Thou, Lord, through every changing scene

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Thou, Lord, through every changing scene

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 59 hymnals

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1 Thou, Lord, through ev'ry changing scene,
Hast to thy saints a refuge been:
Through ev'ry age, eternal God,
Their pleasing home, their safe abode.

2 Lo, we are ris'n, a feeble race,
Awhile to fill our father's place:
Our helpless state with pity view,
And let us share their refuge too.

3 Through all the thorny paths we trace
In this uncertain wilderness,
When friends desert, and foes invade,
Revive our heart and guard our head.

4 So, when this pilgrimage is o'er,
And we shall dwell in flesh no more,
To thee our sep'rate souls shall come,
And find in thee a surer home.

Source: A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy: for the use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; to which are added prayers for families and individuals #471

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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Author:	Philip Doddridge
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Thou, Lord, through every changing scene. P. Doddridge. [God, the Dwelling-place of His People.] This is No. 21 in the Dodderidge manuscript, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines is headed "God the Dwelling-place of His people thro' all generations” from Ps. xc. 1, and dated May 30, 1736. It was given in J. Orton's posthumous edition of Doddridge's Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 51; and again with slight differences in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839. It has passed into several modern hymnals.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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