Sometimes, you just need something to play during a missions conference.

A thoughtful rendering of Rescue the Perishing using some more modern-sounding chords is followed by (two times through) Lord, Lay Some Soul Upon My Heart, with slight harmonic modifications. Then comes a rousing march-like arrangement of Cutler's tune Macedonia.

The quartet here is two trumpets, one ternor trombone, and one bass trombone. The bass trombone is easy to get around with a tenor by simply transposing the notes that are too low up one octave.

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RESCUE THE PERISHING

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Rescue the perishing,
Care for the dying,
Jesus is merciful,
Jesus will save.

Fanny Crosby - William H. Doane

LORD, LAY SOME SOUL UPON MY HEART

Lord, lay some soul upon my heart,
And love that soul through me;
And may I nobly do my part
To win that soul for Thee.

Leon Tucker - Ira Sankey

MACEDONIA

The vision of a dying world
Is vast before our eyes;
We feel the heartbeat of its need,
We hear its feeble cries;
Lord Jesus Christ, revive Thy church
In this, her crucial hour!
Lord Jesus Christ, awake Thy church
With Spirit-given power.

The warning bell of judgement tolls,
Above us looms the cross;
Around are ever-dying souls--
How great, how great the loss!
O Lord, constrain and move Thy church
The glad news to impart!
And Lord, as Thou dost stir Thy church,
Begin within my heart.

Anne Ortlund - Henry Cutler

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MP3 sound sample: entire piece (synthesizer/midi).



MISSIONS MEDLEY, arranged by Tom Kirkland for brass quartet consisting of two trumpets, trombone, and bass trombone, comes in a pdf file of 503K, with a four-page score, four two-page parts, and a license page, thirteen pages in all. Performance time should be about 3:20.