Evening Hymn by Faber

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 19, 1877

Evening Hymn.

By Faber

Sweet Saviour! Bless us ere we go; Thy word into our minds instill; And make our lukewarm hearts to glow With lowly love and fervent will.

The day is done; its hours have run; And thou hast taken count of all The scanty triumphs grace hath won, The broken vow, the frequent fall.

Grant us, dear Lord! from all our ways True absolution and release; And bless us more than in past days With purity and inward peace.

Do more than pardon—give us joy, Sweet fear and sober liberty, And loving hearts without alloy, That only long to be like Thee.

Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled; And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways be snared.

For all we love—the poor, the sad, The sinful—unto Thee we call; O, let Thy mercy make us glad! Thou art our Jesus and our all. —Faber.