Raise the psalm: let earth adoring
Raise the psalm: let earth adoring. Edward Churton* (1800-1874).
From Churton’s The Book of Psalms in English Verse (1854), sometimes (as in JJ) called ‘The Cleveland Psalter’. It had thirteen 4-line stanzas, each ending ‘Hallelujah, Amen.’ It was a paraphrase of Psalm 98 (‘O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things’). Churton’s stanza 1, for example, suggests an Easter hymn:
Raise the psalm to God all-glorious, Tell the wonders He hath done; How His holy arm victorious Hath a deathless conquest won: Hallelujah! Amen.
The hymn was radically changed by Benjamin Hall Kennedy* in his Hymnologia Christiana (1863). Kennedy used verses 1, 2, and...
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