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The fifth Sunday after Trinity.

The nations of the world, O Lord, lie in Thy hand: to glory raised, to ruin hurled at Thy command. O Lord, we Thee beseech to bid all discord cease; by Thy redeeming love to teach the ways of peace. Order the world’s wide choice, so governed by Thy will, that it obey the heavenly voice: “Peace, be thou still.” So shall Thy Church with joy a quiet harvest reap, and happy in her glad employ her service keep. To God the Father, Son, and Spirit, glory be, as ‘twas, and is, and e’er shall be eternally: in faith, and peace, and love, a threefold binding cord, holding Thy Church below, above, in Christ, her Lord!

1 The nations of the world,
O Lord, lie in Thy hand:
to glory raised, to ruin hurled
at Thy command.
O Lord, we Thee beseech
to bid all discord cease;
by Thy redeeming love to teach
the ways of peace.
2 Order the world’s wide choice,
so governed by Thy will,
that it obey the heavenly voice:
“Peace, be thou still.”
So shall Thy Church with joy
a quiet harvest reap,
and happy in her glad employ
her service keep.
3 To God the Father, Son,
and Spirit, glory be,
as ‘twas, and is, and e’er shall be
eternally:
in faith, and peace, and love,
a threefold binding cord,
holding Thy Church below, above,
in Christ, her Lord!

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys,
ad. J. Wallace (st. 3);
ad. A. Coles (st. 1-3)
Tune Leoni
Meyer Lyon (1770);
harm. Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875, alt.

The fifth Sunday after Trinity.

Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance, that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.