Aprisa, ¡Sion!

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Aprisa, ¡Sion!, que tu Señor espera

Author: Mary Ann Thomson (1868); Translator: Alejandro Cativiela (alt.)
Tune: TIDINGS (Walch)
Published in 7 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 ¡A prisa, Iglesia! tu Señor espera;
al mundo entero di que Dios es luz,
Que el Creador no quiere que se pierda
una sola alma, lejos de Jesús.

Coro:
Nuevas proclama de gozo y paz,
Nuevas de Cristo, salud y libertad.

2 Ve cuántos miles yacen retenidos
por el pecado en lóbrega prisión;
No saben de aquel que ha sufrido
en vida y cruz por darles redención. [Coro]

3 A todo pueblo y raza, fiel, proclama
que Dios, en quien existen, es amor;
Que Él bajó para salvar sus almas;
por darles vida, muerte él sufrió. [Coro]

4 Tus hijos da, que lleven su palabra,
y con tus bienes hazlos proseguir.
Por ellos tu alma en oración derrama,
que todo, Cristo te ha de retribuir. [Coro]

Source: Celebremos Su Gloria #480

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Author: Mary Ann Thomson

Thomson, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. John Thomson, Librarian of the Free Library, Philadelphia, was born in London, England, December 5, 1834. She has written about forty hymns, which have appeared mostly in the Churchman, New York, and in the Living Church, Chicago. Four of her hymns are found in the Protestant Episcopal Hymnal, 1892. Of the origin of the missionary hymn by Mrs. Thomson which is found in our Hymnal she writes as follows: I wrote the greater part of the hymn, "O Zion, haste," in the year 1868. I had written many hymns before, and one night, while I was sitting up with one of my children who was ill of typhoid fever, I thought I should like to write a missionary hymn to the tune of the hymn beginning "Hark, hark, my soul, angelic… Go to person page >

Translator: Alejandro Cativiela

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First Line:	Aprisa, ¡Sion!, que tu Señor espera
Title:	Aprisa, ¡Sion!
English Title:	O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling
Translator:	Alejandro Cativiela (alt.)
Author:	Mary Ann Thomson (1868)
Meter:	11.10.11.10 with refrain
Language:	Spanish
Refrain First Line:	Nuevas proclama de gozo y paz
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

TIDINGS (Walch)

James Walch (b. Edgerton, Lancashire, England, 1837; d. Llandudno, Caernarvon, Wales, 1901) composed TIDINGS in 1875 for Frederick W. Faber's hymn text "Hark, Hark, My Soul! Angelic Songs Are Swelling"; the tune was first published in The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer (1877). TIDINGS…

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