English Lyrics Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings The purple-headed mountain, the river running by The sunset and the morning, that brightens up the sky The cold wind in the winter, the pleasant summer sun The ripe fruits in the garden, He made them every one He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty who has made all things well
I assume you mean “The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended”. It’s a hymn, not a psalm in the strict sense.This hymn was written by Horatius Bonar in 1861. The background is related to the Christian practice of evening worship and reflection. It was composed to express a sense of gratitude to God for the…
“Blessed Assurance” is a well-known Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby to the music written in 1873 by Phoebe Knapp. Crosby was visiting her friend Phoebe Knapp as the Knapp home was having a large pipe organ installed. The organ was incomplete, so Mrs. Knapp, using the…
“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” was written on the evening of Matheson’s sister’s marriage. Years before, he had been engaged, until his fiancée learned that he was going blind—that there was nothing the doctors could do—and she told him that she could not go through life with a blind man and broke…
English Lyrics Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay.Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou…
The hymn ‘How Great Thou Art’ is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn entitled ‘O Store Gud’ written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). The inspiration for the poem came when Boberg was walking home from church near Kronobäck, Sweden, and listening to church bells. A sudden storm got Boberg’s attention, and…
Just after eleven o’clock on a Wednesday evening in 1904, a solo voice rang out with the hymn “Here is love vast as the ocean”. Maybe a thousand people were in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Abertillery at the time, leaning over the galleries, packing every pew and squeezing into every spare corner. They’d been here for…
