51 And let our bodies part. Boylston 4v

Poet: Charles Wesley, 1749. Meter: 6 6 8 6 (Short Meter).
Another prayer for the dismissal of a Christian fellowship, a prayer that alt- hough “our bodies part,” our souls remain in fellowship with each other and with Christ.
Tune Boylston
Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan.