Computer playing my revised arrangement of "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains." I've added new music for "Glory to God in the Highest."

This is a stirring, uplifting Christmas arrangement.

Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains & Glory To God in the Highest

What Fair One is This, From the Wilderness Travelling 
By W. W. Phelps, Adapted by Jared Bernotski

What fair one is this, from the wilderness travelling,
Looking for Christ, the belov’d of her heart?
O, this is the church, fair bride of the Savior,
Which with every idol is willing to part
While men in contention are desperately howling,
And Babylon’s bells are mournfully tolling,
As though all the craft of her merchants was failing,
And Jesus was coming to reign on the earth.

The sweet voice of grace has sounded from heaven;
It makes people joyful when they understand
How saints homeward bound let nothing detain them,
Determined by goodness to reach promised land.
But haughty professors keep crying, “delusion,”
With hypocrites scoffing, “Heed not, this sly confusion,”
While truth is poured out in a blessed effusion,
That brings souls rejoicing to see priestcraft fall.

Keep oil in your lamps, the bridegroom is coming,
As prophets and pilgrims of old have declared;
Now Israel, the favored of God, is beginning
To enter the feast for the righteous prepared.
The rose in the desert and fountains are springing;
The heavenly music of Zion is ringing,
And saints lay their tithes on the altar an offering;
They thus prove the Lord and his blessing receive.

The name of Jehovah is worthy of praising,
A work and a wonder his latter-day theme;
The elders and sisters a standard are raising,
Inviting each nation to find truth supreme:
The gospel of kindness the faithful are preaching,
And all who will hear them, they freely are teaching.
For thus is the vision of Daniel fulfilling:
The stone of the mountain will soon fill the earth.

From A Collection of Sacred Hymns, collected by Emma Smith, 1835, #3

1. Kent Larsen - Times and Seasons - March 14, 2014 - timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/…rness-travling/

2. Ardis E Parshall - Keepapitchinin, the Mormon History blog - January 23, 2015 -www.keepapitchinin.org/2015/01/23/mi…m-young-1833/

What Fair One Is This

O Savior Dear
Text Adapted from Charles V. Anderson by Jared Bernotski
Music by Jared Bernotski

O Savior dear, who bore my sin,
Who bled and died that I might win
A glorious place in heav’n above,
I’ll praise Thy wondrous love.

Give me more strength, I humbly pray,
To walk the straight and narrow way;
To bear my cross, whate’er it be,
And put my trust in Thee.

Lord, fill my soul with radiant light,
That I may love the cause of right;
I’ll do Thy will and shout Thy name
To lift some soul from shame.

O when my time shall come to go,
And leave all things on earth below,
Grant then that I Thy voice may hear,
Rejoicing, Savior dear.

Ardis E Parshall - Keepapitchinin, the Mormon History blog - February 12, 2015 - http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2015/02/12/o-savior-dear/

O Savior Dear

Text: Adapted from an unknown author, based on Leviticus 25: 10 - 19 & Alma 28:14

Music by Jared Bernotski (b. 1976). Listen to Andrew Remillard's recording here: https://youtu.be/BMLMjYyjWPE

Go, Sound the Jubilee

1. One night as I lay musing, the Spirit said to me,
“Go, blow the gospel trumpet, go, sound the jubilee!
Go, tell them I am risen, that death they need not fear;
Go, sound the welcome summons, be thou my messenger.”

2. The harvest fields are ripe’ning, but laborers are few,
Our Zion now doth languish, O shepherds, where are you?
Their blood will cry against you, if idle you should be;
The judgment day is coming, go, sound the jubilee.

3. Please hasten sleepy children, whom Christ hath taught the way, 
Why lie ye on your couches? Rise up, no longer stay;
Sound joyful invitations to join the feast today;
Go, labor in the vineyard, from Jesus never stray.

4. We’ll bid farewell to sorrow, to sickness, fear, and pain,
And mount aloft to heaven, forever there to reign,
Our anthems praising Jesus above th’ethereal blue,
But O, poor careless sinner, what will become of you?

5. Come, sorry slaves of error, who lie exposed to death,
Who’ve cast your lots with Satan, that pleasure seeking thief.
He flatters and misleads you, yet never sets you free
So hearken to the gospel that sounds the jubilee,
Find freedom in the gospel that sounds the jubilee.

Prelude On Jared Bernotski's "Go, - Sound - The - Jubilee" By Thurlow - Weed

Does The Journey Seem Long Improv With Vocals

A new setting of Joseph Fielding Smith's hymn text:

1. Does the journey seem long,
The path rugged and steep?
Are there briars and thorns on the way?
Do sharp stones cut your feet
As you struggle to rise
To the heights thru the heat of the day?

2. Is your heart faint and sad,
Your soul weary within,
As you toil 'neath your burden of care?
Does the load heavy seem
You are forced now to lift?
Is there no one your burden to share?

3. Let your heart be not faint
Now the journey's begun;
There is One who still beckons to you.
So look upward in joy
And take hold of his hand;
He will lead you to heights that are new--

4. A land holy and pure,
Where all trouble doth end,
And your life shall be free from all sin,
Where no tears shall be shed,
For no sorrows remain.
Take Christ's hand and with him enter in.

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