O God our Father, who dost make us one

O God our Father, who dost make us one. William Vaughan Jenkins* (1868-1920). Published in The Fellowship Hymn Book (1909), of which Jenkins was one of the editors, entitled ‘A Parting Hymn’, and again in the revised version of FHB (1933). In between these printings it appeared (without a title) in Grave and Gay (1921), a book published after Jenkins's death containing poems by him and his daughter. It has appeared in many hymnals, notably MHB, BHB and HP. These books all omit stanzas 3 and 4 (of 6), concerning ‘the fellowship that here [in worship] we find’: Here has dull care been banished from our thought, Here has glad comradeship our spirits caught To heights undreamed of midst the...