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Text:Holy and Reverend Is the Name
Author:John Needham
Tune:TWENTY-FOURTH
Composer (attributed to):Lucius Chapin
Composer (attributed to):Amzi Chapin
Media:MIDI file

2602. Holy and Reverend Is the Name

1. Holy and reverend is the name
Of our eternal king:
Thrice holy Lord, the angels cry;
Thrice holy, let us sing.

2. Heaven’s brightest lamps with Him compared,
How mean they look and dim!
The fairest angels have their spots,
When once compared with Him.

3. Holy is He in all his works,
And truth is His delight;
But sinners and their wicked ways
Shall perish from His sight.

4. The deepest reverence of the mind,
Pay, O my soul, to God;
Lift with thy hands a holy heart
To His sublime abode.

5. With sacred awe pronounce His name,
Whom words nor thoughts can reach;
A broken heart shall please Him more
Than the best forms of speech.

6. Thou holy God! preserve my soul
From all pollution free;
The pure in heart are Thy delight,
And they Thy face shall see.

Text Information
First Line: Holy and reverend is the name
Title: Holy and Reverend Is the Name
Author: John Needham (1768)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Devotional and Moral, 1768
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: TWENTY-FOURTH
Composer (attributed to): Amzi Chapin (1813)
Composer (attributed to): Lucius Chapin
Meter: CM
Incipit: 51232 16551 23455
Key: G Major
Source: Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second,, by John Wyeth (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 1813)
Copyright: Public Domain



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MIDI file: MIDI File
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