O Father, in Whose Great Design

O Fa­ther

in whose great de­sign

Our hu­man love is made di­vine

Teach us to give our love to those

By sin be­set and all its woes;

On Thee for them to cast our care

By fast­ing and by low­ly pray­er.

Lord Je­su

grant us eyes to see

In our poor breth­ren Thine and Thee—

To give our­selves where oth­ers need;

Where oth­ers sin to in­ter­cede;

And thus

by fast­ing and by pray­er

Our breth­ren’s bur­den seek to bear.

O Spir­it

by whose grace alone

The many mem­bers are made one

O warm our hearts

in­spire our will

That we Thy pur­pose may ful­fill;

And thus

by fast­ing and by pray­er

Through Thee the glo­ri­ous Church pre­pare.

O God

all-lov­ing Three in One

Whom we shall see be­yond the sun;

Where walk in white the blood-bought throng

Where soars to Thee the sweet new song

Grant that we find the breth­ren there

We sought by fast­ing and by pray­er.