Thomas Oliver wrote this hymn from the Jewish Yigdal, sang by Meyer Lyon an opera vocalist after his conversion from "the worst boy known in thirteen years" to a traveling evangelist and passionate Christian worker.
Thomas adopted this Jewish Doxology into a Christian hymn of 13 stanza beginning with the God of Abraham Praise. Each stanza was annotated with scriptures. Today, only 4 of them are adopted in church to be sung.
This is indeed a kingly hymn, sang in all majesty fit for a God and King.
The Christian Hymn - The God of Abraham Praise.
Taken from Then Sings My Soul, Robert J Morgan, 2003
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