How pleasing to behold and see

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How pleasing to behold and see

Author: John Dobell
Published in 51 hymnals

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	Let Freedom Ring (Patriotic Music for Or…

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1 How pleasing to behold and see
The friends of Jesus all agree--
To sit around the sacred board
As members of one common Lord.

2 Here we behold the dawn of bliss;
Here behold the Savior's grace;
Here we behold His precious blood,
Which sweetly pleads for us with God.

3 While here we sit we would implore,
That love may spread from shore to shore,
Till all the saints, with us, combine
To praise the Lord in songs divine.

4 To all we freely give our hand,
Who love the Lord in ev'ry land;
For all are one in Christ our head,
To whom be endless honors paid.

Source: Christian Hymns: for every purpose in worship #80

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Author: John Dobell

Dobell, John, b. 1757, d. May, 1840, was a port-gauger under the Board of Excise, at Poole, Dorset, and a person of some local note. In 1806 he published:— A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns for Private, Family, and Public Worship (Many Original) from more than two hundred of the best Authors in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, Arranged in alphabetical order; Intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns. By John Dobell. Lond., Williams and Smith, 1806. Subsequently this Selection was increased to "More than Eight Hundred" hymns, and the wording of the title-page was changed in several instances. Dobell's account of this work is:— "The hymns here presented to the public I have collected from m… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How pleasing to behold and see
Author:	John Dobell
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Romans 3:24-25
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HEBRON (Mason)

MALVERN (Mason)

FEDERAL STREET

Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) composed FEDERAL STREET in 1832, possibly as an imitation of earlier psalm tunes in long meter. He took it to a music class taught by Lowell Mason (who may have contributed to the harmony); Mason (PHH 96) published it in his Boston Acade…

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