Lead Us, O Father
- Words:
- William H. Burleigh
- Music:
- James Langran
Sheet music
- 1Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace;Without Thy guiding hand we go astray,And doubts appall and sorrows still in crease;Lead us thru Christ, the true and living Way.Lead us, O Father, in the paths of truth;Unhelped by Thee, in error’s maze we grope,While passion stains and folly dims our youth,And age comes on uncheered by faith or hope.
- 2Lead us, O Father, in the paths of right;Blindly we stumble when we walk alone,Involved in shadows of a mortal night;Only with Thee we journey safely on.Lead us, O Father, to Thy heav’nly rest,However rough and steep the pathway be,Thru joy or sorrow, as Thou deemest best,Until our lives are perfected in Thee.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1868, the words are in 171 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.