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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 480 · Words: John Greenleaf Whittier
Dear Lord and Father
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →Text drawn from John Greenleaf Whittier's 1872 poem 'The Brewing of Soma,' these stanzas became one of the most beloved hymns in the English-speaking world, expressing a longing for quiet, humble devotion and the calming presence of God beside the Sea of Galilee.
Verse 1
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
reclothe us in our rightful mind,
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
Verse 2
In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word,
rise up and follow thee.
Verse 3
O sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
Verse 4
Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
Verse 5
Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.
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