Christ — Mediation and Atonement

The sprinkled blood is speaking

No. 357
Metre 7s & 6s. D.
Tune MUNICH.
Words Anon.
Music Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

The sprinkled blood is speakingBefore the Father's throne,The Spirit's power is seekingTo make its virtues known;The sprinkled blood is tellingJehovah's love to man,While heavenly harps are swellingSweet notes to mercy's plan.

The sprinkled blood is speakingForgiveness full and free,Its wondrous power is breakingEach bond of guilt for me;The sprinkled blood's revealingA Father's smiling face,The Saviour's love is sealingEach monument of grace.

The sprinkled blood is pleadingIts virtue as my own,And there my soul is readingHer title to Thy throne.The sprinkled blood is owningThe weak one's feeblest plea;'Mid sighs, and tears, and groaning,It pleads, O Lord, with thee.

O wondrous power, that seekethFrom sin to set me free!O precious blood, that speaketh!Should I not value thee?The sprinkled blood is sheddingIts fragrance all around,It gilds the path we're treading,It makes our joys abound.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «CHRIST—MEDIATION AND ATONEMENT.»; hymn number «357» (large), tune name «MUNICH. 7s & 6s. D.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves: under system 1, after «1.», two lines in braces, «{ The sprinkled blood is speaking Be-fore the Father's throne, / The Spir-it's power is seek-ing To make its virtues known; }» — the first and the second time through the repeated first half of the tune (the end-repeat sign stands after «throne, / known;») — and then one line, «The sprinkled blood is telling»; under system 2, «Je-hovah's love to man, While heavenly harps are swelling Sweet notes to mercy's plan.». «sprinkled», «speaking», «Father's», «virtues», «telling», «hovah's», «heavenly», «swelling» and «mercy's» are printed as unbroken words under two notes each. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «492, 246, 415.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 492, 246 or 415). «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «;», «!» and «?» («known ;», «free !», «thee ?») and a small space before the «'s» of «blood 's» (stanza 2) and the «'re» of «we 're» (stanza 4); they are closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («Father's», «'Mid»). Spelling («Saviour»), punctuation and capitals («Thy throne») are the print's. Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented in the print.