Christ My Song - 487
Rich in mercy, great in love - The Children's Cry
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Children's Cry.
1. Rich in mercy, great in love,
full of grace and truth,
on thy blessed name we call,
Father of our youth.
Father of our youth, look down
from thy heaven above;
fount of fulness, fill our souls
with thy light and love.
Come with thy never-failing store
of loving-kindness more and more. PDF - Midi
2. In a world of pain and sin,
evil all around,
in thy everlasting strength
help alone is found.
Other lords beside thyself,
Father, we have none;
other saviours seek we not,
but thy gracious Son.
Come with thy never-failing store
of loving-kindness more and more.
3. Poor and needy, oh our God,
we look up to thee!
Guilty, feeble, sorrowful,
to thy grace we flee.
Take these hearts, divided, dark,
wayward as the wind;
to thy will these wills of ours,
Lord, for ever bind.
Come with thy never-failing store
of loving-kindness more and more.
4. Wash us, cleanse us in the fount
opened once for sin;
leave us not forlorn and lost,
take thy wanderers in.
Tempests threaten, waves are strong,
Father, draw thou nigh;
Saviour, through the darkness speak,
saying, It is I!
Come with thy never-failing store
of loving-kindness more and more.
Horatius Bonar, Hymns of the Nativity, 1879, 106-107.