I hear ten thousand voices singing

I hear ten thousand voices singing

Author: H. W. Fox
Tune: JUBILEE (Maunder)
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1. I hear ten thousand voices singing,
Their praises to the Lord on high;
Far distant shores and hills are ringing
With anthems of their nations’ joy.
Praise ye the Lord! for He has given
To lands in darkness hid His light;
As morning rays light up the heaven,
His Word has chased away our night.

2. On China’s shores I hear His praises,
From lips that once kissed idol stones;
Soon as His banner He upraises,
The Spirit moves the breathless bones—
Speed, speed! Thy Word o’er land and ocean;
The Lord in triumph has gone forth;
The nations hear with strange emotion,
From East to West, from South to North.

3. The song has sounded o’er the waters,
And India’s plains re-echo joy;
Beneath the moon sit India’s daughters,
Soft singing, as the wheel they ply—
Thanks to Thee, Lord! for hope of glory,
For peace on earth to us revealed;
Our cherished idols fell before Thee,
Thy Spirit has our pardon sealed.

4. On Afric’s sunny shore, glad voices
Wake up the morn of Jubilee;
The negro, once a slave, rejoices,
Who’s freed by Christ is doubly free:
Sing, brothers, sing! yet many a nation
Shall hear the voice of God and live;
E’en we are heralds of salvation,
The Word He gave we’ll freely give.

5. Fair are New Zealand’s wooded mountains,
Deep glens, blue lakes and dizzy steeps;
But sweeter than the murmuring fountains
Rises the song from holy lips:
By blood did Jesus come to save us,
So deeply stained with brothers’ blood;
Our hearts we’ll give to Him who gave us
Deliverance from the fiery flood.

6. O’er prairies wild the song is spreading
Where once the war-cry sounded loud;
But now the evening sun is shedding
His rays upon a praying crowd:
Lord of all all worlds, eternal Spirit!
Thy light upon our darkness shed;
For Thy dear love, for Jesus’ merit,
From joyful hearts be worship paid.

7. Hark! hark! a louder sound is booming
O’er Heav’n and earth, o’er land and sea;
The angel’s trump proclaims His coming—
Ou day of endless Jubilee:
Hail to Thee, Lord! Thy people praise Thee;
In every land Thy name we sing;
On Heaven’s eternal throne upraise Thee;
Take Thou Thy power, Thou glorious king.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #2832

Author: H. W. Fox

Fox, Henry Watson, M.A., son of G. Townshend Fox, b. at Westoe, in the county of Durham, Oct. 1, 1817; educated at Rugby and Wadh. Coll., Ox.; B.A. 1839; and ordained in 1840. He sailed for S. India in 1841, and there founded the Telegu Mission of the Christian Missionary Society at Masulipatam; became Assistant Sec. to that Society in 1848, and died in Oct. the same year. His widely used hymn:— I hear ten thousand voices singing. [Foreign Missions] was written for the Jubilee of the C.M.S. in 1848; and included in his Life, &c, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines, but is usually abbreviated as in the Christian Missionary Hymn Book. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: I hear ten thousand voices singing
Author: H. W. Fox
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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