The Kingdom, Op. 51: II. At the Beautiful Gate (The singers are before the altar)

The singers are before the altar they make sweet melody, and sing the words of David, the sweet psalmist he beautified the feasts that the temple might sound from morning. The Lord hath prepared a sacrifice the day of the First-Fruits. This man, lame from his mother's womb, is carried daily to the Beautiful Gate To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed let us give alms of such things as we have. The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the temple, and He healed them, He knew their sorrows Himself took their infirmities, and bare their sicknesses. He hath looked down from the height of His sanctuary, to hear their sighing. The service of the Lord is prepared the day of the First-Fruits: let us go into the house of the Lord.