
A Collection of Sacred Song #96(H111)
Display Title: Glory to the Father give First Line: Glory to the Father give Date: 1861
A Collection of Sacred Song #96(H111)
Glory to the Father give,
God in whom we move and live;
Children's prayers he loves to hear;
Children's songs delight His ear.
Source: Children's Hymnal #45
First Line: | Glory to the Father give, God, in whom we move and live |
Title: | Glory to the Father Give |
Author: | James Montgomery (1825) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Glory to the Father give. J. Montgomery. [Children praising God.] Written for the Sheffield Sunday School Union, 1825, and first printed as a broadsheet. In the same year it was published in his Christian Psalmist, No. 544, and again in his Original Hymns, 1853, No. 334. It was included in Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, and since then also in several collections in Great Britain and America.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)