Loving Creator

Loving Creator. Daniel Thambyrajah Niles* (1908-1970). This is the version in CH4 of Niles’s Trinitarian hymn addressed in its three stanzas to the three persons of the Holy Trinity, beginning ‘Father in heaven’*. In stanza 1 the CH4 version avoids the image of ‘Father’ for God, changing the first line, and also lines 7-8 from ‘Father in heaven,/ Father, our God’ to ‘Loving Creator,/ Parent and God’. Stanzas 2 and 3 also have substantial alterations from Niles’s original: NilesCH4 Jesus Redeemer, May we remember Thy gracious passion, Thy resurrection.Worship we bring Thee, Praise we shall sing Thee—Jesus Redeemer, Jesus, our Lord. Spirit descending, Whose is the blessing, Strength for...