Worship for August 2, 2020
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About the Music:
This Sunday we mark our transition between organists with the absence of a prelude and postlude as we look forward to welcoming our wonderful new organist, Dan Miller, next week.
Our music this Sunday features two settings of the hymn text "Come O Thou Traveler Unknown" by Charles Wesley which is based on the Old Testament reading from Genesis, of Jacob wrestling with the angel, that is the subject of the sermon. The first, hymn 638, uses the early American tune Vernon and the second is a choral anthem by Erik Routley adapted as a vocal solo. Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of English hymns, having written over 6000 in his lifetime, and this text is considered to be one of his finest works. The great Isaac Watts, father of English hymnody, said, that single poem, "Wrestling Jacob", was worth all the verses he himself had written.