Offered to the whole creation.
Jesus reigns, etc.
Although Ananias Davisson claims, in the Supplement to The Kentucky Harmony, to have made the tune, no subsequent user of the song seems to have looked on him as its author. It has all the earmarks of an eighteenth century fife-and-drum-corps tune which was appropriately set to the religio-martial text. Found also, UH 91, KNH 91, HH 468, SKH 107, GOS 643.
No. 85
[CARRY ME HOME] or PENICK, OSH 387
Hexatonic, mode 3 b (I II III IV V VI —)
While trav’ling through this world below,
Where sore afflictions come,
My soul abounds with joy to know
That I will rest at home.