For the Beauty of the Earth

Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1864

This week’s hymn is the much loved “For the Beauty of the Earth,” a song of grateful praise to God for the natural beauties around us, and for the beautiful works of His grace as made manifest in the Church. As for that natural beauty, I think there is no season quite like this one, the late summer, when it is still warm, and many a tree is bearing fru…