On Jordan's Bank, The Baptist's Cry

For St. John the Baptist, For Advent

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On Jordan's Bank The Baptist's Cry - Chandler

Words: Charles Coffin, Jordanis oras prævia (1736)
Translated from Latin to English by John Chandler (1806-1876), 1837, alt.

Additional Translations: Lo! The Desert-Depths Are Stirr'd
Lo, The Baptist's Herald Cry - Williams
Behold! The Baptist's Warning Sound

Music: "Winchester New," Musikalisches Handbuch (Hamburg, Germany: 1690);
Harmonized by William Henry Monk, 1847, alt.
MIDI / Noteworthy Composer / XML

Source: John Clark Hollister, ed., The Sunday-School Service and Tune Book (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865), #2, p. 16.

1. On Jordan's banks the Baptist's cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Come near and hearken, for he brings
Glad tidings from the King of Kings.

2. Be purified each Christian breast,
And furnished for so great a Guest;
Yea, let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.

3. For Thou art our Salvation, Lord,
Our Refuge and our great Reward;
Without Thy grace our souls must fade,
And wither like a flower decayed.

4. Stretch forth Thy hand a balm to pour.
And make us rise to fall no more;
Upon Thy pardoned people shine,
And fill the world with grace divine.

Sheet Music from John Clark Hollister, ed., The Sunday-School Service and Tune Book (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865), #2, p. 16.

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