Text: | To You, Most Holy Lord |
Author: | Maurice Frederick Oerter |
Tune: | NUN DANKET |
Composer: | Johann Crüger |
1 To you, most holy Lord,
we sing with hearts and voices;
in you, with one accord,
your church on earth rejoices!
We bend before your throne,
and humbly chant your praise;
we worship you alone,
whose love has crowned our days.
2 On this, our festal day,
your people here adore you;
we come to sing and pray
and lay our gifts before you.
Your hand has helped us on
through ev'ry passing year;
now, Father, Spirit, Son,
our grateful praises hear!
3 “Go forth in all the earth,” —
your word to us is given:
“Proclaim salvation’s worth
to people under heaven.”
This holy task, O Lord,
your church must quite fulfill;
to us your grace afford,
and mold us to your will.
4 Your faithful servants bless
in all earth's varied places;
your name they all confess
among earth’s many races,
until that day shall come
when multitudes untold
shall find their glorious home
in heav'n’s eternal fold!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | To you, most holy Lord |
Title: | To You, Most Holy Lord |
Author: | Maurice Frederick Oerter (1919, alt.) |
Meter: | 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6. Iambic |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Spread of the Gospel; Adoration and Praise; Church--Anniversary(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NUN DANKET |
Composer: | Johann Crüger (1649) |
Meter: | 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6. Iambic |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | C. Gregor Choralbuch (1784) |
Notes: | 146 A in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns |