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Happy the birth where grace presides The power of grace
John Newton printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book III, no. 60.
WRITTEN BY
John Newton 1725–1807
PRINTED
1779 Olney Hymns · no. 60
METRE
Common Metre 8.6.8.6 · 7 stanzas
WRITTEN ON
A subject no verse printed above it
The hymn, and the Scripture in it
All 7 stanzas as Newton printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.
SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes
AMONG THE SCRIPTURES
The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.
a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here
STANZA I
Happy the birth where grace presides
To form the future life!
In wisdom’s paths the soul she guides,
Remote from noise and strife.
No line of this stanza quotes a verse closely; it is the hymn's own confession.
Its place in the book
Book III of the hymn book, “On the progress and changes of the spiritual life”, holds these hymns in this order: 106 hymns. This is number 60. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.
NO. 60 · JOHN NEWTON · THIS HYMN Happy the birth where grace presides
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