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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Gracious Source of every blessing (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Gracious Source of every blessing

Topic: Closing Hymns/General

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: Mendelssohn

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune: Wilson

Hymn Number: 500

Page Number: 174, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

GRACIOUS Source of every blessing!

Guard our breasts from anxious fears;

Let us, each Thy care possessing,

Sink into the vale of years.



All our hopes on Thee reclining,

Peace companion of our way,

May our sun, in smiles declining,

Rise in everlasting day.