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Text: | O Brother Man, Fold to Your Heart |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | WELWYN |
Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty |
1 O brother man, fold to your heart your brother;
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
2 For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:
The holier worship which he deigns to bless
Restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,
And feeds the widow and the fatherless.
3 Follow with reverent steps the great example
Of him whose holy work was doing good;
So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.
4 Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor
Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;
Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,
And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O brother man, fold to thy heart your brother |
Title: | O Brother Man, Fold to Your Heart |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1848, alt. 1972) |
Meter: | 11.10.11.10. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Service for the Lord's Day: Conclusion of Worship; Other Observances: Ecumenism; Other Observances: Mission(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WELWYN |
Composer: | Alfred Scott-Gatty (1900) |
Meter: | 11.10.11.10. |
Key: | F Major |
Notes: | As in The English Hymnal, 1906 |