Written by the Irish hymnwriter Thomas Kelly, this Lord's Day hymn was first published in the second edition of his Hymns on Various Passages of Scripture in 1806. Based upon the joyful declaration of Psalm 118:24 ("This is the day which the Lord hath made"), the text originally contained eight stanzas of four lines in Short Meter. In 1812, Kelly transferred the hymn to his Hymns Adapted for Social Worship, from which it was later reincorporated into his master collection. When the text crossed the Atlantic into American hymnals, editors frequently recast the meter from Short Meter to Common Meter, adjusting the opening line to read "And now another week begins." The length of the hymn varied across transatlantic compilations, ranging from three stanzas in the New York Church Praise Book (1881) to five stanzas in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book (1872).
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