The lines have been adapted for Protestant services to read:
Faith of our fathers! God’s great power
Shall soon all nations win for thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
Mankind shall then be truly free.
The stanza, somewhat over-optimistic, is omitted from the Hymnary.
For comments on the author, F. W. Faber, see [Hymn 44].
MUSIC. ST. CATHERINE is of English origin. The composer, Henry F. Hemy, 1818-88, was organist at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a teacher of piano and singing. He wrote this tune for another hymn and published it in his Crown of Jesus Music, 1864, a popular book in Catholic churches in England. The refrain was added in an arrangement by James G. Walton, 1821-1905.