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Play “Children of the Heavenly Father”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Children of the Heavenly Father (Carolina Sandell; Ernst W. Olson): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 7 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Children of the heav'nly Father
- Safely in His bosom gather;
- Nestling bird nor star in heaven
- Such a refuge e'er was given.
- 2God His own doth tend and nourish:
- In His holy courts they flourish;
- From all evil things He spares them,
- In His mighty arms He bears them.
- 3Neither life nor death shall ever
- From the Lord His children sever;
- Unto them His grace He showeth,
- And their sorrows all He knoweth.
- 4Lo, their very hairs He numbers,
- And no daily care encumbers
- Them that share His every blessing,
- And His help in woes distressing.
- 5Praise the Lord in joyful numbers:
- Your Protector never slumbers.
- At the will of your Defender
- Every foeman must surrender.
- 6Though He giveth or He taketh,
- God His children ne'er forsaketh,
- His the loving purpose solely
- To preserve them pure and holy.
- 7Amen.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Children of the Heavenly Father page.
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