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Text:How Beautiful the Mystery
Author:Eric Schumacher
Tune:MANOAH
Arranger:Henry Greatorex
Composer:Gioachino A. Rossini
Media:MIDI file

2201. How Beautiful the Mystery

1. How beautiful the mystery:
Th’eternal Word comes down
To live and love and die and rise,
To claim His victor’s crown.

2. Content we find Him cradled there
Amongst the filth and beasts.
Who would believe that He will be
Our guide from death to peace!

3. By angry swords and dark decree
He’s driven from His land.
But still He humbly bows His head
To trust His Father’s hand.

4. The spotless Lamb lays down His life,
A curse upon a cross.
Then lives that He might guarantee
That no sheep will be lost.

5. O! May our hearts grow ever fond
Of Mary’s precious boy:
Our Christ, our hope, our heart’s desire,
Our King and Sov’reign Joy!

Text Information
First Line: How beautiful the mystery
Title: How Beautiful the Mystery
Author: Eric Schumacher (2000)
Language: English
Copyright: © 2000 Eric Schumacher. Permission granted to reproduce unaltered text in nonsalable ,temporary worship media. All other uses require the permission of the author.
CCLI Number: 6185323
Tune Information
Name: MANOAH
Composer: Gioachino A. Rossini
Arranger: Henry Greatorex (1851)
Incipit: 12321 77662 34321
Key: G Major
Source: Collection of Church Music, by Henry W. Greatorex, 1851



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