Music and hymns
Music and hymns are played live in Boston during the in-person noon and 7:30pm EST (17 and 24:30 UTC) Wednesday testimony meetings. A recording of the noon meeting music is replayed during the 2pm (19 UTC) online testimony meeting.
Hymn numbers and words which are available to The Mother Church according to copyright law will be posted on Wednesday morning.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Pastorella (1st & 2nd movements) BWV 590 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantilene (from Sonata No. 11 in D minor, Op. 148) by Josef RheinbergerPrelude
Hymns
114, 251, 176
Musical interludes between testimonies
From the CD, "Shepherd Hymns" by Bobby Stanton
Postlude
Finale in D minor by Eric Thiman
Hymns
Hymn 114
John Burton
Adapted
Holy Bible, book divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine:
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine to tell me what I am;
Mine to chide me when I rove,
Mine to show a Saviour's love;
Mine thou art to guide and guard;
Mine to give a rich reward;
Mine to comfort in distress,
With a Saviour's tenderness;
Mine to show, by living faith,
Man can triumph over death.
Hymn 251
William W. How
Adapted
O Word of God, most holy,
O wisdom from on high,
O Truth, unchanged, unchanging,
O light of earth's dark sky,
We bless Thee for the radiance
That from the hallowed page,
A lantern to our footsteps,
Shines on from age to age.
O Word of God the Father,
Thou art the gift divine,
And still thy light is lifted,
O'er all the lands to shine.
It is the chart and compass
To guide us to our Lord;
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Christ, the living Word.
Hymn 176
Based on the Danish of
Nikolaj F. S. Grundtvig
Long hast thou stood, O church of God,
Long mid the tempest's assailing,
Founded secure on timeless rock|
Rises thy light, never failing;
Shining that all may understand
What has been wrought by God's command,
O'er night and chaos prevailing.
Let there be light, and light was there,
Clear as the Word that declared it;
Healing and peace to all it gave,
Who in humility shared it.
Ah, they were faithful, they who heard,|
Steadfast their trust in God's great Word,
Steadfast the Love that prepared it.
Let there be light, the Word shines forth,
Lo, where the new morning whitens;
O church of God, with Book unsealed,
How its page beacons and brightens.
Living stones we, each in his place,
May we be worthy such a grace,
While Truth the wide earth enlightens.
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