420 - Praise to God
1. When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried _____ Alleluia!
2. How often, making music, we have found
a new dimension in the world of sound,
as worship moved us to a more profound ____ Alleluia!
3. So has the Church, in liturgy and song,
in faith and love, through centuries of wrong,
borne witness to the truth in every tongue, _____ Alleluia!
4. And did not Jesus sing in psalm that night
when utmost evil strove against the Light?
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight, _____ Alleluia!
5. Let every instrument be tuned for praise!
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always _____
Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.
Words: Copyright 1972 by Hope Publishing Company. Used by permission in The Hymnal 1982. Used without permission here. Words: F. Pratt Green (b. 1903). Music: Engelberg, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)