Joy to the world, the Lord will come

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «SECOND ADVENT—EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT.»; hymn number «886» (large), tune name «ANTIOCH. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «GEORGE F. HANDEL.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, with «1.» before «Joy»: under system 1 «1. Joy to the world, the Lord will come! Let earth re-ceive her King; Let ev - ery heart pre-pare him room,» (line 3 is spread over five bars of music); under system 2 two lines of words, offset: the treble staff sings «And heaven and na - ture sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.» and the tenor and bass, entering a bar later, «And heaven and na - ture sing, And heaven and nature sing,» — line 4 of the stanza is sung three times; the stanza below gives the four verse lines once, as a poem, with the final reading «sing.». The reference line «399, 111, 147.» in bold italic figures stands centred over stanza 2 (sing also to the tunes of hymns 399, 111 and 147; the first figure is blotted and looks like an 8 — see uncertainties.md). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text below the music, numbered «2»–«4» without periods (written «2.»–«4.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); stanza 3 begins at the foot of the left column and continues at the top of the right column without a new number; lines 2 and 4 are indented. «While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,» is broken by the column width before «plains,» (joined here). «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («come !», «employ ;», «ground ;»); it is closed up here. The text is printed «the Lord will come!» and «the Lord will reign!» (not «is come»); spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Manuscript ink in the exemplar («1869 Hymnal 356» near «Isaac Watts.», a smear in the left margin) is not part of the print.

Source

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)

Where

Second Advent · No. 886 · printed page 297

Checked

score verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02

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