455) Music And Love (Fanny Crosby 1890) Matthew 22:4 (CH:444) Hymns Forgotten

Hymns Forgotten Music And Love Lyrics: Fanny Crosby (1890) Original Music: William James Kirkpatrick Cyber Hymnal No: 444 Bible Ref Matthew 22:4 (KJV) "Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage". L Y R I C S Tenderly, soft and clear Music and love we hear, In our Sab­bath dwell­ing, Songs of rap­ture swell­ing. Gently their wings they blend, Sweetly their voic­es blend, Songs of ho­ly rap­ture swell­ing; List to their ca­rol, Joyful now they say, Come to the Sav­ior, Gladly haste away, Come to the ba­nquet Waiting you to­day, Waiting for one and all. Refrain Tenderly, soft and clear Music and love we hear, In our Sab­bath dwell­ing, Songs of rap­ture swell­ing. Gently their wings they blend, Sweetly their voic­es blend, Songs of ho­ly rap­ture swell­ing. Over the morn­ing land, Over its gold­en strand, Oft they roam de­light­ed, Hand in hand unit­ed, Over the land of flow­ers, Over its ver­nal bow­ers, Love and mu­sic roam unit­ed. Now, on their pin­ions, Fair and snowy white, Laved in a fount­ain, Sparkling, pure and bright, Come as an ar­row From the vales of light, Comfort they bring to all. Refrain Tell us, ye sis­ters fair, Wearing your gar­lands rare, Rose and li­ly twin­ing, All their charms com­bin­ing, Tell us of Him whose eye Watcheth be­yond the sky, O’er our path, in beau­ty shin­ing; Still they are sing­ing, Hear their tune­ful lay, Come to the Sav­ior, Trust Him while you may, Come to the ban­quet Waiting you to­day, Waiting for one and all. Refrain B I O G R A P H Y O F F A N N Y C R O S B Y Fanny was the daugh­ter of John and Mer­cy Cros­by, and wife of or­gan­ist Al­ex­an­der Van Al­styne, who like her, was blind. Though blind­ed by an in­com­pe­tent doc­tor at six weeks of age, she wrote ov­er 8,000 hymns. About her blind­ness, Fan­ny said: It seemed in­tend­ed by the bless­ed pro­vi­dence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dis­pen­sa­tion. If per­fect earth­ly sight were of­fered me to­mor­row I would not ac­cept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been dis­trac­ted by the beau­ti­ful and in­ter­est­ing things ab­out me. On her 85th birth­day, Am­eri­can pre­si­dent Gro­ver Cleve­land wrote to Fan­ny: My dear friend: It is more than fif­ty years ago that our ac­quaint­ance and friend­ship be­gan; and ev­er since that time I have watched your con­tin­uous and in­ter­es­ted la­bor in up­lift­ing hu­man­ity, and point­ing out the way to an ap­pre­ci­ation of God’s good­ness and mer­cy. I am, there­fore, ex­ceed­ing­ly gra­ti­fied to learn that your eigh­ty-fifth birth­day is to be ce­le­brat­ed with a dem­on­stra­tion of this re­mem­brance. As one proud to call you an old friend, I de­sire to be ear­ly in con­gra­tu­lat­ing you on your long life of use­ful­ness, and wish­ing you in the years yet to be add­ed to you, the peace and com­fort born of the love of God. (From Cyber Hymnal) The Lord Jesus laid a burden on my heart to help in reviving the unheard and forgotten hymns of our dear Fanny Crosby, since there are only around 27 of her hymns which are commonly sung and in use presently. Contemporary tunes have been used wherever needed, generated by AI, so that the younger generation will be encouraged to learn and sing these timeless and Biblically based hymns. May the name of the Lord Jesus Christ continue to be Worshiped, Praised, Exalted & Lifted up as we all await His soon return to this earth. Philippians 2:10,11 (KJV) "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things in the earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father". Acts 16:31 (KJV) "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house". As the United States of America celebrate their 250th year of Independence, It's our prayer that America and the World will not only revive and sing the forgotten hymns of their Un'sung' hero: FANNY CROSBY", but turn back to the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land". 2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) For those of us who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour, let us lay hold of God's promises, and live Godly lives as we await Christ's coming: Isaiah 64:4 (KJV) "For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he had prepared for him that waiteth for him". Matthew 13:16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear". (KJV)