My soul, triumphant in the Lord Shall tell its joys abroad

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My soul, triumphant in the Lord Shall tell its joys abroad

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 31 hymnals

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	My Soul, Triumphant in the Lord

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1. My soul, triumphant in the Lord,
Shall tell its joys abroad;
And march with holy vigor on,
Supported by its God.

2. I love the windows of thy grace,
Through which my Lord is seen,
And long to meet my Savior's face
Without a glass between.

3. O! that the happy hour were come
To change my faith to sight!
I shall behold my Lord at home
In a diviner light.

4. Haste, my Beloved, and remove
These interposing days;
Then shall my passions all be love,
And all my powers be praise.

Source: Songs of Zion: being a small collection of tunes, principally original; with appropriate lines, adapted to divine worship #23

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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