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Christ for
the World We Sing
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Samuel Wolcott |
Samuel Wolcott wrote
the words to “Christ for the Wolds We Sing”
while a minister at the Plymouth
Congregational Church in Cleveland, Ohio:
The Young Men’s
Christian Association of Ohio met in one of
our churches with their motto in evergreen
letters over the pulpit: “Christ for the
World, and the World for Christ.” This
suggested the hymn “Christ for the world we
sing.” It was on my way home from this service
in 1869, walking alone through the streets,
that I put together the four stanzas of the
hymn.
Wolcott attended Yale College (AB 1833) and
Andover Theological Seminary, and served
as a missionary in Syria (1841-1842). He
returned to America and pastored in
Belchertown, Massachusetts; Providence,
Rhode Island; Chicago, Illinois; and at the
Plymouth Congregational Church, Cleveland,
Ohio. Later, he was secretary to the Ohio
Home Missionary Society. Over 200 hymns are
attributed to him.
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Felice de Giardini |
he tune is by Felice de Giardini.
De Giardini
was a well known violinist, composer and director. He sang as a
choir boy in Milan, Italy, and studied music in Turin. In the
1730s, he began playing the violin in orchestras, and toured
Europe in the 1750s. He then moved from Italy to London where he was
involved with the opera. He also worked as music master for the
Duke of Gloucester. In 1796, de Giardini moved to Moscow, but died
in poverty shortly after.
Lyrics by
Samuel Wolcott
Christ for the world we
sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with loving zeal,
The poor and them that mourn, the faint and overborne,
Sin sick and sorrow worn, whom Christ doth heal.
Christ for the world we
sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with fervent prayer;
The wayward and the lost, by restless passions tossed,
Redeemed at countless cost, from dark despair. |
Christ for the world we
sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with one accord;
With us the work to share, with us reproach to dare,
With us the cross to bear, for Christ our Lord.
Christ for the world we
sing,
The world to Christ we bring, with joyful song;
The newborn souls, whose days, reclaimed from error’s ways,
Inspired with hope and praise, to Christ belon |
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