O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing

Charles Wesley (1707-1788) was never quite sure of his own birthday. It was after all, just before Christmas;
he was his mother’s eighteenth child, born some weeks premature, so small and frail that he seemed
more dead than alive. For two months he neither cried nor opened his eyes. But he was quite sure of the date of what he called his ‘second birth’ – May 21, 1738.   On that day he responded to the love and grace of God. He wrote this hymn a year later, ‘For the anniversary day of one’s conversion.’   According to Hymnary.org, this hymn has been published more than 1,700 times!
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