Lord Jesus, low we bow

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Lord Jesus, low we bow

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Lord Jesus, low we bow]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Lord Jesus, low we bow
Before Thy mercy-seat,
Beseeching Thee to give us now
Thy benediction sweet.

2 Thou knowest every need,
In every waiting heart;
O, Thou who dost for sinners plead,
Thy blessing now impart!

3 So shall we leave this place,
As still “in touch” with Thee;
So shall the fulness of Thy grace,
Our light in darkness be.

4 Be Thou our Sun and Shield,
Our safe abiding Place,
Until in heaven we see revealed
The beauty of Thy face.

Source: The Sunday School Hymnal: with offices of devotion #310

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Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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