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[All seeing, gracious Lord]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. C. Stebbins Incipit: 55321 17655 67111 Used With Text: Hear Thou My Prayer

Author: Henry C. Graves Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: All-seeing, gracious Lord Refrain First Line: Hear Thou my prayer, O God Lyrics: 1 All-seeing, gracious Lord— My heart before Thee lies; All sin of thought and life abhorred, My soul to Thee would rise. Refrain: Hear Thou my prayer, O God, Unite my heart to Thee; Beneath Thy love, beneath Thy rod, From sin deliver me. 2 Thou knowest all my need, My inmost thought dost see; Ah, Lord! from all allurements freed, Like Thee transformed I’d be. [Refrain] 3 Thou holy blessèd One, To me, I pray, draw near; My spirit fill, O heavenly Son, With loving, Godly fear. [Refrain] 4 Bind Thou my life to Thine, To me Thy life is given; While I my all to Thee resign, Thou art my all in Heaven. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [All-seeing, gracious, Lord] Text Sources: Welcome Songs, No. 2, 1879

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Hear Thou My Prayer

Author: Rev. Henry C. Graves Hymnal: Gospel Hymns No. 4 #31 (1881) First Line: All seeing, gracious Lord Refrain First Line: Hear Thou my prayer, O God Languages: English Tune Title: [All seeing, gracious Lord]

Hear Thou my Prayer

Author: Rev. Henry C. Graves Hymnal: Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #216 (1894) First Line: All seeing, gracious Lord Refrain First Line: Hear Thou my prayer, O God Languages: English Tune Title: [All seeing, gracious Lord]

Hear Thou my prayer, O God

Author: Rev. Henry C. Graves Hymnal: The Church and Home Hymnal #218b (1893) First Line: All seeing, gracious Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [All seeing, gracious Lord]

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George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: George Coles Stebbins Composer of "[All-seeing, gracious, Lord]" in The Cyber Hymnal Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Henry C. Graves

1830 - 1917 Author of "Hear Thou My Prayer" in The Cyber Hymnal Graves, Henry 0., D.D., born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, Sep. 22, 1830, and entered the Baptist ministry in 1858, since which he has held several pastorates, the last being New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1886. He has written several hymns for Sunday Schools and other purposes. One of these “All-seeing, gracious Lord” (Divine help desired) appeared in Welcome Songs, 1879. Another of his hymns, "Soul, soul, thou art passing" (Old and New Year), is in the Baptist Praise Book, 1871. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)