O God, Thou Giver of All Good

515 O God, Thou Giver of All Good

1. O God, Thou Giver of all good;
   Thy children live by daily food;
   And daily must the prayer be said,
   Give us this day our daily bread.

2. The life of earth and seed is Thine;
   Suns glow, rains fall, by power divine;
   Thou art in all; not e’en the powers
   By which we toil for bread are ours.

3. What large provision Thou hast made!
   As large as is Thy children’s need;
   How wide the bounteous love is spread!
   Wide as the want of daily bread.

4. Since every day by Thee we live,
   May grateful hearts Thy gifts receive;
   And may the hands be pure from stain
   With which our daily bread we gain.
                         Samuel Longfellow
                         The Methodist Hymnal, 1964 edition

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Not a well-known hymn at all. It only occurs in about fifteen hymnals! I don't recall ever singing it or hearing it sung.
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