Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Our gracious Lord we own thy right
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: 296
Page Number: 144, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOUR gracious Lord, we own thy right,
To every service we can pay;
May it be our supreme delight,
To hear thy mandates and obey.
What is our being but for thee--
Its sure support--its noblest end?
Oh may our pleasure ever be
To serve the cause of such a friend.
We would not breathe for worldly joy,
Or to increase our earthly good:
But would our future days employ
To spread thy glorious name abroad.
These gifts e'en perish in the use;
And yet, O Lord, they're all we have:
Forbid that we should e'er refuse
What thou art willing to receive.
Thy work our hoary age shall bless,
When youthful vigor is no more;
And our last hour of life confess
Thy saving love--thy glorious power.