1 Gather from the hillsides, gather from the plains,
Sing a glad hosanna, Jesus ever reigns;
Lift your hearts and voices in a carol strong,
Power and dominion unto him belong.
Refrain:
Carol, sweetly carol, carol loud and long,
Raising happy voices in a joyous song;
Send the message ringing over land and wave,
Tell the slumb’ring nations Jesus waits to save.
2 Gather from the forest on this festal day,
Bringing royal garlands at his feet to lay;
Join the heav’nly chorus in a song of praise,
Singing songs of gladness for the best of days. [Refrain]
3 Born for our redemption, may we seek to know
More of Jesus’ spirit, in his grace to grow;
Tho’ a lowly manger shielded him at birth,
Now his pow’r is spreading over all the earth. [Refrain]
Source: The Service of Praise #121
Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >
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