Revelation Welcomed

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Hail, sacred truth, whose piercing rays

Author: John Buttress
Published in 97 hymnals

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1 Hail, sacred truth, whose piercing rays
Dispel the shades of night;
Diffusing, o'er the mental world,
The healing beams of light.

2 Jesus, Thy word, with friendly aid,
Restores our wandering feet;
Converts the sorrows of the mind
To joys divinely sweet.

Source: International Song Service: with Bright Gems from fifty authors, for Sunday-schools, gospel meetings, missionary and young people's societies, prayer-meetings, etc. #221

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Author: John Buttress

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First Line:	Hail, sacred truth, whose piercing rays
Title:	Revelation Welcomed
Author:	John Buttress
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Hail, sacred truth! whose piercing ray. [Missions]. This hymn in the American Methodist Episcopal Hymns 1849, 1879, and others, is given in Mason and Greene's Church Psalmody , 1831, as from the Evangelical Magazine. It is essentially different from the hymn "Hail, sacred truth, thou source of peace," in the Gospel Magazine, 1778, p. 55, and there signed "John Buttress."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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BALERMA (Barthélemon)

MAITLAND (Allen)

PRECIOUS LORD, the tune Thomas Dorsey used for his most beloved hymn, "Precious Lord, take my hand", is an adaptation of MAITLAND. Sometimes Dorsey is shown as the composer, sometimes as the arranger or adapter the tune. MAITLAND is often attributed to Allen, but the earliest known sources (H.W. Bee…

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WOODSTOCK (Dutton)

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