We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator

We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator. Julia Cory (1882-1963). This hymn, originally of two stanzas, was first sung in 1902 at a Thanksgiving Day service at Brick Presbyterian Church, New York, where Cory, then Julia Cady aged 19 or perhaps 20, was a member. It was written at the request of the organist, J. Arthur Gibson, as an alternative to the patriotic hymn ‘We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing’* set to the Dutch tune KREMSER, arranged by the Austrian composer Eduard Kremser* (1838-1914) and sung in Thanksgiving Day services in USA churches. Julia Cory told the story herself:  Years before I was married (in 1902), the organist of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New...