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SDAH 392
Dear Lord, we come at set of sun,
And at Your feet we kneel
To worship You, Creator, King,
This day, Your sign and seal.
Text
1
Dear Lord, we come at set of sun,
And at Your feet we kneel
To worship You, Creator, King,
This day, Your sign and seal.
2
Our earthly tasks we lay aside,
According to Your Word,
To enter now Your holy rest,
The Sabbath of the Lord.
3
Sweet Sabbath rest, your sacred hours
Are as a golden chain
That reaches back to Eden’s gate
And points us home again.
4
And when this earth shall be renewed,
And sin and death destroyed,
Shall all redeemed each Sabbath day
Still meet to praise their God.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Lev 23:32 (b) Ex 20:9, 10 (c) Gen 2:3 (d) Isa 66:23
Author
Mary Speidel (1915-1985)
Year Published
1984
Copyright
Words copyright 1985 by Mary Speidel; Music from the Revised Church Hymnary 1927 by permission of Oxford University Press
Hymn Tune
STRACATHRO
Metrical Number
C.M.
Composer
Charles Hutcheson (1792-1860)
Arranged
David Evans (1874-1948)
Alternate Tune
SERENITY, SDAH 455
Hymn Score
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Piano Accompaniment
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Notes
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When we keep the Sabbath on the Seventh day of the week as the Lord intended it to be kept from sunset to sunset, we acknowledge that He is our Creator and King. At the same time, we proclaim to all that the God we worship is the Creator and that we will continue to keep the Sabbath on the new earth that He will create for those who will be loyal to Him. (Lesson 9, 2nd Quarter 2021 -Sunday, Origins, 5/23/2021)
Mary Speidel was born May 16, 1915, at Weirton, West Virginia, and received her education at Strayers Business College and then at Columbia Union College, Washington, D. C. She became a Seventh-day Adventist after reading books left on her doorstep by a literature evangelist. For eight years she worked in the Coast Guard Headquarters and the Federal Communications Commission, then moved to denominational work, serving in the Potomac Conference office and at General Conference headquarters. In midlife she began free-lance writing, her stories, poems, and articles being published in Listen, These Times, Adventist Review, Guide, and Little Friend. After retirement she traveled and studied in Mexico and Scotland. Her greatest joy was in “seeing God’s work progress and in doing Christian witnessing and church work.” Returning, she made her home at Summersville, West Virginia, where she died October 4, 1985.
STRACATHRO is from the composer’s book Christian Vespers, published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1832. It is considered one of the finest of the later psalm tunes. Charles Hutcheson was born in 1792 and lived all his life as a merchant in Glasgow. A member of St. George’s Church there, he had a good singing voice, loved psalmody and music in general, and had a natural gift as an amateur composer. His book mentioned above contained hymn tunes in three and four parts, with an introductory essay on church music. He died January 20, 1860.
The tune is named after a property bought by Hutcheson’s friend and fellow church member, Sir James Campbell, for the latter’s new home.
The arrangement is by David Evans (1874-1948; see Biographies), one of the most distinguished musicians of his time in Wales.
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