1 God of ages and of nations!
Every race, and every time,
Hath received Thine inspirations,
Glimpses of Thy truth sublime.
Ever spirits in rapt vision
Passed the heavenly veil within,
Ever hearts bowed in contrition
Found salvation from their sin.
2 Reason’s noble aspiration
Truth in growing clearness saw;
Conscience spoke its condemnation,
Or proclaimed the eternal law.
While Thine inward revelations
Told Thy saints their prayers were heard.
Prophets to the guilty nations
Spoke Thine everlasting word.
3 Lord, that word abldeth ever;
Revelation is not sealed;
Answering unto man’s endeavor,
Truth and right are still revealed.
That which came to ancient sages,
Greek, barbarian, Roman, Jew,
Written in the heart’s deep pages,
Shines to-day, forever new!
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16612
Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860. In 1846 he edited, with the Rev. S. Johnson (q. v.), A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1848. In 1859 his Vespers was published, and in 1864 the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit , under the joint editorship of the Rev. S. Johnson and himself. His Life of his brother, the Poet Longfellow, was published in 1886. To the works named he contributed the follow… Go to person page >
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