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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Unspeakable Gift (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Happy the man who finds the grace,
- The blessing of God’s chosen race;
- The wisdom coming from above,
- The faith that sweetly works by love!
- 2Happy beyond description, he,
- Who knows "the Savior dy'd for me,"
- The gift unspeakable obtains,
- And heavenly understanding gains.
- 3Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
- And all her flowry paths are peace;
- Wisdom to silver we prefer:
- And gold is dross comapr'd with her.
- 4He finds, who wisdom apprehends,
- A life begun that never ends;
- The tree of life divine she is,
- Set in the midst of paradise.
- 5Happy the man who wisdom gains.
- In whose obedient heart she reigns;
- He owns, and will forever own.
- Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven are one.
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 Unspeakable Gift page.
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