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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Almighty Father gracious Lord (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Almighty Father gracious Lord

Topic: Adoration of God

Writer: Anne Steele

Composer: Joseph Grigg

Meter: CM

Tune: Give

Hymn Number: 317

Page Number: 114, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

ALMIGHTY Father! gracious Lord!

Kind Guardian of my days!

Thy mercies let my heart record

In songs of grateful praise.



In life's first dawn, my tender frame

Was Thine indulgent care,

Long ere I could pronounce Thy name,

Or breathe the infant pray'r.



Each rolling year new favors brought 

From thine exhaustless store;

But, ah! in vain my lab'ring thought

Would count Thy mercies o'er.



Still I adore Thee, gracious Lord!

For favors more divine;

That I have known Thy sacred word

Where all Thy glories shine.