ST. BRIDE

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: From invocation of God's eternal help (past/present/future) through meditation on divine transcendence over time, human transience, and temporal flux, concluding with renewed petition for God's constancy amid life's troubles

Associated Hymn Texts (3)

• As After the Waterbrooks Panteth — Henry Williams Baker (1861)
• Jesus Sun of Righteousness — Christian Friedrich Gellert (1757)
• Not What My Hands Have Done — Horatius Bonar (1861)

Set to This Tune in The Lutheran Hymnal (3)

• TLH 322 And Wilt Thou Pardon, Lord
• TLH 389 Not What These Hands Have Done
• TLH 455 Our Heavenly Father, Hear

Notes on the Tune

From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.

TLH 389, Not What These Hands Have Done : TLH: ST. BRIDE (Samuel Howard, 1762). Row 1076 lists ENERGY (LSB).