Choral Evensong: Henry Martyn
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October 19, 2022
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On October 19 we commemorate Henry Martyn (1781 – 1812), an Anglican priest and missionary to India and Persia. The Choristers of Christ Church Hudson sing music by Malcolm Archer. The Rev. Charlotte Collins Reed, of Christ Church Hudson, will officiate.
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Choir: Choristers of Christ Church, Hudson
Officiant: The Rev. Charlotte Collins Reed
Hymns 35, 390
Psalm 98
Responses: Plainsong
Service Philip Moore: Second Service (b. 1943)
Anthem My Song is Love Unkown – Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)
ANTHEM:
My Song is Love Unknown – Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)
My song is love unknown, My Saviour’s love to me,
Love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake My Lord should take frail flesh and die.
He came from his blest throne, Salvation to bestow:
But men made strange, and none the longed for Christ would know.
But O my Friend, My friend indeed who at my need his life did spend!
Sometimes they strew his way, and his sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day Hosannas to their King.
Then ‘Crucify!’ is all their breath, and for his death they thirst and cry.
Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine;
Never was love dear King, never was grief like thine!
This is my friend, in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend.
Amen.