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The Last Resurrection
Author: George Richards Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: The Ancient of eternal days
The Last Resurrection
The ancient of eternal days
Author: George Richards Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #A39 (1808) Hymnal Title: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
The ancient of eternal days
The last Resurrection
Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #CXC (1792) Meter: Irregular Hymnal Title: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs First Line: The Ancient of eternal days Lyrics: 1 The Ancient of eternal days,
Enthron'd in light's celestial blaze,
With shouting thousands comes.
The archangelick trump is blown.
A voice is heard from glory's throne.
The spirit breathes on ev'ry bone;
And rends the cleaving tombs.
2 Now comes the end— the end divine—
See death, and hell, the dead resign
To Christ, who holds the keys:
The judgment sits— the books unfold—
The actions of a world they hold;
And there Omniscience has enroll'd,
Mysterious, high decrees.
3 These books are clos'd.—Then opens wide
The book of life— His book who died
For all: — who rose again:
The writing in Immanuel's blood,
The signet of the wine press trod,
Prevails for guilty man, with God:
A world rewards his pain.
4 Salvation to the Lamb on high,
Salvation is the mighty cry.
The glorious work is done.
Tears, sorrow, death, and anguish dire,
Like visions of the night retire;
And ecstacy awakes the lyre,
To Father, Spirit, Son! Topics: The Glorious Appearing of the Savior God Scripture: Deuteronomy 9:10-11 Languages: English
The last Resurrection
George Richards
1755 - 1814 Hymnal Title: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs Author of "The ancient of eternal days" in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs 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)
George Richards
