Jesus, Hear Our Prayer

DESCRIPTION: "Jesus, hear our prayer, For thy children care, When we sleep, protect and bless us, With thy pardon now refresh us, Leave thy peace divine with us, We are thine."
AUTHOR: Words: Count Nicholas L. ZInzendorf / Music: Adam Drese (source: Salt-BuckeyeHeritage-OhiosHistory)
EARLIEST DATE: 1819 (source: Hymnary.org; presumably the German is older)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Salt-BuckeyeHeritage-OhiosHistory, p. 28, "Jesus, Hear Our Prayer" (1 short text, 1 tune)
NOTES [134 words]: Salt offers not the faintest evidence that this is traditional; she includes it because there were Moravians in Ohio, and they might have sung it.
John Julian, editor, A Dictionary of Hymnology, 1892; second edition 1907 (I use the 1957 Dover edition in two volumes), [volume II], p. 1301 says Count Zinzendorf was born in Dresden in 1700, and gained a license to preach at Tübingen in 1734. He died in 1760. His biography is said to fill eight volumes.
He has been called the "second founder" of Moravianism. He supposedly wrote his first hymn at age 12, and produced more than 2000 before he died.
Of the twenty listed by Julian as being relatively widespread, I don't recognize any. This particular piece, based on the publications listed at Hymnary.org, seems to have been known only to Moravians. - RBW
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