Another day has past along

Written by James Edmeston, this Sunday evening text was first published in his 1821 volume The Cottage Minstrel as Number 2, where it consisted of four stanzas bearing the devotional header "Lord, teach us to pray." In the same volume, Number 10 appeared under the title "The Cottager's Reflections upon the Sabbath Evening," beginning with the first line "Sweet is the light of Sabbath eve." In 1872, editor Edwin Francis Hatfield created a composite text or cento for the American Church Hymn Book (Number 48). This combined arrangement united the opening stanza of "Another day has past along" with four stanzas taken from "Sweet is the light of Sabbath eve," introducing minor text adjustments to construct a unified evening prayer for congregational worship.