O gracious Father of mankind

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O gracious Father of mankind

Author: Henry Hallam Tweedy (1926)
Tune: ST. LEONARD (Hiles)
Published in 38 hymnals

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1 O gracious Father of mankind,
Our spirits’ unseen Friend,
High heaven’s Lord, our hearts’ dear Guest,
To Thee our prayers ascend.
Thou dost not wait till human speech
Thy gifts divine implore;
Our dreams, our aims, our work, our lives
Are prayers Thou lovest more.

2 Thou hearest these, the good and ill,
Deep buried in each breast;
The secret thought, the hidden plan,
Wrought out or unexpressed.
O cleanse our prayers from human dross,
Attune our lives to Thee,
Until we labor for those gifts
We ask on bended knee.

3 Thou seekest us in love and truth
More than our minds seek Thee;
Through open gates Thy power flows in
Like flood tides from the sea.
No more we seek Thee from afar,
Nor ask Thee for a sign,
Content to pray in life and love
And toil, till all are Thine.

Amen.

Source: The Hymnal #85

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Author: Henry Hallam Tweedy

Born: August 5, 1868, Binghamton, New York. Died: April 11, 1953, Brattleboro, Vermont. Buried: Mountain View Cemetery, New Fairfield, Connecticut. Tweedy attended Phillips Andover Academy, Yale University (BA & MA), Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Berlin. Ordained a Congregationalist minister in 1898, he pastored at Plymouth Church, Utica, New York (1892-1902), and South Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut (1902-09). He then became Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School (1909-37). He taught liturgy, music, and the arts, and was interested in religious architecture. His… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O gracious Father of mankind
Author:	Henry Hallam Tweedy (1926)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

ST. LEONARD (Hiles)

ST. MICHAELS (German)

ST. MICHAEL'S is an anonymous tune first published by William Gawler (b. Lambeth, London, England, 1750; d. London, 1809) in 1789 in his London collection Hymns and Psalms Used at the Asylum for Female Orphans (1785-1789). Gawler was organist at the Asylum of Refuge for French Orphans in Lambeth, th…

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