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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Sabbath Day Consecrated (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) 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.

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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  1. 1Great God, this sacred day of Thine
  2. Demands the souls' collected powers;
  3. May we employ in works divine
  4. These solemn, these devoted hours!
  5. O may our souls, adoring, own
  6. The grace that calls us to thy throne!
  7. 2Hence, ye vain cares and trifles fly,
  8. Where God resides appear no more;
  9. Omniscient God! thy piercing eye
  10. Can every secret thought explore.
  11. O may thy grace our hearts refine,
  12. And fix our thoughts on things divine.
  13. 3The word of life, dispens'd to day,
  14. Invites us to a heavenly feast;
  15. May every ear the call obey,
  16. Be every heart a humble guest!
  17. O bid the wretched sons of need
  18. On soul-reviving dainties feed.
  19. 4Thy Spirit's powerful aid impart,
  20. And may thy word, with life divine,
  21. Engage the ear and warm the heart;
  22. Then shall the day, indeed be thine:
  23. Then shall our souls, adoring, own
  24. The grace that calls us to thy throne.

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 The Sabbath Day Consecrated page.

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