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Free same-meter accompaniment for Living to Serve the Cause of Christ (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1My gracious Lord, I own Thy right
- To every service I can pay,
- And call it my supreme delight
- To hear Thy counsels and obey.
- 2What is my being but for Thee,
- Its sure support, its noblest end?
- 'Tis my delight Thy face to see,
- And service the cause of such a Friend.
- 3I would not sigh for worldly joy,
- Or to increase my worldly good;
- Nor future days nor powers employ
- To spread a sounding name abroad.
- 4To Christ my Saviour I would live,
- To Him who for my ransom died;
- Nor could all worldly honour give
- Such bliss as crowns me at His side.
- 5His work my hoary age shall bless,
- When youthful vigour is no more;
- And my last hour of life confess
- His dying love, His saving power.
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 Living to Serve the Cause of Christ page.
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