What a Strange and Wondrous Story

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What a strange and wondrous story

Author: Dorothy A. Thrupp
Published in 54 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Gift of Heaven (Seasonal Meditations for…

Instrumental
	JOY TO THE WORLD

Handbells
	Advent Tidings

Representative Text

1 What a strange and wondrous story
From the Book of God is read!--
How the Lord of life and glory
Had not where to lay His Head,--

2 How He left His Throne in Heaven,
Here to suffer, bleed, and die,
That my soul might be forgiven,
And ascend to God on high!

3 Father! let Thy Holy Spirit
Still reveal a Saviour's love,
And prepare me to inherit
Glory where He reigns above;

4 There, with saints and angels dwelling,
May I that great love proclaim,
And with them be ever telling
All the wonders of his name.

Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1871

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Author: Dorothy A. Thrupp

Dorothy Ann Thrupp was born in London, June 10, 1779. She contributed some hymns, under the pseudonym of "Iota," to W. Carus Wilson's Friendly Visitor and his Children's Friend. Other hymns by her, signed "D.A.T.," appeared in Mrs. Herbert Mayo's Selection of Hymns and Poetry for the Use of Infant Schools and Nurseries, 1838. She was also the editor of Hymns for the Young, c. 1830, in which all the hymns were given anonymously. She died in London on December 15, 1847. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion… Go to person page >

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First Line:	What a strange and wondrous story
Title:	What a Strange and Wondrous Story
Author:	Dorothy A. Thrupp
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Glory, honor, praise and power
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

BETHANY (Smart)

BETHANY, named after the village near Jerusalem, is a suitably dramatic tune for the song text. It was composed by Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-k…

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PEACE (54321)

[What a strange and wondrous story] (Hodge)

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