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Transfiguration on Mount Tabor

Author: George Richards Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: As Jesus stood on Tabor's mound

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As Jesus stood on Tabor's mound

Author: George Richards Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #A33 (1808)

Transfiguration on Mount Tabor

Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CXXVII (1792) Meter: Irregular First Line: As Jesus stood on Tabor's mound Lyrics: 1 As Jesus stood on Tabor's mound, Celestial glory beam'd around, And cloth'd the man, the God, In lucid robes of spotless withe; Whilst splendors of primeval light Loos'd day's unbounded flood. 2 More pure than Salmons radiant snow: His whit'ning garments radiant flow: How chang'd his mortal form! Thus breaks the sun all glorious forth, And sev'n fold light revisits earth, As dies away the storm. 3 Behold the man! what beauties shine! 'Tis where the Father beams divine With light, and life, and grace: Those glories which surround the God, His mighty arm shall pour abroad, On Adam's naked race. 4 Lord Jesus come! From Tabor's mound, Light the whole earth with glory round: Thyself, the life, display: These bodies change to heav'nly forms: O God! my soul, my spirit warms: I pant, to see thy day. Topics: Hymns, on the Life of Immanuel, the Head of every Man Scripture: Matthew 17:2 Languages: English

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George Richards

1755 - 1814 Author of "Transfiguration on Mount Tabor" Richards, George, born near Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1755. For some years he was Purser and Chaplain in the United States Navy, and also taught a school in Boston. In 1789 he became an Universalist preacher, ministered at Portsmouth, New Haven, 1793-1809, and from 1809 in Philadelphia, where, his mind having given way under trouble, he died by his own hand, March 16, 1816. With S. Lane he edited the Universalist Hymn Book, published at Boston, 1792. This was one of the earliest collections of that body. It contained 49 of Richards's hymns. In 1801 he published A Collection of Hymns, Dover, New Hampshire, which contained 6 additional hymns by himself, and in 1806, also at Dover, a second edition of the same, greatly enlarged, with another 26 hymns. Of these the following are in common use at the present time:— 1. 0 Christ, what gracious words. The Gospel Message. This hymn appeared in the Boston Collection, 1792, and is the best of the early Universalist hymns. In the Andover Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, it is given as "Saviour, what gracious words." In this form and also in the original, it is found in several collections. 2. Long as the darkening cloud abode. Easter. This hymn in modern collections, as the Songs of the Sanctuary, 1865, No. 687, is composed thus: stanza i. and ii., 11. 1-4, are from Richards, and the rest of the hymn, 3 stanzas of 8 lines in all, is anonymous. Additional hymns by Richards, from both the Boston and the Dover collections, are in modern Universalist hymn-books. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)