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<h2>JESUS SHALL REIGN</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“He will rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.” Psalm 72:8</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_a_watts_i.jpg" alt="Isaac Watts (1674-1748)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="132.666666666667" height="184.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_watts_i.html" target="_blank">Isaac Watts</a>, <em>The Psalms of David</em>, 1719.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Duke Street,” attributed to <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_hatton_j.html" target="_blank">John Hatton</a>, 1793 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_d_duke_st.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Truro,” Williams’ <em>Psalmodia Evangelica</em>, 1789 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_t_r_truro.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>G. J. Stevenson’s <em>Notes on the Methodist Hymn Book</em> relates:</p>
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<p>Perhaps one of the most interesting occasions on which this hymn was used was that on which King George, the sable, of the South Sea Islands, but of blessed memory, gave a new constitution to his people, exchanging a heathen for a Christian form of government. Under the spreading branches of the banyan trees sat some thousand natives from Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa, on Whitsunday, 1862, assembled for Divine worship. Foremost amongst them all sat King George himself. Around him were
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seated old chiefs and warriors who had shared with him the dangers and fortunes of many a battle—men whose eyes were dim, and whose powerful frames were bowed down with the weight of years. But old and young alike rejoiced together in the joys of that day, their faces most of them radiant with Christian joy, love, and hope. It would be impossible to describe the deep feeling manifested when the solemn service began, by the entire audience singing Dr. Watts’
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hymn…</p>
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<p>Who so much as they could realize the full meaning of the poet’s words? For they had been rescued from the darkness of heathenism and cannibalism and they were that day met for the first time under a Christian constitution, under a Christian king, and with Christ Himself reigning in the hearts of most of those present. That was indeed Christ’s kingdom set up in the earth.</p>
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<p>Jesus shall reign wherever the sun<br>
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Does his successive journeys run;<br>
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His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,<br>
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Till moons shall wax and wane no more.</p>
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<p>Behold the islands with their kings,<br>
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And Europe her best tribute brings;<br>
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From north to south the princes meet,<br>
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To pay their homage at his feet.</p>
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<p>There Persia, glorious to behold,<br>
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There India shines in eastern gold;<br>
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And barb’rous nations at his word<br>
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Submit, and bow, and own their Lord.</p>
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<p>To him shall endless prayer be made,<br>
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And praises throng to crown His head;<br>
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His Name like sweet perfume shall rise<br>
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With every morning sacrifice.</p>
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<p>People and realms of every tongue<br>
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Dwell on His love with sweetest song;<br>
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And infant voices shall proclaim<br>
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Their early blessings on His Name.</p>
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<p>Blessings abound wherever He reigns;<br>
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The prisoner leaps to lose his chains;<br>
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The weary find eternal rest,<br>
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And all the sons of want are blessed.</p>
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<p>Where He displays His healing power,<br>
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Death and the curse are known no more:<br>
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In Him the tribes of Adam boast<br>
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More blessings than their father lost.</p>
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<p>Let every creature rise and bring<br>
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Peculiar honors to our King;<br>
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Angels descend with songs again,<br>
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And earth repeat the loud amen!</p>
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<p>Great God, whose universal sway<br>
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The known and unknown worlds obey,<br>
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Now give the kingdom to Thy Son,<br>
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Extend His power, exalt His throne.</p>
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<p>The scepter well becomes His hands;<br>
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All heav’n submits to His commands;<br>
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His justice shall avenge the poor,<br>
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And pride and rage prevail no more.</p>
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<p>With power He vindicates the just,<br>
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And treads th’oppressor in the dust:<br>
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His worship and His fear shall last<br>
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Till hours, and years, and time be past.</p>
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<p>As rain on meadows newly mown,<br>
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So shall He send his influence down:<br>
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His grace on fainting souls distills,<br>
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Like heav’nly dew on thirsty hills.</p>
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<p>The heathen lands, that lie beneath<br>
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The shades of overspreading death,<br>
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Revive at His first dawning light;<br>
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And deserts blossom at the sight.</p>
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<p>The saints shall flourish in His days,<br>
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Dressed in the robes of joy and praise;<br>
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Peace, like a river, from His throne<br>
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Shall flow to nations yet unknown.</p>
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