Hallelujah! Thine the glory; revive us again;
—or,—
Sound His praises! tell the story of Him who was slain!
Sound His praises! tell with gladness, “He liveth again.”
Husband's tune is supposed to have been written very early in the last century. Another tune composed by him near the same date to the words—
“We are on our journey home
To the New Jerusalem,”
—is equally musical and animating, and with a vocal range that brings out the full strength of choir and congregation.
“COME, SINNER, COME.”
A singular case of the same tune originating in the brain of both author and composer is presented in the history of this hymn of Rev. William Ellsworth Witter, D.D., born in La Grange, N.Y., Dec. 9, 1854. He wrote the hymn in the autumn of 1878, while teaching a district school near his home. The first line—