Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes ‎#9

9. We lift our hearts to Thee

1 We lift our hearts to Thee,
O Day-star from on high!
The sun itself is but Thy shade,
Yet cheers both earth and sky.

2 Oh, let Thy rising beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe.

3 How beauteous nature now!
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature’s God adore.

4 Oh, may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day;
May Jesus’ blood, like morning dew,
Wash all our stains away.

5 To God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, One in Three,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall for ever be.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: We lift our hearts to Thee
• Author: John Wesley (1751)
• Meter: S. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1899
• Topic: Christ: Day-star; God: Light; Morning
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: HEMINGFORD
• Composer: Luther O. Emerson
• Meter: S. M.
• Notes: Public Domain.