Hino " BEAUTIFUL BECKONING HANDS " com letra e música de Charles C. Luther

Hino " BEAUTIFUL BECKONING HANDS " com letra e música de Charles C. Luther

O AUTOR

Charles Carroll Luther (1847-1924)

 Nasceu no dia 17 de maio de 1847, em Worcester, Massachusetts e faleceu no dia 4 de Novembro de 1924 Farmingdale, Long Island, New York.

Frequentou a Universidade Brown e, antes de ser consagrado ministro batista, em 1886, trabalhou como jornalista e evangelista. Pastoeou na Primeira Igreja Batista de Bridgeport, Connecticut, entre 1891 e 1893. Escreveu cerca de 25 hinos entre eles “Beautiful Beckoning Hands e o “Must I Go, and Empty Handed” e compilou o Temple Chimes (Os carrilhões do Templo).

Hino ‘BEAUTIFUL BECKONING HANDS’

Letra : Charles C. Luther, 1893

Música: Charles C. Luther

BEAUTIFUL BECKONING HANDS

Words & Music: Charles C. Luther, 1893

Beautiful hands at the gateway tonight,

Faces all shining with radiant light;

Eyes looking down from yon heavenly home,

Beautiful hands they are beckoning "Come."

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Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

Calling the dear ones to heavenly lands;

Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

Beautiful, beautiful, beckoning hands.

Beckoning hands of a mother whose love

Sacrificed life her devotion to prove;

Hands of a father to memory dear,

Beckon up higher the waiting ones here.

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Beautiful hands of a little one, see!

Baby voice calling, O mother, for thee;

Rosy cheeked darling, the light of the home,

Taken so early is beckoning "Come."

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Beckoning hands of a husband, a wife,

Watching and waiting the loved one of life;

Hands of a brother, a sister, a friend,

Out from the gateway tonight they extend.

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Brightest and best of that glorious throng,

Center of all and the theme of their song;

Jesus, our Savior, the piercèd One stands,

Lovingly calling with beckoning hands.

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