I got that familiar little thrill we all feel when one of our favorite hymns is sung in General Conference, as our first session this morning opened with “Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise.” (I was especially happy to have caught it since we experienced significant technical difficulties getting the conference to stream, causing us to miss both the intro and Pres. Monson’s subsequent talk – in eight years of internet streaming conference, I’ve never not had technical troubles, except one time, in the middle of the night, in a smoke filled internet cafe in Alexandria, Egypt). This is one of the great hymns of the restoration, written by Edward Partridge and included in Emma’s hymnal.<\/p>\n
Sadly, as with many of our hymns, we only get a few (slightly sanitized) verses of this hymn today. I thought I’d put it up with all of it’s millenarial gusto for all to enjoy. Here’s how it read in our first hymnal:<\/p>\n
1. Let Zion in her beauty rise; 2. Ye heralds sound the gospel trump, 3. But ere that great and solemn day, 4. The earth shall reel, the heavens shake, 5. Alas! the day will then arrive, 6. That glorious rest will then commence, 7. Then when the thousand years are past, I got that familiar little thrill we all feel when one of our favorite hymns is sung in General Conference, as our first session this morning opened with “Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise.” (I was especially happy to have caught it since we experienced significant technical difficulties getting the conference to stream, causing us to miss both the intro and Pres. Monson’s subsequent talk – in eight years of internet streaming conference, I’ve never not had technical troubles, except one time, in the middle of the night, in a smoke filled internet cafe in Alexandria, Egypt). This is one of the great hymns of the restoration, written by Edward Partridge and included in Emma’s hymnal. Sadly, as with many of our hymns, we only get a few (slightly sanitized) verses of this hymn today. I thought I’d put it up with all of it’s millenarial gusto for all to enjoy. Here’s how it read in our first hymnal: 1. Let Zion in her beauty rise; Her light begins to shine, Ere long her King will rend the skies, Majestic and divine. The gospel’s spreading through the land, A people to prepare, To meet the Lord and Enoch’s band, Triumphant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13525,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/13525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHer light begins to shine,
\nEre long her King will rend the skies,
\nMajestic and divine.
\nThe gospel’s spreading through the land,
\nA people to prepare,
\nTo meet the Lord and Enoch’s band,
\nTriumphant in the air.<\/p>\n
\nTo earth’s remotest bound;
\nGo spread the news from pole to pole,
\nIn all the nations round,
\nThat Jesus in the clouds above,
\nWith hosts of angels too,
\nWill soon appear his saints to save,
\nHis enemies subdue.<\/p>\n
\nThe stars from heav’n will fall,
\nThe moon be turned into blood,
\nThe waters into gall,
\nThe sun with blackness will be clothed,
\nAll nature look affright!
\nWhile men, rebellious wicked men,
\nGaze heedless on the sight.<\/p>\n
\nThe sea move to the north,
\nThe earth roll up like as a scroll,
\nWhen God’s command goes forth;
\nThe mountains sink, the valleys rise,
\nAnd all become a plain,
\nThe islands and the continents
\nWill then unite again.<\/p>\n
\nWhen rebels to God’s grace,
\nWill call for rocks to fall on them,
\nAnd hide them from his face:
\nNot so with those who keep his law,
\nThey joy to meet their Lord
\nIn clouds above, with them that slept
\nIn Christ, their sure reward.<\/p>\n
\nWhich prophets did foretell,
\nWhen Christ will reign with saints on earth,
\nAnd in their presence dwell
\nA thousand years: O glorious day!
\nDear Lord prepare my heart,
\nTo stand with thee, on Zion’s mount,
\nAnd never more to part.<\/p>\n
\nAnd Satan is unbound,
\nO Lord preserve us from his grasp,
\nBy fire from heav’n sent down,
\nUntil our great last change shall come,
\nT’imortalize this clay,
\nThen we in the celestial world,
\nWill spend eternal day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"