This track is a bodge up of 3 different events, beautifully smoothed over to give you a recording of one of the 6.30pm evening service classics from CCC in the late 1980s. The singing of the selected verses is from Aberystwyth, Wales in 1986 with a tinsey-winsey  bit from Clifton and an interlude (mostly touched up) from Bristol Cathedral at dates not recorded. Interludes in hymns are very useful for raising the ‘emotional’ and spiritual temperature as well as being extremely useful for giving time for the collection to be taken which is a highly spiritual business.
I do not jest.

We have a gospel to proclaim
Good news for men in all the earth;
The gospel of a Saviour’s name:
We sing His glory, tell His worth.

Tell of His birth at Bethlehem,
Not in a royal house or hall
But in a stable dark and dim:
The Word made flesh, a light for all.

Tell of His death at Calvary,
Hated by those He came to save;
In lonely suffering on the cross
For all He loved His life He gave.

Now we rejoice to name Him King:
Jesus is Lord of all the earth.
This gospel message we proclaim:
We sing His glory, tell His worth.

Words: Edward Joseph Burns (b. 1938)
Hymn Tune: ‘Fulda’, William Gardiner
Arrangement: Berj Topalian (1983)

William Gardiner (1770 – 1853) English Composer and concert organiser is best remembered for being instrumental in giving Leicester the privilege of being the first place in England to hear the music of Beethoven. In 1793, in the general flight from Bonn at the approach of the French Republican troops, the Abbe Döbler, chaplain to the Elector of Cologne, came to England and struck up a friendship William Gardiner. Amongst the music that Döbler brought over in his luggage was a copy of Beethoven’s Violin Trio in E flat, which Gardiner played one evening at the Bowater house – three years before the work was published in London.