Text: | There's But a Small Beginning Made |
Author: | Nicholas L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 |
Tune: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
1 There’s but a small beginning made;
The earth is still o’ercast with shade.
Break forth, Thou Sun of righteousness,
With healing beams the nations bless.
2 Whene’er we to mankind proclaim
Thy dying love and precious Name,
Support Thy servants’ weakness, Lord,
By Thy blest Spirit, grace and word.
3 Lord of the harvest, laborers send
Who willing are their live to spend
In scorching heat and chilling cold
To bring the heathen to Thy fold.
4 When all our labor here is o’er,
And when our light shall burn no more,
When our endeavors have an end,
Then let our souls to Thee ascend.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There's but a small beginning made |
Title: | There's But a Small Beginning Made |
Author: | Nicholas L. von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 (1739) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1969 |
Topic: | The Church's Life and Work: Spread of the Gospel |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | OLD HUNDREDTH |
Composer: | Louis Bourgeois, c. 1510-c. 1561 |
Meter: | L.M. |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | in Genevan Psalter, 1551. (Altered form) |
(22, E)