September 12, 2018
Penned in 1860 by William Whiting, music by John Dykes, still sung, especially on a day of dread:
Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm has bound the restless wave,
who bid the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep:
O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea.
O Savior, whose almighty word the wind and waves submissive heard,
who walked upon the foaming deep, and calm amid its rage did sleep:
O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea.
O Holy Spirit, who did brood upon the chaos wild and rude,
and bid its angry tumult cease, and gave, for fierce confusion, peace:
O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea.
O Trinity of love and power, all travelers guard in danger’s hour;
from rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them wheresoe’er they go;
thus evermore shall rise to thee glad praise from air and land and sea.
Everlasting Arms 