This Eucharistic Feast

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This Eucharistic feast

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: LEOMINSTER (Martin)
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1 This Eucharistic feast our ev'ry want supplies,
and still we by His death are blest, and share His sacrifice.
By faith His flesh we eat, who here His passion show,
and God out of His holy seat shall all His gifts bestow.

2 Who thus our faith employ His suff'rings to record,
e'en now we mournfully enjoy communion with our Lord,
as though we ev'ry one beneath His cross had stood,
and seen Him heave, and heard Him groan, and felt His gushing blood.

3 O God! 'Tis finished now! The mortal pang is past!
By faith His head we see Him bow, and hear Him breathe His last!
We too, with Him are dead, and shall with Him arise;
the cross on which He bows His head shall lift us to the skies.

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #417

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line:	This Eucharistic feast
Title:	This Eucharistic Feast
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	S.M. D
Language:	English

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LEOMINSTER (Martin)

George William Martin (b. London, England, 1825; d. London, 1881) composed LEOMINSTER, named for a town in the county of Hereford and Worcester (formerly Herefordshire), England. The tune was first published in The Journal of Part Music (vol. 2, 1862), in which it was titled THE PILGRIM'S SONG. Mart…

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