My God Shall Supply All Your Need

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My God, how cheerful is the sound

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: NORTH CAROLINA
Published in 27 hymnals

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1 My God, how cheerful is the sound!
How pleasant to repeat!
Well may that heart with pleasure bound,
Where God hat fix'd his seat.

2 What want shall not our God supply
From his redundant stores?
What streams of mercy from on high
An arm almighty pours!

3 From Christ the ever-living spring,
These ample blessings flow:
Prepare, my lips his name to sing,
Whose heart hath lov'd us so.

4 Now to our father and our God,
Be endless glory given,
Thro' all the realms of man's abode,
And thro' the highest Heaven.

Source: A Selection of Hymns: from the best authors, intended to be an appendix to Dr. Watt's psalms and hymns. (1st Am. ed.) #CXXVI

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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First Line:	My God, how cheerful is the sound
Title:	My God Shall Supply All Your Need
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain