Monthly with Hymn, September

 

This is My Father’s World, by Maltbie D. Babcock, was originally a sixteen-stanza poem of nature and biblical truths, declaring praise to God.

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Babcock’s love of nature shines through the hymn. Reading through all its original stanzas, it is clear that Maltie saw God’s eternal qualities in creation, as Romans 1:20 says, “[God’s] invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature.”

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His wife published this work as part of a book of poems collected after his death in 1901. In 1915, Franklin L. Sheppard set the poem to music, selecting three stanzas for the hymn.

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Join me for a devotional about this hymn on my blog: withhymn.