Command thy blessing from above
Command thy blessing from above. James Montgomery* (1771-1854).
Written for a Whitsuntide Festival of the Sheffield Sunday School Union, 3 June 1816; first printed on that occasion, and then in the Evangelical Magazine (September 1816). It was then published in the Eighth Edition of Thomas Cotterill*’s Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use (1819), with the title ‘For God’s blessing on His assembled people’.
Montgomery revised it for The Christian Psalmist (1825), calling it ‘For a solemn Assembly’:
Command thy blessing from above, O God, on all assembled here;Behold us with a Father's love, While we look up with filial fear.
Command thy blessing, Jesus, Lord: May...
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