God of grace, O let Thy light

God of grace, O let thy light. Edward Churton* (1800-1874). From Churton’s The Book of Psalms in English Verse (1854), sometimes (as in JJ) called ‘The Cleveland Psalter’. It was Churton’s second paraphrase of Psalm 67, ‘God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us… That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.’ It was included in Benjamin Hall Kennedy*’s Hymnologia Christiana (1863) as a hymn for Whitsuntide, omitting Churton’s final stanza, which directs the attention to the mission field. Churton’s original was: God of grace, O let Thy lightBless our dim and blinded sight;Like the day-spring on the night,    Bid Thy grace to...