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[Like a palace full of windows]

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. A. Post Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 54511 54533 1

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Like a palace full of windows Refrain First Line: Blessed Gospel, holy Gospel Lyrics: 1 Like a palace full of windows Open wide unto the light, Is the Gospel of salvation, All its words are pure and right. Refrain: Blessèd Gospel, holy Gospel, Voice of God to help and cheer, May we find thy precious pages Growing dearer year by year. 2 As a lamp, its heavenly pages Shed their glory o’er our way Unto mortal eyes revealing Visions clear of endless day. [Refrain] 3 Like a crystal river flowing From the throne of God above, To the living, to the dying, Bringing cooling streams of love. [Refrain] Used With Tune: HONOR OAK Text Sources: Sunday School Hymn No. 1 (New York: Tullar-Meredith Company, 1903)

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Blessed Gospel

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 #93 (1903) First Line: Like a palace full of windows Refrain First Line: Blessed Gospel, holy Gospel Topics: Bible Languages: English Tune Title: [Like a palace full of windows]

Blessed Gospel

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10993 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Like a palace full of windows Refrain First Line: Blessed Gospel, holy Gospel Lyrics: 1 Like a palace full of windows Open wide unto the light, Is the Gospel of salvation, All its words are pure and right. Refrain: Blessèd Gospel, holy Gospel, Voice of God to help and cheer, May we find thy precious pages Growing dearer year by year. 2 As a lamp, its heavenly pages Shed their glory o’er our way Unto mortal eyes revealing Visions clear of endless day. [Refrain] 3 Like a crystal river flowing From the throne of God above, To the living, to the dying, Bringing cooling streams of love. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: HONOR OAK

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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Author of "Blessed Gospel" in The Cyber Hymnal Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)