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Text: | Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain |
Author: | Ludwig Helmbold, 1532-98 |
Translator: | Matthias Loy, 1828-1915 |
Tune: | HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS |
1 Lord, help us ever to retain
The Catechism's doctrine plain
As Luther taught the Word of truth
In simple style to tender youth.
2 Help us your holy law to learn,
To mourn our sin and from it turn
In faith to you and to your Son
And Holy Spirit, Three in One.
3 Hear us, dear Father, when we pray
For needed help from day to day
That as your children we may live,
Whom you in baptism did receive.
4 Lord, when we fall or go astray,
Absolve and lift us up, we pray;
And through the sacrament increase
Our faith till we depart in peace.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lord, help us ever to retain |
Title: | Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain |
Author: | Ludwig Helmbold, 1532-98 |
Translator: | Matthias Loy, 1828-1915 (alt.) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Social Concern; Christian Education |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | As hymnodus sacer, Leipzig, 1625, alt. |
Notes: | Alternate settings: 223, 547 |