"O Blessed Home Where Man and Wife" By Magnus Brostrup Landstad, 1802-1880 Text From: THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941) 1. O blessed home where man and wife Together lead a godly life, By deeds their faith confessing! There many a happy day is spent, There Jesus gladly will consent To tarry with His blessing. 2. If they have given Him their heart, The place of honor set apart For Him each night and morrow, Then He the storms of life will calm, Will bring for every wound a balm, And change to joy their sorrow. 3. And if their home be dark and drear, The cruse be empty, hunger near, All hope within them dying, Let them despair not in distress; Lo, Christ is there the bread to bless, The fragments multiplying. 4. O Lord, we come before Thy face; In every home bestow Thy grace On children, father, mother. Relieve their wants, their burdens ease, Let them together dwell in peace And love to one another. _______________________________________________________ Notes: Hymn #624 from _The Lutheran Hymnal_ Text: Ps. 128 Author: Magnus B. Landstad, 1861 Translated by: Ole T. Arneson, 1908, alt. Titled: "I Hus og Hjem, hvor Mand og Viv" Tune: "Kommt her zu mir" German melody, c. 1400 ______________________________________________________________ This text was converted to ascii format for Project Wittenberg by Cindy A. Beesley and is in the public domain. You may freely distribute, copy or print this text. Please direct any comments or suggestions to: Rev. Robert E. Smith of the Walther Library at Concordia Theological Seminary. E-mail: COSMITHB@ASH.PALNI.EDU. Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 452-2123 Fax: (219) 452-2126 ______________________________________________________________