O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING


By Charles Wesley

Written on the first anniversary of his conversion, this has been the first hymn in all Methodist Hymn book editions but one. The original hymn had 18 stanzas.

Charles was the 18th of 19 children. At Oxford, with his brother John and George Whitefield, he formed Oxford Holy Club for disciplined Bible study, worship, communion and visitation to sick and imprisoned. Thirteen of its members sailed to Georgia to do missions work in 1735, and on the return trip they met the Moravian leader Zinzendorf; Charles' conversion took place in 1738. Upon the insistence of Whitefield, the Wesleys began open air "revivals" in 1739.

The Wesleys wrote 6,500 hymns, many in opposition to extreme Calvinism, hymns written with the intention of extolling salvation for all.

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