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Almighty Father, who dost give

Representative Text

1 Almighty Father-God, you give
the gift of life to all who live,
look down on all earth’s sin and strife
and lift us to a nobler life.

2 Lift up our hearts, O King of kings,
to brighter hopes and kindlier things,
to visions of a larger good,
and holier dreams of brotherhood.

3 The world is weary of its pain,
of selfish greed and fruitless gain,
of tarnished honour, falsely strong,
and all its ancient deeds of wrong.

4 Hear now the prayer Your servants pray,
uprising from all lands today,
and, over vanquished powers of sin,
O bring Your great salvation in!

Source: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #614

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Author: John Howard Bertram Masterman

Masterman served as bishop of Plymouth. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/s/masterman_jhb.htm Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Almighty Father, who dost give
Author: John Howard Bertram Masterman (1922)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Notes

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Tune

VERMONT (Floyd)


FINNART


TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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Hymns and Psalms #399

Hymns and Psalms #399
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The Cyber Hymnal #48

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The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #614

The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #614
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