Our Father, Unto Thee

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1. Our Father, unto Thee
We now on bended knee
Our voices raise.
For all Thy love has wrought,
Our life with blessings fraught,
Transcending all our thought,
We speak Thy praise.

2. And not by lips alone
Would we Thy goodness own,
And worship Thee,
But may our lives express
That which our hearts confess,
And we in holiness
More worthy be.

3. And may our hands reach out
To those who round about
Demand our love.
In every hour of need
May we their pleadings heed,
Till earth becomes indeed
Like Heaven above.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #4828

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Author: B. G. Russell

Russell, Rev. Byron G. (New Haven, Connecticut, c.1850--March 23, 1930). He graduated in 1875 from the Theological School at Tufts College and entered the Universalist ministry, serving a church at Standing Stone, Pennsylvania. His hymn beginning, "Our Father, unto thee" was included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895; in Hymns of the Church, 1917; and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line: Our Father, unto thee, We now on bended knee
Title: Our Father, Unto Thee
Author: B. G. Russell
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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