Scripture Verse

Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Revelation 19:6

Introduction

Words: J. Thur­low Kom­mer, 1911.

Music: Ol­iv­er George E. Ol­iv­er (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Kom­mer (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

portrait
George Oliver (1856–1941)

About four years ago J. Thur­low Kom­mer, a Phi­la­del­phia [Penn­syl­van­ia] bu­si­ness man, wrote, Sing out your hal­le­lu­jahs, and of its in­cep­tion he writes, I had been think­ing of God’s tre­men­dous love, par­ti­cu­larly as ex­pressed in the gift of His Son, and the great ob­li­ga­tion rest­ing up­on all His crea­tures to give Him praise. Mr. Kom­mer has been writ­ing re­li­gious verse for about ten years.

Carl Fowl­er Price
The Christ­ian Ad­vo­cate, No­vem­ber 28, 1912

Lyrics

Sing out your hal­le­lu­jahs,
Ye ran­somed of the Lord!
Sing praise to God our Fa­ther,
By myr­iad hosts ad­ored!
Sing of His grace and glo­ry,
Sing of His love and might!
Join with the choir of Hea­ven
To sound His praise aright!

Sing out your hal­le­lu­jahs!
Sing of the vic­to­ry won
O’er Sa­tan’s de­mon forc­es
By God’s eter­nal Son!
Sing of the fount of cleans­ing!
Sing of the lost re­stored!
Sing prais­es with­out ceas­ing
To your re­deem­ing Lord.

Sing out your hal­le­lu­jahs,
And let your voic­es rise
In loud­est ac­cla­ma­tion
Until they reach the skies!
Sing till the songs of Hea­ven
Shall blend with songs of earth
In glo­ry, laud and hon­or
To our Re­deem­er’s worth.