God of the prophets, bless the prophets’ sons

God of the prophets, bless the prophets’ sons. Denis Wortman* (1835-1922). Written in 1860 to celebrate the centenary of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey, when Wortman was a student there. It was written on behalf of the graduating class of 1860. It was included in the Protestant Episcopal Church Hymnal (1892), in all six stanzas, with the Scottish tune OLD 124th, in a section entitled ‘Divinity Schools’. It has remained in successive editions of the Hymnal, though with alterations and omissions, and set to another metrical psalm tune, TOULON, by Loys Bourgeois*. In H40 it was in a section entitled ‘Ember Days and Ordination’, and the last stanza was omitted: O mighty age...