God of our fathers, to thy throne

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God of our fathers, to thy throne

Author: Leonard Bacon
Tune: GEER (Greatorex)
Published in 10 hymnals

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1. God our fathers, to Thy throne
Our grateful songs we raise;
Thou art our God, and Thou alone—
Accept our humble praise.

2. Unnumbered benefits from Thee,
Are showered upon our land;
Behold! through all our coasts we see,
The bounties of Thy hand.

3. Here Thou wert once the pilgrims’ guide;
Thou gav’st them here a place,
Where freedom spreads its blessings wide,
O’er all their favored race.

4. Here, Lord, Thy Gospel’s holy light
Is shed on all our hills;
And, like the rains and dews of night,
Celestial grace distills.

5. Still teach us, Lord, Thy name to fear,
And still our guardian be;
O let our children’s children here
Forever worship Thee.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16734

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Author: Leonard Bacon

Leonard Bacon, D.D., was born in Detroit (where his father was a missionary to the Indians), February 19, 1802, and educated at Yale college and at Andover. In 1825 he was ordained Pastor of the Centre Church, New Haven, and retained that charge until 1866, when he was appointed Professor of Theology in Yale Divinity School. This professorship he resigned in 1871; but till his death in 1881, he was Lecturer on Church Polity. He died December 23, 1881. Dr. Bacon rendered important service to hymnology both as writer and compiler. While a student at Andover, he edited an important and now rare tract entitled Hymns and Sacred Songs for the Monthly Concert [of Prayer for Missions], Andover, September 1823. This contained the three hymns fo… Go to person page >

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