Hayes - "To God Be the Glory" (Josh Markley, baritone)

SOLO To God Be the Glory (music by Robert Lowry, arr. Mark Hayes, 2011)
Joshua Markley, baritone; Dale Morehouse, piano
St. John's Methodist - Kansas City, MO
November 13, 2022
“To God Be the Glory” was written in 1875 by Fanny Crosby, the prodigious American poet and educator, and it remains one of the most popular of her more than 8,000 hymns. This text is different from Crosby’s other hymns (and most gospel hymns) because, rather than focus on our very personal experience of God, the words are wholly about God and His perfect glory. Crosby’s words and Robert Lowry’s tune are set by Kansas City’s own Mark Hayes.
To God be the glory, great things He has done;
So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,
Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,
And opened the life gate that all may go in.
Refrain: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory, great things He has done.
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
To every believer the promise of God;
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.
Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done,
And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;
But purer, and higher, and greater will be
Our wonder, our victory, when Jesus we see. REFRAIN
(Fanny J. Crosby, 1875)