448		CM
	WE praise and bless Thee, gracious Lord,    Our Saviour, kind and true, For all the old things passed away,     For all Thou hast made new.
2	New hopes, new purposes, desires,     And joys Thy grace has given; Old ties are broken from the earth,     New ties attach to Heaven.
3	But yet, how much must be destroyed,     How much renewed must be, Ere we can fully stand complete     In likeness, Lord, to Thee!
4	Thou, only Thou, must carry on     The work Thou hast begun; Of Thine own strength Thou must impart     In Thine own ways to run.
5	O leave us not; from day to day     Revive, restore again; Our feeble steps do Thou direct,     Our enemies restrain.
6	So shall we faultless stand at last     Before Thy Father’s throne; The blessedness for ever ours,     The glory all Thine own!
	Carl Johann Philipp Spitta, 1801-59, tr Jane Laurie Borthwick, 1813-97