JESUS CHRIST >> SECOND ADVENT
SDAH 219
When Jesus comes in glory,
As Lord and King of kings,
O what a wondrous story
The blessed Bible brings:
Text
1
When Jesus comes in glory,
As Lord and King of kings,
O what a wondrous story
The blessed Bible brings:
His face will shine like the sunlight,
His head be white as snow,
His eyes like flaming firelight,
His feet like brass aglow.
2
His voice like rushing waters
Will reach with mighty sound
Into the deepest quarters
Of all creation round;
And at this wondrous greeting
The dead in Christ shall rise,
Their Lord and Saviour meeting
In glory in the skies.
3
And we who believing
And His appearing love,
Shall know we are receiving
His glory from above;
His resurrection power
Will raise us to the place
Where we that wondrous hour
Shall see Him face to face.
4
O hasten Thine appearing
Thou bright and Morning Star!
Lord, may we soon be hearing
The trumpet sound afar;
They people all are yearning
To be Thy raptured bride,
To be Thy own returning
Be caught up to Thy side.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Rev 19:16; Rev 1:14, 15 (b) 1 Thess 4:16, 17 (c) Rev 22:4 (d) Rev 22:16; Rev 21:2
Author
Samuel M. Miller (1890-1973)
Year Published
1922
Performance Suggestions
To simplify, right hand plays treble chords, left hand plays the lowest bass line
Copyright
Music copyright 1933 by Methodist Conference
Hymn Tune
NORWICK
Metrical Number
7.6.7.6.D.
Composer
Bertram Ernest Woods (1900-1982)
Alternate Tune
ST. THEODULPH SDAH 230
Theme
SECOND ADVENT
Hymn Score
Piano Accompaniment
Notes
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Born August 26, 1890, of Swedish Christian parents in Lowell, Massachusetts, Samuel Martin Miller was given to the Lord before his birth. One of nine children, he learned early to work at odd to help the family. Felling a call to the ministry, he entered Upsala College at Kenilworth, New Jersey, and graduated in 1910. Graduate study was at the Augustana Lutheran Rock Island Seminary minister in 1913, and he earned a D.D. at Upsala in 1926. Ordained a Lutheran minister in 1913, he served pastorates in Moline, Illinois; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Jamestown, New York; and Pierson, Florida. Much of his ministry was institutional; he spent 22 years at the Lutheran Bible Institute, Omaha. Retiring in 1955, he spent 5 years working for the Department of Evangelism, Augustana Lutheran Church. He died at Orange City, Minnesota, February 26,1973.
The author of a number of inspirational books, Miller also wrote articles and editorials for the Bible Banner, organ of the Lutheran Bible Institute. In 1936, while at the Bible Institute, he published a collection of songs entitled Jesus Only and other salvation, which contained “When Jesus Comes in Glory.” In the forward he said: “I am neither a poet nor a musician. The only excuse for publishing this little book of songs is that so many friends have asked for them. Then, too, I pray that they may truly be a testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ. I rejoice in the experience of the grace of God which had convicted me of sin, caused me to confess, opened my eyes to see that Christ has died for me, and helped me in faith to turn myself over to my Savior. These personal experience have caused little songs to sing in my heart, and I have at times been enabled to bring them out in the form here present.”
NORWICK was submitted for consideration by the music committee of Methodist Hymn Book, 1933, for the text “O Jesus I Have Promised,” and was accepted and printed with those words. The composer named it for the helmet where he lived at the time, in the Shetland Islands.
Bertram Ernest Woods (1900-1982) was born in England, and began composing anthems, songs, and piano pieces at age 17. After training for the Methodist ministry, he was ordained in 1924 at Didsbury College. He served in the following circuits: Scarborough, North Isles, Swindon, Sunderland, at Glasgow Central Mission, and London Mission at Wandswoth Road. Other pastorates were at Brixton Hill and Redhill Circuit at Horley. Retiring in 1968, he lived at Penzance, Cornwall, England, until his death in 1982.
-from Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White
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