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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: To bless thy chosen race (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: To bless thy chosen race

Topic: The Church/Constitution

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: Hastings

Meter: SM

Tune: Alberte

Hymn Number: 339

Page Number: 124, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

To bless thy chosen race,

In mercy, Lord, incline;

And cause the brightness of thy face

On all thy saints to shine,--



That so thy wondrous way

May through the world be known:

While distant lands their homage pay,

And thy salvation own.