English Lyrics At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess him King of glory now; ’tis the Father’s pleasure we should call him Lord, who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
Humbled for a season to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it spotless to the last, brought it back victorious when from death he passed;
Bore it up triumphant with its human light, thro’ all ranks of creatures to the central height, to the throne of Godhead, to the Father’s breast, filled it with the glory of that perfect rest.
surely, this Lord Jesus shall return again in his Father’s glory, with his angel train; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of glory now.
English Lyrics Verse 1I cannot tell why He whom angels worshipShould set His love upon the souls of men,Or why as Shepherd He should seek the wanderers,To bring them back, they know nothow nor when.But this I know, that He was born of MaryWhen Bethlehem’s manger was His only home,And that He lived at Nazareth…
English Lyrics The King of love my Shepherd is,Whose goodness faileth never;I nothing lack if I am hisAnd he is mine for ever.Where streams of living water flowMy ransomed soul he leadeth,And where the verdant pastures growWith food celestial feedeth.Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,But yet in love he sought me,And on his shoulder gently…
Henry Francis Lyte (b. Ednam, near Kelso, Rosburghshire, Scotland, 1793; d. Nice, France, 1847) wrote this text in the late summer of 1847; he died in November of that year (various other stories about Lyte’s writing of this text do not appear to be reliable). First printed in a leaflet in 1847, the text was…
Hymn tune: FINALNDIA, from Jean Sibelius’ (1865 – 1957) symphonic poem Finlandia.Text: Original German text (“Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen”) written by Katharina von Schlegel (1697 – 1768) in 1752. Translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick (1813 – 1897). English Lyrics [Verse 1]Be still, my soul: the Lord is on…
English Lyrics Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee only have I sinned, and done…
Just after eleven o’clock on a Wednesday evening in 1904, a solo voice rang out with the hymn “Here is love vast as the ocean”. Maybe a thousand people were in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Abertillery at the time, leaning over the galleries, packing every pew and squeezing into every spare corner. They’d been here for…