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Preacher: Canon Anne Le Bas

Image: Detail from "The Unforgiving Servant" by Jan van Hemmessen.

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Today’s hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Dear Lord and Father of mankind.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

sung by St Martin’s Voices

1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

forgive our foolish ways;

re-clothe us in our rightful mind;

in purer lives thy service find,

in deeper reverence, praise.

2 In simple trust like theirs who heard

beside the Syrian sea

the gracious calling of the Lord,

let us, like them, without a word

rise up and follow thee.

3 Drop thy still dews of quietness,

till all our strivings cease;

take from our souls the strain and stress,

and let our ordered lives confess

the beauty of thy peace.

4 Breathe through the heats of our desire

thy coolness and thy balm;

let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;

speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,

O still small voice of calm.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)