What Thanks and Praise to Thee We Owe (EN 4998)

EN 4998 What Thanks and Praise to Thee We Owe

2Cor.8.18

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What thanks and praise to Thee we owe,

O Priest and Sacrifice divine,

For Thy dear saint through whom we know

So many a gracious word of Thine;

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Whom Thou didst choose to tell the tale

Of all Thy manhood’s toils and tears,

And for a moment lift the veil

That hides Thy boyhood’s spotless years.

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How many a soul with guilt oppressed

Has learned to hear the joyful sound

In that sweet tale of sin confessed

The Father’s love, the lost and found?

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How many a child of sin and shame

Has refuge found from guilty fears

Through her, who to the Savior came

With costly ointments and with tears!

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What countless worshippers have sung,

In lowly fane or lofty choir,

The song that loosed the silent tongue

Of him who was the Baptist’s sire!

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And still the Church through all her days

Uplifts the strains that never cease,

The blessed virgin’s hymn of praise,

The aged Simeon’s words of peace.

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O happy saint! whose sacred page,

So rich in words of truth and love,

Pours on the Church from age to age

This healing unction from above;

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The witness of the Savior’s life,

The great Apostle’s chosen friend

Through weary years of toil and strife

And still found faithful to the end.

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So grant us, Lord, like him to live,

Beloved by man, approved by Thee,

Till Thou at last the summons give,

And we, with him, Thy face shall see.

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