Stewardship
We Give Thee But Thine Own
- Words:
- William W. How, 1864.
- Music:
- 'Energy' William H. Monk (1823-1889).
- Setting:
- "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book", 1931.
- Metre:
- 6 6 8 6
- 1We give Thee but Thine own,Whate'er the gift may be;All that we have is Thine alone,A trust, O Lord, from Thee.
- 2May we Thy bounties thusAs stewards true receive,And gladly, as Thou blessest us,To Thee our firstfruits give.
- 3O hearts are bruised and dead,And homes are bare and cold,And lambs for whom the Shepherd bledAre straying from the fold.
- 4To comfort and to bless,To find a balm for woe,To tend the lone and fatherlessIs angels' work below.
- 5The captive to release,To God the lost to bring,To teach the way of life and peace?It is a Christlike thing.
- 6And we believe Thy Word,Though dim our faith may be;Whate'er for Thine we do, O Lord,We do it unto Thee.
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- Written in 1858, the words are in 547 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is 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.