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3288. Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet

1. Jesus, where’er Thy people meet,
There they behold Thy mercy seat;
Where’er they seek Thee Thou art found,
And every place is hallowed ground.

2. For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee, where they come,
And, going, take Thee to their home.

3. Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.

4. Here may we prove the power of prayer
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all Heav’n before our eyes.

5. Behold at Thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come Thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.

6. Lord, we are few, but Thou art near;
Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear;
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts Thine own!

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, where'er Thy people meet
Title: Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet
Author: William Cowper (1769)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: 1769. In a let­ter to Mr. Clu­nie, in Ap­ril, Mr. New­ton speaks of a jour­ney to Ket­ter­ing, and of his preach­ing there, and says, “I have been pret­ty full-hand­ed in preach­ing late­ly. I trust the Lord was gra­cious­ly with us in most or all of our op­por­tun­i­ties. We are go­ing to re­move our pray­er-meet­ing to the great room in the Great House. It is a no­ble place, with a par­lour behind it, and holds one hun­dred and thir­ty peo­ple con­ven­ient­ly. Pray for us, that the Lord may be in the midst of us there, and that as He has now giv­en us a Re­ho­both, and has made room for us, so that He may be pleased to add to our num­bers, and make us fruit­ful in the land. "It was for this oc­ca­sion that two of the hymns in the Ol­ney Se­lect­ion were com­posed, the 43rd and 44th of the se­cond book. The first, be­gin­ning ‘O Lord, our lan­guid frames in­spire,’ by Mr. New­ton; and the se­cond, ‘Jesus, where’er Thy peo­ple meet,’ by Mr. Cowper." J. Bull, John New­ton of Ol­ney and St. Mary Wool­noth. Alternate tunes: HEBRON, Lowell Mason, 1830; SHELTERING WING, Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896; WARRINGTON, Ralph Harrison, 1784
Tune Information
Name: MALVERN
Composer: Low­ell Ma­son (1847)
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Source: The Psal­tery, Ma­son & Webb, 1847
Copyright: Public Domain



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