LYRICS
| Meter: | 9 8 9 8
| | Writer(s): | (1st or 2nd Century) Didache
| | Transl/Adapt: | Francis Bland Tucker
| | Dates: | c.110, 1941
| | Bible Refs: | Jn 15:1-9
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 416
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 315
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 223
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 413
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 298
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 312
| Hymns and Songs
| 1969
| 16
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 284
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 225
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 195
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 302
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 495
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| 1. Father, we thank thee
who hast planted
thy holy Name within our hearts.
Knowledge and faith
and life immortal
Jesus thy Son to us imparts.
2. Thou, Lord, didst make
all for thy pleasure,
didst give us food for all our days,
giving in Christ the Bread eternal;
thine is the power, be thine the praise.
3. Watch o'er thy Church,
O Lord, in mercy,
save it from evil, guard it still,
perfect it in thy love, unite it,
cleansed and conformed unto thy will.
4. As grain, once scattered
on the hillsides,
was in this broken bread made one,
so from all lands
thy Church be gathered
into thy Kingdom by thy Son.
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