevalent in pray’rs; Let each one esteem’d thy servant Shun the world’s bewitching snares; Break the tempter’s fatal power, Turn the stony heart to flesh; And begin, from this good hour, To revive thy work afresh. —Olney Hymns, p. 150, no. 51
Dan Greenfield 