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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: While o'er our guilty land O Lord (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: While o'er our guilty land O Lord

Topic: National

Writer: Samuel Davis

Composer: Theodore Lwoff

Meter: LM

Tune: Theodore

Hymn Number: 119

Page Number: 045, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WHILE o'er our guilty land, O Lord,

We view the terrors of thy sword,

O whither shall the helpless fly?

To whom but thee direct their cry?



The helpless sinner's cries and tears

Are grown familiar to thine ears;

Oft has thy mercy sent relief,

When all was fear and hopeless grief.



On thee, our guardian God, wee call;

Before thy throne of grace we fall.

And is there no deliverance there?

And must we perish in despair?



See, we repent, we weep, we mourn,

To our forsaken God we turn;

O spare our guilty country; spare

The church which thou has planted here.



We plead thy grace, indulgent God;

We plead thy Son's atoning blood;

We plead thy gracious promises-

And are they unavailing pleas?



These pleas, presented at thy throne,

Have brought ten thousand blessings down

On guilty lands in helpless woe;

Let  them prevail to save us, too.