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Father! To Thy Kind Love We Owe

Author: William C. Bryant Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 30 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Father! to Thy kind love we owe All that is fair and good below; Bestower of the health that lies On tearless cheeks and cheerful eyes! 2 Giver of sunshine and of rain! Ripener of fruits on hill and plain! Fountain of light, that rayed afar, Fills the vast urns of sun and star! 3 Who send’st Thy storms and frosts to bind The plagues that rise to waste mankind; Then breathest, o’er the naked scene, Spring gales, and life, and tender green. 4 Yet deem we not that thus alone, Thy mercy and Thy love are shown; For we have learned, with higher praise, And holier names, to speak Thy ways. 5 In woe’s dark hour, our kindest stay! Sole trust when life shall pass away! Teacher of hopes that light the gloom Of death, and consecrate the tomb! 6 Patient, with headstrong guilt to bear; Slow to avenge, and kind to spare; Listening to prayer, and reconciled Full quickly to Thy erring child! Used With Tune: CANONBURY Text Sources: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns by Henry Devereux Sewall (New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1820)

Look from thy sphere of endless day

Author: William C. Bryant Appears in 174 hymnals Used With Tune: CANONBURY

Shepherd of souls, with pitying eye

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 50 hymnals Used With Tune: CANONBURY

Children of God, Renounce Your Fears

Author: John Fawcett Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 27 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Children of God, renounce your fears, Lo! Jesus for your help appears, And kindly speaks as He draws nigh, "Be not afraid, for it is I." 2 When in the awful tempest tost, You feel your strength and courage lost, And mighty waves roll o’er your head, Your Lord is near, be not afraid. 3 When mournful tidings come from far, Or nations raise tumultuous war, And wide their devastation spread, Yet He is near, be not afraid. 4 The famine, pestilence and sword, Are all obedient to His word; He, riding on the stormy sky, Says, "Fear ye not, for it is I." 5 When earthly joys are from you torn, Or when, with heartfelt grief you mourn, To see your dear relations dead, Yet Jesus lives, be not afraid. 6 When fierce disease attacks your frame, Your Savior’s love is still the same; In death’s dark shade you need not fear For Jesus will be with you there. 7 When stars are from their orbits hurled, And flames consume the guilty world, E’en then your judge will smiling cry, "Be not afraid, for it is I." Used With Tune: CANONBURY Text Sources: A Brief Supplement to the Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts 2nd ed. (London: Adam Taylor, 1816)