From out the tomb the Savior comes

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From out the tomb the Savior comes

Author: Benj. T. Tanner
Tune: METROPOLITAN (Layton)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 From out the tomb the Savior comes,
The first of all the dead;
From out the tomb the Savior comes,
To be our living head.

2 What is the stone His foes have placed
To make secure the grave?
And what the great Sanhedrin seal
The priests so freely gave?

3 He must wake, He must arise,
For have not prophets said,
God’s Holy One shall never share
Corruption with the dead?

4 Now see, in shimmering light, He leaves
The dead, no more to die.
Conqueror of sin, and death and hell,
He re-ascends the sky.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #6453

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Author: Benj. T. Tanner

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (b 25 Dec. 1835, Pittsburgh, PA | d 15 Jan. 1923, Philadelphia, PA), son of Hugh S. and Isabel Tanner, studied at Avery College, Pittsburgh (1852–1857). Was licensed as a Methodist preacher (1856), trained at Allegheny and Western Theological Seminary, and was ordained into the AME Church (1860). Married Sarah Elizabeth Miller and had seven children. During the Civil War, Tanner ministered to freedmen in the U.S. Navy. He founded the Alexander Mission in Baltimore (1862) and served churches in Georgetown (1863–1866) and Baltimore (1866–1867), then became editor of the AME Christian Recorder (1868–1884) in Washington, DC, before founding the AME Church Review (1884). He was elected bishop of the AME General Con… Go to person page >

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