Encuentro delicia, tranquilo reposo

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Encuentro delicia, tranquilo reposo

Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Four Hymn Meditations

Instrumental
	Praise...With Stringed Instruments

Handbells
	QUIET HYMN MEDITATIONS

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Text Information

First Line:	Encuentro delicia, tranquilo reposo
Language:	Spanish

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Tune

[Go bury thy sorrow] (Bliss)

GORDON (Gordon)

In 1870 Featherstone's text came to the attention of Adoniram J. Gordon (b. New Hampton, NH, 1836; d. Boston, MA, 1895), an evangelical preacher who was compiling a new Baptist hymnal. Because he was unhappy with the existing melody for this text, Gordon composed this tune; as he wrote, "in a moment…

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