Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand

Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand. Octavius Brooks Frothingham* (1822-1895).  According to  JJ, p. 401, this was written for the Graduating Exercise of the Harvard Divinity School class of 1846. It was published in that same year by Samuel Johnson* and Samuel Longfellow* in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (Boston, 1846), in six stanzas, entitled ‘The Children of the Cross’:  Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand  Has brought us here, before Thy face, Our spirits wait for Thy command,  Our silent hearts implore Thy peace.  Those spirits lay their noblest powers,  As offerings, on Thy holy shrine:Thine was the strength that nourished ours;  The children of the cross...