Andrew Wright presents a majestic arrangement of the 1912 hymn tune, BILLING, scored for SATB choir, organ, and brass quartet. This would be a fitting opening or closing hymn for solemn feasts, especially those with a focus on faith and praise (such as ordinations). Lasting about four and a half minutes, it can accommodate longer processionals.
from A Requiem of Peace and Other Choral Works
from A Requiem of Peace and Other Choral Works
Find Praise to the Holiest in the Height in:
Lyrics
2.
O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
A second Adam to the fight?
And to the rescue came.
3.
O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
Which did in Adam fail,
Should strive afresh against the foe,
Should strive and should prevail;
4.
And that a higher gift than grace
Should flesh and blood refine,
God’s presence and his very self,
And essence all divine.
5.
O generous love! that he, who smote,
In man for man the foe,
The double agony in man
For man should undergo;
6.
And in the garden secretly,
And on the cross on high,
Should teach his brethren, and inspire
To suffer and to die.
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Praise
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Morning Prayer Hymn
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