LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 4 6 4 6 6 4
| | Writer(s): | Sarah Fuller Flower Adams & Edward Henry Bickersteth
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1841
| | Bible Refs: | Gen 28:11-12
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 848
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 598
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 322
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 575
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 592
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 656
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 338
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 538
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 526
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 482
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 474
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 352
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 1922
| 277
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 451
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
|
| 393
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 466
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 348
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 468
| Mirfield Mission Hymn Book
| 1955
| 198
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
|
| 581
| Sarum Hymnal
| 1869
| 265
| Songs of Fellowship 2
| 1998
| 940
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 310
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 586
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 562
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 574
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 545
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 444
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 254
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 222
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 465
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 528
| Universal Hymn Book
| 1885
| 518
|
MUSIC
| Name: | BETHANY (EXCELSIOR)
| | Meter: | 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 4
| | Writer(s): | Lowell Mason
| | Dates: | 1856
|
 Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 393
| F
| Baptist Hymnal
| 322
| G
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 581
| G
| Believers Hymn Book
| 80
| G
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee:
E’en though it be a cross
That raiseth me,
Still all my song would be,
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
2. Though, like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams I’d be
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
3. There let the way appear,
Steps up to heaven;
All that Thou sendest me,
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
4. Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I’ll raise;
So by my woes to be
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
5. Or, if on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
6. There in my Father’s home,
safe and at rest,
There in my Savior’s love,
perfectly blest;
Age after age to be,
|:Nearer, my God, to Thee,:|
Nearer to Thee.
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