We Bid Thee Welcome in the Name

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We bid thee welcome in the Name

Author: James Montgomery
Published in 136 hymnals

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1 We bid you welcome in the name
of Jesus, our exalted Head.
Come as a servant; so he came,
and we receive you in his stead.

2 Come as a shepherd; guard and keep
your fold from all that fosters sin,
and nourish lambs, and feed the sheep,
the wounded heal, the lost bring in.

3 Come as a teacher, sent from God
charged his whole counsel to declare.
lift o'er our ranks the prophet's rod,
while we uphold your hands with prayer.

4 Come as a messenger of peace,
filled with the Spirit, fired with love;
Live to behold our large increase,
and die to meet us all above.

Source: Moravian Book of Worship #432

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Author: James Montgomery

James Montgomery (b. Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1771; d. Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1854), the son of Moravian parents who died on a West Indies mission field while he was in boarding school, Montgomery inherited a strong religious bent, a passion for missions, and an independent mind. He was editor of the Sheffield Iris (1796-1827), a newspaper that sometimes espoused radical causes. Montgomery was imprisoned briefly when he printed a song that celebrated the fall of the Bastille and again when he described a riot in Sheffield that reflected unfavorably on a military commander. He also protested against slavery, the lot of boy chimney sweeps, and lotteries. Associated with Christians of various persuasions, Montgomery supported missio… Go to person page >

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First Line:	We bid thee welcome in the Name
Title:	We Bid Thee Welcome in the Name
Author:	James Montgomery
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Year A, Epiphany Season, Eighth Sunday

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Notes

We bid Thee welcome in the Name. J. Montgomery. [Induction of a Minister.] This hymn is in the M. MSS., but is undated. It was published in Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 1825, No. 535, and again in his Original Hymns, 1853, No. 305, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed, "On the Appointment of a Minister." It is found in many collections, but usually in an abbreviated form.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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