Founded on Thee, our only Lord

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Founded on Thee, our only Lord

Author: Samuel Francis Smith
Published in 32 hymnals

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1. Founded on thee, our only Lord,
On thee, the everlasting Rock;
Thy Church shall stand, as stands thy Word,
Nor fear the storm, nor dread the shock.

2. For thee our waiting spirits yearn,
For thee, with hearts of praise we cheer;
To thee with longing hearts we turn;
Come, fix thy glorious presence here.

3. Come, with thy Spirit and thy pow'r,
The Conq'ror, once the crucified;
Our God, our strength, our King, our tow'r,
Here plant thy throne, and here abide.

4. Accept the work our hands have wrought;
Accept, O God, this earthly shrine;
Be thou, our Rock, our life, our thought,
And we, as living temples, thine.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #272

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Author: Samuel Francis Smith

Smith, Samuel Francis, D.D., was born in Boston, U.S.A., Oct. 21, 1808, and graduated in arts at Harvard, and in theology at Andover. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1832, and became the same year editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine. He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Americana. From 1834 to 1842 he was pastor at Waterville, Maine, and Professor of Modern Languages in Waterville College. In 1842 he removed to Newton, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1854, when he became the editor of the publications of the Baptist Missionary Union. With Baron Stow he prepared the Baptist collection known as The Psalmist, published in 1843, to which he contributed several hymns. The Psalmist is the most creditable and influential of… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Founded on Thee, our only Lord
Author:	Samuel Francis Smith
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Founded on Thee, our only Lord. S. F. Smith. [Dedication of a Church.] Written in 1894, and included in the Presbyterian Hymnal, Phila., 1895.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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MENDON (17151)

PENTECOST (Boyd)

William Boyd (b. Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1847; d. Paddington, England, 1928) composed PENTECOST in 1864 for the hymn text "Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire"; it was published in 1868 in Thirty-Two Hymn Tunes Composed by Members of the University of Oxford. The name PENTECOST derives from the subjec…

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WARRINGTON

WARRINGTON was composed by Ralph Harrison (b. Chinley, Derbyshire, England, 1748; d. Manchester, Lancashire, England, 1810) and published in his collection of psalm tunes, Sacred Harmony (1784). The tune's rising inflections help to accent words such as erotic (probably the only time this word has b…

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