Text:There Is a City Bright
Author (vs. 1):Amy Deck Wal­ton
Author (vs. 3 & 4):Mary A. S. Deck
Tune:CITY BRIGHT
Composer:James S. Tyler
Media:MIDI file

6779. There Is a City Bright

1. There is a city bright;
Closed are its gates to sin;
Naught that defileth,
Naught that defileth,
Can ever enter in.

2. Savior, I come to Thee;
O Lamb of God, I pray,
Cleanse me and save me,
Cleanse me and save me,
Wash all my sins away.

3. Lord, make me, from this hour,
Thy loving child to be,
Kept by Thy power,
Kept by Thy power,
From all that grieveth Thee.

4. Till in the snow white dress
Of Thy redeemed I stand,
Faultless and stainless,
Faultless and stainless,
Safe in that happy land.

Text Information
First Line: There is a city bright
Title: There Is a City Bright
Author (vs. 3 & 4): Mary A. S. Deck (1898)
Author (vs. 1): Amy Deck Wal­ton
Meter: 65.556
Language: English
Source: Church Hymnary, 1898
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Every year, on New Year’s Sun­day, Ma­ry Deck’s hus­band held a child­ren’s ser­vice in his church, St. Ste­phen’s, Hull, where each child was given a mot­to-card with a print­ed text and a hymn spe­cial­ly writ­ten for the oc­ca­sion. This was one of those hymns; Amy wrote her sto­ry "Christ­ie’s Old Or­gan" to il­lus­trate the hymn’s words.
Tune Information
Name: CITY BRIGHT
Composer: James S. Tyler (1876)
Meter: 65.556
Incipit: 35432 12354 32334
Key: G Major
Source: Songs of Love and Mer­cy, by the Child­ren’s Spe­cial Ser­vice Mis­sion, 1876
Copyright: Public Domain



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