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Play “God's Presence With His People”
Free same-meter accompaniment for God's Presence With His People (Sir Walter Scott): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1When Israel, of the Lord beloved,
- Out from the land of bondage came,
- Her fathers’ God before her moved,
- An awful guide in smoke and flame.
- 2By day, along the astonished lands
- The cloudy pillar glided slow;
- By night, Arabia’s crimsoned sands
- Returned the fiery column’s glow.
- 3Thus present still, though now unseen,
- When brightly shines the prosperous day,
- Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen,
- To temper the deceitful ray!
- 4And, O, when gathers on our path
- In shade and storm the frequent night,
- Be Thou, long-suffering, slow to wrath,
- A burning and a shining light!
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 God's Presence With His People page.
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