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Glad Tidings of Great Joy
Author: George Richards Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: The Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped
Glad Tidings of Great Joy
Th' Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped
Author: Mr. George Richards Hymnal: Harmonia Americana #109 (1791) Lyrics: Th'Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped,
Upborne on wings of light,
Jehovah's glory round him spread,
And chang'd to day, the night.
Swift down to earth th'archangel flew,
From God's eternal throne;
His shining robe of rainbow hue,
The star, moon, sun, outshone.
Ten thousand thousand left the sky,
To catch salvation's sound;
One note of peace was heard on high,
Glad tidings roll'd around.
Shout, shout for joy; rejoice, O earth,
All hail, All hail, this glorious morn,
Remoice! rejoice in Jesus' birth,
To day are nations born.
"From Zion's hill to worlds above
Reecho back the strain,
And Golden harps, attun'd to love,
Thus swept Ephrathah's plain.
"He comes! He comes! The Saviour God.
Good will, peace peace, joy for men.
Glad tidings shout to all abroad,
amen, amen, amen, amen. Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTMAS
Th' Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped
Th' Almighty spake and Gabriel sped
Author: George Richards Hymnal: The Union harmony, or Universal collection of sacred music #117t (1793)
Th' Almighty spake and Gabriel sped
The Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped
Author: George Richards Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #A27 (1808)
The Almighty spake, and Gabriel sped
George Richards
1755 - 1814 Author of "Glad Tidings of Great Joy" Richards, George, born near Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1755. For some years he was Purser and Chaplain in the United States Navy, and also taught a school in Boston. In 1789 he became an Universalist preacher, ministered at Portsmouth, New Haven, 1793-1809, and from 1809 in Philadelphia, where, his mind having given way under trouble, he died by his own hand, March 16, 1816. With S. Lane he edited the Universalist Hymn Book, published at Boston, 1792. This was one of the earliest collections of that body. It contained 49 of Richards's hymns. In 1801 he published A Collection of Hymns, Dover, New Hampshire, which contained 6 additional hymns by himself, and in 1806, also at Dover, a second edition of the same, greatly enlarged, with another 26 hymns.
Of these the following are in common use at the present time:—
1. 0 Christ, what gracious words. The Gospel Message. This hymn appeared in the Boston Collection, 1792, and is the best of the early Universalist hymns. In the Andover Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, it is given as "Saviour, what gracious words." In this form and also in the original, it is found in several collections.
2. Long as the darkening cloud abode. Easter. This hymn in modern collections, as the Songs of the Sanctuary, 1865, No. 687, is composed thus: stanza i. and ii., 11. 1-4, are from Richards, and the rest of the hymn, 3 stanzas of 8 lines in all, is anonymous.
Additional hymns by Richards, from both the Boston and the Dover collections, are in modern Universalist hymn-books. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Richards
