In Our Day of Thanksgiving is a Christian hymn written in 1894 by the English hymnodist William Henry Draper.
[11] The text of the hymn is concerned with giving thanks to God for the lives of Christians who have died and passed into the afterlife.
In our day of thanksgiving one psalm let us offer for the saints who before us have found their reward;The hymn also makes reference to earthly church buildings and their significance as a place of pilgrimage.
[5] These stones that have echoed their praises are holy,and dear is the ground where their feet have once trod;yet here they confessed they were strangers and pilgrims,and still they were seeking the city of God.
When first published by Draper, it was originally set to a hymn tune entitled Victory, by Sir Joseph Barnby.