Lord, in the Strength of Grace

Who is willing to consecrate himself today to the Lord? 1 Chronicles 29:5

Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures 1762.

Music: Greenwood (Sweetser) Joseph E. Sweetser, A Collection of Church Music (New York: John Wiley, 1849), number 161 (🔊 pdf nwc).

Alternate Tune:

Montauk Thomas Commuck & Thomas Hastings, Indian Melodies (New York: G. Lane & C. B. Tippett, 1845), number 12 (🔊 pdf nwc)

If you know where to get a good photo of Sweetser (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),

Lord, in the strength of grace,
With a glad heart and free,
Myself, my residue of days,
I consecrate to Thee.

Thy ransomed servant, I
Restore to Thee Thy own;
And, from this moment, live or die
To serve my God alone.

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