Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
Topic: God in Providence
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: L Mason
Meter: LPM
Tune: Nashville
Hymn Number: 41
Page Number: 019, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI'll praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler powers:
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and tho't, and being last,
And immortality endures.
Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God: he made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train.
His truth forever stands secure:
He saves the oppressed, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
The Lord pours eyesight on the blind;
The Lord supports the fainting mind,
He sends the laboring conscience peace:
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,
And grants the prisoner sweet release.