Second Advent

Jesus, faithful to his word

No. 900
Metre 7s & 6s. P.
Tune ADVENT.
Words Charles Wesley.
Music Edwin Barnes.
Key G major
Singing key F major
Time 3/4
5 stanzas

Words

Jesus, faithful to his word,Shall with a shout descend;All heaven's host their glorious LordShall joyfully attend.

Christ shall come, ye saints, rejoice!He 'll come with thunders loud,With the Archangel's mighty voice,And with the trump of God.

First the dead in Christ shall rise;Then we that yet remainShall be caught up into the skies,And see our Lord again.

We shall meet him in the air;And all his glory see;We'll know, and love, and praise him there,From death forever free.

Who can tell the happinessThis glorious hope affords?Unuttered pleasure we possessIn these reviving words.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «SECOND ADVENT—EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT.»; hymn number «900» (large), tune name «ADVENT. 7s & 6s. P.» centred over the music (condensed capitals, small-capital «s» and «P»), «EDWIN BARNES.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no margin note and no reference line. The music is ONE system; stanza 1 is set under it in one line, in a condensed bold type, with «1.» before «Jesus»: «Jesus, faithful to his word, Shall with a shout descend; All heaven's host their glorious Lord Shall joyful- ly at - tend.» — «Jesus», «faithful», «descend», «heaven's», «glorious» and «joyful» are printed without inner hyphens though each is sung to two notes (the meter is 7.6.8.6: «heaven's» and «glorious» have two syllables each); the «o» of «host» is filled in the scan. Stanzas 2 and 3 follow as text in the left column, 4 and 5 in the right column, numbered «2»–«5» (without a full stop; numbered «2.»–«5.» here like stanza 1), with «Charles Wesley» in italics after stanza 5 (no full stop visible). Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «;», «!» and «?» («descend ;», «rejoice !», «air ;», «see ;», «affords ?») is closed up here. «He 'll» (stanza 2) is printed with a space before the apostrophe and kept so; «We'll» (stanza 4) is printed closed and set tight against «know». Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.