Hymns For Gods Peculiar People That Keep The Commandments of God And The Faith of Jesus

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• Hymns For Gods Peculiar PeopleThat Keep The
  Commandments of God And The Faith of Jesus
• 1849

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• Second Advent History
• Lo! Another angel follows
• Lo an angel loud proclaiming
• With the gospel of good news

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Second Advent History

• Yet, a third and solemn message,
• Now proclaims a final doom
• All who worship Beast or Image
• Soon shall drink the wrath of God
• Without mixture
• Mercy now no longer pleads.

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Second Advent History

• Here they are, who now are waiting,
• And have patience to endure
• While the Dragons hosts are raging
• Those confide in God secure
• Faith of Jesus
• And COMMANDMENTS, keep them pure.

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The Seal

• Behold a light appears,
• The holy sabbath day,
• And magnified so clear,
• That none may need to stray
• Though small at first, as sun beams ray,
• Its strength ascends to perfect day.

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The Seal

• It is the message clear
• Ascending from the east,
• Gods servants now appear
• Who will not worship BEAST
• Four angels hold the winds reveald
• Until Gods servants all are seald.

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The Seal

• The Sabbath is a sign,
• A mark which all may see,
• And sure will draw a line
• When servants all are seald
• And while destructions in the land
• This mark will guard the waiting band.

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Armageddon

• The cry is up, the strife begun,
• The struggle of the mighty ones
• And Armageddons day comes on,
• The carnival of Slaughters sons
• War lifts his helmet to his brow
• O God, protect thy people now!

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This World Is Not My Home

• Farewell! farewell! to all below,
• My Jesus calls and I must go
• Ill launch my boat upon the sea,
• This land is not the land for me.
• This world is not my home (4 X repeated)

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This World Is Not My Home

• Farewell! my friends! Ill not stay here
• The home I seek will soon appear
• Where Christ is not I cannot be
• This land is not the land for me
• This world is not my home, c. (sic)

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Im A Traveler

• Im a lonely travller here,
• Weary, opprest
• But my journeys end is near,
• Soon I shall rest.
• Dark and dreary is the way,
• Toiling Ive come
• Ask me not with you to stay
• Yonders my home.

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Here Is No Rest

• Here, oer the earth as a stranger I roam,
• Here is no restis no rest
• Here as a pilgrim I wander alone,
• Yet I am blestI am blest.

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Here Is No Rest

• CHORUS One of 4all different
• Let them revile me, and scoff at my name,
• Laugh at my weepingendeavor to shame
• I will go forward, for this is my theme
• There, there is restthere is rest.

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The Little Flock

• How happy are the little flock,
• Who, safe beneath their guardian Rock,
• In all commotions rest
• When wars and tumults waves run high,
• Unmovd above the storm they lie,
• And lodge in Jesus breast.

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The Little Flock

• The plague, and dearth, and din of war,
• Our saviours swift approach declare,
• And bid our hearts arise
• Earths basis shook, confirms our hope
• Its cities fall but lifts us up,
• To meet thee in the skies.

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A Pilgrim And A Stranger

• Farwell, dreary earth, by sin so blighted,
• In immortal beauty soon youll be arrayed!
• He who has formd thee, will soon restore thee!
• And then thy dread curse shall never more be
• Im a pilgrim, and Im a stranger,
• Till thy rest shall end the weary pilgrim night.

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Despised Pilgrims

• WHAT poor despised company
• Of travelers are these,
• Who walk in yonder narrow way,
• Along the rugged maze?

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The Fall of Babylon

• Hail the day so long expected,
• Hail the day of full release
• Zions walls are now erected,
• And her watchmen publish pleas
• Throughout Shilohs wide dominion,
• Hear the trumpet loudly roar,
• Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen,
• Babylon is fallen to rise no more.

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• Hymns for Second Advent Believers Who Observe the
  Sabbath of the Lord
• 1852

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Despised Pilgrims

• Why do they then appear so mean,
• and why so much despised?
• Because of their rich robes unseen,
• The world is not apprizd.

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The Exile

• There is a land, a better land than this
• Theres my home, theres my home!
• A land of pure, unbounded, perfect bliss
• Theres my home, theres my home
• A captive on this desert shore,
• I long to count my exile oer,
• And be where sorrows come no more
• Theres my home, theres my home.

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Long Upon the Mountains Weary(Anne Smiths 1st
Published Hymn)

• Long upon the mountains weary,
• Haven the scattered flock been torn
• Dark the desert paths, and dreary
• Grievous trials have they born.

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Long Upon the Mountains Weary

• Now the light of truth theyre seeking,
• In its onward track pursue
• All the ten commandments keeping,
• They are holy, just, and true.

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Harvest Home

• THOUGH in the outward church below,
• The wheat and tares together grow
• Jesus ere long will weed the crop,
• And pluck the tares in anger up.

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Harvest Home

• Will it relieve their horrors there,
• To recollect their stations here
• How much they heard, how much the knew
• How much among the wheat they grew?
• For soon the reaping time will, c (sic)

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Harvest Home

• No! This will aggravate their case,
• They perishd under means of grace,
• To them the word of life and faith
• Became an instrument of death
• For soon the reaping time will, c. (sic)

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The Message In the Hymns

• The gospel threat of doom
• Concern for the beast and Babylon
• Emphasis on
• Need to keep the Commandments
• The Second coming
• Believers Isolation Loneliness

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The Message

• People do not understand them
• The Sabbath
• Pilgrims This earth is not home
• Centered on self or the group

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The Message

• Feelings lie close to the surface I/We are
  isolated, misunderstood, anxious
• There is trouble now and more, a lot more,
  awaiting
• Negative views of society, the world and others
  them vs us

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What Is Absent in the Hymns

• Peace
• Hope
• Joy Happiness
• Confidence Security
• Assurance
• Praise

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What is Absent

• Acceptance
• Forgiveness
• Concern for Community
• Care for Others
• Satisfaction well-being
• Inclusion satisfaction, inclusion, well-being

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First Official GC Hymnal

• Hymns and Tunes for those who keep the
  Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus
• 1869

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REPENTANCE

• No. 93 S. M.
• DID Christ oer sinners weep,
• And shall our cheeks be dry?
• Let floods of penitential grief
• Burst forth from every eye.

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Social Worship

• No. 452 7 s 6 s.
• HOW long, O Lord our Saviour,
• Wilt thou remain away!
• Our hearts are growing weary
• Of thy so long delay.
• Oh! when shall come the moment
• When, brighter far than morn,
• The sunshine of thy glory
• Shall on thy people dawn.

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Social Worship

• How long, O gracious Master,
• Wilt thou thy household leave?
• So long hast thou now tarried,
• Few thy return believe.
• Immersed in sloth and folly,
• Thy servants, Lord, we see
• And few of us stand ready
• With joy to welcome thee.

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The Message in the Hymns

• Call to repentance
• Expression of hope

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Second GC Hymnal

• The Seventh-Day AdventistHymn and Tune BookFor
  Use in Divine Worship
• 1886

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No. 381

• GODS holy law, transgressed,
• Speaks nothing but despair
• Burdened with guilt, with grief oppressed,
• We find no comfort there.

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No. 381

• Not all our groans and tears,
• Nor works which we have done,
• Nor vows, nor promises, nor prayers, can eer for
  sin atone.

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No. 381

• Relief alone is found
• In Jesus precious blood
• Tis this that heals the mortal wound,
• And reconciles to God.

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No. 1023

• Let party names no more
• The Christian world oerspread
• Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,
• Are one in Christ, their Head.

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No. 1023

• Among the saints on earth
• Let mutual love be found
• Heirs of the same inheritance
• With mutual blessings crowned.

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No. 1023

• Thus will the church below
• Resemble that above
• Where streams of pleasure ever flow,
• And every heart is love.

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No. 1032

• Go, preach my gospel, saith the Lord
• Bid the whole world my grace receive
• He shall be saved who trusts my word,
• And they condemned who disbelieve.

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No. 1035

• Ye Christian heralds! go, proclaim
• Salvation through Immanuels name,
• To distant climes the tidings bear,
• And plant the Rose of Sharon there.

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No. 1038

• Go, messenger of peace and love,
• To people plunged in shades of night
• Like angels sent from fields above
• Be thine to shed celestial light.

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No. 1038

• Go to the hungry, food impart
• To paths of peace the wanderer guide
• And lead the thirsty, panting heart,
• Where streams of living water glide.

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No. 1042

• Convert and send forth more,
• To spread thy truth abroad
• And let them speak thy word of power,
• As workers with their God.

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No. 1044

• Laborers of Christ, arise,
• And gird you for the toil!
• The dew of promise from the skies
• Already cheers the soil.

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No. 1044

• Go where the sick recline
• Where mourning hearts deplore
• And where the sons of sorrow pine,
• Dispense your hallowed store.

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No. 1048

• The vineyard of the Lord
• Before his laborers lies,
• And lo! we see the last reward
• Which waits us in the sky.

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No. 1069

• Hark! the voice of Jesus calling,
• Who will go and work today?
• Fields are white, the harvest waiting,
• Who will bear the sheaves away?
• Loud and long the Master calleth,
• Rich reward he offers free
• Who will answer, gladly saying,
• Here am I,O Lord, send me?

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No. 1069

• If you cannot cross the ocean
• And the heathen lands explore,
• You can find the heathen nearer,
• You can help them at your door
• If you cannot speak like angels,
• If you cannot preach like Paul,
• You can tell the love of Jesus,
• You can say he died for all.

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The Message

• Recognition of spiritual needs
• Theological expressions atonement,
• forgiveness, salvation through faith in Christ
  alone
• Call to mission
• Call to care for others

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Questions for Further Study

• Does theology guide the hymns or do the hymns
  reflect the theology?
• To what extent do hymns influence or reflect
  behavior or attitude or both?
• Is it important to examine who selected the hymns
  and how the hymns are categorized?
• How do the Adventist hymnals compare to other
  hymnals of the time?