Savior of our ruined race

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Savior of our ruined race

Author: Thomas Hastings
Tune: TOPLADY (Hastings)
Published in 21 hymnals

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1 Saviour of our ruined race,
Fountain of redeeming grace,
Let us now thy fullness see
While we here converse with thee;
Hearken to our ardent prayer,
Let us all thy blessings share.

2 While we thus with glad accord
Meet around thy table, Lord,
Bid us feast with joy divine
On the appointed bread and wine;
Emblems may they truly prove
Of our Saviour's bleeding love.

3 Weak, unworthy, sinful, vile,
Yet we seek the heavenly smile;
Thou canst all our sins forgive,
Thou canst bid us look and live.
Lord, we wonder and adore!
O, for grace to love thee more!

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1116

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Savior of our ruined race
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Matthew 26:20
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TOPLADY (Hastings)

DIX (Kocher)

An early form of the tune DIX was composed by Conrad Kocher (b. Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, 1786; d. Stuttgart, Germany, 1872). Trained as a teacher, Kocher moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a tutor at the age of seventeen. But his love for the music of Haydn and Mozart impelled him t…

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