Awake, my soul, to meet the day

Awake, my soul, to meet the day. Philip Doddridge. [Morning.] This devotional morning hymn is found in the original undated "Doddridge Manuscripts." It was first published by Job Orton in the posthumous edition of Doddridge's Hymns (1755, No. 362) in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, bearing the title "A morning hymn, to be used at awaking and rising." The text was later reissued without alteration in John Doddridge Humphreys's edition of Doddridge's works in 1839 (No. 389).

Although the hymn failed to secure a permanent position in common usage among churches in Great Britain, it found limited adoption in North America. In the official Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church (New York, 1878), a revised four-stanza version was included as Hymn No. 96, comprising stanzas i, ii, vi, and vii in a slightly altered form. The hymn focuses on personal dedication, asking for divine protection and spiritual diligence at the start of a new day.