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‘The Kind of Weather We Had Yesterday’ takes its title from a curiously sedate and earthbound aside, which MacMillan spoke in the middle of a highly-charged passage of preaching. (It is not untypical of those living with dementia to suddenly switch to an unrelated topic of conversation.) His focal theme was two full cups: the one that ‘runneth over’, mentioned in the psalm, and the other – filled with suffering – which Christ asked the Father to take from him, at Gethsemane (Psalm 23.5, Matthew 26.39). MacMillan’s delivery combines the passion of a Welsh preacher’s hywl with the gusto of a sports commentator anticipating a score. The emotive and sometimes musical articulations, derived from the four days of sermon material, were collaged out of order, and overlaid contrapunctually in some cases. The effect is that of a somewhat disinhibited, elated, and emphatic speech. The jazz-like background loop combines sounds (such as a knock, click, and car accelerating) heard inside and outside the chapel during the intervals between the preacher’s pronouncements.
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The eternal Son, shining out
The eternal Son of God
The eternal Son, shining out
The eternal Son of God
That great Shepherd of the sheep
For the endless ages of eternity
In the shadow of death
He bore our sins in his own body on a tree
He paid the price of the guilt of your sin
To get hung in glory, heaven in his hand in the other, of his name as Saviour, wrenched them apart
To get human body in one hand and his human soul in the other, and they rendered them, and you see there they rendered them apart
The eternal Son, shining out
The eternal Son of God
The eternal Son, shining out
The eternal Son of God
That great Shepherd of the sheep
Here’s to the Father the eternal Father
It’s holding a cup
Beneath his hand comes down on it
Look at the cup: it’s full
And its full of the wrath of a holy and almighty God
For the endless ages of eternity
He is the Father, the eternal Father
To know the love of the Father, the eternal Father
He is the Father, the eternal Father
To know the love of the Father, the eternal Father
Kind of weather we had yesterday
Kind of weather we had yesterday
He is the Father, the eternal Father
To know the love of the Father, the eternal Father
He is the Father, the eternal Father
To know the love of the Father, the eternal Father
Kind of weather we had yesterday
Kind of weather we had yesterday
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