Salvation's Morning

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What means this glorious radiance

Author: Mary E. Servoss
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 What means this glorious radiance
Across Judea’s plain?
These white winged angels singing
In such exultant strain?

Refrain:
The King of glory cometh,
Earth’s broken hearts to bind,
And God’s salvation morning
Hath dawned for all mankind.

2 What means this wondrous story
The holy angels tell,
Of One who reigned in Heaven,
And now on earth would dwell? [Refrain]

3 Why bend these eastern sages
To one of lowly birth?
What means this heav’nly message
Of love and peace on earth? [Refrain]

4 Ye wand’rers in earth’s darkness,
On ocean deep and land,
Hail, hail the joyful tidings,
"The morning is at hand." [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13216

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Author: Mary E. Servoss

Servoss, M. E. Hymns by this writer are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881. (1) “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice" (Joy in the Redeemer); and (2) "When the storms of life are raging" (Refuge in God). Another, "'Tis Jesus when the burdened heart" (Jesus, the Sinner's Friend), is in the Sunday School Union Voice of Praise, 1887. Miss Servoss was born at Schenectady, near New York. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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First Line:	What means this glorious radiance
Title:	Salvation's Morning
Author:	Mary E. Servoss
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The king of glory cometh
Copyright:	Public Domain