The Day of Resurrection Hymn Story
EASTERTIDE brings worldwide joy, and its coming is celebrated in many ways. Dean Stanley once penned a description of an Easter celebration in the Greek Church in which the hymn, “The day of resurrection,” was sung in the original Greek, as it was first written, and with all its original beauty:
Dean Stanley |
countenances beaming with delight, as though to each one separately some wonderful happiness had been proclaimed; and so, in truth it was. And all the while, rising above the mingling of many sounds, each one of which was a sound of gladness, the aged priests were distinctly heard chanting forth this glorious old hymn of victory m tones so loud and clear that they seemed to have regained their youth to tell the world that Christ is risen from the dead.”