JESUS CHRIST >> GLORY & PRAISE
SDAH 235
Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord, and precious,
binding all the Church in one;
Text
1
Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord, and precious,
binding all the Church in one;
holy Zion’s help for ever,
and her confidence alone.
2
All that dedicated city,
dearly loved of God on high,
in exultant jubilation
pours perpetual melody;
God the One in Three adoring
in glad hymns eternally.
3
To this temple, where we call thee,
come, O Lord of Hosts, today;
with thy wonted loving-kindness
hear thy servants as they pray,
and thy fullest benediction
shed within its walls alway.
4
Here vouchsafe to all thy servants
what they ask of thee of gain;
what they gain from thee, for ever
with the blessed to retain,
and hereafter in thy glory
evermore with thee to reign.
5
Laud and honor to the Father,
laud and honor to the Son,
laud and honor to the Spirit,
ever Three, and ever One,
con-substantial, co-eternal,
while unending ages run.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
Eph 2:20 (a) 1 Pet 2:6, 7 (b) Rev 21:2
Translator
John M. Neale (1818-1866) alt.
Text Source
Latin hymn, c. 7th century
Performance Suggestions
Unison
Copyright
Copyright 1959, 1964 by Schmitt, Hall & McCreary, a division of Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Hymn Tune
EDEN CHURCH
Metrical Number
8.7.8.7.8.7.
Composer
Dale Wood (1934-2003)
Alternate Tune
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SDAH 607
Hymn Score
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Piano Accompaniment
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Notes
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Jesus is a Servant with real human nature, tested as we are yet still found faithful. Through His experience, we can have hope and find confidence in HIm. He is indeed a sure foundation. (Lesson 9, 1st Quarter 2021 -Thursday, A Feeling and Suffering Servant, 2/2/5/2021)
This anonymous Latin hymn is based on Ephesians 2:20 and 1 Peter 2:6. The hymns has been found in manuscript dating from the ninth century, but hymn scholars think it is at least two centuries older. The complete poem of nine stanzas begins with a description of the New Jerusalem as given in Revelation 21 and is entitled “Urbs Beata Hierusalem” (The Blessed City of Jerusalem). John Mason Neale (1818-1866; see Biographies) translated this hymn and published it in Medieval Hymns and Sequences, 1851, and revised it in 1861. It is found in most of the medieval rites as the proper hymn for the dedication of a church. It was divided into two hymns, using the last four stanzas and the final doxology for the service of Lauds (sunrise), and the first four stanzas with the doxology at Vespers (sunset).
The hymn is often sung to REGENT SQUARE, SDAH 119, and WETMINSTER ABBEY, SDAH 607, but the SDAH committee chose the strong minor tune, EDEN CHURCH, composed by Dale Wood (1934- ; see SDAH 42). He wrote it first as an anthem with this same text for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Eden Lutheran Church, Riverside, California, where he was the organist in 1959. As a hymn, it is written to be sung in unison, with organ playing the full accompaniment where needed.
Wood also composed LAUREL, which is used for SDAH 42, “Now That Day Light Fills the Sky,” and SDAH 550, “Every Flower That Grows.”
-from Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White
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