God Made Me for Himself

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God made me for Himself, to serve Him here

Author: Henry W. Baker
Published in 10 hymnals

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	In Blessed Communion

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1 God made me for himself, to serve him here
with love’s pure service and in filial fear;
to show his praise, for him to labour now;
then see his glory where the angels bow.

2 All needful grace was mine, through his dear Son,
whose life and death my full salvation won;
the grace that would have strengthened me, and taught;
grace that would crown me when my work was wrought.

3 And I, poor sinner, cast it all away;
lived for the toil or pleasure of each day;
as if no Christ had shed his precious blood,
as if I owed no homage to my God.

4 O Holy Spirit, with thy fire divine,
melt into tears this thankless heart of mine:
teach me to love what once I seemed to hate,
and live to God, before it be too late.

Source: CPWI Hymnal #312a

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Author: Henry W. Baker

Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart., eldest son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker, born in London, May 27, 1821, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847. Taking Holy Orders in 1844, he became, in 1851, Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire. This benefice he held to his death, on Monday, Feb. 12, 1877. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1851. Sir Henry's name is intimately associated with hymnody. One of his earliest compositions was the very beautiful hymn, "Oh! what if we are Christ's," which he contributed to Murray's Hymnal for the Use of the English Church, 1852. His hymns, including metrical litanies and translations, number in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, 33 in all. These were cont… Go to person page >

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First Line:	God made me for Himself, to serve Him here
Title:	God Made Me for Himself
Author:	Henry W. Baker
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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God made me for Himself, to serve Him here. Sir H. W. Baker. [Home Missions.] Appeared in the Hymns for Mission Churches, &c, n.d., No. 47, published by the Compilers of Hymns Ancient & Modern, and in the 1839 Supplemental Hymns To Hymns Ancient & Modern.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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GOD MADE ME (Bridge)

FARLEY CASTLE

FARLEY CASTLE, composed by Henry Lawes (b. Dinton, Wiltshire, England, 1596; d. London, England, 1662), was first published in treble and bass parts as a setting for Psalm 72 in George Sandys's Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (1638). In the British tradition the tune is used as a setting for Horati…

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JULIUS (Shaw)

Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (b. Kensington, London, England, 1875; d. Southwold, Suffolk, England, 1958) composed JULIUS for J. S. Arkwright's iambic text "O Valiant Hearts" and named the tune in memory of his brother, who was reported missing in World War I. JULIUS was first published in Sir Sydney N…

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