When in our music God is glorified

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1
When in our music God is glorified, 
and adoration leaves no room for pride, 
it is as though the whole creation cried alleluia! 

2
How often, making music, we have found 
a new dimension in the world of sound, 
as worship moved us to a more profound alleluia! 

3
So has the church, in liturgy and song, 
in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, 
borne witness to the truth in every tongue, alleluia! 

4
And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night 
when utmost evil strove against the Light? 
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight: alleluia! 

5
Let every instrument be tuned for praise! 
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! 
And may God give us faith to sing always alleluia!

#44 in Hymnal: A Worship Book

Words:  Fred Pratt Green, 1972, The Hymn, 1973.
                            Text copyright ©1972 Hope Publishing Co.
Tune: Charles V. Stanford, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1904.

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