Hark! Ten thousand voices crying

Hark! Ten thousand voices crying. John Nelson Darby* (1800-1882). This is one of Darby’s early hymns, dated by Henry A. Hammond 1835. It was printed by George Vicesimus Wigram* in Hymns for the Poor of the Flock (1838) and again in his A Few Hymns and some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock (1856). In Darby’s Spiritual Songs (Dublin, 1883), edited by Hammond, it was entitled ‘The Endless Song’, and was preceded by a stanza: Oh! The joy of the salvation We possess around the throne! Countless thoughts of admiration Mingling, leave that joy but one. In its original form, beginning ‘Hark! Ten thousand voices crying/ “Lamb of God!” with one accord’, it was included in...