A THANKSGIVING HYMN by S. E. Adams

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 47.

A THANKSGIVING HYMN.

By S. E. Adams

[S. E. Adams, in the Century.]

For bud and for bloom and for balm-laden breeze, For the singing of birds from the hills to the seas, For the beauty of dawn and the brightness of noon, For the light in the night of the stars and the moon, We praise Thee, gracious God.

For the sun-ripened fruit and the billowy grain, For the orange and apple, the corn and the cane, For the bountiful harvests now gathered and stored, That by Thee in the lap of the nations were poured, We praise Thee, gracious God.

For the blessing of friends, for the old and the new, For the hearts that are trusted and trusting and true, For the tones that we love, for the light of the eye, That warms with a welcome and glooms with good-by, We praise Thee, gracious God.

That the desolate poor may find shelter and bread, That the sick may be comforted, nourished, and fed, That the sorrow may cease of the sighing and sad, That the spirit bowed down may be lifted and glad, We pray Thee, pitying Lord.

For the blessings of earth and of air and of sky, That fall on us all from the Father on high, For the crown of all blessings since blessings begun, For the gift, “the unspeakable gift,” of Thy Son, We praise Thee, gracious God.