All Praise Be To God!

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All praise be to God! O’er the billows of ocean

Author: James Holme (alt.)
Tune: [From all the dark places] (McIntosh)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 All praise be to God! O’er the billows of ocean,
Thro’ isles of the south and the north,
The missions have sped with triumphant devotion,
To compass the bounds of the earth.

2 Sweet power that thus to the heathen unveileth
The need and the triumph of prayer;
How covenant mercy in Jesus prevaileth
O’er ignorance, guilt and despair.

3 On, on, ye swift messengers, heralds of Jesus,
O’er mountain, o’er desert, and wave!
Proclaim thro’ the nations His power to release us
From terrors of death and despair.

4 On, on, with the arm of His righteousness o’er you,
The strongholds of sin to destroy!
On, on, with the spirit of glory before you,
To give you a harvest of joy.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16260

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Author: James Holme

Holme, James, B.A., son of T. Holme, Orton, Westmorland, was born in 1801, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge (B.A. 1825). Ordained in 1825, he held successively the Incumbency of Low Harrowgate, the Vicarage of Kirkleatham, and the charge of Bolton, near Bradford. He died in 1882. He published Leisure Musings and Devotions, &c, 1835; Mount Grace Abbey, a poem, 1843, and with his brother, the Rev. T. Holme (q.v.), Hymns & Sacred Poetry, Christian Book Society, 1861. From this last work, "All things are ours, how abundant the treasure" (Praise in Sickness), in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872, is taken. "God my Father, hear me pray" (Lent), in the Anglican Hymn Book, 1868, is attributed to him, and dated 1861. It is, however, from… Go to person page >

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First Line:	All praise be to God! O’er the billows of ocean
Title:	All Praise Be To God!
Author:	James Holme (alt.)
Source:	Hymns and Sacred Poetry (London and Edinburgh: J. Brydone and Songs; Richmons: John Bell, 1861)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain