MUSIC. AUS DEM HIMMEL FERNE is a traditional German melody of unknown authorship. It appeared in the Gesangbuch mit Noten and in Kleiner Liederschatz, and is a well known children’s tune.
PRAYER
422. We thank Thee, O our Father
Catherine Mary McSorley
A prayer of thanksgiving, especially for the flowers which, growing in the most unlikely places, make the world so bright and fair and reveal the power and love of God.
Julian attributes the hymn to Catherine Mary McSorley but gives no information concerning her. The hymn appeared in the Appendix of the Irish Church Hymnal, 1891, and was published in Church Hymns, England, 1903.
MUSIC. ENDSLEIGH. For comments on this tune see [Hymn 283].
423. Father, we thank Thee for the night
Rebecca J. Weston, c. 1890
A morning prayer. The words were written by Rebecca J. Weston, about 1890, but no information concerning her has been traced. This seems to be her only hymn. It appeared in a music-book, The Tonic Sol-fa Course, published by the Oliver Ditson Company. The editor of that book was the Rev. D. Batchellor, who composed the tune. The hymn was included in Songs of Praise, London, 1933.