God of All Love and Pity

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God of all love and pity

Author: Caroline M. Noel
Tune: ST. HILDA (Knecht)
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1 God of all love and pity,
Thy children gently guide;
With heav’nly food supply us,
All needful good provide.

2 By waters still refresh us,
As patiently we wait,
Till Thou, the Fount of brightness,
Our souls illuminate.

3 Our wishes and affections,
Our impulses and pow’rs,
We yield unto Thy guidance;
For they are Thine, not ours.

4 Our spirits we surrender,
Our purposes resign,
To be conformed for ever
Unto the Will Divine.

5 With strong attraction draw us
Unto Thyself alone,
O King of Saints, and bring us
Unto Thy sapphire throne.

6 And till the morning dawneth
For each tired soul’s release,
Sustain us with the brightness
Of Thine own perfect peace.

Source: Hymns of Consecration and Faith #87

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Author: Caroline M. Noel

Caroline Marie Noel (b. Teston, Kent, England, 1817; d. St. Marylebone, London, England, 1877) The daughter of an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer, she began to write poetry in her late teens but then abandoned it until she was in her forties. During those years she suffered frequent bouts of illness and eventually became an invalid. To encourage both herself and others who were ill or incapacitated, Noel began to write devotional verse again. Her poems were collected in The Name of Jesus and Other Verses for the Sick and Lonely (1861, enlarged in 1870). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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First Line:	God of all love and pity
Title:	God of All Love and Pity
Author:	Caroline M. Noel
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1902
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

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ST. HILDA (Knecht)

The original form of ST. EDITH (also known as ST. HILDA) was composed in 1793 by Justin Heinrich Knecht for the text “Der neidern Menschhiet Hülle.” It was published in Vollstandige Sammlung … Choralmelodien (1799), edited by Johann Friedrich Christmann and Knecht, who composed ninety-seven o…

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