This Sunday at Trinity 

Johann Sebastian Bach’s setting of “Sleepers, Wake!” was published in a collection called The Schübler Chorales, named after the printer of the collection Johann Georg Schübler. The collection was published late in Bach’s life, probably around 1748 or 1749. This piece is an arrangement (probably by Bach, but possibly by his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann) of the fourth movement of Cantata No. 140. Thank you to Cliff Daly for playing the solo line on the trumpet.

This morning’s anthem was composed by David Henry Williams (1919-2002), born in Caerphilly, Wales. He immigrated to the U.S. and served churches in New York, New England, and Arizona. The text of the anthem is by Charles Wesley and is the same as today’s opening processional hymn.

The text of today’s anthem:

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending,

Once for our salvation slain;

Thousand thousand saints attending

Swell the triumph of his train:

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Christ the Lord returns to reign.

Ev’ry eye shall now behold him,

Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at naught and sold him,

Pierced, and nailed him to the tree,

Deeply wailing, deeply wailing,

Shall the true Messiah see.

Those dear tokens of his passion

Still his dazzling body bears,

Cause of endless exultation

To his ransomed worshippers:

With what rapture, with what rapture

Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,

High on thine eternal throne;

Saviour, take the pow’r and glory;

Claim the kingdom for thine own;

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou shalt reign, and thou alone. Amen.