O God, Whose Law from Age to Age

O God

whose law from age to age

No chance or change can know

Whose love for­ev­er­more ab­ides

While eons come and go;

From all the strife of earth­ly life

To Thine em­brace we flee

And ’mid our crowd­ing doubts and fears

Would put our trust in Thee.

The winds

Thy faith­ful mes­sen­gers

Are guid­ed by Thy hand;

Thy min­is­ters

the flames of fire

Obey Thy stern com­mand;

The seas re­sound with­in the bound

Where Thy do­min­ion reigns

And wheel­ing plan­ets seek the paths

Thy migh­ty will or­dains.

Thy ho­ly pur­pose moves be­fore

The na­tions on their way

And leads the stum­bling hosts of men

From dark­ness in­to day.

No cap­tain’s sword

no pro­phet’s word

But Thy great mer­cy prove;

No clime or kin­dred but at­test

Thy pro­vi­dence of love.

Dear Fa­ther

we would learn to trust

The do­ing of Thy will

And in Thy per­fect law of love

Our doubts and fears would still.

Help us to know

in joy or woe

Thy ways are al­ways best

And we

Thy child­ren ev­er­more

By Thy great good­ness blest.