A Hymn Of Glory Let Us Sing
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
A hymn of glory let us sing,
New hymns throughout the world shall ring;
By a new way none ever trod
Christ takes His place—the throne of God.
You are a present joy, O Lord;
You will be ever our reward;
And great the light in You we see
To guide us to eternity.
O risen Christ, ascended Lord,
All praise to You let earth accord,
Who are, while endless ages run,
With Father and with Spirit, One.
Stanzas 1-2 translated by Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828–1896), altered.
Stanza 3 translated by Benjamin Webb (1819–1885), altered.
BEDE IS SO REVERED that he is historically known as “the Venerable.” He was a noted scholar, writing on history, nature, Scripture, and theology. Bede has been called “first among English scholars, first among English theologians, and first among English historians.” His Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation is a remarkable work that recounts Christianity’s movement to the British Isles.
The faith, he said, came with singing. The missionaries came with a simple lifestyle, and new converts believed, “admiring the simplicity of their innocent life, and the sweetness of their heavenly doctrine.” In one city, he wrote, the Christians came together to “meet, to sing, to pray,” and soon the king and ten thousand citizens were baptized.
It is said that when Bede was dying, on May 26, 735, he asked his friends to carry him to the room where he usually prayed, and there he sang the “Gloria Patri.”
God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
Philippians 2:9-10
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