God, While We Pray for All Mankind

This lyrics video may be freely used for not-for-profit worship purposes. This hymn text was included in the 1870 RLDS hymnal, _The Saints' Harp._ The hymn is a prayer for the singers' home country, whichever that may be. The text appears here in a modernized adaptation. The video pairs the text with a tune by a 19th-century LDS composer, John Tullidge. The tune was included in an 1889 RLDS hymnal, _The Saints' Harmony._ (1) God, while we pray for all mankind, for nations far and near, we pray too for our native land, the home our hearts hold dear, the home our hearts hold dear. (2) We ask you, God, to bless our land with happiness and peace, our cities with prosperity, our fields with rich increase, our fields with rich increase. (3) May all share bounteously the fruits of our collective toil; may equity and justice reign to bless our native soil, to bless our native soil. (4) And may all who this land call home clasp hands in unity to raise aloft, in common love, the songs of liberty, the songs of liberty. (5) God of the nations, thus to you our country we commend. Instruct us in the ways of peace, our Counselor and Friend, our Counselor and Friend. *Words:* John Reynell Wreford, 1800-1891 Adapted by John-Charles Duffy, b. 1972 Adaptation available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ *Music:* John E. Tullidge, 1806-1873 (PONTIFICATE, a.k.a. FESTIVAL) Organ accompaniment by Pamela K. Robison, b. 1947 Recording available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ *Thumbnail photo:* "One Young World Summit 2015," https://www.flickr.com/photos/oneyoungworld/22702187767/ Public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal Deed: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/