Mark His feet, His side, His hands;
Glow His wounds with pearly whiteness!
Hallowing life with heavenly brightness!
Hallelujah!

The hymnaries of the Christian Church for seventeen hundred years are so
rich in Easter hallelujahs and hosannas that to introduce them all would
swell a chapter to the size of an encyclopedia--and even to make a
selection is a responsible task.

Simple mention must suffice of Luther's--

In the bonds of death He lay;

--of Watts'--

He dies, the Friend of sinners dies;

--of John Wesley's--

Our Lord has gone up on high;

--of C.F. Gellert's--

Christ is risen! Christ is risen!
He hath burst His bonds in twain;

--omitting hundreds which have been helpful in psalmody, and are,
perhaps, still in choir or congregational use.

"CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY"

Begins a hymn of Charles Wesley's and is also the first line of a hymn
prepared for Sunday-school use by Mrs. Storrs, wife of the late Dr.
Richard Salter Storrs of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Wesley's hymn is sung--with or without the hallelujah interludes--to
"Telemann's Chant," (Zeuner), to an air of Mendelssohn, and to John
Stainer's "Paschale Gaudium." Like the old New England "Easter Anthem"
it appears to have been suggested by an anonymous translation of some
more ancient (Latin) antiphony.

Jesus Christ is risen to day,
Hallelujah!
Our triumphant holy day,
Hallelujah!

* * * * *

Who endured the cross and grave.
Hallelujah!
Sinners to redeem and save,
Hallelujah!

AN ANTHEM FOR EASTER.

This work of an amateur genius, with its rustic harmonies, suited the
taste of colonial times, and no doubt the devout church-goers of that
day found sincere worship and thanksgiving in its flamboyant music. "An
Anthem for Easter," in A major by William Billings (1785) occupied
several pages in the early collections of psalmody and "the sounding
joy" was in it. Organs were scarce, but beyond the viols of the village
choirs it needed no instrumental accessories. The language is borrowed
from the New Testament and _Young's Night Thoughts_.

The Lord is risen indeed!
Hallelujah!
The Lord is risen indeed!
Hallelujah!

Following this triumphant overture, a recitative bass solo repeats I
Cor. 15:20, and the chorus takes it up with crowning hallelujahs.
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