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Free same-meter accompaniment for Where high the heavenly temple stands (Michael Bruce): 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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  1. 1Where high the heavenly temple stands,
  2. The house of God not made with hands,
  3. A great High Priest our nature wears,
  4. The Guardian of mankind appears.
  5. 2Though now ascended up on high,
  6. He bends on earth a brother's eye;
  7. Partaker of the human name,
  8. He knows the frailty of our frame.
  9. 3Our Father-sufferer yet retains
  10. A fellow-feeling of our pains;
  11. And still remembers, in the skies,
  12. His tears, his agonies, and cries.
  13. 4In every pang that rends the heart,
  14. The Man of Sorrows had a part;
  15. He sympathizes with our grief,
  16. And to the sufferer sends relief.
  17. 5With boldness, therefore, at the throne,
  18. Let us make all our sorrows known;
  19. And ask the aid of heavenly power,
  20. To help us in the evil hour.

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 Where high the heavenly temple stands page.

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