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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Let every heart and tongue (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Let every heart and tongue

Topic: The New Life/Aspirations

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

Composer: I Woodbury

Meter: SM double

Tune: Forever With the Lord

Hymn Number: 601

Page Number: 219, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Let every heart and tongue

Proclaim the Savior's praise;

He is the source of all my joy,

His mercy crowns my days.

He knows my feeble frame;

Remembers I am dust;

And though he should my life destroy,

In him I'll put my trust, put my, etc.





Each day his is my strength,

My hope, my life, my all;

And, while upon his arm I lean,

I surely can not fall.

Then, to my blessed Lord,

Let grateful songs arise,

While angels bear the notes above

And sound them thro' the skies, thro', etc.