This is my song, O God of all the nations

This is my song, O God of all the nations. Lloyd Stone* (1912–1993). This two-stanza hymn, composed at age 22 to the tune FINLANDIA, is the only hymnic contribution by Lloyd Stone. Sometimes called ‘A Song of Peace’, the hymn has been included in more than thirty hymnals in the United States since 1955. Written while Stone was a student at the University of Southern California, it first appeared in Sing a Tune (1934), a publication by the Committee on Children’s Work and the Committee on Camps and Conferences, Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches. A copy of the hymn from the original 1934 edition was not available. However, ‘Song of Peace’ (no. 24) is listed in the...