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Free same-meter accompaniment for Substantial Compassion (Thomas Gibbons): 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.
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- 1When Jesus dwelt in mortal clay,
- What were His works from day to day,
- But miracles of pow'r and grace,
- Which spread salvation thro' our race?
- 2Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view
- Thy pattern, and Thy steps pursue:
- Let alms bestowed, let kindness done,
- Be witnessed by each rolling sun.
- 3That man may last, but never lives,
- Who much receives, but nothing gives:
- Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
- 4But he who marks from day to day
- In gen'rous acts his radiant way,
- The same path treads the Savior trod,
- The path to glory and to God.
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 Substantial Compassion page.
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