Father divine, this deadening power control

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Father divine, this deadening power control

Author: Joseph Tuckerman
Tune: ELLERS
Published in 19 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Church Pianist's Library, Vol. 9

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Father divine, this deadening power control,
Which to the senses binds the immortal soul;
O break this bondage, Lord! I would be free,
And in my soul would find my heaven, in Thee.

My heaven in Thee! O God, no other heaven
To the immortal soul can e’er be given;
O, let Thy kingdom now within me come,
And as above, so here, Thy will be done!

My heaven in Thee, O Father, let me find—
My heaven in Thee, within a heart resigned;
No more, of heaven and bliss, my soul, despair,
For where my God is found, my heaven is there.

Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #514

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Author: Joseph Tuckerman

Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D. (Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, 1778--April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba). He graduated from Harvard College in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close friend he remained through life. He was license to preach by the Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in Chelsea, Mass., at that time a small farming community, which he served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his "ministry-at-large" to the unchurched elements in the population, under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for his philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave him the honorary… Go to person page >

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