Lord of All Nations, Grant Me Grace CWB II 542

A prayer for unity in hymn form with a text by Olive W Spearman, who died last year aged 102 or so. According to CWB II it is based on Phillipians 2:1-18, but I can’t see any relationship. Other sources suggest Acts 10:34-35, which fits better.

The text is here, although CWB II only has the first three verses (the fourth and fifth verses appear harmless enough to me and I’m not sure of the reason for their excision) and a variant text for the 3rd and 4th lines of the first verse:

to see each mortal as I ought, my kindred, whom you love has bought.

It gets rid of a “thee”, but is clumsy as all hell. Godsongs goes through other textual variants.

It is set to various tunes in the references overseas but never to DANIEL as used by CWB II.

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