Lord of our highest love

Lord of our highest love. Gilbert Young Tickle* (1819-1888).  The earliest printing of this hymn recorded in Hymnary.org. is in The Christian Hymnal (Cincinnati, 1882), published for the Churches of Christ. It was published in the same year in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book (Cincinnati: Fillmore Brothers). In Britain it was almost certainly among the 34 hymns by Tickle in A Collection of Hymns for Churches of Christ (Birmingham, 1888), edited by David King (1819-1894), with Tickle as an assistant, but this has not been verified. It had six stanzas:    Lord of our highest love,    Let now Thy peace be giv’n; Fix all our thoughts on things above,    Our hearts on Thee in heav’n.    Then,...