Take Thou Our Minds, Dear Lord
- Words:
- William H. Foulkes
- Music:
- William H. Monk
Sheet music
- 1Take Thou our minds, dear Lord, we humbly pray:Give us the mind of Christ each passing day;Teach us to know the truth that sets us free;Grant us in all our thoughts to honor Thee.Take Thou our hearts, O Christ, they are Thine own;Come Thou within our souls and claim Thy throne;Help us to shed abroad Thy deathless love;Use us to make the earth like heav’n above.
- 2Take Thou our wills, most High! Hold Thou full sway;Have in our inmost souls Thy perfect way;Guard Thou each sacred hour from selfish ease;Guide Thou our ordered lives as Thou dost please.Take Thou ourselves, O Lord, heart, mind and will;Through our surrendered souls Thy plans fulfill.We yield ourselves to Thee, time, talents, all!We hear, and henceforth heed Thy sov'reign call.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1918, the words are in 44 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.