Text: | Fit Us for Thy Service, Lord |
Author: | Nicholas L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 |
Recast: | John Swertner, 1746-1813 |
Translator: | John Gambold, 1711-1771 |
Tune: | GUIDING STAR |
Composer: | Johann A. Freylinghausen, 1670-1739 |
Composer: | Johann Balthasar König, 1691-1758 |
Fit us for Thy service, Lord,
Each one in Thy congregation
In his station;
Set us in the appointed place
To Thy praise;
Make us for Thy service able,
Ever willing, strong and stable,
Till in thee we end our race.
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First Line: | Fit us for Thy service, Lord |
Title: | Fit Us for Thy Service, Lord |
Author: | Nicholas L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 (1738) |
Translator: | John Gambold, 1711-1771 (1751) |
Recast: | John Swertner, 1746-1813 (1789) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1969 |
Topic: | Hymns for Special Uses |
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Name: | GUIDING STAR |
Composer: | Johann A. Freylinghausen, 1670-1739 (1704) |
Composer: | Johann Balthasar König, 1691-1758 (1738) |
Meter: | 7.8.4.7.3.8.8.7. Trochaic |
Key: | D Major |
O du Hüter Israel; (155, A)
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MIDI file: | MIDI |