Glory, glory to God in the highest
Glory, glory to God in the highest. William Tidd Matson* (1833-1899).
In Matson’s Lays of Laud, Life and Litany: including The Inner Life (Portsmouth, 1891) this was the first hymn following two linked introductory hymns, Prayer I and II, beginning ‘O traveller, on life’s rugged road’. However, it must have been in one of Matson’s earlier collections, because its first appearance in a hymnbook was in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn and Tune Book of 1879 (Gordon Bell, ‘Where’s That Hymn’). It had three vigorous stanzas of ten lines each:
Glory, glory to God in the highest! Angels in chorus joyfully cry; Glory, glory to God in the highest! Trembling and weak our voices reply: Fain...
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