Arise, my soul! with rapture rise! — a morning hymn of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1825)

“Arise, my soul! with rapture rise!” is the incipit to Hymn №2 in Barnett A. Elzas’s The Sabbath Service and Miscellaneous Prayers (1916), an edited republication of “The Sabbath service and miscellaneous prayers, adopted by the Reformed society of Israelites, founded in Charleston, S. C., November 21, 1825.” The hymn appears on pages 55-56 without any additional attribution.

Categories:

Attaining consciousness

Tags:

19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., ascent, English vernacular prayer, hymns, waking

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Reformed Society of Israelites