Behold the Messengers of Christ

lyricist: Jean de Santëuil, 1686
Composer: Edmund Turpin, 1875

Behold the mes­sen­gers of Christ

Who bear to ev­ery place

The un­veiled mys­te­ries of God

The Gos­pel of His grace.

The things through mists and sha­dows dim

By ho­ly pro­phets seen

In the full light of day they saw

With not a cloud be­tween.

What Christ

true Man

di­vine­ly wrought

What God in man­hood bore

They wrote

as God in­spired

in words

That live for­ev­er­more.

Although in space and time apart

One Spir­it ruled them all;

And in their sac­red pag­es still

We hear that Spir­it’s call.

To God

the bless­èd Three in One

Be glo­ry

praise

and might

Who called us from the shades of death

To His own glo­ri­ous light.

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