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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Wisdom of Redeeming Time (Philip Doddridge): 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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- 1God of eternity! from thee
- Did infant time its being draw;
- Moments and days, and months and years,
- Revolve by thine unvaried law.
- 2Silent and swift they glide away;
- Steady and strong the current flows,
- Lost in eternity's wide sea,
- The boundless gulf from whence it rose.
- 3With it the thoughtless sons of men
- Before the rapid stream are borne
- On to their everlasting home,
- Whence not one soul can e'er return.
- 4Great Source of wisdom! teach our hearts
- To know the price of every hour,
- That time may bear us on to joys
- Beyond its measure and its power.
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 Wisdom of Redeeming Time page.
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