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Hymn: O God unchanging fount of good (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O God unchanging fount of good

Topic: God/Goodness

Writer: C Pearson

Composer: G Root

Meter: CM double

Tune: Varina

Hymn Number: 334

Page Number: 110, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O GOD, unchanging fount of good,

Thy mercy faileth not;

And yet, by man's unthankful mood,

Thy mercy is forgot.

Thy bounty as unceasing falls,

As falls the plenteous light;

And every blessing on us calls,

Thy goodness to requite.



If mercy, too, comes as the rain,

'Mid clouds of seeming wrath,

Yet still the ministry of pain

A kindly mission hath.

Yea, whatsoe'er thy dealings here,

Thy are in mercy given;

To fit us for a nobler sphere

Of life, with thee, in heaven.