Songs of thankfulness
A thanksgiving harvest in South Florida Our God we thank thee for the night Voices Found #28 Our God we thank thee for the night, and for the blessed morning light, for rest and food and loving care, and all that makes the day so fair. Help us, to do the things we should, to be to others kind and good, may all we do in work or play be done with love and rest this day. Rebecca J. Weston, 1885 Music: The Eighth Tune, Thomas Tallis (1505?-1585) In 1885 Rebecca Weston wrote "Father, we thank thee for the night." The current text is from Worship in Song: A Friends hymnal, published in 1996 by the Friends General Conference in Philadelphia with the Tallis tune, often called the "Tallis Canon," because it is easily sung in two parts as a round. Katharine K. Davis (1892-1980) ...