100 Hymns Everyone Should Learn

40. Come, ye thankful people, come – Henry Alford, 1844

Lord of harvest, grant that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.

39. When morning gilds the skies – Katholisches Gesangbuch, ca. 1744

Be this, while life is mine, my canticle divine:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

38. Joy to the world, the Lord is come – Isaac Watts, 1719

He comes to make his blessing flow
far as the curse is found.

37. Be Still My Soul – Katharina von Schlegel, 1752; trans. Jane Borthwick, 1855

Be still, my soul: your God will undertake
to guide the future, as in ages past.
Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake;
all now mysterious shall be bright at last.

36. Thine be the glory – Edmond L. Budry, 1904; trans. R. Birch Hoyle, 1923

No more we doubt thee,
glorious Prince of Life!

35. Come, thou Fount of every blessing – Robert Robinson, 1758

O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.

34. Great is thy faithfulness – Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923

There is no shadow of turning with thee

33. O love that wilt not let me go – George Matheson, 1882

O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain,
that morn shall tearless be.

32. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty – Henry W. Baker, 1868

Ponder anew (of course!) what the Almighty can do,
if with his love he befriends thee.