"Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path."
(Psalm 119:105)
of Bethany in Palestine Park in Chautauqua, New York
By Thy favor, Lord, we gather
In our circle here tonight;
Guide our minds, O gracious Father,
Give them more than human sight;
Lead us ever,
In our studies, towards the light.
See we in the realm of story
Nations flourish and decline?
In their fall, as in their glory,
May we see the Hand divine;
Lamp of wisdom,
Shine on every page and line.
As we search the field of learning,
Let us sift as we pursue;
By the higher light discerning
What is false and what is true;
Choosing rather
Old truths than errors new.
*"Chautauqua Hymn"
(1900)
Salathiel Cleaver Kirk
(1945-1913)
American hymn writer
* Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1847 by inventor Lewis Miller and
Methodist Bishop John Heyl Vincent as a teaching camp for Sunday school teachers.
The teachers would arrive by steamboat on Chautauqua Lake in New York State
and disembark at nearby Palestine Park to begin a course of Bible Study that
used the Park, named for a region of land in the Near East,
to teach the geography of the Holy Land of Israel.
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