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Now Is The Time Approaching

Representative Text

1 Now is the time approaching,
By prophets long foretold,
When all shall dwell together,
One Shepherd and one fold.
Let war be learned no longer,
Let strife and tumult cease,
All earth one blessed kingdom,
The Lord and Prince of Peace.

2 Let all that now divides us
Remove and pass away,
Like shadows of the morning
Before the blaze of day.
Let all that now unites us
More sweet and lasting prove,
A closer bond of union,
In a blest land of love.

3 O long expected dawning,
Come with your cheering ray!
Yet shall the morning brighten,
The shadows flee away.
O sweet anticipation!
It cheers the watchers on,
To pray and hope and labor,
Till dark of night be gone.

Source: One in Faith #348

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Author: Jane Borthwick

Miss Jane Borthwick, the translator of this hymn and many others, is of Scottish family. Her sister (Mrs. Eric Findlater) and herself edited "Hymns from the Land of Luther" (1854). She also wrote "Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (1859), and has contributed numerous poetical pieces to the "Family Treasury," under the signature "H.L.L." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Now is the time approaching
Title: Now Is The Time Approaching
Author: Jane Borthwick (1859)
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

WEBB

George J. Webb (b. Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1803; d. Orange, NJ, 1887) composed WEBB (also known as MORNING LIGHT) on a voyage from England to the United States. The tune was published in The Odeon, a collection of secular music compiled by Webb and Lowell Mason (PHH 96) i…

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LANCASHIRE (Smart)

Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…

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CHENIES (Matthews)


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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #2652
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Instances

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One in Faith #348

One in Faith #348
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Singing the Living Tradition #144

Singing the Living Tradition #144
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The Cyber Hymnal #2652

The Cyber Hymnal #2652
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The New Century Hymnal #609

The New Century Hymnal #609
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