Sabbath Hymn by William Henry Black

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1879

Sabbath Hymn.

By William Henry Black

Written about 1850 for the Mill Yard Sabbath-School, by the late Rev. W. H. Black, F. S. A.

WHAT thanks do we owe the Source of all good, For gifts to our bodies, of raiment and food; For safety by night, for the sun's cheering ray, For all the week's mercies, and this Sabbath day!

No heart can conceive, and no tongue can declare, The thankfulness due for our God's tender care; His providence freely bestows what is best, And waits to be gracious on this day of rest.

Then let us our privilege wisely enjoy; In acts of religion each moment employ; With praise and thanksgiving past mercies review, And pray that our Father his gifts may renew.

Thus week after week shall fresh happiness bring, And inspire with fresh music the songs that we sing; While we hallow the day that Jehovah hath given, Till it fit us at last for the Sabbath of heaven.

-- Sabbath Memorial.