My heart and voice I raise
My heart and voice I raise. Benjamin Rhodes* (1743-1815).
From Rhodes’s poem, Messiah (1787), where it was one of two hymns written in the 6.6.8.6.6.8 metre, and included in the Supplement (1831) to John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), together with ‘Jerusalem divine/ When shall I call thee mine?’ In this printing they were separate hymns but consecutive, designated ‘P.M.’ (‘Peculiar Metre’). They were two of four hymns on ‘The Kingdom of Christ’. Both remained in use in Wesleyan and United Methodist books until ‘Jerusalem divine’ was dropped from MHB in 1933. ‘My heart and voice I raise’ has continued to be popular with Methodists, and...
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