Devoting All to God

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Blessed Lord, my wandering heart recall

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: BANGOR (Tansur)
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	The Organist's Library, Vol. 51

Representative Text

1. Blest Lord, my wand'ring heart recall,
From bondage set me loose;
I would not wish to live at all
Unless I live for you.

2. To you, wheree'er I pitch my tent,
I would an altar raise,
And with a humble frame present
The sacrifice of praise.

3. To you devote my health and strength,
While health and strength shall last,
For future mercies humbly trust,
Nor e'er forget the past.

4. Lord, guide me through the wilderness,
To Canaan's fertile land;
Through Jordan's stream fearlessly pass,
If you but give command.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #304

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Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Blessed Lord, my wandering heart recall
Title:	Devoting All to God
Author:	Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Leviticus 23:42-43
(hymns)

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Notes

Stanzas 3-4 were first published in Rippon's Selection, 1787, Hymn 333, without attribution; they are usually attributed to John Rippon. Stanzas 1, 2 and 5 are by Benjamin Beddome, 1818.

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Tune

BANGOR (Tansur)

Traditionally used for Montgomery's text and for Peter Abelard's "Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord," BANGOR comes from William Tans'ur's A Compleat Melody: or the Harmony of Syon (the preface of which is dated 1734). In that collection the tune was a three-part setting for Psalm 12 (and for Psalm 11 i…

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