363 Lord of Life and King of Glory
Christian Burke, 1859—
A mother’s prayer, written by Miss Burke in December, 1903, and published the following February in The Treasury, where it was headed, “Prize Hymn for Mothers’ Union Service.” It was included in The English Hymnal, 1906.
Miss Christian Burke was born in London. She contributed poems to various periodicals and in 1896 published a collection of her poetic writings, with the title, The Flowering of the Almond Tree.
MUSIC. The tune was found in St. Basil’s Hymnal, published by the Basilian Fathers, Chicago, 1918. It bears no name and the composer is not identified. The hymn is also sung to the tune “Silician Mariners” (45).
MOTHER’S DAY