Wednesday, December 15, 2010

And Can it be That I Should Gain...

Several people have asked where this hymn came from, and I apologize for not including the credits when I first posted it last August (see below).

It was filmed by the BBC as part of its "Songs of Praise" series on 21 October 2007 in Wesley's Chapel in London. The author is, not surprisingly, Charles Wesley himself, who wrote the verse based on Acts 16:26. It was first published in 1738 in Wesley's Psalms and Hymns. According to the United Methodist Hymnal, the tune is "Sagina" by Thomas Campbell (1835).

I lifted the video from someone who had posted it on You Tube, also without the credits.  It took a bit of digging to track down the video's origins.  Apologies to the BBC also!

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