Dear Lord and Father of Mankind { Dear Lord and Father of Mankind by John G. Whittier Php 4:7 SALVATION-William Walker, Southern Harmony, 1835 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind } Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives Thy service find, In deeper rev'rence, praise. 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. O Sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above, Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of thy peace. Amen.