For the bread which thou hast broken
For the bread which thou hast broken. Louis F. Benson* (1855-1930).
This Communion hymn was written on 21 November 1924, and published in Benson’s Hymns Original and Translated (Philadelphia, 1925). Benson wrote a three-verse text, with verses beginning ‘For the bread which thou hast broken’, ‘By this pledge that Thou dost love us’, and ‘With our sainted ones in glory’. Benson then showed the hymn to his friend Henry Sloane Coffin*, minister of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, who suggested a fourth verse, concerned with the recipients of the Holy Communion going out into the world to serve:
In your service, Lord, defend us,
In our hearts keep watch and ward;
In the...
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