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Father, behold us here, According to thy word
Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #207 (1808)
Father, behold us here, According to thy word
At the Opening of Worship
Author: John Murray Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CCCIII (1792) Meter: Irregular First Line: Father, behold us here Lyrics: 1 Father, behold us here,
According to thy word;
To worship without fear,
Our dear redeeming Lord;
O may thy light and truth now shine,
To warm each heart with love divine.
2 Drawn, wholly drawn, by thee,
To Jesus we are come,
And by they teaching we
Perceive our work is done;
Through which a title we obtain
As Kings and Priests, with thee to reign.
3 We bless thee, God of peace,
For life and glory giv'n,
To us and all the race
Call'd up from earth to heav'n;
Hasten great God, the day of love,
When ev'ry soul this grace shall prove. Topics: Hymns, adapted to Particular Parts of Public Worship Scripture: Hebrews 10:25 Languages: English
At the Opening of Worship
Father behold us here
Hymnal: Evangelical Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #41 (1792) Languages: English
Father behold us here
John Murray
1741 - 1815 Author of "At the Opening of Worship" Murray, Rev. John. (Alton, Hants, England, December 10, 1741--September 3, 11815, Boston, Massachusetts). As a young man he joined the Universalist church in London which had been gathered by James Relly. In 1770 he emigrated to America, bringing with him a copy of the collection Christian Hymns, Poems, and Sacred SOngs, sacred to the praise of God, our Saviour, published by Relly earlier in that year. This book was reprinted for Murray in 1776 at Burlington, New Jersey, and a second reprint in 1782 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in which five hymns by "J.M." were included. These were the earliest Universalist hymns written in America. Murray is regarded as the founder of the Universalist denomination in the United States and was minister of its first church, organized at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1779. He was minister of the First Universalist Society in Boston from 1793 until his death.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
John Murray
