Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Take, O, take me, Holy Father

Take, O, take me, Holy Father

Author: Ambrose M. Schmidt
Tune: MOUNT VERNON (Mason)
Published in 4 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Take, oh, take me, Holy Father!
Hear my supplicating prayer;
Take and use me as Thy vessel,
Take, oh, take me to Thy care.

2 Break me, oh, Thou loving Father!
Though Thy breaking cost me pain;
Though Thou triest me with fire
I will magnify Thy name.

3 Make me as Thou wilt, O Father!
Melt this stubborn heart of mine;
Make me like my Lord and Saviour,
Full of love and life divine.

4 Take me, break me, make me, Father!
Unto Thee I all resign!
By Thy loving grace uphold me,
Make me ever wholly Thine.

Source: The Sunday School Hymnal: with offices of devotion #144

Author: Ambrose M. Schmidt

(no biographical information available about Ambrose M. Schmidt.) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Take, O, take me, Holy Father
Author: Ambrose M. Schmidt
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
Page Scan

The Church School Hymnal #87

The Praise Hymnal #144

Page Scan

The Sunday School Hymnal #144

TextPage Scan

The Sunday School Hymnal #144

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.