1 Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!
La marcha suena ya.
Al campo de la lucha
tu vos nos enviará.
Tu gracia, al prepararnos,
nos fortalecerá,
y en entusiasmo santo
un himno vibrará.
2 Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!
el mal a combatir.
En medio de la lucha
tu paz haznos sentir;
pues no con las espadas
ni con el dardo vil,
mas con amor y gracia
tu reino ha de venir.
3 Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!
Marchemos sin temor.
Doquier tu rostro alumbra
hay júbilo y calor.
Tu cruz nos ilumina,
ampáranos tu amor,
y celestial corona
aguarda al vencedor.
Before studying at Andover, Ernest W. Shurtleff (Boston, MA, 1862; d. Paris, France, 1917) attended Harvard University. He served Congregational churches in Ventura, California; Old Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, before moving to Europe. In 1905 he established the American Church in Frankfurt, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he was involved in student ministry at the Academy Vitti. During World War I he and his wife were active in refugee relief work in Paris. Shurtleff wrote a number of books, including Poems (1883), Easter Gleams (1885), Song of Hope (1886), and Song on the Waters (1913).
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Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…
Display Title: Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!First Line: Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!Tune Title: LANCASHIREAuthor: Angel Archilla Cabrera; Ernest W. ShurtleffMeter: 7.6.7.6.DScripture: Psalm 46; John 11:21Date: 1998Subject: Church Triumphant | ; Iglesia Triunfante | ; Iglesia Trunfante |
Display Title: Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!First Line: Ven Tú, ¡oh Rey eterno!Tune Title: LANCASHIREAuthor: Angel Archilla Cabrera; Ernest W. ShurtleffMeter: 7.6.7.6.DScripture: Psalm 46; John 11:21Date: 1999Subject: Iglesia Triunfante |