Father, Hear Thy Children's Call

Words:
Thomas B. Pollock
Music:
J. H. Gower

Sheet music

  1. 1Father, hear Thy children’s call;Humbly at Thy feet we fall,Prodigals, confessing all:We beseech Thee, hear us.Christ, beneath Thy cross we blameAll our life of sin and shame;Penitent, we breathe Thy name:We beseech Thee, hear us.
  2. 2Sick, we come to Thee for cure,Guilty, seek Thy mercy sure,Evil, long to be made pure:We beseech Thee, hear us.Blind, we pray that we may see,Bound, we pray to be made free,Stained, we pray for sanctity:We beseech Thee, hear us.
  3. 3By Thy love that bids Thee spare,By the heav’n Thou dost prepare,By Thy promises to pray’r,We beseech Thee, hear us.Amen.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1875, the words are in 106 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.

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