
First Line: | Let us sing the King Messiah |
Title: | Let Us Sing the King Messiah |
Author: | John Ryland |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Let us sing the King Messiah. J. Ryland. [Praise to Christ as King.] This fine paraphrase of Ps. xlv., in 7 stanzas of 6 lines, is dated by Dr. Ryland's son "July 31st 1790" [S. MSS.]. It appeared in Hymns Included for the Use of the United Congregations of Bristol at their Monthly Prayer Meetings for the Success of the Gospel at Home and Abroad, begun in 1797, Bristol, 1798. The Preface is dated Feb. 26, 1798, and is signed by eight ministers of whom Dr. Ryland is first on the list. This hymn was given, with omissions, in the Baptist New Selection, 1828; and subsequently in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. The original text is given in Ryland'sPastoral Memorials, 1825, and in D. Sedgwick's reprint of Ryland's Hymns, 1862. [William T. Brooke]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)