For all Thy Saints, O Lord

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For all Thy saints, O Lord

Author: Richard Mant (1837)
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1 For all Thy saints, O Lord,
Who strove in Thee to live,
Who followed Thee, obeyed, adored,
Our grateful hymn receive.

2 For Thy dear saints, O Lord,
Who strove in Thee to die,
Who counted Thee their great reward,
Accept our thankful cry.

3 Thine earthly members fit
To join Thy saints above,
In one communion ever knit,
One fellowship of love.

4 Jesus, Thy Name we bless
And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness
Who lived and died for Thee.

Amen.

The Hymnal: revised and enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892

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Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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For all the Saints, who from their labor rest

First Line:	For all Thy saints, O Lord
Title:	For all Thy Saints, O Lord
Author:	Richard Mant (1837)
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Language:	English
Notes:	Alternate tune: ST. HELENA (MILGROVE), Benjamin Milgrove, 1769
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

For all Thy saints, O Lord [God]. Bp. R. Mant. [All Saints.] An original hymn given with his translations in his Ancient Hymns, &c, 1837, p. 80 (edition 1871, p. 139), in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled, "Hymn on All Saints." The form in which it usually appears, in 4 stanzas, was given in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Hymns, &c, 1852. In addition the following arrangements are also in common use:—
1. For Thy dear saint, O Lord. This was given in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861, No. 273. It is composed of stanzas i.-iii., v., of Bishop Mant's hymn, but considerably altered, and the substitution of another doxology.
2. For Thy true servants, Lord. This text in the Toronto Church Hymn Book, 1862, is the Hymns Ancient & Modern text slightly altered.
3. For this, Thy saint, O Lord. Another altered text in Skinner's Daily Service Hymnal, 1864.
Of these arrangements, the S P.C.K. is most popular, both in Great Britain and America. It sometimes reads, "For all Thy saints, O God.”