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Play “Christ's Commission”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Commission (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 5 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.
Sung here to ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Raise your triumphant songs
- To an immortal tune;
- Let the wide earth resound the deeds
- Celestial grace has done.
- 2Sing how Eternal Love
- Its chief Beloved chose,
- And bade him raise our wretched race
- From their abyss of woes.
- 3'Twas mercy filled the throne,
- And wrath stood silent by,
- When Christ was sent with pardons down
- To rebels doomed to die.
- 4Now, sinners, dry your tears,
- Let hopeless sorrows cease;
- Bow to the scepter of his love,
- And take the offered peace.
- 5Lord, we obey thy call;
- We lay an humble claim
- To the salvation thou hast brought,
- And love and praise thy name.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Christ's Commission page.
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