Who are these that come from far

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Who are these that come from far

Author: Thomas Kelly
Tune: HARRISBURG (Pollock)
Published in 23 hymnals

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1 Who are these that come from far,
Led by Jacob's rising star?
Strangers now to Zion come,
There to seek a peaceful home.

2 Lo! they gather like a cloud,
Or as doves their windows crowd!
Zion wonders at the sight,
Zion feels a strange delight.

3 Zion now no more shall sigh,
God will raise her glory high;
He will send a large increase,
He will give his people peace.

4 Sons of Zion, sing aloud!
See her sun without a cloud!
God will make her joy complete,
Zion's sun shall never set.

Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #200a

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Author: Thomas Kelly

Kelly, Thomas, B.A., son of Thomas Kelly, a Judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas, was born in Dublin, July 13, 1769, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was designed for the Bar, and entered the Temple, London, with that intention; but having undergone a very marked spiritual change he took Holy Orders in 1792. His earnest evangelical preaching in Dublin led Archbishop Fowler to inhibit him and his companion preacher, Rowland Hill, from preaching in the city. For some time he preached in two unconsecrated buildings in Dublin, Plunket Street, and the Bethesda, and then, having seceded from the Established Church, he erected places of worship at Athy, Portarlington, Wexford, &c, in which he conducted divine worship and preached. H… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Who are these that come from far
Author:	Thomas Kelly
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Who are these that come from far? T. Kelly. [Triumphs of the Gospel.] This hymn in Hatfield's Church Hymns, N. Y., 1872, and others, is composed of stanzas iii., iv. (rearranged) v., vi. of Kelly's "Hark! what sounds salute our ears," which appeared in the 1806 edition of his Hymns, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines (ed. 1853, No. 6).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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