This song turned up in Gather Comprehensive and here in Gather 3rd edition. It is a gathering song by Rae E. Whitney set to STUTTGART.
Gather only has a handbell arrangement available, likely because STUTTGART is too well known to bother making a new arrangement to copyright, and the words are published by Selah Publishing. They must be an interesting crowd, because where you can purchase her hymn book, they have given us a reprint of a review that is not entirely glowing.
I can’t find the words anywhere, but look for an old copy of Gather Comprehensive or Gather 3rd edition.
To hear this sung in a normal church service go to 5 minute mark in this video.
I believe that most parishes are involved with OneLicense. Their website is a great source of lyrics, as it provides congregational copies (melody-line/text) of most hymns included in GIA, OCP, and Willow hymnals. Unfortunately, Oxford University Press appears not to allow their texts to be included, and OCP will only include public domain and lyrics copyrighted to them.
For this hymn, you can find the words at:
https://www.onelicense.net/search?term=&hymnal=16&hymn=851.
Thanks, Chris.
I clicked your link and there it was. That also means the song survived to Gather 4th edition.
cheers
Geoff
One thing I should have added was that if you’re not logged in, the site won’t necessarily highlight the version associated with the hymnal you selected; in this case it finds the Gather 4 version rather than Gather 3. The annoyance with that is that GIA have made all their Gather 4 preview pictures of ultra-low resolution, like looking at a picture on a circa 1980 computer! You can dig down to get better preview pictures from their other hymnals.