Thanks for the Sabbath School
Author: William Willes
Composer: James R. Murray
Languages (23)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Cantonese (Romanized/Pingyam): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Tak for vor skole
- Dutch: Dank voor de zondagsschool
- English: Thanks for the Sabbath School
- English Braille: ⠠⠹⠁⠝⠅⠎ ⠿ ⠮ ⠠⠎⠁⠃⠃⠁⠹ ⠠⠎⠡⠕⠕⠇
- Fijian: Marautaki Vuli Siga Tabu
- Finnish: Kiitosta laulumme helkähtelee
- French: Pour glorifier notre Dieu, nous voici
- German: Danket der Sonntagsschul
- Hawaiian: Nani Ke Kula Sabati Maikai
- Italian: Scuola domenical
- Japanese: あやまちや悪を去る
- Korean: 고마운 오늘 이 주일학교
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Gǎnxiè Zhǔrì xuéxiào
- Mandarin (Simplified): 感谢主日学校
- Mandarin (Traditional): 感謝主日學校
- Norwegian: Takk for vår skole
- Portuguese: Hoje unidos aqui, em amor
- Samoan: O le Sauniga Lelei o Lo‘o Fai
- Spanish: Gracias por la Escuela Dominical
- Swedish: Sabbatsdag skön, vi dig hälsa så glatt!
- Tahitian: Mauruuru i te Haapiiraa
- Tongan: Koe akoʻanga fakasapate
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1874 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: The Juvenile Instructor (1866–1929), Feb 1874.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Thanks for the Sabbath School. Hail to the day When evil and error are fleeing away. Thanks for our teachers who labor with care That we in the light of the gospel may share.
Join in the jubilee; mingle in song. Join in the joy of the Sabbath School throng. Great be the glory of those who do right, Who overcome evil, in good take delight.
2. Now in the morning of life let us try Each virtue to cherish, all vice to decry; Strive with the noble in deeds that exalt, And battle with energy each childish fault.
Join in the jubilee; mingle in song. Join in the joy of the Sabbath School throng. Great be the glory of those who do right, Who overcome evil, in good take delight.
3. May we endeavor through life’s devious way To watch and be earnest, true wisdom display; Try to o’ercome each temptation and snare, Thereby full salvation eternally share.
Join in the jubilee; mingle in song. Join in the joy of the Sabbath School throng. Great be the glory of those who do right, Who overcome evil, in good take delight.
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