Lost Hymns of the Restoration

 

 In 2027, the new Hymnbook will be put out. Hymnbooks have been a part of the restoration since Emma Smith complied the first one in 1835. Before the new one comes out in 2027 and adds new hymns and gets rid of some old ones, I wanted to look at the hymns that were left behind previously.  

Each Cooing Dove

1. Each Cooing Dove And Sighing Bough,
That Makes The Eve So Blest To Me,
Has Something Far Diviner Now,
It Bears Me Back To Galilee.

O Galilee, Sweet Galilee,
Where Jesus Loved So Much To Be,
O Galilee, Blue Galilee,
Come Sing Thy Song Again To Me.

2. Each Flowery Glen And Mossy Dell,
Where Happy Birds In Song Agree,
Through Sunny Morn The Praises Tell
Of Sights And Sounds In Galilee.

3. And When I Read The Thrilling Lore
Of Him Who Walked Upon The Sea,
I Long, Oh, How I Long Once More
To Follow Him In Galilee.

Awake! O ye people, the Savior is coming!

1. Awake, O ye people! the Savior is coming:

He’ll suddenly come to his temple, we hear;

Repentance is needed of all that are living,

To gain them a lot of inheritance near.

To-day will soon pass, and that unknown to morrow,

May leave many souls in a more dreadful sor row,

Than came by the flood, or that fell on Go morrah—

Yea, weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

2. Be ready, O islands, the Savior is coming;

He’ll bring again Zion the prophets declare;

Repent of your sins, and have faith in redemption.

To gain you a lot of inheritance there.

A voice to the nations in season is given,

To show the return of the glories of Eden,

And call the elect from the four winds of heaven,

For Jesus is coming to reign on the earth.

Farewell, All Earthy Honors

1. Farewell, all earthly honors, I bid you all adieu;

Farewell, all earthly pleasures, I want no more of you:

I want my union grounded in the eternal soil,

Beyond the pow'rs of Satan, where sin can ne'er defile.

2. I want my name engraven amongst the righteous ones,

Crying Holy, holy Father—and wear a righteous crown.

For the sake of so pure riches I am willing to pass through

All earthly tribulation and count it my just due.

3. I am willing to be chastened and bear my daily cross;

I am willing to be cleansed from every kind of dross.

I see the fiery furnace, I feel its piercing flame;

 —The fruit of it is holy, —the gold will still remain.

4. All earthly tribulation is but a moment here,

And then if we prove faithful, a righteous crown shall wear;

We shall be called holy, and feed on angel's food,

Rejoicing in bright glory, before the throne of God.

5. There Christ himself has promised, a mansion to prepare,

For all who serve him faithful—the cross the crown shall wear;

Bright palms shall there be given to all the ransomed throng,

And Glory, glory, glory, shall be the conqueror's song.

In ancient days men fear’d the Lord,

1. In ancient days men fear’d the Lord,

And by their faith receiv’d his word,

Then God bestow’d upon the meek,

The Priesthood of Melchizedek.

 

2. By help of this their faith increas’d,

Till they with God spoke face to face:

An Enoch, he would walk with God;

A Noah ride safe o’er the flood.

3. Abr’ham obtain’ed great promises,

And Isaac he was also blest,

A Jacob could prevail with God;

The sea divide at Moses’ rod.

 

4. The lions’ mouth a Daniel clos’d,

The fire near scorch’d his brethren’s

clothes,

But time would fail to mention all

The men of faith, I’ll just name Paul.

 

5. Who did, to the third heav’ns, arise,

And view the wonders of the skies;

He saw and heard, mysterious things,

Yet all by faith, and not by wings.

 

6. Such blessings to the human race,

Once more are tender’d by God’s grace;

The Priesthood is again restor’d,

For this let God be long ador’d.

 

7. Now we by faith, like Paul and John,

May see the Father and the Son,

And view eternal things above,

And taste the sweets of boundless love.

 

8. And if, like them, we hated be,

Depriv’d sometimes of liberty,

We will like them, this faith defend,

What’er our fate, unto the end.

Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song

1. Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,

The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue;

Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last,

Hath won my affections and bound my soul fast.

2. Without thy sweet mercy I could not live here,

Sin soon would reduce me to utter despair;

But, through thy free goodness, my spirits revive,

And he that first made me still keeps me alive.

3. Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,

Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;

Dissolv’d by the goodness I fall to the ground,

And weep to the praise of the mercy I found.

4. The door of thy mercy stands open all day,

To the poor and the needy who knock by the way;

No sinner shall ever be empty sent back,

Who comes seeking mercy for Jesus’s sake.

5. Thy mercy in Jesus exempts me from hell;

Its glories I’ll sing, and its wonders I’ll tell;

’Twas Jesus, my friend, when he hung on the tree,

Who open’d the channel of mercy to me.

6. Great Father of mercies, thy goodness I own,

And the covenant love of thy crucified Son;

All praise to the Spirit, whose whisper divine,

Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine. 

The last song I want to talk about is not a forgotten hymn, but a hymn with a different tune. Praise to the Man is a famous song in the LDS community but it was originally sung with the Star in the East tune rather than the Scottish tune we are used too. 

Here is a video using the original tune.

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Forgotten Hymns of the Restoration