For your holy book we thank you

For your holy book we thank you. Ruth Carter* (1900-1982). This is believed to be the only hymn that Ruth Carter wrote (Milgate, 1982, p. 140). Certainly it is the only one that is known to hymnbooks. It has the immense benefit of a simple but instantly memorable first line, and it is unusual, and perhaps unique, in giving thanks for translators. Written for a Sunday school class at Buckhurst Hill, ca. 1932, it was sent to the Sunday School Union and appeared in the Graded Schools Intermediate Quarterly in 1937. It has since appeared in several books: For your holy book we thank you,  And for all who served you well,Writing, guarding and translating,  That its pages might forth tellAll your...