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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Effusion of the Spirit; or the Success of the Gospel (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1Great was the day, the joy was great,
- When the divine disciples met;
- While on their heads the Spirit came,
- And sat like tongues of cloven flame.
- 2What gifts, what miracles he gave!
- And pow'r to kill, and pow'r to save!
- Furnish'd their tongues with wondrous words,
- Instead of shields, and spears, and swords.
- 3Nations, the learned and the rude,
- Were by these heav'nly arms subdu'd,
- The heathens saw thy glory, Lord!
- And, wond'ring, bless'd thy gracious word.
- 4Come the great day, the glorious hour,
- When all shall feel thy saving pow'r,
- And the whole race of man confess
- The beauty of thy holiness!
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 The Effusion of the Spirit; or the Success of the Gospel page.
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