I was looking at "The Saints in Christ Are One in Every Place" last week and noticed a small musical feature in it. The hymn is sung to the tune "Woodlands." Here's the last musical phrase:
In the third verse, the text here is "Then be with Christ, to live forevermore." "Forevermore" is sung to a total of nine beats, the most of any word in the entire hymn, and this length provides a sense of the word's meaning.
