Text:O God, Beneath Your Guiding Hand
Author:Leonard Bacon
Tune:DUKE STREET
Composer:John Hatton

495. O God, Beneath Your Guiding Hand

1 O God, beneath your guiding hand
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea;
And echoed o'er the wintry strand,
Their psalms and prayers in worship free.

2 You heard, well-pleased, the song, the prayer:
Your blessing came, and still its power
Shall onward through all ages bear
The memory of that holy hour.

3 Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o'er the waves,
And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.

4 And here your name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,
And spring adorns the earth no more.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O God, beneath your guiding hand
Title: O God, Beneath Your Guiding Hand
Author: Leonard Bacon (1833, 1845, alt. 1972)
Meter: L.M.
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Service for the Lord's Day: After Creed; Civil Year: Memorial Day; Civil Year: Independence Day (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: DUKE STREET
Composer: John Hatton (1793)
Meter: L.M.
Key: D Major



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