Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise!

538 Evangelist. C. M.

1. Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise!
   All praise to Him belongs:
   Who kindly lengthens out our days
   Demands our choicest songs.

2. His providence hath brought us through
   Another various year:
   We all with vows and anthems new
   Before our God appear.

3. Father, Thy mercies past we own;
   Thy still continued care;
   To Thee presenting, through Thy Son,
   Whate’er we have or own.

4. Our lips and lives shall gladly show
   The wonders of Thy love,
   While on in Jesu’s steps we go
   To see Thy face above.
                         Charles Wesley
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition

<idle musing>
Again, as is usual for Wesley's hymns, there are more verses. Cyberhymnal has them:

5. Our residue of days or hours
   Thine, wholly Thine, shall be;
   And all our consecrated powers
   A sacrifice to be:

6. Till Jesus in the clouds appear
   To saints on earth forgiven,
   And bring the grand Sabbatic year,
   The jubilee of Heaven.

</idle musing>

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