God bless our Father-land! Cradled in ocean

Author: Nathaniel Barnaby

Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, C.B., Director of Naval Construction in Her Majesty's Service, born at Chatham in 1829, has been for many years interested in Christian education, and is Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School at Lee, in Kent. He is the author of several hymns composed for use in the school at Lee. Of these, one beginning “To Jesus, our Captain, to Jesus, our King," and another, "The soldier keeps his wakeful Watch," composed to the German tune, "The Rhine-Watch," are in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, Lond., 1881. His hymns are spirited and popular. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M. A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)  Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

First Line: God bless our Father-land! Cradled in ocean
Author: Nathaniel Barnaby (1904)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1905
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.
^ top

Tune

RUSSIAN HYMN

Alexey Feodorovitch Lvov (b. Reval [now Tallin], Estonia, 1799; d. Romanovo, near Kovno [now Kaunas], Lithuania, 1870) composed RUSSIA in 1833 one night "on the spur of the moment," according to his memoirs, after Czar Nicholas I asked him to compose a truly Russian national anthem (rather than cont…

Go to tune page >


All tunes published with 'God bless our Father-land! Cradled in ocean'^ top

Instances

Instances (1 - 1 of 1)
Page Scan

The Sunday School Hymnary #399

The Sunday School Hymnary #399
All instances^ top
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us