Hymn 61

1. We thank you, Father! You have planted
   your holy name within our hearts.
   True knowledge, faith, and life immortal
   Jesus your Son to us imparts.
   You, Lord, have made all for your pleasure;
   you gave man food for all his days,
   giving in Christ the Bread eternal.
   Yours is the pow’r, yours be the praise.
   
   
2. Watch o’er your church, O Lord, in mercy;
   save it from evil, guard it still.
   Perfect it in your love, unite it,
   cleansed and conformed unto your will.
   As grain, once scattered on the hillsides,
   was in the broken bread made one,
   so from all lands your church be gathered
   into your kingdom by your Son.