Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Lord of Our Highest Love!
Author:Gilbert Y. Tickle, 1819-1888
Tune:FRANCONIA (König)
Composer:Johann Balthasar König
Harmonizer:William H. Havergal
Media:MIDI file

3713. Lord of Our Highest Love!

1. Lord of our highest love!
Let now Thy peace be giv’n;
Fix all our thoughts on things above,
Our hearts on Thee in Heav’n.

2. Then, dearest Lord, draw near,
Whilst we Thy table spread;
And crown the feast with heav’nly cheer,
Thyself the living bread.

3. And when the loaf we break,
Thine own rich blessing give,
May all with loving hearts partake
And all new strength receive.

4. Dear Lord! what memories crowd
Around the sacred cup!
The upper room! Gethsemane!
Thy foes! Thy lifting up!

5. O scenes of suffering love,
Enough our souls to win—
Enough to melt our hearts and prove
The antidote of sin.

Text Information
First Line: Lord of our highest love
Title: Lord of Our Highest Love!
Author: Gilbert Y. Tickle, 1819-1888
Meter: SM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: FRANCONIA (König)
Composer: Johann Balthasar König (1738)
Harmonizer: William H. Havergal (1847)
Meter: SM
Incipit: 12345 35614 32517
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Harmonischer Lieder-Schatz, by Johann B. König (Frankfurt, Germany: 1738), harmonized in Old Church Psalmody
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
Adobe Acrobat image: Adobe Acrobat image
(Cyber Hymnal)
MIDI file: MIDI File
(Cyber Hymnal)
Noteworthy Composer score: Noteworthy Composer score
(Cyber Hymnal)
XML score: XML score
More media are available on the tune authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.