Father in Heaven, Thou Who Hast Given

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Father in heaven, thou who has hast given

Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden
Tune: [Jesus has loved me-wonderful Savior]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Father in heaven,
Thou who hast given
Thine only Son that in Him we might live:
Jubilant praises
My heart now raises;
Gladly my life, Lord, to Thee I would give.

2 Jesus, my Saviour,
Thou who hast ever
Loved little children and bidden them come:
Speak, Lord, I hear Thee,
O draw me near Thee;
Keep me, and love, and guide me safe home.

3 Spirit, most gracious,
Gifts that are precious
Freely Thou givest: peace, joy, pardon, rest;
Sweetly Thou pleadest,
Tenderly leadest
Lambs unto Jesus,—in Him we are blest!

Amen.

Source: The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School #34

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Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden

Ernest Edwin Ryden is a distinguished Lutheran clergyman who has been a life-long student of hymns. At present he is pastor of Emanuel Lutheran Church in North Grosvenordale, Connecticut. This is the latest of a long series of services he has rendered in the Lutheran Church. For twenty-seven years he was editor of "The Lutheran Companion," the official organ of the former Augustana Lutheran Church. His contributions to hymnody were many. He was a member of the Committee which created the Augustana Hymnal of 1925 to which he contributed eight original hymns and translations. He was co-editor of the Junior Hymnal for which he wrote a number of hymns. He was secretary of the committee which prepared the Service Book and Hymnal. Here again he h… Go to person page >

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