The Church — Ministry and Missions

God of the prophet's power

No. 1043
Metre S. M.
Tune WATTS.
Words Anon.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key D major
Time 4/4
5 stanzas

Words

God of the prophet's power!God of the gospel's sound!Move glorious on; send out thy voiceTo all the nations round.

With hearts and lips unfeigned,We bless thee for thy word;We praise thee for the joyful newsWhich our glad ears have heard.

O may we treasure wellThe counsels that we hear,Till righteousness and holy joyIn all our hearts appear.

Water the sacred seed,And give it large increase;May neither storms, nor rocks, nor thorns,Prevent the fruits of peace.

And though we sow in tears,Yet we at last shall come,And gather in our sheaves with joyAt heaven's great harvest home.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHURCH—MINISTRY AND MISSIONS.»; hymn number «1043» (large, left), tune name «WATTS. S. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); in the left margin, printed vertically and read upwards, «by F. E. Belden.» beside system 1 and «Copyrighted 1886» beside system 2 (= «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.»). Stanza 1 is set between the staves, one text line per system, with «1.» before «God»: «glo - rious» and «na - tions» are printed in syllables and joined here; «prophet's» and «gospel's» are printed whole under two notes each. The fourth verse line is printed twice under the music («To all the na - tions round, To all the na - tions round.», with new music the second time) and is written once here, with the final stop of its second printing; it is sung twice in every stanza. The third verse line runs over the system break («send / out»). Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the italic reference line «558, 11, 266.» (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 558, 11 or 266, all S. M.); «Anon.» in italics after stanza 5. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 With»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 4 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «!» and «;» («power !», «sound !», «on ;», «word ;», «increase ;») is closed up here, and the curly apostrophes are written straight («prophet's», «gospel's», «heaven's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.