Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lord thou has searched and seen me thro' (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Lord thou has searched and seen me thro'

Topic: God in Creation

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

Composer: Arranged from the German

Meter: LM

Tune: Mendon (Stop)

Hymn Number: 25

Page Number: 013, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Lord, thou hast searched and seen me thro';

Thine eye commands with piercing view

My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh, with all their powers.



My thoughts, before they are my own,

Are to my God distinctly known;

He knows the words I mean to speak,

Ere from my opening lips they break.



Within thy circling power I stand;

On every side I find thy hand:

Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,

I am surrounded still with God.



Amazing knowledge, vast and great!

What large extent! what lofty height!

My soul, with all the powers I boast,

Is in the boundless prospect lost.