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Text:My Helper, God! I Bless His Name
Author:Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Tune:LOUVAN
Composer:Virgil Corydon Taylor
Media:MIDI file

11624. My Helper, God! I Bless His Name

1 My helper, God! I bless His name,
The same His power, His grace the same,
The tokens of His friendly care care
Open, and crown, and close the year.

2 I ’midst ten thousand dangers stand,
Supported by His guardian hand;
And see, when I survey my ways,
Ten thousand monuments of praise.

3 Thus far His arm has led me on;
Thus far I make His mercy known;
And, while I tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.

4 My grateful soul, on Jordan’s shore,
Shall raise one sacred pillar more,
Then bear, in His bright courts above,
Inscriptions of immortal love.

Text Information
First Line: My helper, God! I bless His name
Title: My Helper, God! I Bless His Name
Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: LOUVAN
Composer: Virgil Corydon Taylor (1850)
Meter: LM
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Choral Anthems (Boston: 1850)
Copyright: Public Domain



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