Closing Prayer

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Dear Father, bless us as we go Each on his homeward way

Author: Henry Collins
Tune: [Dear Father, bless us as we go]
Published in 7 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Dear Father, bless us as we go
Each on his homeward way,
May the sweet lessons we have learned
Help us to love and obey.

2 Dear Father, help us day by day
Bravely to do the right,
Oh, may we grow as Jesus grew,
Pure in Thy Holy Sight.

Source: Victory Songs: For the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services. #182

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Author: Henry Collins

Collins, Henry, M.A., educated at Oxford, where he graduated about 1854. He was ordained to the Ministry of the Church of England, but in Nov., 1857, he entered the Roman communion, becoming a member of the Cistercian Order in 1860. Author of Life of the Rev. Father Gentili, &c, 1861; The Spirit and Mission of the Cistercian Order , &c. His hymns were published by him before leaving the Church of England, in his Hymns for Missions , 1854, first published at Leeds, and then by Shrimpton of Oxford, and Masters of London. It contains 37 hymns, of which two only were by him:—"Jesu, meek and lowly" (Passiontide), and "Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all." (Love of Jesus desired) These hymns are in extensive use. --John Julian, Dictionary of H… Go to person page >

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