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:On being admitted a member of a church

CCLXXVIII. On being admitted a member of a church

1 Great source of Being, heav'nly King!
Whose eye my inmost thought surveys,
To thee, with grateful joy, I bring
My tribute of unequal praise.

2 United to thy chosen flock,
Within thy courts my soul would dwell,
And in thy strength sustain the shock,
Of all the pow'rs in earth and hell.

3 O send thy spirit from on high,
And let our Church thy blessing prove!
So shall our praises reach the sky,
And ev'ry bosom grow with love.

4 O may our Pastor draw from thee
Daily supplies of heav'nly grace!
And may we in thy temple see
Thy glorious presence fill the place!

5 Then shall our hearts, our lives, our tongues,
Be consecrated to our god;
Our morning pray'rs our ev'ning songs,
Shall spread thy wond'rous love abroad.

Text Information
First Line: Great source of Being, heav'nly King!
Title: On being admitted a member of a church
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1799
Topic: Church: Admission to
Tune Information
(No tune information)



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.