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SDAH 391: Welcome, Welcome Day of Rest

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SDAH 391

Welcome, welcome, day of rest,
To the world in kindness given;
Welcome to this humble breast,
As the beaming light from heaven.

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Welcome, welcome, day of rest,
To the world in kindness given;
Welcome to this humble breast,
As the beaming light from heaven.

2
Day of calm and sweet repose,
Gently now thy moments run;
Balm to soothe our cares and woes,
Till our labor here is done.

3
Holy day that most we prize,
Day of solemn praise and prayer,
Day to make the simple wise,
O, how great thy blessings are!

4
Welcome, welcome, day of rest,
With thy influence all divine;
May thy hallowed hours be blessed
to this waiting heart of mine.

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
(a) Isa 58:13

Author
Anonymous

Hymn Tune
PLEYEL’S HYMN

Metrical Number
7.7.7.7.

Arranged
from Ignace Pleyel (1757-1831)

Year Composed
1791

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Notes

 Imagine how Adam and Eve must have welcome every Sabbath in the garden of Eden. What a day to sit in the presence of God to blessed by His words in a day of calm and sweet repose. (Lesson 9, 2nd Quarter 2021 – Monday, Sabbath Before the Sinai, 5/24/2021)

These words by an anonymous author are a quite devotional prayer extolling the blessings and peace of the sabbath Day. The writer considers the Sabbath as a time of communion with God to break the monotonous round weary labor of the six working days, a time when prayer, praises, and Bible study can be undertaken; in brief, a day to welcome and desired.

     PLEYEL’S HYMN is an adaptation, made in 1791, of the slow movement of the string quartet Opus 7, No. 4, composed about 1782 by Ignace Joseph Pleyel. It is based on the theme of the “Andante” with variations. Pleyel was born June 1, 1757, in Ruppersthal, near Vienna, Austria, the twenty-fourth child of the village school master. He studied under Haydn in Vienna for five years, and later in Italy. He was appointed assistant director of music at Strasbourg Cathedral, and then director in 1789. This, however, was cut short by the French Revolution. He went to London in 1791 to conduct special concerts, and then moved to Paris in 1807, where he established a piano factory and a music publishing business. These enterprises were so successful that he devoted all his time to their operations and gave up musical composition. He died in Paris on November 4, 1831.

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