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Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Matching Instances: 19 Lyrics: 1 Father of all! we bow to thee, who dwell’st in heav’n ador'd; but present still through all thy works, the universal Lord. 2 For ever hallow'd be thy name by all beneath the skies; and may thy kingdom still advance, till grace to glory rise. 3 A grateful homage may we yield, with hearts resign'd to thee; and as in heav’n thy will is done, on earth so let it be. 4 From day to day we humbly own the hand that feeds us still: give us our bread, and teach to rest contented in thy will. 5 Our sins before thee we confess; O may they be forgiven! As we to others mercy show, we mercy beg from Heav’n. 6 Still let thy grace our life direct; from evil guard our way; and in temptation’s fatal path permit us not to stray. 7 For thine the pow’r, the kingdom thine; all glory’s due to thee: thine from eternity they were, and thine shall ever be. Used With Tune: PALESTRINA

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MORAVIA

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 97 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Tune Sources: German Melody of the Sixteenth Century. Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11532 11234 35432 Used With Text: Father of all! we bow to Thee

PALESTRINA

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 346 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Tune Sources: Adapted from "Gloria Patri" in Palestrna's Magnificat tertii toni Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55565 54353 33321 Used With Text: Father of all! we bow to thee

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Father of all! we bow to thee

Hymnal: The Baptist Psalmody #693 (1850)

Father of all, we bow to thee

Hymnal: Hymns for Christian Melody #667 (1835) Languages: English

Father of all! we bow to Thee

Author: Hugh Blair Hymnal: The Presbyterian Book of Praise #395 (1897) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Church Worship - Praise and Prayer Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Languages: English Tune Title: MORAVIA

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Hugh Blair

1718 - 1800 Author of "Father of all! we bow to Thee" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Blair, Hugh, D.D., eldest son of John Blair, merchant. Edinburgh, was born at Edinburgh, April 7, 1718. In 1730 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1739. In 1742 he was ordained parish minister of Collessie, in Fife, became, in 1743, second minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1754 minister of Lady Yester's, and in 1758 joint minister of the High Church (now styled St. Giles's Cathedral). In 1762, while still retaining his pastoral charge, he was appointed the first Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh—a chair founded for him. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of St. Andrews, in 1757. He died in Edinburgh, Dec. 27, 1800. In 1744 Dr. Blair was appointed a member of the Committee of Assembly which compiled the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745, and in 1775 of that which revised and enlarged them. To him are ascribed by the Rev. W. Thomson and the Rev. Dr. Hew Scott, Nos. 4, 33, 34, 44, of the 1781 collection. He is also credited with the alterations made on Paraphrases 32 and 57, in 1745-51, and on Paraphrase 20, in 1781. The Rev. J. W. Macmeeken would ascribe these 4 Paraphrases to his second cousin, the Rev. Robert Blair, author of The Grave [eldest son of the Rev. David Blair, born in Edinburgh, 1699, ordained Parish minister of Athelstaneford, East Lothian, in 1731,appointed, in 1742,a number of the Committee which compiled the 1745 collection, died at Atholstaneford. Feb. 4, 1746]. Dr. C. Rogers, in his Lyra Britannica (pp. 66 & 664, ed. 1867) holds that, though Dr. Hugh Blair may have altered Paraphrases 44 and 57, neither he, nor Robert Blair, wrote any original hymns. While the weight of opinion and of probability is in favour of Dr. Hugh Blair, no very definite evidence is presented on either side, though the records of the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1748 show Dr. Hugh Blair as selected to revise Nos. 18 (7 in 1781), 21 (46 in 1781), and probably others. [Rev. James Mears, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)