The person of the Christ

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The person of the Christ

Author: Miss. F. T. Wigram
Tune: DENNIS (Nägeli)
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1 The person of Christ,
Enfolding ev'ry grace,
Once slain, but now alive again,
In heaven demands our praise.

2 Gladly of Him we sing,
Since we with Him are dead:
Our life is hid with Christ in God,
IN Christ the Church's Head.

3 The heavens are opened now!
Sound it through earth abroad;
And we, by faith, in HEAVEN behold
Jesus the Christ our Lord.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #132

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Author: Miss. F. T. Wigram

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First Line:	The person of the Christ
Author:	Miss. F. T. Wigram
Language:	English

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Tune

DENNIS (Nägeli)

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) arranged DENNIS and first published it in The Psaltery (1845), a hymnal he compiled with George. Webb (PHH 559). Mason attributed the tune to Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) but included no source reference. Nageli presumably pu…

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