God of the morning ray

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God of the morning ray

Author: Thomas Hastings
Tune: ITALIAN HYMN
Published in 21 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Coral Ridge Festival - Hymn Collecti…

Instrumental
	An American Suite for Violin and Piano

Handbells
	Come Worship the King

Representative Text

1 God of the morning ray,
God of the rising day,
Glorious in power!
In thee we live and move,
And thus we daily prove
Thy condescending love
Each passing hour.

2 God of our feeble race,
God of redeeming grace,
Spirit all-blest!
Our own eternal Friend,
Thy guardian influence lend,
From every snare defend;
In thee we rest.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #35

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	God of the morning ray
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

ITALIAN HYMN

Felice de Giardini (b. Turin, Italy, 1716; d. Moscow, Russia, 1796) composed ITALIAN HYMN in three parts for this text at the request of Selina Shirley, the famous evangelically minded Countess of Huntingdon. Giardini was living in London at the time and contributed this tune and three others to Mar…

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AMERICA (Thesaurus Musicus)

RIGHINI

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