Art not Thou God in Heaven?
2 Chronicles 20:6
Words: Thomas Wistar, in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal (Syracuse, New York: Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, 1910), number 723.
Music: Alma Mater (Koschat) Thomas Koschat (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Wistar (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Our Father in Heaven, Creator of all,
O Source of all wisdom, on Thee would we call;
Thou only canst teach us, and show us our need,
And give to Thy children true knowledge indeed,
And give to Thy children true knowledge indeed.
But vain our instruction, and blind we must be,
Unless with our learning be knowledge of Thee;
Then pour forth Thy Spirit, and open our eyes,
And fill with the knowledge that only makes wise
And fill with the knowledge that only makes wise.
From pride and presumption, O Lord, keep us free,
And make our hearts humble, and loyal to thee;
That living or dying, in Thee we may rest,
And prove to the scornful, Thy statutes are best,
And prove to the scornful, Thy statutes are best.
Our fair Alma Mater, O strengthen her days
To send forth forever true sons to her praise;
O widen her borders, extend her fair fame,
And let all the glory redound to Thy name,
And let all the glory redound to Thy name.