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1 O Jesus, God and Man,
On this Thy holy day,
To Thee for precious gifts of grace
Thy ransomed people pray.
2 We pray for childlike hearts,
For gentle, holy love,
For strength to do Thy will below
As angels do above.
3 We pray for simple faith,
For hope that never faints,
For true communion evermore
With all Thy blessed saints.
4 On friends around us here
O let Thy blessing fall;
We pray for grace to love them well,
But Thee beyond them all.
5 O joy to live for Thee!
O joy in Thee to die!
O very joy of joys to see
Thy face eternally!
Source: The Sunday School Hymnal: with offices of devotion #12
First Line: | Lord Jesus, God and man, On this our festal day |
Author: | H. W. Baker |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Lord Jesus, God and Man. Sir H. W. Baker. [For a School Feast.] This hymn is dated 1852 in Biggs's Annotated edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, but its first publication is traced only to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861. It has a slight resemblance to Faber's “O Jesu, God and Man," which was published in his Jesus and Mary, in 1849. Sir H. W. Baker's hymn is in extensive use in Great Britain and America. It is sometimes given as "Lord Jesu, God and Man."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)