The Might of Jehovah

Representative Text

1 The Lord our God alone is strong;
His hands build not for one brief day;
His wondrous works, thro' ages long,
His wisdom and His power display.

2 His mountains lift their solemn forms,
To watch in silence o’er the land;
The rolling ocean, rocked with storms,
Sleeps in the hollow of His hand.

3 Thou sovereign God, receive this gift
Thy willing servants offer Thee;
Accept the prayers that thousands lift,
And let these halls Thy temple be.

4 And let those learn, who here shall meet,
True wisdom is with reverence crowned,
And science walks with humble feet
To seek the God that faith hath found.

AMEN.

Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #543

Author: Caleb Thomas Winchester

Winchester, Caleb Thomas, M.A., was born in 1847. He is Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. His hymn, "The Lord our God alone is strong" (Dedication of a Science Hall), was written for the opening of the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown. It was included in the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal , 1878 (Nutter's Hymn Studies, 1884). -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)… Go to person page >

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Tune

TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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CAMP


WINCHESTER NEW

The original version of WINCHESTER NEW appeared in Musikalisches Handbuch der geistlichen Melodien, published in Hamburg, Germany, in 1690 by Georg Wittwe. It was set to the text “Wer nur den lieben Gott” (see 446). An expanded version of the tune was a setting for "Dir, dir Jehova" (see 203) in…

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Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church #488

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Hymn-Book of the Evangelical Association #707

Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #349

Hymnal for Colleges and Schools. 3rd ed. #d299

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #866

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Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #d755

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Methodist Hymn-Book #677

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People's Mass Book, New Daily Missal Edition #d145

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Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #502b

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Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy #523

Standard Church Hymns and Gospel Songs #d301

The A. M. E. Zion Hymnal #626

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The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal #543

The Book of Hymns #d467

The Chapel Service Book #d140

The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 #694

The Church Hymnal #d410

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The Cokesbury Hymnal #292

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The Cyber Hymnal #3884

The Evangelical Hymn and Tune Book #d703

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #793

The Hymnal #528

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The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church #370

The Junior Methodist Hymnal #d111

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The Methodist Hymnal (Text only edition) #686

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The Methodist Hymnal #561

The Methodist Hymnal #561

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The Methodist Hymnal #686

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