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Our Father’s Green World

  “This is my Father’s world:   I rest me in the thought   Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas—   His hand the wonders wrought” Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901

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Snow’s Song

“This is my Father’s world,   and to my listening ears   all nature sings, and round me rings   the music of the spheres.” Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901)   “All nature sings.” I wonder . . . does each … Continue reading

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God’s World

  In the late 1800’s, Maltbie Davenport Babcock would head out to enjoy the beauty surrounding his upstate New York home. As the story goes, he’d tell his wife he was “going out to see the Father’s world.”  Our hymnbooks include … Continue reading

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