To God Be the Glory
Fanny Crosby · 1875 · tune TO GOD BE THE GLORY
Key of G · public domain
Words
So loved He the world that He gave us His Son
Who yielded His life an atonement for sin
And opened the life gate that all may go in
Let the earth hear His voice
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord
Let the people rejoice
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son
And give Him the glory, great things He hath done
To every believer the promise of God
The vilest offender who truly believes
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives
And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son
But purer and higher and greater will be
Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see
The story
Fanny Crosby wrote it, William Doane set it, and America ignored it. It was published in 1875 and quietly vanished from American hymnals for the better part of eighty years. It survived in Britain, and came back across the Atlantic in the 1950s when Cliff Barrows heard it in London during a Billy Graham crusade and brought it home. It has been standard in the United States ever since. Note what the hymn refuses to do: it is a song about salvation that never once makes the singer the subject of the sentence. Every verse hands the credit somewhere else, and the chorus does nothing but repeat the instruction.
Chords in G
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Themes
Praise · Salvation · Gospel