Stand up, and bless the Lord

Stand up, and bless the Lord. James Montgomery* (1771-1854). Written for the Red Hill (Sheffield) Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary, 15 March 1824, and used again at the Whitsuntide Festival of the Sheffield Sunday School Union in that year. It was printed in leaflet form, entitled Sheffield Methodist Sunday-School Sermons. The Annual Sermons, in behalf of the three Methodist Sunday Schools, at Red-Hill, Bridgehouses, and in the Park, will be preached on the 14th and 15th of March, 1824 (Taylor, 1989, pp. 172-3). Because of the occasion, it originally began ‘Stand up and bless the Lord,/ Ye children of His choice’. It was altered for publication in Montgomery’s The Christian Psalmist...