This was another hymn we sang a lot of in Sunday school, Wonderful Words of Life. We couldn’t do it up like these kids here at Fountainview Academy (oh, those voices! how those girls can sing!), complete with a lovely lake setting. We had to settle for just our own untrained voices and the lady at the piano. And that was just fine, too.
That lake–sometimes the work of God’s hands is so beautiful, you could cry. Turning into a softy in my old age, I guess.
Philip Bliss wrote this hymn in 1874, and was astonished when his state Sunday school association offered to pay him to sing it at their annual meeting. And from then on it’s been a favorite–Wonderful Words of Life, here performed by the students at Fountainview Academy, British Columbia.
This was one of my favorites from Sunday School–Wonderful Words of Life, here sung by the Joslin Grove Choral Society. God knows we never needed more to hear His word than we need it now.
Yes, I know I’ve been repeating myself lately, in my posting of hymns. But hey, readers, the Hymn Shop is always open and everything in it is free! If there’s a hymn you want to see posted, just leave a comment anywhere on this blog, stating your request, and we’ll do the rest.
I can’t imagine how I could have overlooked this hymn, so far: so thank you, Linda, for requesting it–Wonderful Words of Life, sung by the Joslin Grove Choral Society. Ah, this brings me back to Sunday school! Piano and all.
Here’s another one from my Sunday school days, if I can get the video to work. Suddenly I’m having trouble with that.
“Wonderful Words of Life” is another old-fashioned hymn that only needs a piano to play it and a voice to sing it. We have provided the piano and the lyrics.
Sorry: the video refuses to display, you have to click on it. Don’t blame it on me. It’s stupid computer stuff.
Later: As you can see, now I have a video that works. For no reason I know of, or can imagine, I now have to use youtube, the Bing.com videos I’ve been using no longer work. But of course that has nothing to do with the business at hand, which is to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.