What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone

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1 What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
around Your steps below!
What patient love was seen in all
Your life and death of woe!

2 For ever on Your burdened heart
a weight of sorrow hung,
yet no ungentle, murmuring word
escaped Your silent tongue.

3 Your foes might hate, despise, revile,
Your friends unfaithful prove;
unwearied in forgiveness still,
Your heart could only love.

4 O give us hearts to love like You,
like You, O Lord, to grieve
far more for others’ sins than all
the wrongs that we receive.

5 One with Yourself, may every eye
in all of humankind
behold that grace and gentleness
which, Lord, in You we find.

Source: The Irish Presbyterian Hymbook #528

Author: Edward Denny

Denny, Sir Edward, Bart . Sir Edward Denny, son of Sir E. Denny, 4th baronet, of Tralee Castle, County of Kerry, was born 2 Oct., 1796, and succeeded his father in August, 1831. He is a member of the Plymouth Brethren, and has contributed largely to their hymnody. His first publication, in which many of his hymns appeared, was A Selection of Hymns, Lond. Central Tract Depot, 1839. This was followed by Hymns & Poems , Lond., 1848 (third ed., 1870). He has also published several prose works. Many of his hymns are popular, and are in extensive use as:—" A pilgrim through this lonely world"; "Bride of the Lamb, rejoice, rejoice"; “Bright with all His crowns of glory"; “Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart”; "Sweet feast of love d… Go to person page >

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What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone. Sir E. Denny. [The love of Jesus.] Appeared in his Selection of Hymns, 1839, No. 32. in 5 stanzas of 4 lines; and again in his Hymns and Poems, 1848, p. 71, and later editions. It has passed into most of the hymn-books of the Plymouth Brethren, and also into several other collections.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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MANOAH (Greatorex)

MANOAH was first published in Henry W. Greatorex's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1851). This anthology (later editions had alternate titles) contained one of the best tune collections of its era and included thirty-seven original compositions and arrangements by compiler Greatorex as well as m…

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A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #62

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A Pastor's Selection of Hymns and Tunes #420

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A Selection of Hymns #72

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A Selection of Spiritual Songs #264

A. M. E. C. Hymnal #135

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African Methodist Episcopal hymn and tune book #198

American Church and Church School Hymnal #d348

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Book of Worship (Rev. ed.) #118

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Book of Worship #118

Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d988

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Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #179

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Carmina Sanctorum #179

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Choice Hymns of the Faith #384

Christian Hymnal #d532

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Christian Praise #217

Christian Worship #219

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Church Hymnal, Mennonite #308

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #308

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Church Hymnal, Third Edition #546

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Church Hymns and Gospel Songs #70

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Gloria in Excelsis #d748

Gloria in Excelsis #d465

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #130

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #130

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Hymn-Book of the Evangelical Association #101

Hymnal for Christian Worship #d302

Hymnal of the Evangelical Church. Word ed. #d825

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #196

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Hymnal #198

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Hymni Ecclesiae #70

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Hymns for the Reformed Church in the United States #296

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Hymns of the Christian Life #d467

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Hymns of Worship and Service #109

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Hymns, Psalms and Gospel Songs #57

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In Excelsis #235

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Inter-Church Hymnal #d412

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Joy and Praise #128

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Laudamus #100

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Laudes Domini #351

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Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes #102

Mennonite Brethren Church Hymnal #87

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Montreat Hymns #57

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #281

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #281

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Our New Hymnal #118

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Pilgrim Songs (Number Two) #201

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #489

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #364

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Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #295

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Songs for the Sanctuary #295

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Songs for the Sanctuary #295

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