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Free same-meter accompaniment for Our Example (Anne Steele): 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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- 1And is the gospel, peace and love?
- Such let our conversation be:
- The serpent blended with the dove,
- Wisdom and meek simplicity.
- 2Whene'er the angry passions rise,
- And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife,
- To Jesus let us lift our eyes,
- Bright pattern of the Christian life!
- 3O how benevolent and kind!
- How mild! how ready to forgive!
- Be this the temper of our mind,
- And these the rules by which we live.
- 4To do his heavenly Father's will,
- Was his employment and delight;
- Humility and holy zeal
- Shone thro' his life, divinely bright!
- 5Dispensing good where'er he came,
- The labours of his life were love;
- O, if we love the Savior's name,
- Let his divine example move.
- 6Thy fair example may we trace,
- To teach us what we ought to be;
- Make us by thy transforming grace,
- Dear Saviour, daily more like thee.
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 Our Example page.
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