With gladness we worship, rejoice as we sing
With gladness we worship, rejoice as we sing. George Rawson* (1807-1889).
First published in Rawson’s Hymns, Verses and Chants (1876), and thereafter in some Methodist books (United Methodist Church Hymnal, 1893; Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement, 1912). It has remained popular with Methodists, and is found in MHB and HP, while Rawson’s own denomination omitted it from CP. Earlier books, including the Congregational Church Hymnal (1887) and Congregational Hymnary (1916), printed the hymn in 8-line stanzas of 65.65.D. Apart from the two Methodist books of 1893 and 1912, hymn books have usually omitted Rawson’s penultimate verse:
Our souls mount, aspiring to reach the Divine,Partaking...
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