Hymn of the Week: June 15, 2020

This Is My Father’s World
#370 from Glory to God

Text by:
Maltbie D. Babcock 

Music by:
Franklin L. Sheppard

This is My Father's World

This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world; I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas, his hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father’s world, o let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world, the battle is not done:
Jesus who died shall be satisfied, and earth and heaven be one.

When the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Lockport, New York, the author of this text referred to his morning walks as “going out to see my Father’s world.” The view that Rev. Babcock took in on his walks was of Lake Ontario as we walked up on the cliff in upstate New York. The tune created for these words is based on an English melody the composer learned from his mother when he was a boy.

Be sure to tune in to the service this week as Trip and I will play this hymn on guitar and hammered dulcimer.