Our Father, our Father in heaven

Our Father, our Father in heaven

Author: Thomas Hastings
Tune: THE LORD'S PRAYER (Wakefield)
Published in 9 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Our Father, our Father in heaven,
Be hallowed thy glorious name;
To thee let the kingdom be given,
Thy will be acknowledged supreme,
Thy will be acknowledged supreme.

2 We would by thy bounty be fed,
By infinite mercy forgiven,
Nor into temptation be led,
Nor into sad evils be driven.

3 For thine is the kingdom, O Lord,
The power and the glory are thine;
Thy name be for ever adored,
On earth as in heaven divine.

Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #175

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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First Line: Our Father, our Father in heaven
Author: Thomas Hastings
Copyright: Public Domain

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Mother's Nursery Songs. New ed. #d52

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #208

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #240

Songs for the Little Ones at Home #d167

The Canadian Minstrel #d61

The Christian Minstrel #d218

The Christian Minstrel #d249

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The Minstrel of Zion #175

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The Mother's Nursery Songs #69

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