THANKS UNTO GOD by Margaret E. Sangster

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1901

THANKS UNTO GOD.

By Margaret E. Sangster

Now thanks unto our Lord above For all His mercies ever new; For morning sun and evening cloud, For blessings of the rain and dew.

His hand hath dowered our lives with joy, His wisdom o’er our way has been; In Him we’ve found the strength to wage The never-ceasing strife with sin.

We praise our Lord for gift and store, We praise Him, too, for gifts withheld, For every onward step to heaven, For every strife of evil quelled,

For blessings of the hearth and home, For wifehood’s charm, serenely sweet, For children’s voices blithe with song, For groups that round the altar meet.

And ever as we count the good, And sum it in our measures small, Beyond our human powers it seems To tell our Lord’s great love at all.

Jehovah, who art high above Our mortal ken, thou hast revealed Thyself unto our simple love, In Christ our Saviour, Sun, and Shield.

And so all days and all our ways Must with devout thanksgiving brim; As lift our souls their earnest praise, Each syllable a thought of Him.

— Margaret E. Sangster.