O PRAISE our great and gracious Lord, And call upon His name; To strains of joy tune every chord, His mighty acts proclaim. Tell how He led His chosen race To Canaan’s promised land; Tell how His covenant of grace, Unchanged shall ever stand.
He gave the shadowing cloud by day, The moving fire by night; To guide His children on their way, He made their darkness light. We also have a sure retreat, A Saviour ever nigh; And clearest light to guide our feet, A Word from God on high!
We, too, have manna from above, The bread that came from Heaven; And Jesus, from His hand of love, Has living waters given. A Rock we have, from which a spring In rich abundance flows; ‘That Rock is Christ,’ our Priest, our King, Who life and health bestows.
O Lord, we lean upon Thy Word, And Thee our heavenly Guide; So shall we find death’s fearful flood Serene as Jordan’s tide; And safely reach that happy shore, The land of peace and rest, Where we shall worship and adore, In God’s own presence blest.
Harriet Auber, 1773-1862