How shrill the Gospel-Trumpet sounds!
What Joy thro’ all the earth rebounds!
The hills with Jesus’ praises ring,
The fruitful Valleys laugh and sing!
Life appears a Summer’s Day,
Twice as smoothly rolls away.
How shrill the Gospel-Trumpet sounds!
Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the mid-1750s manuscript “MS Richmond.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/551, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 324.
Publishing: Public Domain