One thought I have, my ample creed

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

One thought I have, my ample creed

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1880)
Published in 41 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Piano/Organ
	Organ and Piano Accompaniments for Hymn…

Representative Text

1 One thot' I have, my ample creed,
So deep it is and broad;
And equal to my ev'ry need,
It is the tho't of God.

2 Each morn unfolds some fresh surprise,
I feast at life's full board;
And rising in my inner skies,
Shines forth the tho't of God.

3 At night my gladness is my pray'r;
I drop my daily load,
And ev'ry care is pillowed there
Upon the tho't of God.

4 I ask not far before to see,
But take in trust my road;
Life, death, and immortality
Are in my tho't of God

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #434

All representative texts • Compare texts • Text size: Regular | Large ^ top

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Hosmer, Frederick Lucian, B.A., was born at Framingham, Mass., in 1840, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated B.A. in 1869. Entering the Unitarian Ministry in 1872 he has held charges in Quincy, Ill., 1872-77; Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-92; St. Louis, 1894-99; and since 1899, at Berkeley, Cal. His Way of Life, 1877, was a compilation of Prayers and Responsive Services for Sunday Schools. Of Unity Hymns and Carols, 1880, he was joint editor with W. C. Gannett and J. V. Blake. His hymns were published jointly by him and W. C. Gannett (q.v.), as The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.), 1st Series, 1885; 2nd Series, 1894. Of his 56 hymns in this work the following have come into common use, for the most part during… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	One thought I have, my ample creed
Author:	Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1880)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Tune

ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

Go to tune page >

ST. JOHN'S WESTMINSTER

PRAETORIUS (15565)

All tunes published with 'One thought I have, my ample creed'^ top