Father, hear Thy children's call

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Father, hear Thy children's call

Author: Thomas Benson Pollock (1875)
Tune: GOWER'S LITANY
Published in 99 hymnals

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1 Father, hear Thy children's call,
Humbly at Thy feet we fall,
Prodigals, confessing all:
We beseech Thee, hear us.

2 Christ, beneath Thy cross we blame
All our life of sin and shame;
Penitent, we breathe Thy name:
We beseech Thee, hear us.

3 Sick, we come to Thee for cure;
Guilty, seek Thy mercy sure;
Evil, long to be made pure:
We beseech Thee, hear us.

4 Blind, we pray that we may see;
Bound, we pray to be made free;
Stained, we pray for sanctity:
We beseech Thee, hear us.

5 By Thy love that bids Thee spare,
By the heav'n Thou dost prepare
By Thy promises to prayer:
We beseech Thee, hear us.

Amen.

Source: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #147

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Author: Thomas Benson Pollock

Pollock, Thomas Benson, M.A., was born in 1836, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863, where he also gained the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English Verse in 1855. Taking Holy Orders in 1861, he was Curate of St. Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire; St. Thomas's, Stamford Hill, London; and St. Alban's, Birmingham. Mr. Pollock is a most successful writer of metrical Litanies. His Metrical Litanies for Special Services and General Use, Mowbray, Oxford, 1870, and other compositions of the same kind contributed subsequently to various collections, have greatly enriched modern hymnbooks. To the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, Mr. Pollock contributed two hymns, “We are soldiers of Christ, Who is mighty to save… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Father, hear Thy children's call
Author:	Thomas Benson Pollock (1875)
Meter:	7.7.7.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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GOWER'S LITANY

GOWER'S LITANY comes from John H. Gower's Original Tunes (1890). This serviceable tune works with the text but unfortunately lacks a suitable harmonization (the worst of Gower's chromatic harmony has been removed from the Psalter Hymnal). Try singing the hymn in true litany style: have a soloist or…

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LITANY (Hervey)

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