Sing of a God in Majestic Divinity

Sing of a God in Majestic Divinity. T. Herbert O'Driscoll* (1928-2024). Written in 1980, this hymn was featured in an article on Canadian hymnody by Stanley Osborne* published in The Hymn 32/3 (Autumn, 1981). O’Driscoll drew from his reading of Your God Is Too Small (1952) by J. B. Phillips: ‘For some reason the simple statement has always stayed with me as a warning. Here in these lines we see transcendence and immanence wedded, God inhabiting both an outer and inner universe, spirit and flesh, mind and heart, all in all’ (Praise, My Soul, Notes on the Hymns, p. 79). In this hymn the transcendent God is ‘seeding the heavens with numberless stars’, while the immanent God is ‘forming … our...