The greatest blessing of Christian faith is our everlasting tie to God. With that comes an equally long-lived bond with other believers. The nineteenth-century hymn Blest Be the Tie that Binds speaks of this earthly bond which one day will be perpetuated in heaven.
Our arrangement for sixteen handbells is relatively easy, and will work well in your service.
Blest be the tie that binds / Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship our spirit finds / Is like to that above.
Before our Father’s throne, / We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one / Our comforts and our cares.
We share our mutual woes; / Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows / The sympathizing tear.
When we asunder part, / It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again.
From sorrow, toil, and pain, / And sin we shall be free;
And perfect love and oneness reign / Through all eternity.
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