We praise thee, O God, for the Son of thy love

We praise thee, O God, for the Son of thy love (Revive Us Again). William Mackay* (1839–1885). An earlier version of this hymn, ‘We praise thy great love, our Father and God’,  first appeared in the revival collection, Praise of Jesus (London, 1863, no. 74), edited by William Reid (1822–1881), a Scottish Plymouth Brethren pastor and editor of revival collections. The hymnwriter revised and simplified the hymn in 1867 as ‘We praise thee, O God, for the Son of thy love’ (Revive Us Again), which was included by Reid in The Children’s Praise Book (London, 1872, no. 129), replacing the earlier version. Philip P. Bliss* and Ira D. Sankey* brought the revised hymn to prominence in the USA when...