No gospel like this feast

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No gospel like this feast

Author: Elizabeth R. Charles
Published in 18 hymnals

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1 No gospel like this feast
Spread for thy church by thee;
Nor prophet nor evangelist
Preach the glad news so free.

2 Thine was the bitter price,
Ours is the free gift, given;
Thine was the blood of sacrifice,
Ours is the wine of heaven.

3 Here we would rest midway,
As on a sacred height,
That darkest and that brightest day
Meeting before our sight.

4 From that dark depth of woes
Thy love for us has trod,
Up to the heights of blest repose
Thy love prepares with God:--

5 Till from self's chains released,
One sight alone we see,
Still at the cross, as at the feast,
Behold thee, only thee.

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient and modern #998

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Author: Elizabeth R. Charles

Charles, Elizabeth, née Rundle, is the author of numerous and very popular works intended to popularize the history of early Christian life in Great Britain; of Luther and his times; of Wesley and his work; the struggles of English civil wars; and kindred subjects as embodied in the Chronicles of the Schönherg-Cotta Family, the Diary of Kitty Trevelyan, &c, was born at Tavistock, Devonshire, Her father was John Rundle, M.P., and her husband, Andrew Paton Charles, Barrister-at-Law. Mrs. Charles has made some valuable contributions to hymnology, including original hymns and translations from the Latin and German. These were given in her:— (1) The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages, 1858; (2… Go to person page >

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First Line:	No gospel like this feast
Author:	Elizabeth R. Charles
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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No Gospel like this Feast. Elizabeth Charles, née Rundle. [Holy Communion.] Published in her The Three Wakings and Other Poems, 1859, p. 149. It has passed into a large number of hymnals, including the Universal Hymn Book, 1885, the American Laudes Domini, 1884, and others.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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