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Hymn: Great God we sing that mighty hand (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Great God we sing that mighty hand

Topic: Times and Seasons/Old and New Year

Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1239

Page Number: 742, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Great God, we sing that mighty hand

By which supported still we stand:

The opening year thy mercy shows;

Thy mercy crown it till it close!



By day, by night, at home, abroad

Still we are guarded by our God;

By his incessant bounty fed,

By his unerring counsel led.



With grateful hearts the past we own;

The future, all to us unknown.

We to thy guardian care commit,

And peaceful leave before thy feet.



In scenes exalted or depressed,

Be thou our joy, and thou our rest:

Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,

Adored through all our changing days.