O Lord of lords and King of kings

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O Lord of lords and King of kings

Author: W. J. L. Sheppard
Tune: LAUS, TIBI, CHRISTE (Cobb)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 O Lord of lords and King of kings,
We praise Thy glorious Name;
The same today and yesterday,
And evermore the same!
Who for a world by sin undone
Cam’st down in love to die,
And sittest on Thy Father’s throne
In glory now on high.

2 O Lord of lords and King of kings,
We praise Thy holy Name;
That Thou did’st from Thy faithful Church
A glorious service claim,—
To bid the Gospel-trumpet sound
Far over land and sea,
Until the earth’s remotest bound
Thine own possession be.

3 O Lord of lords and King of kings,
We praise Thy blessed Name;
That to our father’s waking hearts
Anew Thy summons came;
Till, where the seed was sown in tears,
Fields white to the harvest lay,
The increase of the hundred years
A hundred-fold today!

4 O Lord of lords and King of kings,
We praise Thy gracious Name;
That in Thy worldwide work divine
Our part we too may claim;
O may we thus Thy Gospel-word
Proclaim from shore to shore,
Till all the earth shall hail Thee Lord,
And praise Thee evermore!

Source: Hymns of Consecration and Faith #443

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Author: W. J. L. Sheppard

Sheppard, William John Limmer, M.A., son of William Benjamin Sheppard, was born at High worth, July 21, 1861, and educated at Queen's College, Oxford; B.A. in honours 1888, M.A. 1892. Ordained in 1888, he was Curate of Christ Church, Timperley, 1888-90, Missioner of the Church Missionary Society 1895-6, Centenary Sec. C.M.S. 1896-1900, and since 1900 Vicar of St. Peter's, Ipswich. The following hymns by Mr. Sheppard are in common use:— 1. Father, we are gathered here. [Farewell to Missionaries.] Written in 1897, for the C. M. S. Valedictory Meetings, and included in the Church Missionary Hymn Book, 1899. 2. Father, Who didst give Thy Son. [Litany on behalf of Foreign Missions.] Written in 1898, and given in the C. M. Hymn Book… Go to person page >

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