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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Welcome to Christian Friends (John Newton): 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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- 1Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake,
- A hearty welcome here receive:
- May we together now partake
- The joys which only he can give.
- 2To you and us by grace 'tis given
- To know the Saviour's precious name;
- And shortly we shall meet in heaven,
- Our hope, our way, our end, the same.
- 3May he, by whose kind care we meet,
- Send his good Spirit from above,
- Make our communications sweet,
- And cause our hearts to burn with love!
- 4Forgotten be each worldly theme,
- When Christians see each other thus;
- We only wish to speak of him,
- Who liv'd, and died, and reigns for us.
- 5We'll talk of all he did, and said,
- And suffer'd for us here below;
- The path he mark'd for us to tread,
- And what he's doing for us now.
- 6Thus, as the moments pass away,
- We'll love, and wonder, and adore;
- And hasten on the glorious day,
- When we shall meet to part no more.
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 Welcome to Christian Friends page.
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