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The story behind the tumonos. Anthem
history. You hear a high- sphere

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son. You hear a high-
sphere son. In heaven Glory to God

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to the mortal passes on earth.
Sing the sky bos with the heavens let

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us praise the eternal King, Let
us sing Jesus for our good with the

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choir of Bethlehem. Sing the heavenly
voice in the heavens Glory to God.

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This is one of many hymns composed
by Charles Westley or public style for the

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first time in a thousand seven hundred
and ninety- three in the inmes insacred

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pont collection hymns and sacred poems.
The original title was hark Ol Thewalking Rings

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Gloria to the King of Kins,
I heard the song of the firmament Glory

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to the King of Kings, but
it was modified in a thousand seven hundred

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and fifty- four by Westley'
s colleague George Withfield, by the Hark

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verses of Heart Angel Sing Glory to
by new Born King hear the song of

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the angels Glory to the newborn King. Interestingly, the Spanish translation is more

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like Westley' s original text.
Westley composed a slow and solemn melody for

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this hymn. One hundred years after
the publication of this anthem, Felix Menderson

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composed a cantata to commemorate the invention
of the printing press by Johan Guttemberg.

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In a thousand eight hundred and fifty- five, William Commings took the music

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from this cantata and adapted it so
that, along with Westley' s lyrics,

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the anthem is heard a song in
high sphere take the form with which

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it is known today. There is
also an arrangement of this anthem with the

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melody of Cantherine' s yes song. Heirroll Colns comes the conquering king of

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Judas Macabeus hunder Traditionally used as the
final anthem of the Nightlisens Festival in Cartles,

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nine lessons and hymns from St Patrick' s Cathedral Dublin. This hymn

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came into our language thanks to Friedrich
Fritz, a missionary of German origin who

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settled in Spain after the proclamation of
freedom of worship. Fritz was a philanthropist

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nurse, founder of several institutions dedicated
to service. He made a hospice for

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orphaned children and a school for the
House of Peace. He was a nurse

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in the Prussian War. With Austria, he traveled to Italy and met the

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Waldenses closely. He founded several schools
in the congregations he visited in Spain with

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the aim of raising the cultural nuno
level of the evangelicals. Spaniards. He

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translated his own version of the Gospels
of Matthew, Mark, and Luke,

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the Acts of the Apostles, the
Epistle of Paul the Romans, and made

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an evangelical hymnal for Sunday school.