Judgment Anthem

or Hark you Mortals

BY JUSTIN MORGAN
1790

from Asahel Benhams Federal Harmony (New Haven: Printed by A. Morse, 1790)

Editing and typography 2013 Rachel Hall

 FH 43 JUDGMENT ANTHEM.


   
   




E Minor. Justin Morgan, 1790.







 Hark! Hark,you mortals,hear the trumpetSounding loud themighty roar, Hark, the arch angels voice
 

pro claim ing, Thou, old

 


Hark!
 
Hark!
   






 
  
 
Hark! Hark! Sound ing loud the might y roar, Hark, the arch an gels voice pro claim ing, Thou, old


  
 
    



 
   


10



time, shall be no 
more.

His loud trum pet, his loud trum pet
     
See the pur ple ban ner fly ing, Hear the

  


     



 
 
   

time, shall be no more. His loud trum pet, his loud trum pet rends the tombs: Ye dead, a wake! Hear the

 
   
  

       
  


 


19

  

 
judg ment char iot roll, roll.

  
 
 

    


 

 

   
   
     

 


  

 
judg ment char iot roll,

  
   


       

30



   




 





  

 

roll. Hear the sound of Christ vic to ri ous, Lo! he breaks thro yon der cloud! Midst ten thou sand, thou sand, thou sand, thou sand saints

       


 

       
roll.

3


          

   






Lively

40 Slow


    
 

   
 
Is it he who died on Cal vry, That was pierc ed with a spear! Tell us, ser aphs, you that

and angels,See the cru ci fi ed shine!

      



          


 


  

      


 
51 Slow


  

    
won derd, See, he ris es thro the air! Hail him! O! Hal le lu jah! Hal le lu jah!




   Hail him! O!      



   
Hail him! O!

   
Yes, tis Je sus, Hal le


 lu jah!
lu jah! Hal le

Hal le
lu jah!
 

4





  


  
    
 


Very Lively

62

    
O! Yes, tis Je sus! O! come quick ly! Hal le lu jah!

 





     

 
 

  
   
  

O! come quick ly! O! come quick ly! O! come quick ly! O! come quick ly!

 




    
   

O! come quick ly! O! come quick ly! Hal le lu jah!

    
 
   
O! come quick ly! O! come quick ly!


    
      
72 Slow


  
Come, Lord, come!

   
 


 
  


 
      
Hap py, hap py mourn ers, Hap py mourn ers, Hap py mourn ers, Lo! in clouds he comes, he comes!

 


   
      
Come, Lord, come!


5




Loud
    
 

 



Soft

81

 

All ye na tions now shall sing him Songs of ev er last ing joy. Now re demp tion,

    







 



     

   


         

   
View him smil ing; now de ter mind Ev ry e vil to de stroy; Now re demp tion,



 
  



 


  



 




91

 



 
 







 
 

long ex pect ed, See the sol emn pomp ap pear; All his peo ple, once re ject ed, Now shall meet him in the air. Hal le lu jah! Hal le lu jah!









     




 



 
 




 




     

 






 lu jah!

Hal



long ex pect ed, See the sol emn pomp ap pear; All his peo ple, once re ject ed, Now shall meet him in the air. Hal le le lu jah!

   
 

6
 



 

 


  

   




100



Wel come, wel come, bleed ing Lamb. Now his mer it, by the harp ers, Thro the ter nal deep re sounds; Now re splend ent shine his

       







   


         
 

 

 

       

  

       
Wel come, wel come, bleed ing Lamb. Now his mer it, by the harp ers, Thro the ter nal deep re sounds; Now re splend ent shine his

 


   






 

111

nail- prints, Ev ry eye shall see the wound!

 



They who piercd him shall at his ap pear ance wail.

 






   
They who piercd him shall at his ap pear ance wail.

 

 








  

nail- prints, Ev ry eye shall see the wound!
 
They who piercd him shall at

his ap





They who piercd him shall at

7
 



        
119

         
All who hate him must a sham ed






    





 


         


pear ance wail. Ev ry is land, sea, and moun tain, Heavn and earth shall flee a way. All who hate him must a sham ed

 
his ap pear ance wail.


   

 

      
130

 


        
    
Hear the trump pro claim the day. Come to judg ment, come to judg ment, come to judg ment, Stand be fore the son of man.




 


 

   
Hark!


 



     

 
  
Hear the trump pro claim the day. Come to judg ment, come to judg ment, come to judg ment, Stand be fore the son of man. Hark!

    
 Hark!

8
 

 
  
         
141 Loud

  

swells the sol emn sum mons loud. Tears the strong pil lars of the vault of heav en, Breaks up old

             
Hark the shrill out cries of the guilt y wretch es Live ly bright

   

  
Tears the strong pil lars of the vault of heav en,


  
Hark the shrill out cries of the guilt y wretch es

 
the arch an gel swells the sol emn sum mons loud. Tears the strong pil lars of the vault of heav en, Breaks up old


  
   
 
Hark the shrill
  
out
  
cries of the guilt y wretch es Live ly bright

   
swells the sol emn sum mons loud. Tears the strong, Tears the strong pil lars of the vault of heav en,
Hark the shrill, Hark the shrill out cries of the guilt y wretch es


      
  
152

 

mar ble, the re pose of princ es. Flames all a round them.

   
        
hor ror and a maz ing an guish. Gnaw ing with in them.




      
  
See the Jud ges


 
mar ble, the re pose of princ es. See the graves o pen and the bones a ris ing, Flames all a round them.


     
  
hor ror and a maz ing an guish. Stare thro their eye lids, While the liv ing worm lies Gnaw ing with in them.

    

9
 
   
 Brisk 
  Very Loud 
  
162



    
   
Down to hell, theres no re demp tion, Ev ry Christ less soul must go; Down to hell de part, de



    

   
hand a ris ing, Filld with ven geance on his foes. Down to hell de part, de




         
Down to hell, theres no re demp tion, Ev ry Christ less soul must go; Down to hell de part, de


 
   
 


Very Slow & Soft 





172 Brisk
  

     
part, de part you curs ed In to ev er last ing flames. Hear the Sav iors words of mer cy, Come you ran somd sin ners home, Swift and

     

         
part, de part you curs ed In to ev er last ing

    
 


     
part, de part you curs ed In to ev er

 
last ing flames.
    



10
 




Lively

&
Loud



  






  
183


joy ful in your jour ney To the pal ace of your God. See the souls that earth de spis ed, In ce les tial glo ries move, Hal le lu jahs

   

 
Joys ce les tial, hymns har mon ious In soft sym pho ny re sound; An gels, ser aphs,

 







   

    




    


See the souls that earth de spis ed, In ce les tial glo ries move, Hal le lu jahs


   

    

 




    
Joys ce les tial, hymns har mon ious In soft sym pho ny re sound; An gels, ser aphs,

 




 
 


1.

 





   
192

 
2.

big with won der, Prais ing Christs e ter nal love; Hal le lu jahs, hal le lu jahs E cho thro the realms of light.


harps and trum pets Swell the sweet an gel ic sound Hail al might y, Hail al might y Great e ter nal Lord a men.


 







 
1.
  
2.
 
 







 

 
 1.
 2.  


big with won der, Prais ing Christs e ter nal love; Hal le lu jahs, hal le lu jahs E cho thro the realms of light.



 






 
 


   1.
 2.  
harps and trum pets Swell the sweet an gel ic sound Hail al might y, Hail al might y Great e ter nal Lord a men.

   

11
EDITORIAL COMMENTS

Measure numbers are found at the beginning of each system.

Text: Morgan assembled the text from several different sources, including publications by Occom, Cennick, and Watts. See
Appendix B of Bandel, Sing the Lords Song in a Strange Land, 1981 for an analysis of the text. I have added punctuation, mostly
following William Hausers Hesperian Harp , 1848.
m.1: In the Rudiments of Psalmody (p. 9 of the Federal Harmony ), the backwards C time signature indicates the third mode
of common time, which contains one semibreve [whole note] and two beats, one down and one up, two seconds [in total].
This definition was common to other books of the era.
m.32: In all editions before the modern era, the anthem alternates between E minor and Eb major. Karl Kroeger (1997) proposed that
Morgans intention was to alternate between parallel major and minor keys; here, E minor and E major are used.
m.32: In the Easy Instructor and subsequent shape-note editions, the counter/alto solo is in the minor key and the key change
comes at the beginning of the treble solo (m.45).
m.139: In shape-note editions, the Hark! solos alternate between 5-la (B) and 1-la (E), rather than 4-sol (A) and 1-la.
m.176: The counter/alto is silent on the word flames in the original. This may be a misprint, or perhaps it is word painting.
m.199: The first mode of common time indicated here contains one semibreve, or its quantity, between each single bar, and four
beats, two down and two up, four seconds of time [in total].

12