"For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace"
by Henry Downton, 1818-1885
Text From:
THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942) p.96-97
1. For Thy mercy and Thy grace,
Faithful through another year,
Hear our song of thankfulness;
Savior and Redeemer, hear!
2. Lo, our sins on Thee we cast,
Thee, our perfect Sacrifice,
And, forgetting all the past,
Press unto our glorious prize.
3. Dark the future; let Thy light
Guide us, bright and Morning Star.
Fierce our foes and hard the fight;
Arm us, Savior, for the war.
4. In our weakness and distress,
Rock of strength, be Thou our Stay;
In the pathless wilderness
Be our true and living Way.
5. Who of us death's awful road
In the coming year shall tread,
With Thy rod and staff, 0 God,
Comfort Thou his dying bed.
6. Keep us faithful, keep us pure,
Keep us evermore Thine own.
Help, oh, help us to endure;
Fit us for the promised crown.
Notes from _The Lutheran Hymnal_
Hymn #121
Text: Ps. 59:16
Author: Henry Downton, 1841, ab. and alt.
Tune: "Culbach"
1st Published in: _Heilige Seelenlust_
Town: Breslau, 1657, ad.
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