Forbid that we forget

Lord, God, the Everliving

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: [Lord, God, the Ever-Living]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Lord God, the Ever-Living,
On whom men’s hopes are set,
Lord God, the Ever-Loving,
Forbid that we forget!

Refrain:
The place where human sorrow
And heaven’s pity met,—
The cross-tree on the mountain
Forbid that we forget!

2 Forbid that we should ever
Forget a world once lost,
Forget a Christ who rescued,
Forget a rescue’s cost. [Refrain]

3 Thou who the stars hast numbered,
Who rulest earth and sea,
That Thou hast man remembered
Thy crown of praise shall be! [Refrain]

Source: Worship and Service #131

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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First Line: Lord, God, the Everliving
Title: Forbid that we forget
Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Refrain First Line: The place where human sorrow
Copyright: Public Domain

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