"I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"

Horatius Bonar; melody by Ralph Vaughan Williams

From the time I was only a boy, I can recall those words of Jesus that should bring us the greatest comfort. He raised his eyes to heaven and cried out to the Father in a burst of praise and thanksgiving, because the Father had hidden his secrets of love from the shrewd and the powerful in the world, and revealed them to little ones, the simple. And t…