O Savior! when thy loving hand

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1. O Savior! when Thy loving hand
Has brought us o’er the sea,
Through perils many, safe to land—
The land we longed to see.

2. Oh, help us, for Thy help we need
Each moment more and more
In perils that we scarcely heed,
More deadly, on the shore.

3. Lord, save us! and the Christian name
Oh, help us pure to keep,
On sea or land, alike the same,
Till we in death shall sleep.

4. Then through Thy merits, washed and clean
From sin’s polluting stain,
In raiment white may we be seen
With all Thy saints to reign.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #5349

Author: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, writer of a number of novels (Cleve Hall, &c), is the author of "O Saviour! when Thy loving hand" (For use at Sea), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. She was born in 1815. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: O Savior! when thy loving hand
Author: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Tune

ST. PETER (Reinagle)

Composed by Alexander R. Reinagle (b. Brighton, Sussex, England, 1799; d. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, 1877), ST. PETER was published as a setting for Psalm 118 in Reinagle's Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (c. 1836). The tune first appeared with Newton's text in Hymns Ancient and Mode…

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