Bilingual
I Am A Stranger Here
- Words:
- Dr. E. T. Cassel / V. Mendoza
- Music:
- Flora H. Cassel
Sheet music
- 1I am a stranger here, within a foreign land;My home is far away, upon a golden strand;Ambassador to be of realms beyond the sea,I'm here on business for my King.This is the message that I bring,A message angels fain would sing:"O be ye reconciled,“Thus saith my Lord and King,"O be ye reconciled to God."
- 2This is the King's command: that all men, ev'rywhere,Repent and turn away from sin's seductive snare;That all who will obey, with Him shall reign for aye,And that's my business for my King.This is the message that I bring,A message angels fain would sing:"O be ye reconciled,“Thus saith my Lord and King,"O be ye reconciled to God."
- 3My home is brighter far than Sharon's rosy plain,Eternal life and joy thru-out its vast domain;My Sov’reign bids me tell how mortals there may dwell,And that's my business for my King.This is the message that I bring,A message angels fain would sing:"O be ye reconciled,“Thus saith my Lord and King,"O be ye reconciled to God."
In the hymnals
- Written in 1902, the words are in 175 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.