And yes, we do sing Easter hymns. “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” is my favorite.
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Tadpole, would you mind posting the words that you sing in yoiur mormon services for this Christian Hymn ???
its a longtime favorite of mine
I first sang it as a child 50 years ago...
I pulled out my LDS hymnal (#200) and there are very few lyric changes (they remove boasting from verse 3) and my hymnal only has the first 3 verses, not the last 3.
It also doesn’t focus on the Cross. And the verse that mentions the Cross (verse 4) is not listed in the LDS hymnal. There may be a hymnal that mentions the Cross, but I could not find it when I looked.
This set of lyrics is from: http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh302.sht
1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!
2. Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!
3. Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where’s thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!
4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!
5. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia!
Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia!
Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!
Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!
6. King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia!
Everlasting life is this, Alleluia!
Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia!
Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia!
It is a rare hymn that goes more than 4 verses in our hymnals. Most have 3 or 4. #85 - How Firm a Foundation goes 7. There may be 10 out of 340 that go over 4.
I grabbed our old hymnal. The current version we use was originally printed in 1985. The previous hymnal was first published in 1948. The hymnals are used church-wide, at least for English speaking.
The hymn is the same in the old one (#10 there). 3 verses, same words. How firm a foundation is also 7 verses there. There is a version of Who's On the Lord's Side that goes 6 verses, all in the music staff (Foundation only has 3, then prints the others to the side).
Our hymns are online at http://www.lds.org/churchmusic/.