SENTENCES & RESPONSES
SDAH 686
Bless thou the gifts our hands have brought;
bless thou the work our hearts have planned.
Ours is the faith, the will, the thought;
the rest, O God, is in thy hand.
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Introductions for Sabbath School Song Service (based on specific lesson quarterlies):
This offertory sentence is by Samuel Longfellow, the brother of the famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine, and studied for the ministry at Harvard – Divinity School. Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1848, he served the church at Fall River, Massachusetts. After a tour of Europe for two years, he ministered in Brooklyn for seven years, and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, for 23 years. He retired in 1882 to work on a biography of his brother. His published works include Vespers, 1859; A Book of Hymns and Tunes, 1860; and, with fellow-student at Harvard, Samuel Johnson, A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, 1846; and Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. He died October 3, 1892.
For notes on CANONBURY and Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856) see SDAH 541. The tune is used also for SDAH 548.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
Bless thou the gifts our hands have brought;
bless thou the work our hearts have planned.
Ours is the faith, the will, the thought;
the rest, O God, is in thy hand.
Amen.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Luk 9:16
Author
Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892)
Year Published
1886
Hymn Tune
CANONBURY
Metrical Number
L.M.
Arranged
from Robert A. Schumann, 1839 (1810-1856)
