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‘The Lord is King’

The Lord is King! lift up thy voice,
O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice;
from world to world the joy shall ring,
The Lord omnipotent is King.

The Lord is King! who then shall dare
resist His will, distrust His care,
or murmur at His wise decrees,
or doubt His royal promises?

He reigns! ye saints, exult your strains;
your God is King, your Father reigns;
and He is at the Father’s side,
the Man of love, the Crucified.

Alike pervaded by His eye
all parts of His dominion lie:
this worlds of ours, and worlds unseen,
and thin the boundary between!

One Lord one empire all secures;
He reigns, and life and death are yours;
through earth and heaven one song shall ring,
‘The Lord omnipotent is King!’

Sixty four years ago Madge and I sang this hymn when we were
married. I had just finished my time as a National Serviceman in
The Royal Air Force serving as a ‘Medic’ at RAF Marham in
Norfolk. Marham was then the V-Bomber Station with about 3,000
families. With Regulars and other National Service men we ( that
is my twin brother) worked in a 16 bed Sick-quarters, dealing with
all ranks of staff and families under the control of a couple of
Squadron Leaders (doctors).

But I’m getting off the subject! So back to the hymn. It was written
by Josiah Conder who was born in 1789. In one way he could be
seen as a very fortunate child, for his father had a bookshop,
where books filled the shelves and probably made piles on the

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