Worship — Opening Hymns
O Thou who dwellest up on high
- No. 1
- Metre L. M.
- Tune Old Hundred
- Words Anon.
- Music Guillaume Franc.
- Key G major
- Time 2/2
- 5 stanzas
Words
⤢ Full screenO Thou who dwellest up on high,
To whom our prayers and praises fly,
Once more our voices all unite
In song to thee, O God of light!
Our humble gratitude we speak,
For all the blessings of the week,
As at thy throne of grace we bow
And ask thee for a blessing now.
O bless us as we meet to-day,
While unto thee we sing and pray;
O bless the word of truth we hear,
And to each heart be very near.
'T is vain within these walls to kneel
Unless our need of thee we feel;
'T is vain to lift the voice in praise
Unless devotion tunes our lays.
Help us to worship thee aright;
Let self be banished from our sight,
Unless thy Spirit prompts the view
To search our motives through and through.
About this hymn
As printed First page of hymns: the book title «HYMNS AND TUNES.» and the section «WORSHIP.» stand above hymn 1. Header as printed: «1 OLD HUNDRED. L. M. Guillaume Franc.» Stanza 1 is set between the staves (numbered «1.», one line per system, «dwellest» spread under two chords); stanzas 2–5 follow as text in the left column below the music, under the italic cross-reference line «54, 3, 19.» (= the same words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 54, 3 or 19), and end with «Anon.» in italics. Lines 2 and 4 of the printed stanzas are not indented in this hymn. The printer's hair space before « ; » (feel ;, pray ;, aright ;) is closed up here. «'T is» is printed with the space after the apostrophe, «to-day» with the hyphen.
- Source
- The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
- Where
- Worship — Opening Hymns · No. 1 · printed page 7
- Checked
- score verified · 2026-10-01
