O Thou whose gracious presence shone

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O Thou whose gracious presence shone

Author: Marion Franklin Ham (1912)
Tune: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 O Lord, whose gracious presence shone
A light to bless your fellowmen,
To you we fondly turn again,
As to a friend that we have known.

2 Your grace and truth, your life that shed
Undying radiance through all time,
Your tender love, your faith sublime—
Remembering these, we break the bread.

3 We taste the wine, and so recall
Your sacrifice upon the cross—
A life divine become as loss,
That love should live again in all.

4 And lo, again we seem to hear
Your blessing on the loaf and cup—
The presence that was lifted up
Again to loving hearts brought near.

Amen.

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Source: The Worshipbook: Services and Hymns #516

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Author: Marion Franklin Ham

Born: February 18, 1867, Harveysburg, Ohio. Died: July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ham began his career as a journalist and bank clerk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1898, he pastored in Chattanooga (1898-1904); at the First Church in Dallas, Texas (1904-09); and in Reading (1909-34), Waverly (1934-42), and Gardner, Massachusetts (1943-45). The Meadville Theological School in Chicago, Illinois, awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1942, the year he retired. Ham’s works include: The Golden Shuttle, 1896 The Kinchin Stories, 1914 Songs of the Spirit, 1932 Songs of Faith and Hope, 1940 O Mother-Heart, 1941… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Thou whose gracious presence shone
Author:	Marion Franklin Ham (1912)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

PUER NOBIS is a melody from a fifteenth-century manuscript from Trier. However, the tune probably dates from an earlier time and may even have folk roots. PUER NOBIS was altered in Spangenberg's Christliches GesangbUchlein (1568), in Petri's famous Piae Cantiones (1582), and again in Praetorius's (P…

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