The following lesser known hymns are intended to be a sampler for individuals, homes, and churches in the effort to expand their hymn repertoire. These are some of the hymns I have found during the research for Transforming Congregational Singing for the 21st Century.
We have included links to music scores, so that copies can be printed. As far as we know, all of these hymns are in the public domain.
A church can expand its repertoire of hymns by purchasing binders for each pew and adding the pages of newly discovered hymns.
“A Garden of Roses” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“A Hiding Place” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“A Little While” (James Deck)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CHoF1944/358/high
“Above and Below” (trans. Frances Bevan)
https://www.christmysong.com/767/jtr767en4_in_the_bosom_of_the_Father.pdf
“All Hail the Power of Jesus Name” (Edward Perronet)
Six stanza version which includes addition by John Rippon
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CWH2021/489/high
“All That I Was, My Sin and My Guilt” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/ELH1996/737/high
“Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat” (John Newton)
BURFORD
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/PHLG2023/432/high
DALEHURST
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/TPH2018/719/high
MARTYRDOM
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/AMEC1984/334/high
“Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve” (Philip Doddridge)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/NCH1995/596/high
“Be Strong! We Are Not Here to Play” (Maltbie Babcock)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/YH1935/31/high
“Before the Throne of God Above” (Charitie Bancroft)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CHHC1893/191/high
“Behold, O Lord, My Days Are Made” (Psalm 39) (Charles Spurgeon)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/PHLG2023/54/high
“Behold the Throne of Grace” (John Newton)
SCHUMANN
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/TPH2018/794/high
ST. THOMAS
https://michaelkravchuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Behold-The-Throne-Of-Grace-F-Major.pdf
“Behold the Lamb with Glory Crowned” (Thomas Kelly)
https://hymnary.org/tune/st_magnus_clarke
“Beyond Our Sight” (Daniel Whittle)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/FSS1912/page/30/high
“Called from Above” (James Deck)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/HoGT1903/page/324/high
“Christ My Song” (“Ere God Had Built the Mountains”) (William Cowper)
https://www.christmysong.com/288/jtr288en4_ere_God_had_built_the_mountains.pdf
“Christ the Friend of Sinners” (Charles Wesley)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/TS121890/370/high
“Come my Soul, Thy Suit Prepare” (John Newton)
Hendon - https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Come_My_Soul_Thy_Suit_Prepare/score/
Vienna - https://hymnary.org/hymn/LH1941/459
“Dear Christians, One and All Rejoice” (Martin Luther)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/LSB2006/512/high
https://hymnary.org/hymn/LH1941/387
“Dear Father, to Thy Mercy Seat” (Anne Steele)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/HEHC1911/page/265/high
“A Debtor to Mercy Alone” (Augustus Toplady)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/TH1990/page/482
“Done Is the Work That Saves” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/LOWH1908/496/high
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/OWH31896/385/high
“Ere the Blue Heavens Were Stretched Abroad” (Isaac Watts)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CCH1906/97/high
“Every Day for Jesus” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“Father of Mercies, in Thy Word” (Anne Steele)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/LH1941/466/high
“From the Palace of His Glory” (Francis Bevan)
https://cantiques.yapper.fr/media/hymns/pdf/SSO/SSO_352-From_the_palace_of_His_glory_A5.pdf
“Go, Labor on, Spend and Be Spent” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/PHLG2023/454/high
“God in Heaven Hath a Treasure” (Francis Bevan)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CHoF1944/249/high
“Have You Any Room for Jesus” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“Having Done All, to Stand” (Julia Johnston)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/NSWS1926/74/high
“He Is Risen, He Is Risen” (Cecil Frances Alexander)
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/112335
“He Knows” (Philip Bliss)
https://library.timelesstruths.org/library/music/H/He_Knows/He_Knows.pdf
“He Lives, Our Great Redeemer Lives” (Anne Steele)
Tune BROOKFIELD - https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/SH1925/85/high
Tune ROTHWELL - https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/NBH1926/88/high
“Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean” (William Rees/Robert Lowry)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/PHLG2023/375/high
“How Precious Is the Book Divine” (John Fawcett)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/ELH1996/478/high
“I Have Found a Hiding Place” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“I Hear the Words of Love” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/HTLG2017/177/high
https://www.mobilehymns.org/PDF/I_Hear_The_Words_Of_Love.pdf
“I Know That My Redeemer Lives” (Samuel Medley)
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/97634
“I Love to Serve My Jesus” (Barney Warren, Elisha Hoffman)
“I See a Man at God’s Right Hand” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/LD1884/page/207/high
“I Sing of Thee” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“I Trust in God Wherever I May Be” (William Martin)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/LMGM2012/775/high
“In the Hour of Trial” (James Montgomery)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/GHF1968/239/high
“Infinite Excellence Is Thine” (John Fawcett)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/SJGS1889/234/high
“Is It Not Wonderful” (Elisha Hoffman)
https://musescore.com/user/33012693/scores/5734886
“It’s All of Grace” (Isaac Watts)
The following music score has the full original text.
http://hymni.city/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/itsallofgrace_piano.pdf
“Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken” (Henry Lyte)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CWH2021/706/high
“Jesus Shall Reign” (Psalm 72 Part 2) (Isaac Watts)
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Jesus_Shall_Reign/score/ (5 stanzas, DUKE STREET)
https://finestofthewheat.org/jesus-shall-reign/ (complete 14 stanzas)
“Join, All Ye Joyful Nations” (Isaac Watts)
https://wayoflife.org/reports/Join_All_Ye_Joyful_Nations_Wesley.pdf
“Keep Your C Flying” (J.E. Rankin)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/JS1892/102/high
“Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending” (Charles Wesley)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/TPH2018/650/high
“Lord Jesus, All My Sin and Guilt” (Trans. Francis Bevan)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/HoGT1903/295/high
“Loving-Kindness” (Samuel Medley)
https://library.timelesstruths.org/library/music/L/Loving_Kindness/Loving_Kindness.pdf
“Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned” (Samuel Stennett)
https://hymnary.org/text/majestic_sweetness_sits_enthroned
“Make Haste, O God, My Soul to Bless” (Psalm 70) (Charles Spurgeon)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/PHLG2023/page/96
“Midst the Darkness, Storm, and Sorrow” (Trans. Francis Bevan)
https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/964
“My God, My Father, While I Stray” (Charlotte Elliott)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/AMEZ1996/400/high
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CHCH1959/347/high
“My High Tower” (trans. from German by Francis Bevan)
https://www.christmysong.com/1697/jtr1697en4_is_God_for_me_i_fear_not.pdf
“No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus” (Charles Weigle)
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/life_and_songs_of_charles_weigle.php
“Not What My Hands Have Done” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/95996
“O Lord, When We the Path Retrace” (James Deck)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/BWHT1899/462/high
“Oh the Peace Forever Flowing” (Adalbert Cecil)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H7yiLhQIN1k/maxresdefault.jpg
“On the Lamb Our Souls Are Resting” (trans. Francis Bevan)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/MLHB1920/page/224/high
“On to Victory” (Elisha Hoffman)
https://library.timelesstruths.org/library/music/O/On_to_Victory/On_to_Victory.pdf
“Our Great High Priest Is Sitting” (Adalbert Cecil)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/HTLG2017/150/low/186
“Our Sins Were Borne by Jesus” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/MLHB1920/page/49/high
“Precious Bible What a Treasure” (John Newton)
https://bach.calvin.edu/hymn/NCHT1887/80
“Soldier of Christ, Be Steadfast” (See “Having Done All, to Stand”)
“Sometimes a Light Surprises” (William Cowper)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/TPH2018/758/high
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/PHLG2023/459/high
“The Hope of the Coming of the Lord” (Daniel Whittle)
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/112656
“The Judgment Day Is Coming On” (J. Wilbur Chapman)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/LS1916/page/137/high
“The Savior’s Blood and Righteousness” (Zinzendorf)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/HLMC1969/327
Tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjH3Ent-wM
“Thou Art Coming, O My Saviour” (Frances Havergal)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/CHoF1944/page/370/high
“Though Troubles Assail Us” (John Newton)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/TPH2018/page/500/high
“Through Good Report or Evil, Lord” (Horatius Bonar)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/SWSS1887/page/159/high
“Thy Way, Not Mine, O Lord” (Horatius Bonar)
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Thy_Way_Not_Mine_O_Lord/score/
“The Veil Is Rent” (James Deck)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/HoGT1903/4/high
“Tell It Out among the Nations” (Frances Havergal)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/NCH1929/150/high
“Trials Dark on Every Hand” (See “When the Morning Comes”)
“Watch, for the Time is Short” (Robert Lowry)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/LLS31918/page/58/high
https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/215429
“We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight” (Isaac Watts)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/NCH1926/159/high
“What Think Ye of Christ, Is the Test” (John Newton)
Wilt Thou, Sinner, Be Converted? (trans. Francis Bevan)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/HoGT1903/page/195/high
“Wondrous It Seemeth to Me” (See “Is It Not Wonderful”)
“Yes, the Redeemer Rose” (Philip Doddridge) (all five stanzas with 2 tune choices)
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/HCCS1879/93/high
https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/CHBW1878/92/high
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