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There was a desire to replace Johnson's version with the more popular version of British missionary Stuart K. Hine's "How Great Thou Art". Wiberg explains: Given the popularity of Stuart Hine's translation of How Great Thou Art in the late 60s and early 70s, the Hymnal Commission struggled with whether to go with the more popular version or ...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing. " O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing " is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley. [ 1][ 2] The hymn was placed first in John Wesley 's A Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists published in 1780. It was the first hymn in every ( Wesleyan ...
"Peace on the earth, good will to men From heaven's all-gracious King" – The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its ...
Over the objections of Martha, Jesus has them roll the stone away from the entrance to the tomb and says a prayer. They take the stone away then Jesus looks up and says: "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I know that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."
A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows: [4] First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists
Angels We Have Heard on High. " Angels We Have Heard on High " is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called " Les Anges dans nos campagnes ", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically ...
The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The narrator, Dante himself, is 35 years old, and thus "midway in the journey of our life" ( Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ) [ 5 ] – half of the biblical lifespan of 70 ( Psalm 89:10 in the Vulgate ...
Christ I (also known as Christ A or ( The) Advent Lyrics) is a fragmentary collection of Old English poems on the coming of the Lord, preserved in the Exeter Book. In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections. In the assessment of Edward B. Irving Jr, "two masterpieces stand out of the mass of Anglo-Saxon ...