Grato es decir la historia

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Grato es contar la historia

Author: Kate Hankey; Translator: Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars
Tune: [I love to tell the story] (Fischer)
Published in 17 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Grato es contar la historia
Del celestial favor,
De Cristo y de su gloria,
De Cristo y de su amor;
Me agrada referirla,
Pues sé que es la verdad,
Y nada stisface
Cual ella mi ansiedad.

Coro:
¡Cuán bella es esa historia!
Mi tema allá en la gloria
Será ensalzar la historia
De cristo y de su amor.

2 Grato es contar la historia
Más bella que escuché,
Más áurea, más hermosa
Que canto y soñé;
Decirla siempre anhelo,
Pues hay quien nunca oyó
Que para hacerle salvo
El buen Jesús murió. [Coro]

3 Grato es contar la historia
Que grata siempre es,
Y es más, al repetirla,
Preciosa cada vez.
La historia que yo canto
Oíd con atención,
Pues es mensaje santo
De eterna salvación. [Coro]

Source: Culto Cristiano #264

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Author: Kate Hankey

A. (Annabelle) Catherine Hankey (b. Clapham, England, 1834; d. Westminster, London, England, 1911) was the daughter of a wealthy banker and was associated with the Clapham sect of William Wilberforce, a group of prominent evangelical Anglicans from the Clapham area. This group helped to establish the British and Foreign Bible Society, promoted the abolition of slavery, and was involved in improving the lot of England's working classes. Hankey taught Bible classes for shop girls in London, visited the sick in local hospitals, and used the proceeds of her writings to support various mission causes. Her publications include Heart to Heart (1870) and The Old, Old Story and Other Verses (1879). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Translator: Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars

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First Line:	Grato es contar la historia
Title:	Grato es decir la historia
English Title:	I love to tell the story
Author:	Kate Hankey
Translator:	Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars
Meter:	7.6.7.6 D with refrain
Language:	Spanish
Refrain First Line:	¡Cuán bella es esta historia!
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

[I love to tell the story] (Fischer)

HANKEY has many characteristics of a gospel song: stepwise melodic motion, verse refrain form, and simple harmony. After hearing both hymn texts from Hankey's poems quoted by one of the speakers at an 1867 YMCA convention in Montreal, Quebec, gospel hymn writer William H. Doane (PHH 473) was inspire…

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