We sang this song together as a family tonight (Daddy's choice) from our hymn books. It is still singing away in my head - such a lovely tune and words of praise
Katherine K. Davis, 1892Music:
A traditional Welsh melody.
Let All Things Now Living
Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving
To God the creator triumphantly raise.
Who fashioned and made us, protected and stayed us,
Who still guides us on to the end of our days.
God's banners are o'er us,
His light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in the night.
Till shadows have vanished and darkness is banished
As forward we travel from light into light.
His law he enforces, the stars in their courses
And sun in its orbit obediently shine;
The hills and the mountains, the rivers and fountains,
The deeps of the ocean proclaim him divine.
We too should be voicing our love and rejoicing;
With glad adoration a Song let us raise
Till all things now living unite in thanksgiving:
"To God in the highest, Hosanna and praise!"
...Do you know, I just realised this song has a Scientific Error in it - (it was written in 1892). According to what I was taught - the Sun doesn't actually orbit... perhaps it should be changed to the earth in its orbit...
Oh well, I guess that was the scientific understanding of the time - the God of the hymn hasn't changed however !!
