Suggested tune: ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN
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Alles ist an Gottes Segen. Anon. xvii. century. [Trust in God.] This hymn on Christian faith and patience is mentioned by Koch, v. 605, as anonymous and as dating C. 1673. In the Nürnberg Gesang-Buch of 1676 it is No. 943 (edition 1690, No. 949) in 6 stanzas of 6 lines, marked "Anonymous." Included as No. 488 in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851.
Translation in common use:—
All things hang on our possessing. Good and full in the 2nd Series, 1858, of Miss Winkworth's Lyra Germanica, p. 189, and thence, as No. 130, in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, and in full in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880, No. 326. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)