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Play “Lo! God is here let us adore”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Lo! God is here let us adore (John Wesley; Gerhardt Tersteegen): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) 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 MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Lo! God is here! let us adore,
- And own how dreadful in this place!
- Let all within us feel His power,
- And silent bow before His face;
- Who know His power, His grace who prove,
- Serve Him with awe, with reverence love.
- 2Lo! God is here! Him day and night
- United choirs of angels sing;
- To Him, enthroned above all height,
- Heaven's host their noblest praises bring;
- Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song,
- Who praise Thee with a stammering tongue.
- 3Gladly the toys of earth we leave,
- Wealth, pleasure, fame, for Thee alone;
- To Thee our will, soul, flesh, we give;
- O take, O seal them for Thine own!
- For Thou art God, Thou at the Lord;
- Be Thou by all Thy works adored.
- 4Being of beings! may our praise
- Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill;
- Still may we stand before Thy face,
- Still hear and do Thy sovereign will;
- To Thee may all our thoughts arise,
- Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice.
- 5As flowers their opening leaves display,
- And glad drink in the solar fire,
- So may we catch Thy every ray,
- So may Thy influence us inspire;
- Thou Beam of the eternal Beam,
- Thou purging Fire, Thou quickening Flame.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Lo! God is here let us adore page.
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