Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Let the whole race of creatures lie
Topic: God/In Providence
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 89
Page Number: 055, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLet the whole race of creatures lie
In dust before the Lord!
Whate'er his pow'rful hand has form'd,
He governs with a word.
Ten thousand ages are the skies
Were into motion brought,
All the long years and worlds to come,
Stood present to his thought.
There's not a sparrow, or a worm
O'erlook'd in his decrees:
He raises monarchs to a throne,
Or sinks with equal ease.
If light attend the course I go,
'T is he provides the rays;
And 't is his hand that hides the sun,
If darkness cloud my days.
Trusting his wisdom and his love,
I would not wish to know
What, in the book of his decrees,
Awaits me here below.
Be this alone my fervent pray'r:
Whate'er my lot may be.
Or joys or sorrows -- may they form
My soul for heav'n and thee!