Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Tune: Helmsley - 4vv) [with lyrics for congregations]
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- "Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending" was written by Charles Wesley in 1758.
The tune is 'Helmsley'. Its composer is uncertain. John Wesley attributed it to Thomas Olivers but Olivers is said to have heard the tune on the street somewhere. Since the first line resembles a tune by violinist and composer Thomas Augustine Arne some have suggested that it was composed by Arne. However, it most probably came from Martin Madan's 'Collection of Psalms and Hymn Tunes Sung at the Chapel of Lock Hospital', where he was chaplain.
It is performed by St Michael's Singers, Coventry Cathedral.
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JESUS CHRIST! OUR HOPE OF GLORY! HALLELUJAH! AMEN! Beautifully rendered. Thanks. 💓💐💖🌹❤️
Stunningly beautiful. Our Lord's promise is the most beautiful promise there is. Sends a shiver of expectance and pure joy down my spine. How great is our God. ❤️
Amen. 🙏
My all-time favourite hymn! It gives me goose bumps every time I hear it.
Excellent. 😃😃
I listen to this hymn and remember my parish priest. Such a gentle soul.
May he rest in peace 🙏💛.
Charles Wesley's hymn are so powerful.
Indeed they are, Yaw. 😊🙏
This is a great rendition! Biblically faithful in every verse.
Amen. 😊
This reminds me so much of Revelation 1: 7
Thank you GOD for Thy Matchless LOVE
Beautiful heart felt Hymn
Thank you
This is wonderful. My choir sang this yesterday for the first Sunday of Advent.
We also sang this at church yesterday. Lovely tune, wonderful lyrics. Set us all up for the advent season.
A wonderful uplifting hymn!
Indeed, Deanna. 😀
Thou Lord shall reign in my life and thou alone.Amen
Amen. 🙏
Wonderful.glorious Saviour...must be believed ,sung about..trusted and walk in His ways
Amen, Agnes. 🙏
Thank you so much for this excellent video, the words are so appropriate for the particular times we find ourselves in. May God continue to bless you in all you do for him.
Thank you, John. We're so pleased that you like what we're done here. Blessings to you too.
Lovely and inspiring version of a powerful hymn.
Indeed, Francesca. 😀
What a thought, what a promise,what a prospect
Indeed. 🙂
This is amazing Amen
Stunning. Our God is worthy of praise always.❤
Now we enter the solemn and penitential, yet also celebratory, season of Advent.
I love this song
My favorite hymn.
That's great, Ben. 😊🙏
This is great
Beautiful hymn
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This was wonderfully Sang
Indeed, Allan. 🙏
JESUS CHRIST IS is going to descend
Love the soprano descant on the last verse.
We're so glad you like it. 😊 (Not everyone does, as you'll see if you check the comments by A.T.C. on this hymn.)
@@ChetValleyChurches But he or she is right you know. The descant the Sopranos did at the last verse was too low key. I'm a soprano singer, so I know. My choir does this hymn every year during advent and I was humming the descant just now, so I decide to see if any choir did it when I found your video. I wouldn't say I'm disapointed though, but the descant they did is not very powerful
English old hymns always classic
Indeed, Sam. 😊
Found a similar version in my hymnbook. This is a particularly beautiful rendition!
Lo! He comes, from heaven descending,
Once for favored sinners slain!
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of His train!
Hallelujah!
Jesus comes and comes to reign!
See the Savior, long expected
Now in solemn pomp appear!
And His saints, by man rejected,
All His heavenly glory share:
Hallelujah!
See the Son of God appear!
Lo! the tokens of His passion,
Though in glory, still He bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
Hallelujah!
Christ, the Lamb of God, appears.
Israel’s race shall now behold Him
Full of grace and majesty;
Though they set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Now in glory
Shall their great Messiah see.
’Tis Thy heavenly bride and Spirit,
Jesus, Lord! that bid Thee come;
All the glory to inherit,
And to take Thy people home.
All creation
Travails, groans, till Thou shalt come.
Yea, Amen, let all adore Thee,
High on Thine exalted throne:
Savior, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdoms for Thine own:
Come, Lord Jesus!
Hallelujah! come, Lord, come!
Verse 3 is problematic, too easily taken as a blood libel trope. "Let's ignore that the Roman Empire killed Christ--Let's blame the Jews!" That has been the sad excuse for every pogrom, for the Holocaust. Nope.
@@michaelearendil6843 I partly agree with you. I don't think its accurate or fair to say the Jews killed or crucified Jesus. Most had nothing to do with it (from what I understand). It was a certain number of the Jewish religious authorities who pushed for it to happen... and the Roman authorities allowed or authorized it due to the uproar from some of the people and religious authorities.
We are all responsible as He died for us all. The verse in ‘How deep the Fathers love for us’ says
Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life -
I know that it is finished.
@@michaelearendil6843 Ya I probably should be careful in the future. Yes, it was the Romans who did it at the request of a certain number of civilians and religious authorities. The idea of blaming them all doesn't make much sense since many Jews had nothing to do with it and its almost 2 millennia ago.
@@suejudd9801 Ya, that is something I tend to not think about. It was Jesus' love for us and the righteous will to correct the "sin" problem that made him allow himself to be taken and crucified. And even then, Jesus gave up His own life. No one took it from Him.
Thank you
Our pleasure, Babalola. 😊
G-d's type of rock'n roll.
😊
Only he will reign
Amen, Georgie. 🙏
For me, advent doesn't start till this is played. Should be the first hymn
😊 Quite a long wait, though...
@@ChetValleyChurches lol
Hello anyone - is it legal to use this on zoom for our church. We have all the CCLI licences?
Hi Liz, copyright on the internet is a murky area and we are not lawyers so cannot be definitive. However, it is our understanding that the MCPS does not enforce copyright for music being played during worship. If you have all the CCLI licences (including the livestreaming one?) then we think that you should be fine using our hymns and songs. Lots of other churches are doing so, both in UK and across the world.
@@ChetValleyChurches Many thanks
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Thanks also - fantastic recordings. God bless
You're welcome.
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So many hymns are robbed of their power by a dreadful arrangement of the final verse.
Including this one?
@@ChetValleyChurches In my humble opinion, yes.
The choir is glorious but that arrangement of the final verse just spoils it for me, I'm sad to say.
@@a.t.c.3862 It is a shame that you are unhappy with the final verse. As a former teacher of hymn playing, I did my best to ensure that my students didn't "show off" in the final verse and taught that the organ is there to accompany and, if possible, underline the text. Some organists do this brilliantly, some do not. The recording here I feel does enhance the text of the last verse with an excellent descant and playing that lifts the hymn to another dimension. Did you also notice that it is in Ab? That too enhances the whole hymn. Alas, when there is just congregational singing, it is normally sung in G, which also suits the hymn and is easier for the lesser trained to sing. It will be sung tomorrow at Chedgrave (28.11.2021.). I will be playing and promise that there will not be a rearrangement of the last verse. Come and talk to me about it after the service.
@@a.t.c.3862 Its a good descant which many hymns around this time of year have. Means that the choir can show their full range with the trebles reaching those places that few others can. Don't know your tradition but do you have a SATB choir at your church that sing in harmony?