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Gateway Worship performed the song on their album Living for You and added a chorus to the song, calling it "Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King". The hymn appears on Phil Wickham's album 'Sing-A-Long'. This song is also sung by Clark Davis in the film Love Comes Softly and is a recurring background music in the film.
Samuel Woolcock Christophers (Hymn-writers and Their Hymns, 1870) relates the story how a woman in a coach drew Robinson's attention to the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and Robinson replied, "Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings ...
Of these, 77 hymns had been included in the 1835 hymnbook. Many of the hymns included in the 1841 hymnal were more focused on grace, the blood of Christ, and the cross than other LDS hymn collections. Examples include "Amazing Grace", "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing", and "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross".
Of these, 77 hymns had been included in the 1835 hymnbook. Many of the hymns included in the 1841 hymnal were more focused on grace, the blood of Christ, and the cross than other LDS hymn collections. Examples include "Amazing Grace", "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing", and "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross".
"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" became the choir's first video to surpass 10 million YouTube views (in July 2020). [22] The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square has performed for ten presidents of the United States beginning with William Howard Taft. [8]
The story behind the hymn is as amazing as the hymn itself. Newton was a sailor, but his “character issues” got him transferred to a slave ship, where he became a ruthless slave trader.
"Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" was the first of a number of Wesley's hymns that became known as the "Festival hymns". These "Festival hymns" were published outside of Methodism by German, John Frederick Lampe in 1746. [7] The hymn came into popular knowledge across Christian denominations in England via popular Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon.
Many were published under the collective title Walworth Hymns in 1792. A version of his hymn "My Song in the Night" was included on the album Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing released by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in 2009. Swain died aged 35 on 14 April 1796. He was buried in Bunhill Fields burial ground in London.
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