441 Take My Heart, o Father, Take It
Anonymous
A simple hymn of consecration and devotion whose author evidently preferred to remain anonymous.
MUSIC. DORRNANCE. The tune is simplicity itself. Concerning his tunes, Woodbury wrote in the preface to his New Lute of Zion, 1856:
The music is not designed for the fastidious and scientific musician whose highest delight, and perhaps sole worship, is music as an art, but for those who love to worship God in the simple song of praise.
For comments on the composer, Isaac B. Woodbury, 1819-58, see Hymn 261.