Great God of Nations, Now to Thee

Great God of na­tions

now to Thee

Our hymn of gra­ti­tude we raise;

With hum­ble heart and bend­ing knee

We of­fer Thee our song of praise.

Thy name we bless

al­migh­ty God

For all the kind­ness Thou hast shown

To this fair land the pil­grims trod

This land we fond­ly call our own.

Here free­dom spreads her ban­ner wide

And casts her soft and hal­lowed ray;

Here Thou our fa­thers’ steps didst guide

In safe­ty through their dan­ger­ous way.

We praise Thee that the Gos­pel’s light

Through all our land its ra­di­ance sheds

Dispels the shades of er­ror’s night

And heav­en­ly bless­ings round us spreads.

Great God

pre­serve us in Thy fear;

In dan­ger still our guard­ian be;

O spread Thy truth’s bright pre­cepts here;

Let all the pe­ople wor­ship Thee.