Scripture Verse

He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:31

Introduction

Words: Ano­ny­mous, in Se­lect Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of St. Law­rence’s Church, Read­ing, Berks. (Read­ing, Eng­land: M. Cow­slade, 1809), pag­es 168–69.

Music: Dar­wall’s 148th John Dar­wall, in The New Uni­vers­al Psal­mo­dist, by Aar­on Will­iams, 1770 (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know the au­thor, or where to get a good pic­ture of him or Dar­wall,

Lyrics

Hark ’tis the trum­pet’s sound!
It clos­es earth­ly things;
It ech­oes all around,
And great the news it brings;
It says that Je­sus is at hand,
And bids the world be­fore Him stand.

The sound is heard afar,
It goes through sea and land;
And now be­fore His bar,
Th’as­sem­bled na­tions stand;
His friends are min­gled with His foes,
But who are His the Sav­ior knows.

And now He calls His own,
To dwell with Him above;
To sit up­on His throne,
And share His end­less love;
With joy they meet Him in the clouds,
And mix with Heav’n’s ex­ult­ing crowds.

O may my por­tion be
With those whom Je­sus owns!
This is enough for me,
’Tis more than earth­ly thrones.
Let oth­ers take what earth can give:
With Je­sus on­ly let me live.