Almighty Father, heaven and earth. E. A. Dayman. [Offertory.] First published in the Sarum Hymnal, 1868, No. 292, and appointed as an "Offertory Hymn." Together with 2 stanzas as a "General Heading," and 2 stanzas as a "General Ending," it embodies two parts of 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and a doxology. In the Hymnary, 1872, No, 522, it assumed the form of a single hymn, embracing the "General Heading," "Part i.," the first stanza of the "General Ending," and the doxology, thus omitting one stanza of the latter, and the whole of pt. 2. Some slight alterations are also introduced therein.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)