Great King Of Nations, Hear Our Prayer

 

 

"We do hereby dedicate this Land and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores
with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with
these generations take the Kingdom of God to all the earth.

 May this Covenant of Declaration remain to all generations, as long as this earth 
remains, and may this Land, along with England, be Evangelist to the World.  

May all who see this Cross, remember what we have done here, and may those
 who come here to inhabit join us in this Covenant and in this most noble work 
that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled."

- The Prayer spoken by Reverend Robert Hunt during the dedication
of the first wooden cross (made from oak and brought from England)
 erected at Cape Henry, Virginia
April 26, 1607

Cape Henry Memorial Cross Monument
Erected by the National Society Daughters
 Of The American Colonists
April 26, 1935
Colonial National Historical Park
Cape Henry, Virginia

May the Spiritual Legacy which established America's
heritage as a Christian nation continue today.

Great King of nations, hear our prayer,

While at Thy feet we fall,

And humbly with united cry

To thee for mercy call;

The guilt is ours, but grace is Thine,

O turn us not away;

But hear us from Thy lofty throne,

And help us when we pray.

Our fathers' sins were manifold,

And ours are no less we own, 

 Yet wondrously from age to age

Thy goodness has been shown;

When dangers, like a stormy sea,

beset our country round,

To Thee we looked, to Thee we cried,

And help in Thee we found. 

With one consent we meekly bow

Beneath Thy chastening hand,

And, pouring forth confession meet, 

Mourn with our mourning land;

With pitying eye behold our need,

As thus we lift our prayer;

Correct us with Thy judgments, Lord,

Then let Thy mercy spare. 

 

"Great King Of Nations, Hear Our Prayer"
(1838)
John Hampden Gurney
(1802-1862)
English Anglican clergyman and hymn writer