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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Prayer For Ministers (Benjamin Beddome): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Father of mercies, bow Thine ear,
- Attentive to our earnest prayer:
- We plead for those who plead for Thee;
- Successful pleaders may they be!
- 2How great their work, how vast their charge!
- Do Thou their anxious souls enlarge:
- Their best acquirements are our gain;
- We share the blessings they obtain.
- 3Clothe, then with energy divine
- Their words, and let their words be Thine;
- To them Thy sacred truth reveal,
- Suppress their fear, inflame their zeal.
- 4Teach them to sow the precious seed;
- Teach them Thy chosen flock to feed;
- Teach them immortal souls to gain,
- Souls that will well reward their pain.
- 5Let thronging multitudes around
- Hear from their lips the joyful sound;
- In humble strains Thy grace implore,
- And feel Thy new-creating power.
- 6Let sinners break their massy chains,
- Distressèd souls forget their pains;
- Let light through distant realms be spread,
- And Sion rear her drooping head.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Prayer For Ministers page.
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