The Church — Baptism

Buried beneath the yielding wave

No. 1071
Metre C. M.
Tune DENFIELD.
Words Benjamin Beddome.
Music Carl G. Glaser.
Key A major
Singing key G major
Time 3/2
4 stanzas

Words

Buried beneath the yielding waveThe great Redeemer lies;Faith views him in the watery grave,And thence beholds him rise.

Thus do these willing souls to-dayTheir ardent zeal express,And in the Lord's appointed wayFulfill all righteousness.

With joy we in his footsteps tread,And would his cause maintain;Like him be numbered with the dead,And with him rise and reign.

His presence oft revives our hearts,And drives our fears away;When he commands, and strength imparts,We cheerfully obey.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHURCH—BAPTISM.» (first hymn of the Baptism subsection); hymn number «1071» (large, left), tune name «DENFIELD. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «CARL G. GLASER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, two verse lines per system, with «1.» before «Bu»: «Bu - ried», «Re - deem - er» are printed in syllables and «be-neath» with a close hyphen, joined here; «yielding», «watery» and «beholds» are printed whole although each is sung to two notes. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the italic reference line «179, 724, 204.» (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 179, 724 or 204, all C. M.); «Benjamin Beddome.» in italics after stanza 4. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 Thus»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 4 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «;» («lies ;», «maintain ;», «away ;») is closed up here; the apostrophe is written straight («Lord's»). Spelling («to-day», «Fulfill»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.