Christ triumphant, ever reigning

Christ triumphant, ever reigning. Michael Saward* (1932-2015). Written April-May 1964 when Saward was curate and youth leader at St Margaret’s, Edgware, Middlesex (now North West London). He drafted the words at home in Elmer Gardens for the tune ANGEL VOICES, to mark the 28th birthday of the church’s Youth Fellowship. It was the fifth text he had written (the first being ‘O Holy Spirit, giver of life’ in 1962, published in Youth Praise) and has proved by far the most popular, providing the title for a collection of his hymns in 2006. The words were duly sung at the time to their traditional tune, but when the first Youth Praise collection was compiled in 1966, Michael Baughen* set the...