YES GOD IS GOOD – EMHB 968
Author: John Hampden Gurney (1802 – 1862)
Tune: “Williams” from Tempti Carmina (1829)
Introduction
John Hampden Gurney was born in London on the 15th of August, 1802 and was educated at the Trinity College, Cambridge. Gurney entered the Church after studying for a legal career and for twenty-three years he was Curate at Lutterworth in Leicestershire and later became Rector of St. Mary’s in Marylebone. Amongst other Hymns he wrote are “Fair waved the golden corn” and “Lord as to thy dear cross we flee.
“Yes God is Good” is listed under ‘Times and Seasons’ in the Methodist Hymn Book. The Hymn proclaims the goodness of God in earth and sky, in everything that God created and expresses a sense of Harmony between the living and organic in God’s creation.
The sun keeps his trackless way. The merry birds prolong the strain. The roaring seas and human voices all unite to proclaim – “Yes God is Good”.
People of God, let us join all the heavenly bodies and all nature to sing this wonderful Hymn to the glory of the everlasting God.
HYMN 968
1. Yes, God is good – in earth and sky,
From ocean depths and spreading wood,
Ten thousand voices seem to cry:
God made us all, and God is good.
2. The sun that keeps his trackless way,
And downward pours his golden flood,
Night’s sparkling hosts, all seem to say
In accents clear, that God is good.
3. The merry birds prolong the strain,
Their song with every spring renewed;
And balmy air, and falling rain,
Each softly whispers : God is good.
4. I hear it in the rushing breeze;
The hills that have for ages stood,
The echoing sky and roaring seas,
All swell the chorus : God is good.
5. Yes, God is good, all nature says,
By God’s own hand with speech endued;
And man, in louder notes of praise,
Should sing for joy that God is good.
6. For all Thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord,
But chiefly for our heavenly food;
Thy pardoning grace, Thy quickening word,
These prompt our song, that God is good.
Author: John Hampden Gurney (1802 – 1862)
Tune: “Williams” from Tempti Carmina (1829)
Introduction
John Hampden Gurney was born in London on the 15th of August, 1802 and was educated at the Trinity College, Cambridge. Gurney entered the Church after studying for a legal career and for twenty-three years he was Curate at Lutterworth in Leicestershire and later became Rector of St. Mary’s in Marylebone. Amongst other Hymns he wrote are “Fair waved the golden corn” and “Lord as to thy dear cross we flee.
“Yes God is Good” is listed under ‘Times and Seasons’ in the Methodist Hymn Book. The Hymn proclaims the goodness of God in earth and sky, in everything that God created and expresses a sense of Harmony between the living and organic in God’s creation.
The sun keeps his trackless way. The merry birds prolong the strain. The roaring seas and human voices all unite to proclaim – “Yes God is Good”.
People of God, let us join all the heavenly bodies and all nature to sing this wonderful Hymn to the glory of the everlasting God.
HYMN 968
1. Yes, God is good – in earth and sky,
From ocean depths and spreading wood,
Ten thousand voices seem to cry:
God made us all, and God is good.
2. The sun that keeps his trackless way,
And downward pours his golden flood,
Night’s sparkling hosts, all seem to say
In accents clear, that God is good.
3. The merry birds prolong the strain,
Their song with every spring renewed;
And balmy air, and falling rain,
Each softly whispers : God is good.
4. I hear it in the rushing breeze;
The hills that have for ages stood,
The echoing sky and roaring seas,
All swell the chorus : God is good.
5. Yes, God is good, all nature says,
By God’s own hand with speech endued;
And man, in louder notes of praise,
Should sing for joy that God is good.
6. For all Thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord,
But chiefly for our heavenly food;
Thy pardoning grace, Thy quickening word,
These prompt our song, that God is good.
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