Grant us thy light, that we may know

Grant us thy light, that we may know. Lawrence Tuttiett* (1825-1897). First published in Tuttiett’s Germs of Thought on the Sunday Special Services: being the harmonized teaching of the Collect, Epistle, Gospel, and First Lessons. Advent to Easter (1864), with the title ‘Divine Guidance’. It is found in books of the late 19th and mid-20th century (CP, BHB), sometimes with an alteration to the first line of each verse, as in RCH and MHB: ‘O grant us light, that we may know’. This alteration is found in most books in the USA and Canada, although Moravian books begin each stanza with ‘Lord, grant us light...’. The earlier version had six stanzas, as in the Congregational Hymnary (1916): Grant...