417. In our work and our play
Whitefield Glanville Wills, 1841-91
A beautiful prayer of consecration.
The author, Whitefield Glanville Wills, an Englishman, was born in Bristol. He published a small collection, Hymns for Occasional Use in 1881. The present hymn, entitled “Children of God,” was contributed by him to School Hymns, England, 1891.
MUSIC. ROSSLYN is an English melody taken from the Supplement to the Primitive Methodist Hymnal, 1912. The composer is not known.