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ROBINSON (Hastings)

Composer: Thomas Hastings
Published in 25 hymnals

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Choral
	May the Grace of Christ, Our Savior

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	ROBINSON (Hastings)
Composer:	Thomas Hastings
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Incipit:	55565 33244 43217
Key:	E♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

I Have Followed Truth and Justice

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Take Me, O My Father, Take Me

Take me, O my Father, take me;
Take me, save me, through Thy Son;
That which Thou wouldst have me, make me,
Let Thy will in me be done.
Long from Thee my footsteps straying,
Thorny proved the way I trod;
Weary come I now, and praying,
Take me to Thy love, my God.

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