Christ is risen! Hallelujah

GOD AND MAN MINGLED

The apostle Paul said that he wanted to know Christ and the power of His resurrection. There is something here which is mysterious and beyond human conception. You may say, “Brother, I understand the resurrection of Christ. ” But I would ask you, What does it mean? I have spent considerable time collecting hymns on the resurrection of Christ, yet there is hardly one that is really useful! These hymns merely relate the history of the resurrection of Christ. “Christ is risen, Hallelujah! ”—that is all. You can hardly find a hymn telling you that the resurrection is to be inwardly experienced by you, that it has brought Christ into you and that you are one with Him in it!

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I have been looking for the lyrics to this hymn literally, for decades! It is such a majestic piece of music and it makes my heart sing! Thanks for making the lyrics available!

Monsell, son of the arch­dea­con of Lon­don­der­ry, Ire­land, at­tend­ed Trin­i­ty Coll­ege in Dub­lin, and was or­dained in 1834. His eldest son Thomas died on the way to the Crimean War in 1855, aged 18, in a shipwreck off Italy; his eldest daughter Elizabeth Isabella died in England at the age of 28 in 1861. Another daughter, Jane Diana, married Rev. C.W. Furse in 1859.

His brother Charles, also a clergyman, married Harriet O'Brien, who, after her husband's death in Italy, refounded the Community of St John Baptist to help single mothers . Through Charles and Harriet, John Monsell became influenced by the Oxford Movement and also became acquainted with William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of England, with whom he maintained a correspondence. He was responsible for the building or rebuilding of three church buildings were he served. While inspecting the rebuilding of the last, Monsell fell from a boulder, and subsequently died from an infected wound.

He was a strong advocate of vigorous congregational singing. He felt that hymn singing should be more fervent and joyous. His 11 vol­umes of po­e­try en­com­pass al­most 300 hymns. - Wikipedia & Songs of the Spirit by Martin

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Following stanza 2, there is an additional stanza which is usually omitted. (I think way the last line is written is a problem due to the dual meaning of "lost". It would be better to say "gone" instead of "lost".)

2b Christ is risen! all the sorrow
That last evening round Him lay,
Now has found a glorious morrow
In the rising of today;
And the grave its first-fruits giveth,
Spring up from holy ground,
He was dead, now He liveth,
He was lost, but He is found.