CHRIST IS OUR CORNER STONE – EMHB 702
Author: Unknown
Translator: John Chandler M.A. (1806-1876)
Tune: Harewood – Samuel S. Wesley (1810-1876)
Introduction:
The Author of this Hymn is unknown but was originally written in Latin around 6th or 7th century. However, John Chandler M. A. (1806-1876) translated the Hymn from Latin to English. He lifted it from the “PARIS BREVIARY” text of a grandly rugged Latin Hymn known as “URBS BEATA HIERUSALEM DITCH PACIS VISIO” which he first published in “Hymn of the Primitive Church in 1837.
Chandler the son of the Vicar of Witley, Surrey also became Vicar in the same Church in 1837. He was one of the earliest and most successful morden translator of Latin Hymns. He died in 1876.
The Tune “Harewood” was composed by Samuel S. Wesley – Grandson of Charles Wesley.
Please join me in confirming that Christ is indeed our Cornerstone on Him alone we Build.
EMHB 702
1. Christ is our corner stone,
On Him alone we build;
With His true saints alone
The courts of heaven are filled;
On His great love our hopes we place
Of present grace and joys above.
2. O then with hymns of praise
These hallowed courts shall ring;
Our voices we will raise
The Three in One to sing,
And thus proclaim in joyful song,
Both loud and long, that glorious name.
3. Here, gracious God, do Thou
For evermore draw nigh;
Accept each faithful vow,
And mark each suppliant sigh;
In copious shower on all who pray
Each holy day Thy blessings pour.
4. Here may we gain from heaven
The grace which we implore;
And may that grace, once given,
Be with us evermore,
Until that day when all the blest
To endless rest are called away.
Author: Unknown
Translator: John Chandler M.A. (1806-1876)
Tune: Harewood – Samuel S. Wesley (1810-1876)
Introduction:
The Author of this Hymn is unknown but was originally written in Latin around 6th or 7th century. However, John Chandler M. A. (1806-1876) translated the Hymn from Latin to English. He lifted it from the “PARIS BREVIARY” text of a grandly rugged Latin Hymn known as “URBS BEATA HIERUSALEM DITCH PACIS VISIO” which he first published in “Hymn of the Primitive Church in 1837.
Chandler the son of the Vicar of Witley, Surrey also became Vicar in the same Church in 1837. He was one of the earliest and most successful morden translator of Latin Hymns. He died in 1876.
The Tune “Harewood” was composed by Samuel S. Wesley – Grandson of Charles Wesley.
Please join me in confirming that Christ is indeed our Cornerstone on Him alone we Build.
EMHB 702
1. Christ is our corner stone,
On Him alone we build;
With His true saints alone
The courts of heaven are filled;
On His great love our hopes we place
Of present grace and joys above.
2. O then with hymns of praise
These hallowed courts shall ring;
Our voices we will raise
The Three in One to sing,
And thus proclaim in joyful song,
Both loud and long, that glorious name.
3. Here, gracious God, do Thou
For evermore draw nigh;
Accept each faithful vow,
And mark each suppliant sigh;
In copious shower on all who pray
Each holy day Thy blessings pour.
4. Here may we gain from heaven
The grace which we implore;
And may that grace, once given,
Be with us evermore,
Until that day when all the blest
To endless rest are called away.
Adesegun Akitoye
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