Hymn - "Come To Tend God's Garden"

Recessional Hymn - "Come To Tend God's Garden"
(AKA "At the Name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow")
camcorded live 30 August 2009
at Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal,
Morristown, NJ, USA

1) Come to tend God's garden, seeds of hope to sow,
Planting fields of justice, watching mercy grow!
In an arid wasteland, spread a verdant health!
In a land of tumult, cultivate God's peace!

2) As we tend God's garden, from its furrows rise
Stems of fresh beginnings, stretching toward the skies!
Graciousness, our meadow, joyfulness, our root,
Unity, our foliage, righteousness, our fruit!

3) May God's garden flourish, may our toil succeed,
May God bless our actions, every word and deed!
Serving Christ each season, with God's diagram,
Charted by the Spirit, for the task at hand!

Tune: "King's Weston", Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1925

The Redeemer Congregation and Choir
The parish choir of the Church of the Redeemer
Wayne Burcham-Gulotta,
Music Director/Organist

J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Opus 701, 1918, 3/49

Ernest M. Skinner bought out Steere in 1920 and Skinner ran Steere as a separate company for about a year. Then they brought it into the fold as a separate Skinner factory. For a time organs being built there had the Skinner name but were essentially Steere organs. Much of the great Skinner at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA is Steere (1915 major enlargement of 1902 Hutchings). Final expansion to the Skinner instrument at Yale we know today was the 1928-1929 rebuild.

Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal
Morristown, NJ, USA

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[joenwayne]

Hi David,

Thanks for the kind comments and rating.

Greetings as always to you in SW UK from NJ, USA.

[cornwall59]

This is just something else ! wayne,wish we could hear this more often, Thanks, 5stars !

[joenwayne]

Thank you for your comment and for viewing.

[churchchoral]

Love the Vaughan Williams "King's Weston"!