Our Father, by whose servants

Our Father, by whose servants. George Wallace Briggs* (1875-1959). This hymn was written for Loughborough Grammar School in 1920, when Briggs was Rector of Loughborough and took a keen interest in the school. It appears in Prayers and Hymns for use in Schools (1928) with an attribution ‘Loughborough School Hymn’. In the same year it was printed in The American Student Hymnal and it has continued to have a vigorous life in the United States, being found in H40 and (without the final stanza) in H82. Loughborough Grammar School was founded sometime before 1496, and the second stanza made reference to this: Four hundred years enduring, From age to following age, A hundred generations...