RILEY. KINGSFOLD. ORA LABORA. OASIS. CWM RHONDDA. VILLE DU HARVE. CANONBURY. DRONFIELD. TRURO. WELLESLEY. MARTYRDOM. Ok, before you think I’m babbling some kind of nonsense, let me tell you that the words above do have something in common, as irrelevant and different as they seem. That is they are names of hymn tunes. And in…
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Text 1Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates!Behold the King of glory waits;The King of kings is drawing near,The Savior of the world is here. 2The Lord is just, a helper tried;Mercy is ever at His side;His kingly crowns is holiness,His scepter, pity in distress. 3O blest the land, the city blest,Where Christ the Ruler…
Text 1Star of our hope! He’ll soon appear,The last loud trumpet speaks Him near;Hail Him, all saints, from pole to pole-How welcome to the faithful soul! 2From heaven angelic voices sound:Behold the Lord of glory crowned,Arrayed in majesty divine,And in His highest glories shine. 3The grave yields up its precious trust,Which long has slumbered in…