This is another song for “Christ the King” this time from RS’s parish. The text is by Charles Wesley and the tune is DARWELL by John Darwell. There are lots of traditional hymns with this theme from an era where monarchs were a given I suppose. It’s harder to write in this vein now I suspect.
Hymnary has the text and sheet music, with their usual wonderful links to information about the tune and its authors.
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> It’s harder to write in this vein now I suspect.
That’s the Australian in you. Plenty of people have no trouble writing this way, still.
The use of regal language for God has made more sense to me since moving to Europe – people here relate to monarchy as a social system in a way that really surprises me. (And I’m living in a self-proclaimed Republic!).
What surprised me even more was the reference to bishops as “princes of the Church” – again, people here really think that way, whereas I just see it as weird.