Ascend Thy throne, Almighty King

Written by the prolific Baptist hymn writer Benjamin Beddome, this concise missionary hymn consists of three stanzas of four lines each. The text was first introduced to general congregations when John Rippon selected it as No. 370 for his popular Selection of Hymns in 1787. Rippon included the text without alterations, and it was consistently reprinted in subsequent editions of that work over the following decades.

The hymn was also incorporated into Robert Hall's edited collection of Beddome's posthumous Hymns Adapted to Public Worship in 1817. While the regular use of the hymn in British churches steadily waned over the course of the nineteenth century, it found a remarkably warm reception in North America. Transatlantic compilers adopted the text into a great number of denominational hymnals, where it established a long and durable popularity as a standard prayer for the global expansion of the Christian faith.