Sweet is the solemn voice that calls

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Sweet is the solemn voice that calls

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 27 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Sweet is the solemn voice that calls,
The Christian to the house of prayer;
I love to stand within its walls,
For You, O Lord, are present there.

2 I love to tread the hallowed courts,
Where two or three for worship meet;
For there Christ Himself resorts,
And makes the little fold complete.

3 'Tis sweet to raise the common song,
To join in holy praise and love;
And imitate the blessed throng,
That mingle hearts and songs above.

4 Within these walls may peace abound!
May all our hearts in one agree!
Where brethren meet, where Christ is found,
May peace and concord ever be.

Source: Psalms of Grace #122a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Sweet is the solemn voice that calls
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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WARRINGTON

WARRINGTON was composed by Ralph Harrison (b. Chinley, Derbyshire, England, 1748; d. Manchester, Lancashire, England, 1810) and published in his collection of psalm tunes, Sacred Harmony (1784). The tune's rising inflections help to accent words such as erotic (probably the only time this word has b…

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HAMBURG

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) composed HAMBURG (named after the German city) in 1824. The tune was published in the 1825 edition of Mason's Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason indicated that the tune was based on a chant in the first Gregorian tone. HAMBURG is a very simple tune with…

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SONG 34

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