Introduction
Words: Edward Everett Hale, in Hymns of the Spirit, edited by Samuel Longfellow & Samuel Johnson, 1864.
Music: Emmanuel Carl C. N. Balle, 1850 (🔊 pdf nwc).
The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people.
Revelation 21:3
Words: Edward Everett Hale, in Hymns of the Spirit, edited by Samuel Longfellow & Samuel Johnson, 1864.
Music: Emmanuel Carl C. N. Balle, 1850 (🔊 pdf nwc).
O Father, take the new-built shrine;
The house our hands have reared is Thine;
Greet us with welcome when we come,
And make our Father’s house our home.
Blest with Thy Spirit while we stay,
May we Thy Spirit bear away,
That every heart a shrine may be,
And every home a home for Thee.