![]() ![]() ![]() He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. Each stanza encourages us to tell the good news and praise the "Lord of life," and ends with an exciting three-fold "alleluia."Įducated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Alington was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. This text should not be mistaken for its Christmas counterpart "Good Christian Friends, Rejoice" (355) both texts originally began, "Good Christian men, rejoice."Ī strong text for Easter, "Good Christians All" rings in the victory of Christ's resurrections so that "all the world" will know the news. Osborne ( PHH 395) has written of Alington's stanzas, “They vibrate with excitement, they utter the encouragement of victory, and they stir the heart to praise and thanksgiving" ( If Such Holy Song, 469). The hymn was published in Songs of Praise (1931). Leonards, Hertfordshire, England, 1955) wrote this text for Melchior Vulpius's tune GELOBT SEI GOTT. While Headmaster of Eton College, Cyril A. ![]()
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