Christ is the Way (Charles A. Tindley, Jr.)

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• (Posted 2022-08-03)  CPDL #70258:           

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2022-08-03).   Score information: A5, 1 page, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from New Songs of Paradise, 1916. All five stanzas included.

General Information

Title: Christ is the Way
First Line: Christ the way! in exaltation
Composer: Charles A. Tindley, Jr.
Lyricist: Charles Albert Tindley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 87. 87. 10 9. 10 9

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1916 in New Songs of Paradise, Edition 1, no. 20
Description: A gospel hymn. Perhaps more appropriate for a choir than for a congregation.

Original text and translations

English text 1. Christ the way; in exaltation; Though He stands on heights aflame; Glorious in transfiguration, He is always meek the same. Chorus He is the way to prefect salvation, He is the way to mansions above; His is the first of the new creation, Pattern of truth and fullness of love.

2. Christ the way; in self-denial; Fasting in the wilderness; He endured the tempter’s trial, Stood unmoved, the three-fold test, 3. Christ the way; when others wronged Him; Though He had not done amiss; Judas, with pretended virtue, Sold his Master for a kiss.

4. Jesus, while the soldiers tied Him, 'Mid the rabble’s hiss and jeer; Begged the freedom they denied Him, Just to heal a human ear. 5. Christ the way! Amid afflictions; Cursed and bruised in Pilate’s halls; False accused and contradicted, Lamb of God, He bore it all.