O Lord, we long to see your face
O Lord, we long to see your face. John Raphael Peacey* (1896-1971).
Published in 100HfT and thus in A&MNS, with the title ‘Walking by faith’. It was taken up by the Song Book of the Salvation Army (1986 edition), and it continued in the A&M tradition in A&MCP and A&MRW. In these last two books, ‘O Lord’ is altered to ‘Dear Lord’.
The hymn is based on several passages from the Gospel according to St John, especially with its reference to ‘the Truth, the Life, the Way’, based on John 16: 6 (stanza 2) and to the story of St Thomas in John 20: 24-29 (stanza 4). In Britain it is normally sung to SUSSEX, by Henry Carey (ca. 1690-1743); in the Anglican Church of Canada’s Common...
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