Rejoice, O people, in the mounting years

Rejoice, O people, in the mounting years. Albert Frederick Bayly* (1901-1984). This was Albert Bayly's first attempt at hymn writing. Requested in 1945 for the Triple Jubilee of the London Missionary Society, it was published in five 6-line stanzas with a tune by Eric Shave in Faith’s Transcendent Dower, the Northumbrian Triple Jubilee booklet. A copy in leaflet form was seen by Cyril Taylor*, who asked Bayly to revise it for BBCHB. An additional stanza was written for the 750th anniversary festival of Lichfield Cathedral (1946) to appear after stanza two: Rejoice, O people, in the deathless fame Won by the saints whose labours blessed our land; And those who wrought for love of Jesus’...