Rejoice and be glad, the Redeemer hath come
Rejoice and be glad, the redeemer hath come. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889).
Bonar was a strong supporter of the evangelistic campaign of Dwight L. Moody* and Ira D. Sankey* in Scotland in 1874, and wrote this hymn for an early edition of Sankey’s Sacred Songs and Solos* (ca. 1875). It was headed ‘The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: Psalm 118: 15’. It had seven 4-line stanzas, each with the second two lines as a refrain:
Sound his praises, tell the StoryOf Him who was slain; Sound His praises, tell with gladnessHe liveth again. (or, in older books, ‘He cometh again’)
It was well known in Britain until recent times. It was in MHB (1933), and...
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