Day by day the manna fell
Day by day the manna fell. Josiah Conder* (1789-1855).
Published in Conder’s The Congregational Hymn Book (1836), with the heading ‘Give us day by day our daily bread. Luke xi. 3’. JJ notes that it then was used by Conder in his The Choir and the Oratory; or Praise and Prayer (1837), where it was the fourth part of the Lord’s Prayer in Six Parts (p. 282). It has its Old Testament origin in Exodus 16, but is skilfully transferred to the Christian life. It had six stanzas:
Day by day the manna fell: Oh to learn this lesson well! Still be constant mercy fed, Give me, Lord ! My daily bread.
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