For the might of thine arm we bless thee

For the might of thine arm we bless thee. Charles Sylvester Horne* (1865-1914). Written for the congregation of Whitefield’s Tabernacle, London, of which the author was minister from 1903 until his death. It was first published in a leaflet form in 1904, in five stanzas, and then in The Brotherhood Song Book (1908) and The Fellowship Hymn Book (FHB, 1909), in four stanzas. The hymn was written in imitation of a poem by Felicia Hemans* on the Waldensians (see Waldensian hymnody*), beginning ‘For the strength of the hills we bless Thee’*, entitled ‘Hymn of the Vaudois Mountaineers in times of Persecution’, published in her Scenes and Hymns of Life (1834). Horne’s original hymn was as...