Evermore Give Us This Bread

Father, supply my every need

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: WELTON (Malan)
Published in 40 hymnals

Representative Text

Father, supply my every need;
Sustain the life Thyself hast given;
Oh! grant the never-failing bread,
The manna that comes down from heaven!

The gracious fruits of righteousness,
Thy blessings’ unexhausted store,
In me abundantly increase,
Nor ever let me hunger more!



Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #501

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Father, supply my every need
Title: Evermore Give Us This Bread
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) #501

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d211

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d213

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d212

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #520

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church #341b

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. with a Supplement #d151

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home #125

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A Collection of Hymns #341b

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship #413

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (3rd ed.) #413

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (45th ed.) #413

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary #441

Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home and Services for Congregational Worship. Rev. ed. #d152

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Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and the Home. (Rev. ed.) #217

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Hymn and Tune Book, for the Church and the Home #91

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Hymns for Public Worship #56

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Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. ed. #826

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Hymns of the Church Universal #271

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Hymns of the Spirit #389

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Melodies and Hymns for Divine Service in Appleton Chapel #a49

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National Hymn and Tune Book #47

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New Hymn and Tune book #159c

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The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book #347b

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d173

The Chapel Hymn Book #d97

The Chapel Hymn Book (4th ed.) #d104

The Chapel Hymn Book. 5th ed. #d100

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The Heart and Voice #32b

Unitarian Service Book, and Hymns for Church and Home. Abridged ed. #d90

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New Hymn and Tune Book #159c

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #501

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #826

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, with a Supplement #392

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (10th ed.) #413

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (6th ed.) #413

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. 16th ed. #413

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #347b

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #577

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