Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult
Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult. Cecil Frances Alexander* (1818-1895).
Written for St Andrew’s Day (30 November) and included in a book published by the SPCK, Hymns for Public Worship (1852), edited by Thomas Vincent Fosbery*. It was published with an inferior and amended text in its successor, the SPCK Church Hymns (1871; Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874) and in the Second Edition of A&M (1875). EH returned to Alexander’s version, and many 20th-century books followed, although successive editions of A&M have stuck to their amended text up to and including A&MCP. This changed stanza 4 lines 3-4 from
Still he calls, in cares and pleasures, ‘Christian, love me more than these.’
to...
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