NOT OUR OWN by Dean of Canterbury

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1880

NOT OUR OWN.

By Dean of Canterbury

Not in anything we do,— Thought that’s pure, or word that’s true, Saviour, would we put our trust; Frail as vapor, vile as dust, All that flatters, we disown; Righteousness is thine alone. Though we underwent for thee Perils of the land and sea; Though we cast our lives away, Dying for thee day by day, Boast we never of our own— Grace and strength are thine alone. Native cumberers of the ground, All our fruit from thee is found; Grafted in thine olive, Lord, New-begotten by thy Word, All we have is thine alone; Life and power are not our own. And when thy returning voice Calls thy faithful to rejoice; When the countless throng to thee Cast their crowns of victory, We will sing before the throne— "Thine the glory, not our own." —Dean of Canterbury.