Sunday's Hymn: In Bunhill Fields

Susanna Wesley is another of the well-known people buried in Bunhill Fields. As far as I know, she didn’t write any hymns, but three of her sons did. Susanna was the one who educated all her children, so I’m betting some of their hymn-writing abilities came from her. This Sunday, I’m featuring a hymn written by the least famous of her hymn writing sons, Samuel Wesley, Jr.

 

Hail, Father, Whose Creating Call

 

Hail, Father, whose creating call

Unnumbered worlds attend;
Jehovah, comprehending all,
Whom none can comprehend!

In light unsearchable enthroned,
Whom angels dimly see,
The fountain of the Godhead owned,
And foremost of the Three.

From Thee, through an eternal now,
The Son, Thine offspring, flowed;
An everlasting Father Thou,
An everlasting God.

Nor quite displayed to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth concealed;
By wondrous, unexhausted love,
To mortal man revealed.

Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds created by Thy nod
Shall perish by Thy fire.

Thy Name, Jehovah, be adored
By creatures without end,
Whom none but Thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Fifth Sunday After Easter at Magic Statistics
• In the Cross of Christ I Glory at The Happy Wonderer
• Blessed Lord, in Thee Is Refuge at Hiraeth
  
• Jesus, Your Name at Seasoning of the Heart
• Immortal Honors Rest on Jesus’ Head at Whatever Things…
• Shout, for the Blessed Jesus Reigns at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 17, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• I Know That My Redeemer Lives at JoythruChrist
• Sing with All the Saints in Glory at Conjubilant With Song.

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

My Desktop Photo 4: Atlin Lake at Sunset

Photo by Andrew Stark

I need a little change again.

Petitionary Prayer: April 25

This month’s theme here at Rebecca Writes is petitionary prayer. On Tuesdays and Fridays throughout April, I’ll be posting one request I am making of God, and I’m inviting you to join me. You’ll find all the details here.

• This is a time of transition in this house: new seasons, new projects, new jobs, etc.  I’m praying for wisdom and energy in regards to those things.
  
• Lisa Nunley is praying for her husband:

  The stress he is under as an anesthesiologist. The balance of resting in God’s sovereignty when a person has lost their life in surgery… He begins to think heavily about that person… their family, the loss, their pain, was that person a believer?

• Update: Kim in ON is praying for both of her parents because her father is ill.
• Update 2: Dorothy is praying that God would provide a summer job for her daughter.
• Update 3: Candy is in the area experiencing all the earthquakes. I imagine is quite disconcerting to be experiencing such an unusual natural phenomenom.

  We have been having swarms of earthquakes in our area, and they are getting worse. We have had some register approximately 3.1 or so and now last night one registered 4.7. We are in a high seismic area but this is very unusual.

What are you praying for today?