file which includes the original illustrations4 ,see #ahddd-;h4htm or #ahddd-;h4zip3 7https3_/_/www4gutenberg4org_/dirs_/#a_/ h_/d_/d_/ahddd_/ahddd-;h_/#ahddd-;h4htm7 or 7https3_/_/www4gutenberg4org_/dirs_/#a_/ h_/d_/d_/ahddd_/ahddd-;h4zip7 ,,the ,,story ,,of ,,the ,,hymns ,,and ,,tunes by ,,theron ,,brown and ,,hezekiah ,,butterworth ,multae terricolis linguae1 coelestibus una4 ,ten thousand1 thousand are their tongues1 ,but all their joys are one4 ,new ,york1 #aijf ,frontispiece3 ,thomas ,ken ,,contents4 ,,preface1 v ,,introduction1 ix #a4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,praise ,,and ,,worship1 #a #b4 ,,some ,,hymns ,,of ,,great ,,witnesses1 #ec #c4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,christian ,,devotion ,,and ,,experience1 #ajj #d4 ,,missionary ,,hymns1 #afe #e4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,suffering ,,and ,,trust1 #aij #f4 ,,christian ,,ballads1 #bcg #g4 ,,old ,,revival ,,hymns1 #bfb #h4 ,,sunday ,,school ,,hymns1 #bic #i4 ,,patriotic ,,hymns1 #cba #aj4 ,,sailor',s ,,hymns1 #cec #aa4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,wales1 #cgh #ab4 ,,field ,,hymns1 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,story of the ,hymns1 which had been a popular text book on that subject for nearly a generation1 the publishers requested him to prepare such a work1 reviewing the whole field of hymnology and its literature down to date4 ,he undertook the task1 but left it unfinished at his lamented death1 committing the manuscript to me in his last hours to arrange and complete4 ,to do this proved a labor of considerable magnitude1 since what had been done showed evidence of the late author's failing strength1 and when1 in a conference with the publishers1 it was proposed to combine the two books of ,mr4 ,butterworth1 the ,story of the ,hymns and the ,story of the ,tunes1 in one volume1 the task was doubled4 ,the charming popular style and story-telling gift of the well-known compiler of these books had kept them in demand1 the one for thirty and the other for fifteen years1 but later information had discounted some of their historic and biographical matter1 and1 while many of the monographs were too meagre1 others were unduly long4 ,besides1 the ,story of the ,tunes1 so far from being the counterpart of the ,story of the ,hymns1 bore no special relationship to it1 only a small portion of its selections answering to any in the hymn-list of the latter book4 ,for a personal friend and practically unknown writer1 to follow ,mr4 ,butterworth1 and improve his earlier work to the more modern conditions1 was a venture of no little difficulty and delicacy4 ,the result is submitted as simply a conscientious effort to give the best of the old with the new4 ,so far as was possible1 matter from the two previous books1 and from the crude manuscript1 has been used1 and passages here and there transcribed1 but so much of independent plan and original research has been necessary in arranging and verifying the substance of the chapters that the ,story of the ,hymns and ,tunes is in fact a new volume rather than a continuation4 ,the chapter containing the account of the ,gospel ,hymns is recent work with scarcely an exception1 and the one on the ,hymns of ,wales is entirely new4 ,without increasing the size of this volume beyond easy purchase and convenient use1 it was impossible to discuss the great oratorios and dramatic set-pieces1 festival and occasional1 and only passing references are made to them or their authors4 ,among those who have helped me in my work special acknowledgements are due to ,mr4 ,hubert ,p4 ,main of ,newark1 ,n4,j42 ,messrs4 ,hughes ,son of ,wrexham1 ,wales2 the ,american ,tract ,society1 ,new ,york2 ,mr4 ,william ,t4 ,meek1 ,mrs4 ,a4,j4 ,gordon1 ,mr4 ,paul ,foster1 ,mr4 ,george ,douglas1 and ,revs4 ,john ,r4 ,hague and ,edmund ,f4 ,merriam of ,boston2 ,professor ,william ,l4 ,phelps of ,new ,haven1 ,conn42 ,mrs4 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates of ,new ,york2 ,rev4 ,franklin ,g4 ,mc,keever of ,new ,london1 ,conn42 and ,rev4 ,arthur ,s4 ,phelps of ,greeley1 ,colorado4 ,further obligations are gratefully remembered to ,oliver ,ditson ,co4 for answers to queries and access to publications1 to the ,historic-and-,geneological ,society and the custodians and attendants of the ,boston ,public ,library 7notably in the ,music ,department7 for their uniform courtesy and pains in placing every resource within my reach4 ,,theron ,,brown4 ,boston1 ,may #aeth1 #aijf4 ,,introduction4 ,augustine defines a hymn as praise to ,god with song1 and another writer calls hymn-singing a devotional approach to ,god in our emotions1--which of course applies to both the words and the music4 ,this religious emotion1 reverently acknowledging the ,divine ,being in song1 is a constant element1 and wherever felt it makes the song a worship1 irrespective of sect or creed4 ,an eminent ,episcopal divine1 7says the ,christian ,register17 one ,trinity ,sunday1 at the close of his sermon1 read three hymns by ,unitarian authors3 one to ,god the ,father1 by ,samuel ,longfellow1 one to ,jesus1 by ,theodore ,parker1 and one to the ,holy ,spirit1 by ,n4,l4 ,frothingham4 ,there1 he said1 you have the ,trinity--,father1 ,son1 and ,holy ,ghost4 ,it is natural to speak of hymns as poems1 indiscriminately1 for they have the same structure4 ,but a hymn is not necessarily a poem1 while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem4 ,imagination makes poems2 devotion makes hymns4 ,there can be poetry without emotion1 but a hymn never4 ,a poem may argue2 a hymn must not4 ,in short to be a hymn1 what is written must express spiritual feelings and desires4 ,the music of faith1 hope and charity will be somewhere in its strain4 ,philosophy composes poems1 but not hymns4 ,it is no love-symphony we hear when the lion thinkers roar1 some blunt writer has said4 ,the moles of ,science have never found the heavenly dove's nest1 and the ,sea of ,reason touches no shore where balm for sorrow grows4 ,on the contrary there are thousands of true hymns that have no standing at the court of the muses4 ,even ,cowper's ,olney hymns1 as ,goldwin ,smith has said1 have not any serious value as poetry4 ,hymns rarely have1 he continues4 ,there is nothing in them on which the creative imagination can be exercised4 ,hymns can be little more than the incense of a worshipping soul4 ,a fellow-student of ,phillips ,brooks tells us that most of his verse he wrote rapidly without revising1 not putting much thought into it but using it as the vehicle and outlet of his feelings4 ,it was the sign of responding love or gratitude and joy4 ,to produce a hymn one needs something more exalting than poetic fancy2 an influence --subtler than the sun-light in the leaf-bud ,that thrills thro' all the forest1 making ,may4 ,it is the ,divine ,spirit wakening the human heart to lyric language4 ,religion sings2 that is true1 though all religions do not sing4 ,there is no voice of sacred song in ,islamism4 ,the muezzin call from the minarets is not music4 ,one listens in vain for melody among the worshippers of the ,light of ,asia4 ,the hum of pagoda litanies1 and the shouts and gongs of idol processions are not psalms4 ,but many historic faiths have lost their melody1 and we must go far back in the annals of ethnic life to find the songs they sung4 ,worship appears to have been a primitive human instinct2 and even when many gods took the place of ,one in the blinder faith of men it was nature worship making deities of the elements and addressing them with supplication and praise4 ,ancient hymns have been found on the monumental tablets of the cities of ,nimrod2 fragments of the ,orphic and ,homeric hymns are preserved in ,greek anthology2 many of the ,vedic hymns are extant in ,india2 and the exhumed stones of ,egypt have revealed segments of psalm-prayers and liturgies that antedate history4 ,dr4 ,wallis ,budge1 the ,english ,orientalist1 notes the discovery of a priestly hymn two thousand years older than the time of ,moses1 which invokes ,one ,supreme ,being who cannot be figured in stone4 ,so far as we have any real evidence1 however1 the ,hebrew people surpassed all others in both the custom and the spirit of devout song4 ,we get snatches of their inspired lyrics in the song of ,moses and ,miriam1 the song of ,deborah and ,barak1 and the song of ,hannah 7sometimes called the ,old ,testament ,magnificat71 in the hymns of ,david and ,solomon and all the ,temple ,psalms1 and later where the ,new ,testament gives us the ,gloria of the ,christmas angels1 the thanksgiving of ,elizabeth 7benedictus minor71 ,mary's ,magnificat1 the song of ,zacharias 7benedictus major71 the nunc dimittis of ,simeon1 and the celestial ascriptions and hallelujahs heard by ,st4 ,john in his ,patmos dream4 ,for what we know of the first formulated human prayer and praise we are mostly indebted to the ,hebrew race4 ,they seem to have been at least the only ancient nation that had a complete psalter--and their collection is the mother hymn-book of the world4 ,probably the first form of hymn-worship was the plain-song--a declamatory unison of assembled singers1 every voice on the same pitch1 and within the compass of five notes--and so continued1 from whatever may have stood for plain-song in ,tabernacle and ,temple days down to the earliest centuries of the ,christian church4 ,it was mere melodic progression and volume of tone1 and there were no instruments--after the captivity4 ,possibly it was the memory of the harps hung silent by the rivers of ,babylon that banished the timbrel from the sacred march and the ancient lyre from the post-exilic synagogues4 ,only the ,feast trumpet was left4 ,but the ,jews sang4 ,jesus and his disciples sang4 ,paul and ,silas sang2 and so did the post-apostolic ,christians2 but until towards the close of the #afth century there were no instruments allowed in religious worship4 ,st4 ,hilary1 ,bishop of ,poitiers has been called the father of ,christian hymnology4 ,about the middle of the #dth century he regulated the ecclesiastical song-service1 wrote chant music 7to ,scripture words or his own7 and prescribed its place and use in his choirs4 ,he died ,a4,d4 #cfh4 ,in the ,church calendars1 ,jan4 #acth 7following ,twelfth ,night71 is still kept as ,st4 ,hilary's ,day in the ,church of ,england1 and ,jan4 #adth in the ,church of ,rome4 ,st4 ,ambrose1 ,bishop of ,milan1 a few years later1 improved the work of his predecessor1 adding words and music of his own4 ,the ,ambrosian ,chant was the antiphonal plain-song arranged and systematized to statelier effect in choral symphony4 ,ambrose died ,a4,d4 #cig4 ,toward the end of the #fth century ,christian music showed a decline in consequence of impatient meddling with the slow canonical psalmody1 and reformers had impaired its solemnity by introducing fanciful embellishments4 ,gregory the ,great 7,pope of ,rome1 #eij-fjd7 banished these from the song service1 founded a school of sacred melody1 composed new chants and established the distinctive character of ecclesiastical hymn worship4 ,the ,gregorian chant--on the diatonic eight sounds and seven syllables of equal length--continued1 with its majestic choral step1 to be the basis of cathedral music for a thousand years4 ,in the meantime 7#icj7 ,hucbald1 the ,flanders monk1 invented sight music1 or written notes--happily called the art of hearing with the eyes and seeing with the ears2 and ,guido ,arentino 7#ajbd7 contrived the present scale1 or the hexachord on which the present scale was perfected4 ,in this long interval1 however1 the established system of hymn service did not escape the intrusion of inevitable novelties that crept in with the change of popular taste4 ,unrhythmical singing could not always hold its own2 and when polyphonic music came into public favor1 secular airs gradually found their way into the choirs4 ,legatos1 with their pleasing turn and glide1 caught the ear of the multitude4 ,tripping allegrettos sounded sweeter to the vulgar sense than the old largos of ,pope ,gregory the ,great4 ,the guardians of the ancient order took alarm4 ,one can imagine the pained amazement of conservative souls today on hearing ,ring the ,bells of ,heaven substituted in church for ,mear or the long-metre ,doxology1 and can understand the extreme distaste of the ecclesiastical reactionaries for the worldly frivolities of an ,a4,d4 #aeej choir4 ,presumably that modern abomination1 the vibrato1 with its shake of artificial fright1 had not been invented then1 and sanctuary form was saved one indignity4 ,but the innovations became an abuse so general that the ,council of ,trent commissioned a select board of cardinals and musicians to arrest the degeneration of church song-worship4 ,one of the experts consulted in this movement was an eminent ,italian composer born twenty miles from ,rome4 ,his full name was ,giovanni ,pietro ,aloysio da ,palestrina1 and at that time he was in the prime of his powers4 ,he was master of polyphonic music as well as plain-song1 and he proposed applying it to grace the older mode1 preserving the solemn beauty of the chant but adding the charming chords of counterpoint4 ,he wrote three masses1 one of them being his famous ,requiem4 ,these were sung under his direction before the ,commission4 ,their magnificence and purity revealed to the censors the possibilities of contrapuntal music in sanctuary devotion and praise4 ,the sanction of the cardinals was given--and part-song harmony became permanently one of the angel voices of the ,christian church4 ,palestrina died in #aeid1 but hymn-tunes adapted from his motets and masses are sung today4 ,he was the father of the choral tune4 ,he lived to see musical instruments and congregational singing introduced#a in public worship1 and to know 7possibly with secret pleasure1 though he was a ,romanist7 how richly in popular assemblies1 during the ,protestant ,reformation1 the new freedom of his helpful art had multiplied the creation of spiritual hymns4 ,footnote #a3 ,but not fully established in use till about #afbe4 ,contemporary in ,england with ,palestrina in ,italy was ,thomas ,tallis who developed the ,anglican school of church music1 which differed less from the ,italian 7or ,catholic7 psalmody than that of the ,continental churches1 where the revolt of the ,reformation extended to the tune-worship as notably as to the sacraments and sermons4 ,this difference created a division of method and practice even in ,england1 and extreme ,protestants who repudiated everything artistic or ornate formed the ,puritan or ,genevan ,school4 ,their style is represented among our hymn-tunes by ,old ,hundred1 while the representative of the ,anglican is ,tallis' ,evening ,hymn4 ,the division was only temporary4 ,the two schools were gradually reconciled1 and together made the model after which the best sacred tunes are built4 ,it is ,tallis who is called ,the father of ,english ,cathedral music4 ,in ,germany1 after the invention of harmony1 church music was still felt to be too formal for a working force1 and there was a reaction against the motets and masses of ,palestrina as being too stately and difficult4 ,lighter airs of the popular sort1 such as were sung between the acts of the mystery plays1 were subsidized by ,luther1 who wrote compositions and translations to their measure4 ,part-song was simplified1 and ,johan ,walther compiled a hymnal of religious songs in the vernacular for from four to six voices4 ,the reign of rhythmic hymn music soon extended through ,europe4 ,necessarily--except in ultra-conservative localities like ,scotland--the exclusive use of the ,psalms 7metrical or unmetrical7 gave way to religious lyrics inspired by occasion4 ,clement ,marot and ,theodore ,beza wrote hymns to the music of various composers1 and ,caesar ,malan composed both hymns and their melodies4 ,by the beginning of the #ahth century the triumph of the hymn-tune and the hymnal for lay voices was established for all time4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in the following pages no pretence is made of selecting all the best and most-used hymns1 but the purpose has been to notice as many as possible of the standard pieces--and a few others which seem to add or re-shape a useful thought or introduce a new strain4 ,to present each hymn with its tune appeared the natural and most satisfactory way1 as in most cases it is impossible to dissociate the two4 ,the melody is the psychological coefficient of the metrical text4 ,without it the verse of a seraph would be smothered praise4 ,like a flower and its fragrance1 hymn and tune are one creature1 and stand for a whole value and a full effect4 ,with this normal combination a complete descriptive list of the hymns and tunes would be a historic dictionary4 ,such a book may one day be made1 but the present volume is an attempt to the same end within easier limits4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,praise ,,and ,,worship4 ,,te ,,deum ,,laudamus4 ,this famous church confession in song was composed ,a4,d4 #chg by ,ambrose1 ,bishop of ,milan1 probably both words and music4 ,te ,deum laudamus1 ,te ,dominum confitemur ,te aeternum ,patrem omnis terra veneratur ,tibi omnes angeli1 tibi coeli et universae potestates1 ,tibi cherubim et seraphim inaccessibili voce proclamant ,sanctus1 sanctus ,dominus ,deus ,sabaoth4 ,in the whole hymn there are thirty lines4 ,the saying that the early ,roman hymns were echoes of ,christian ,greece1 as the ,greek hymns were echoes of ,jerusalem1 is probably true1 but they were only echoes4 ,in ,a4,d4 #beb1 ,st4 ,cyprian1 writing his consolatory epistle#b during the plague in ,carthage1 when hundreds were dying every day1 says1 ,ah1 perfect and perpetual bliss6 in heaven4 ,there is the glorious company of the apostles2 there is the fellowship of the prophets rejoicing2 there is the innumerable multitude of martyrs crowned4 ,which would suggest that lines or fragments of what afterwards crystalized into the formula of the ,te ,deum were already familiar in the ,christian church4 ,but it is generally believed that the tongue of ,ambrose gave the anthem its final form4 ,footnote #b3 ,greek3 ,peri tou thnetou1 ,on the ,mortality4 ,ambrose was born in ,gaul about the middle of the fourth century and raised to his bishopric in ,a4,d4 #cgd4 ,very early he saw and appreciated the popular effect of musical sounds1 and what an evangelical instrument a chorus of chanting voices could be in preaching the ,christian faith2 and he introduced the responsive singing of psalms and sacred cantos in the worship of the church4 ,a grand thing is that singing1 and nothing can stand before it1 he said1 when the critics of his time complained that his innovation was sensational4 ,that such a charge could be made against the ,ambrosian mode of music1 with its slow movement and unmetrical lines1 seems strange to us1 but it was new--and conservatism is the same in all ages4 ,the great bishop carried all before him4 ,his school of song-worship prevailed in ,christian ,europe more than two hundred years4 ,most of his hymns are lost1 7the ,benedictine writers credit him with twelve71 but1 judging by their effect on the powerful mind of ,augustine1 their influence among the common people must have been profound1 and far more lasting than the author's life4 ,their voices sank into mine ears1 and their truths distilled into my heart1 wrote ,augustine1 long afterwards1 of these hymns2 tears ran down1 and ,i rejoiced in them4 ,poetic tradition has dramatized the story of the birth of the ,te ,deum1 dating it on an ,easter ,sunday1 and dividing the honor of its composition between ,ambrose and his most eminent convert4 ,it was the day when the bishop baptized ,augustine1 in the presence of a vast throng that crowded the ,basilica of ,milan4 ,as if foreseeing with a prophet's eye that his brilliant candidate would become one of the ruling stars of ,christendom1 ,ambrose lifted his hands to heaven and chanted in a holy rapture1-- ,we praise ,thee1 ,o ,god6 ,we acknowledge ,thee to be the ,lord2 ,all the ,earth doth worship ,thee1 the ,father ,everlasting4 ,he paused1 and from the lips of the baptized disciple came the response1-- ,to ,thee all the angels cry aloud3 the heavens and all the powers therein4 ,to ,thee cherubim and seraphim continually do cry1 ,holy1 holy1 holy ,lord ,god of ,sabaoth2 ,heaven and ,earth are full of the majesty of ,thy glory6 and so1 stave by stave1 in alternating strains1 sprang that day from the inspired lips of ,ambrose and ,augustine the ,te ,deum ,laudamus1 which has ever since been the standard anthem of ,christian praise4 ,whatever the foundation of the story1 we may at least suppose the first public singing#c of the great chant to have been associated with that eventful baptism4 ,footnote #c3 ,the ,te ,deum was first sung in ,english by the martyr1 ,bishop ,ridley1 at ,hearne ,church1 where he was at one time vicar4 ,the various anthems1 sentences and motets in all ,christian languages bearing the titles ,trisagion or ,tersanctus1 and ,te ,deum are taken from portions of this royal hymn4 ,the sublime and beautiful ,holy1 ,holy1 ,holy of ,bishop ,heber was suggested by it4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,no echo remains1 so far as is known1 of the responsive chant actually sung by ,ambrose1 but one of the best modern choral renderings of the ,te ,deum is the one by ,henry ,smart in his ,morning and ,evening ,service4 ,in an ordinary church hymnal it occupies seven pages4 ,the staff-directions with the music indicate the part or cue of the antiphonal singers by the words ,decani 7,dec47 and ,cantor 7,can471 meaning first the division of the choir on the ,dean's side1 and second the division on the ,cantor's or ,precentor's side4 ,henry ,smart was one of the five great ,english composers that followed our ,american ,mason4 ,he was born in ,london1 ,oct4 #be1 #ahab1 and chose music for a profession in preference to an offered commission in the ,east ,indian army4 ,his talent as a composer1 especially of sacred music1 was marvellous1 and1 though he became blind1 his loss of sight was no more hindrance to his genius than loss of hearing to ,beethoven4 ,no composer of his time equalled ,henry ,smart as a writer of music for female voices4 ,his cantatas have been greatly admired1 and his hymn tunes are unsurpassed for their purity and sweetness1 while his anthems1 his oratorio of ,jacob1 and indeed all that he wrote1 show the hand and the inventive gift of a great musical artist4 ,he died ,july #aj1 #ahgi1 universally mourned for his inspired work1 and his amiable character4 ,,all ,,glory1 ,,laud ,,and ,,honor4 ,gloria1 ,laus et ,honor4 ,this stately ,latin hymn of the early part of the #ith century was composed in ,a4,d4 #hbj1 by ,theodulph1 ,bishop of ,orleans1 while a captive in the cloister of ,anjou4 ,king ,louis 7le ,debonnaire7 son of ,charlemagne1 had trouble with his royal relatives1 and suspecting ,theodulph to be in sympathy with them1 shut him up in prison4 ,a pretty story told by ,clichtovius1 an old church writer of ,a4,d4 #aeah1 relates how on ,palm ,sunday the king1 celebrating the feast with his people1 passed in procession before the cloister1 where the face of the venerable prisoner at his cell window caused an involuntary halt1 and1 in the moment of silence1 the bishop raised his voice and sang this hymn2 and how the delighted king released the singer1 and restored him to his bishopric4 ,this tale1 told after seven hundred years1 is not the only legend that grew around the hymn and its author1 but the fact that he composed it in the cloister of ,anjou while confined there is not seriously disputed4 ,gloria1 laus et honor ,tibi sit1 ,rex ,christe ,redemptor1 ,cui puerile decus prompsit ,hosanna pium4 ,israel ,tu ,rex1 ,davidis et inclyta proles1 ,nomine qui in ,domini ,rex benedicte venis ,gloria1 laus et honor4 ,theodulph was born in ,spain1 but of ,gothic pedigree1 a child of the race of conquerors who1 in the #eth century1 overran ,southern ,europe4 ,he died in #hba1 but whether a free man or still a prisoner at the time of his death is uncertain4 ,some accounts allege that he was poisoned in the cloister4 ,the ,roman church canonized him1 and his hymn is still sung as a processional in ,protestant as well as ,catholic churches4 ,the above ,latin lines are the first four of the original seventy-eight4 ,the following is ,j4,m4 ,neale's translation of the portion now in use3 ,all glory1 laud1 and honor1 ,to ,thee1 ,redeemer1 ,king3 ,to whom the lips of children ,made sweet ,hosannas ring4 ,thou are the ,king of ,israel1 ,thou ,david's royal ,son1 ,who in the ,lord's name comest1 ,the ,king and ,blessed ,one4 ,all glory1 etc4 ,the company of angels ,are praising ,thee on high2 ,and mortal men1 and all things ,created1 make reply4 ,all glory1 etc4 ,the people of the ,hebrews ,with palms before ,thee went2 ,our praise and prayer and anthems ,before ,thee we present4 ,all glory1 etc4 ,to ,thee before ,thy ,passion ,they sang their hymns of praise2 ,to ,thee1 now high exalted ,our melody we raise4 ,all glory1 etc4 ,thou didst accept their praises2 ,accept the prayers we bring1 ,who in all good delightest1 ,thou good and gracious ,king4 ,all glory1 etc4 ,the translator1 ,rev4 ,john ,mason ,neale1 ,d4,d41 was born in ,london1 ,jan4 #bd1 #ahah1 and graduated at ,trinity ,college1 ,cambridge1 in #ahdj4 ,he was a prolific writer1 and after taking holy orders he held the office of ,warden of ,sackville ,college1 ,east ,grimstead1 ,sussex4 ,best known among his published works are ,mediaeval ,hymns and ,sequences1 ,hymns for ,children1 ,hymns of the ,eastern ,church and ,the ,rhythms of ,morlaix4 ,he died ,aug4 #f1 #ahff4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,there is no certainty as to the original tune of ,theodulph's ,hymn1 or how long it survived1 but various modern composers have given it music in more or less keeping with its character1 notably ,melchior ,teschner1 whose harmony1 ,st4 ,theodulph1 appears in the new ,methodist ,hymnal4 ,it well represents the march of the bishop's ,latin4 ,melchior ,teschner1 a ,prussian musician1 was ,precentor at ,frauenstadt1 ,silesia1 about #afac4 ,,all ,,praise ,,to ,,thee1 ,,eternal ,,lord4 ,gelobet ,seist du ,jesu ,christ4 ,this introductory hymn of worship1 a favorite ,christmas hymn in ,germany1 is ancient1 and appears to be a versification of a ,latin prose ,sequence variously ascribed to a #ith century author1 and to ,gregory the ,great in the #fth century4 ,its ,german form is still credited to ,luther in most hymnals4 ,julian gives an earlier ,german form 7#acgj7 of the ,gelobet1 but attributes all but the first stanza to ,luther1 as the hymn now stands4 ,the following translation1 printed first in the ,sabbath ,hymn ,book1 ,andover1 #aheh1 is the one adopted by ,schaff in his ,christ in ,song3 ,all praise to ,thee1 eternal ,lord1 ,clothed in the garb of flesh and blood2 ,choosing a manger for ,thy throne1 ,while worlds on worlds are ,thine alone6 ,once did the skies before ,thee bow2 ,a virgin's arms contain ,thee now2 ,angels1 who did in ,thee rejoice1 ,now listen for ,thine infant voice4 ,a little child1 ,thou art our guest1 ,that weary ones in ,thee may rest2 ,forlorn and lowly in ,thy birth1 ,that we may rise to heaven from earth4 ,thou comest in the darksome night1 ,to make us children of the light2 ,to make us1 in the realms divine1 ,like ,thine own angels round ,thee shine4 ,all this for us ,thy love hath done3 ,by this to ,thee our love is won2 ,for this we tune our cheerful lays1 ,and shout our thanks in endless praise4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the #ahth century tune of ,weimar 7,evangelical ,hymnal71 by ,emanuel ,bach1 suits the spiritual tone of the hymn1 and suggests the ,gregorian dignity of its origin4 ,karl ,philip ,emanuel ,bach1 called the ,berlin ,bach to distinguish him from his father1 the great ,sebastian ,bach of ,saxe ,weimar1 was born in ,weimar1 ,march #ad1 #agad4 ,he early devoted himself to music1 and coming to ,berlin when twenty-four years old was appointed ,chamber musician 7,kammer ,musicus7 in the ,royal ,chapel1 where he often accompanied ,frederick the ,great 7who was an accomplished flutist7 on the harpsichord4 ,his most numerous compositions were piano music but he wrote a celebrated ,sanctus1 and two oratorios1 besides a number of chorals1 of which ,weimar is one4 ,he died in ,hamburg1 ,dec4 #ad1 #aghh4 ,,the ,,magnificat4 ,greek3 ,megalunei he psuche mou ton ,kurion4 ,magnificat anima mea ,dominum1 ,et exultavit ,spiritus meus in ,deo salutari meo4 ,luke #a3df-ee4 ,we can date with some certainty the hymn itself composed by the ,virgin ,mary1 but when it first became a song of the ,christian ,church no one can tell4 ,its thanksgiving may have found tone among the earliest martyrs1 who1 as ,pliny tells us1 sang hymns in their secret worship4 ,we can only trace it back to the oldest chant music1 when it was doubtless sung by both the ,eastern and ,western ,churches4 ,in the rude liturgies of the #dth and #eth centuries it must have begun to assume ritual form2 but it remained for the more modern school of composers hundreds of years later to illustrate the ,magnificat with the melody of art and genius4 ,superseding the primitive unisonous plain-song1 the old parallel concords1 and the simple faburden 7faux bourdon7 counterpoint that succeeded ,gregory1 they taught how musical tones can better assist worship with the beauty of harmony and the precision of scientific taste4 ,musicians in ,italy1 ,france1 ,germany and ,england have contributed their scores to this inspired hymn4 ,some of them still have place in the hymnals1 a noble one especially by the blind ,english tone-master1 ,henry ,smart1 author of the oratorio of ,jacob4 ,none1 however1 have equaled the work of ,handel4 ,his ,magnificat was one of his favorite productions1 and he borrowed strains from it in several of his later and lesser productions4 ,george ,frederic ,handel1 author of the immortal ,messiah1 was born at ,halle1 ,saxony1 in #afhe1 and died in ,london in #agei4 ,the musical bent of his genius was apparent almost from his infancy4 ,at the age of eighteen he was earning his living with his violin1 and writing his first opera4 ,after a sojourn in ,italy1 he settled in ,hanover as ,chapel ,master to the ,elector1 who afterwards became the ,english king1 ,george ,i4 ,the friendship of the king and several of his noblemen drew him to ,england1 where he spent forty-seven years and composed his greatest works4 ,he wrote three hymn-tunes 7it is said at the request of a converted actress71 ,canons1 ,fitzwilliam1 and ,gopsall1 the first an invitation1 ,sinners1 ,obey the ,gospel ,word1 the second a meditation1 ,o ,love ,divine1 ,how ,sweet ,thou ,art1 and the third a resurrection song to ,welsey's words ,rejoice1 the ,lord is ,king4 ,this last still survives in some hymnals4 ,,the ,,doxologies4 ,be ,thou1 ,o ,god1 exalted high1 ,and as ,thy glory fills the sky ,so let it be on earth displayed ,till ,thou art here as there obeyed4 ,this sublime quatrain1 attributed to ,nahum ,tate1 like the ,lord's ,prayer1 is suited to all occasions1 to all ,christian denominations1 and to all places and conditions of men4 ,it has been translated into all civilized languages1 and has been rising to heaven for many generations from congregations round the globe wherever the faith of ,christendom has built its altars4 ,this doxology is the first stanza of a sixteen line hymn 7possibly longer originally71 the rest of which is forgotten4 ,nahum ,tate was born in ,dublin1 in #afeb1 and educated there at ,trinity ,college4 ,he was appointed poet-laureate by ,king ,william ,,iii4 in #afij1 and it was in conjunction with ,dr4 ,nicholas ,brady that he executed his ,new metrical version of the ,psalms4 ,the entire ,psalter1 with an appendix of ,hymns1 was licensed by ,william and ,mary and published in #agjc4 ,the hymns in the volume are all by ,tate4 ,he died in ,london1 ,aug4 #ab1 #agag4 ,rev4 ,nicholas ,brady1 ,d4,d41 was an ,irishman1 son of an officer in the royal army1 and was born at ,bandon1 ,county of ,cork1 ,oct4 #bh1 #afei4 ,he studied in the ,westminster ,school at ,oxford1 but afterwards entered ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 where he graduated in #afhe4 ,william made him ,queen ,mary's ,chaplain4 ,he died ,may #bj1 #agbf4 ,the other nearly contemporary form of doxology is in common use1 but though elevated and devotional in spirit1 it cannot be universal1 owing to its credal line being objectionable to non-,trinitarian ,protestants3 ,praise ,god from whom all blessings flow1 ,praise ,him all creatures here below1 ,praise ,him above1 ye heavenly host1 ,praise ,father1 ,son and ,holy ,ghost4 ,the author1 the ,rev4 ,thomas ,ken1 was born in ,berkhampstead1 ,hertfordshire1 ,eng41 ,july1 #afcg1 and was educated at ,winchester ,school1 ,hertford ,college1 and ,new ,college1 ,oxford4 ,in #affb he took holy orders1 and seventeen years later the king 7,charles ,,ii47 appointed him chaplain to his sister ,mary1 ,princess of ,orange4 ,later the king1 just before his death1 made him ,bishop of ,bath and ,wells4 ,like ,john the ,baptist1 and ,bourdaloue1 and ,knox1 he was a faithful spiritual monitor and adviser during all his days at court4 ,i must go in and hear ,ken tell me my faults1 the king used to say at chapel time4 ,the good little man 7as he called the bishop7 never lost the favor of the dissipated monarch4 ,as ,macaulay says1 ,of all the prelates1 he liked ,ken the best4 ,under ,james1 the ,papist1 ,ken was a loyal subject1 though once arrested as one of the seven bishops for his opposition to the king's religion1 and he kept his oath of allegiance so firmly that it cost him his place4 ,william ,,iii4 deprived him of his bishopric1 and he retired in poverty to a home kindly offered him by ,lord ,viscount ,weymouth in ,longleat1 near ,frome1 in ,somersetshire1 where he spent a serene and beloved old age4 ,he died aet4 seventy-four1 ,march #ag1 #agaa 7,n4,s471 and was carried to his grave1 according to his request1 by six of the poorest men in the parish4 ,his great doxology is the refrain or final stanza of each of his three long hymns1 ,morning1 ,evening and ,midnight1 printed in a ,prayer ,manual for the use of the students of ,winchester ,college4 ,the ,evening ,hymn drew scenic inspiration1 it is told1 from the lovely view in ,horningsham ,park at ,heaven's ,gate ,hill1 while walking to and from church4 ,another four-line doxology1 adopted probably from ,dr4 ,hatfield 7#ahjg-ahhc71 is almost entirely superseded by ,ken's stanza1 being of even more pronounced credal character4 ,to ,god the ,father1 ,god the ,son1 ,and ,god the ,spirit1 ,three in ,one4 ,be honor1 praise and glory given ,by all on earth and all in heaven4 ,the ,methodist ,hymnal prints a collection of ten doxologies1 two by ,watts1 one by ,charles ,wesley1 one by ,john ,wesley1 one by ,william ,goode1 one by ,edwin ,f4 ,hatfield1 one attributed to ,tate and ,brady1 one by ,robert ,hawkes1 and the one by ,ken above noted4 ,these are all technically and intentionally doxologies4 ,to give a history of doxologies in the general sense of the word would carry one through every ,christian age and language and end with a concordance of the ,book of ,psalms4 ,illustration3 ,oliver ,holden ,,the ,,tune4 ,few would think of any music more appropriate to a standard doxology than ,old ,hundred4 ,this grand ,gregorian harmony has been claimed to be ,luther's production1 while some have believed that ,louis ,bourgeois1 editor of the ,french ,genevan ,psalter1 composed the tune1 but the weight of evidence seems to indicate that it was the work of ,guillaume le ,franc1 7,william ,franck or ,william the ,frenchman17 of ,rouen1 in ,france1 who founded a music school in ,geneva1 #aeda4 ,he was ,chapel ,master there1 but removed to ,lausanne1 where he played in the ,catholic choir and wrote the tunes for an ,edition of ,marot's and ,beza's ,psalms4 ,died in ,lausanne1 #aegj4 ,,the ,,lord ,,descended ,,from ,,above4 ,a flash of genuine inspiration was vouchsafed to ,thomas ,sternhold when engaged with ,rev4 ,john ,hopkins in versifying the ,eighteenth ,psalm4 ,the ridicule heaped upon ,sternhold and ,hopkins's psalmbook has always stopped1 and sobered into admiration and even reverence at the two stanzas beginning with this leading line-- ,the ,lord descended from above ,and bowed the heavens most high1 ,and underneath ,his feet ,he cast ,the darkness of the sky4 ,on cherub and on cherubim ,full royally ,he rode1 ,and on the wings of mighty winds ,came flying all abroad4 ,thomas ,sternhold was born in ,gloucestershire1 ,eng4 ,he was ,groom of the ,robes to ,henry ,,viii1 and ,edward ,,vi41 but is only remembered for his ,psalter published in #aefb1 thirteen years after his death in #aedi4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,nottingham 7now sometimes entitled ,st4 ,magnus7 is a fairly good echo of the grand verses1 a dignified but spirited choral in ,a flat4 ,jeremiah ,clark1 the composer1 was born in ,london1 #afgj4 ,educated at the ,chapel ,royal1 he became organist of ,winchester ,college and finally to ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral where he was appointed ,gentleman of the ,chapel4 ,he died ,july1 #agjg4 ,the tune of ,majesty by ,william ,billings will be noticed in a later chapter4 ,,tallis' ,,evening ,,hymn4 ,glory to ,thee1 my ,god1 this night ,for all the blessings of the light1 ,keep me1 ,o keep me1 ,king of kings1 ,under ,thine own ,almighty wings4 ,this stanza begins the second of ,bp4 ,ken's three beautiful hymn-prayers in his ,manual mentioned on a previous page4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,for more than three hundred and fifty years devout people have enjoyed that melody of mingled dignity and sweetness known as ,tallis' ,evening ,hymn4 ,thomas ,tallis was an ,englishman1 born about #aebj1 and at an early age was a boy chorister at ,st4 ,paul's4 ,after his voice changed1 he played the organ at ,waltham ,abbey1 and some time later was chosen organist royal to ,queen ,elizabeth4 ,his pecuniary returns for his talent did not make him rich1 though he bore the title after #aedb of ,gentleman of the ,chapel ,royal1 for his stipend was sevenpence a day4 ,some gain may possibly have come to him1 however1 from his publication1 late in life1 under the queen's special patent1 of a collection of hymns and tunes4 ,he wrote much and was the real founder of the ,english ,church school of composers1 but though ,st4 ,paul's was at one time well supplied with his motets and anthems1 it is impossible now to give a list of ,tallis' compositions for the ,church4 ,his music was written originally to ,latin words1 but when1 after the ,reformation1 the use of vernacular hymns1 was introduced he probably adapted his scores to either language4 ,it is inferred that he was in attendance on ,queen ,elizabeth at her palace in ,greenwich when he died1 for he was buried in the old parish church there in ,november1 #aehe4 ,the rustic rhymer who indited his epitaph evidently did the best he could to embalm the virtues of the great musician as a man1 a citizen1 and a husband3 ,enterred here doth ly a worthy wyght1 ,who for long time in musick bore the bell3 ,his name to shew was ,thomas ,tallis hyght2 ,in honest vertuous lyff he dyd excell4 ,he served long tyme in chappel with grete prayse1 ,fower sovereygnes reignes1 7a thing not often seene72 ,i mean ,king ,henry and ,prince ,edward's dayes1 ,quene ,marie1 and ,elizabeth our quene4 ,he maryed was1 though children he had none1 ,and lyv'd in love full three and thirty yeres ,with loyal spowse1 whose name yclept was ,jone1 ,who1 here entombed1 him company now bears4 ,as he dyd lyve1 so also dyd he dy1 ,in myld and quyet sort1 ,o happy man6 ,to ,god ful oft for mercy did he cry2 ,wherefore he lyves1 let ,deth do what he can4 ,,the ,,god ,,of ,,abraham ,,praise4 ,this is one of the thanksgivings of the ages4 ,the ,god of ,abraham praise1 ,who reigns enthroned above2 ,ancient of everlasting days1 ,and ,god of love4 ,jehovah1 ,great ,i ,,am6 ,by earth and heaven confessed1 ,i bow and bless the sacred ,name1 ,forever blest4 ,the hymn1 of twelve eight-line stanzas1 is too long to quote entire1 but is found in both the ,plymouth and ,methodist ,hymnals4 ,thomas ,olivers1 born in ,tregynon1 near ,newtown1 ,montgomeryshire1 ,wales1 #agbe1 was1 according to local testimony1 the worst boy known in all that country1 for thirty years4 ,it is more charitable to say that he was a poor fellow who had no friends4 ,left an orphan at five years of age1 he was passed from one relative to another until all were tired of him1 and he was bound out to a shoemaker4 ,almost inevitably the neglected lad grew up wicked1 for no one appeared to care for his habits and morals1 and as he sank lower in the various vices encouraged by bad company1 there were more kicks for him than helping hands4 ,at the age of eighteen his reputation in the town had become so unsavory that he was forced to shift for himself elsewhere4 ,providence led him1 when shabby and penniless1 to the old seaport town of ,bristol1 where ,whitefield was at that time preaching1#d and there the young sinner heard the divine message that lifted him to his feet4 ,footnote #d3 ,whitefield's text was1 ,is not this a brand plucked out of the fire8 ,zach4 #c3b4 ,when that sermon began1 he said1 ,i was one of the most abandoned and profligate young men living2 before it ended ,i was a new creature4 ,the world was all changed for ,tom ,olivers4 ,his new life1 thus begun1 lasted on earth more than sixty useful years4 ,he left a shining record as a preacher of righteousness1 and died in the triumphs of faith1 ,november1 #agii4 ,before he passed away he saw at least thirty editions of his hymn published1 but the soul-music it has awakened among the spiritual children of ,abraham can only reach him in heaven4 ,some of its words have been the last earthly song of many1 as they were of the eminent ,methodist theologian1 ,richard ,watson-- ,i shall behold ,his face1 ,i shall ,his power adore1 ,and sing the wonders of ,his grace ,forevermore4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the precise date of the tune ,leoni is unknown1 as also the precise date of the hymn4 ,the story is that ,olivers visited the great ,duke's ,place ,synagogue1 ,aldgate1 ,london1 and heard ,meyer ,lyon 7,leoni7 sing the ,yigdal or long doxology to an air so noble and impressive that it haunted him till he learned it and fitted to it the sublime stanzas of his song4 ,lyon1 a noted ,jewish musician and vocalist1 was chorister of this ,london ,synagogue during the latter part of the #ahth century and the ,yigdal was a portion of the ,hebrew ,liturgy composed in medieval times1 it is said1 by ,daniel ,ben ,judah4 ,the fact that the ,methodist leaders took ,olivers from his bench to be one of their preachers answers any suggestion that the converted shoemaker copied the ,jewish hymn and put ,christian phrases in it4 ,he knew nothing of ,hebrew1 and had he known it1 a literal translation of the ,yigdal will show hardly a similarity to his evangelical lines4 ,only the music as ,leoni sang it prompted his own song1 and he gratefully put the singer's name to it4 ,montgomery1 who admired the majestic style of the hymn1 and its glorious imagery1 said of its author1 ,the man who wrote that hymn must have had the finest ear imaginable1 for on account of the peculiar measure1 none but a person of equal musical and poetic taste could have produced the harmony perceptible in the verse4 ,whether the hymnist or some one else fitted the hymn to the tune1 the fine ear and poetic taste that ,montgomery applauded are evident enough in the union4 ,o ,,worship ,,the ,,king ,,all ,,glorious ,,above4 ,this hymn of ,sir ,robert ,grant has become almost universally known1 and is often used as a morning or opening service song by choirs and congregations of all creeds4 ,the favorite stanzas are the first four-- ,o worship the ,king all-glorious above1 ,and gratefully sing ,his wonderful love-- ,our ,shield and ,defender1 the ,ancient of ,days1 ,pavilioned in splendor1 and girded with praise4 ,o tell of ,his might1 and sing of ,his grace1 ,whose robe is the light1 whose canopy1 space2 ,his chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form1 ,and dark is ,his path on the wings of the storm4 ,thy bountiful care what tongue can recite8 ,it breathes in the air1 it shines in the light1 ,it streams from the hills1 it descends to the plain1 ,and sweetly distils in the dew and the rain4 ,frail children of dust1 and feeble as frail1 ,in ,thee do we trust1 nor find ,thee to fail4 ,thy mercies how tender6 how firm to the end6 ,our ,maker1 ,defender1 ,redeemer1 and ,friend6 ,this is a model hymn of worship4 ,like the previous one by ,thomas ,olivers1 it is strongly ,hebrew in its tone and diction1 and drew its inspiration from the ,old ,testament ,psalter1 the text-book of all true praise-song4 ,sir ,robert ,grant was born in the county of ,inverness1 ,scotland1 in #aghe1 and educated at ,cambridge4 ,he was many years member of ,parliament for ,inverness and a director in the ,east ,india ,company1 and #ahcd was appointed ,governor of ,bombay4 ,he died at ,dapoorie1 ,western ,india1 ,july #i1 #ahch4 ,sir ,robert was a man of deep ,christian feeling and a poetic mind4 ,his writings were not numerous1 but their thoughtful beauty endeared him to a wide circle of readers4 ,in #ahci his brother1 ,lord ,glenelg1 published twelve of his poetical pieces1 and a new edition in #ahfh4 ,the volume contains the more or less well-known hymns-- ,the starry firmament on high4 ,saviour1 when in dust to ,thee1 and-- ,when gathering clouds around ,i view4 ,sir ,robert's death1 when scarcely past his prime1 would indicate a decline by reason of illness1 and perhaps other serious affliction1 that justified the poetic license in the submissive verses beginning-- ,thy mercy heard my infant prayer4 99 99 99 99 99 ,and now in age and grief ,thy name ,does still my languid heart inflame1 ,and bow my faltering knee4 ,oh1 yet this bosom feels the fire1 ,this trembling hand and drooping lyre ,have yet a strain for ,thee4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,several musical pieces written to the hymn1 ,o1 ,worship the ,king1 have appeared in church psalm-books1 and others have been borrowed for it1 but the one oftenest sung to its words is ,haydn's ,lyons4 ,its vigor and spirit best fit it for ,grant's noble lyric4 ,,majestic ,,sweetness ,,sits ,,enthroned4 ,rev4 ,samuel ,stennett ,d4,d41 the author of this hymn1 was the son of ,rev4 ,joseph ,stennett1 and grandson of ,rev4 ,joseph ,stennett ,d4,d41 who wrote-- ,another six days' work is done1 ,another ,sabbath is begun4 ,all were ,baptist ministers4 ,samuel was born in #agbg1 at ,exeter1 ,eng41 and at the age of twenty-one became his father's assistant1 and subsequently his successor over the church in ,little ,wild ,street1 ,lincoln's ,inn ,fields1 ,london4 ,majestic sweetness sits enthroned ,upon the ,saviour's brow2 ,his head with radiant glories crowned1 ,his lips with grace o'erflow4 99 99 99 99 99 ,to ,him ,i owe my life and breath ,and all the joys ,i have2 ,he makes me triumph over death1 ,he saves me from the grave4 99 99 99 99 99 ,since from ,his bounty ,i receive ,such proofs of love divine1 ,had ,i a thousand hearts to give1 ,lord1 they should all be ,thine4 ,samuel ,stennett was one of the most respected and influential ministers of the ,dissenting persuasion1 and a confidant of many of the most distinguished statesmen of his time4 ,the celebrated ,john ,howard was his parishoner and intimate friend4 ,his degree of ,doctor of ,divinity was bestowed upon him by ,aberdeen ,university4 ,besides his theological writings he composed and published thirty-eight hymns1 among them-- ,on ,jordan's stormy banks ,i stand1 ,when two or three with sweet accord1 ,here at ,thy table1 ,lord1 we meet1 and-- ',tis finished1 so the ,saviour cried4 ,majestic ,sweetness began the third stanza of his longer hymn-- ,to ,christ the ,lord let every tongue4 ,dr4 ,stennett died in ,london1 ,aug4 #bd1 #agie4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,for fifty or sixty years ,ortonville has been linked with this devout hymn1 and still maintains its fitting fellowship4 ,the tune1 composed in #ahcj1 was the work of ,thomas ,hastings1 and is almost as well-known and as often sung as his immortal ,toplady4 7,see chap4 #c1 ,rock of ,ages47 ,,all ,,hail ,,the ,,power ,,of ,,jesus' ,,name4 ,this inspiring lyric of praise appears to have been written about the middle of the eighteenth century4 ,its author1 the ,rev4 ,edward ,perronet1 son of ,rev4 ,vincent ,perronet1 ,vicar of ,shoreham1 ,eng41 was a man of great faith and humility but zealous in his convictions1 sometimes to his serious expense4 ,he was born in #agba1 and1 though eighteen years younger than ,charles ,wesley1 the two became bosom friends1 and it was under the direction of the ,wesleys that ,perronet became a preacher in the evangelical movement4 ,lady ,huntingdon later became his patroness1 but some needless and imprudent expressions in a satirical poem1 ,the ,mitre1 revealing his hostility to the union of church and state1 cost him her favor1 and his contention against ,john ,wesley's law that none but the regular parish ministers had the right to administer the sacraments1 led to his complete separation from both the ,wesleys4 ,he subsequently became the pastor of a small church of ,dissenters in ,canterbury1 where he died1 in ,january1 #agib4 ,his piety uttered itself when near his happy death1 and his last words were a ,gloria4 ,all hail the power of ,jesus' name6 ,let angels prostrate fall2 ,bring forth the royal diadem1 ,to crown ,him ,lord of all4 ,ye seed of ,israel's chosen race1 ,ye ransomed of the fall1 ,hail ,him ,who saves you by ,his grace1 ,and crown ,him ,lord of all4 ,sinners1 whose love can ne'er forget ,the wormwood and the gall1 ,go1 spread your trophies at ,his feet1 ,and crown ,him ,lord of all4 ,let every tribe and every tongue ,that bound creation's call1 ,now shout the universal song1 ,the crowned ,lord of all4 ,with two disused stanzas omitted1 the hymn as it stands differs from the original chiefly in the last stanza1 though in the second the initial line is now transposed to read-- ,ye chosen seed of ,israel's race4 ,the fourth stanza now reads-- ,let every kindred1 every tribe ,on this terrestrial ball ,to ,him all majesty ascribe1 ,and crown ,him ,lord of all4 ,and what is now the favorite last stanza is the one added by ,dr4 ,rippon-- ,o that with yonder sacred throng ,we at ,his feet may fall1 ,and join the everlasting song1 ,and crown ,him ,lord of all4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,everyone now calls it ,old ,coronation1 and it is entitled to the adjective by this time1 being considerably more than a hundred years of age4 ,it was composed in the very year of ,perronet's death and one wonders just how long the hymn and tune waited before they came together2 for ,heaven evidently meant them to be wedded for all time4 ,this is an ,american opinion1 and no reflection on the earlier ,english melody of ,miles ,lane1 composed during ,perronet's lifetime by ,william ,shrubsole and published with the words in #aghj in the ,gospel ,magazine4 ,there is also a fine processional tune sung in the ,english ,church to ,perronet's hymn4 ,the author of ,coronation was ,oliver ,holden1 a self-taught musician1 born in ,shirley1 ,mass41 #agfe1 and bred to the carpenter's trade4 ,the little pipe organ on which tradition says he struck the first notes of the famous tune is now in the ,historical rooms of the ,old ,state ,house1 ,boston1 placed there by its late owner1 ,mrs4 ,fanny ,tyler1 the old musician's granddaughter4 ,its tones are as mellow as ever1 and the times that ,coronation has been played upon it by admiring visitors would far outnumber the notes of its score4 ,holden wrote a number of other hymn-tunes1 among which ,cowper1 ,confidence1 and ,concord are remembered1 but none of them had the wings of ,coronation1 his ,american ,te ,deum4 ,his first published collection was entitled ,the ,american ,harmony1 and this was followed by the ,union ,harmony1 and the ,worcester ,collection4 ,he also wrote and published ,mt4 ,vernon1 and several other patriotic anthems1 mainly for special occasions1 to some of which he supplied the words4 ,he was no hymnist1 though he did now and then venture into sacred metre4 ,the new ,methodist ,hymnal preserves a simple four-stanza specimen of his experiments in verse3 ,they who seek the throne of grace ,find that throne in every place3 ,if we lead a life of prayer ,god is present everywhere4 ,sacred music1 however1 was the good man's passion to the last4 ,he died in #ahdd4 ,such beautiful themes6 he whispered on his death bed1 ,such beautiful themes6 ,but ,i can write no more4 ,the enthusiasm always and everywhere aroused by the singing of ,coronation1 dates from the time it first went abroad in ,america in its new wedlock of music and words4 ,this tune1 says an accompanying note over the score in the old ,carmina ,sacra1 was a great favorite with the late ,dr4 ,dwight of ,yale ,college 7#agih74 ,it was often sung by the college choir1 while he1 catching1 as it were1 the music of the heavenly world1 would join them1 and lead with the most ardent devotion4 ,,awake ,,and ,,sing ,,the ,,song4 ,this hymn of six stanzas is abridged from a longer one indited by the ,rev4 ,william ,hammond1 and published in ,lady ,huntingdon's ,hymn-book4 ,it was much in use in early ,methodist revivals4 ,it appears now as it was slightly altered by ,rev4 ,martin ,madan-- ,awake and sing the song ,of ,moses and the ,lamb2 ,join every heart and every tongue ,to praise the ,savior's name4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the sixth verse is a variation of one of ,watts' hymns1 and was added in the ,brethren's ,hymn-book1 #ahja-- ,there shall each heart and tongue ,his endless praise proclaim1 ,and sweeter voices join the song ,of ,moses and the ,lamb4 ,the ,rev4 ,william ,hammond was born ,jan4 #f1 #agai1 at ,battle1 ,sussex1 ,eng41 and educated at ,st4 ,john's ,college1 ,cambridge4 ,early in his ministerial life he was a ,calvinistic ,methodist1 but ultimately joined the ,moravians4 ,died in ,london1 ,aug4 #ai1 #agic4 ,his collection of ,psalms and ,hymns and ,spiritual ,songs was published in #agde4 ,the ,rev4 ,martin ,madan1 son of ,col4 ,madan1 was born #agbf4 ,he founded ,lock ,hospital1 ,hyde ,park1 and long officiated as its chaplain4 ,as a preacher he was popular1 and his reputation as a composer of music was considerable4 ,there is no proof that he wrote any original hymns1 but he amended1 pieced and expanded the work of others4 ,died in #aggj4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn has had a variety of musical interpretations4 ,the more modern piece is ,st4 ,philip1 by ,edward ,john ,hopkins1 ,doctor of ,music1 born at ,westminster1 ,london1 ,june #cj1 #ahah4 ,from a member of the ,chapel ,royal boy choir he became organist of the ,michtam ,church1 ,surrey1 and afterwards of the ,temple ,church1 ,london4 ,received his ,doctor's degree from the ,archbishop of ,canterbury in #ahhb4 ,illustration3 ,joseph ,haydn ,,crown ,,his ,,head ,,with ,,endless ,,blessing4 ,the writer of this hymn was ,william ,goode1 who helped to found the ,english ,church ,missionary ,society1 and was for twenty years the ,secretary of the ,society for the ,relief of ,poor ,pious ,clergymen4 ,for celebrating the praise of the ,saviour1 he seems to have been of like spirit and genius with ,perronet4 ,he was born in ,buckingham1 ,eng41 ,april #b1 #agfb2 studied for the ministry and became a curate1 successor of ,william ,romaine4 ,his spiritual maturity was early1 and his habits of thought were formed amid associations such as the young ,wesleys and ,whitefield sought4 ,like them1 even in his student days he proved his aspiration for purer religious life by an evangelical zeal that cost him the ridicule of many of his school-fellows1 but the meetings for conference and prayer which he organized among them were not unattended1 and were lasting and salutary in their effect4 ,jesus was the theme of his life and song1 and was his last word4 ,he died in #ahaf4 ,crown ,his head with endless blessing ,who in ,god the ,father's name ,with compassion never ceasing ,comes salvation to proclaim4 ,hail1 ye saints who know ,his favor1 ,who within ,his gates are found4 ,hail1 ye saints1 th' exalted ,saviour1 ,let ,his courts with praise resound4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,haydn1 bearing the name of its great composer1 is in several important hymnals the chosen music for ,william ,goode's devout words4 ,its strain and spirit are lofty and melodious and in entire accord with the pious poet's praise4 ,joseph ,haydn1 son of a poor wheelwright1 was born #agcb1 in ,rohron1 a village on the borders of ,hungary and ,austria4 ,his precocity of musical talent was such that he began composing at the age of ten years4 ,prince ,esterhazy discovered his genius when he was poor and friendless1 and his fortune was made4 ,while ,music ,master for the ,prince's ,private ,chapel 7twenty years7 he wrote many of his beautiful symphonies which placed him among the foremost in that class of music4 ,invited to ,england1 he received the ,doctor's degree at ,oxford1 and composed his great oratorio of ,the ,creation1 besides his ,twelve ,grand ,symphonies1 and a long list of minor musical works secular and sacred4 ,his invention was inexhaustible4 ,haydn seems to have been a sincerely pious man4 ,when writing his great oratorio of ,the ,creation at sixty-seven years of age1 ,i knelt down every day1 he says1 and prayed ,god to strengthen me for my work4 ,this daily spiritual preparation was similar to ,handel's when he was creating his ,messiah4 ,change one word and it may be said of sacred music as truly as of astronomy1 ,the undevout composer is mad4 ,near ,haydn's death1 in ,vienna1 #ahji1 when he heard for the last time his magnificent chorus1 ,let there be ,light6 he exclaimed1 ,not mine1 not mine4 ,it all came to me from above4 ,,now ,,to ,,the ,,lord ,a ,,noble ,,song4 ,when ,watts finished this hymn he had achieved a noble song1 whether he was conscious of it or not2 and it deserves a foremost place1 where it can help future worshippers in their praise as it has the past4 ,it is not so common in the later hymnals1 but it is imperishable1 and still later collections will not forget it4 ,now to the ,lord a noble song1 ,awake my soul1 awake my tongue6 ,hosanna to the ,eternal ,name1 ,and all ,his boundless love proclaim4 ,see where it shines in ,jesus' face1 ,the brightest image of ,his grace6 ,god in the person of ,his ,son ,has all ,his mightiest works outdone4 ,a rather finical question has occurred to some minds as to the theology of the word works in the last line1 making the second person in the ,godhead apparently a creature2 and in a few hymn-books the previous line has been made to read-- ,god in the ,gospel of ,his ,son4 ,but the question is a rhetorical one1 and the poet's free expression--here as in hundreds of other cases--has never disturbed the general confidence in his orthodoxy4 ,montgomery called ,watts the inventor of hymns in our language1 and the credit stands practically undisputed1 for ,watts made a hymn style that no human master taught him1 and his model has been the ideal one for song worship ever since2 and we can pardon the climax when ,professor ,charles ,m4 ,stuart speaks of him as writer1 scholar1 thinker and saint1 for in addition to all the rest he was a very good man4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,old ,ames was for many years the choir favorite1 and the words of the hymn printed with it in the note-book made the association familiar4 ,it was1 and is1 an appropriate selection1 though in later manuals ,george ,kingsley's ,ware is evidently thought to be better suited to the high-toned verse4 ,good old tunes never wear out1 but they do go out of fashion4 ,the composer of ,ames1 ,sigismund ,neukomm1 ,chevalier1 was born in ,salzburg1 ,austria1 ,july #aj1 #aggh1 and was a pupil of ,haydn4 ,though not a great genius1 his talents procured him access and even intimacy in the courts of ,germany1 ,france1 ,italy1 ,portugal and ,england1 and for thirty years he composed church anthems and oratorios with prodigious industry4 ,neukomm's musical productions1 numbering no less than one thousand1 and popular in their day1 are1 however1 mostly forgotten1 excepting his oratorio of ,david and one or two hymn-tunes4 ,george ,kingsley1 author of ,ware1 was born in ,northampton1 ,mass41 ,july #g1 #ahaa4 ,died in the ,hospital1 in the same city1 ,march #ad1 #ahhd4 ,he compiled eight books of music for young people and several manuals of church psalmody1 and was for some time a music teacher in ,boston1 where he played the organ at the ,hollis ,st4 church4 ,subsequently he became professor of music in ,girard ,college1 ,philadelphia1 and music instructor in the public schools1 being employed successively as organist 7on ,lord's ,day7 at ,dr4 ,albert ,barnes' and ,arch ,st4 churches1 and finally in ,brooklyn at ,dr4 ,storrs' ,church of the ,pilgrims4 ,returned to ,northampton1 #ahec4 ,,early1 ,,my ,,god1 ,,without ,,delay4 ,this and the five following hymns1 all by ,watts1 are placed in immediate succession1 for unity's sake--with a fuller notice of the greatest of hymn-writers at the end of the series4 ,early1 my ,god1 without delay ,i haste to seek ,thy face1 ,my thirsty spirit faints away ,without ,thy cheering grace4 ,in the memories of very old men and women1 who sang the fugue music of ,morgan's ,montgomery1 still lingers the second stanza and some of the spirit and understanding with which it used to be rendered in meeting on ,sunday mornings4 ,so pilgrims on the scorching sand1 ,beneath a burning sky1 ,long for a cooling stream at hand ,and they must drink or die4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,many of the earlier pieces assigned to this hymn were either too noisy or too tame4 ,the best and longest-serving is ,lanesboro1 which1 with its expressive duet in the middle and its soaring final strain of harmony1 never fails to carry the meaning of the words4 ,it was composed by ,william ,dixon1 and arranged and adapted by ,lowell ,mason4 ,william ,dixon1 an ,english composer1 was a music engraver and publisher1 and author also of several glees and anthems4 ,he was born #agej1 and died about #ahbe4 ,lowell ,mason1 born in ,medfield1 ,mass41 #agib1 has been called1 not without reason1 the father of ,american choir singing4 ,returning from ,savannah1 ,ga41 where he spent sixteen years of his younger life as clerk in a bank1 he located in ,boston 7#ahbg71 being already known there as the composer of ,the ,missionary ,hymn4 ,he had not neglected his musical studies while living in the ,south1 and it was in ,savannah that he made the glorious harmony of that tune4 ,he became president of the ,handel and ,haydn ,society1 went abroad for special study1 was made ,doctor of ,music1 and collected a store of themes among the great models of song to bring home for his future work4 ,the ,boston ,academy of ,music was founded by him and what he did for the song-service of the ,church in ,america by his singing schools1 and musical conventions1 and published manuals1 to form and organize the choral branch of divine worship1 has no parallel1 unless it is ,noah ,webster's service to the ,english language4 ,dr4 ,mason died in ,orange1 ,n4,j41 in #ahgb4 ,,sweet ,,is ,,the ,,work1 ,,my ,,god1 ,,my ,,king4 ,this is one of the hymns that helped to give its author the title of ,the ,seraphic ,watts4 ,sweet is the work1 my ,god1 my ,king ,to praise ,thy name1 give thanks and sing ,to show ,thy love by morning light1 ,and talk of all ,thy truth at night4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,no nobler one1 and more akin in spirit to the hymn1 can be found than ,duke ,street1 ,hatton's imperishable choral4 ,little is known of the ,john ,hatton who wrote ,duke ,st4 ,he was earlier by nearly a century than ,john ,liphot ,hatton of ,liverpool 7born in #ahji71 who wrote the opera of ,pascal ,bruno1 the cantata of ,robin ,hood and the sacred drama of ,hezekiah4 ,the biographical index of the ,evangelical ,hymnal says of ,john ,hatton1 the author of ,duke ,st43 ,john1 of ,warrington2 afterwards of ,st4 ,helens1 then resident in ,duke ,st4 in the township of ,windle2 composed several hymn-tunes2 died in #agic4e ,his funeral sermon was preached at the ,presbyterian ,chapel1 ,st4 ,helens1 ,dec4 #ac4 ,footnote #e3 ,tradition says he was killed by being thrown from a stage-coach4 ,,come1 ,,we ,,that ,,love ,,the ,,lord4 ,watts entitled this hymn ,heavenly ,joy on ,earth4 ,he could possibly1 like ,madame ,guyon1 have written such a hymn in a dungeon1 but it is no less spiritual for its birth 7as tradition will have it7 amid the lovely scenery of ,southampton where he could find in nature glory begun below4 ,come1 we that love the ,lord1 ,and let our joys be known2 ,join in a song with sweet accord1 ,and thus surround the throne4 ,there shall we see ,his face1 ,and never1 never sin2 ,there1 from the rivers of ,his grace1 ,drink endless pleasures in4 ,children of grace have found ,glory begun below3 ,celestial fruits on earthly ground ,from faith and hope may grow4 ,mortality and immortality blend their charms in the next stanza4 ,the unfailing beauty of the vision will be dwelt upon with delight so long as ,christians sing on earth4 ,the hill of ,sion yields ,a thousand sacred sweets1 ,before we reach the heavenly fields1 ,or walk the golden streets4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,st4 ,thomas has often been the interpreter of the hymn1 and still clings to the words in the memory of thousands4 ,the ,italian tune of ,ain has more music4 ,it is a fugue piece 7simplified in some tune-books71 and the joyful traverse of its notes along the staff in four-four time1 with the momentum of a good choir1 is exhilarating in the extreme4 ,corelli1 the composer1 was a master violinist1 the greatest of his day1 and wrote a great deal of violin music2 and the thought of his glad instrument may have influenced his work when harmonizing the four voices of ,ain4 ,arcangelo ,corelli was born at ,fusignano1 in #afec4 ,he was a sensitive artist1 and although faultless in ,italian music1 he was not sure of himself in playing ,french scores1 and once while performing with ,handel 7who resented the slightest error71 and once again with ,scarlatti1 leading an orchestra in ,naples when the king was present1 he made a mortifying mistake4 ,he took the humiliation so much to heart that he brooded over it till he died1 in ,rome1 ,jan4 #ah1 #agag4 ,for revival meetings the modern tune set to ,come we that love the ,lord1 by ,robert ,lowry1 should be mentioned4 ,a shouting chorus is appended to it1 but it has melody and plenty of stimulating motion4 ,the ,rev4 ,robert ,lowry was born in ,philadelphia1 ,march #ab1 #ahbf1 and educated at ,lewisburg1 ,pa4 ,from his #bhth year till his death1 #ahii1 he was a faithful and successful minister of ,christ1 but is more widely known as a composer of sacred music4 ,,be ,,thou ,,exalted1 ,o ,,my ,,god4 ,in this hymn the thought of ,watts touches the eternal summits4 ,taken from the #egth and #ajhth ,psalms-- ,be ,thou exalted1 ,o my ,god1 ,above the heavens where angels dwell2 ,thy power on earth be known abroad ,and land to land ,thy wonders tell4 99 99 99 99 99 ,high o'er the earth ,his mercy reigns1 ,and reaches to the utmost sky2 ,his truth to endless years remains ,when lower worlds dissolve and die4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,haydn furnished it out of his chorus of morning stars1 and it was christened ,creation1 after the name of his great oratorio4 ,it is a march of trumpets4 ,,before ,,jehovah',s ,,awful ,,throne4 ,no one could mistake the style of ,watts in this sublime ode4 ,he begins with his foot on ,sinai1 but flies to ,calvary with the angel preacher whom ,st4 ,john saw in his ,patmos vision3 ,before ,jehovah's awful throne ,ye nations bow with sacred joy2 ,know that the ,lord is ,god alone2 ,he can create and ,he destroy4 ,his sovereign power without our aid ,made us of clay and formed us men1 ,and when like wandering sheep we stray1 ,he brought us to ,his fold again4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we'll crowd ,thy gates with thankful songs1 ,high as the heaven our voices raise1 ,and earth with her ten thousand tongues ,shall fill ,thy courts with sounding praise4 ,,tune--,,old ,,hundred4 ,martin ,madan's four-page anthem1 ,denmark1 has some grand strains in it1 but it is a tune of florid and difficult vocalization1 and is now heard only in ,old ,folks' ,concerts4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,rev4 ,isaac ,watts1 ,d4,d41 was born at ,southampton1 ,eng41 in #afgd4 ,his father was a deacon of the ,independent ,church there1 and though not an uncultured man himself1 he is said to have had little patience with the incurable penchant of his boy for making rhymes and verses4 ,we hear nothing of the lad's mother1 but we can fancy her hand and spirit in the indulgence of his poetic tastes as well as in his religious training4 ,the tradition handed down from ,dr4 ,price1 a colleague of ,watts1 relates that at the age of eighteen ,isaac became so irritated at the crabbed and untuneful hymns sung at the ,nonconformist meetings that he complained bitterly of them to his father4 ,the deacon may have felt something as ,dr4 ,wayland did when a rather fresh student criticised the ,proverbs1 and hinted that making such things could not be much of a job1 and the ,doctor remarked1 ,suppose you make a few4 ,possibly there was the same gentle sarcasm in the reply of ,deacon ,watts to his son1 ,make some yourself1 then4 ,isaac was in just the mood to take his father at his word1 and he retired and wrote the hymn-- ,behold the glories of the ,lamb4 ,there must have been a decent tune to carry it1 for it pleased the worshippers greatly1 when it was sung in meeting--and that was the beginning of ,isaac ,watts' career as a hymnist4 ,so far as scholarship was an advantage1 the young writer must have been well equipped already1 for as early as the entering of his fifth year he was learning ,latin1 and at nine learning ,greek2 at eleven1 ,french2 and at thirteen1 ,hebrew4 ,from the day of his first success he continued to indite hymns for the home church1 until by the end of his twenty-second year he had written one hundred and ten1 and in the two following years a hundred and forty-four more1 besides preparing himself for the ministry4 ,no4 #g in the edition of the first one hundred and ten1 was that royal jewel of all his lyric work-- ,when ,i survey the wondrous cross4 ,isaac ,watts was ordained pastor of an ,independent ,church in ,mark ,lane1 ,london1 #agjb1 but repeated illness finally broke up his ministry1 and he retired1 an invalid1 to the beautiful home of ,sir ,thomas ,abney at ,theobaldo1 invited1 as he supposed1 to spend a week1 but it was really to spend the rest of his life--thirty-six years4 ,numbers of his hymns are cited as having biographical or reminiscent color4 ,the stanza in-- ,when ,i can read my title clear1 --which reads in the original copy1-- ,should earth against my soul engage ,and hellish darts be hurled1 ,then ,i can smile at ,satan's rage ,and face a frowning world1 --is said to have been an allusion to ,voltaire and his attack upon the church1 while the calm beauty of the harbor within view of his home is supposed to have been in his eye when he composed the last stanza1-- ,there shall ,i bathe my weary soul ,in seas of heavenly rest1 ,and not a wave of trouble roll ,across my peaceful breast4 ,according to the record1-- ,what shall the dying sinner do8 --was one of his pulpit hymns1 and followed a sermon preached from ,rom4 #a3af4 ,another1-- ,and is this life prolonged to you8 --after a sermon from #a ,cor4 #c3bb2 and another1-- ,how vast a treasure we possess1 --enforced his text1 ,all things are yours4 ,the hymn1-- ,not all the blood of beasts ,on ,jewish altars slain1 --was1 as some say1 suggested to the writer by a visit to the abattoir in ,smithfield ,market4 ,the same hymn years afterwards1 discovered1 we are told1 in a printed paper wrapped around a shop bundle1 converted a ,jewess1 and influenced her to a life of ,christian faith and sacrifice4 ,a young man1 hardened by austere and minatory sermons1 was melted1 says ,dr4 ,belcher1 by simply reading1-- ,show pity ,lord1 ,o ,lord1 forgive1 ,let a repenting sinner live4 --and became partaker of a rich religious experience4 ,the summer scenery of ,southampton1 with its distant view of the ,isle of ,wight1 was believed to have inspired the hymnist sitting at a parlor window and gazing across the river ,itchen1 to write the stanza-- ,sweet fields beyond the swelling flood ,stand drest in living green2 ,so to the ,jews old ,canaan stood ,while ,jordan rolled between4 ,the hymn1 ,unveil thy bosom1 faithful tomb1 was personal1 addressed by ,watts to ,lucius on the death of ,seneca4 ,a severe heart-trial was the occasion of another hymn4 ,when a young man he proposed marriage to ,miss ,elizabeth ,singer1 a much-admired young lady1 talented1 beautiful1 and good4 ,she rejected him--kindly but finally4 ,the disappointment was bitter1 and in the first shadow of it he wrote1-- ,how vain are all things here below1 ,how false and yet how fair4 ,miss ,singer became the celebrated ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,rowe1 the spiritual and poetic beauty of whose ,meditations once made a devotional text-book for pious souls4 ,of ,dr4 ,watts and his offer of his hand and heart1 she always said1 ,i loved the jewel1 but ,i did not admire the casket4 ,the poet suitor was undersized1 in habitually delicate health--and not handsome4 ,but the good minister and scholar found noble employment to keep his mind from preying upon itself and shortening his days4 ,during his long though afflicted leisure he versified the ,psalms1 wrote a treatise on ,logic1 an ,introduction to the ,study of ,astronomy and ,geography1 and a work ,on the ,improvement of the ,mind2 and died in #agdh1 at the age of seventy-four4 ,o ,,for ,a ,,thousand ,,tongues ,,to ,,sing4 ,charles ,wesley1 the author of this hymn1 took up the harp of ,watts when the older poet laid it down4 ,he was born at ,epworth1 ,eng41 in #agjh1 the third son of ,rev4 ,samuel ,wesley1 and died in ,london1 ,march #bi1 #aghh4 ,the hymn is believed to have been written ,may #ag1 #agci1 for the anniversary of his own conversion3 ,o for a thousand tongues to sing ,my great ,redeemer's praise1 ,the glories of my ,god and ,king1 ,and triumphs of ,his grace4 ,the remark of a fervent ,christian friend1 ,peter ,bohler1 ,had ,i a thousand tongues ,i would praise ,christ ,jesus with them all1 struck an answering chord in ,wesley's heart1 and he embalmed the wish in his fluent verse4 ,the third stanza 7printed as second in some hymnals71 has made language for pardoned souls for at least four generations3 ,jesus6 the name that calms our fears ,and bids our sorrows cease2 ',tis music in the sinner's ears1 ',tis life and health and peace4 ,charles ,wesley was the poet of the soul1 and knew every mood4 ,in the words of ,isaac ,taylor1 ,there is no main article of belief 444 no moral sentiment peculiarly characteristic of the gospel that does not find itself 444 pointedly and clearly conveyed in some stanza of ,charles ,wesley's poetry4 ,and it does not dim the lustre of ,watts1 considering the marvellous brightness1 versatility and felicity of his greatest successor1 to say of the latter1 with the ,london ,quarterly1 that he was1 perhaps1 the most gifted minstrel of the modern ,church4 ,illustration3 ,charles ,wesley ,most of the hymns of this good man were hymns of experience--and this is why they are so dear to the ,christian heart4 ,the music of eternal life is in them4 ,the happy glow of a single line in one of them-- ,love ,divine1 all loves excelling1 --thrills through them all4 ,he led a spotless life from youth to old age1 and grew unceasingly in spiritual knowledge and sweetness4 ,his piety and purity were the weapons that alike humbled his scoffing fellow scholars at ,oxford1 and conquered the wild colliers of ,kingwood4 ,with his brother ,john1 through persecution and ridicule1 he preached and sang that ,divine ,love to his countrymen and in the wilds of ,america1 and on their return to ,england his quenchless melodies multiplied till they made an ,evangelical literature around his name4 ,his hymns--he wrote no less than six thousand--are a liturgy not only for the ,methodist ,church but for ,english-speaking ,christendom4 ,the voices of ,wesley and ,watts cannot be hidden1 whatever province of ,christian life and service is traversed in themes of song1 and in these chapters they will be heard again and again4 ,a ,watts-and-,wesley ,scholarship would grace any ,theological ,seminary1 to encourage the study and discussion of the best lyrics of the two great ,gospel bards4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,the musical mouth-piece of ,o for a thousand tongues1 nearest to its own date1 is old ,azmon by ,carl ,glaser 7#agcd-ahbi71 appearing as ,no4 #a in the ,new ,methodist ,hymnal4 ,arranged by ,lowell ,mason1 #ahcj1 it is still comparatively familiar1 and the flavor of devotion is in its tone and style4 ,henry ,john ,gauntlett1 an ,english lawyer and composer1 wrote a tune for it in #ahgb1 noble in its uniform step and time1 but scarcely uttering the hymnist's characteristic ardor4 ,the tune of ,dedham1 by ,william ,gardiner1 now venerable but surviving by true merit1 is not unlike ,azmon in movement and character4 ,though less closely associated with the hymn1 as a companion melody it is not inappropriate4 ,but whatever the range of vocalization or the dignity of swells and cadences1 a slow pace of single semibreves or quarters is not suited to ,wesley's hymns4 ,they are flights4 ,professor ,william ,gardiner wrote many works on musical subjects early in the last century1 and composed vocal harmonies1 secular and sacred4 ,he was born in ,leicester1 ,eng41 ,march #e1 #aggj1 and died there ,nov4 #af1 #ahec4 ,there is an old-fashioned unction and vigor in the style of ,peterborough by ,rev4 ,ralph ,harrison 7#agdh-ahaj7 that after all best satisfies the singer who enters heart and soul into the spirit of the hymn4 ,old ,peterborough was composed in #aghf4 ,,lord ,,with ,,glowing ,,heart ,i',d ,,praise ,,thee4 ,this was written in #ahag by the author of the ,star ,spangled ,banner1 and is a noble ,american hymn of which the country may well be proud1 both because of its merit and for its birth in the heart of a national poet who was no less a ,christian than a patriot4 ,francis ,scott ,key1 lawyer1 was born on the estate of his father1 ,john ,ross ,key1 in ,frederick1 ,md41 ,aug4 #ast1 #aggi2 and died in ,baltimore1 ,jan4 #aa1 #ahdc4 ,a bronze statue of him over his grave1 and another in ,golden ,gate ,park1 ,san ,francisco1 represent the nationality of his fame and the gratitude of a whole land4 ,though a slaveholder by inheritance1 ,mr4 ,key deplored the existence of human slavery1 and not only originated a scheme of ,african colonization1 but did all that a model master could do for the chattels on his plantation1 in compliance with the ,scripture command1#f to lighten their burdens4 ,he helped them in their family troubles1 defended them gratuitously in the courts1 and held regular ,sunday-school services for them4 ,footnote #f3 ,eph4 #f3i1 ,coloss4 #d3a4 ,educated at ,st4 ,john's ,college1 an active member of the ,episcopal ,church1 he was not only a scholar but a devout and exemplary man4 ,lord1 with glowing heart ,i'd praise ,thee ,for the bliss ,thy love bestows1 ,for the pardoning grace that saves me1 ,and the peace that from it flows4 ,help1 ,o ,lord1 my weak endeavor2 ,this dull soul to rapture raise2 ,thou must light the flame or never ,can my love be warmed to praise4 ,lord1 this bosom's ardent feeling ,vainly would my life express2 ,low before ,thy footstool kneeling1 ,deign ,thy suppliant's prayer to bless4 ,let ,thy grace1 my soul's chief treasure1 ,love's pure flame within me raise1 ,and1 since words can never measure1 ,let my life show forth ,thy praise4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,st4 ,chad1 a choral in ,d1 with a four-bar unison1 in the ,evangelical ,hymnal1 is worthy of the hymn4 ,richard ,redhead1 the composer1 organist of the ,church of ,st4 ,mary ,magdalene1 ,paddington1 ,eng41 was born at ,harrow1 ,middlesex1 ,march #a1 #ahbj1 and educated at ,magdalene ,college1 ,oxford4 ,graduated ,bachelor of ,music at ,oxford1 #ahga4 ,he published ,laudes ,dominae1 a ,gregorian ,psalter1 #ahdc1 a ,book of ,tunes for the ,christian ,year1 and is the author of much ritual music4 ,,holy1 ,,holy1 ,,holy1 ,,lord ,,god ,,almighty4 ,there is nothing so majestic in ,protestant hymnology as this ,tersanctus of ,bishop ,heber4 ,the ,rt4 ,rev4 ,reginald ,heber1 son of a clergyman of the same name1 was born in ,malpas1 ,cheshire1 ,eng41 ,april #bast1 #aghc1 and educated at ,oxford4 ,he served the church in ,hodnet1 ,shropshire1 for about twenty years1 and was then appointed ,bishop of ,calcutta1 ,e4,i4 ,his labors there were cut short in the prime of his life1 his death occurring in #ahbf1 at ,trichinopoly on the #c;d of ,april1 his natal month4 ,his hymns1 numbering fifty-seven1 were collected by his widow1 and published with his poetical works in #ahdb4 ,holy6 holy6 holy6 ,lord ,god ,almighty6 ,early in the morning our song shall rise to ,thee4 ,holy6 holy6 holy6 merciful and mighty1 ,god in ,three ,persons1 blessed ,trinity4 ,holy6 holy6 holy6 all the saints adore ,thee1 ,casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea2 ,cherubim and seraphim1 falling down before ,thee1 ,which wert1 and art1 and evermore shall be4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,grand as the hymn is1 it did not come to its full grandeur of sentiment and sound in song-worship till the remarkable music of ,dr4 ,john ,b4 ,dykes was joined to it4 ,none was ever written that in performance illustrates more admirably the solemn beauty of congregational praise4 ,the name ,nicaea attached to the tune means nothing to the popular ear and mind1 and it is known everywhere by the initial words of the first line4 ,rev4 ,john ,bacchus ,dykes1 ,doctor of ,music1 was born at ,kingston-upon-,hull1 in #ahbc2 and graduated at ,cambridge1 in #ahdg4 ,he became a master of tone and choral harmony1 and did much to reform and elevate congregational psalmody in ,england4 ,he was perhaps the first to demonstrate that hymn-tune making can be reduced to a science without impairing its spiritual purpose4 ,died ,jan4 #bb1 #ahgf4 ,,lord ,,of ,,all ,,being1 ,,throned ,,afar4 ,this noble hymn was composed by ,dr4 ,oliver ,wendell ,holmes1 born in ,cambridge1 ,mass41 #ahji1 and graduated at ,harvard ,university4 ,a physician by profession1 he was known as a practitioner chiefly in literature1 being a brilliant writer and long the leading poetical wit of ,america4 ,he was1 however1 a man of deep religious feeling1 and a devout attendant at ,king's ,chapel1 ,unitarian1 in ,boston where he spent his life4 ,he held the ,harvard ,professorship of ,anatomy and ,physiology more than fifty years1 but his enduring work is in his poems1 and his charming volume1 ,the ,autocrat of the ,breakfast ,table4 ,died ,jan4 #bb1 #ahif4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,holmes' hymn is sung in some churches to ,louvan1 ,v4,c4 ,taylor's admirable praise tune4 ,other hymnals prefer with it the music of ,keble1 one of ,dr4 ,dykes' appropriate and finished melodies4 ,virgil ,corydon ,taylor1 an ,american vocal composer1 was born in ,barkhamstead1 ,conn41 ,april #b1 #ahag1 died #ahia4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,some ,,hymns ,,of ,,great ,,witnesses4 ,,john ,,of ,,damascus4 ,greek3 ,erchesthe1 o pistoi1 ,anastaseos ,hemera4 ,john of ,damascus1 called also ,st4 ,john of ,jerusalem1 a theologian and poet1 was the last but one of the ,christian ,fathers of the ,greek ,church4 ,this eminent man was named by the ,arabs ,ibn ,mansur1 ,son 7,servant87 of a ,conqueror1 either in honor of his father ,sergius or because it was a ,semitic translation of his family title4 ,he was born in ,damascus early in the #hth century1 and seems to have been in favor with the ,caliph1 and served under him many years in some important civil capacity1 until1 retiring to ,palestine1 he entered the monastic order1 and late in life was ordained a priest of the ,jerusalem ,church4 ,he died in the ,convent of ,st4 ,sabas near that city about ,a4,d4 #ghj4 ,his lifetime appears to have been passed in comparative peace4 ,mohammed having died before completing the conquest of ,syria1 the ,moslem rule before whose advance ,oriental ,christianity was to lose its first field of triumph had not yet asserted its persecuting power in the north4 ,this devout monk1 in his meditations at ,st4 ,sabas1 dwelt much upon the birth and the resurrection of ,christ1 and made hymns to celebrate them4 ,it was probably four hundred years before ,bonaventura 787 wrote the ,christmas ,adeste ,fideles of the ,latin ,west that ,john of ,damascus composed his ,greek ,adeste ,fideles for a ,resurrection song in ,jerusalem4 ,come ye faithful1 raise the strain ,of triumphant gladness4 99 99 99 99 99 ',tis the spring of souls today ,christ hath burst ,his prison2 ,from the frost and gloom of death ,light and life have risen4 ,the nobler of the two hymns preserved to us1 7or six stanzas of it7 through eleven centuries is entitled ,the ,day of ,resurrection4 ,the day of resurrection1 ,earth1 tell its joys abroad3 ,the ,passover of gladness1 ,the ,passover of ,god4 ,from death to life eternal1 ,from earth unto the sky1 ,our ,christ hath brought us over1 ,with hymns of victory4 ,our hearts be pure from evil1 ,that we may see aright ,the ,lord in rays eternal ,of resurrection light2 ,and1 listening to ,his accents1 ,may hear1 so calm and plain1 ,his own1 ,all hail6 and hearing1 ,may raise the victor-strain4 ,now let the heavens be joyful1 ,let earth her song begin1 ,let all the world keep triumph1 ,all that dwell therein4 ,in grateful exultation1 ,their notes let all things blend1 ,for ,christ the ,lord is risen1 ,o joy that hath no end6 ,both these hymns of ,john of ,damascus were translated by ,john ,mason ,neale4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the ,day of ,resurrection is sung in the modern hymnals to the tune of ,rotterdam1 composed by ,berthold of ,tours1 born in that city of the ,netherlands1 ,dec4 #ag1 #ahch4 ,he was educated at the conservatory in ,leipsic1 and later made ,london his permanent residence1 writing both vocal and instrumental music4 ,died #ahig4 ,rotterdam is a stately1 sonorous piece and conveys the flavor of the ancient hymn4 ,come ye faithful has for its modern interpreter ,sir ,arthur ,sullivan1 the celebrated composer of both secular and sacred works1 but best known in hymnody as author of the great ,christian march1 ,onward ,christian ,soldiers4 ,hymns are known to have been written by the earlier ,greek ,fathers1 ,ephrem ,syrus of ,mesopotamia 7,a4,d4 #cjg-cgc71 ,basil the ,great1 ,bishop of ,cappadocia 7,a4,d4 #cbi-cgi7 ,gregory ,nazianzen1 ,bishop of ,constantinople 7,a4,d4 #cce-cij7 and others1 but their fragments of song which have come down to us scarcely rank them among the great witnesses--with the possible exception of the last name4 ,an ,english scholar1 ,rev4 ,allen ,w4 ,chatfield1 has translated the hymns extant of ,gregory ,nazianzen4 ,the following stanzas give an idea of their quality4 ,the lines are from an address to the ,deity3 ,how1 ,unapproached6 shall mind of man ,descry ,thy dazzling throne1 ,and pierce and find ,thee out1 and scan ,where ,thou dost dwell alone8 ,unuttered ,thou6 all uttered things ,have had their birth from ,thee2 ,the ,one ,unknown1 from ,thee the spring ,of all we know and see4 ,and lo6 all things abide in ,thee ,and through the complex whole1 ,thou spreadst ,thine own divinity1 ,thyself of all the ,goal4 ,this is reverent1 but rather philosophical than evangelical1 and reminds us of the ,hymn of ,aratus1 more than two centuries before ,christ was born4 ,,st4 ,,stephen1 ,,the ,,sabaite4 ,this pious ,greek monk1 7#gcd-gid17 nephew of ,st4 ,john of ,damascus1 spent his life1 from the age of ten1 in the monastery of ,st4 ,sabas4 ,his sweet hymn1 known in ,neale's translation1-- ,art thou weary1 art thou languid1 ,art thou sore distrest8 ,come to ,me1 saith ,one1 and coming ,be at rest1 --is still in the hymnals1 with the tunes of ,dykes1 and ,sir ,henry ,w4 ,baker 7#ahba-ahgg71 ,vicar of ,monkland1 ,herefordshire4 ,,king ,,robert ,,ii4 ,veni1 ,sancte ,spiritus4 ,robert the ,second1 surnamed ,robert the ,sage and ,robert the ,devout1 succeeded ,hugh ,capet1 his father1 upon the throne of ,france1 about the year #iig4 ,he has been called the gentlest monarch that ever sat upon a throne1 and his amiability of character poorly prepared him to cope with his dangerous and wily adversaries4 ,his last years were embittered by the opposition of his own sons1 and the political agitations of the times4 ,he died at ,melun in #ajca1 and was buried at ,st4 ,denis4 ,robert possessed a reflective mind1 and was fond of learning and musical art4 ,he was both a poet and a musician4 ,he was deeply religious1 and1 from unselfish motives1 was much devoted to the church4 ,robert's hymn1 ,veni1 ,sancte ,spiritus1 is given below4 ,he himself was a chorister2 and there was no kingly service that he seemed to love so well4 ,we are told that it was his custom to go to the church of ,st4 ,denis1 and in his royal robes1 with his crown upon his head1 to direct the choir at matins and vespers1 and join in the singing4 ,few kings have left a better legacy to the ,christian church than his own hymn1 which1 after nearly a thousand years1 is still an influence in the world3 ,come1 ,thou ,holy ,spirit1 come1 ,and from ,thine eternal home ,shed the ray of light divine2 ,come1 ,thou ,father of the poor1 ,come1 ,thou ,source of all our store1 ,come1 within our bosoms shine4 ,thou of ,comforters the best1 ,thou the soul's most welcome ,guest1 ,sweet ,refreshment here below6 ,in our labor ,rest most sweet1 ,grateful ,shadow from the heat1 ,solace in the midst of woe6 ,oh1 most blessed ,light ,divine1 ,shine within these hearts of ,thine1 ,and our inmost being fill2 ,if ,thou take ,thy grace away1 ,nothing pure in man will stay1 ,all our good is turned to ill4 ,heal our wounds2 our strength renew ,on our dryness pour ,thy dew2 ,wash the stains of guilt away6 ,bend the stubborn heart and will1 ,melt the frozen1 warm the chill1 ,guide the steps that go astray4 ,neale's ,translation4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the metre and six-line stanza1 being uniform with those of ,rock of ,ages1 have tempted some to borrow ,toplady for this ancient hymn1 but ,hastings' tune would refuse to sing other words2 and1 besides1 the alternate rhymes would mar the euphony4 ,not unsuitable in spirit are several existing tunes of the right measure--like ,nassau or ,st4 ,athanasius--but in truth the ,veni1 ,sancte ,spiritus in ,english waits for its perfect setting4 ,dr4 ,ray ,palmer's paraphrase of it in sixes-and-fours1 to fit ,olivet1-- ,come1 ,holy ,ghost in love1 etc4 --is objectionable both because the word ,ghost is an archaism in ,christian worship and more especially because ,dr4 ,palmer's altered version usurps the place of his own hymn4 ,olivet with ,my faith looks up to ,thee makes as inviolable a case of psalmodic monogamy as ,toplady with ,rock of ,ages4 ,,st4 ,,fulbert4 ,chori ,cantores ,hierusalem ,novae4 ,st4 ,fulbert's hymn is a worthy companion of ,perronet's ,coronation--if1 indeed1 it was not its original prompter--as ,king ,robert's great litany was the mother song of ,watts' ,come1 ,holy ,spirit1 heavenly ,dove2 and the countless other sacred lyrics beginning with similar words4 ,as the translation stands in the ,church of ,england1 there are six stanzas now sung1 though in ,america but four appear1 and not in the same sequence4 ,the first four of the six in their regular succession are as follows3 ,ye choirs of ,new ,jerusalem1 ,your sweetest notes employ1 ,the ,paschal victory to hymn ,in strains of holy joy4 ,for ,judah's ,lion bursts ,his chains1 ,crushing the serpent's head2 ,and cries aloud1 through death's domains ,to wake the imprisoned dead4 ,devouring depths of hell their prey ,at ,his command restore2 ,his ransomed hosts pursue their way ,where ,jesus goes before4 ,triumphant in ,his glory now1 ,to ,him all power is given2 ,to ,him in one communion bow ,all saints in earth and heaven4 ,bishop ,fulbert1 known in the ,roman and in the ,protestant ritualistic churches as ,st4 ,fulbert of ,chartres1 was a man of brilliant and versatile mind1 and one of the most eminent prelates of his time4 ,he was a contemporary of ,robert ,,ii1 and his intimate friend1 continuing so after the ,pope 7,gregory ,v47 excommunicated the king for marrying a cousin1 which was forbidden by the canons of the church4 ,fulbert was for some time head of the ,theological ,college at ,chartres1 a cathedral town of ,france1 anciently the capital of ,celtic ,gaul1 and afterwards he was consecrated as ,bishop of that diocese4 ,he died about #ajbi4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the modern tone-interpreter of ,fulbert's hymn bears the name ,la ,spezia in some collections1 and was composed by ,james ,taylor about the time the hymn was translated into ,english by ,robert ,campbell4 ,research might discover the ancient tune--for the hymn is said to have been sung in the ,english church during ,fulbert's lifetime--but the older was little likely to be the better music4 ,la ,spezia is a choral of enlivening but easy chords1 and a tread of triumph in its musical motion that suits the march of ,judah's ,lion3 ,his ransomed hosts pursue their way ,where ,jesus goes before4 ,james ,taylor1 born #ahcc1 is a ,doctor of ,music1 organist of the ,university of ,oxford and ,director of the ,oxford ,philharmonic ,society4 ,robert ,campbell1 the translator1 was a ,scotch lawyer1 born in ,edinburgh1 who besides his work as an advocate wrote original hymns1 and in other ways exercised a natural literary gift4 ,he compiled the excellent ,hymnal of the diocese of ,st4 ,andrews1 and this was his best work4 ,the date of his death is given as ,dec4 #bi1 #ahfh4 ,,thomas ,,of ,,celano4 ,dies irae6 dies illa1 ,solvet saeclum in favilla1 ,teste ,david cum ,sybilla4 ,day of wrath6 that day of burning1 ,all the world to ashes turning1 ,sung by prophets far discerning4 ,latin ecclesiastical poetry reached its high water mark in that awful hymn4 ,the solitaire of its sphere and time in the novelty of its rhythmic triplets1 it stood a wonder to the church and hierarchy accustomed to the slow spondees of the ancient chant4 ,there could be such a thing as a trochaic hymn6--and majestic1 too6 ,it was a discovery that did not stale4 ,the compelling grandeur of the poem placed it distinct and alone1 and the very difficulty of staffing it for vocal and instrumental use gave it a zest1 and helped to keep it unique through the ages4 ,latin hymnody and hymnography1 appealing to the popular ear and heart1 had gradually substituted accent for quantity in verse2 for the common people could never be moved by a ,christian song in the prosody of the classics4 ,the religion of the cross1 with the song-preaching of its propagandists1 created medieval ,latin and made it a secondary classic--mother of four anthem languages of ,western and ,southern ,europe4 ,its golden age was the #abth and #acth centuries4 ,the new and more flexible school of speech and music in hymn and tune had perfected rhythmic beauty and brought in the winsome assonance of rhyme4 ,illustration3 ,dr4 ,martin ,luther ,the ,dies ,irae was born1 it is believed1 about the year #abee4 ,its authorship has been debated1 but competent testimony assures us that the original draft of the great poem was found in a box among the effects of ,thomas di ,celano after his death4 ,thomas--surnamed ,thomas of ,celano from his birthplace1 the town of ,celano in the province of ,aquila1 ,southern ,italy--was the pupil1 friend and co-laborer of ,st4 ,francis of ,assisi1 and wrote his memoirs4 ,he is supposed to have died near the end of the #acth century4 ,that he wrote the sublime judgment song there is now practically no question4 ,the label on the discovered manuscript would suggest that the writer did not consider it either a hymn or a poem4 ,like the inspired prophets he had meditated--and while he was musing the fire burned4 ,the only title he wrote over it was ,prosa de mortuis1 ,prosa 7or prosa oratio7--from prorsus1 straight forward--appears here in the truly conventional sense it was beginning to bear1 but not yet as the antipode of poetry4 ,the modest author1 unconscious of the magnitude of his work1 called it simply ,plain speech concerning the dead4#g ,footnote #g3 ,proses were original passages introduced into ecclesiastical chants in the #ajth century4 ,during and after the #aath century they were called ,sequences 7i4e4 following the ,gospel in the liturgy71 and were in metrical form1 having a prayerful tone4 ,sequentia pro defunctis was the later title of the ,dies ,irae4 ,the hymn is much too long to quote entire1 but can be found in ,daniel's ,thesaurus in any large public library4 ,as to the translations of it1 they number hundreds--in ,english and ,german alone1 and ,italy1 ,spain and ,portugal have their vernacular versions--not to mention the ,greek and ,russian and even the ,hebrew4 ,a few stanzas follow1 with their renderings into ,english 7always imperfect7 selected almost at random3 ,quantus tremor est futurus ,quando ,judex est venturus1 ,cuncta stricte discussurus6 ,tuba mirum spargens sonum ,per sepulcra regionum1 ,coget omnes ante thronum6 ,o the dread1 the contrite kneeling ,when the ,lord1 in ,judgment dealing1 ,comes each hidden thing revealing6 ,when the trumpet's awful tone ,through the realms sepulchral blown1 ,summons all before the ,throne6 ,the solemn strength and vibration of these tremendous trilineals suffers no general injury by the variant readings--and there are a good many4 ,as a sample1 the first stanza was changed by some canonical redactor to get rid of the heathen word ,sybilla1 and the second line was made the third3 ,dies ,irae1 dies illa ,crucis expandens vexilla1 ,solvet saeclum in favilla4 ,day of wrath6 that day foretold1 ,with the cross-flag wide unrolled1 ,shall the world in fire enfold6 ,in some readings the original in favilla is changed to cum favilla1 with ashes instead of in ashes2 and ,teste ,petro is substituted for ,teste ,david4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the varieties of music set to the ,hymn of ,judgment in the different sections and languages of ,christendom during seven hundred years are probably as numerous as the pictures of the ,holy ,family in ,christian art4 ,it is enough to say that one of the best at hand1 or1 at least1 accessible1 is the solemn minor melody of ,dr4 ,dykes in ,william ,henry ,monk's ,hymns ,ancient and ,modern4 ,it was composed about the middle of the last century4 ,both the ,evangelical and ,methodist ,hymnals have ,dean ,stanley's translation of the hymn1 the former with thirteen stanzas 7six-line7 to a ,d minor of ,john ,stainer1 and the latter to a ,c major of ,timothy ,matthews4 ,the ,plymouth ,hymnal has seventeen of the trilineal stanzas1 by an unknown translator1 to ,ferdinand ,hiller's tune in ,f minor1 besides one verse to another ,f minor--hymn and tune both nameless4 ,all the composers above named are musicians of fame4 ,john ,stainer1 organist of ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral1 was a ,doctor of ,music and ,chevalier of the ,legion of ,honor1 and celebrated for his works in sacred music1 to which he mainly devoted his time4 ,he was born ,june #f1 #ahdj4 ,he died ,march #ca1 #aija4 ,rev4 ,timothy ,richard ,matthews1 born at ,colmworth1 ,eng41 ,nov4 #bj1 #ahbf1 is a clergyman of the ,church of ,england1 incumbent of a ,lancaster charge to which he was appointed by ,queen ,alexandra4 ,ferdinand ,hiller1 born #ahaa at ,frankfort-on-the-,main1 of ,hebrew parentage1 was one of ,germany's most eminent musicians4 ,for many years he was ,chapel ,master at ,cologne1 and organized the ,cologne ,conservatory4 ,his compositions are mostly for instrumental performance1 but he wrote cantatas1 motets1 male choruses1 and two oratorios1 one on the ,destruction of ,jerusalem4 ,died ,may #aj1 #ahee4 ,the ,very ,rev4 ,arthur ,penrhyn ,stanley1 ,dean of ,westminster1 was an author and scholar whom all sects of ,christians delighted to honor4 ,his writings on the ,new ,testament and his published researches in ,palestine1 made him an authority in ,biblical study1 and his contributions to sacred literature were looked for and welcomed as eagerly as a new hymn by ,bonar or a new poem by ,tennyson4 ,dean ,stanley was born in #ahae1 and died ,july #ahth1 #ahha4 ,,thomas ,a ,,kempis4 ,thomas a ,kempis1 sub-prior of the ,convent of ,st4 ,agnes1 was born at ,hamerkin1 ,holland1 about the year #achj1 and died at ,zwoll1 #adga4 ,this pious monk belonged to an order called the ,brethren of the ,common ,life founded by ,gerard de ,groote1 and his fame rests entirely upon his one book1 the ,imitation of ,christ1 which continues to be printed as a religious classic1 and is unsurpassed as a manual of private devotion4 ,his monastic life--as was true generally of the monastic life of the middle ages--was not one of useless idleness4 ,the ,brethren taught school and did mechanical work4 ,besides1 before the invention of printing had been perfected and brought into common service1 the multiplication of books was principally the work of monkish pens4 ,kempis spent his days copying the ,bible and good books--as well as in exercises of devotion that promoted religious calm4 ,his idea of heaven1 and the idea of his order1 was expressed in that clause of ,john's description of the ,city of ,god1 ,rev4 #bb3c1 and ,his servants shall serve ,him4 ,above all other heavenly joys that was his favorite thought4 ,we can well understand that the pious quietude wrought in his mind and manners by his habit of life made him a saint in the eyes of the people4 ,the frontispiece of one edition of his ,imitatio ,christi pictures him as being addressed before the door of a convent by a troubled pilgrim1-- ,o where is peace8--for thou its paths hast trod1 --and his answer completes the couplet1-- ,in poverty1 retirement1 and with ,god4 ,of all that is best in inward spiritual life1 much can be learned from this inspired ,dutchman4 ,he wrote no hymns1 but in his old age he composed a poem on ,heaven's ,joys1 which is sometimes called ,thomas a ,kempis' ,hymn3 ,high the angel choirs are raising ,heart and voice in harmony2 ,the ,creator ,king still praising ,whom in beauty there they see4 ,sweetest strains from soft harps stealing1 ,trumpets' notes of triumph pealing1 ,radiant wings and white stoles gleaming ,up the steps of glory streaming2 ,where the heavenly bells are ringing2 ,holy6 holy6 holy6 singing ,to the mighty ,trinity6 ,holy6 holy6 holy6 crying1 ,for all earthly care and sighing ,in that city cease to be6 ,these lines are not in the hymnals of today--and whether they ever found their way into choral use in ancient times we are not told4 ,worse poetry has been sung--and more un-hymnlike4 ,some future composer will make a tune to the words of a ,christian who stood almost in sight of his hundredth year--and of the eternal home he writes about4 ,,martin ,,luther4 ,ein ,feste ,burg ,ist ,unser ,gott4 ,of ,martin ,luther ,coleridge said1 ,he did as much for the ,reformation by his hymns as he did by his translation of the ,bible4 ,the remark is so true that it has become a commonplace4 ,the above line--which may be seen inscribed on ,luther's tomb at ,wittenberg--is the opening sentence and key-note of the ,reformer's grandest hymn4 ,the forty-sixth ,psalm inspired it1 and it is in harmony with sublime historical periods from its very nature1 boldness1 and sublimity4 ,it was written1 according to ,welles1 in the memorable year when the evangelical princes delivered their protest at the ,diet of ,spires1 from which the word and the meaning of the word ,protestant is derived4 ,luther used often to sing it in #aecj1 while the ,diet of ,augsburg was sitting4 ,it soon became the favorite psalm with the people4 ,it was one of the watchwords of the ,reformation1 cheering armies to conflict1 and sustaining believers in the hours of fiery trial4 ,after ,luther's death1 ,melancthon1 his affectionate coadjutor1 being one day at ,weimar with his banished friends1 ,jonas and ,creuziger1 heard a little maid singing this psalm in the street1 and said1 ',sing on1 my little girl1 you little know whom you comfort3' ,a mighty fortress is our ,god1 ,a bulwark never failing2 ,our helper ,he1 amid the flood ,of mortal ills prevailing4 ,for still our ancient foe ,doth seek to work us woe2 ,his craft and power are great1 ,and1 armed with cruel hate1 ,on earth is not his equal4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,prince of ,darkness grim-- ,we tremble not for him3 ,his rage we can endure1 ,for lo6 his doom is sure1 ,one little word shall fell him4 ,that word above all earthly powers-- ,no thanks to them--abideth2 ,the ,spirit and the gifts are ours1 ,through ,him who with us sideth4 ,let goods and kindred go1 ,this mortal life also2 ,the body they may kill1 ,god's truth abideth still1 ,his kingdom is for ever4 ,martin ,luther was born in ,eisleben1 in ,saxony1 ,nov4 #aj1 #adhc4 ,he was educated at the ,university of ,erfurth1 and became an ,augustinian monk and ,professor of ,philosophy and ,divinity in the ,university of ,wittenberg4 ,in #aeag he composed and placarded his ninety-five ,theses condemning certain practices of the ,romish ,church and three years later the ,pope published a bull excommunicating him1 which he burnt openly before a sympathetic multitude in ,wittenberg4 ,his life was a stormy one1 and he was more than once in mortal danger by reason of his antagonism to the papal authority1 but he found powerful patrons1 and lived to see the ,reformation an organized fact4 ,he died in his birthplace1 ,eisleben1 ,feb4 #ahth1 #aedf4 ,the translation of the ,ein feste burg1 given above1 in part1 is by ,rev4 ,frederick ,henry ,hedge1 ,d4,d41 born in ,cambridge1 ,march #ahje1 a graduate of ,harvard1 and formerly minister of the ,unitarian ,church in ,bangor1 ,me4 ,died1 #ahij4 ,luther wrote thirty-six hymns1 to some of which he fitted his own music1 for he was a musician and singer as well as an eloquent preacher4 ,the tune in which ,ein feste ,burg is sung in the hymnals1 was composed by himself4 ,the hymn has also a noble rendering in the music of ,sebastian ,bach1 #h-d time1 found in ,hymns ,ancient and ,modern4 ,,bartholomew ,,ringwaldt4 ,great ,god1 ,what ,do ,i ,see and ,hear8 ,the history of this hymn is somewhat indefinite1 though common consent now attributes to ,ringwaldt the stanza beginning with the above line4 ,the imitation of the ,dies ,irae in ,german which was first in use was printed in ,jacob ,klug's ,gesangbuch in #aece4 ,ringwaldt's hymn of the ,last ,day1 also inspired from the ancient ,latin original1 appears in his ,handbuchlin of #aehf1 but does not contain this stanza4 ,the first line is1 ,the awful ,day will surely come1 7,es ist gewisslich an der ,zeit74 ,nevertheless through the more than two hundred years that the hymn has been translated and re-translated1 and gone through inevitable revisions1 some vital identity in the spirit and tone of the one seven-line stanza has steadily connected it with ,ringwaldt's name4 ,apparently it is the single survivor of a great lost hymn--edited and altered out of recognition4 ,but its power evidently inspired the added verses1 as we have them4 ,dr4 ,collyer found it1 and1 regretting that it was too short to sing in public service1 composed stanzas #b;d1 #c;d and #dth4 ,it is likely that ,collyer first met with it in ,psalms and ,hymns for ,public and ,private ,devotion1 ,sheffield #ahjb1 where it appeared anonymously4 ,so far as known this was its first publication in ,english4 ,ringwaldt's stanza and two of ,collyer's are here given3 ,great ,god1 what do ,i see and hear6 ,the end of things created6 ,the ,judge of mankind doth appear ,on clouds of glory seated4 ,the trumpet sounds1 the graves restore ,the dead which they contained before2 ,prepare1 my soul1 to meet ,him4 ,the dead in ,christ shall first arise ,at the last trumpet sounding1 ,caught up to meet ,him in the skies1 ,with joy their ,lord surrounding4 ,no gloomy fears their souls dismay ,his presence sheds eternal day ,on those prepared to meet ,him4 ,far over space to distant spheres ,the lightnings are prevailing ,th' ungodly rise1 and all their tears ,and sighs are unavailing4 ,the day of grace is past and gone2 ,they shake before the ,judge's ,throne ,all unprepared to meet ,him4 ,bartholomew ,ringwaldt1 pastor of the ,lutheran ,church of ,longfeld1 ,prussia1 was born in #aeca1 and died in #aeii4 ,his hymns appear in a collection entitled ,hymns for the ,sundays and ,festivals of the ,whole ,year4 ,rev4 ,william ,bengo ,collyer ,d4,d41 was born at ,blackheath near ,london1 ,april #ad1 #aghb1 educated at ,homerton ,college and settled over a ,congregational ,church in ,peckham4 ,in #ahab he published a book of hymns1 and in #ahcg a ,service ,book to which he contributed eighty-nine hymns4 ,he died ,jan1 #i1 #ahed4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,probably it was the customary singing of ,ringwaldt's hymn 7in ,germany7 to ,luther's tune that gave it for some time the designation of ,luther's ,hymn1 the title by which the music is still known--an air either composed or adapted by ,luther1 and rendered perhaps unisonously or with extempore chords4 ,it was not until early in the last century that ,vincent ,novello wrote to it the noble arrangement now in use4 ,it is a strong1 even-time harmony with lofty tenor range1 and very impressive with full choir and organ or the vocal volume of a congregation4 ,in ,cheetham's ,psalmody is it written with a trumpet obligato4 ,vincent ,novello1 born in ,london1 ,sept4 #f1 #agha1 the intimate friend of ,lamb1 ,shelley1 ,keats1 ,hunt and ,hazlitt1 was a professor of music who attained great eminence as an organist and composer of hymn-tunes and sacred pieces4 ,he was the founder of the publishing house of ,novello and ,ewer1 and father of a famous musical family4 ,died at ,nice1 ,aug4 #i1 #ahfa4 ,,st4 ,,francis ,,xavier4 ,o ,deus1 ,ego ,amo ,te4 ,francis ,xavier1 the celebrated ,jesuit missionary1 called ,the ,apostle of the ,indies1 was a ,spaniard1 born in #aejf4 ,while a student in ,paris he met ,ignatius ,loyola1 and joined him in the formation of the new ,society for the ,propagation of the ,faith4 ,he was sent out on a mission to the ,east ,indies and ,japan1 and gave himself to the work with a martyr's devotion4 ,the stations he established in ,japan were maintained more than a hundred years4 ,he died in ,china1 ,dec4 #aeeb4 ,his hymn1 some time out of use1 is being revived in later singing-books as expressive of the purest and highest ,christian sentiment3 ,o ,deus1 ego amo ,te4 ,nec amo ,te1 ut salves me1 ,aut quia non amantes ,te ,a,eterno punis igne4 ,my ,god1 ,i love ,thee--not because ,i hope for heaven thereby2 ,nor yet because who love ,thee not ,must burn eternally4 ,after recounting ,christ's vicarious sufferings as the chief claim to ,his disciples' unselfish love1 the hymn continues1-- ,cur igitur non amem ,te1 ,o ,jesu amantissime6 ,non1 ut in coelo salves me1 ,aut in aeternum damnes me4 ,then why1 ,o blessed ,jesus ,christ1 ,should ,i not love ,thee well8 ,not for the sake of winning heaven1 ,nor of escaping hell2 ,not with the hope of gaining aught1 ,nor seeking a reward1 ,but as ,thyself hast loved me1 ,oh1 ever-loving ,lord6 ,e'en so ,i love ,thee1 and will love1 ,and in ,thy praise will sing2 ,solely because ,thou art my ,god ,and my eternal ,king4 ,the translation is by ,rev4 ,edward ,caswall1 #ahad-ahgh1 a priest in the ,church of ,rome4 ,besides his translations1 he published the ,lyra ,catholica1 the ,masque of ,mary1 and several other poetical works4 7,page #aja47 ,,the ,,tune4 ,st4 ,bernard--apparently so named because originally composed to ,caswall's translation of one of ,bernard of ,clairvaux's hymns--is by ,john ,richardson1 born in ,preston1 ,eng41 ,dec4 #d1 #ahag1 and died there ,april #ac1 #ahgi4 ,he was an organist in ,liverpool1 and noted as a composer of glees1 but was the author of several sacred tunes4 ,,sir ,,walter ,,raleigh4 ,give ,me ,my ,scallop-,shell of ,quiet4 ,few of the hymns of the ,elizabethan era survive1 though the ,ambrosian ,midnight ,hymn1 ,hark1 'tis the ,midnight ,cry1 and the hymns of ,st4 ,bernard and ,bernard of ,cluny1 are still tones in the church1 and the religious poetry of ,sir ,walter ,raleigh comes down to us associated with the history of his brilliant1 though tragic career4 ,the following poem has some fine lines in the quaint ,english style of the period1 and was composed by ,sir ,walter during his first imprisonment3 ,give me my scallop-shell of quiet1 ,my staff of faith to walk upon1 ,my scrip of joy--immortal diet-- ,my bottle of salvation1 ,my gown of glory1 hope's true gage-- ,and thus ,i take my pilgrimage4 ,blood must be my body's balmer1 ,while my soul1 like faithful palmer1 ,travelleth toward the land of heaven2 ,other balm will not be given4 ,over the silver mountains ,where spring the nectar fountains1 ,there will ,i kiss the bowl of bliss1 ,and drink my everlasting fill1 ,upon every milken hill2 ,my soul will be a-dry before1 ,but after that will thirst no more4 ,the musings of the unfortunate but high-souled nobleman in expectation of ignominious death are interesting and pathetic1 but they have no claim to a tune1 even if they were less rugged and unmetrical4 ,but the poem stands notable among the pious witnesses4 ,,mary ,,queen ,,of ,,scots4 ,o ,domine ,deus1 ,speravi in ,te4 ,this last passionate prayer of the unhappy ,mary ,stuart just before her execution--in a language which perhaps flowed from her pen more easily than even her ,english or ,french--is another witness of supplicating faith that struggles out of darkness with a song4 ,in her extremity the devoted ,catholic forgets her petitions to the ,virgin1 and comes to ,christ3 ,o ,domine ,deus1 ,speravi in ,te2 ,o care mi ,jesu1 nunc libera me6 ,in dura catena1 in misera poena ,desidero ,te6 ,languendo1 gemendo1 et genuflectendo ,adoro1 imploro ut liberes me6 ,my ,lord and my ,god6 ,i have trusted in ,thee2 ,o ,jesus1 my ,saviour belov'd1 set me free3 ,in rigorous chains1 in piteous pains1 ,i am longing for ,thee6 ,in weakness appealing1 in agony kneeling1 ,i pray1 ,i beseech ,thee1 ,o ,lord1 set me free6 ,one would1 at first thought1 judge this simple but eloquent cry worthy of an appropriate tone-expression--to be sung by prison evangelists like the ,volunteers of ,america1 to convicts in the jails and penitentiaries4 ,but its special errand and burden are voiced so literally that hardened hearers would probably misapply it--however sincerely the petitioner herself meant to invoke spiritual rather than temporal deliverance4 ,the hymn1 if we may call it so1 is too literal4 ,possibly at some time or other it may have been set to music but not for ordinary choir service4 ,,samuel ,,rutherford4 ,the sands of time are sinking1 99 99 99 99 99 ,but1 glory1 glory dwelleth ,in ,immanuel's ,land4 ,this hymn is biographical1 but not autobiographical4 ,like the discourses in ,herodotus and ,plutarch1 it is the voice of the dead speaking through the sympathetic genius of the living after long generations4 ,the strong1 stern ,calvinist of #afcf in ,aberdeen was not a poet1 but he bequeathed his spirit and life to the verse of a poet of #ahde in ,melrose4 ,anne ,ross ,cousin read his two hundred and twenty letters written during a two years' captivity for his fidelity to the purer faith1 and studied his whole history and experience till her soul took his soul's place and felt what he felt4 ,her poem of nineteen stanzas 7#aeb lines7 is the voice of ,rutherford the ,covenanter1 with the prolixity of his manner and age sweetened by his triumphant piety1 and that is why it belongs with the ,hymns of ,great ,witnesses4 ,the three or four stanzas still occasionally printed and sung are only recalled to memory by the above three lines4 ,samuel ,rutherford was born in ,nisbet ,parish1 ,scotland1 in #afjj4 ,his settled ministry was at ,anworth1 in ,galloway--#afcj-afea--with a break between #afcf and #afch1 when ,charles ,i4 angered by his anti-prelatical writings1 silenced and banished him4 ,shut up in ,aberdeen1 but allowed1 like ,paul in ,rome1 to live in his own hired house and write letters1 he poured out his heart's love in ,epistles to his ,anworth flock and to the ,non-conformists of ,scotland4 ,when his countrymen rose against the attempted imposition of a new holy ,romish service-book on their churches1 he escaped to his people1 and soon after appeared in ,edinburgh and signed the covenant with the assembled ministers4 ,thirteen years later1 after ,cromwell's death and the accession of ,charles ,,ii4 the wrath of the prelates fell on him at ,st4 ,andrews1 where the ,presbytery had made him rector of the college4 ,the ,king's decree indicted him for treason1 stripped him of all his offices1 and would have forced him to the block had he not been stricken with his last sickness4 ,when the officers came to take him he said1 ,i am summoned before a higher ,judge and ,judicatory1 and ,i am behooved to attend them4 ,he died soon after1 in the year #affa4 ,the first1 and a few other of the choicest stanzas of the hymn inspired by his life and death are here given3 ,the sands of time are sinking1 ,the dawn of heaven breaks1 ,the summer morn ,i've sighed for-- ,the fair1 sweet morn--awakes4 ,dark1 dark hath been the midnight1 ,but dayspring is at hand2 ,and glory1 glory dwelleth ,in ,immanuel's land4 99 99 99 99 99 ,oh6 well it is for ever-- ,oh6 well for evermore3 ,my nest hung in no forest ,of all this death-doomed shore2 ,yea1 let this vain world vanish1 ,as from the ship the strand1 ,while glory1 glory dwelleth ,in ,immanuel's land4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the little birds of ,anworth-- ,i used to count them blest2 ,now beside happier altars ,i go to build my nest2 ,o'er these there broods no silence ,no graves around them stand2 ,for glory deathless dwelleth ,in ,immanuel's land4 ,i have borne scorn and hatred1 ,i have borne wrong and shame1 ,earth's proud ones have reproached me ,for ,christ's thrice blessed name4 ,where ,god's seals set the fairest1 ,they've stamped their foulest brand2 ,but judgment shines like noonday ,in ,immanuel's land4 ,they've summoned me before them1 ,but there ,i may not come2 ,my ,lord says1 ,come up hither2 ,my ,lord says1 ,welcome home2 ,my ,king at ,his white throne ,my presence doth command1 ,where glory1 glory dwelleth1 ,in ,immanuel's land4 ,a reminiscence of ,st4 ,paul in his second ,epistle to ,timothy 7chap4 #d7 comes with the last two stanzas4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the tender and appropriate choral in ,b flat1 named ,rutherford was composed by ,d',urhan1 a ,french musician1 probably a hundred years ago4 ,it was doubtless named by those who long afterwards fitted it to the words1 and knew whose spiritual proxy the lady stood who indited the hymn4 ,it is reprinted in ,peloubet's ,select ,songs1 and in the ,coronation ,hymnal4 ,naturally in the days of the hymn's more frequent use people became accustomed to calling ,the sands of time are sinking1 ,rutherford's ,hymn4 ,rutherford's own words certainly furnished the memorable refrain with its immortal glow and gladness4 ,one of his joyful exclamations as he lay dying of his lingering disease was1 ,glory shineth in ,immanuel's ,land6 ,chretien 7,christian7 ,urhan1 or ,d',urhan1 was born at ,montjoie1 ,france1 about #aghh1 and died1 in ,paris1 #ahde4 ,he was a noted violin-player1 and composer1 also1 of vocal and instrumental music4 ,mrs4 ,anne ,ross 7,cundell7 ,cousin1 daughter of ,david ,ross ,cundell1 ,m4,d41 and widow of ,rev4 ,william ,cousin of the ,free church of ,scotland1 was born in ,melrose 7871 #ahbd4 ,she wrote many poems1 most of which are beautiful meditations rather than lyrics suitable for public song4 ,her ,rutherford ,hymn was first published in the ,christian ,treasury1 #aheg4 ,,gustavus ,,adolphus4 ,verzage ,nicht ,du ,hauflein ,klein4 ,the historian tells us that before the battle of ,lutzen1 during the ,thirty ,years' ,war 7#afah-afdh71 ,king ,gustavus of ,sweden1 in the thick fog of an autumn morning1 with the ,bohemian and ,austrian armies of ,emperor ,ferdinand in front of him1 knelt before his troops1 and his whole army knelt with him in prayer4 ,then ten thousand voices and the whole concert of regimental bands burst forth in this brave song3 ,fear not1 ,o little flock1 the foe ,who madly seeks your overthrow1 ,dread not his rage and power3 ,what though your courage sometimes faints1 ,his seeming triumph o'er ,god's saints ,lasts but a little hour4 ,be of good cheer1 your cause belongs ,to ,him who can avenge your wrongs2 ,leave it to ,him1 our ,lord3 ,though hidden yet from all our eyes1 ,he sees the ,gideon who shall rise ,to save us and ,his word4 ,as true as ,god's own word is true1 ,nor earth nor hell with all their crew1 ,against us shall prevail3 ,a jest and by-word they are grown2 ,god is with us1 we are ,his own1 ,our victory cannot fail4 ,amen1 ,lord ,jesus1 grant our prayer6 ,great ,captain1 now ,thine arm make bare1 ,fight for us once again3 ,so shall ,thy saints and martyrs raise ,a mighty chorus to ,thy praise1 ,world without end4 ,amen4 ,the army of ,gustavus moved forward to victory as the fog lifted2 but at the moment of triumph a riderless horse came galloping back to the camp4 ,it was the horse of the martyred ,king4 ,the battle song just quoted--next to ,luther's ,ein feste ,burg the most famous ,german hymn--has always since that day been called ,gustavus ,adolphus' ,hymn2 and the mingled sorrow and joy of the event at ,lutzen named it also ,king ,gustavus' ,swan ,song4 ,gustavus ,adolphus did not write hymns4 ,he could sing them1 and he could make them historic--and it was this connection that identified him with the famous battle song4 ,its author was the ,rev4 ,johan ,michael ,altenburg1 a ,lutheran clergyman1 who composed apparently both hymn and tune on receiving news of the king's victory at ,leipsic a year before4 ,gustavus ,adolphus was born in #aeid4 ,his death on the battlefield occurred ,nov4 #e1 #afcb--when he was in the prime of his manhood4 ,he was one of the greatest military commanders in history1 besides being a great ruler and administrator1 and a devout ,christian4 ,he was1 during the ,thirty ,years' ,war 7until his untimely death71 the leading champion of ,protestantism in ,europe4 ,the ,english translator of the battle song was ,miss ,catherine ,winkworth1 born in ,london1 ,sept4 #ac1 #ahbg4 ,she was an industrious and successful translator of ,german hymns1 contributing many results of her work to two ,english editions of the ,lyra ,germania1 to the ,church ,book of ,england1 and to ,christian ,singers of ,germany4 ,she died in #ahgh4 ,the tune of ,ravendale by ,walter ,stokes 7born #ahdg7 is the best modern rendering of the celebrated hymn4 ,,paul ,,gerhardt4 ,befiehl ,du ,deine ,wege4 ,paul ,gerhardt was one of those minstrels of experience who are-- ,cradled into poetry by wrong1 ,and learn in suffering what they teach in song4 ,he was a graduate of that school when he wrote his ,hymn of ,trust3 ,commit thou all thy griefs ,and ways into ,his hands2 ,to ,his sure trust and tender care ,who earth and heaven commands4 ,thou on the ,lord rely1 ,so1 safe1 shalt thou go on2 ,fix on ,his work thy steadfast eye1 ,so shall thy work be done4 99 99 99 99 99 ,give to the winds thy fears2 ,hope1 and be undismayed2 ,god hears thy sighs and counts thy tears1 ,he shall lift up thy head4 ,through waves and clouds and storms ,he gently clears thy way2 ,wait thou ,his time1 so shall this night ,soon end in joyous day4 ,gerhardt was born at ,grafenheinchen1 ,saxony1 #afjf4 ,through the first and best years of manhood's strength 7during the ,thirty ,years' ,war71 a wandering preacher tossed from place to place1 he was without a parish and without a home4 ,after the peace of ,westphalia he settled in the little village of ,mittenwalde4 ,he was then forty-four years old4 ,four years later he married and removed to a ,berlin church4 ,during his residence there he buried his wife1 and four of his children1 was deposed from the ministry because his ,lutheran doctrines offended the ,elector ,frederick1 and finally retired as a simple arch-deacon to a small parish in ,lubben1 where he preached1 toiled1 and suffered amid a rough and uncongenial people till he died1 ,jan4 #af1 #afgf4 ,few men have ever lived whose case more needed a ,hymn of ,trust--and fewer still could have written it themselves4 ,through all those trial years he was pouring forth his soul in devout verses1 making in all no less than a hundred and twenty-five hymns--every one of them a comfort to others as well as to himself4 ,he became a favorite1 and for a time the favorite1 hymn-writer of all the ,german-speaking people4 ,among these tones of calm faith and joy we recognize today 7in the ,english tongue71-- ,since ,jesus is my ,friend1 ,thee1 ,o ,immanuel1 we praise1 ,all my heart this night rejoices1 ,how shall ,i meet ,thee1 --and the ,english translation of his ,o ,haupt voll ,blut und ,wunden1 turned into ,german by himself from ,st4 ,bernard ,clairvaux's ,salve caput cruentatum1 and made dear to us in ,rev4 ,james ,alexander's beautiful lines-- ,o sacred head now wounded1 ,with grief and shame weighed down1 ,now scornfully surrounded ,with thorns1 ,thine only crown4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a plain-song by ,alexander ,reinagle is used by some congregations1 but is not remarkably expressive4 ,reinagle1 ,alexander ,robert1 7#agii-ahgg7 of ,kidlington1 ,eng41 was organist to the church of ,st4 ,peter-in-the-,east1 ,oxford4 ,the great ,hymn of ,trust could have found no more sympathetic interpreter than the musician of ,gerhardt's own land and language1 ,schumann1 the gentle genius of ,zwickau4 ,it bears the name ,schumann1 appropriately enough1 and its elocution makes a volume of each quatrain1 notably the one-- ,who points the clouds their course1 ,whom wind and seas obey2 ,he shall direct thy wandering feet1 ,he shall prepare thy way4 ,robert ,schumann1 ,ph4,d41 was born in ,zwickau1 ,saxony1 ,june #h1 #ahaj4 ,he was a music director and conservatory teacher1 and the master-mind of the pre-,wagnerian period4 ,his compositions became popular1 having a character of their own1 combining the intellectual and beautiful in art4 ,he published in ,leipsic a journal promotive of his school of music1 and founded a choral society in ,dresden4 ,happy in the cooeperation of his wife1 herself a skilled musician1 he extended his work to ,vienna and the ,netherlands2 but his zeal wore him out1 and he died at the age of forty-six1 universally lamented as the eminent man who had done so much for the happiness of others4 ,gerhardt's ,hymn 7ten quatrains7 is rarely printed entire1 and where six are printed only four are usually sung4 ,different collections choose portions according to the compiler's taste1 the stanza beginning-- ,give to the winds thy fears1 --being with some a favorite first verse4 ,the translation of the hymn from the ,german is ,john ,wesley's4 ,purely legendary is the beautiful story of the composition of the hymn1 ,commit thou all thy griefs2 how1 after his exile from ,berlin1 traveling on foot with his weeping wife1 ,gerhardt stopped at a wayside inn and wrote the lines while he rested2 and how a messenger from ,duke ,christian found him there1 and offered him a home in ,meresburg4 ,but the most ordinary imagination can fill in the possible incidents in a life of vicissitudes such as ,gerhardt's was4 ,,lady ,,huntingdon4 ,when ,thou ,my ,righteous ,judge ,shalt ,come4 ,selina ,shirley1 ,countess of ,huntingdon1 born #agjg1 died #agia1 is familiarly known as the titled friend and patroness of ,whitefield and his fellow-preachers4 ,she early consecrated herself to ,god1 and in the great spiritual awakening under ,whitefield and the ,wesleys she was a punctual and sympathetic helper4 ,uniting with the ,calvinistic ,methodists1 she nevertheless stood aloof from none who preached a personal ,christ1 and whose watchwords were the salvation of souls and the purification of the ,church4 ,for more than fifty years she devoted her wealth to benevolence and spiritual ministries1 and died at the age of eighty-four4 ,i have done my work1 was her last testimony4 ,i have nothing to do but to go to my ,father4 ,at various times ,lady ,huntingdon expressed her religious experience in verse1 and the manful vigor of her school of faith recalls the unbending confidence of ,job1 for she was not a stranger to affliction4 ,god's furnace doth in ,zion stand1 ,but ,zion's ,god sits by1 ,as the refiner views his gold1 ,with an observant eye4 ,his thoughts are high1 ,his love is wise1 ,his wounds a cure intend2 ,and1 though ,he does not always smile1 ,he loves unto the end4 ,her great hymn1 that keeps her memory green1 has the old-fashioned flavor4 ,massa made ,god ,,big6 was the comment on ,dr4 ,bellany made by his old negro servant after that noted minister's death4 ,in ,puritan piety the sternest self-depreciation qualified every thought of the creature1 while every allusion to the ,creator was a magnificat4 ,lady ,huntingdon's hymn has no flattering phrases for the human subject4 ,worthless worm1 and vilest of them all indicate the true ,pauline or ,oriental prostration of self before a superior being2 but there is grandeur in the metre1 the awful reverence1 and the scene of judgment in the stanzas--always remembering the mighty choral that has so long given the lyric its voice in the church1 and is ancillary to its fame3 ,when ,thou1 my righteous ,judge1 shalt come ,to take ,thy ransomed people home1 ,shall ,i among them stand8 ,shall such a worthless worm as ,i1 ,who sometimes am afraid to die1 ,be found at ,thy right hand8 ,i love to meet ,thy people now1 ,before ,thy feet with them to bow1 ,though vilest of them all2 ,but can ,i bear the piercing thought1 ,what if my name should be left out1 ,when ,thou for them shalt call8 ,o ,lord1 prevent it by ,thy grace3 ,be ,thou my only hiding place1 ,in this th' accepted day2 ,thy pardoning voice1 oh let me hear1 ,to still my unbelieving fear1 ,nor let me fall1 ,i pray4 ,among ,thy saints let me be found1 ,whene'er the archangel's trump shall sound1 ,to see ,thy smiling face2 ,then loudest of the throng ,i'll sing1 ,while heaven's resounding arches ring ,with shouts of sovereign grace4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the tune of ,meribah1 in which this hymn has been sung for the last sixty or more years1 is one of ,dr4 ,lowell ,mason's masterpieces4 ,an earlier ,german harmony attributed to ,heinrich ,isaac and named ,innsbruck has in some few cases claimed association with the words1 though composed two hundred years before ,lady ,huntingdon was born4 ,it is strong and solemn1 but its cold psalm-tune movement does not utter the deep emotion of the author's lines4 ,meribah was inspired by the hymn itself1 and there is nothing invidious in saying it illustrates the fact1 memorable in all hymnology1 of the natural obligation of a hymn to its tune4 ,apropos of both1 it is related that ,mason was once presiding at choir service in a certain church where the minister gave out ,when thou my righteous ,judge shalt come and by mistake directed the singers to omit the second stanza4 ,mason sat at the organ1 and while playing the last strain1 ,be found at thy right hand1 glanced ahead in the hymnbook and turned with a start just in time to command1 ,sing the next verse6 ,the choir did so1 and ,o ,lord1 prevent it by ,thy grace6 was saved from being a horrible prayer to be kept out of heaven4 ,,zinzendorf4 ,jesus1 ,thy ,blood and ,righteousness4 ,nicolaus ,ludwig1 ,count ,von ,zinzendorf1 was born at ,dresden1 ,may #bf1 #agjj1 and educated at ,halle and ,wittenberg4 ,from his youth he evinced marked seriousness of mind1 and deep religious sensibilities1 and this character appeared in his sympathy with the persecuted ,moravians1 to whom he gave domicile and domain on his large estate4 ,for eleven years he was ,councillor to the ,elector of ,saxony1 but subsequently1 uniting with the ,brethren's ,church1 he founded the settlement of ,herrnhut1 the first home and refuge of the reorganized sect1 and became a ,moravian minister and bishop4 ,zinzendorf was a man of high culture1 as well as profound and sincere piety and in his hymns 7of which he wrote more than two thousand7 he preached ,christ as eloquently as with his voice4 ,the real birth-moment of his religious life is said to have been simultaneous with his study of the ,ecce ,homo in the ,dusseldorf ,gallery1 a wonderful painting of ,jesus crowned with thorns4 ,visiting the gallery one day when a young man1 he gazed on the sacred face and read the legend superscribed1 ,all this ,i have done for thee2 ,what doest thou for me8 ,ever afterwards his motto was ,i have but one passion1 and that is ,he1 and only ,he--a version of ,paul's ,for me to live is ,christ4 ,jesus1 ,thy blood and righteousness ,my beauty are1 my glorious dress3 ',midst flaming worlds1 in these arrayed1 ,with joy shall ,i lift up my head4 ,bold shall ,i stand in ,thy great day1 ,for who aught to my charge shall lay8 ,fully absolved through these ,i am-- ,from sin and fear1 from guilt and shame4 ,lord1 ,i believe were sinners more ,than sands upon the ocean shore1 ,thou hast for all a ransom paid1 ,for all a full atonement made4 ,nearly all the hymns of the great ,moravian are now out of general use1 having accomplished their mission1 like the forgotten ones of ,gerhardt1 and been superseded by others4 ,more sung in ,europe1 probably1 now than any of the survivors is1 ,jesus1 geh voran1 7,jesus1 lead on17 which has been translated into ,english by ,jane ,borthwick#h 7#ahed74 ,two others1 both translated by ,john ,wesley1 are with us1 the one above quoted1 and ,glory to ,god1 whose witness train4 ,jesus1 ,thy blood1 which is the best known1 frequently appears with the alteration-- ,jesus1 ,thy robe of righteousness ,my beauty is1 my glorious dress4 ,footnote #h3 ,born in ,edinburgh #ahac4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,malvern1 and ,uxbridge a pure ,gregorian1 both by ,lowell ,mason1 are common expressions of the hymn--the latter1 perhaps1 generally preferred1 being less plaintive and speaking with a surer and more restful emphasis4 ,,robert ,,seagrave4 ,rise1 ,my ,soul1 and ,stretch ,thy ,wings4 ,this hymn was written early in the #ahth century1 by the ,rev4 ,robert ,seagrave1 born at ,twyford1 ,leicestershire1 ,eng41 ,nov4 #bb1 #afic4 ,educated at ,cambridge1 he took holy orders in the ,established ,church1 but espoused the cause of the great evangelistic movement1 and became a hearty co-worker with the ,wesleys4 ,judging by the lyric fire he could evidently put into his verses1 one involuntarily asks if he would not have written more1 and been in fact the song-leader of the spiritual reformation if there had been no ,charles ,wesley4 ,there is not a hymn of ,wesley's in use on the same subject equal to the one immortal hymn of ,seagrave1 and the only other near its time that approaches it in vigor and appealing power is ,doddridge's ,awake my soul1 stretch every nerve4 ,but ,providence gave ,wesley the harp and appointed to the elder poet a branch of possibly equal usefulness1 where he was kept too busy to enter the singers' ranks4 ,for eleven years he was the ,sunday-evening lecturer at ,lorimer's ,hall1 ,london1 and often preached in ,whitefield's ,tabernacle4 ,his hymn is one of the most soul-stirring in the ,english language3 ,illustration3 ,s4 ,huntingdon ,rise1 my soul1 and stretch thy wings2 ,thy better portion trace2 ,rise from transitory things ,toward ,heaven1 thy native place2 ,sun and moon and stars decay1 ,time shall soon this earth remove2 ,rise1 my soul and haste away ,to seats prepared above4 ,rivers to the ocean run1 ,nor stay in all their course2 ,fire ascending seeks the sun2 ,both speed them to their source3 ,so a soul that's born of ,god ,pants to view ,his glorious face1 ,upward tends to ,his abode ,to rest in ,his embrace4 99 99 99 99 99 ,cease1 ye pilgrims1 cease to mourn1 ,press onward to the prize2 ,soon your ,saviour will return ,triumphant in the skies4 ,yet a season1 and you know ,happy entrance will be given2 ,all our sorrows left below1 ,and earth exchanged for heaven4 ,this hymn must have found its predestinated organ when it found-- ,,the ,,tune4 ,amsterdam1 the work of ,james ,nares1 had its birth and baptism soon after the work of ,seagrave2 and they have been breath and bugle to the church of ,god ever since they became one song4 ,in ,the ,great ,musicians1 edited by ,francis ,huffer1 is found this account of ,james ,nares3 ,he was born at ,hanwell1 ,middlesex1 in #agae2 was admitted chorister at the ,chapel ,royal1 under ,bernard ,gates1 and when he was able to play the organ was appointed deputy for ,pigott1 of ,st4 ,george's ,chapel1 ,windsor1 and became organist at ,york ,minster in #agcd4 ,he succeeded ,greene as organist and composer to the ,chapel ,royal in #agef1 and in the same year was made ,doctor of ,music at ,cambridge4 ,he was appointed master of the children of the ,chapel ,royal in #ageg1 on the death of ,gates4 ,this post he resigned in #aghj1 and he died in #aghc1 7,february #aj17 and was buried in ,st4 ,margaret's ,church1 ,westminster4 ,he had the reputation of being an excellent trainer of boy's voices1 many of his anthems having been written to exhibit the accomplishments of his young pupils4 ,the degree of excellence the boys attained was not won in those days without the infliction of much corporal punishment4 ,judging from the high pulse and action in the music of ,amsterdam1 one would guess the energy of the man who made boy choirs--and made good ones4 ,in the old time the rule was1 ,birds that can sing and won't sing1 must be made to sing2 and the rule was sometimes enforced with the master's time-stick4 ,a tune entitled ,excelsius1 written a hundred years later by ,john ,henry ,cornell1 so nearly resembles ,amsterdam as to suggest an intention to amend it4 ,it changes the modal note from ,g to ,a1 but while it marches at the same pace it lacks the jubilant modulations and the choral glory of the #ahth-century piece4 ,,sir ,,john ,,bowring4 ,in the ,cross of ,christ ,i ,glory4 ,in this hymn we see1 sitting humbly at the feet of the great author of our religion1 a man who impressed himself perhaps more than any other save ,napoleon ,bonaparte upon his own generation1 and who was the wonder of ,europe for his immense attainments and the versatility of his powers4 ,statesman1 philanthropist1 biographer1 publicist1 linguist1 historian1 financier1 naturalist1 poet1 political economist--there is hardly a branch of knowledge or a field of research from which he did not enrich himself and others1 or a human condition that he did not study and influence4 ,sir ,john ,bowring was born in #agib4 ,when a youth he was ,jeremy ,bentham's political pupil1 but gained his first fame by his vast knowledge of ,european literature1 becoming acquainted with no less than thirteen#i continental languages and dialects4 ,he served in consular appointments at seven different capitals1 carried important reform measures in ,parliament1 was ,minister ,plenipotentiary to ,china and ,governor of ,hong ,kong1 and concluded a commercial treaty with ,siam1 where every previous commissioner had failed4 ,but in all his crowded years the pen of this tireless and successful man was busy4 ,besides his political1 economic and religious essays1 which made him a member of nearly every learned society in ,europe1 his translations were countless1 and poems and hymns of his own composing found their way to the public1 among them the tender spiritual song1-- ,how sweetly flowed the ,gospel sound ,from lips of gentleness and grace ,when listening thousands gathered round1 ,and joy and gladness filled the place1 --and the more famous hymn indicated at the head of this sketch4 ,knowledge of all religions only qualified him to worship the ,crucified with both faith and reason4 ,though nominally a ,unitarian1 to him1 as to ,channing and ,martineau and ,edmund ,sears1 ,christ was all we know of ,god4 ,footnote #i3 ,exaggerated in some accounts to forty4 ,bowring died ,nov4 #bc1 #ahgb4 ,but his hymn to the ,cross will never die3 ,in the cross of ,christ ,i glory1 ,towering o'er the wrecks of time2 ,all the light of sacred story ,gathers round its head sublime4 ,when the woes of life o'ertake me ,hopes deceive1 and fears annoy1 ,never shall the cross forsake me2 ,lo6 it glows with peace and joy4 ,when the sun of bliss is beaming ,light and love upon my way1 ,from the cross the radiance streaming ,adds new lustre to the day4 ,bane and blessing1 pain and pleasure ,by the cross are sanctified1 ,peace is there that knows no measure1 ,joys that through all time abide4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,ithamar ,conkey's ,rathbun fits the adoring words as if they had waited for it4 ,its air1 swelling through diatonic fourth and third to the supreme syllable1 bears on its waves the homage of the lines from bar to bar till the four voices come home to rest full and satisfied in the final chord-- ,gathers round its head sublime4 ,ithamar ,conkey1 was born of ,scotch ancestry1 in ,shutesbury1 ,mass41 ,may #eth1 #ahae4 ,he was a noted bass singer1 and was for a long time connected with the choir of the ,calvary church1 ,new ,york ,city1 and sang the oratorio solos4 ,his tune of ,rathbun was composed in #ahdg1 and published in ,greatorex's collection in #ahea4 ,he died in ,elizabeth1 ,n4,j41 ,april #cj1 #ahfg4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,christian ,,devotion ,,and ,,experience4 ,,jesu ,,dulcis ,,memoria4 ,jesus the ,very ,thought of ,thee4 ,the original of this delightful hymn is one of the devout meditations of ,bernard of ,clairvaux1 a ,cistercian monk 7#ajia-aaec74 ,he was born of a noble family in or near ,dijon1 ,burgundy1 and when only twenty-three years old established a monastery at ,clairvaux1 ,france1 over which he presided as its first abbot4 ,educated in the ,university of ,paris1 and possessing great natural abilities1 he soon made himself felt in both the religious and political affairs of ,europe4 ,for more than thirty years he was the personal power that directed belief1 quieted turbulence1 and arbitrated disputes1 and kings and even popes sought his counsel4 ,it was his eloquent preaching that inspired the second crusade4 ,his fine poem of feeling1 in fifty ,latin stanzas1 has been a source of pious song in several languages3 ,jesu1 dulcis memoria ,dans vera cordi gaudia1 ,sed super mel et omnium ,ejus dulcis presentia4 ,literally-- ,jesus6 a sweet memory ,giving true joys to the heart1 ,but sweet above honey and all things ,his presence is4 ,the five stanzas 7of ,caswall's free translation7 now in use are familiar and dear to all ,english-speaking believers3 ,jesus1 the very thought of ,thee ,with sweetness fills my breast1 ,but sweeter far ,thy face to see1 ,and in ,thy presence rest4 ,nor voice can sing nor heart can frame ,nor can the memory find1 ,a sweeter sound than ,thy blest name1 ,o ,saviour of mankind4 ,the ,rev4 ,edward ,caswall was born in ,hampshire1 ,eng41 ,july #ae1 #ahad1 the son of a clergyman4 ,he graduated with honors at ,brazenose ,college1 ,oxford1 and after ten years of service in the ministry of the ,church of ,england joined ,henry ,newman's ,oratory at ,birmingham1 was confirmed in the ,church of ,rome1 and devoted the rest of his life to works of piety and charity4 ,he died ,jan4 #b1 #ahgh4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,no single melody has attached itself to this hymn1 the scope of selection being as large as the supply of appropriate common-metre tunes4 ,barnby's ,holy ,trinity1 ,wade's ,holy ,cross and ,griggs' tune 7of his own name7 are all good1 but many1 on the giving out of the hymn1 would associate it at once with the more familiar ,heber by ,george ,kingsley and expect to hear it sung4 ,it has the uplift and unction of ,john ,newton's-- ,how sweet the name of ,jesus sounds ,in the believer's ear4 ,,god ,,calling ,,yet6 ,,shall ,i ,,not ,,hear8 ,gerhard ,tersteegen1 the original author of the hymn1 and one of the most eminent religious poets of the ,reformed ,german church in its early days1 was born in #afig1 in the town of ,mors1 in ,westphalia4 ,he was left an orphan in boyhood by the death of his father1 and as his mother's means were limited1 he was put to work as an apprentice when very young1 at ,muhlheim on the ,ruhr1 and became a ribbon weaver4 ,here1 when about fifteen years of age1 he became deeply concerned for his soul1 and experienced a deep and abiding spiritual work4 ,as a ,christian1 his religion partook of the ascetic type1 but his mysticism did not make him useless to his fellow-men4 ,at the age of twenty-seven1 he dedicated all his resources and energies to the cause of ,christ1 writing the dedication in his own blood4 ,god graciously called me1 he says1 out of the world1 and granted me the desire to belong to ,him1 and to be willing to follow ,him4 ,he gave up secular employments altogether1 and devoted his whole time to religious instruction and to the poor4 ,his house became famous as the ,pilgrims' ,cottage1 and was visited by people high and humble from all parts of ,germany4 ,in his lifetime he is said to have written one hundred and eleven hymns4 ,died ,april #c1 #agfi4 ,god calling yet6 shall ,i not hear8 ,earth's pleasures shall ,i still hold dear8 ,shall life's swift-passing years all fly1 ,and still my soul in slumber lie8 99 99 99 99 99 ,god calling yet6 ,i cannot stay2 ,my heart ,i yield without delay4 ,vain world1 farewell2 from thee ,i part2 ,the voice of ,god hath reached my heart4 ,the hymn was translated from the ,german by ,miss ,jane ,borthwick1 born in ,edinburgh1 #ahac4 ,she and her younger sister1 ,mrs4 ,findlater1 jointly translated and published1 in #ahed1 ,hymns ,from the ,land of ,luther1 and contributed many poetical pieces to the ,family ,treasury4 ,she died in #ahig4 ,another translation1 imitating the ,german metre1 is more euphonious1 though less literal and less easily fitted to music not specially composed for it1 on account of its feminine rhymes3 ,god calling yet6 and shall ,i never hearken8 ,but still earth's witcheries my spirit darken2 ,this passing life1 these passing joys all flying1 ,and still my soul in dreamy slumbers lying8 ,,the ,,tune4 ,dr4 ,dykes' ,rivaulx is a sober choral that articulates the hymn-writer's sentiment with sincerity and with considerable earnestness1 but breathes too faintly the interrogative and expostulary tone of the lines4 ,to voice the devout solicitude and self-remonstrance of the hymn there is no tune superior to ,federal ,st4 ,the ,hon4 ,henry ,kemble ,oliver1 author of ,federal ,st41 was born in ,salem1 ,mass41 ,march1 #ahjj1 and was addicted to music from his childhood4 ,his father compelled him to relinquish it as a profession1 but it remained his favorite avocation1 and after his graduation from ,harvard the cares of none of the various public positions he held1 from schoolmaster to treasurer of the state of ,massachusetts1 could ever wean him from the study of music and its practice4 ,at the age of thirty-one1 while sitting one day in his study1 the last verse of ,anne ,steele's hymn-- ,so fades the lovely blooming flower1 --floated into his mind1 and an unbidden melody came with it4 ,as he hummed it to himself the words shaped the air1 and the air shaped the words4 ,then gentle patience smiles on pain1 ,then dying hope revives again1 --became-- ,see gentle patience smile on pain2 ,see dying hope revive again2 --and with the change of a word and a tense the hymn created the melody1 and soon afterward the complete tune was made4 ,two years later it was published by ,lowell ,mason1 and ,oliver gave it the name of the street in ,salem on which his wife was born1 wooed1 won1 and married4 ,it adds a pathos to its history that ,federal ,st4 was sung at her burial4 ,this first of ,oliver's tunes was followed by ,harmony ,grove1 ,morning1 ,walnut ,grove1 ,merton1 ,hudson1 ,bosworth1 ,salisbury ,plain1 several anthems and motets1 and a ,te ,deum4 ,in his old age1 at the great ,peace ,jubilee in ,boston1 #ahgb1 the baton was put into his hands1 and the gray-haired composer conducted the chorus of ten thousand voices as they sang the words and music of his noble harmony4 ,the incident made ,federal ,st4 more than ever a feature of ,new ,england history4 ,oliver died in #ahhe4 ,,my ,,god1 ,,how ,,endless ,,is ,,thy ,,love4 ,the spirited tune to this hymn of ,watts1 by ,frederick ,lampe1 variously named ,kent and ,devonshire1 historically reaches back so near to the poet's time that it must have been one of the earliest expressions of his fervent words4 ,johan ,friedrich ,lampe1 born #afic1 in ,saxony1 was educated in music at ,helmstadt1 and came to ,england in #agbe as a band musician and composer to ,covent ,garden ,theater4 ,his best-known secular piece is the music written to ,henry ,carey's burlesque1 ,the ,dragon of ,wantley4 ,mrs4 ,rich1 wife of the lessee of the theater1 was converted under the preaching of the ,methodists1 and after her husband's death her house became the home of ,lampe and his wife1 where ,charles ,wesley often met him4 ,the influence of ,wesley won him to more serious work1 and he became one of the evangelist's helpers1 supplying tunes to his singing campaigns4 ,wesley became attached to him1 and after his death--in ,edinburgh1 #ageb--;commemorated the musician in a funeral hymn4 ,in popular favor ,bradbury's tune of ,rolland has now superseded the old music sung to ,watts' lines-- ,my ,god1 how endless is ,thy love1 ,thy gifts are every evening new1 ,and morning mercies from above ,gently distil like early dew4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i yield my powers to ,thy command2 ,to ,thee ,i consecrate my days2 ,perpetual blessings from ,thy hand ,demand perpetual songs of praise4 ,william ,batchelder ,bradbury1 a pupil of ,dr4 ,lowell ,mason1 and the pioneer in publishing ,sunday-school music1 was born #ahaf1 in ,york1 ,me4 ,his father1 a veteran of the ,revolution1 was a choir leader1 and ,william's love of music was inherited4 ,he left his father's farm1 and came to ,boston1 where he first heard a church-organ4 ,encouraged by ,mason and others to follow music as a profession1 he went abroad1 studied at ,leipsic1 and soon after his return became known as a composer of sacred tunes4 ,he died in ,montclair1 ,n4,j41 #ahfh4 ,i',m ,,not ,,ashamed ,,to ,,own ,,my ,,lord4 ,the favorite tune for this spiritual hymn1 also by ,watts1 is old ,arlington1 one of the most useful church melodies in the whole realm of ,english psalmody4 ,its name clings to a ,boston street1 and the beautiful chimes of ,arlington ,st4 church 7,unitarian7 annually ring its music on special occasions1 as it has since the bells were tuned3 ,i'm not ashamed to own my ,lord ,or to defend ,his cause1 ,maintain the honor of ,his ,word1 ,the glory of ,his cross4 ,jesus1 my ,god6--,i know ,his ,name2 ,his ,name is all my trust1 ,nor will ,he put my soul to shame ,nor let my hope be lost4 ,dr4 ,thomas ,augustine ,arne1 the creator of ,arlington1 was born in ,london1 #agaj1 the son of a ,king ,st4 upholsterer4 ,he studied at ,eton1 and though intended for the legal profession1 gave his whole mind to music4 ,at twenty-three he began writing operas for his sister1 ,susanna 7a singer who afterwards became the famous tragic actress1 ,mrs4 ,cibber74 ,arne's music to ,milton's ,comus1 and to ,rule ,brittannia established his reputation4 ,he was engaged as composer to ,drury ,lane ,theater1 and in #agei received from ,oxford his degree of ,music ,doctor4 ,later in life he turned his attention to oratorios1 and other forms of sacred music1 and was the first to introduce female voices in choir singing4 ,he died ,march #e1 #aggh1 chanting hallelujahs1 it is said1 with his last breath4 ,,is ,,this ,,the ,,kind ,,return8 ,dr4 ,watts in this hymn gave experimental piety its hour and language of reflection and penitence3 ,is this the kind return8 ,are these the thanks we owe1 ,thus to abuse ,eternal ,love ,whence all our blessings flow8 99 99 99 99 99 ,let past ingratitude ,provoke our weeping eyes4 ,united in loving wedlock with these words in former years was ,golden ,hill1 a chime of sweet counterpoint too rare to bury its authorship under the vague phrase ,a ,western ,melody4 ,it was caught evidently from a forest bird#aj that flutes its clear solo in the sunsets of ,may and ,june4 ,there can be no mistaking the imitation--the same compass1 the same upward thrill1 the same fall and warbled turn4 ,old-time folk used to call for it1 ,sing1 my ,fairweather ,bird4 ,it lingers in a few of the twenty- or thirty-years-ago collections1 but stronger voices have drowned it out of the new4 ,footnote #aj3 ,the wood thrush4 ,thacher1 7set to the same hymn17 faintly recalls its melody4 ,nevertheless ,thacher is a good tune4 ,though commonly written in sharps1 contrasting the ,b flat of its softer and more liquid rival of other days1 it is one of ,handel's strains1 and lends the meaning and pathos of the lyric text to voice and instrument4 ,,when ,i ,,survey ,,the ,,wondrous ,,cross4 ,this crown of all the sacred odes of ,dr4 ,watts for the song-service of the church of ,god was called by ,matthew ,arnold the greatest hymn in the ,english language4 ,the day the eminent critic died he heard it sung in the ,sefton ,park ,presbyterian ,church1 and repeated the opening lines softly to himself again and again after the services4 ,the hymn is certainly one of the greatest in the language4 ,it appeared as ,no4 #g in ,watts' third edition 7about #agaj7 containing five stanzas4 ,the second line-- ,on which the ,prince of ,glory died1 --read originally-- ,where the young ,prince of ,glory died4 ,only four stanzas are now generally used4 ,the omitted one-- ,his dying crimson like a robe ,spreads o'er ,his body on the tree2 ,then am ,i dead to all the globe1 ,and all the globe is dead to me4 --is a flash of tragic imagination1 showing the sanguine intensity of ,christian vision in earlier time1 when contemplating the ,saviour's passion2 but it is too realistic for the spirit and genius of song-worship4 ,that the great hymn was designed by the writer for communion seasons1 and was inspired by ,gal4 #f3ad1 explains the two last lines if not the whole of the highly colored verse4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,one has a wide field of choice in seeking the best musical interpretation of this royal song of faith and self-effacement3 ,when ,i survey the wondrous ,cross ,on which the ,prince of ,glory died1 ,my richest gain ,i count but loss1 ,and pour contempt on all my pride4 ,forbid it1 ,lord1 that ,i should boast ,save in the death of ,christ my ,god2 ,all the vain things that charm me most1 ,i sacrifice them to ,his blood4 ,see from ,his head1 ,his hands1 ,his feet1 ,sorrow and love flow mingled down2 ,did e'er such love and sorrow meet2 ,or thorns compose so rich a crown8 ,were the whole realm of ,nature mine1 ,that were a present far too small2 ,love so amazing1 so divine1 ,demands my soul1 my life1 my all4 ,to match the height and depth of these words with fitting glory of sound might well have been an ambition of devout composers4 ,rev4 ,g4,c4 ,wells' tune in the ,revivalist1 with its emotional chorus1 ,i4,b4 ,woodbury's ,eucharist in the ,methodist ,hymnal1 ,henry ,smart's effective choral in ,barnby's ,hymnary 7,no4 #agj71 and a score of others1 have woven the feeling lines into melody with varying success4 ,worshippers in spiritual sympathy with the words may question if1 after all1 old ,hamburg1 the best of ,mason's loved ,gregorians1 does not1 alone1 in tone and elocution1 rise to the level of the hymn4 ,,love ,,divine1 ,,all ,,loves ,,excelling4 ,this evergreen song-wreath to the ,crucified1 was contributed by ,charles ,wesley1 in #agdf4 ,it is found in his collection of #agef1 ,hymns for ,those ,that ,seek and ,those ,that ,have ,redemption in the ,blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,love ,divine all loves excelling1 ,joy of ,heaven to earth come down1 ,fix in us ,thy humble dwelling1 ,all ,thy faithful mercies crown4 99 99 99 99 99 ,come ,almighty to deliver1 ,let us all ,thy life receive1 ,suddenly return1 and never1 ,nevermore ,thy temples leave4 99 99 99 99 99 ,finish then ,thy new creation2 ,pure and spotless let us be2 ,let us see our whole salvation ,perfectly secured by ,thee4 ,changed from glory into glory ,till in ,heaven we take our place1 ,till we cast our crowns before ,thee ,lost in wonder1 love and praise6 ,the hymn has been set to ,h4 ,isaac's ancient tune 7#adij71 to ,wyeth's ,nettleton 7#ahaj71 to ,thos4 ,h4 ,bailey's 7#aggg-ahci7 ,isle of ,beauty1 fare thee well 7named from ,thomas ,moore's song71 to ,edward ,hopkins' ,st4 ,joseph1 and to a multitude of others more or less familiar4 ,most familiar of all perhaps1 7as in the instance of ,far from mortal cares retreating17 is its association with ,greenville1 the production of that brilliant but erratic genius and freethinker1 ,jean ,jacques ,rousseau4 ,it was originally a love serenade1 7,days of absence1 sad and dreary7 from the opera of ,le ,devin du ,village1 written about #ageb4 ,the song was commonly known years afterwards as ,rousseau's ,dream4 ,but the unbelieving philosopher1 musician1 and misguided moralist builded better than he knew1 and probably better than he meant when he wrote his immortal choral4 ,whatever he heard in his dream 7and one legend says it was a song of angels7 he created a harmony dear to the church he despised1 and softened the hearts of the ,christian world towards an evil teacher who was inspired1 like ,balaam1 to utter one sacred strain4 ,rousseau was born in ,geneva1 #agab1 but he never knew his mother1 and neither the affection or interest of his father or of his other relatives was of the quality to insure the best bringing up of a child4 ,he died ,july1 #aggh4 ,but his song survives1 while the world gladly forgets everything else he wrote4 ,it is almost a pardonable exaggeration to say that every child in ,christendom knows ,greenville4 ,,when ,,all ,,thy ,,mercies1 ,o ,,my ,,god4 ,this charming hymn was written by ,addison1 the celebrated ,english poet and essayist1 about #agja1 in grateful commemoration of his delivery from shipwreck in a storm off the coast of ,genoa1 ,italy4 ,it originally contained thirteen stanzas1 but no more than four or six are commonly sung4 ,it has put the language of devotional gratitude into the mouths of thousands of humble disciples who could but feebly frame their own3 ,when all ,thy mercies1 ,o my ,god ,my rising soul surveys1 ,transported with the view ,i'm lost ,in wonder1 love and praise4 ,unnumbered comforts on my soul ,thy tender care bestowed ,before my infant heart conceived ,from whom those comforts flowed4 ,when in the slippery paths of youth ,with heedless steps ,i ran1 ,thine arm unseen conveyed me safe1 ,and led me up to man4 ,another hymn of ,addison-- ,how are ,thy servants bless'd1 ,o ,lord1 --was probably composed after the same return from a foreign voyage4 ,it has been called his ,traveller's ,hymn4 ,joseph ,addison1 the best ,english writer of his time1 was the son of ,lancelot ,addison1 rector of ,milston1 ,wiltshire1 and afterwards ,dean of ,litchfield4 ,the distinguished author was born in ,milston ,rectory1 ,may #a1 #afgb1 and was educated at ,oxford4 ,his excellence in poetry1 both ,english and ,latin1 gave him early reputation1 and a patriotic ode obtained for him the patronage of ,lord ,somers4 ,a pension from ,king ,william ,,iii4 assured him a comfortable income1 which was increased by further honors1 for in #agjd he was appointed ,commissioner of ,appeals1 then secretary of the ,lord ,lieutenant of ,ireland1 and in #agag ,secretary of ,state4 ,he died in ,holland ,house1 ,kensington1 near ,london1 ,june #ag1 #agai4 ,his hymns are not numerous1 7said to be only five71 but they are remarkable for the simple beauty of their style1 as well as for their ,christian spirit4 ,of his fine metrical version of the #bcrd ,psalm1-- ,the ,lord my pasture shall prepare1 ,and feed me with a shepherd's care1 --one of his earliest productions1 the tradition is that he gathered its imagery when a boy living at ,netheravon1 near ,salisbury ,plain1 during his lonely two-mile walks to school at ,amesbury and back again4 ,all his hymns appeared first in the ,spectator1 to which he was a prolific contributor4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn ,when all ,thy mercies still has ,geneva for its vocal mate in some congregational manuals4 ,the tune is one of the rare survivals of the old canon musical method1 the parts coming in one after another with identical notes4 ,it is always delightful as a performance with its glory of harmony and its sweet duet1 and for generations it had no other words than ,addison's hymn4 ,john ,cole1 author of ,geneva1 was born in ,tewksbury1 ,eng41 #aggd1 and came to the ,united ,states in his boyhood 7#aghe74 ,baltimore1 ,md4 became his ,american home1 and he was educated there4 ,early in life he became a musician and music publisher4 ,at least twelve of his principal song collections from #ahjj to #ahcb are mentioned by ,mr4 ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 most of them sacred and containing many of his own tunes4 ,he continued to compose music till his death1 ,aug4 #ag1 #ahee4 ,mr4 ,cole was leader of the regimental band known as ,the ,independent ,blues1 which played in the war of #ahab1 and was present at the ,north ,point fight1 and other battles4 ,besides ,geneva1 for real feeling and harmonic beauty ,manoah1 adapted from ,haydn's ,creation1 deserves mention as admirably suited to ,addison's hymn1 and also ,belmont1 by ,samuel ,webbe1 which resembles it in style and sentiment4 ,samuel ,webbe1 composer of ,belmont1 was of ,english parentage but was born in ,minorca1 ,balearic ,islands1 in #agdj1 where his father at that time held a government appointment2 but his father1 dying suddenly1 left his family poor1 and ,samuel was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker4 ,he served his apprenticeship1 and immediately repaired to a ,london teacher and began the study of music and languages4 ,surmounting great difficulties1 he became a competent musician1 and made himself popular as a composer of glees4 ,he was also the author of several masses1 anthems1 and hymn-tunes1 the best of which are still in occasional use4 ,died in ,london1 #ahaf4 ,,jesus1 ,i ,,love ,,thy ,,charming ,,name4 ,when ,dr4 ,doddridge1 the author of this hymn1 during his useful ministry1 had finished the preparation of a pulpit discourse that strongly impressed him1 he was accustomed1 while his heart was yet glowing with the sentiment that had inspired him1 to put the principal thoughts into metre1 and use the hymn thus written at the conclusion of the preaching of the sermon4 ,this hymn of ,christian ardor was written to be sung after a sermon from ,romans #h3ce1 ,who shall separate us from the love of ,christ8 ,jesus1 ,i love ,thy charming name1 ',tis music to mine ear3 ,fain would ,i sound it out so loud ,that earth and heaven should hear4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i'll speak the honors of ,thy name ,with my last laboring breath1 ,then speechless1 clasp ,thee in my arms1 ,the conqueror of death4 ,earlier copies have-- ,the antidote of death4 ,philip ,doddridge1 ,d4,d41 was born in ,london1 ,june #bf1 #agjb4 ,educated at ,kingston ,grammar ,school and ,kibworth ,academy1 he became a scholar of respectable attainments1 and was ordained to the ,non-conformist ministry4 ,he was pastor of the ,congregational church at ,northampton1 from #agbi until his death1 acting meanwhile as principal of the ,theological ,school in that place4 ,in #agdi he ceased to preach and went to ,lisbon for his health1 but died there about two years later1 of consumption1 ,oct4 #bf1 #ageb4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn has been sometimes sung to ,pisgah1 an old revival piece by ,j4,c4 ,lowry 7#ahbj7 once much heard in camp-meetings1 but it is a pedestrian tune with too many quavers1 and a headlong tempo4 ,bradbury's ,jazer1 in three-four time1 is a melody with modulations1 though more sympathetic1 but it is hard to divorce the hymn from its long-time consort1 old ,arlington4 ,it has the accent of its sincerity1 and the breath of its devotion4 ,,lo1 ,,on ,a ,,narrow ,,neck ,,of ,,land4 ,this hymn of ,charles ,wesley is always designated now by the above line1 the first of the second stanza as originally written4 ,it is said to have been composed at ,land's ,end1 in ,cornwall1 with the ,british ,channel and the broad ,atlantic in view and surging on both sides around a narrow neck of land4 ,lo6 on a narrow neck of land1 ,twixt two unbounded seas1 ,i stand1 ,secure1 insensible3 ,a point of time1 a moment's space1 ,removes me to that heavenly place1 ,or shuts me up in hell4 ,o ,god1 mine inmost soul convert1 ,and deeply on my thoughtful heart ,eternal things impress3 ,give me to feel their solemn weight1 ,and tremble on the brink of fate1 ,and wake to righteousness4 ,the preachers and poets of the great spiritual movement of the eighteenth century in ,england abated nothing in the candor of their words4 ,the terrible earnestness of conviction tipped their tongues and pens with fire4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,lady ,huntingdon would have lent ,meribah gladly to this hymn1 but ,mason was not yet born4 ,many times it has been borrowed for ,wesley's words since it came to its own1 and the spirit of the pious ,countess has doubtless approved the loan4 ,it is rich enough to furnish forth her own lyric and more than one other of like matter and metre4 ,the muscular music of ,ganges has sometimes carried the hymn1 and there are those who think its thunder is not a whit more ,hebraic than the words require4 ,,come ,,ye ,,sinners ,,poor ,,and ,,needy4 ,few hymns have been more frequently sung in prayer-meetings and religious assemblies during the last hundred and fifty years4 ,its author1 ,joseph ,hart1 spoke what he knew and testified what he felt4 ,born in ,london1 #agab1 and liberally educated1 he was in his young manhood very religious1 but he went so far astray as to indulge in evil practices1 and even published writings1 both original and translated1 against ,christianity and religion of any kind4 ,but he could not drink at the ,dead ,sea and live4 ,the apples of ,sodom sickened him4 ,conscience asserted itself1 and the pangs of remorse nearly drove him to despair till he turned back to the source he had forsaken4 ,he alludes to this experience in the lines-- ,let not conscience make you linger1 ,nor of fitness fondly dream2 ,all the fitness ,he requireth ,is to feel your need of ,him4 ,during ,passion ,week1 #agfg1 he had an amazing view of the sufferings of ,christ1 under the stress of which his heart was changed4 ,in the joy of this experience he wrote-- ,come ye sinners poor and needy1 --and-- ,come all ye chosen saints of ,god4 ,probably no two hymn-lines have been oftener repeated than-- ,if you tarry till you're better ,you will never come at all4 ,the complete form of the original stanzas is3 ,come ye sinners poor and needy1 ,weak and wounded1 sick and sore2 ,jesus ready stands to save you1 ,full of pity1 love and power4 ,he is able1 ,he is willing2 doubt no more4 ,the whole hymn--ten stanzas--is not sung now as one1 but two1 the second division beginning with the line-- ,come ye weary1 heavy laden4 ,rev4 ,joseph ,hart became minister of ,jewin ,st4 ,congregational ,chapel1 ,london1 about #agfj1 where he labored till his death1 ,may #bd1 #agfh4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a revival song by ,jeremiah ,ingalls 7#agfd-ahbh71 written about #ahjd1 with an easy1 popular swing and a sforzando chorus-- ,turn to the ,lord and seek salvation1 --monopolized this hymn for a good many years4 ,the tunes commonly assigned to it have since been ,greenville and ,von ,weber's ,wilmot1 in which last it is now more generally sung--dropping the echo lines at the end of each stanza4 ,carl ,maria ,von ,weber1 son of a roving musician1 was born in ,eutin1 ,germany1 #aghf4 ,he developed no remarkable genius till he was about twenty years old1 though being a fine vocalist1 his singing brought him popularity and gain2 but in #ahjf he nearly lost his voice by accidently drinking nitric acid4 ,he was for several years private secretary to ,duke ,ludwig at ,stuttgart1 and in #ahac ,chapel-,master at ,prague1 from which place he went to ,dresden in #ahag as ,musik-,director4 ,von ,weber's ,korner songs won the hearts of all ,germany2 and his immortal ,der ,freischutz 7the ,free ,archer71 and numerous tender melodies like the airs to ,john ,anderson1 my ,jo and ,o ,poortith ,cauld have gone to all civilized nations4 ,no other composer had such feeling for beauty of sound4 ,this beloved musician was physically frail and delicate1 and died of untimely decline1 during a visit to ,london in #ahbf4 ,o ,,happy ,,saints ,,who ,,dwell ,,in ,,light4 ,sometimes printed ,o happy souls4 ,this poetical and flowing hymn seems to have been forgotten in the making up of most modern church hymnals4 ,hymns on heaven and heavenly joys abound in embarrassing numbers1 but it is difficult to understand why this beautiful lyric should be universally neglected4 ,it was written probably about #agfj1 by ,rev4 ,john ,berridge1 from the text1 ,blessed are the dead who die in the ,lord1 ,the first line of the second stanza-- ,released from sorrow1 toil and strife1 --has been tinkered in some of the older hymn-books1 where it is found to read--1 ,released from sorrows toil and grief1 --not only committing a tautology1 but destroying the perfect rhyme with life in the next line4 ,the whole hymn1 too1 has been much altered by substituted words and shifted lines1 though not generally to the serious detriment of its meaning and music4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,berridge--friend of the ,wesleys1 ,whitefield1 and ,lady ,huntingdon--was an eccentric but very worthy and spiritual minister1 born the son of a farmer1 in ,kingston1 ,nottinghamshire1 ,eng41 ,mar4 #a1 #agaf4 ,he studied at ,cambridge1 and was ordained curate of ,stapleford and subsequently located as vicar of ,everton1 #agge4 ,he died ,jan4 #bb1 #agic4 ,he loved to preach1 and he was determined that his tombstone should preach after his voice was still4 ,his epitaph1 composed by himself1 is both a testimony and a memoir3 ,here lie the earthly remains of ,john ,berridge1 late vicar of ,everton1 and an itinerant servant of ,jesus ,christ1 who loved his ,master and ,his work1 and after running ,his errands many years1 was called up to wait on ,him above4 ,reader1 art thou born again8 ,no salvation without the new birth4 ,i was born in sin1 ,february1 #agaf4 ,remained ignorant of my fallen state till #agcj4 ,lived proudly on faith and works for salvation till #agea4 ,admitted to ,everton vicarage1 #agee4 ,fled to ,jesus alone for refuge1 #agef4 ,fell asleep in ,jesus ,christ1-- 7#agic47 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the once popular score that easily made the hymn a favorite1 was ,salem1 in the old ,psalmodist4 ,it still appears in some note-books1 though the name of its composer is uncertain4 ,its notes 7in #f-h time7 succeed each other in syllabic modulations that give a soft dactylic accent to the measure and a wavy current to the lines3 ,o happy saints that dwell in light1 ,and walk with ,jesus clothed in white1 ,safe landed on that peaceful shore1 ,where pilgrims meet to part no more3 ,released from sorrow1 toil and strife1 ,death was the gate to endless life1 ,and now they range the heavenly plains ,and sing ,his love in melting strains4 ,another version reads3 ----and welcome to an endless life1 ,their souls have now begun to prove ,the height and depth of ,jesus' love4 ,,thou ,,dear ,,redeemer1 ,,dying ,,lamb4 ,the author1 ,john ,cennick1 like ,joseph ,hart1 was led to ,christ after a reckless boyhood and youth1 by the work of the ,divine ,spirit in his soul1 independent of any direct outward influence4 ,sickened of his cards1 novels1 and playhouse pleasures1 he had begun a sort of mechanical reform1 when one day1 walking in the streets of ,london1 he suddenly seemed to hear the text spoken ,i am thy salvation6 ,his consecration began at that moment4 ,he studied for the ministry1 and became a preacher1 first under direction of the ,wesleys1 then under ,whitefield1 but afterwards joined the ,moravians1 or ,brethren4 ,he was born at ,reading1 ,derbyshire1 ,eng41 ,dec4 #ab1 #agah1 and died in ,london1 ,july #d1 #agee4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the word ,rhine 7in some collections--in others ,emmons7 names a revival tune once so linked with this hymn and so well known that few religious people now past middle life could enjoy singing it to any other4 ,with a compass one note beyond an octave and a third1 it utters every line with a clear1 bold gladness sure to infect a meeting with its own spiritual fervor4 ,thou dear ,redeemer1 dying ,lamb1 ,i love to hear of ,thee2 ,no music like ,thy charming name1 ,nor half so sweet can be4 ,the composer of the bright legato melody just described was ,frederick ,burgmueller1 a young ,german musician1 born in #ahjd4 ,he was a remarkable genius1 both in composition and execution1 but his health was frail1 and he did not live to fulfil the rich possibilities that lay within him4 ,he died in #ahbd--only twenty years old4 ,the tune ,rhine 7,emmons7 is from one of his marches4 ,,while ,,thee ,i ,,seek1 ,,protecting ,,power4 ,helen ,maria ,williams wrote this sweet hymn1 probably about the year #ahjj4 ,she was a brilliant woman1 better known in literary society for her political verses and essays than by her hymns2 but the hymn here noted bears sufficient witness to her deep religious feeling3 ,while ,thee ,i seek1 ,protecting ,power1 ,be my vain wishes stilled1 ,and may this consecrated hour ,with better hopes be filled4 ,thy love the power of thought bestowed2 ,to ,thee my thoughts would soar1 ,thy mercy o'er my life has flowed1 ,that mercy ,i adore4 ,miss ,williams was born in the north of ,england1 ,nov4 #cj1 #agfb1 but spent much of her life in ,london1 and in ,paris1 where she died1 ,dec4 #ad1 #ahbg4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,wedded so many years to the gentle1 flowing music of ,pleyel's ,brattle ,street1 few lovers of the hymn recall its words without the melody of that emotional choral4 ,the plain psalm-tune1 ,simpson1 by ,louis ,spohr1 divides the stanzas into quatrains4 ,,jesus ,,my ,,all ,,to ,,heaven ,,is ,,gone4 ,this hymn1 by ,cennick1 was familiarized to the public more than two generations ago by its revival tune1 sometimes called ,duane ,street1 long-metre double4 ,it is staffed in various keys1 but its movement is full of life and emphasis1 and its melody is contagious4 ,the piece was composed by ,rev4 ,george ,coles1 in #ahce4 ,the fact that this hymn of ,cennick with ,coles's tune appears in the ,new ,methodist ,hymnal indicates the survival of both in modern favor4 ,illustration3 ,augustus ,montague ,toplady ,jesus my all to heaven is gone1 ,he whom ,i fixed my hopes upon2 ,his track ,i see1 and ,i'll pursue ,the narrow way till ,him ,i view4 ,the way the holy prophets went1 ,the road that leads from banishment1 ,the ,king's highway of holiness ,i'll go for all ,thy paths are peace4 ,the memory has not passed away of the hearty unison with which prayer-meeting and camp-meeting assemblies used to crescendo the last stanza-- ,then will ,i tell to sinners round ,what a dear ,saviour ,i have found2 ,i'll point to ,his redeeming blood1 ,and say ,behold the way to ,god4 ,the ,rev4 ,george ,coles was born in ,stewkley1 ,eng41 ,jan4 #b1 #agib1 and died in ,new ,york ,city1 ,may #a1 #aheh4 ,he was editor of the ,n4,y4 ,christian ,advocate1 and ,sunday ,school ,advocate1 for several years1 and was a musician of some ability1 besides being a good singer4 ,,sweet ,,the ,,moments1 ,,rich ,,in ,,blessing4 ,the ,hon4 and ,rev4 ,walter ,shirley1 ,rector of ,loughgree1 county of ,galway1 ,ireland1 revised this hymn under the chastening discipline of a most trying experience4 ,his brother1 the ,earl of ,ferrars1 a licentious man1 murdered an old and faithful servant in a fit of rage1 and was executed at ,tyburn for the crime4 ,sir ,walter1 after the disgrace and long distress of the imprisonment1 trial1 and final tragedy1 returned to his little parish in ,ireland1 humbled but driven nearer to the ,cross4 ,sweet the moments1 rich in blessing ,which before the ,cross ,i spend2 ,life and health and peace possessing ,from the sinner's dying ,friend4 ,all the emotion of one who buries a mortifying sorrow in the heart of ,christ1 and tries to forget1 trembles in the lines of the above hymn as he changed and adapted it in his saddest but devoutest hours4 ,its original writer was the ,rev4 ,james ,allen1 nearly twenty years younger than himself1 a man of culture and piety1 but a ,christian of shifting creeds4 ,it is not impossible that he sent his hymn to ,shirley to revise4 ,at all events it owes its present form to ,shirley's hand4 ,truly blessed is the station ,low before ,his cross to lie1 ,while ,i see ,divine ,compassion ,beaming in ,his gracious eye4#aa ,footnote #aa3 ,floating in ,his languid eye seems to have been the earlier version4 ,the influence of ,sir ,walter's family misfortune is evident also in the mood out of which breathed his other trustful lines-- ,peace1 troubled soul1 whose plaintive moan ,hath taught these rocks the notes of woe1 7changed now to hath taught these scenes etc74 ,sir ,walter ,shirley1 cousin of the ,countess of ,huntingdon1 was born #agbe1 and died in #aghf4 ,even in his last sickness he continued to preach to his people in his house1 seated in his chair4 ,rev4 ,james ,oswald ,allen was born at ,gayle1 ,yorkshire1 ,eng41 ,june #bd1 #agdc4 ,he left the ,university of ,cambridge after a year's study1 and became an itinerant preacher1 but seems to have been a man of unstable religious views4 ,after roving from one ,christian denomination to another several times1 he built a ,chapel1 and for forty years ministered there to a small ,independent congregation4 ,he died in ,gayle1 ,oct4 #ca1 #ahjd4 ,the tune long and happily associated with ,sweet the ,moments is ,sicily1 or the ,sicilian ,hymn--from an old ,latin hymn-tune1 ,o ,sanctissima4 ,o ,,for ,a ,,closer ,,walk ,,with ,,god4 ,the author1 ,william ,cowper1 son of a clergyman1 was born at ,berkhampstead1 ,hertfordshire1 ,eng41 ,nov4 #ae1 #agca1 and died at ,dereham1 ,norfolk1 ,april #be1 #ahjj4 ,through much of his adult life he was afflicted with a mental ailment inducing melancholia and at times partial insanity1 during which he once attempted suicide4 ,he sought literary occupation as an antidote to his disorder of mind1 and besides a great number of lighter pieces which diverted him and his friends1 composed ,the ,task1 an able and delightful moral and domestic poetic treatise in blank verse1 and in the same style of verse translated ,homer's ,odyssey and ,iliad4 ,one of the most beloved of ,english poets1 this suffering man was also a true ,christian1 and wrote some of our sweetest and most spiritual hymns4 ,most of these were composed at ,olney1 where he resided for a time with ,john ,newton1 his fellow hymnist1 and jointly with him issued the volume known as the ,olney ,hymns4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,music more or less closely identified with this familiar hymn is ,gardiner's ,dedham1 and also ,mear1 often attributed to ,aaron ,williams4 ,both1 about equally with the hymn1 are seasoned by time1 but have not worn out their harmony--or their fitness to ,cowper's prayer4 ,william ,gardiner was born in ,leicester1 ,eng41 ,march #ae1 #aggj1 and died there ,nov4 #aa1 #ahec4 ,he was a vocal composer and a musicographer or writer on musical subjects4 ,one ,aaron ,williams1 to whom ,mear has by some been credited1 was of ,welsh descent1 a composer of psalmody and clerk of the ,scotch church in ,london4 ,he was born in #agcd1 and died in #aggf4 ,another account1 and the more probable one1 names a minister of ,boston of still earlier date as the author of the noble old harmony4 ,it is found in a small ,new ,england collection of #agbf1 but not in any ,english or ,scotch collection4 ,mear is presumably an ,american tune4 ,,what ,,various ,,hindrances ,,we ,,meet4 ,another hymn of ,cowper's2 and no one ever suffered more deeply the plaintive regret in the opening lines1 or better wrought into poetic expression an argument for prayer4 ,what various hindrances we meet ,in coming to a mercy-seat6 ,yet who that knows the worth of prayer ,but wishes to be often there8 ,prayer makes the darkest clouds withdraw1 ,prayer climbs the ladder ,jacob saw4 ,the whole hymn is 7or once was7 so thoroughly learned by heart as to be fixed in the church among its household words4 ,preachers to the diffident do not forget to quote-- ,have you no words8 ah1 think again2 ,words flow apace when you complain4 99 99 99 99 99 ,were half the breath thus vainly spent ,to ,heaven in supplication sent1 ,our cheerful song would oftener be1 ,hear what the ,lord hath done for me6 ,and there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-- ,satan trembles when he sees ,the weakest saint upon his knees4 ,tune1 ,lowell ,mason's ,rockingham4 ,,my ,,gracious ,,redeemer ,i ,,love4 ,this is one of ,benjamin ,francis's lays of devotion4 ,the ,christian ,welshman who bore that name was a ,gospel minister full of ,evangelical zeal1 who preached in many places1 though his pastoral home was with the ,baptist church in ,shortwood1 ,wales4 ,flattering calls to ,london could not tempt him away from his first and only parish1 and he remained there till his triumphant death4 ,he was born in #agcd1 and died in #agii4 ,my gracious ,redeemer ,i love1 ,his praises aloud ,i'll proclaim1 ,and join with the armies above1 ,to shout ,his adorable name4 ,to gaze on ,his glories divine ,shall be my eternal employ2 ,to see them incessantly shine1 ,my boundless1 ineffable joy4 ,tune1 ,birmingham--an ,english melody4 ,anonymous4 ,,blest ,,be ,,the ,,tie ,,that ,,binds4 ,perhaps the best hymn-expression of sacred brotherhood1 at least it has had1 and still has the indorsement of constant use4 ,the author1 ,john ,fawcett1 ,d4,d41 is always quoted as the example of his own words1 since he sacrificed ambition and personal interest to ,christian affection4 ,born near ,bradford1 ,yorkshire1 ,jan4 #f1 #agci1 and converted under the preaching of ,whitefield1 he joined the ,methodists1 but afterwards became a member of the new ,baptist church in ,bradford4 ,seven years later he was ordained over the ,baptist ,society at ,wainsgate4 ,in #aggb he received a call to succeed the celebrated ,dr4 ,gill1 in ,london1 and accepted4 ,but at the last moment1 when his goods were packed for removal1 the clinging love of his people1 weeping their farewells around him1 melted his heart4 ,their passionate regrets were more than either he or his good wife could withstand4 ,i will stay1 he said2 you may unpack my goods1 and we will live for the ,lord lovingly together4 ,it was out of this heart experience that the tender hymn was born4 ,our fears1 our hopes1 our aims are one1 ,our comforts and our cares4 ,dr4 ,fawcett died ,july #be1 #ahag4 ,tune1 ,boylston1 ,l4 ,mason2 or ,dennis1 ,h4,g4 ,naegeli4 ,i ,,love ,,thy ,,kingdom1 ,,lord4 ,dr4 ,dwight's ,hymn1 as this is known par eminence among many others from his pen1 is one of the imperishable lyrics of the ,christian ,church4 ,the real spirit of the hundred and twenty-second ,psalm is in it1 and it is worthy of ,watts in his best moments4 ,timothy ,dwight was born at ,northampton1 ,mass1 ,may #ad1 #ageb1 and graduated at ,yale ,college at the age of thirteen4 ,he wrote several religious poems of considerable length4 ,in #agie he was elected ,president of ,yale ,college1 and in #ahjj he revised ,watts' ,psalms1 at the request of the ,general ,association of ,connecticut1 adding a number of translations of his own4 ,i love ,thy kingdom1 ,lord1 ,the house of ,thine abode1 ,the ,church our blest ,redeemer saved ,with ,his own precious blood4 ,i love ,thy ,church1 ,o ,god2 ,her walls before ,thee stand1 ,dear as the apple of ,thine eye1 ,and graven on ,thy hand4 ,dr4 ,dwight died ,jan4 #aa1 #ahag4 ,tune1 ,st4 ,thomas1 ,aaron ,williams1 7#agcd-aggf47 ,mr4 ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 however1 believes the author to be ,handel4 ,it appeared as the second movement of a four-movement tune in ,williams's #agfb collection1 which contained pieces by the great masters1 with his own2 but while not credited to ,handel1 ,williams did not claim it himself4 ,,mid ,,scenes ,,of ,,confusion4 ,this hymn1 common in chapel hymnbooks half a century and more ago1 is said to have been written by the ,rev4 ,david ,denham1 about #ahbf4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,home1 ,sweet ,home was composed1 according to the old account1 by ,john ,howard ,payne as one of the airs in his opera of ,clari1 the ,maid of ,milan1 which was brought out in ,london at ,drury ,lane in #ahbc4 ,but ,charles ,mackay1 the ,english poet1 in the ,london ,telegraph1 asserts that ,sir ,henry ,bishop1 an eminent musician1 in his vain search for a ,sicilian national air1 invented one1 and that it was the melody of ,home1 sweet ,home1 which he afterwards set to ,howard ,payne's words4 ,mr4 ,mackay had this story from ,sir ,henry himself4 ,mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints ,how sweet to my soul is communion with saints1 ,to find at the banquet of mercy there's room ,and feel in the presence of ,jesus at home4 ,home1 home1 sweet1 sweet home6 ,prepare me1 dear ,savior for glory1 my home4 ,john ,howard ,payne1 author at least1 of the original words of ,home1 ,sweet ,home1 was born in ,new ,york ,city ,june #i1 #agia4 ,he was a singer1 and became an actor and theatrical writer4 ,he composed the words of his immortal song in the year #ahbc1 when he was himself homeless and hungry and sheltered temporarily in an attic in ,paris4 ,his fortunes improved at last1 and he was appointed to represent his native country as consul in ,tunis1 where he died1 ,apr4 #i1 #aheb4 ,o1 ,,could ,i ,,speak ,,the ,,matchless ,,worth4 ,the writer of this hymn of worshiping ardor and exalted ,christian love was an ,english ,baptist minister1 the ,rev4 ,samuel ,medley4 ,he was born at ,cheshunt1 ,hertfordshire1 ,june #bc1 #agch1 and at eighteen years of age entered the ,royal ,navy1 where1 though he had been piously educated1 he became dissipated and morally reckless4 ,wounded in a sea fight off ,cape ,lagos1 and in dread of amputation he prayed penitently through nearly a whole night1 and in the morning the surprised surgeon told him his limb could be saved4 ,the voice of his awakened conscience was not wholly disregarded1 though it was not till some time after he left the navy that his vow to begin a religious life was sincerely kept4 ,after teaching school for four years1 he began to preach in #agff1 ,wartford in ,hertfordshire being the first scene of his godly labors4 ,he died in ,liverpool ,july #ag1 #agii1 at the end of a faithful ministry there of twenty-seven years4 ,a small edition of his hymns was published during his lifetime1 in #aghi4 ,o could ,i speak the matchless worth1 ,o could ,i sound the glories forth ,which in my ,saviour shine1 ,i'd soar and touch the heavenly strings ,and vie with ,gabriel while he sings1 ,in notes almost divine6 ,,the ,,tune4 ,colebrook1 a plain choral2 but with a noble movement1 by ,henry ,smart1 is the ,english music to this fine lyric1 but ,dr4 ,mason's ,ariel is the ,american favorite4 ,it justifies its name1 for it has wings--in both full harmony and duet--and its melody feels the glory of the hymn at every bar4 ,,rock ,,of ,,ages ,,cleft ,,for ,,me4 ,augustus ,montagu ,toplady1 author of this almost universal hymn1 was born at ,farnham1 ,surrey1 ,eng41 ,nov4 #d1 #agdj4 ,educated at ,westminster ,school1 and ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 he took orders in the ,established ,church4 ,in his doctrinal debates with the ,wesleys he was a harsh controversialist2 but his piety was sincere1 and marked late in life by exalted moods4 ,physically he was frail1 and his fiery zeal wore out his body4 ,transferred from his vicarage at ,broad ,hembury1 ,devonshire1 to ,knightsbridge1 ,london1 at twenty-eight years of age1 his health began to fail before he was thirty-five1 and in one of his periods of illness he wrote-- ,when languor and disease invade ,this trembling house of clay1 ',tis sweet to look beyond my pains ,and long to fly away4 ,and the same homesickness for heaven appears under a different figure in another hymn-- ,at anchor laid remote from home1 ,toiling ,i cry1 ,sweet ,spirit1 come6 ,celestial breeze1 no longer stay1 ,but swell my sails1 and speed my way6 ,possessed of an ardent religious nature1 his spiritual frames exemplified in a notable degree the emotional side of ,calvinistic piety4 ,edward ,payson himself1 was not more enraptured in immediate view of death than was this young ,london priest and poet4 ,unquestioning faith became perfect certainty4 ,as in the bold metaphor of ,rock of ,ages1 the faith finds voice in-- ,a debtor to mercy alone1 --and other hymns in his collection of #aggf1 two years before the end came4 ,most of this devout writing was done in his last days1 and he continued it as long as strength was left1 until1 on the #aath of ,august1 #aggh1 he joyfully passed away4 ,somehow there was always something peculiarly heartsome and filling to pious minds in the lines of ,toplady in days when his minor hymns were more in vogue than now1 and they were often quoted1 without any idea whose making they were4 ,at anchor laid was crooned by good old ladies at their spinning-wheels1 and godly invalids found ,when languor and disease invade a comfort next to their ,bibles4 ,rock of ,ages is said to have been written after the author1 during a suburban walk1 had been forced to shelter himself from a thunder shower1 under a cliff4 ,this is1 however1 but one of several stories about the birth-occasion of the hymn4 ,it has been translated into many languages4 ,one of the foreign dignitaries visiting ,queen ,victoria at her ,golden ,jubilee was a native of ,madagascar1 who surprised her by asking leave to sing1 but delighted her1 when leave was given1 by singing ,rock of ,ages4 ,it was a favorite of hers--and of ,prince ,albert1 who whispered it when he was dying4 ,people who were school-children when ,rev4 ,justus ,vinton came home to ,willington1 ,ct41 with two ,karen pupils1 repeat to-day the la-pa-ta1 i-oo-i-oo caught by sound from the brown-faced boys as they sang their native version of ,rock of ,ages4 ,gen4 ,j4,e4,b4 ,stuart1 the famous ,confederate ,cavalry leader1 mortally wounded at ,yellow ,tavern1 ,va41 and borne to a ,richmond hospital1 called for his minister and requested that ,rock of ,ages be sung to him4 ,the last sounds heard by the few saved from the wreck of the steamer ,london in the ,bay of ,biscay1 #ahff1 were the voices of the helpless passengers singing ,rock of ,ages as the ship went down4 ,a company of ,armenian ,christians sang ,rock of ,ages in their native tongue while they were being massacred in ,constantinople4 ,no history of this grand hymn of faith forgets the incident of ,gladstone writing a ,latin translation of it while sitting in the ,house of ,commons4 ,that remarkable man was as masterly in his scholarly recreations as in his statesmanship4 ,the supreme ,christian sentiment of the hymn had permeated his soul till it spoke to him in a dead language as eloquently as in the living one2 and this is what he made of it3 ,,toplady4 ,rock of ages1 cleft for me1 ,let me hide myself in ,thee2 ,let the water and the blood1 ,from ,thy riven side which flowed1 ,be of sin the double cure1 ,cleanse me from its guilt and power4 ,not the labor of my hands ,can fulfil ,thy law's demands2 ,could my zeal no respite know1 ,could my tears for ever flow1 ,all for sin could not atone1 ,thou must save1 and ,thou alone4 ,nothing in my hand ,i bring1 ,simply to ,thy cross ,i cling2 ,naked1 come to ,thee for dress1 ,helpless1 look to ,thee for grace3 ,foul1 ,i to the fountain fly2 ,wash1 me1 ,saviour1 or ,i die4 ,whilst ,i draw this fleeting breath1 ,when my eyestrings break in death2 ,when ,i soar through tracts unknown1 ,see ,thee on ,thy judgment throne1 ,rock of ages1 cleft for me1 ,let me hide myself in ,thee4 ,,gladstone4 ,jesus1 pro me perforatus1 ,condar intra tuum latus2 ,tu per lympham profluentem1 ,tu per sanguinem tepentem1 ,in peccata mi redunda1 ,tolle culpam1 sordes munda6 ,coram ,te nec justus forem ,quamvis tota vi laborem1 ,nec si fide nunquam cesso1 ,fletu stillans indefesso2 ,tibi soli tantum munus-- ,salva me1 ,salvator ,unus6 ,nil in manu mecum fero1 ,sed me versus crucem gero3 ,vestimenta nudus oro1 ,opem debilis imploro1 ,fontem ,christi quaero immundus1 ,nisi laves1 moribundus4 ,dum hos artus vita regit1 ,quando nox sepulcro legit2 ,mortuos quum stare jubes1 ,sedens ,judex inter nubes2-- ,jesus1 pro me perforatus1 ,condar intra tuum latus6 ,the wonderful hymn has suffered the mutations common to time and taste4 ,when ,i soar thro' tracts unknown --becomes-- ,when ,i soar to worlds unknown1 --getting rid of the unpoetic word1 and bettering the elocution1 but missing the writer's thought 7of the unknown path1--instead of going to many worlds74 ,the ,unitarians have their version1 with substitutes for the atonement lines4 ,but the ,christian lyric maintains its life and inspiration through the vicissitudes of age and use1 as all intrinsically superior things can and will1--and as in the twentieth line1-- ,when my eyestrings break in death2 --modernized to-- ,when my eyelids close in death1 --the hymn will ever adapt itself to the new exigencies of common speech1 without losing its vitality and power4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a happy inspiration of ,dr4 ,thomas ,hastings made the hymn and music inevitably one4 ,almost anywhere to call for the tune of ,toplady 7namesake of the pious poet7 is as unintelligible to the multitude as ,key would be to designate the ,star-spangled ,banner4 ,the common people--thanks to ,dr4 ,hastings--have learned ,rock of ,ages by sound4 ,thomas ,hastings was born in ,washington1 ,ct41 #aghd4 ,for eight years he was editor of the ,western ,recorder1 but he gave his life to church music1 and besides being a talented tone-poet he wrote as many as six hundred hymns4 ,in #ahcb1 by invitation from twelve ,new ,york churches1 he went to that city1 and did the main work of his life there1 dying1 in #ahgb1 at the good old age of eighty-nine4 ,his musical collections number fifty-three4 ,he wrote his famous tune in #ahcj4 ,illustration3 ,thomas ,hastings ,,my ,,soul ,,be ,,on ,,thy ,,guard ,strangely enough1 this hymn1 a trumpet note of ,christian warning and resolution1 was written by one who himself fell into unworthy ways4#ab ,but the one strong and spiritual watch-song by which he is remembered appeals for him1 and lets us know possibly1 something of his own conflicts4 ,we can be thankful for the struggle he once made1 and for the hymn it inspired4 ,it is a voice of caution to others4 ,footnote #ab3 ,i have been unable to verify this statement found in ,mr4 ,butterworth's ,story of the ,hymns4--,t4,b4 ,george ,heath1 the author1 was an ,english minister1 born in #agha2 died #ahbb4 ,for a time he was pastor of a ,presbyterian ,church at ,honiton1 ,devonshire1 and was evidently a prolific writer1 having composed a hundred and forty-four hymns1 an edition of which was printed4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,no other has been so familiarly linked with the words as ,lowell ,mason's ,laban 7#ahcj74 ,it has dash and animation enough to reenforce the hymn1 and give it popular life1 even if the hymn had less earnestness and vigor of its own4 ,ne'er think the vict'ry won ,nor lay thine armor down3 ,thy arduous work will not be done ,till thou hast gained thy crown4 ,fight on1 my soul till death ,shall bring thee to thy ,god2 ,he'll take thee at thy parting breath ,to ,his divine abode4 ,,people ,,of ,,the ,,living ,,god4 ,montgomery felt every line of this hymn as he committed it to paper4 ,he wrote it when1 after years in the swim of social excitements and ambitions1 where his young independence swept him on1 he came back to the little church of his boyhood4 ,his father and mother had gone to the ,west ,indies as missionaries1 and died there4 ,he was forty-three years old when1 led by divine light1 he sought readmission to the ,moravian meeting at ,fulneck1 and anchored happily in a haven of peace4 ,people of the living ,god ,i have sought the world around1 ,paths of sin and sorrow trod1 ,peace and comfort nowhere found3 ,now to you my spirit turns-- ,turns a fugitive unblest2 ,brethren1 where your altar burns1 ,oh1 receive me into rest4 ,james ,montgomery1 son of ,rev4 ,john ,montgomery1 was born at ,irvine1 ,ayrshire1 ,scotland1 ,nov4 #d1 #agga1 and educated at the ,moravian ,seminary at ,fulneck1 ,yorkshire1 ,eng4 ,he became the editor of the ,sheffield ,iris1 and his pen was busy in non-professional as well as professional work until old age4 ,he died in ,sheffield1 ,april #cj1 #ahed4 ,his literary career was singularly successful2 and a glance through any complete edition of his poems will tell us why4 ,his hymns were all published during his lifetime1 and all1 as well as his longer pieces1 have the purity and polished beauty1 if not the strength1 of ,addison's work4 ,like ,addison1 too1 he could say that he had written no line which1 dying1 he would wish to blot4 ,the best of ,montgomery was in his hymns4 ,these were too many to enumerate here1 and the more enduring ones too familiar to need enumeration4 ,the church and the world will not soon forget ,the ,home in ,heaven1-- ,forever with the ,lord1 ,amen1 so let it be4 ,life from the dead is in that word2 ',tis immortality4 ,nor-- ,o where shall rest be found1 --with its impressive couplet-- ',tis not the whole of life to live ,nor all of death to die4 ,nor the haunting sweetness of-- ,there is a calm for those who weep4 ,nor1 indeed1 the hymn of ,christian love just now before us4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the melody exactly suited to the gentle trochaic step of the home-song1 ,people of the living ,god1 is ,whitman1 composed for it by ,lowell ,mason4 ,few ,christians1 in ,america1 we venture to say1 could hear an instrument play ,whitman without mentally repeating ,montgomery's words4 ,,to ,,leave ,,my ,,dear ,,friends4 ,this hymn1 called ,the ,bower of ,prayer1 was dear to ,christian hearts in many homes and especially in rural chapel worship half a century ago and earlier1 and its sweet legato melody still lingers in the memories of aged men and women4 ,elder ,john ,osborne1 a ,new ,hampshire preacher of the ,christian 7,christ-ian7 denomination1 is said to have composed the tune 7and possibly the words7 about #ahae--though apparently the music was arranged from a flute interlude in one of ,haydn's themes4 ,the warbling notes of the air are full of heart-feeling1 and usually the best available treble voice sang it as a solo4 ,to leave my dear friends and from neighbors to part1 ,and go from my home1 it affects not my heart ,like the thought of absenting myself for a day ,from that blest retreat ,i have chosen to pray1 ,i have chosen to pray4 ,the early shrill notes of the loved nightingale ,that dwelt in the bower1 ,i observed as my bell3 ,it called me to duty1 while birds in the air ,sang anthems of praises as ,i went to prayer1 ,as ,i went to prayer4#ac ,how sweet were the zephyrs perfumed by the pine1 ,the ivy1 the balsam1 the wild eglantine1 ,but sweeter1 ,o1 sweeter superlative were ,the joys that ,i tasted in answer to prayer1 ,in answer to prayer4 ,footnote #ac3 ,the ,american ,vocalist omits this stanza as too fanciful as well as too crude ,,saviour1 ,,thy ,,dying ,,love4 ,this hymn of grateful piety was written in #ahfb1 by ,rev4 ,s4 ,dryden ,phelps1 ,d4,d41 of ,new ,haven1 and first published in ,pure ,gold1 #ahga2 afterwards in the 7earlier7 ,baptist ,hymn and ,tune ,book4 ,saviour1 ,thy dying love ,thou gavest me1 ,nor should ,i aught withhold ,dear ,lord1 from ,thee4 99 99 99 99 99 ,give me a faithful heart1 ,likeness to ,thee1 ,that each departing day ,henceforth may see ,some work of love begun1 ,some deed of kindness done1 ,some wand'rer sought and won1 ,something for ,thee4 ,the penultimate line1 originally ,some sinful wanderer won1 was altered by the author himself4 ,the hymn is found in most ,baptist hymnals1 and was inserted by ,mr4 ,sankey in ,gospel ,hymns ,no4 #a4 ,it has since won its way into several revival collections and undenominational manuals4 ,rev4 ,sylvester ,dryden ,phelps1 ,d4,d41 was born in ,suffield1 ,ct41 ,may #ae1 #ahaf1 and studied at the ,connecticut ,literary ,institution in that town4 ,an early call to the ministry turned his talents to the service of the church1 and his long settlement--comprising what might be called his principal life work--was in ,new ,haven1 where he was pastor of the ,first ,baptist church twenty-nine years4 ,he died there ,nov4 #bc1 #ahie4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the ,rev4 ,robert ,lowry admired the hymn1 and gave it a tune perfectly suited to its metre and spirit4 ,it has never been sung in any other4 ,the usual title of it is ,something for ,jesus4 ,the meaning and sentiment of both words and music are not unlike ,miss ,havergal's-- ,i gave my life for thee4 ,,in ,,some ,,way ,,or ,,other4 ,this song of ,christian confidence was written by ,mrs4 ,martha ,a4,w4 ,cook1 wife of the ,rev4 ,parsons ,cook1 editor of the ,puritan ,recorder1 ,boston4 ,it was published in the ,american ,messenger in #ahgj1 and is still in use here1 as a ,german version of it is in ,germany4 ,the first stanza follows1 in the two languages3 ,in some way or other the ,lord will provide4 ,it may not be my way1 ,it may not be thy way1 ,and yet in ,his own way ,the ,lord will provide4 ,sei's so oder anders1 der ,herr wird's versehn2 ,mag's nicht sein1 wie ich will1 ,mag's nicht sein1 wie du willst1 ,doch wird's sein1 wie ,er will3 ,der ,herr wird's versehn4 ,in the ,english version the easy flow of the two last lines into one sentence is an example of rhythmic advantage over the foreign syntax4 ,mrs4 ,cook was married to the well-known clergyman and editor1 ,parsons ,cook1 7#ahjj-ahfe7 in ,bridgeport1 ,ct41 and survived him at his death in ,lynn1 ,mass4 ,she was ,miss ,martha ,ann ,woodbridge1 afterwards ,mrs4 ,hawley1 and a widow at the time of her re-marriage as ,mr4 ,cook's second wife4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,professor ,calvin ,s4 ,harrington1 of ,wesleyan ,university1 ,middletown1 ,ct41 set music to the words as printed in ,winnowed ,hymns 7#ahgc7 and arranged by ,dr4 ,eben ,tourjee1 organizer of the great ,american ,peace ,jubilee in ,boston4 ,in the ,gospel ,hymns it is1 however1 superseded by the more popular composition of ,philip ,phillips4 ,dr4 ,eben ,tourjee1 late ,dean of the ,college of ,music in ,boston ,university1 and founder and head of the ,new ,england ,conservatory1 was born in ,warwick1 ,r4,i41 ,june #a1 #ahcd4 ,with only an academy education he rose by native genius1 from a hard-working boyhood to be a teacher of music and a master of its science4 ,from a course of study in ,europe he returned and soon made his reputation as an organizer of musical schools and sangerfests4 ,the ,new ,england ,conservatory of ,music was first established by him in ,providence1 but removed in #ahgj to ,boston1 its permanent home4 ,his doctorate of music was conferred upon him by ,wesleyan ,university4 ,died in ,boston1 ,april #ab1 #ahia4 ,philip ,phillips1 known as the singing ,pilgrim1 was born in ,jamestown1 ,chautauqua1 ,co41 ,n4,y41 ,aug4 #ac1 #ahcd4 ,he compiled twenty-nine collections of sacred music for ,sunday schools1 gospel meetings1 etc42 also a ,methodist ,hymn and ,tune ,book1 #ahff4 ,he composed a great number of tunes1 but wrote no hymns4 ,some of his books were published in ,london1 for he was a cosmopolitan singer1 and traveled through ,europe and ,australia as well as ,america4 ,died in ,delaware1 ,o41 ,june #be1 #ahge4 ,,nearer1 ,,my ,,god1 ,,to ,,thee4 ,mr4 ,william ,stead1 fond of noting what is often believed to be the providential chain of causes in everything that happens1 recalls the fact that ,benjamin ,flower1 editor of the ,cambridge ,intelligencer1 while in jail 7#agih7 at the instigation of ,bp4 ,watson for an article defending the ,french ,revolution1 and criticising the ,bishop's political course1 was visited by several sympathizing ladies1 one of whom was ,miss ,eliza ,gould4 ,the young lady's first acquaintance with him there in his cell led to an attachment which eventuated in marriage4 ,of that marriage ,sarah ,flower was born4 ,by the theory of providential sequences ,mr4 ,stead makes it appear that the forgotten vindictiveness of a ,british prelate was the causa causans of one of the most spiritual and aspiring hymns in the ,christian ,hymnary4 ,nearer1 ,my ,god1 to ,thee was on the lips of ,president ,mc,kinley as he lay dying by a murderer's wicked shot4 ,it is dear to ,president ,roosevelt for its memories of the battle of ,las ,quasimas1 where the ,rough ,riders sang it at the burial of their slain comrades4 ,bishop ,marvin was saved by it from hopeless dejection1 while practically an exile during the ,civil ,war1 by hearing it sung in the wilds of ,arkansas1 by an old woman in a log hut4 ,a letter from ,pittsburg1 ,pa41 to a leading ,boston paper relates the name and experience of a forger who had left the latter city and wandered eight years a fugitive from justice4 ,on the #eth of ,november1 7,sunday17 #aije1 he found himself in ,pittsburg1 and ventured into the ,dixon ,theatre1 where a religious service was being held1 to hear the music4 ,the hymn ,nearer1 ,my ,god1 to ,thee so overcame him that he went out weeping bitterly4 ,he walked the floor of his room all night1 and in the morning telephoned for the police1 confessed his name and crime1 and surrendered himself to be taken back to the ,boston authorities4 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,flower ,adams1 author of the noble hymn 7supposed to have been written in #ahdj71 was born at ,harlow1 ,eng41 ,feb4 #bb1 #ahje1 and died there in #ahdh4 ,at her funeral another of her hymns was sung1 ending-- ,when falls the shadow1 cold in death ,i yet will sing with fearless breath1 ,as comes to me in shade or sun1 ,father1 ,thy will1 not mine1 be done4 ,the attempts to evangelize ,nearer1 ,my ,god1 to ,thee by those who cannot forget that ,mrs4 ,adams was a ,unitarian1 are to be deplored4 ,such zeal is as needless as trying to sectarianize an ,old ,testament ,psalm4 ,the poem is a perfect religious piece--to be sung as it stands1 with thanks that it was ever created4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,in ,english churches 7since #ahfa7 the hymn was and may still be sung to ,horbury1 composed by ,rev4 ,john ,b4 ,dykes1 and ,st4 ,edmund1 by ,sir ,arthur ,sullivan4 ,both tunes are simple and appropriate1 but such a hymn earns and inevitably acquires a single tune-voice1 so that its music instantly names it by its words when played on instruments4 ,such a voice was given it by ,lowell ,mason's ,bethany1 7#ahef74 7,why not ,bethel1 instead1 every one who notes the imagery of the words must wonder47 ,bethany appealed to the popular heart1 and long ago 7in ,america7 hymn and tune became each other's property4 ,it is even simpler than the ,english tunes1 and a single hearing fixes it in memory4 ,i ,,need ,,thee ,,every ,,hour4 ,mrs4 ,annie ,sherwood ,hawks1 who wrote this hymn in #ahgb1 was born in ,hoosick1 ,n4,y41 in #ahce4 ,she sent the hymn 7five stanzas7 to ,dr4 ,lowry1 who composed its tune1 adding a chorus1 to make it more effective4 ,it first appeared in a small collection of original songs prepared by ,lowry and ,doane for the ,national ,baptist ,sunday ,school ,association1 which met at ,cincinnati1 ,o41 ,november1 #ahgb1 and was sung there4 ,i need ,thee every hour1 ,most gracious ,lord1 ,no tender voice like ,thine ,can peace afford4 ,,chorus4 ,i need ,thee1 ,oh1 ,i need ,thee1 ,every hour ,i need ,thee2 ,oh1 bless me now1 my ,saviour1 ,i come to ,thee6 ,one instance1 at least1 of a hymn made doubly impressive by its chorus will be attested by all who have sung or heard the pleading words and music of ,mrs4 ,hawks' and ,dr4 ,lowry's ,i need ,thee1 ,oh1 ,i need ,thee4 ,i ,,gave ,,my ,,life ,,for ,,thee4 ,this was written in her youth by ,frances ,ridley ,havergal1 and was suggested by the motto over the head of ,christ in the great picture1 ,ecce ,homo1 in the ,art ,gallery of ,dusseldorf1 ,prussia1 where she was at school4 ,the sight--as was the case with young ,count ,zinzendorf--seems to have had much to do with the gifted girl's early religious experience1 and indeed exerted its influence on her whole life4 ,the motto read ,i did this for thee2 what doest thou for me8 and the generative effect of the solemn picture and its question soon appeared in the hymn that flowed from ,miss ,havergal's heart and pen4 ,i gave my life for thee1 ,my precious blood ,i shed1 ,that thou might'st ransomed be ,and quickened from the dead4 ,i gave my life for thee3 ,what hast thou given for me8 ,miss ,frances ,ridley ,havergal1 sometimes called ,the ,theodosia of the #aith century1 was born at ,astley1 ,worcestershire1 ,eng41 ,dec4 #ad1 #ahcf4 ,her father1 ,rev4 ,william ,henry ,havergal1 a clergyman of the ,church of ,england1 was himself a poet and a skilled musician1 and much of the daughter's ability came to her by natural bequest as well as by education4 ,born a poet1 she became a fine instrumentalist1 a composer and an accomplished linguist4 ,her health was frail1 but her life was a devoted one1 and full of good works4 ,her consecrated words were destined to outlast her by many generations4 ,writing is praying with me1 she said4 ,death met her in #ahgi1 when still in the prime of womanhood4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music that has made this hymn of ,miss ,havergal familiar in ,america is named from its first line1 and was composed by the lamented ,philip ,p4 ,bliss 7christened ,philipp ,bliss#ad71 a pupil of ,dr4 ,george ,f4 ,root4 ,footnote #ad3 ,mr4 ,bliss himself changed the spelling of his name1 preferring to let the third ,p4 do duty alone1 as a middle initial4 ,he was born in ,rome1 ,pa41 ,jan4 #i1 #ahch1 and less than thirty-nine years later suddenly ended his life1 a victim of the awful railroad disaster at ,ashtabula ,o41 ,dec4 #bi1 #ahgf1 while returning from a visit to his aged mother4 ,his wife1 ,lucy ,young ,bliss1 perished with him there1 in the swift flames that enveloped the wreck of the train4 ,the name of ,mr4 ,bliss had become almost a household word through his numerous popular ,christian melodies1 which were the ,american beginning of the series of ,gospel ,hymns4 ,many of these are still favorite prayer-meeting tunes throughout the country and are heard in song-service at ,sunday-school and city mission meetings4 ,,jesus ,,keep ,,me ,,near ,,the ,,cross4 ,this hymn1 one of the best and probably most enduring of ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby's sacred lyrics1 was inspired by ,col4 #a3bi4 ,frances ,jane ,crosby 7,mrs4 ,van ,alstyne7 the blind poet and hymnist1 was born in ,southeast1 ,n4,y41 ,march #bd1 #ahbj4 ,she lost her eyesight at the age of six4 ,twelve years of her younger life were spent in the ,new ,york ,institution for the ,blind1 where she became a teacher1 and in #aheh was happily married to a fellow inmate1 ,mr4 ,alexander ,van ,alstyne1 a musician4 ,george ,f4 ,root was for a time musical instructor at the ,institution1 and she began early to write words to his popular song-tunes4 ,rosalie1 the ,prairie ,flower1 and the long favorite melody1 ,there's ,music in the ,air are among the many to which she supplied the text and the song name4 ,she resides in ,bridgeport1 ,ct41 where she enjoys a serene and happy old age4 ,she has written over six thousand hymns1 and possibly will add other pearls to the cluster before she goes up to join the singing saints4 ,jesus1 keep me near the ,cross1 ,there a precious ,fountain ,free to all1 a healing stream1 ,flows from ,calv'ry's mountain4 ,,chorus4 ,in the ,cross1 in the ,cross ,be my glory ever1 ,till my raptured soul shall find ,rest beyond the river4 99 99 99 99 99 ,near the ,cross6 ,o ,lamb of ,god1 ,bring its scenes before me2 ,help me walk from day to day ,with its shadows o'er me4 ,,chorus4 ,william ,howard ,doane1 writer of the music to this hymn1 was born in ,preston1 ,ct41 ,feb4 #c1 #ahca4 ,he studied at ,woodstock ,academy1 and subsequently acquired a musical education which earned him the degree of ,doctor of ,music conferred upon him by ,denison ,university in #ahge4 ,having a mechanical as well as musical gift1 he patented more than seventy inventions1 and was for some years engaged with manufacturing concerns1 both as employee and manager1 but his interest in song-worship and in ,sunday-school and church work never abated1 and he is well known as a trainer of choirs and composer of some of the best modern devotional tunes4 ,his home is in ,cincinnati1 ,o4 ,i ,,would ,,not ,,live ,,alway4 ,this threnody 7we may almost call it7 of ,w4,a4 ,muhlenberg1 illustrating one phase of ,christian experience1 was the outpouring of a poetic melancholy not uncommon to young and finely strung souls4 ,he composed it in his twenties1--long before he became ,doctor ,muhlenberg1--and for years afterwards tried repeatedly to alter it to a more cheerful tone4 ,but the poem had its mission1 and it had fastened itself in the public imagination1 either by its contagious sentiment or the felicity of its tune1 and the author was obliged to accept the fame of it as it originally stood4 ,william ,augustus ,muhlenberg ,d4,d4 was born in ,philadelphia1 ,sept4 #af1 #agif1 the great-grandson of ,dr4 ,henry ,m4 ,muhlenberg1 founder of the ,lutheran church in ,america4 ,in #ahag he left his ancestral communion1 and became an ,episcopal priest4 ,as ,rector of ,st4 ,james church1 ,lancaster1 ,pa41 he interested himself in the improvement of ecclesiastical hymnody1 and did much good reforming work4 ,after a noble and very active life as promoter of religious education and ,christian union1 and as a friend and benefactor of the poor1 he died ,april1 #h1 #ahgg1 in ,st4 ,luke's ,hospital1 ,n4,y4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,this was composed by ,mr4 ,george ,kingsley in #ahcc1 and entitled ,frederick 7dedicated to the ,rev4 ,frederick ,t4 ,gray74 ,issued first as sheet music1 it became popular1 and soon found a place in the hymnals4 ,dr4 ,louis ,benson says of the conditions and the fancy of the time1 ,the standard of church music did not differ materially from that of parlor music4444 ,several editors have attempted to put a newer tune in the place of ,mr4 ,kingsley's4 ,it was in vain1 simply because words and melody both appeal to the same taste4 ,illustration3 ,frances ,ridley ,havergal ,,sun ,,of ,,my ,,soul1 ,,my ,,saviour ,,dear4 ,this gem from ,keble's ,christian ,year illustrates the life and character of its pious author1 and1 like all the hymns of that celebrated collection1 is an incitive to spiritual thought for the thoughtless1 as well as a language for those who stand in the ,holy of ,holies4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,keble was born in ,caln1 ,st4 ,aldwyn1 ,april #be1 #agib4 ,he took his degree of ,a4,m4 and was ordained and settled at ,fairford1 where he began the parochial work that ceased only with his life4 ,he died at ,bournmouth1 ,march #bi1 #ahff4 ,his settlement at ,fairford1 in charge of three small curacies1 satisfied his modest ambition1 though altogether they brought him only about ,l#ajj per year4 ,here he preached1 wrote his hymns and translations1 performed his pastoral work1 and was happy4 ,temptation to wider fields and larger salary never moved him4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music to this hymn of almost unparalleled poetic and spiritual beauty was arranged from a ,german ,choral of ,peter ,ritter 7#agfj-ahdf7 by ,william ,henry ,monk1 ,mus4 ,doc41 born ,london1 #ahbc4 ,dr4 ,monk was a lecturer1 composer1 editor1 and professor of vocal music at ,king's ,college4 ,this noble tune appears sometimes under the name ,hursley and supersedes an earlier one 7,halle7 by ,thomas ,hastings4 ,sun of my soul1 my ,saviour dear1 ,it is not night if ,thou be near4 ,o may no earth-born cloud arise ,to hide ,thee from ,thy servants' eyes4 99 99 99 99 99 ,abide with me from morn till eve1 ,for without ,thee ,i cannot live ,abide with me when night is nigh1 ,for without ,thee ,i cannot die4 ,the tune ,hursley is a choice example of polyphonal sweetness in uniform long notes of perfect chord4 ,the tune of ,canonbury1 by ,robert ,schumann1 set to ,keble's hymn1 ,new every morning is the love1 is deservedly a favorite for flowing long metres1 but it could never replace ,hursley with ,sun of my soul4 ,,did ,,christ ,o',,er ,,sinners ,,weep8 ,the ,rev4 ,benjamin ,beddome wrote this tender hymn-poem while pastor of the ,baptist ,congregation at ,bourton-on-the-water1 ,gloucestershire1 ,eng4 ,he was born at ,henley1 ,chatwickshire1 ,jan4 #bc1 #agag4 ,settled in #agdc1 he remained with the same church till his death1 ,sept4 #c1 #agie4 ,his hymns were not collected and published till #ahah4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,dennis1 a soft and smoothly modulated harmony1 is oftenest sung to the words1 and has no note out of sympathy with their deep feeling4 ,did ,christ o'er sinners weep1 ,and shall our cheeks be dry8 ,let floods of penitential grief ,burst forth from every eye4 ,the ,son of ,god in tears ,admiring angels see6 ,be thou astonished1 ,o my soul2 ,he shed those tears for thee4 ,he wept that we might weep2 ,each sin demands a tear3 ,in heaven alone no sin is found1 ,and there's no weeping there4 ,the tune of ,dennis was adapted by ,lowell ,mason from ,johann ,georg ,naegeli1 a ,swiss music publisher1 composer and poet4 ,he was born in ,zurich1 #agfh4 ,it is told of him that his irrepressible genius once tempted him to violate the ethics of authorship4 ,while publishing ,beethoven's three great solo sonatas 7,opus #ca7 he interpolated two bars of his own1 an act much commented upon in musical circles1 but which does not seem to have cost him ,beethoven's friendship4 ,possibly1 like ,murillo to the servant who meddled with his paintings1 the great master forgave the liberty1 because the work was so good4 ,naegeli's compositions are mostly vocal1 for school and church use1 though some are of a gay and playful nature4 ,the best remembered of his secular and sacred styles are his blithe aria to the song of ,moore1 ,life let us cherish1 while yet the taper glows and the sweet choral that voices ,beddome's hymn4 ,,my ,,jesus1 ,i ,,love ,,thee4 ,the real originator of the ,coronation ,hymnal1 a book into whose making went five years of prayer1 was ,dr4 ,a4,j4 ,gordon1 late ,pastor of the ,clarendon ,st4 ,baptist church1 ,boston4 ,while the volume was slowly taking form and plan he was wont to hum to himself1 or cause to be played by one of his family1 snatches and suggestions of new airs that came to him in connection with his own hymns1 and others which seemed to have no suitable music4 ,the anonymous hymn1 ,my ,jesus1 ,i ,love ,thee1 he found in a ,london hymn-book1 and though the tune to which it had been sung in ,england was sent to him some time later1 it did not sound sympathetic4 ,dissatisfied1 and with the ideal in his mind of what the feeling should be in the melody to such a hymn1 he meditated and prayed over the words till in a moment of inspiration the beautiful air sang itself to him#ae which with its simple concords has carried the hymn into the chapels of every denomination4 ,footnote #ae3 ,the fact that this sweet melody recalls to some a similar tune sung sixty years ago reminds us again of the story of the tune ,america4 ,it is not impossible that an unconscious memory helped to shape the air that came to ,dr4 ,gordon's mind2 though unborrowed similarities have been inevitable in the whole history of music4 ,my ,jesus1 ,i love ,thee1 ,i know ,thou art mine1 ,for ,thee all the pleasures of sin ,i resign2 ,my gracious ,redeemer1 my ,saviour art ,thou1 ,if ever ,i loved ,thee1 my ,jesus1 'tis now4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i will love ,thee in life1 ,i will love ,thee in death1 ,and praise ,thee as long as ,thou lendest me breath1 ,and say when the death-dew lies cold on my brow1 ,if ever ,i loved ,thee1 my ,jesus1 'tis now4 ,in mansions of glory and endless delight ,i'll ever adore ,thee1 unveiled to my sight1 ,and sing1 with the glittering crown on my brow1 ,if ever ,i loved ,thee1 my ,jesus1 'tis now4 ,the memory of the writer returns to a day in a railway-car en route to the great ,columbian ,fair in ,chicago when the tired passengers were suddenly surprised and charmed by the music of this melody4 ,a young ,christian man and woman1 husband and wife1 had begun to sing ,my ,jesus1 ,i love ,thee4 ,their voices 7a tenor and soprano7 were clear and sweet1 and every one of the company sat up to listen with a look of mingled admiration and relief4 ,here was something1 after all1 to make a long journey less tedious4 ,they sang all the four verses and paused4 ,there was no clapping of hands1 for a reverential hush had been cast over the audience by the sacred music4 ,instead of the inevitable applause that follows mere entertainment1 a gentle but eager request for more secured the repetition of the delightful duet4 ,this occurred again and again1 till every one in the car--and some had never heard the tune or words before--must have learned them by heart4 ,fatigue was forgotten1 miles had been reduced to furlongs in a weary trip1 and a company of strangers had been lifted to a holier plane of thought4 ,besides this melody there are four tunes by ,dr4 ,gordon in his collection1 three of them with his own words4 ,in all there are eleven of his hymns4 ,of these the ,good morning in ,glory1 set to his music1 is an emotional lyric admirable in revival meetings1 and the one beginning ,o ,holy ,ghost1 ,arise is still sung1 and called for affectionately as ,gordon's ,hymn4 ,rev4 ,adoniram ,judson ,gordon ,d4,d4 was born in ,new ,hampton1 ,n4,h41 ,april #ai1 #ahcf1 and died in ,boston1 ,feb4 #b;d1 #ahie1 after a life of unsurpassed usefulness to his fellowmen and devotion to his ,divine ,master4 ,like ,phillips ,brooks he went to his grave in all his glorious prime1 and his loss is equally lamented4 ,he was a descendant of ,john ,robinson of ,leyden4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,missionary ,,hymns4 ,,jesus ,,shall ,,reign ,,where',,er ,,the ,,sun4 ,one of ,watts' sublimest hymns1 this ,hebrew ode to the final ,king and ,his endless dominion expands the majestic prophesy in the seventy-second ,psalm3 ,jesus shall reign where'er the sun ,does his successive journeys run1 ,his kingdom stretch from shore to shore ,till moons shall wax and wane no more4 ,the hymn itself could almost claim to be known where'er the sun etc41 for ,christian missionaries have sung it in every land1 if not in every language4 ,one of the native kings in the ,south ,sea ,islands1 who had been converted through the ministry of ,english missionaries1 substituted a ,christian for a pagan constitution in #ahfb4 ,there were five thousand of his subjects gathered at the ceremonial1 and they joined as with one voice in singing this hymn4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,old ,hundred has often lent the notes of its great plain-song to the sonorous lines1 and ,duke ,street1 with superior melody and scarcely inferior grandeur1 has given them wings2 but the choice of many for music that articulates the life of the hymn would be the tune of ,samson1 from ,handel's ,oratorio so named4 ,it appears as ,no4 #dfi in the ,evangelical ,hymnal4 ,handel had no peer in the art or instinct of making a note speak a word4 ,,joy ,,to ,,the ,,world6 ,,the ,,lord ,,is ,,come6 ,this hymn1 also by ,watts1 is often sung as a ,christmas song2 but ,the ,saviour ,reigns and ,he ,rules the ,world are bursts of prophetic triumph always apt and stimulating in missionary meetings4 ,here1 again1 the great ,handel lends appropriate aid1 for ,antioch1 the popular tone-consort of the hymn1 is an adaptation from his ,messiah4 ,the arrangement has been credited to ,lowell ,mason1 but he seems to have taken it from an ,english collection by ,clark of ,canterbury4 ,o',,er ,,the ,,gloomy ,,hills ,,of ,,darkness4 ,dros y brinian tywyl niwliog4 ,this notable hymn was written1 probably about #agej1 by the ,rev4 ,william ,williams1 a ,welsh ,calvinistic ,methodist1 born at ,cefnycoed1 ,jan4 #g1 #agag1 near ,llandovery4 ,he began the study of medicine1 but took deacon's orders1 and was for a time an itinerant preacher1 having left the established ,church4 ,died at ,pantycelyn1 ,jan4 #a1 #agha4 ,his hymn1 like the two preceding1 antedates the great ,missionary ,movement by many years4 ,o'er the gloomy hills of darkness ,look my soul6 be still1 and gaze6 ,see the promises advancing ,to a glorious ,day of grace6 ,blessed ,jubilee1 ,let thy glorious morning dawn6 ,let the dark1 benighted pagan1 ,let the rude barbarian see ,that divine and glorious conquest ,once obtained on ,calvary4 ,let the ,gospel ,loud resound from pole to pole4 ,this song of anticipation has dropped out of the modern hymnals1 but the last stanza lingers in many memories4 ,fly abroad1 thou mighty ,gospel6 ,win and conquer1 never cease2 ,may thy lasting wide dominion ,multiply and still increase4 ,sway ,thy scepter1 ,saviour1 all the world around6 ,,the ,,tune4 ,oftener than any other the music of ,zion has been the expression of ,william ,williams' ,missionary ,hymn4 ,it was composed by ,thomas ,hastings1 in ,washington1 ,ct41 #ahcj4 ,,hasten1 ,,lord1 ,,the ,,glorious ,,time4 ,hasten1 ,lord1 the glorious time ,when beneath ,messiah's sway ,every nation1 every clime ,shall the ,gospel call obey4 ,mightiest kings its power shall own1 ,heathen tribes ,his name adore1 ,satan and his host o'erthrown ,bound in chains shall hurt no more4 ,miss ,harriet ,auber1 the author of this melodious hymn1 was a daughter of ,james ,auber of ,london1 and was born in that city1 ,oct4 #d1 #aggc4 ,after leaving ,london she led a secluded life at ,broxbourne and ,hoddesdon1 in ,hertfordshire1 writing devotional poetry and sacred songs and paraphrases4 ,her ,spirit of the ,psalms1 published in #ahbi1 was a collection of lyrics founded on the ,biblical ,psalms4 ,hasten ,lord1 etc41 is from ,ps4 #gb1 known for centuries to ,christendom as one of the ,messianic ,psalms4 ,her best-known hymns have the same inspiration1 as-- ,wide1 ye heavenly gates1 unfold4 ,sweet is the work1 ,o ,lord4 ,with joy we hail the sacred day4 ,miss ,auber died in ,hoddesdon1 ,jan4 #bj1 #ahfb4 ,she lived to witness and sympathise with the pioneer missionary enterprise of the #aith century1 and1 although she could not stand among the leaders of the battle-line in extending the conquest of the world for ,christ1 she was happy in having written a campaign hymn which they loved to sing4 7,it is curious that so pains-taking a work as ,julian's ,dictionary of ,hymns and ,hymn-writers credits ,with joy we hail the sacred day to both ,miss ,auber and ,henry ,francis ,lyte4 ,coincidences are known where different hymns by different authors begin with the same line2 and in this case one writer was dead before the other's works were published4 ,possibly the collector may have seen a forgotten hymn of ,lyte's1 with that first line47 ,the tune that best interprets this hymn in spirit and in living music is ,lowell ,mason's ,eltham4 ,its harmony is like a chime of bells4 ,,let ,,party ,,names ,,no ,,more4 ,let party names no more ,the ,christian world o'erspread2 ,gentile and ,jew1 and bond and free1 ,are one in ,christ the ,head4 ,this hymn of ,rev4 ,benjamin ,beddome sounds like a prelude to the grand rally of the ,christian ,churches a generation later for united advance into foreign fields4 ,it was an after-sermon hymn--like so many of ,watts and ,doddridge--and spoke a good man's longing to see all sects stand shoulder to shoulder in a common crusade4 ,tune--,boylston4 ,,watchman1 ,,tell ,,us ,,of ,,the ,,night4 ,the tune written to this pealing hymn of ,sir ,john ,bowring by ,lowell ,mason has never been superseded4 ,in animation and vocal splendor it catches the author's own clear call1 echoing the shout of ,zion's sentinels from city to city1 and happily reproducing in movement and phrase the great song-dialogue4 ,words and music together1 the piece ranks with the foremost missionary lyrics4 ,like the greater ,mason-,heber world-song1 it has acquired no arbitrary name1 appearing in ,mason's own tune-books under its first hymn-line and likewise in many others4 ,a few hymnals have named it ,bowring1 7and why not87 and some later ones simply ,watchman4 #a4 ,watchman1 tell us of the night4 ,what its signs of promise are6 7,antistrophe7 ,traveler1 on yon mountain height4 ,see that glory-beaming star6 #b ,watchman1 does its beauteous ray ,aught of hope or joy foretell8 7,antistrophe7 ,trav'ler1 yes2 it brings the day1 ,promised day of ,israel4 #c ,watchman1 tell us of the night2 ,higher yet that star ascends4 7,antistrophe7 ,trav'ler1 blessedness and light ,peace and truth its course portends4 #d ,watchman1 will its beams alone ,gild the spot that gave them birth8 7,antistrophe7 ,trav'ler1 ages are its own4 ,see6 it bursts o'er all the earth4 ,,ye ,,christian ,,heralds1 ,,go ,,proclaim4 ,in some versions ,ye ,christian heroes1 etc4 ,professor ,david ,r4 ,breed attributes this stirring hymn to ,mrs4 ,vokes 7or ,voke7 an ,english or ,welsh lady1 who is supposed to have written it somewhere near #aghj1 and supports the claim by its date of publication in ,missionary and ,devotional ,hymns at ,portsea1 ,wales1 in #agig4 ,in this ,dr4 ,breed follows 7he says7 the accepted tradition4 ,on the other hand the ,coronation ,hymnal 7#ahid7 refers the authorship to a ,baptist minister1 the ,rev4 ,bourne ,hall ,draper1 of ,southampton 7,eng471 born #agge1 and this choice has the approval of ,dr4 ,charles ,robinson4 ,the question occurs whether1 when the hymn was published in good faith as ,mrs4 ,vokes'1 it was really the work of a then unknown youth of twenty-two4 ,the probability is that the hymn owns a mother instead of a father--and a grand hymn it is2 one of the most stimulating in ,missionary song-literature4 ,the stanza-- ,god shield you with a wall of fire6 ,with flaming zeal your breasts inspire2 ,bid raging winds their fury cease1 ,and hush the tumult into peace1 --has been tampered with by editors1 altering the last line to ,calm the troubled seas1 etc41 7for the sake of the longer vowel27 but the substitution1 ,he'll shield you1 etc41 in the first line1 turns a prayer into a mere statement4 ,the hymn was--and should remain--a ,god-speed to men like ,william ,carey1 who had already begun to think and preach his immortal motto1 ,attempt great things for ,god2 expect great things of ,god4 ,,the ,,tune ,is the ,missionary ,chant1 and no other4 ,its composer1 ,heinrich ,christopher ,zeuner1 was born in ,eisleben1 ,saxony1 ,sept4 #bj1 #agie4 ,he came to the ,united ,states in #ahbg1 and was for many years organist at ,park ,street ,church1 ,boston1 and for the ,handel and ,haydn ,society4 ,in #ahed he removed to ,philadelphia where he served three years as organist to ,st4 ,andrews ,church1 and ,arch ,street ,presbyterian4 ,he became insane in #aheg1 and in ,november of that year died by his own hand4 ,he published an oratorio ,the ,feast of ,tabernacles1 and two popular books1 the ,american ,harp1 #ahcb1 and ,the ,ancient ,lyre1 #ahcc4 ,his compositions are remarkably spirited and vigorous1 and his work as a tune-maker was much in demand during his life1 and is sure to continue1 in its best examples1 as long as good sacred music is appreciated4 ,to another beautiful missionary hymn of ,mrs4 ,vokes1 of quieter tone1 but songful and sweet1 ,dr4 ,mason wrote the tune of ,migdol4 ,it is its musical twin4 ,soon may the last glad song arise ,through all the millions of the skies4 ,that song of triumph which records ,that all the earth is now the ,lord's4 ,,on ,,the ,,mountain ,,top ,,appearing4 ,this admired and always popular church hymn was written near the beginning of the last century by the ,rev4 ,thomas ,kelly1 born in ,dublin1 #agfj4 ,he was the son of the ,hon4 ,chief ,baron ,thomas ,kelly of that city1 a judge of the ,irish ,court of ,common ,pleas4 ,his father designed him for the legal profession1 but after his graduation at ,trinity ,college he took holy orders in the ,episcopal ,church1 and labored as a clergyman among the scenes of his youth for more than sixty years1 becoming a ,nonconformist in his later ministry4 ,he was a sweet-souled man1 who made troops of friends1 and was honored as much for his piety as for his poetry1 music1 and oriental learning4 ,i expect never to die1 he said1 when ,lord ,plunkett once told him he would reach a great age4 ,he finished his earthly work on the #adth of ,may1 #ahee1 when he was eighty-five years old4 ,but he still lives4 ,his zeal for the coming of the ,kingdom of ,christ prompted his best hymn4 ,on the mountain-top appearing1 ,lo6 the sacred herald stands1 ,joyful news to ,zion bearing1 ,zion long in hostile lands2 ,mourning captive1 ,god himself will loose thy bands4 ,has the night been long and mournful8 ,have thy friends unfaithful proved8 ,have thy foes been proud and scornful1 ,by thy sighs and tears unmoved8 ,cease thy mourning2 ,zion still is well beloved4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,to presume that ,kelly made both words and music together is possible1 for he was himself a composer1 but no such original tune seems to survive4 ,in modern use ,dr4 ,hastings' ,zion is most frequently attached to the hymn1 and was probably written for it4 ,,ye ,,christian ,,heroes1 ,,wake ,,to ,,glory4 ,this rather crude parody on the ,marseillaise ,hymn 7see ,chap4 #i7 is printed in the ,american ,vocalist1 among numerous samples of early ,new ,england psalmody of untraced authorship4 ,it might have been sung at primitive missionary meetings1 to spur the zeal and faith of a ,francis ,mason or a ,harriet ,newell4 ,it expresses1 at least1 the new-kindled evangelical spirit of the long-ago consecrations in ,american church life that first sent the ,christian ambassadors to foreign lands1 and followed them with benedictions4 ,illustration3 ,the ,right ,rev4 ,reginald ,heber1 ,d4,d4 ,ye ,christian heroes1 wake to glory3 ,hark1 hark6 what millions bid you rise6 ,see heathen nations bow before you1 ,behold their tears1 and hear their cries4 ,shall pagan priest1 their errors breeding1 ,with darkling hosts1 and flags unfurled1 ,spread their delusions o'er the world1 ,though ,jesus on the ,cross hung bleeding8 ,to arms6 ,to arms6 ,christ's banner fling abroad6 ,march on6 ,march on6 all hearts resolved ,to bring the world to ,god4 ,o1 ,truth of ,god6 can man resign thee1 ,once having felt thy glorious flame8 ,can rolling oceans e'er prevent thee1 ,or gold the ,christian's spirit tame8 ,too long we slight the world's undoing2 ,the word of ,god1 salvation's plan1 ,is yet almost unknown to man1 ,while millions throng the road to ruin4 ,to arms6 to arms6 ,the ,spirit's sword unsheath3 ,march on6 ,march on6 all hearts resolved1 ,to victory or death4 ,,hail ,,to ,,the ,,lord',s ,,anointed4 ,james ,montgomery 7says ,dr4 ,breed7 is distinguished as the only layman besides ,cowper among hymn-writers of the front rank in the ,english language4 ,how many millions have recited and sung his fine and exhaustively descriptive poem1-- ,prayer is the soul's sincere desire1 --selections from almost any part of which are perfect definitions1 and have been standard hymns on prayer for three generations4 ,english ,hymnology would as unwillingly part with his missionary hymns1-- ,the king of glory we proclaim4 ,hark1 the song of jubilee6 --and1 noblest of all1 the lyric of prophecy and praise which heads this paragraph4 ,hail to the ,lord's anointed1 ,king ,david's greater ,son6 ,hail1 in the time appointed ,his reign on earth begun4 99 99 99 99 99 ,arabia's desert ranger ,to ,him shall bow the knee1 ,the ,ethiopian stranger ,his glory come to see4 99 99 99 99 99 ,kings shall fall down before ,him ,and gold and incense bring2 ,all nations shall adore ,him1 ,his praise all people sing4 ,the hymn is really the seventy-second ,psalm in metre1 and as a version it suffers nothing by comparison with that of ,watts4 ,montgomery wrote it as a ,christmas ode4 ,it was sung ,dec4 #be1 #ahba1 at a ,moravian ,convocation1 but in #ahbb he recited it at a great missionary meeting in ,liverpool1 and ,dr4 ,adam ,clarke was so charmed with it that he inserted it in his famous ,commentary4 ,in no long time afterwards it found its way into general use4 ,the spirit of his missionary parents was ,montgomery's ,christian legacy1 and in exalted poetical moments it stirred him as the divine afflatus kindled the old prophets4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music editors in some hymnals have borrowed the favorite choral variously named ,webb in honor of its author1 and ,the ,morning ,light is ,breaking from the first line of its hymn4 ,later hymnals have chosen ,sebastian ,wesley's ,aurelia to fit the hymn1 with a movement similar to that of ,webb2 also a ,german ,b flat melody ,ellacombe1 undated1 with livelier step and a ringing chime of parts4 ,no one of these is inappropriate4 ,samuel ,sebastian ,wesley1 grandson of ,charles ,wesley the great hymnist1 was born in ,london1 #ahaj4 ,like his father1 ,samuel1 he became a distinguished musician1 and was organist at ,exeter1 ,winchester and ,gloucester ,cathedrals4 ,oxford gave him the degree of ,doctor of ,music4 ,he composed instrumental melodies besides many anthems1 services1 and other sacred pieces for choir and congregational singing4 ,died in ,gloucester1 ,april #ai1 #ahgf4 ,,from ,,greenland',s ,,icy ,,mountains4 ,the familiar story of this hymn scarcely needs repeating2 how one ,saturday afternoon in the year #ahai1 young ,reginald ,heber1 ,rector of ,hodnet1 sitting with his father-in-law1 ,dean ,shipley1 and a few friends in the ,wrexham ,vicarage1 was suddenly asked by the ,dean to write something to sing at the missionary meeting tomorrow1 and retired to another part of the room while the rest went on talking2 how1 very soon after1 he returned with three stanzas1 which were hailed with delighted approval2 how he then insisted upon adding another octrain to the hymn and came back with-- ,waft1 waft1 ye winds1 ,his story1 ,and you1 ye waters1 roll2 --and how the great lyric was sung in ,wrexham ,church on ,sunday morning for the first time in its life4 ,the story is old but always fresh4 ,nothing could better have emphasized the good ,dean's sermon that day in aid of ,the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel in ,foreign ,parts1 than that unexpected and glorious lyric of his poet son-in-law4 ,by common consent ,heber's ,missionary ,hymn is the silver trumpet among all the rallying bugles of the church4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the union of words and music in this instance is an example of spiritual affinity4 ,what ,god hath joined together let no man put asunder4 ,the story of the tune is a record of providential birth quite as interesting as that of the hymn4 ,in #ahbc1 a lady in ,savannah1 ,ga41 having received and admired a copy of ,heber's lyric from ,england1 desired to sing it or hear it sung1 but knew no music to fit the metre4 ,she finally thought of a young clerk in a bank close by1 ,lowell ,mason by name1 who sometimes wrote music for recreation1 and sent her son to ask him if he would make a tune that would sing the lines4 ,the boy returned in half an hour with the composition that doubled ,heber's fame and made his own4 ,in the words of ,dr4 ,charles ,robinson1 ,like the hymn it voices1 it was done at a stroke1 and it will last through the ages4 ,,the ,,morning ,,light ,,is ,,breaking4 ,not far behind ,dr4 ,heber's chef-d'oeuvre in lyric merit is the still more famous missionary hymn of ,dr4 ,s4,f4 ,smith1 author of ,my ,country1 ',tis of ,thee4 ,another missionary hymn of his which is widely used is-- ,yes1 my native land1 ,i love thee1 ,all thy scenes1 ,i love them well4 ,friends1 connections1 happy country1 ,can ,i bid you all farewell8 ,can ,i leave you ,far in heathen lands to dwell8 ,drs4 ,nutter and ,breed speak of ,the ,morning ,light is ,breaking1 and its charm as a hymn of peace and promise1 and intimate that it has gone farther and been more frequently sung than any other missionary hymn4 ,besides the ,english1 there are versions of it in four ,latin nations1 the ,italian1 ,spanish1 ,portuguese and ,french1 and oriental translations in ,chinese and several ,east ,indian tongues and dialects1 as well as one in ,swedish4 ,it author had the rare felicity1 while on a visit to his son1 a missionary in ,burmah1 of hearing it sung by native ,christians in their language1 and of being welcomed with an ovation when they knew who he was4 ,the morning light is breaking6 ,the darkness disappears2 ,the sons of earth are waking ,to penitential tears2 ,each breeze that sweeps the ocean ,brings tidings from afar1 ,of nations in commotion1 ,prepared for ,zion's war4 ,rich dews of grace come o'er us ,in many a gentle shower1 ,and brighter scenes before us ,are opening every hour4 ,each cry to heaven going ,abundant answer brings1 ,and heavenly gales are blowing ,with peace upon their wings4 99 99 99 99 99 ,blest river of ,salvation1 ,pursue thy onward way2 ,flow thou to every nation1 ,nor in thy richness stay4 ,stay not till all the lowly ,triumphant reach their home2 ,stay not till all the holy ,proclaim1 ,the ,lord is come6 ,samuel ,francis ,smith1 ,d4,d41 was born in ,boston in #ahjh1 and educated in ,harvard ,university 7#ahbe-ahbi74 ,he prepared for the ministry1 and was pastor of ,baptist churches at ,waterville1 ,me41 and ,newton1 ,mass41 before entering the service of the ,american ,baptist ,missionary union as editor of its ,missionary ,magazine4 ,he was a scholarly and graceful writer1 both in verse and prose1 and besides his editorial work1 he was frequently an invited participant or guest of honor on public occasions1 owing to his fame as author of the national hymn4 ,his pure and gentle character made him everywhere beloved and reverenced1 and to know him intimately in his happy old age was a benediction4 ,he died suddenly and painlessly in his seat on a railway train1 ,november #af1 #ahie in his eighty-eighth year4 ,dr4 ,smith wrote twenty-six hymns now more or less in use in church worship1 and eight for ,sabbath school collections4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,millennial ,dawn is the title given it by a ,boston compiler1 about #ahdd1 but since the music and hymn became one and indivisable it has been named ,webb1 and popularly known as ,morning ,light or oftener still by its first hymn-line1 ,the morning light is breaking4 ,george ,james ,webb was born near ,salisbury1 ,wiltshire1 ,eng41 ,june #bd1 #ahjc4 ,he studied music in ,salisbury and for several years played the organ at ,falmouth ,church4 ,when still a young man 7#ahcj71 he came to the ,united ,states1 and settled in ,boston where he was long the leading organist and music teacher of the city4 ,he was associate director of the ,boston ,academy of ,music with ,lowell ,mason1 and joint author and editor with him of several church-music collections4 ,died in ,orange1 ,n4,j41 ,nov4 #g1 #ahhg4 ,dr4 ,webb's own account of the tune ,millennial ,dawn states that he wrote it at sea while on his way to ,america--and to secular words and that he had no idea who first adapted it to the hymn1 nor when4 ,,if ,i ,,were ,a ,,voice1 ,a ,,persuasive ,,voice4 ,this animating lyric was written by ,charles ,mackay4 ,sung by a good vocalist1 the fine solo air composed 7with its organ chords7 by ,i4,b4 ,woodbury1 is still a feature in some missionary meetings1 especially the fourth stanza-- ,if ,i were a voice1 an immortal voice1 ,i would fly the earth around3 ,and wherever man to his idols bowed1 ,i'd publish in notes both long and loud ,the ,gospel's joyful sound4 ,i would fly1 ,i would fly1 on the wings of day1 ,proclaiming peace on my world-wide way1 ,bidding the saddened earth rejoice-- ,if ,i were a voice1 an immortal voice1 ,i would fly1 ,i would fly1 ,i would fly on the wings of day4 ,charles ,mackay1 the poet1 was born in ,perth1 ,scotland1 #ahad1 and educated in ,london and ,brussels2 was engaged in editorial work on the ,london ,morning ,chronicle and ,glasgow ,argus1 and during the ,corn ,law agitation wrote popular songs1 notably ,the ,voice of the ,crowd and ,there's a ,good ,time ,coming1 which 7like the far inferior poetry of ,ebenezer ,elliot7 won the lasting love of the masses for a superior man who could be ,the ,people's ,singer and ,friend4 ,he came to the ,united ,states in #aheg as a lecturer1 and again in #ahfb1 remaining three years as war correspondent of the ,london ,times4 ,glasgow ,university made him ,,ll4,d4 in #ahdg4 ,his numerous songs and poems were collected in a ,london edition4 ,died ,dec4 #bd1 #ahhi4 ,isaac ,baker ,woodbury was born in ,beverly1 ,mass41 #ahai1 and rose from the station of a blacksmith's apprentice to be a tone-teacher in the church4 ,he educated himself in ,europe1 returned and sang his life songs1 and died in #aheh at the age of thirty-nine4 ,a tune preferred by many as the finer music is the one written to the words by ,mr4 ,sankey1 ,sacred ,songs1 ,no4 #b4 ,,speed ,,away6 ,,speed ,,away6 ,this inspiriting song of farewell to departing missionaries was written in #ahij to ,woodbury's appropriate popular melody by ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby1 at the request of ,ira ,d4 ,sankey4 ,the key-word and refrain are adapted from the original song by ,woodbury 7#ahdh71 but in substance and language the three hymn-stanzas are the new and independent work of this later writer4 ,speed away6 speed away on your mission of light1 ,to the lands that are lying in darkness and night2 ',tis the ,master's command2 go ye forth in ,his name1 ,the wonderful gospel of ,jesus proclaim2 ,take your lives in your hand1 to the work while 'tis day1 ,speed away6 speed away6 speed away6 ,speed away1 speed away with the life-giving ,word1 ,to the nations that know not the voice of the ,lord2 ,take the wings of the morning and fly o'er the wave1 ,in the strength of your ,master the lost ones to save2 ,he is calling once more1 not a moment's delay1 ,speed away6 speed away6 speed away6 ,speed away1 speed away with the message of rest1 ,to the souls by the tempter in bondage oppressed2 ,for the ,saviour has purchased their ransom from sin1 ,and the banquet is ready4 ,o gather them in2 ,to the rescue make haste1 there's no time for delay1 ,speed away6 speed away6 speed away6 ,,onward ,,christian ,,soldiers6 ,rev4 ,sabine ,baring-,gould1 the author of this rousing hymn of ,christian warfare1 a rector of the ,established ,church of ,england and a writer of note1 was born at ,exeter1 ,eng41 ,jan4 #bh1 #ahcd4 ,educated at ,clare ,college1 ,cambridge1 he entered the service of the church1 and was appointed ,rector of ,east ,mersea1 ,essex1 in #ahga4 ,he was the author of several hymns1 original and translated1 and introduced into ,england from ,flanders1 numbers of carols with charming old ,christmas music4 ,the ,christian ,soldiers hymn is one of his 7original7 processionals1 and the most inspiring4 ,onward1 ,christian soldiers1 ,marching as to war1 ,with the cross of ,jesus ,going on before4 ,christ the ,royal ,master ,leads against the foe2 ,forward into battle1 ,see1 ,his banners go6 ,onward1 ,christian soldiers1 etc4 99 99 99 99 99 ,like a mighty army ,moves the ,church of ,god2 ,brothers1 we are treading ,where the saints have trod2 ,we are not divided1 ,all one body we1 ,one in hope1 in doctrine1 ,one in charity4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,sir ,arthur ,seymour ,sullivan1 ,doctor of ,music1 who wrote the melody for this hymn1 was born in ,london1 ,may #ac1 #ahdb4 ,he gained the ,mendelssohn ,scholarship at the ,royal ,academy of ,music1 and also at the ,conservatory of ,leipsic4 ,he was a fertile genius1 and his compositions included operettas1 symphonies1 overtures1 anthems1 hymn-tunes1 an oratorio 7,the ,prodigal ,son71 and almost every variety of tone production1 vocal and instrumental4 ,queen ,victoria knighted him in #ahhc4 ,the grand rhythm of ,onward1 ,christian ,soldiers--hymn and tune--is irresistible whether in band march or congregational worship4 ,sir ,arthur died in ,london1 ,november #bb1 #aijj4 ,o ,,church ,,arise ,,and ,,sing ,designed originally for children's voices1 the hymn of five stanzas beginning with this line was written by ,hezekiah ,butterworth1 author of the ,story of the ,hymns 7#ahge71 ,story of the ,tunes 7#ahij71 and many popular books of historic interest for the young1 the most widely read of which is ,zigzag ,journeys in ,many ,lands4 ,he also composed and published many poems and hymns4 ,he was born in ,warren1 ,r4,i41 ,dec4 #bb1 #ahci1 and for twenty-five years was connected with the ,youth's ,companion as regular contributor and member of its editorial staff4 ,he died in ,warren1 ,r4,i41 ,sept4 #e1 #aije4 ,the hymn ,o ,church1 arise was sung in ,mason's tune of ,dort until ,prof4 ,case wrote a melody for it1 when it took the name of the ,convention ,hymn4 ,professor ,charles ,clinton ,case1 music composer and teacher1 was born in ,linesville1 ,pa41 ,june1 #ahdc4 ,was a pupil of ,george ,f4 ,root and pursued musical study in ,chicago1 ,ill41 ,ashland1 ,o41 and ,south ,bend1 ,ind4 ,he was associated with ,root1 ,mc,granahan1 and others in making secular and church music books1 and later with ,d4,l4 ,moody in evangelical work4 ,as author and compiler he has published numerous works1 among them ,church ,anthems1 the ,harvest ,song and ,case's ,chorus ,collection4 ,o ,church6 arise and sing ,the triumphs of your ,king1 ,whose reign is love2 ,sing your enlarged desires1 ,that conquering faith inspires1 ,renew your signal fires1 ,and forward move6 99 99 99 99 99 ,beneath the glowing arch ,the ransomed armies march1 ,we follow on2 ,lead on1 ,o cross of ,light1 ,from conquering height to height1 ,and add new victories bright ,to triumphs won6 ,,the ,,banner ,,of ,,immanuel6 ,this hymn1 set to music and copyrighted in ,buffalo as a floating waif of verse by an unknown author1 and used in ,sunday-school work1 first appeared in ,dr4 ,f4,n4 ,peloubet's ,select ,songs 7,biglow and ,main1 #ahhd7 with a tune by ,rev4 ,george ,phipps4 ,the hymn was written by ,rev4 ,theron ,brown1 a ,baptist minister1 who was pastor 7#ahei-ahgj7 of churches in ,south ,framingham and ,canton1 ,mass4 ,he was born in ,willimantic1 ,ct41 ,april #bi1 #ahcb4 ,retired from pastoral work1 owing to vocal disability1 he has held contributory and editorial relations with the ,youth's ,companion for more than forty years1 for the last twenty years a member of the office staff4 ,between #ahhj and #ahij he contributed hymns more or less regularly to the quartet and antiphonal chorus service at the ,ruggles ,st4 ,church1 ,boston1 the ,banner of ,immanuel being one of the number4 ,the ,blount ,family1 ,nameless ,women of the ,bible1 ,life ,songs 7a volume of poems71 and several books for boys1 are among his published works4 ,the banner of ,immanuel6 beneath its glorious folds ,for life or death to serve and fight we pledge our loyal souls4 ,no other flag such honor boasts1 or bears so proud a name1 ,and far its red-cross signal flies as flies the lightning's flame4 99 99 99 99 99 ,salvation by the blood of ,christ6 the shouts of triumph ring2 ,no other watchword leads the host that serves so grand a ,king4 ,then rally1 soldiers of the ,cross6 ,keep every fold unfurled1 ,and by ,redemption's holy sign we'll conquer all the world4 ,the ,rev4 ,george ,phipps1 composer of the tune1 ,immanuel's ,banner1 was born in ,franklin1 ,mass41 ,dec4 #aa1 #ahch1 was graduated at ,amherst ,college1 #ahfb1 and at ,andover ,theological ,seminary1 #ahfe4 ,settled as pastor of the ,congregational ,church in ,wellesley1 ,mass41 ten years1 and at ,newton ,highlands fifteen years4 ,he has written many ,sunday-school melodies1 notably the music to ,my ,saviour ,keeps ,me ,company4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,suffering ,,and ,,trust4 ,one inspiring chapter in the compensations of life is the record of immortal verses that were sorrow-born4 ,it tells us in the most affecting way how affliction refines the spirit and the agonizing throes of thought bring forth glory4 ,often a broken life has produced a single hymn4 ,it took the long living under trial to shape the supreme experience4 --,the anguish of the singer ,made the sweetness of the song4 ,indeed1 if there had been no sorrow there would have been no song4 ,illustration3 ,george ,james ,webb ,,my ,,lord1 ,,how ,,full ,,of ,,sweet ,,content4 ,jeanne ,m4,b4 de la ,mothe--known always as ,madame ,guyon--the lady who wrote these words in exile1 probably sang more songs in the night than any hymn-writer outside of the ,dark ,ages4 ,she was born at ,montargis1 ,france1 in #afdh1 and died in her seventieth year1 #agga1 in the ancient city of ,blois1 on the ,loire4 ,a convent-educated girl of high family1 a wife at the age of fifteen1 and a widow at twenty-eight1 her early piety1 ridiculed in the dazzling but corrupt society of ,louis ,,xiv's time1 blossomed through a long life in religious ministries and flowers of sacred poetry4 ,she became a mystic1 and her book ,spiritual ,torrents indicates the impetuous ardors of her soul4 ,it was the way ,divine ,love came to her4 ,she was the incarnation of the spiritualized ,book of ,canticles4 ,an induction to these intense subjective visions and raptures had been the remark of a pious old ,franciscan father1 ,seek ,god in your heart1 and you will find ,him4 ,she began to teach as well as enjoy the new light so different from the glitter of the traditional worship4 ,but her aggressive holiness was obnoxious to the established ,church4 ,quietism was the brand set upon her written works and the offense that was punished in her person4 ,bossuet1 the king of preachers1 was her great adversary4 ,the saintly ,fenelon was her friend1 but he could not shield her4 ,she was shut up like a lunatic in prison after prison1 till1 after four years of dungeon life in the ,bastile1 expecting every hour to be executed for heresy1 she was banished to a distant province to end her days4 ,question as we may the usefulness of her pietistic books1 the visions of her excessively exalted moods1 and the passionate1 almost erotic phraseology of her ,contemplations1 ,madame ,guyon has held the world's admiration for her martyr spirit1 and even her love-flights of devotion in poetry and prose do not conceal the angel that walked in the flame4 ,today1 when religious persecution is unknown1 we can but dimly understand the perfect triumph of her superior soul under suffering and the transports of her utter absorption in ,god that could make the stones of her dungeon look like jewels4 ,when we emulate a faith like hers--with all the weight of absolute certainty in it--we can sing her hymn3 ,my ,lord1 how full of sweet content ,i pass my years of banishment4 ,where'er ,i dwell1 ,i dwell with ,thee1 ,in heaven or earth1 or on the sea4 ,to me remains nor place nor time3 ,my country is in every clime2 ,i can be calm and free from care ,on any shore1 since ,god is there4 ,and could a dearer vade mecum enrich a ,christian's outfit than these lines treasured in memory8 ,while place we seek or place we shun1 ,the soul finds happiness in none2 ,but1 with a ,god to guide our way1 ',tis equal joy to go or stay4 ,cowper1 and also ,dr4 ,thomas ,upham1 translated 7from the ,french7 the religious poems of ,madame ,guyon4 ,this hymn is ,cowper's translation4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a gentle and sympathetic melody entitled ,alsace well represents the temper of the words--and in name links the nationalities of writer and composer4 ,it is a choral arranged from a sonata of the great ,ludwig von ,beethoven1 born in ,bonn1 ,germany1 #aggj1 and died in ,vienna1 ,mar4 #ahbg4 ,like the author of the hymn he felt the hand of affliction1 becoming totally deaf soon after his fortieth year4 ,but1 in spite of the privation1 he kept on writing sublime and exquisite strains that only his soul could hear4 ,his fame rests upon his oratorio1 ,the ,mount of ,olives1 the opera of ,fidelio and his nine wonderful ,symphonies4 ,,no ,,change ,,in ,,time ,,shall ,,ever ,,shock4 ,altered to common metre from the awkward long metre of ,tate and ,brady1 the three or four stanzas found in earlier hymnals are part of their version 7probably ,tate's7 of the #cast ,psalm--and it is worth calling to mind here that there is no hymn treasury so rich in tuneful faith and reliance upon ,god in trouble as the ,book of ,psalms4 ,this feeling of the ,hebrew poet was never better expressed 7we might say1 translated7 in ,english than by the writer of this single verse-- ,no change of time shall ever shock ,my trust1 ,o ,lord1 in ,thee1 ,for ,thou hast always been my ,rock1 ,a sure defense to me4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the sweet1 tranquil choral long ago wedded to this hymn is lost from the church collections1 and its very name forgotten4 ,in fact the hymn itself is now seldom seen4 ,if it ever comes back1 old ,dundee 7,guillaume ,franc #aejj-aegj7 will sing for it1 or some new composer may rise up to put the spirit of the psalm into inspired notes4 ,,why ,,do ,,we ,,mourn ,,departed ,,friends8 ,this hymn of holy comfort1 by ,dr4 ,watts1 was long associated with a remarkable tune in ,c minor1 a queer medley of melody as ,lowell ,mason called it1 still familiar to many old people as ,china4 ,it was composed by ,timothy ,swan when he was about twenty-six years of age 7#aghd7 and published in #ahja in the ,new ,england ,harmony4 ,it may have sounded consolatory to mature mourners1 singers and hearers in the days when religious emotion habitually took a sad key1 but its wild and thrilling chords made children weep4 ,the tune is long out of use--though1 strange to say1 one of the most recent hymnals prints the hymn with a new minor tune4 ,why do we mourn departed friends1 ,or shake at death's alarms8 ',tis but the voice that ,jesus sends ,to call them to ,his arms4 ,are we not tending upward too ,as fast as time can move8 ,nor should we wish the hours more slow ,to keep us from our ,love4 ,the graves of all ,his saints ,he blessed ,and softened every bed3 ,where should the dying members rest ,but with their dying ,head8 ,timothy ,swan was born in ,worcester1 ,mass41 ,july #bc1 #ageh1 and died in ,suffield1 ,ct41 ,july #bc1 #ahdb4 ,he was a self-taught musician1 his only course of study lasting three weeks1--in a country singing school at ,groton4 ,when sixteen years old he went to ,northfield1 ,mass41 and learned the hatter's trade1 and while at work began to practice making psalm-tunes4 ,montague1 in two parts1 was his first achievement4 ,from that time for thirty years1 mostly spent in ,suffield1 ,ct41 he wrote and taught music while supporting himself by his trade4 ,many of his tunes were published by himself1 and had a wide currency a century ago4 ,swan was a genius in his way1 and it was a true comment on his work that his tunes were remarkable for their originality as well as singularity--unlike any other melodies4 ,china1 his masterpiece1 will be long kept track of as a curio1 and preserved in replicates of old psalmody to illustrate self-culture in the art of song4 ,but the major mode will replace the minor when tender voices on burial days sing-- ,why do we mourn departed friends8 ,another hymn of ,watts1-- ,god is the refuge of ,his saints ,when storms of sharp distress invade1 --sung to ,lowell ,mason's liquid tune of ,ward1 and the priceless stanza1-- ,jesus can make a dying bed ,feel soft as downy pillows are1 doubly prove the claim of the ,southampton bard to a foremost place with the song-preachers of ,christian trust4 ,the psalm 7,amsterdam version71 ,god is the refuge1 etc41 is said to have been sung by ,john ,howland in the shallop of the ,mayflower when an attempt was made to effect a landing in spite of tempestuous weather4 ,a tradition of this had doubtless reached ,mrs4 ,hemans when she wrote-- ,amid the storm they sang1 etc4 ,,father1 ,,whate',,er ,,of ,,earthly ,,bliss4 ,this hymn had originally ten stanzas1 of which the three usually sung are the three last4 ,the above line is the first of the eighth stanza1 altered from-- ,and ,o1 whate'er of earthly bliss4 ,probably for more than a century the familiar surname ,steele attached to this and many other hymns in the hymn-books conveyed to the general public no hint of a mind and hand more feminine than ,cowper's or ,montgomery's4 ,even intelligent people1 who had chanced upon sundry copies of ,the ,spectator1 somehow fell into the habit of putting ,steele and ,addison in the same category of hymn names1 and ,sir ,richard ,steele got a credit he never sought4 ,but since stories of the hymns began to be published--and made the subject of evening talks in church conference rooms--many have learned what ,steele in the hymn-book means4 ,it introduces us now to a very retiring ,english lady1 ,miss ,anna ,steele1 a ,baptist minister's daughter4 ,she was born in #agjf1 at ,broughton1 ,hampshire1 in her father's parsonage1 and in her father's parsonage she spent her life1 dying there ,nov4 #aggh4 ,she was many years a severe sufferer from bodily illness1 and a lasting grief of mind and heart was the loss of her intended husband1 who was drowned the day before their appointed wedding4 ,it is said that this hymn was written under the recent sorrow of that loss4 ,in #agfj and #aghj volumes of her works in verse and prose were published with her name1 ,theodosia1 and reprinted in #ahfc as ,hymns1 ,psalms1 and ,poems1 by ,anna ,steele4 ,the hymn ,father1 whate'er1 etc41 is estimated as her best1 though some rank it only next to her-- ,dear ,refuge of my weary soul4 ,other more or less well-known hymns of this devout and loving writer are1-- ,lord1 how mysterious are ,thy ways1 ,o ,thou whose tender mercy hears1 ,thou lovely ,source of true delight1 ,alas1 what hourly dangers rise1 ,so fades the lovely blooming flower4 --to a stanza of which latter the world owes the tune of ,federal ,st4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the true musical mate of the sweet hymn-prayer came to it probably about the time of its hundredth birthday2 but it came to stay4 ,lowell ,mason's ,naomi blends with it like a symphony of nature4 ,father1 whate'er of earthly bliss ,thy sovereign will denies1 ,accepted at ,thy throne of grace ,let this petition rise4 ,give me a calm and thankful heart ,from every murmer free4 ,the blessings of ,thy grace impart1 ,and make me live to ,thee4 ,,guide ,,me1 ,o ,,thou ,,great ,,jehovah4 ,this great hymn has a double claim on the name of ,williams4 ,we do not have it exactly in its original form as written by ,rev4 ,william ,williams1 ,the ,watts of ,wales1 familiarly known as ,williams of ,pantycelyn4 ,his fellow countryman and contemporary1 ,rev4 ,peter ,williams1 or ,williams of ,carmarthen1 who translated it from ,welsh into ,english 7#agga7 made alterations and substitutions in the hymn with the result that only the first stanza belongs indisputably to ,williams of ,pantycelyn1 the others being ,peter's own or the joint production of the two4 ,as the former1 however1 is said to have approved and revised the ,english translation1 we may suppose the hymn retained the name of its original author by mutual consent4 ,guide me1 ,o ,thou ,great ,jehovah1 ,pilgrim through this barren land4 ,i am weak1 but ,thou art mighty1 ,hold me by ,thy powerful hand2 ,bread of heaven1 ,feed me till ,i want no more4 ,open ,thou the crystal ,fountain ,whence the healing streams do flow1 ,let the fiery cloudy pillar ,lead me all my journey through4 ,strong ,deliverer1 ,be ,thou still my ,strength and ,shield6 ,when ,i tread the verge of ,jordan ,bid my anxious fears subside2 ,death of death1 and hell's destruction1 ,land me safe on ,canaan's side4 ,songs of praises ,i will ever give to ,thee4 ,musing on my habitation1 ,musing on my heavenly home1 ,fills my heart with holy longing2 ,come1 ,lord ,jesus1 quickly come4 ,vanity is all ,i see1 ,lord1 ,i long to be with ,thee4 ,the second and third stanzas have not escaped the touch of critical editors4 ,the line1-- ,whence the healing streams do flow --becomes1-- ,whence the healing waters flow1 --with which alteration there is no fault to find except that it is needless1 and obliterates the ancient mark4 ,but the third stanza1 besides losing its second line for-- ,bid the swelling stream divide1 --is weakened by a more needless substitution4 ,its original third line-- ,death of death1 and hell's destruction1 --is exchanged for the commonplace-- ,bear me through the swelling current4 ,that is modern taste2 but when modern taste meddles with a stalwart old hymn it is sometimes more nice than wise4 ,it is probable that the famous hymn was sung in ,america before it obtained a ,european reputation4 ,its history is as follows3 ,lady ,huntingdon having read one of ,williams' books with much spiritual satisfaction1 persuaded him to prepare a collection of hymns1 to be called the ,gloria in ,excelsis1 for special use in ,mr4 ,whitefield's ,orphans' ,house in ,america4 ,in this collection appeared the original stanzas of ,guide me1 ,o ,thou ,great ,jehovah4 ,in #aggd1 two years after its publication in the ,gloria in ,excelsis1 it was republished in ,england in ,mr4 ,whitefield's collections of hymns4 ,the ,rev4 ,peter ,williams was born in the parish of ,llansadurnen1 ,carmarthenshire1 ,wales1 ,jan4 #g1 #agbb1 and was educated in ,carmarthen ,college4 ,he was ordained in the ,established ,church and appointed to a curacy1 but in #agdh joined the ,calvinistic ,methodists4 ,he was an ,independent of the ,independents however1 and preached where ever he chose4 ,finally he built a chapel for himself on his paternal estate1 where he ministered during the rest of his life4 ,died ,aug4 #h1 #agif4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,if ,sardius1 the splendid old choral 7triple time7 everywhere identified with the hymn1 be not its original music1 its age at least entitles it to its high partnership4 ,the ,sacred ,lyre 7#aheh7 ascribes it to ,ludovic ,nicholson1 of ,paisley1 ,scotland1 violinist and amateur composer1 born #aggj2 died #aheb2 but this is not beyond dispute4 ,of several names one more confidently referred to as its author is ,f4,h4 ,barthelemon 7#agda-ahjh74 ,,peace1 ,,troubled ,,soul ,is the brave faith-song of a ,christian under deep but blameless humiliation--,sir ,walter ,shirley#af4 ,footnote #af3 ,see page #abg ,,the ,,tune4 ,apparently the favorite in several 7not recent7 hymnals for the subdued but confident spirit of this hymn of ,sir ,walter ,shirley is ,mazzinghi's ,palestine1 appearing with various tone-signatures in different books4 ,the treble and alto lead in a sweet duet with slur-flights1 like an obligato to the bass and tenor4 ,the melody needs rich and cultured voices1 and is unsuited for congregational singing4 ,so1 perhaps1 is the hymn itself4 ,peace1 troubled soul1 whose plaintive moan ,hath taught these rocks the notes of woe2 ,cease thy complaint--suppress thy groan1 ,and let thy tears forget to flow2 ,behold the precious balm is found1 ,to lull thy pain1 to heal thy wound4 ,come1 freely come1 by sin oppressed1 ,unburden here thy weighty load2 ,here find thy refuge and thy rest1 ,and trust the mercy of thy ,god4 ,thy ,god's thy ,saviour--glorious word6 ,for ever love and praise the ,lord4 ,as now sung the word scenes is substituted for rocks in the second line1 eliminating the poetry4 ,rocks give an echo2 and the vivid thought in the author's mind is flattened to an unmeaning generality4 ,count ,joseph ,mazzinghi1 son of ,tommasso ,mazzinghi1 a ,corsican musician1 was born in ,london1 #agfe4 ,he was a boy of precocious talent4 ,when only ten years of age he was appointed organist of the ,portuguese ,chapel1 and when nineteen years old was made musical director and composer at the ,king's ,theatre4 ,for many years he held the honor of ,music ,master to the ,princess of ,wales1 afterwards ,queen ,caroline1 and his compositions were almost numberless4 ,some of his songs and glees that caught the popular fancy are still remembered in ,england1 as ,the ,turnpike ,gate1 ,the ,exile1 and the rustic duet1 ,when a ,little ,farm ,we ,keep4 ,of sacred music he composed only one mass and six hymn-tunes1 of which latter ,palestine is one4 ,mazzinghi died in #ahdd1 in his eightieth year4 ,,begone ,,unbelief1 ,,my ,,saviour ,,is ,,near4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,newton1 author of this hymn1 was born in ,london1 ,july #bd1 #agbe4 ,the son of a sea-captain1 he became a sailor1 and for several years led a reckless life4 ,converted1 he took holy orders and was settled as curate of ,olney1 ,buckinghamshire1 and afterwards ,rector of ,st4 ,mary of ,woolnoth1 ,london1 where he died1 ,dec4 #ba1 #ahjg4 ,it was while living at ,olney that he and ,cowper wrote and published the ,olney ,hymns4 ,his defiance to doubt in these lines is the blunt utterance of a sailor rather than the song of a poet3 ,begone1 unbelief1 my ,saviour is near1 ,and for my relief will surely appear4 ,by prayer let me wrestle and ,he will perform2 ,with ,christ in the vessel ,i smile at the storm4 ,,the ,,tune ,old ,hanover1 by ,william ,croft 7#afgg-agbg71 carries ,newton's hymn successfully1 but ,joseph ,haydn's choral of ,lyons is more familiar--and better music4 ,hanover often accompanies ,charles ,wesley's lyric1-- ,ye servants of ,god1 your ,master proclaim4 ,,how ,,firm ,a ,,foundation4 ,the question of the author of this hymn is treated at length in ,dr4 ,louis ,f4 ,benson's ,studies of ,familiar ,hymns4 ,the utmost that need to be said here is that two of the most thorough and indefatigable hymn-chasers1 ,dr4 ,john ,julian and ,rev4 ,h4,l4 ,hastings1 working independently of each other1 found evidence fixing the authorship with strong probability upon ,robert ,keene1 a precentor in ,dr4 ,john ,rippon's church4 ,dr4 ,rippon was pastor of a ,baptist ,church in ,london from #aggc to #ahcf1 and in #aghg he published a song-manual called ,a ,selection of ,hymns from the ,best ,authors1 etc41 in which ,how ,firm a ,foundation appears as a new piece1 with the signature ,k----4 ,the popularity of the hymn in ,america has been remarkable1 and promises to continue4 ,indeed1 there are few more reviving or more spiritually helpful4 ,it is too familiar to need quotation4 ,but one cannot suppress the last stanza1 with its powerful and affecting emphasis on the ,divine promise-- ,the soul that on ,jesus has leaned for repose ,i will not1 ,i will not1 desert to his foes2 ,that soul1 though all hell should endeavor to shake1 ,i'll never1 no never1 no never forsake4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the grand harmony of ,portuguese ,hymn has always been identified with this song of trust4 ,one opinion of the date of the music writes it about #aghj4 ,since the habit of crediting it to ,john ,reading 7#afgg-agfd7 has been discontinued1 it has been in several hymnals ascribed to ,marco ,portogallo 7,mark1 the ,portuguese71 a musician born in ,lisbon1 #agfc1 who became a composer of operas in ,italy1 but was made ,chapel-,master to the ,portuguese ,king4 ,in #ahjg1 when ,napoleon invaded the ,peninsula and dethroned the royal house of ,braganza1 ,old ,king ,john ,,vi4 fled to ,brazil and took ,marco with him1 where he lived till #ahae1 but returned and died in ,italy1 in #ahcj4 ,such is the story1 and it is all true1 only the man's name was ,simao1 instead of ,marco4 ,grove's ,dictionary appends to ,simao's biography the single sentence1 ,his brother wrote for the church4 ,that the ,brazilian episode may have been connected with this brother's history by a confusion of names1 is imaginable1 but it is not known that the brother's name was ,marco4 ,on the whole1 this account of the authorship of the ,portuguese ,hymn--originally written for the old ,christmas church song ,adeste ,fideles--is late and uncertain4 ,heard 7perhaps for the first time7 in the ,portuguese ,chapel1 ,london1 it was given the name which still clings to it4 ,if proofs of its ,portuguese origin exist1 they may yet be found4 ,how ,firm a ,foundation was the favorite of ,deborah ,jackson1 ,president ,andrew ,jackson's beloved wife1 and on his death-bed the warrior and statesman called for it4 ,it was the favorite of ,gen4 ,robert ,e4 ,lee1 and was sung at his funeral4 ,the ,american love and familiar preference for the remarkable hymn was never more strikingly illustrated than when on ,christmas ,eve1 #ahih1 a whole corps of the ,united ,states army ,northern and ,southern1 encamped on the ,quemados hills1 near ,havana1 took up the sacred tune and words-- ,fear not1 ,i am with thee1 ,o be not dismayed4 ,lieut4 ,col4 ,curtis ,guild 7since ,governor ,guild of ,massachusetts7 related the story in the ,sunday ,school ,times for ,dec4 #g1 #aija1 and ,dr4 ,benson quotes it in his book4 ,illustration3 ,john ,wesley ,,while ,,thee ,i ,,seek1 ,,protecting ,,power4 ,miss ,helen ,maria ,williams1 who wrote this gentle hymn of confidence1 in #aghf1 was born in the north of ,england in #agfb4 ,when but a girl she won reputation by her brilliant literary talents and a mental grasp and vigor that led her1 like ,gail ,hamilton1 to discuss public affairs1 besides clothing bright fancies and devout thoughts in graceful verse4 ,most of her life was spent in ,london1 and in ,paris1 where she died1 ,dec4 #ad1 #ahbg4 ,while ,thee ,i seek1 ,protecting ,power ,be my vain wishes stilled1 ,and may this consecrated hour ,with better hopes be filled3 99 99 99 99 99 ,when gladness wings my favored hour1 ,thy love my thoughts shall fill1 ,resigned where storms of sorrow lower ,my soul shall meet ,thy will4 ,my lifted eye without a tear ,the gathering storm shall see3 ,my steadfast heart shall know no fear3 ,my heart will rest on ,thee4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,old ,norwich1 from ,day's ,psalter1 and ,simpson1 adapted from ,louis ,spohr1 are found with the hymn in several later manuals4 ,in the memories of older worshipers ,brattle-,street1 with its melodious choral and duet arranged from ,pleyel by ,lowell ,mason1 is inseparable from ,miss ,williams' words2 but modern hymnals have dropped it1 probably because too elaborate for average congregational use4 ,ignaz ,joseph ,pleyel was born ,june #a1 #ageg1 at ,ruppersthal1 ,lower ,austria4 ,he was the twenty-fourth child of a village schoolmaster4 ,his early taste and talent for music procured him friends who paid for his education4 ,haydn became his master1 and long afterwards spoke of him as his best and dearest pupil4 ,pleyel's work--entirely instrumental--was much admired by ,mozart4 ,during a few years spent in ,italy1 he composed the music of his best-known opera1 ,iphigenia in ,aulide1 and1 besides the thirty-four books of his symphonies and chamber-pieces1 the results of his prolific genius make a list too long to enumerate4 ,most of his life was spent in ,paris1 where he founded the 7present7 house of ,pleyel and ,wolfe1 piano makers and sellers4 ,he died in that city1 ,nov4 #ad1 #ahca4 ,,come ,,unto ,,me4 ,come unto ,me1 when shadows darkly gather1 ,when the sad heart is weary and distressed1 ,seeking for comfort from your heavenly ,father1 ,come unto ,me1 and ,i will give you rest4 ,this sweet hymn1 by ,mrs4 ,catherine ,esling1 is well known to many thousands of mourners1 as also is its equally sweet tune of ,henley1 by ,lowell ,mason4 ,melody and words melt together like harp and flute4 ,large are the mansions in thy ,father's dwelling1 ,glad are the homes that sorrows never dim1 ,sweet are the harps in holy music swelling4 ,soft are the tones that raise the heavenly hymn4 ,mrs4 ,catherine ,harbison ,waterman ,esling was born in ,philadelphia1 ,apr4 #ab1 #ahab4 ,a writer for many years under her maiden name1 ,waterman1 she married1 in #ahdj1 ,capt4 ,george ,esling1 of the ,merchant ,marine1 and lived in ,rio ,janeiro till her widowhood1 in #ahdd4 ,,john ,,wesley',s ,,hymn4 ,how happy is the pilgrim's lot1 ,how free from every anxious thought4 ,these are the opening lines of ,john ,wesley's ,hymn1 so called because his other hymns are mostly translations1 and because of all his own it is the one commonly quoted and sung4 ,john ,wesley1 the second son in the famous ,epworth family of ministers1 was a man who knew how to endure hardness as a good soldier of ,christ4 ,he was born ,june #bg1 #agjc1 and studied at ,charterhouse1 ,london1 and at ,christ ,church1 ,oxford1 becoming a ,fellow of ,lincoln ,college4 ,after taking holy orders he went as a missionary to ,georgia1 ,u4,s41 in #agce1 and on his return began his remarkable work in ,england1 preaching a more spiritual type of religion1 and awakening the whole kingdom with his revival fervor and his brother's kindling songs4 ,the following paragraph from his itinerant life1 gathered probably from a page of his own journals1 gives a glimpse of what the founder of the great ,methodist denomination did and suffered while carrying his ,evangelical message from place to place4 ,on ,february #ag1 #agdf1 when days were short and weather far from favorable1 he set out on horseback from ,bristol to ,newcastle1 a distance between three and four hundred miles4 ,the journey occupied ten days4 ,brooks were swollen1 and in some places the roads were impassable1 obliging the itinerant to go round through the fields4 ,at ,aldrige ,heath1 in ,staffordshire1 the rain turned to snow1 which the northerly wind drove against him1 and by which he was soon crusted over from head to foot4 ,at ,leeds the mob followed him1 and pelted him with whatever came to hand4 ,he arrived at ,newcastle1 ,february #bf1 free from every anxious thought1 and every worldly fear4 ,how lightly he regarded hardship and molestation appears from his verses-- ,whatever molests or troubles life1 ,when past1 as nothing we esteem1 ,and pain1 like pleasure1 is a dream4 ,and that he actually enjoys the heroic freedom of a rough-rider missionary life is hinted in his hymn-- ,confined to neither court nor cell1 ,his soul disdains on earth to dwell1 ,he only sojourns here4 ,god evidently built ,john ,wesley fire-proof and water-proof with a view to precisely what he was to undertake and accomplish4 ,his frame was vigorous1 and his spirit unconquerable4 ,besides all this he had the divine gift of a religious faith that could move mountains and a confidence in his mission that became a second nature4 ,no wonder he could suffer1 and last4 ,the brave young man at thirty was the brave old man at nearly ninety4 ,he died in ,london1 ,march #b1 #agia4 ,blest with the scorn of finite good1 ,my soul is lightened of its load ,and seeks the things above4 ,there is my house and portion fair2 ,my treasure and my heart are there1 ,and my abiding home4 ,for me my elder brethren stay1 ,and angels beckon me away4 ,and ,jesus bids me come4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,an air found in the ,revivalist 7#ahfi71 in sextuple time1 that has the real camp-meeting swing1 preserves the style of music in which the hymn was sung by the circuit-preachers and their congregations--ringing out the autobiographical verses with special unction4 ,the favorite was-- ,no foot of land do ,i possess1 ,no cottage in this wilderness2 ,a poor wayfaring man1 ,i lodge awhile in tents below1 ,or gladly wander to and fro ,till ,i my ,canaan gain4 ,more modern voices sing the ,john ,wesley hymn to the tune ,habakkuk1 by ,edward ,hodges4 ,it has a lively three-four step1 and finer melody than the old4 ,edward ,hodges was born in ,bristol1 ,eng41 ,july #bj1 #agif1 and died there ,sept4 #ahgf4 ,organist at ,bristol in his youth1 he was graduated at ,cambridge and in #ahbe received the doctorate of music from that ,university4 ,in #ahce he went to ,toronto1 ,canada1 and two years later to ,new ,york city1 where he was many years ,director of ,music at ,trinity ,church4 ,returned to ,bristol in #ahfc4 ,,when ,,gathering ,,clouds ,,around ,i ,,view4 ,one of the restful strains breathed out of illness and affliction to relieve one soul and bless millions4 ,it was written by ,sir ,robert ,grant 7#aghe-ahch74 ,when gathering clouds around ,i view1 ,and days are dark1 and friends are few1 ,on ,him ,i lean who not in vain ,experienced every human pain4 ,the lines are no less admirable for their literary beauty than for their feeling and their faith4 ,unconsciously1 it may be1 to the writer1 in this and the following stanza are woven an epitome of the ,saviour's history4 ,he-- ,experienced every human pain1 --felt temptation's power1 --wept o'er ,lazarus dead1 --and the crowning assurance of ,jesus' human sympathy is expressed in the closing prayer1-- --when ,i have safely passed ,thro' every conflict but the last1 ,still1 still unchanging watch beside ,my painful bed--for ,thou hast died4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,of the few suitable six-line long metre part songs1 the charming ,russian tone-poem of ,st4 ,petersburg by ,dimitri ,bortniansky is borrowed for the hymn in some collections1 and with excellent effect4 ,it accords well with the mood and tenor of the words1 and deserves to stay with it as long as the hymn holds its place4 ,dimitri ,bortniansky1 called ,the ,russian ,palestrina1 was born in #ageb at ,gloukoff1 a village of the ,ukraine4 ,he studied music in ,moscow1 ,st4 ,petersburg1 ,vienna1 ,rome and ,naples4 ,returning to his native land1 he was made ,director of ,empress ,catharine's church choir4 ,he reformed and systematized ,russian church music1 and wrote original scores in the intervals of his teaching labors4 ,his works are chiefly motets and concertos1 which show his genius for rich harmony4 ,died #ahbe4 ,,just ,,as ,i ,,am1 ,,without ,,one ,,plea4 ,charlotte ,elliott1 of ,brighton1 ,eng41 would have been well-known through her admired and useful hymns1-- ,my ,god1 my ,father1 while ,i stray1 ,my ,god1 is any hour so sweet1 ,with tearful eyes ,i look around1 --and many others4 ,but in ,just as ,i am she made herself a voice in the soul of every hesitating penitent4 ,the currency of the hymn has been too swift for its authorship and history to keep up with1 but it is a blessed law of influence that good works out-run biographies4 ,this master-piece of metrical gospel might be called ,miss ,elliott's spiritual-birth hymn1 for a reply of ,dr4 ,caesar ,malan of ,geneva was its prompting cause4 ,the young lady was a stranger to personal religion when1 one day1 the good man1 while staying at her father's house1 in his gentle way introduced the subject4 ,she resented it1 but afterwards1 stricken in spirit by his words1 came to him with apologies and an inquiry that confessed a new concern of mind4 ,you speak of coming to ,jesus1 but how8 ,i'm not fit to come4 ,come just as you are1 said ,dr4 ,malan4 ,the hymn tells the result4 ,like all the other hymns bound up in her ,invalid's ,hymn-book1 it was poured from out the heart of one who1 as the phrase is1 never knew a well day--though she lived to see her eighty-second year4 ,illustrative of the way it appeals to the afflicted1 a little anecdote was told by the eloquent ,john ,b4 ,gough of his accidental seat-mate in a city church service4 ,a man of strange appearance was led by the kind usher or sexton to the pew he occupied4 ,mr4 ,gough eyed him with strong aversion4 ,the man's face was mottled1 his limbs and mouth twitched1 and he mumbled singular sounds4 ,when the congregation sang he attempted to sing1 but made fearful work of it4 ,during the organ interlude he leaned toward ,mr4 ,gough and asked how the next verse began4 ,it was-- ,just as ,i am1 poor1 wretched1 blind4 ,that's it1 sobbed the strange man1 ,i'm blind--,god help me6--and the tears ran down his face--and ,i'm wretched--and paralytic1 and then he tried hard to sing the line with the rest4 ,after that1 said ,mr4 ,gough1 the poor paralytic's singing was as sweet to me as a ,beethoven symphony4 ,charlotte ,elliott was born ,march #ah1 #aghi1 and died in ,brighton1 ,sept4 #bb1 #ahga4 ,she stands in the front rank of female hymn-writers4 ,the tune of ,woodworth1 by ,william ,b4 ,bradbury1 has mostly superseded ,mason's ,elliott1 and is now the accepted music of this lyric of perfect faith and pious surrender4 ,just as ,i am1--,thy love unknown ,hath broken every barrier down1 ,now to be ,thine1 yea1 ,thine alone1 ,o ,lamb of ,god1 ,i come1 ,i come4 ,,my ,,hope ,,is ,,built ,,on ,,nothing ,,less4 ,the ,rev4 ,edward ,mote was born in ,london1 #agig4 ,according to his own testimony his parents were not ,god-fearing people1 and he went to a school where no ,bible was allowed2 but at the age of sixteen he received religious impressions from a sermon of ,john ,hyatt in ,tottenham ,court ,chapel1 was converted two years later1 studied for the ministry1 and ultimately became a faithful preacher of the gospel4 ,settled as pastor of the ,baptist ,church in ,horsham1 ,sussex1 he remained there twenty-six years--until his death1 ,nov4 #ac1 #ahgd4 ,the refrain of his hymn came to him one ,sabbath when on his way to ,holborn to exchange pulpits3 ,on ,christ the solid rock ,i stand1 ,all other ground is sinking sand4 ,there were originally six stanzas1 the first beginning3 ,nor earth1 nor hell1 my soul can move1 ,i rest upon unchanging love4 ,the refrain is a fine one1 and really sums up the whole hymn1 keeping constantly at the front the corner-stone of the poet's trust4 ,my hope is built on nothing less ,than ,jesus' blood and righteousness4 ,i dare not trust the sweetest frame1 ,but only lean on ,jesus' name4 ,on ,christ the solid ,rock ,i stand ,all other ground is sinking sand4 ,when darkness veils ,his lovely face ,i trust in ,his unchanging grace1 ,in every high and stormy gale ,my anchor holds within the veil4 ,on ,christ the solid ,rock1 etc4 ,wm4 ,b4 ,bradbury composed the tune 7#ahfc74 ,it is usually named ,the ,solid ,rock4 ,,abide ,,with ,,me6 ,,fast ,,falls ,,the ,,eventide4 ,the ,rev4 ,henry ,francis ,lyte1 author of this melodious hymn-prayer1 was born at ,ednam1 near ,kelso1 ,scotland1 ,june first1 #agic4 ,a scholar1 graduated at ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin2 a poet and a musician1 the hard-working curate was a man of frail physique1 with a face of almost feminine beauty1 and a spirit as pure and gentle as a little child's4 ,the shadow of consumption was over him all his life4 ,his memory is chiefly associated with the district church at ,lower ,brixham1 ,devonshire1 where he became perpetual curate in #ahbc4 ,he died at ,nice1 ,france1 ,nov4 #bj1 #ahdg4 ,on the evening of his last ,sunday preaching and communion service he handed to one of his family the manuscript of his hymn1 ,abide with me1 and the music he had composed for it4 ,it was not till eight years later that ,henry ,ward ,beecher introduced it1 or a part of it1 to ,american ,congregationalists1 and fourteen years after the author's death it began to be sung as we now have it1 in this country and ,england4 ,abide with me6 ,fast falls the eventide1 ,the darkness deepens1--,lord with me abide6 ,when other helpers fail1 and comforts flee1 ,help of the helpless1 ,o abide with me6 99 99 99 99 99 ,hold ,thou ,thy cross before my closing eyes2 ,shine through the gloom1 and point me to the skies2 ,heaven's morning breaks1 and earth's vain shadows flee2 ,in life1 in death1 ,o ,lord1 abide with me6 ,,the ,,tune ,there is a pathos in the neglect and oblivion of ,lyte's own tune set by himself to his words1 especially as it was in a sense the work of a dying man who had hoped that he might not be wholly mute and useless while lying in his grave1 and who had prayed-- ,o ,thou whose touch can lend ,life to the dead4 ,thy quickening grace supply1 ,and grant me swan-like my last breath to spend ,in song that may not die6 ,his prayer was answered in ,god's own way4 ,another's melody hastened his hymn on its useful career1 and revealed to the world its immortal value4 ,by the time it had won its slow recognition in ,england1 it was probably tuneless1 and the compilers of ,hymns ,ancient and ,modern 7#ahfa7 discovering the fact just as they were finishing their work1 asked ,dr4 ,william ,henry ,monk1 their music editor1 to supply the want4 ,in ten minutes1 it is said1 ,dr4 ,monk composed the sweet1 pleading chant that is wedded permanently to ,lyte's swan song4 ,william ,henry ,monk1 ,doctor of ,music1 was born in ,london1 #ahbc4 ,his musical education was early and thorough1 and at the age of twenty-six he was organist and choir director in ,king's ,college1 ,london4 ,elected 7#ahgf7 professor of the ,national ,training ,school1 he interested himself actively in popular musical education1 delivering lectures at various institutions1 and establishing choral services4 ,his hymn-tunes are found in many song-manuals of the ,english ,church and in ,scotland1 and several have come to ,america4 ,dr4 ,monk died in #ahhi4 ,,come1 ,,ye ,,disconsolate4 ,by ,thomas ,moore--about #ahad4 ,the poem in its original form differed somewhat from the hymn we sing4 ,thomas ,hastings--whose religious experience1 perhaps1 made him better qualified than ,thomas ,moore for spiritual expression--changed the second line1-- ,come1 at ,god's altar fervently kneel1 --to-- ,come to the mercy seat1 --and in the second stanza replaced-- ,hope when all others die1 --with-- ,hope of the penitent2 --and for practically the whole of the last stanza-- ,go ask the infidel what boon he brings us1 ,what charm for aching hearts he can reveal4 ,sweet as that heavenly promise hope sings us1 ,earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal1 --,hastings substituted-- ,here see the ,bread of life1 see waters flowing ,forth from the throne of ,god1 pure from above6 ,come to the feast ,love1 come ever knowing ,earth has no sorrow but heaven can remove4 ,dr4 ,hastings was not much of a poet1 but he could make a singable hymn1 and he knew the rhythm and accent needed in a hymn-tune4 ,the determination was to make an evangelical hymn of a poem too good to lose1 and in that view perhaps the editorial liberties taken with it were excusable4 ,it was to ,moore1 however1 that the real hymn-thought and key-note first came1 and the title-line and the sweet refrain are his own--for which the ,christian world has thanked him1 lo these many years4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,those who question why ,dr4 ,hastings' interest in ,moore's poem did not cause him to make a tune for it1 must conclude that it came to him with its permanent melody ready made1 and that the tune satisfied him4 ,the ,german ,air to which ,moore tells us he wrote the words1 probably took his fancy1 if it did not induce his mood4 ,whether ,samuel ,webbe's tune now wedded to the hymn is an arrangement of the old air or wholly his own is immaterial4 ,one can scarcely conceive a happier yoking of counterparts4 ,try singing ,come ye ,disconsolate to ,rescue the ,perishing1 for example1 and we shall feel the impertinence of divorcing a hymn that has found its musical affinity4 ,,jesus1 ,i ,,my ,,cross ,,have ,,taken4 ,this is another well-known and characteristic hymn of ,henry ,francis ,lyte--originally six stanzas4 ,we have been told that1 besides his bodily affliction1 the grief of an unhappy division or difference in his church weighed upon his spirit1 and that it is alluded to in these lines-- ,man may trouble and distress me1 ',twill but drive me to ,thy breast1 ,life with trials hard may press me1 ,heaven will bring me sweeter rest4 ,o1 'tis not in grief to harm me ,while ,thy love is left to me1 ,o1 'tis not in joy to charm me ,were that joy unmixed with ,thee4 ,tunes1 ,autumn1 by ,f4,h4 ,barthelemon1 or ,ellesdie1 7formerly called ,disciple7 from ,mozart--familiar in either4 ,,from ,,every ,,stormy ,,wind ,,that ,,blows4 ,this is the much-sung and deeply-cherished hymn of ,christian peace that a pious ,manxman1 ,hugh ,stowell1 was inspired to write nearly a hundred years ago4 ,ever since it has carried consolation to souls in both ordinary and extraordinary trials4 ,it was sung by the eight ,american martyrs1 ,revs4 ,albert ,johnson1 ,john ,e4 ,freeman1 ,david ,e4 ,campbell and their wives1 and ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,mc,mullen1 when by order of the bloody ,nana ,sahib the captive missionaries were taken prisoners and put to death at ,cawnpore in #aheg4 ,two little children1 ,fannie and ,willie ,campbell1 suffered with their parents4 ,from every stormy wind that blows1 ,from every swelling tide of woes ,there is a calm1 a sure retreat2 ',tis found beneath the ,mercy ,seat4 ,ah1 whither could we flee for aid ,when tempted1 desolate1 dismayed1 ,or how the hosts of hell defeat ,had suffering saints no ,mercy ,seat8 ,there1 there on eagle wings we soar1 ,and sin and sense molest no more1 ,and heaven comes down our souls to greet ,while glory crowns the ,mercy ,seat4 ,illustration3 ,john ,b4 ,dykes ,rev4 ,hugh ,stowell was born at ,douglas on the ,isle of ,man1 ,dec4 #c1 #agii4 ,he was educated at ,oxford and ordained to the ministry #ahbc1 receiving twelve years later the appointment of ,canon to ,chester ,cathedral4 ,he was a popular and effective preacher and a graceful writer4 ,forty-seven hymns are credited to him1 the above being the best known4 ,to presume it is his best1 leaves a good margin of merit for the remainder4 ,from every stormy wind that blows has practically but one tune4 ,it has been sung to ,hastings ,retreat ever since the music was made4 ,,child ,,of ,,sin ,,and ,,sorrow4 ,child of sin and sorrow1 filled with dismay1 ,wait not for tomorrow1 yield thee today4 ,heaven bids thee come1 while yet there's room1 ,child of sin and sorrow1 hear and obey4 ,words and music by ,thomas ,hastings4 ,,lead1 ,,kindly ,,light4 ,john ,henry ,newman1 born in ,london1 ,feb4 #ba1 #ahja--known in religious history as ,cardinal ,newman--wrote this hymn when he was a young clergyman of the ,church of ,england4 ,born within the sound of ,bow bells1 says ,dr4 ,benson1 he was an imaginative boy1 and so superstitious1 that he used constantly to cross himself when going into the dark4 ,intelligent students of the fine hymn will note this habit of its author's mind--and surmise its influence on his religious musings4 ,the agitations during the ,high ,church movement1 and the persuasions of ,hurrell ,froude1 a ,romanist friend1 while he was a tutor at ,oxford1 gradually weakened his ,protestant faith1 and in his unrest he travelled to the ,mediterranean coast1 crossed to ,sicily1 where he fell violently ill1 and after his recovery waited three weeks in ,palermo for a return boat4 ,on his trip to ,marseilles he wrote the hymn--with no thought that it would ever be called a hymn4 ,when complimented on the beautiful production after it became famous he modestly said1 ,it was not the hymn but the tune that has gained the popularity4 ,the tune is ,dykes' and ,dr4 ,dykes is a great master4 ,dr4 ,newman was created a ,cardinal of the ,church of ,rome in the ,catholic ,cathedral of ,london1 #ahgi4 ,died ,aug4 #aa1 #ahij4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,lux ,benigna1 by ,dr4 ,dykes1 was composed in ,aug4 #ahfe1 and was the tune chosen for this hymn by a committee preparing the ,appendix to ,hymns ,ancient and ,modern4 ,dr4 ,dykes' statement that the tune came into his head while walking through the ,strand in ,london presents a striking contrast with the solitary origin of the hymn itself 7,benson74 ,lead1 kindly ,light1 amid th' encircling gloom1 ,lead ,thou me on4 ,the night is dark and ,i am far from home2 ,lead ,thou me on4 ,keep ,thou my feet2 ,i do not ask to see ,the distant scene1--one step enough for me4 99 99 99 99 99 ,so long ,thy power hath bless'd me1 sure it still ,will lead me on1 ,o'er moor and fen1 o'er crag and torrent1 till ,the night is gone1 ,and with the morn those angel faces smile ,which ,i have loved long since1 and lost awhile4 ,i ,,heard ,,the ,,voice ,,of ,,jesus ,,say4 ,few if any ,christian writers of his generation have possessed tuneful gifts in greater opulence or produced more vital and lasting treasures of spiritual verse than ,horatius ,bonar of ,scotland4 ,he inherited some of his poetic faculty from his grandfather1 a clergyman who wrote several hymns1 and it is told of ,horatius that hymns used to come to him while riding on railroad trains4 ,he was educated in the ,edinburgh ,university and studied theology with ,dr4 ,chalmers1 and his life was greatly influenced by ,dr4 ,guthrie1 whom he followed in the establishment of the ,free ,church of ,scotland4 ,born in #ahjh in ,edinburgh1 he was about forty years old when he came back from a successful pastorate at ,kelso to the city of his home and ,alma ,mater1 and became virtually ,chalmers' successor as minister of the ,chalmers ,memorial ,church4 ,the peculiar richness of ,bonar's sacred songs very early created for them a warm welcome in the religious world1 and any devout lyric or poem with his name attached to it is sure to be read4 ,dr4 ,bonar died in ,edinburgh1 ,july #ca1 #ahhi4 ,writing of the hymn1 ,i heard the voice1 etc41 ,dr4 ,david ,breed calls it one of the most ingenious hymns in the language1 referring to the fact that the invitation and response exactly halve each stanza between them--song followed by countersong4 ,ingenious seems hardly the right word for a division so obviously natural and almost automatic4 ,it is a simple art beauty that a poet of culture makes by instinct4 ,bowring's ,watchman1 tell us of the night1 is not the only other instance of similar countersong structure1 and the regularity in ,thomas ,scott's little hymn1 ,hasten1 sinner1 to be wise1 is only a simpler case of the way a poem plans itself by the compulsion of its subject4 ,i heard the voice of ,jesus say1 ,come unto me and rest1 ,lay down1 thou weary one1 lay down ,thy head upon ,my breast3 ,i came to ,jesus as ,i was1 ,weary and worn and sad1 ,i found in ,him a resting-place1 ,and ,he has made me glad4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the old melody of ,evan1 long a favorite2 and since known everywhere through the currency given to it in the ,gospel ,hymns1 has been in many collections connected with the words4 ,it is good congregational psalmody1 and not unsuited to the sentiment1 taken line by line1 but it divides the stanzas into quatrains1 which breaks the happy continuity4 ,evan was made by ,dr4 ,mason in #ahej from a song written four years earlier by ,rev4 ,william ,henry ,havergal1 ,canon of ,worcester ,cathedral1 ,eng4 ,he was the father of ,frances ,ridley ,havergal4 ,the more ancient ,athens1 by ,felice ,giardini 7#agaf-agif71 author of the ,italian ,hymn1 has clung1 and still clings lovingly to ,bonar's hymn in many communities4 ,its simplicity1 and the involuntary accent of its sextuple time1 exactly reproducing the easy iambic of the verses1 inevitably made it popular1 and thousands of older singers today will have no other music with ,i heard the voice of ,jesus say4 ,vox ,jesu1 from the andante in one of the quartets of ,louis ,spohr 7#aghd-ahei71 is a psalm-tune of good harmony1 but too little feeling4 ,an excellent tune for all the shades of expression in the hymn1 is the arrangement by ,hubert ,p4 ,main from ,franz ,abt--in ,a flat1 triple time4 ,gentle music through the first fifteen bars1 in alternate duet and quartet1 utters the ,divine ,voice with the true accent of the lines1 and the second portion completes the harmony in glad1 full chorus--the answer of the human heart4 ,vox ,dilecti1 by ,dr4 ,dykes1 goes farther and writes the ,voice in ,b flat minor--which seems a needless substitution of divine sadness for divine sweetness4 ,it is a tune of striking chords1 but its shift of key to ,g natural 7major7 after the first four lines marks it rather for trained choir performance than for assembly song4 ,it is possible to make too much of a dramatic perfection or a supposed indication of structural design in a hymn4 ,textual equations1 such as distinguish ,dr4 ,bonar's beautiful stanzas1 are not necessarily technical4 ,to emphasize them as ingenious by an ingenious tune seems1 somehow1 a reflection on the spontaneity of the hymn4 ,louis ,spohr was ,director of the ,court ,theatre ,orchestra in ,cassel1 ,prussia1 in the first half of the last century4 ,he was an eminent composer of both vocal and instrumental music1 and one of the greatest violinists of ,europe4 ,hubert ,platt ,main was born in ,ridgefield1 ,ct41 ,aug4 #ag1 #ahci4 ,he read music at sight when only ten years old1 and at sixteen commenced writing hymn-tunes4 ,was assistant compiler with both ,bradbury and ,woodbury in their various publications1 and in #ahfh became connected with the firm of ,biglow and ,main1 and has been their book-maker until the present time4 ,as music editor in the partnership he has superintended the publication of more than five hundred music-books1 services1 etc4 ,i ,,love ,,to ,,steal ,,awhile ,,away4 ,the burdened wife and mother who wrote this hymn would1 at the time1 have rated her history with the short and simple annals of the poor4 ,but the poor who are remembered for what they have done1 may have a larger place in history than many rich who did nothing4 ,phebe ,hinsdale ,brown1 was born in ,canaan1 ,n4,y41 in #aghc4 ,her father1 ,george ,hinsdale1 who died in her early childhood1 must have been a man of good abilities and religious feeling1 being the reputed composer of the psalm-tune1 ,hinsdale1 found in some long-ago collections4 ,left an orphan at two years of age1 ,phebe fell into the hands of a relative who kept the county jail1 and her childhood knew little but the bitter fare and ceaseless drudgery of domestic slavery4 ,she grew up with a crushed spirit1 and was a timid1 shrinking woman as long as she lived4 ,she married ,timothy ,h4 ,brown1 a house-painter of ,ellington1 ,ct41 and passed her days there and in ,monson1 ,mass41 where she lived some twenty-five years4 ,in her humble home in the former town her children were born1 and it was while caring for her own little family of four1 and a sick sister1 that the incident occurred 7,august #ahah71 which called forth her tender hymn4 ,she was a devout ,christian1 and in pleasant weather1 whenever she could find the leisure1 she would steal away at sunset from her burdens a little while1 to rest and commune with ,god4 ,her favorite place was a wealthy neighbor's large and beautiful flower garden4 ,a servant reported her visits there to the mistress of the house1 who called the intruder to account4 ,if you want anything1 why don't you come in8 was the rude question1 followed by a plain hint that no stealthy person was welcome4 ,wounded by the ill-natured rebuff1 the sensitive woman sat down the next evening with her baby in her lap1 and half-blinded by her tears1 wrote ,an ,apology for my ,twilight ,rambles1 in the verses that have made her celebrated4 ,she sent the manuscript 7nine stanzas7 to her captious neighbor--with what result has never been told4 ,crude and simple as the little rhyme was1 it contained a germ of lyric beauty and life4 ,the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,charles ,hyde of ,ellington1 who was a neighbor of ,mrs4 ,brown1 procured a copy4 ,he was assisting ,dr4 ,nettleton to compile the ,village ,hymns1 and the humble bit of devotional verse was at once judged worthy of a place in the new book4 ,dr4 ,hyde and his daughter ,emeline giving it some kind touches of rhythmic amendment1 ,i love to steal awhile away ,from little ones and care1 --became1-- ,i love to steal awhile away ,from every cumb'ring care4 ,in the last line of this stanza-- ,in gratitude and prayer --was changed to-- ,in humble1 grateful prayer1 --and the few other defects in syllabic smoothness or literary grace were affectionately repaired1 but the slight furbishing it received did not alter the individuality of ,mrs4 ,brown's work4 ,it remained hers--and took its place among the immortals of its kind1 another illustration of how little poetry it takes to make a good hymn4 ,only five stanzas were printed1 the others being voted redundant by both author and editor4 ,the second and third1 as now sung1 are-- ,i love in solitude to shed ,the penitential tear1 ,and all ,his promises to plead ,where none but ,god can hear4 ,i love to think on mercies past ,and future good implore1 ,and all my cares and sorrows cast ,on ,him whom ,i adore4 ,phebe ,brown died at ,henry1 ,ill41 in #ahfa2 but she had made the church and the world her debtor not only for her little lyric of pious trust1 but by rearing a son1 the ,rev4 ,samuel ,brown1 ,d4,d41 who became the pioneer ,american missionary to ,japan--to which ,christian calling two of her grandchildren also consecrated themselves4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,mrs4 ,brown's son ,samuel1 who1 besides being a good minister1 inherited his grandfather's musical gift1 composed the tune of ,monson1 7named in his mother's honor1 after her late home71 and it may have been the first music set to her hymn4 ,it was the fate of his offering1 however1 to lose its filial place1 and be succeeded by different melodies1 though his own still survives in a few collections1 sometimes with ,collyer's ,o ,jesus in this solemn hour4 ,it is good music for a hymn of praise rather than for meditative verse4 ,many years the hymn has been sung to ,woodstock1 an appropriate and still familiar tune by ,deodatus ,dutton4 ,dutton's ,woodstock and ,bradbury's ,brown1 which often replaces it1 are worthy rivals of each other1 and both continue in favor as fit choral interpretations of the much-loved hymn4 ,deodatus ,dutton was born ,dec4 #bb1 #ahjh1 and educated at ,brown ,university and ,washington ,college 7now ,trinity7 ,hartford ,ct4 ,while there he was a student of music and played the organ at ,dr4 ,matthews' church4 ,he studied theology in ,new ,york city1 and had recently entered the ministry when he suddenly died1 ,dec4 #af1 #ahcb1 a moment before rising to preach a sermon4 ,during his brief life he had written several hymn-tunes1 and published a book of psalmody4 ,mrs4 ,sigourney wrote a poem on his death4 ,,there',s ,a ,,wideness ,,in ,,god',s ,,mercy4 ,frederick ,william ,faber1 author of this favorite hymn-poem1 had a peculiar genius for putting golden thoughts into common words1 and making them sing4 ,probably no other sample of his work shows better than this his art of combining literary cleverness with the most reverent piety4 ,cant was a quality ,faber never could put into his religious verse4 ,he was born in ,yorkshire1 ,eng41 ,june #bh1 #ahad1 and received his education at ,oxford4 ,settled as ,rector of ,elton1 in ,huntingdonshire1 in #ahdc1 he came into sympathy with the ,oxford ,movement1 and followed ,newman into the ,romish ,church4 ,he continued his ministry as founder and priest for the ,london branch of the ,catholic congregation of ,st4 ,philip ,neri for fourteen years1 dying ,sept4 #bf1 #ahfc1 at the age of forty-nine4 ,his godly hymns betray no credal shibboleth or doctrinal bias1 but are songs for the whole earthly church of ,god4 ,there's a wideness in ,god's mercy ,like the wideness of the sea2 ,there's a kindness in ,his justice ,which is more than liberty4 ,there is welcome for the sinner ,and more graces for the good2 ,there is mercy with the ,saviour1 ,there is healing in ,his blood4 ,there's no place where earthly sorrows ,are more felt than up in heaven2 ,there's no place where earthly failings ,have such kindly judgment given4 ,there is plentiful redemption ,in the blood that has been shed1 ,there is joy for all the members ,in the sorrows of the ,head4 ,for the love of ,god is broader ,than the measure of man's mind1 ,and the heart of the ,eternal ,is most wonderfully kind4 ,if our love were but more simple ,we should take ,him at ,his word1 ,and our lives would be all sunshine ,in the sweetness of the ,lord4 ,no tone of comfort has breathed itself more surely and tenderly into grieved hearts than these tuneful and singularly expressive sentences of ,frederick ,faber4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music of ,s4,j4 ,vail sung to ,faber's hymn is one of that composer's best hymn-tunes1 and its melody and natural movement impress the meaning as well as the simple beauty of the words4 ,silas ,jones ,vail1 an ,american music-writer1 was born ,oct41 #ahah1 and died ,may #bj1 #ahhc4 ,another charming tune is ,wellesley1 by ,lizzie ,s4 ,tourjee1 daughter of the late ,dr4 ,eben ,tourjee4 ,,he ,,leadeth ,,me6 ,,oh1 ,,blessed ,,thought4 ,professor ,gilmore1 of ,rochester ,university1 ,n4,y41 when a young ,baptist minister 7#ahfa7 supplying a pulpit in ,philadelphia jotted down this hymn in ,deacon ,watson's parlor 7as he says7 and passed it to his wife1 one evening after he had made a conference-room talk on the #bc;d ,psalm4 ,mrs4 ,gilmore1 without his knowledge1 sent it to the ,watchman and ,reflector 7now the ,watchman74 ,years after its publication in that paper1 when a candidate for the pastorate of the ,second ,baptist ,church in ,rochester1 he was turning the leaves of the vestry hymnal in use there1 and saw his hymn in it4 ,since that first publication in the ,devotional ,hymn and ,tune ,book 7#ahfe7 it has been copied in the hymnals of various denominations1 and steadily holds its place in public favor4 ,the refrain added by the tunemaker emphasizes the sentiment of the lines1 and undoubtedly enhances the effect of the hymn4 ,he leadeth me has the true hymn quality1 combining all the simplicity of spontaneous thought and feeling with perfect accent and liquid rhythm4 ,he leadeth me6 ,oh1 blessed thought1 ,oh1 words with heavenly comfort fraught2 ,whate'er ,i do1 where'er ,i be1 ,still 'tis ,god's hand that leadeth me6 99 99 99 99 99 ,lord1 ,i would clasp ,thy hand in mine1 ,nor ever murmur nor repine-- ,content1 whatever lot ,i see1 ,since 'tis my ,god that leadeth me4 ,professor ,joseph ,henry ,gilmore was born in ,boston1 ,april #bi1 #ahcd4 ,he was graduated at ,phillips ,academy1 ,andover1 at ,brown ,university1 and at the ,newton ,theological ,institution1 where he was afterwards ,hebrew instructor4 ,after four years of pastoral service he was elected 7#ahfg7 professor of the ,english ,language and ,literature in ,rochester ,university4 ,he has published ,familiar ,chats on ,books and ,reading1 also several college text-books on rhetoric1 logic and oratory4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the little hymn of four stanzas was peculiarly fortunate in meeting the eye of ,mr4 ,william ,b4 ,bradbury1 7#ahfc7 and winning his musical sympathy and alliance4 ,few composers have so exactly caught the tone and spirit of their text as ,bradbury did when he vocalized the gliding measures of ,he leadeth me4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,christian ,,ballads4 ,echoes of ,hebrew thought1 if not ,hebrew psalmody1 may have made their way into the more serious pagan literature4 ,at least in the more enlightened pagans there has ever revealed itself more or less the instinct of the human soul that feels after ,god4 ,st4 ,paul in his address to the ,athenians made a tactful as well as scholarly point to preface a missionary sermon when he cited a line from a poem of ,aratus 7,b4,c4 #bgb7 familiar1 doubtless1 to the majority of his hearers4 ,dr4 ,lyman ,abbot has thus translated the passage in which the line occurs3 ,let us begin from ,god4 ,let every mortal raise ,the grateful voice to tune ,god's endless praise1 ,god fills the heaven1 the earth1 the sea1 the air2 ,we feel ,his spirit moving everywhere1 ,and we ,his offspring are4#ag ,he1 ever good1 ,daily provides for man his daily food4 ,to ,him1 the ,first1 the ,last1 all homage yield1-- ,our ,father wonderful1 our help1 our shield4 ,footnote #ag3 ,greek3 ,tou gar kai genos esmen4 ,,rise1 ,,crowned ,,with ,,light4 ,alexander ,pope1 a ,roman ,catholic poet1 born in ,london #afhh1 died at ,twickenham #agdd1 was not a hymnist1 but passages in his most serious and exalted flights deserve a tuneful accompaniment4 ,his translations of ,homer made him famous1 but his ethical poems1 especially his ,essay on ,man1 are inexhaustible mines of quotation1 many of the lines and couplets being common as proverbs4 ,his ,messiah1 written about #agaa1 is a religious anthem in which the prophecies of ,holy ,writ kindle all the splendor of his verse4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the closing strain1 indicated by the above line1 has been divided into stanzas of four lines suitable to a church hymn-tune4 ,the melody selected by the compilers of the ,plymouth ,hymnal1 and of the ,unitarian ,hymn and ,tune ,book is ,savannah1 an ,american sounding name for what is really one of ,pleyel's chorals4 ,the music is worthy of ,pope's triumphal song4 ,the seas shall waste1 the skies to smoke decay1 ,rocks fall to dust1 and mountains melt away1 ,but fixed ,his ,word2 ,his saving power remains3 ,thy realm shall last2 thy own ,messiah reigns4 ,,oh1 ,,why ,,should ,,the ,,spirit8 ,this is a sombre poem1 but its virile strength and its literary merit have given it currency1 and commended it to the taste of many people1 both weak and strong1 who have the pensive temperament4 ,abraham ,lincoln loved it and committed it to memory in his boyhood4 ,philip ,phillips set it to music1 and sang it--or a part of it--one day during the ,civil war at the anniversary of the ,christian ,sanitary ,commission1 when ,president ,lincoln1 who was present1 called for its repetition4#ah ,it was written by ,william ,knox1 born #aghi1 son of a ,scottish farmer4 ,footnote #ah3 ,this account so nearly resembles the story of ,mrs4 ,gates' ,your ,mission1 sung to a similar audience1 on a similar occasion1 by the same man1 that a possible confusion by the narrators of the incident has been suggested4 ,but that ,mr4 ,phillips sang twice before the ,president during the war does not appear to be contradicted4 ,to what air he sang the above verses is uncertain4 ,the poem has fourteen stanzas1 the following being the first and two last-- ,oh1 why should the spirit of mortal be proud8 ,like a swift-fleeting meteor1 a fast-flying cloud ,a flash of the lightning1 a break of the wave1 ,he passeth from life to rest in the grave4 99 99 99 99 99 ,yea1 hope and despondency1 pleasure and pain1 ,are mingled together like sunshine and rain2 ,and the smile and the tear1 the song and the dirge1 ,still follow each other like surge upon surge4 ',tis the wink of an eye2 'tis the draft of a breath ,from the blossom of health to the paleness of death1 ,from the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud1 ,oh1 why should the spirit of mortal be proud8 ,philip ,phillips was born in ,jamestown1 ,chautauqua ,co41 ,n4,y41 ,aug4 #aa1 #ahcd1 and died in ,delaware1 ,o41 ,june #be1 #ahie4 ,he wrote no hymns and was not an educated musician1 but the airs of popular hymn-music came to him and were harmonized for him by others1 most frequently by his friends1 ,s4,j4 ,vail and ,hubert ,p4 ,main4 ,he compiled and published thirty-one collections for ,sunday-schools and gospel meetings1 besides the ,methodist ,hymn and ,tune ,book1 issued in #ahff4 ,he was a pioneer gospel singer1 and his tuneful journeys through ,america1 ,england and ,australia gave him the name of the ,singing ,pilgrim1 the title of his song collection 7#ahfg74 ,,when ,,israel ,,of ,,the ,,lord ,,beloved4 ,the ,song of ,rebecca the ,jewess1 in ,ivanhoe1 was written by ,sir ,walter ,scott1 author of the ,waverly ,novels1 ,marmion1 etc41 born in ,edinburgh1 #agga1 and died at ,abbotsford1 #ahcb4 ,the lines purport to be the ,hebrew hymn with which ,rebecca closed her daily devotions while in prison under sentence of death4 ,when ,israel of the ,lord beloved ,out of the land of bondage came ,her fathers' ,god before her moved1 ,an awful ,guide in smoke and flame4 99 99 99 99 99 ,then rose the choral hymn of praise1 ,and trump and timbrel answered keen1 ,and ,zion's daughters poured their lays4 ,with priest's and warrior's voice between4 99 99 99 99 99 ,by day along th' astonished lands ,the cloudy ,pillar glided slow1 ,by night ,arabia's crimson'd sands ,returned the fiery ,column's glow4 99 99 99 99 99 ,and ,o1 when gathers o'er our path ,in shade and storm the frequent night ,be ,thou1 long suffering1 slow to wrath1 ,a burning and a shining ,light6 ,the ,hymn of ,rebecca has been set to music though never in common use as a hymn4 ,old ,truro1 by ,dr4 ,charles ,burney 7#agbf-ahad7 is a grand ,scotch psalm harmony for the words1 though one of the ,unitarian hymnals borrows ,zeuner's sonorous choral1 the ,missionary ,chant4 ,both sound the lyric of the ,jewess in good ,christian music4 ,,we ,,sat ,,down ,,and ,,wept ,,by ,,the ,,waters4 ,the #acgth ,psalm has been for centuries a favorite with poets and poetical translators1 and its pathos appealed to ,lord ,byron when engaged in writing his ,hebrew ,melodies4 ,byron was born in ,london1 #aghh1 and died at ,missolonghi1 ,western ,greece1 #ahbd4 ,we sat down and wept by the waters ,of ,babel1 and thought of the day ,when the foe1 in the hue of his slaughters1 ,made ,salem's high places his prey1 ,and ye1 ,oh her desolate daughters1 ,were scattered all weeping away4 --,written ,april1 #ahad4 ,it was the fashion then for musical societies to call on the popular poets for contributions1 and tunes were composed for them1 though these have practically passed into oblivion4 ,byron's ringing ballad 7from ,,ii ,kings #ai3ce7-- ,th' ,assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold ,and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold1 --has been so much a favorite for recitation and declamation that the loss of its tune is never thought of4 ,another poetic rendering of the ,captivity ,psalm is worthy of notice among the lay hymns not unworthy to supplement clerical sermons4 ,it was written by the ,hon4 ,joel ,barlow in #agii1 and published in a pioneer psalm-book at ,northampton1 ,mass4 ,it is neither a translation nor properly a hymn but a poem built upon the words of the ,jewish lament1 and really reproducing something of its plaintive beauty4 ,two stanzas of it are as follows3 ,along the banks where ,babel's current flows ,our captive bands in deep despondence strayed1 ,while ,zion's fall in deep remembrance rose1 ,her friends1 her children mingled with the dead4 ,the tuneless harps that once with joy we strung ,when praise employed1 or mirth inspired the lay1 ,in mournful silence on the willows hung1 ,and growing grief prolonged the tedious day4 ,like ,pope1 this ,american poet loved onomatope and imitative verse1 and the last line is a word-picture of home-sick weariness4 ,this psalm was the best piece of work in ,mr4 ,barlow's series of attempted improvements upon ,isaac ,watts--which on the whole were not very successful4 ,the sweet cantabile of ,mason's ,melton gave ,along the banks quite an extended lease of life1 though it has now ceased to be sung4 ,joel ,barlow was a versatile gentleman1 serving his country and generation in almost every useful capacity1 from chaplain in the continental army to foreign ambassador4 ,he was born in ,redding1 ,ct41 #agee1 and died near ,cracow1 ,poland1 ,dec4 #ahab4 ,,as ,,down ,,in ,,the ,,sunless4 ,thomas ,moore1 the poet of glees and love-madrigals1 had sober thoughts in the intervals of his gaiety1 and employed his genius in writing religious and even devout poems1 which have been spiritually helpful in many phases of ,christian experience4 ,among them was this and the four following hymns1 with thirty-four others1 each of which he carefully labelled with the name of a music composer1 though the particular tune is left indefinite4 ,the still prayer of devotion here answers1 in rhyme and reality1 the simile of the sea-flower in the unseen deep1 and the mariner's compass represents the constancy of a believer4 ,as1 still to the star of its worship1 though clouded1 ,the needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea1 ,so1 dark as ,i roam in this wintry world shrouded1 ,the hope of my spirit turns trembling to ,thee4 ,it is sung in ,plymouth ,hymnal to ,barnby's ,st4 ,botolph4 ,,the ,,turf ,,shall ,,be ,,my ,,fragrant ,,shrine ,is1 in part1 still preserved in hymn collections1 and sung to the noble tune of ,louvan1 ,virgil ,taylor's piece4 ,the last stanza is especially reminiscent of the music4 ,there's nothing bright above1 below1 ,from flowers that bloom to stars that glow2 ,but in its light my soul can see ,some feature of ,thy deity4 ,o ,,thou ,,who ,,dry',,st ,,the ,,mourner',s ,,tear ,is associated in the ,baptist ,praise ,book with ,woodbury's ,siloam4 ,,the ,,bird ,,let ,,loose ,,in ,,eastern ,,skies ,has been sung in ,mason's ,coventry1 and the ,plymouth ,hymnal assigns it to ,spohr--a namesake tune of ,louis ,spohr1 while the ,unitarian ,hymn and ,tune ,book unites to it a beautiful triple-time melody from ,mozart1 and bearing his name4 ,,thou ,,art1 ,o ,,god1 ,,the ,,life ,,and ,,light4 ,this is the best of the ,irish poet's sacred songs--always excepting1 ,come1 ,ye ,disconsolate4 ,it is said to have been originally set to a secular melody composed by the wife of ,hon4 ,richard ,brinsley ,sheridan4 ,it is joined to the tune of ,brighton in the ,unitarian books1 and ,william ,monk's ,matthias voices the words for the ,plymouth ,hymnal4 ,the verses have the true lyrical glow1 and make a real song of praise as well a composition of more than ordinary literary beauty4 ,thou art1 ,o ,god1 the life and light ,of all this wondrous world we see2 ,its glow by day1 its smile by night ,are but reflections caught from ,thee4 ,where'er we turn ,thy glories shine1 ,and all things fair and bright are ,thine4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when night with wings of starry gloom ,o'ershadows all the earth1 and skies ,like some dark1 beauteous bird1 whose plume ,is sparkling with unnumbered eyes1 ,that sacred gloom1 those fires divine1 ,so grand1 so countless1 ,lord1 are ,thine4 ,when youthful spring around us breathes1 ,thy ,spirit warms her fragrant sigh1 ,and every flower the summer wreathes ,is born beneath that kindling eye4 ,where'er we turn ,thy glories shine1 ,and all things fair and bright are ,thine4 ,,mournfully1 ,,tenderly1 ,,bear ,,on ,,the ,,dead4 ,a tender funeral ballad by ,henry ,s4 ,washburn1 composed in #ahdf and entitled ,the ,burial of ,mrs4 ,judson4 ,it is rare now in sheet-music form but the ,american ,vocalist1 to be found in the stores of most great music publishers and dealers1 preserves the full poem and score4 ,its occasion was the death at sea1 off ,st4 ,helena1 of the ,baptist missionary1 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,hall ,boardman ,judson1 and the solemn committal of her remains to the dust on that historic island1 ,sept4 #a1 #ahde4 ,she was on her way to ,america from ,burmah at the time of her death1 and the ship proceeded on its homeward voyage immediately after her burial4 ,the touching circumstances of the gifted lady's death1 and the strange romance of her entombment where ,napoleon's grave was made twenty-four years before1 inspired ,mr4 ,washburn1 who was a prominent layman of the ,baptist denomination1 and interested in all its ecclesiastical and missionary activities1 and he wrote this poetic memorial of the event3 ,mournfully1 tenderly1 bear on the dead2 ,where the warrior has lain1 let the ,christian be laid4 ,no place more befitting1 ,o rock of the sea2 ,never such treasure was hidden in thee4 ,mournfully1 tenderly1 solemn and slow2 ,tears are bedewing the path as ye go2 ,kindred and strangers are mourners today2 ,gently1 so gently1 ,o bear her away4 ,mournfully1 tenderly1 gaze on that brow2 ,beautiful is it in quietude now4 ,one look1 and then settle the loved to her rest ,the ocean beneath her1 the turf on her breast4 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,judson was the second wife of the ,rev4 ,adoniram ,judson1 ,d4,d41 the celebrated pioneer ,american ,baptist missionary1 and the mother by her first marriage1 of the late ,rev4 ,george ,dana ,boardman1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 of ,philadelphia4 ,the ,hon4 ,henry ,s4 ,washburn was born in ,providence1 ,r4,i41 #ahac1 and educated at ,brown ,university4 ,during most of his long life he resided in ,massachusetts1 and occupied there many positions of honor and trust1 serving in the ,state ,legislature both as ,representative and ,senator4 ,he was the author of many poems and lyrics of high merit1 some of which--notably ,the ,vacant ,chair--became popular in sheet-music and in books of religious and educational use4 ,he died in #aijc4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the ,burial of ,mrs4 ,judson became favorite parlor music when ,lyman ,heath composed the melody for it--of the same name4 ,its notes and movement were evidently inspired by the poem1 for it reproduces the feeling of every line4 ,the threnody was widely known and sung in the middle years of the last century1 by people1 too1 who had scarcely heard of ,mrs4 ,judson1 and received in the music and words their first hint of her history4 ,the poem prompted the tune1 but the tune was the garland of the poem4 ,lyman ,heath of ,bow1 ,n4,h41 was born there ,aug4 #bd1 #ahjd4 ,he studied music1 and became a vocalist and vocal composer4 ,died ,july #cj1 #ahgj4 ,,tell ,,me ,,not ,,in ,,mournful ,,numbers4 ,longfellow's ,psalm of ,life was written when he was a young man1 and for some years it carried the title he gave it1 ,what the ,young ,man's ,heart ,said to the ,psalmist--a caption altogether too long to bear currency4 ,the history of the beloved poet who wrote this optimistic ballad of hope and courage is too well known to need recounting here4 ,he was born in ,portland1 ,me41 in #ahjg1 graduated at ,bowdoin ,college1 and was for more than forty years professor of ,belles ,lettres in ,harvard ,university4 ,died in ,cambridge1 ,march #d1 #ahhb4 ,of his longer poems the most read and admired are his beautiful romance of ,evangeline1 and his epic of ,hiawatha1 but it is hardly too much to say that for the last sixty years1 his ,psalm of ,life has been the common property of all ,american1 if not ,english school-children1 and a part of their education4 ,when he was in ,london1 ,queen ,victoria sent for him to come and see her at the palace4 ,he went1 and just as he was seating himself in the waiting coach after the interview1 a man in working clothes appeared1 hat in hand1 at the coach window4 ,please sir1 yer honor1 said he1 an' are you ,mr4 ,longfellow8 ,i am ,mr4 ,longfellow1 said the poet4 ,an' did you write the ,psalm of ,life8 he asked4 ,i wrote the ,psalm of ,life1 replied the poet4 ,an'1 yer honor1 would you be willing to take a workingman by the hand8 ,mr4 ,longfellow gave the honest ,englishman a hearty handshake1 ,and 7said he in telling the story7 ,i never in my life received a compliment that gave me more satisfaction4 ,the incident has a delightful democratic flavor--and it is perfectly characteristic of the amiable author of the most popular poem in the ,english language4 ,the ,psalm of ,life is a wonderful example of the power of commonplaces put into tuneful and elegant verse4 ,the thought of setting the poem to music came to the compiler of one of the ,unitarian church singing books4 ,some will question1 however1 whether the selection was the happiest that could have been made4 ,the tune is ,rathbun1 ,ithamar ,conkey's melody that always recalls ,sir ,john ,bowring's great hymn of praise4 ,,build ,,thee ,,more ,,noble ,,mansions4 ,this poem by ,dr4 ,oliver ,wendell ,holmes1 known among his works as ,the ,chambered ,nautilus1 was considered by himself as his worthiest achievement in verse1 and his wish that it might live is likely to be fulfilled4 ,it is stately1 and in character and effect a rhythmic sermon from a text in natural theology4 ,the biography of one of the little molluscan sea-navigators that continually enlarges its shell to adapt it to its growth inspired the thoughtful lines4 ,the third1 fourth and fifth stanzas are as follows3 ,year after year beheld the silent toil ,that spread the lustrous coil2 ,still1 as the spiral grew1 ,he left the last year's dwelling for the new1 ,stole with soft step the shining archway through1 ,built up its idle door1 ,stretched in his last-found home1 and knew the old no more4 ,thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee1 ,child of the wand'ring sea1 ,cast from her lap forlorn6 ,from thy dead lips a clearer note is born ,than ever ,triton blew from wreathed horn6 ,while on my ear it rings ,through the deep caves of thought ,i hear a voice that sings1 ,build thee more noble mansions1 ,o my soul4 ,as the swift seasons roll3 ,leave thy low-vaulted past6 ,let each new temple1 nobler than the last1 ,shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast1 ,till thou at length art free1 ,leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea4 ,dr4 ,frederic ,hedge included the poem in his hymn-book but without any singing-supplement to the words4 ,,whittier',s ,,service ,,song4 ,it may not be our lot to wield ,the sickle in the harvest field4 ,if this stanza and the four following do not reveal all the strength of ,john ,g4 ,whittier's spirit1 they convey its serious sweetness4 ,the verses were loved and prized by both ,president ,garfield and ,president ,mc,kinley4 ,on the ,sunday before the latter went from his ,canton1 ,o41 home to his inauguration in ,washington the poem was sung as a hymn at his request in the services at the ,methodist church where he had been a constant worshipper4 ,the second stanza is the one most generally recognized and oftenest quoted3 ,yet where our duty's task is wrought ,in unison with ,god's great thought1 ,the near and future blend in one1 ,and whatsoe'er is willed1 is done4 ,john ,greenleaf ,whittier1 the poet of the oppressed1 was born in ,haverhill1 ,mass41 #ahjg1 worked on a farm and on a shoe-bench1 and studied at the local academy1 until1 becoming of age1 he went to ,hartford1 ,conn41 and began a brief experience in editorial life4 ,soon after his return to ,massachusetts he was elected to the ,legislature1 and after his duties ended there he left the state for ,philadelphia to edit the ,pennsylvania ,freeman4 ,a few years later he returned again1 and established his home in ,amesbury1 the town with which his life and works are always associated4 ,he died in #ahib at ,hampton ,falls1 ,n4,h41 where he had gone for his health4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,abends1 the smooth triple-time choral joined to ,whittier's poem by the music editor of the new ,methodist ,hymnal1 speaks its meaning so well that it is scarcely worth while to look for another4 ,sir ,herbert ,stanley ,oakeley1 the composer1 was born at ,ealing1 ,eng41 ,july #bb1 #ahcj1 and educated at ,rugby and ,oxford4 ,he studied music in ,germany1 and became a superior organist1 winning great applause by his recitals at ,edinburgh ,university1 where he was elected ,musical ,professor4 ,archbishop ,tait gave him the doctorate of music at ,canterbury in #ahga1 and he was knighted by ,queen ,victoria in #ahgf4 ,besides vocal duets1 ,scotch melodies and student songs1 he composed many anthems and tunes for the church--notably ,edina 7,saviour1 blessed ,saviour7 and ,abends1 originally written to ,keble's ,sun of my ,soul4 ,,the ,,bird ,,with ,,the ,,broken ,,pinion4 ,this lay of a lost gift1 with its striking lesson1 might have been copied from the wounded bird's own song1 it is so natural and so clear-toned4 ,the opportune thought and pen of ,mr4 ,hezekiah ,butterworth gave being to the little ballad the day he heard the late ,dr4 ,george ,lorimer preach from a text in the story of ,samson's fall 7,judges #af3ba7 ,the ,philistines took him1 and put out his eyes1 and brought him down to ,gaza 444 and he did grind in the prison-house4 ,a sentence in the course of the doctor's sermon1 ,the bird with a broken pinion never soars as high again1 was caught up by the listening author1 and became the refrain of his impressive song4 ,rev4 ,frank ,m4 ,lamb1 the tuneful evangelist1 found it in print1 and wrote a tune to it1 and in his voice and the voices of other singers the little monitor has since told its story in revival meetings1 and mission and gospel services throughout the land4 ,i walked through the woodland meadows ,where sweet the thrushes sing1 ,and found on a bed of mosses ,a bird with a broken wing4 ,i healed its wound1 and each morning ,it sang its old sweet strain1 ,but the bird with a broken pinion ,never soared as high again4 ,i found a young life broken ,by sin's seductive art2 ,and1 touched with a ,christ-like pity1 ,i took him to my heart4 ,he lived--with a noble purpose1 ,and struggled not in vain2 ,but the life that sin had stricken ,never soared as high again4 ,but the bird with a broken pinion ,kept another from the snare1 ,and the life that sin had stricken ,saved another from despair4 ,each loss has its compensation1 ,there is healing for every pain ,but the bird with a broken pinion ,never soars as high again4 ,in the tune an extra stanza is added--as if something conventional were needed to make the poem a hymn4 ,but the professional tone of the appended stanza1 virtually all in its two lines-- ,then come to the dear ,redeemer1 ,he will cleanse you from every stain1 --is forced into its connection4 ,the poem told the truth1 and stopped there2 and should be left to fasten its own impression4 ,there never was a more solemn warning uttered than in this little apologue4 ,it promises compensation and healing1 but not perfect rehabilitation4 ,sin will leave its scars4 ,even ,he who became sin for us bore them in ,his resurrection body4 ,rev4 ,frank ,m4 ,lamb1 composer and singer of the hymn-tune1 was born in ,poland1 ,me41 #ahfj1 and educated in the schools of ,poland and ,auburn4 ,he was licensed to preach in #ahhh1 and ordained the same year1 and has since held pastorates in ,maine1 ,new ,york1 and ,massachusetts4 ,besides his tune1 very pleasing and appropriate music has been written to the little ballad of the broken wing by ,geo4 ,c4 ,stebbins4 ,illustration3 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates ,,under ,,the ,,palms4 ,in the cantata1 ,under the ,palms 7,captive ,judah in ,babylon7--the joint production of ,george ,f4 ,root#ai and ,hezekiah ,butterworth1 several of the latter's songs detached themselves1 with their music1 from the main work1 and lingered in choral or solo service in places where the sacred operetta was presented1 both in ,america and ,england4 ,one of these is an effective solo in deep contralto1 with a suggestion of recitative and chant-- ,by the dark ,euphrates' stream1 ,by the ,tigris1 sad and lone ,i wandered1 a captive maid2 ,and the cruel ,assyrian said1 ,awake your harp's sweet tone6 ,i had heard of my fathers' glory from the lips of holy men1 ,and ,i thought of the land of my fathers2 ,i thought of my fathers' land then4 ,another is-- ,o church of ,christ6 our blest abode1 ,celestial grace is thine4 ,thou art the dwelling-place of ,god1 ,the gate of joy divine4 ,whene'er ,i come to thee in joy1 ,whene'er ,i come in tears1 ,still at the ,gate called ,beautiful ,my risen ,lord appears4 --with the chorus-- ,where'er for me the sun may set1 ,wherever ,i may dwell1 ,my heart shall nevermore forget ,thy courts1 ,immanuel6 ,footnote #ai3 ,see page #caf4 ,,if ,,you ,,cannot ,,on ,,the ,,ocean4 ,this popular ,christian ballad1 entitled ,your ,mission1 was written one stormy day in the winter of #ahfa-b by ,miss ,ellen ,m4 ,huntington 7,mrs4 ,isaac ,gates71 and made her reputation as one of the few didactic poets whose exquisite art wins a hearing for them everywhere4 ,in a moment of revery1 while looking through the window at the falling snow1 the words came to her3 ,if you cannot on the ocean ,sail among the swiftest fleet4 ,she turned away and wrote the lines on her slate1 following with verse after verse till she finished the whole poem4 ,it wrote itself1 she says in her own account of it4 ,reading afterwards what she had written1 she was surprised at her work4 ,the poem had a meaning and a mission4 ,so strong was the impression that the devout girl fell on her knees and consecrated it to a divine purpose4 ,free copies of it went to the ,cooperstown1 ,n4,y41 local paper1 and to the ,new ,york ,examiner1 and appeared in both4 ,from that time the history and career of ,your ,mission presents a marked illustration of catenal influence1 or transmitted suggestion4 ,in the later days of the ,civil ,war ,philip ,phillips1 who had a wonderfully sweet tenor voice1 was invited to sing at a great meeting of the ,united ,states ,christian ,commission in the ,senate ,chamber at ,washington1 ,february1 #ahfe1 ,president ,lincoln and ,secretary ,seward 7then president of the commission7 were there1 and the hall was crowded with leading statesmen1 army generals1 and friends of the ,union4 ,the song selected by ,mr4 ,phillips was ,mrs4 ,gates' ,your ,mission3 ,if you cannot on the ocean ,sail among the swiftest fleet1 ,rocking on the highest billows1 ,laughing at the storms you meet1 ,you can stand among the sailors ,anchored yet within the bay2 ,you can lend a hand to help them ,as they launch their boats away4 ,the hushed audience listened spell-bound as the sweet singer went on1 their interest growing to feverish eagerness until the climax was reached in the fifth stanza3 ,if you cannot in the conflict ,prove yourself a soldier true1 ,if where fire and smoke are thickest ,there's no work for you to do1 ,when the battlefield is silent ,you can go with careful tread2 ,you can bear away the wounded1 ,you can cover up the dead4 ,in the storm of enthusiasm that followed1 ,president ,lincoln handed a hastily scribbled line on a bit of paper to ,chairman ,seward1 ,near the close let us have ',your ,mission' repeated4 ,mr4 ,phillips' great success on this occasion brought him so many calls for his services that he gave up everything and devoted himself to his tuneful art4 ,your ,mission so gladly welcomed at ,washington made him the first gospel songster1 chanting round the world the divine message of the hymns4 ,it was the singing by ,philip ,phillips that first impressed ,ira ,d4 ,sankey with the amazing power of evangelical solo song1 and helped him years later to resign his lucrative business as a revenue officer and consecrate his own rare vocal gift to the ,christian ministry of sacred music4 ,heaven alone can show the birth-records of souls won to ,god all along the journeys of the ,singing ,pilgrims1 and the rich succession of ,mr4 ,sankey's melodies1 that can be traced back by a chain of causes to the poem that wrote itself and became a hymn4 ,and the chain may not yet be complete4 ,in the words of that providential poem-- ,though they may forget the singer ,they will not forget the song4 ,mrs4 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates1 whose reputation as an author was made by this beautiful and always timely poem1 was born in ,torrington1 ,ct41 and is the youngest sister of the late ,collis ,p4 ,huntington4 ,her hymns--included in this volume and in other publications--are much admired and loved1 both for their sweetness and elevated religious feeling1 and for their poetic quality4 ,among her published books of verse are ,night1 ,at ,noontide1 and ,treasures of ,kurium4 ,her address is ,new ,york ,city4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,sidney ,martin ,grannis1 author of the tune1 was born ,sept4 #bc1 #ahbg1 in ,geneseo1 ,livingston county1 ,n4,y4 ,lived in ,leroy1 of the same state1 from #ahca to #ahhd1 when he removed to ,los ,angeles1 ,cal41 where several of his admirers presented him a cottage and grounds1 which at last accounts he still occupies4 ,mr4 ,grannis won his first reputation as a popular musician by his song ,do ,they ,miss ,me at ,home1 and his ,only ,waiting1 ,cling to the ,union1 and ,people ,will ,talk ,you ,know1 had an equally wide currency4 ,as a solo singer his voice was remarkable1 covering a range of two octaves1 and while travelling with members of the ,amphion ,troupe1 to which he belonged1 he sang at more than five thousand concerts4 ,his tune to ,your ,mission was composed in ,new ,haven1 ,ct41 in #ahfd4 ,,too ,,late6 ,,too ,,late6 ,,ye ,,cannot ,,enter ,,now4 ,too ,late is a thrilling fragment or side-song of ,alfred ,tennyson's1 representing the vain plea of the five ,foolish ,virgins4 ,its tune bears the name of a ,london lady1 ,miss ,lindsay 7afterwards ,mrs4 ,j4 ,worthington ,bliss74 ,the arrangement of air1 duo and quartet is very impressive#bj4 ,footnote #bj3 ,methodist ,hymnal1 ,no4 #gdc4 ,late1 late1 so late6 and dark the night and chill3 ,late1 late1 so late6 but we can enter still4 ,too late6 too late6 ye cannot enter now6 ,no light6 so late6 and dark and chill the night-- ,o let us in that we may find the light6 ,too late6 too late6 ye cannot enter now6 99 99 99 99 99 ,have we not heard the ,bridegroom is so sweet8 ,o let us in that we may kiss his feet6 ,no1 ,no--6 too late6 ye cannot enter now6 ,the words are found in ,queen ,guinevere1 a canto of the ,idyls of the ,king4 ,,oh1 ,,galilee1 ,,sweet ,,galilee4 ,this is the chorus of a charming poem of three stanzas that shaped itself in the mind of ,mr4 ,robert ,morris while sitting over the ruins on the traditional site of ,capernaum by the ,lake of ,genneseret4 ,each cooing dove1 each sighing bough1 ,that makes the eve so blest to me1 ,has something far diviner now1 ,it bears me back to ,galilee4 ,,chorus ,oh1 ,galilee1 sweet ,galilee1 ,where ,jesus loved so much to be2 ,oh1 ,galilee1 blue ,galilee1 ,come sing thy song again to me4 ,robert ,morris1 ,,ll4,d41 born ,aug4 #ca1 #ahah1 was a scholar1 and an expert in certain scientific subjects1 and wrote works on numismatics and the ,poetry of ,free ,masonry4 ,commissioned to ,palestine in #ahfh on historic and archaeological service for the ,united ,order1 he explored the scenes of ancient ,jewish and ,christian life and event in the ,holy ,land1 and being a religious man1 followed the ,saviour's earthly footsteps with a reverent zeal that left its inspiration with him while he lived4 ,he died in the year #ahhh1 but his ,christian ballad secured him a lasting place in every devout memory4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the author wrote out his hymn in #ahgd and sent it to his friend1 the musician1 ,mr4 ,horatio ,r4 ,palmer1#ba and the latter learned it by heart1 and carried it with him in his musings till it floated out in the melody you know1 7to use his own words47 ,footnote #ba3 ,see page #caa4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,old ,,revival ,,hymns4 ,the sober churches of the ,old ,thirteen states and of their successors far into the nineteenth century1 sustained evening prayer-meetings more or less commonly1 but necessity made them in most cases cottage meetings appointed on ,sunday and here and there in the scattered homes of country parishes4 ,their intent was the same as that of revival meetings1 since so called1 though the method--and the music--were different4 ,the results in winning sinners1 so far as they owed anything to the hymns and hymn-tunes1 were apt to be a new generation of ,christian recruits as sombre as the singing4 ,lebanon set forth the appalling shortness of human life2 ,windham gave its depressing story of the great majority of mankind on the broad road1 and other minor tunes proclaimed ,god's sovereignty and eternal decrees2 or if a psalm had ,his love in it1 it was likely to be sung in a similar melancholy key4 ,even in his gladness the good minister1 ,thomas ,baldwin1 of the ,second ,baptist ,church1 at ,boston1 ,north ,end1 returning from ,newport1 ,n4,h41 where he had happily harmonized a discordant church1 could not escape the strait-lace of a ,c minor for his thankful hymn-- ,from whence doth this union arise1 ,that hatred is conquered by love4 ,the ,puritans took their pleasures seriously1 and this did not cease to be true till at least two hundred years after the ,pilgrims landed or ,boston was founded4 ,time1 that covered the ghastly faces on the old grave-stones with moss1 gradually stole away the unction of minor-tune singing4 ,the songs of the great revival of #agdj swept the country with positive rather than negative music4 ,even ,jonathan ,edwards admitted the need of better psalm-books and better psalmody4 ,edwards1 during his life1 spent some time among the ,indians as a missionary teacher2 but probably neither he nor ,david ,brainerd ever saw a ,christian hymn composed by an ,indian4 ,the following1 from the early years of the last century1 is apparently the first1 certainly the only surviving1 effort of a converted but half-educated red man to utter his thoughts in pious metre4 ,whoever trimmed the original words and measure into printable shape evidently took care to preserve the broken ,english of the simple convert4 ,it is an interesting relic of the ,christian thought and sentiment of a pagan just learning to prattle prayer and praise3 ,in de dark wood1 no ,indian nigh1 ,den me look heaben1 send up cry1 ,upon my knees so low4 ,dat ,god on high1 in shinee place1 ,see me in night1 with teary face1 ,de priest1 he tell me so4 ,god send ,him angel take me care2 ,him come ,heself and hear um prayer1 ,if ,indian heart do pray4 ,god see me now1 ,he know me here4 ,he say1 poor ,indian1 neber fear1 ,me wid you night and day4 ,so me lub ,god wid inside heart2 ,he fight for me1 ,he take my part1 ,he save my life before4 ,god lub poor ,indian in de wood2 ,so me lub ,god1 and dat be good2 ,me pray ,him two times more4 ,when me be old1 me head be gray1 ,den ,he no lebe me1 so ,he say3 ,me wid you till you die4 ,den take me up to shinee place1 ,see white man1 red man1 black man's face1 ,all happy 'like on high4 ,few days1 den ,god will come to me1 ,he knock off chains1 ,he set me free1 ,den take me up on high4 ,den ,indian sing ,his praises blest1 ,and lub and praise ,him wid de rest1 ,and neber1 neber cry4 ,the above hymn1 which may be found in different forms in old ,new ,england tracts and hymn-books1 and which used to be sung in ,methodist conference and prayer-meetings in the same way that old slave-hymns and the ,jubilee ,singers refrains are sometimes sung now1 was composed by ,william ,apes1 a converted ,indian1 who was born in ,massachusetts1 in #agih4 ,his father was a white man1 but married an ,indian descended from the family of ,king ,philip1 the ,indian warrior1 and the last of the ,indian chiefs4 ,his grandmother was the king's granddaughter1 as he claimed1 and was famous for her personal beauty4 ,he caused his autobiography and religious experience to be published4 ,the original hymn is quite long1 and contains some singular and characteristic expressions4 ,the authorship of the tune to which the words were sung has been claimed for ,samuel ,cowdell1 a schoolmaster of ,annapolis ,valley1 ,nova ,scotia1 #ahbj1 but the date of the lost tune was probably much earlier4 ,in the early days of ,new ,england1 before the ,indian missions had been brought to an end by the sweeping away of the tribes1 several fine hymns were composed by educated ,indians1 and were used in the churches4 ,the best known is that beginning-- ,when shall we all meet again8 ,it was composed by three ,indians at the planting of a memorial pine on leaving ,dartmouth ,college1 where they had been studying4 ,the lines indicate an expectation of missionary life and work4 ,when shall we all meet again8 ,when shall we all meet again8 ,oft shall glowing hope expire1 ,oft shall wearied love retire1 ,oft shall death and sorrow reign ,ere we all shall meet again4 ,though in distant lands we sigh1 ,parched beneath a burning sky1 ,though the deep between us rolls1 ,friendship shall unite our souls2 ,and in fancy's wide domain1 ,there we all shall meet again4 ,when these burnished locks are gray1 ,thinned by many a toil-spent day1 ,when around this youthful pine ,moss shall creep and ivy twine1 7,long may this loved bower remain67 ,here may we all meet again4 ,when the dreams of life are fled1 ,when its wasted lamps are dead1 ,when in cold oblivion's shade ,beauty1 health1 and strength are laid1 ,where immortal spirits reign1 ,there we all shall meet again4 ,this parting piece was sung in religious meetings as a hymn1 like the other once so common1 but later1-- ,when shall we meet again1 ,meet ne'er to sever8 --to a tune in ,b flat minor1 excessively plaintive1 and likely to sadden an emotional singer or hearer to tears4 ,the full harmony is found in the ,american ,vocalist1 and the air is reprinted in the ,revivalist 7#ahfh74 ,the fact that minor music is the natural ,indian tone in song makes it probable that the melody is as ancient as the hymn--though no date is given for either4 ,tradition says that nearly fifty years later the same three ,indians were providentially drawn to the spot where they parted1 and met again1 and while they were together composed and sang another ode4 ,truth to tell1 however1 it had only one note of gladness1 and that was in the first stanza3 ,parted many a toil-spent year1 ,pledged in youth to memory dear1 ,still to friendship's magnet true1 ,we our social joys renew2 ,bound by love's unsevered chain1 ,here on earth we meet again4 ,the remaining three stanzas dwell principally on the ravages time has made4 ,the reunion ode of those stoical college classmates of a stoical race could have been sung in the same ,b flat minor4 ,,awaked ,,by ,,sinai',s ,,awful ,,sound4 ,the name of the ,indian1 ,samson ,occum1 who wrote this hymn 7variously spelt ,ockom1 ,ockum1 ,occam1 ,occom7 is not borne by any public institution1 but ,new ,england owes the foundation of ,dartmouth ,college to his hard work4 ,dartmouth ,college was originally ,moore's ,indian ,charity ,school1 organized 7#agej7 in ,lebanon1 ,ct41 by ,rev4 ,eleazer ,wheelock and endowed 7#agee7 by ,joshua ,moore 7or ,more74 ,good men and women who had at heart the spiritual welfare of a fading race contributed to the school's support and young ,indians resorted to it from both ,new ,england and the ,middle ,states1 but funds were insufficient1 and it was foreseen that the charity must inevitably outgrow its missionary purpose and if continued at all must depend on a wider and more liberal patronage4 ,samson ,occum was born in ,mohegan1 ,new ,london ,co41 ,ct41 probably in the year #agbb4 ,converted from paganism in #agdj 7possibly under the preaching of ,whitefield1 who was in this country at that time7 he desired to become a missionary to his people1 and entered ,eleazer ,wheelock's school4 ,after four years study1 then a young man of twenty-two1 he began to teach and preach among the ,montauk ,indians1 and in #agei the ,presbytery of ,suffolk ,co41 ,l4,i41 ordained him to the ministry4 ,a benevolent society in ,scotland1 hearing of1 his ability and zeal1 gave him an appointment1 under its auspices1 among the ,oneidas in #agfa1 where he labored four years4 ,the interests of the school at ,lebanon1 where he had been educated1 were dear to him1 and he was tireless in its cause1 procuring pupils for it1 and working eloquently as its advocate with voice and pen4 ,in #agfe he crossed the ,atlantic to solicit funds for the ,indian school1 and remained four years in ,england and ,scotland1 lecturing in its behalf1 and preaching nearly four hundred sermons4 ,as a result he raised ten thousand pounds4 ,the donation was put in charge of a ,board of ,trustees of which ,lord ,dartmouth was chairman4 ,when it was decided to remove the school from ,lebanon1 ,ct41 the efforts of ,governor ,wentworth1 of ,new ,hampshire1 secured its location at ,hanover in that state4 ,it was christened after ,lord ,dartmouth--and the names of ,occum1 ,moore and ,wheelock retired into the encyclopedias4 ,the ,rev4 ,samson ,occum died in #aggi1 while laboring among the ,stockbridge 7,n4,y47 ,indians4 ,several hymns were written by this remarkable man1 and also ,an ,account of the ,customs and ,manners of the ,montauks4 ,the hymn1 ,awaked by ,sinai's ,awful ,sound1 set to the stentorian tune of ,ganges1 was a tremendous sermon in itself to old-time congregations1 and is probably as indicative of the doctrines which converted its writer as of the contemporary belief prominent in choir and pulpit4 ,awaked by ,sinai's awful sound1 ,my soul in bonds of guilt ,i found1 ,and knew not where to go1 ,eternal truth did loud proclaim ,the sinner must be born again4 ,or sink in endless woe4 ,when to the law ,i trembling fled1 ,it poured its curses on my head3 ,i no relief could find4 ,this fearful truth increased my pain1 ,the sinner must be born again1 ,and whelmed my troubled mind4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but while ,i thus in anguish lay1 ,jesus of ,nazareth passed that way2 ,i felt ,his pity move4 ,the sinner1 once by justice slain1 ,now by ,his grace is born again1 ,and sings eternal ,love6 ,the rugged original has been so often and so variously altered and toned down1 that only a few unusually accurate aged memories can recall it4 ,the hymn began going out of use fifty years ago1 and is now seldom seen4 ,the name ,s4 ,chandler1 attached to ,ganges1 leaves the identity of the composer in shadow4 ,it is supposed he was born in #agfj4 ,the tune appeared about #agij4 ,,where ,,now ,,are ,,the ,,hebrew ,,children8 ,this quaint old unison1 repeating the above three times1 followed by the answer 7thrice repeated7 and climaxed with-- ,safely in the ,promised ,land1 --was a favorite at ancient camp-meetings1 and a good leader could keep it going in a congregation or a happy group of vocalists1 improvising a new start-line after every stop until his memory or invention gave out4 ,they went up from the fiery furnace1 ,they went up from the fiery furnace1 ,they went up from the fiery furnace1 ,safely to the ,promised ,land4 ,sometimes it was-- ,where now is the good ,elijah8 --and1-- ,he went up in a chariot of fire2 --and again1-- ,where now is the good old ,daniel8 ,he went up from the den of lions2 --and so on1 finally announcing-- ,by and by we'll go home for to meet him1 three times ,safely in the ,promised ,land4 ,the enthusiasm excited by the swinging rhythm of the tune sometimes rose to a passionate pitch1 and it was seldom used in the more controlled religious assemblies4 ,if any attempt was ever made to print the song#bb the singers had little need to read the music4 ,like the ancient runes1 it came into being by spontaneous generation1 and lived in phonetic tradition4 ,footnote #bb3 ,mr4 ,hubert ,p4 ,main believes he once saw ,the ,hebrew ,children in print in one of ,horace ,waters' editions of the ,sabbath ,bell4 ,a strange1 wild paean of exultant song was one often heard from ,peter ,cartwright1 the muscular circuit-preacher4 ,a remembered fragment shows its quality3 ,then my soul mounted higher ,in a chariot of fire1 ,and the moon it was under my feet4 ,there is a tradition that he sang it over a stalwart blacksmith while chastising him for an ungodly defiance and assault in the course of one of his gospel journeys--and that the defeated blacksmith became his friend and follower4 ,peter ,cartwright was born in ,amherst county1 ,va41 ,sept4 #a1 #aghe1 and died near ,pleasant ,plains1 ,sangamon county1 ,ill41 ,sept41 #ahgb4 ,,the ,,eden ,,of ,,love4 ,this song1 written early in the last century1 by ,john ,j4 ,hicks1 recalls the name of the eccentric traveling evangelist1 ,lorenzo ,dow1 born in ,coventry1 ,ct41 ,october #af1 #aggg2 died in ,washington1 ,d4,c41 ,feb4 #b1 #ahcd4 ,it was the favorite hymn of his wife1 the beloved ,peggy ,dow1 and has furnished the key-word of more than one devotional rhyme that has uplifted the toiling souls of rural evangelists and their greenwood congregations3 ,how sweet to reflect on the joys that await me ,in yon blissful region1 the haven of rest1 ,where glorified spirits with welcome shall greet me1 ,and lead me to mansions prepared for the blest4 ,there1 dwelling in light1 and with glory enshrouded1 ,my happiness perfect1 my mind's sky unclouded1 ,i'll bathe in the ocean of pleasure unbounded1 ,and range with delight through the ,eden of love4 ,the words and tune were printed in ,leavitt's ,christian ,lyre1 #ahcj4 ,the same strain in the same metre is continued in the hymn of ,rev4 ,wm4 ,hunter1 ,d4,d41 7#ahdb7 printed in his ,minstrel of ,zion 7#ahde74 ,j4,w4 ,dadmun's ,melodian 7#ahfj7 copied it1 retaining1 apparently1 the original music1 with an added refrain of invitation1 ,will you go8 will you go8 ,we are bound for the land of the pure and the holy1 ,the home of the happy1 the kingdom of love2 ,ye wand'rers from ,god on the broad road of folly1 ,o say1 will you go to the ,eden above8 ,the old hymn-tune has a brisk out-door delivery1 and is full of revival fervor and the ozone of the pines4 ,o ,,cana-,,an1 ,,bright ,,cana-,,an ,was one of the stimulating melodies of the old-time awakenings1 which were simply airs1 and were sung unisonously4 ,o ,cana-an 7pronounced in three syllables7 was the chorus1 the hymn-lines being either improvised or picked up miscellaneously from memory1 the interline1 ,i am bound for the land of ,cana-an1 occurring between every two4 ,john ,wesley's ,how happy is the pilgrim's lot was one of the snatched stanzas swept into the current of the song4 ,an example of the tune-leader's improvisations to keep the hymn going was-- ,if you get there before ,i do1-- ,i am bound for the land of ,cana-an6 ,look out for me1 ,i'm coming too-- ,i am bound for the land of ,cana-an6 ,and then hymn and tune took possession of the assembly and rolled on in a circle with-- ,o ,cana-an1 bright ,cana-an6 ,i am bound for the land of ,cana-an2 ,o ,cana-an it is my hap-py home1 ,i am bound for the land of ,cana-an --till the voices came back to another starting-line and began again4 ,there was always a movement to the front when that tune was sung1 and--with all due abatement for superficial results in the sensation of the moment--it is undeniable that many souls were truly born into the kingdom of ,god under the sound of that rude woodland song4 ,both its words and music are credited to ,rev4 ,john ,maffit1 who probably wrote the piece about #ahbi4 ,a ,,charge ,,to ,,keep ,i ,,have4 ,this hymn of ,charles ,wesley was often heard at the camp grounds1 from the rows of tents in the morning while the good women prepared their pancakes and coffee1 and ,,the ,,tune4 was invariably old ,kentucky1 by ,jeremiah ,ingalls4 ,sung as a solo by a sweet and spirited voice1 it slightly resembled ,golden ,hill1 but oftener its halting bars invited a more drawling style of execution unworthy of a hymn that merits a tune like ,st4 ,thomas4 ,old ,kentucky was not field music4 ,,christians1 ,,if ,,your ,,hearts ,,are ,,warm4 ,elder ,john ,leland1 born in ,grafton1 ,mass41 #aged1 was not only a strenuous personality in the ,baptist denomination1 but was well known everywhere in ,new ,england1 and1 in fact1 his preaching trip to ,washington 7#ahja7 with the ,cheshire ,cheese made his fame national4 ,he is spoken of as the minister who wrote his own hymns--a peculiarity in which he imitated ,watts and ,doddridge4 ,when some natural shrinking was manifest in converts of his winter revivals1 under his rigid rule of immediate baptism1 he wrote this hymn to fortify them3 ,christians1 if your hearts are warm1 ,ice and cold can do no harm2 ,if by ,jesus you are prized ,rise1 believe and be baptized4 ,he found use for the hymn1 too1 in rallying church-members who staid away from his meetings in bad weather4 ,the poetry expressed what he wanted to say--which1 in his view1 was sufficient apology for it4 ,it was sung in revival meetings like others that he wrote1 and a few hymnbooks now long obsolete contained it2 but of ,leland's hymns only one survives4 ,gray-headed men and women remember being sung to sleep by their mothers with that old-fashioned evening song to ,amzi ,chapin's#bc tune-- ,the day is past and gone1 ,the evening shades appear1 ,o may we all remember well ,the night of death draws near2 --and with all its solemnity and other-worldness it is dear to recollection1 and its five stanzas are lovingly hunted up in the few hymnals where it is found4 ,bradbury's ,braden1 7,baptist ,praise ,book1 #ahgc17 is one of its tunes4 ,footnote #bc3 ,amzi ,chapin has left1 apparently1 nothing more than the record of his birth1 ,march #b1 #agfh1 and the memory of his tune4 ,it appeared as early as #ahje4 ,elder ,leland was a remarkable revival preacher1 and his prayers--as was said of ,elder ,jabez ,swan's fifty or sixty years later--brought heaven and earth together4 ,he traveled through the ,eastern ,states as an evangelist1 and spent a season in ,virginia in the same work4 ,in #ahja he revisited that region on a curious errand4 ,the farmers of ,cheshire1 ,mass41 where ,leland was then a settled pastor1 conceived the plan of sending the biggest cheese in ,america to ,president ,jefferson1 and ,leland 7who was a good democrat7 offered to go to ,washington on an ox-team with it1 and preach all the way--which he actually did4 ,the cheese weighed #adej lbs4 ,elder ,leland died in ,north ,adams1 ,mass41 ,jan4 #ad1 #ahdd4 ,another of his hymns1 which deserved to live with his ,evening ,song1 seemed to be answered in the brightness of his death-bed hope3 ,o when shall ,i see ,jesus ,and reign with ,him above1 ,and from that flowing fountain ,drink everlasting love8 ,,awake1 ,,my ,,soul1 ,,to ,,joyful ,,lays4 ,this glad hymn of ,samuel ,medley is his thanksgiving song1 written soon after his conversion4 ,in the places of rural worship no lay of ,christian praise and gratitude was ever more heartily sung than this at the testimony meetings4 ,awake1 my soul1 to joyful lays1 ,and sing thy great ,redeemer's praise2 ,he justly claims a song from me3 ,his loving-kindness1 oh1 how free6 ,loving-kindness1 loving-kindness1 ,his loving-kindness1 oh1 how free6 ,,the ,,tune1 ,with its queer curvet in every second line1 had no other name than ,loving-,kindness1 and was probably a camp-meeting melody in use for some time before its publication4 ,it is found in ,leavitt's ,christian ,lyre as early as #ahcj4 ,the name ,william ,caldwell is all that is known of its composer1 though he is supposed to have lived in ,tennessee4 ,,the ,,lord ,,into ,,his ,,garden ,,comes4 ,was a common old-time piece sure to be heard at every religious rally1 and every one present1 saint and sinner1 had it by heart1 or at least the chorus of it-- ,amen1 amen1 my soul replies1 ,i'm bound to meet you in the skies1 ,and claim my mansion there1 etc4 ,the anonymous#bd ,garden ,hymn1 as old1 at least1 as #ahjj1 has nearly passed out of reach1 except by the long arm of the antiquary2 but it served its generation4 ,footnote #bd3 ,a ,rev4 ,mr4 ,campbell1 author of ,the ,glorious ,light of ,zion1 ,there is a ,holy ,city1 and ,there is a ,land of ,pleasure1 has been sometimes credited with the origin of the ,garden ,hymn4 ,its vigorous tune is credited to ,jeremiah ,ingalls 7#agfd-ahch74 ,the ,lord into ,his garden comes2 ,the spices yield a rich perfume1 ,the lilies grow and thrive1 ,the lilies grow and thrive4 ,refreshing showers of grace divine ,from ,jesus flow to every vine1 ,which makes the dead revive1 ,which makes the dead revive4 ,,the ,,chariot6 ,,the ,,chariot6 ,henry ,hart ,milman1 generally known as ,dean ,milman1 was born in #agia1 and was educated at ,oxford4 ,in #ahba he was installed as university professor of poetry at ,oxford1 and it was while filling this position that he wrote this celebrated hymn1 under the title of ,the ,last ,day4 ,it is not only a hymn1 but a poem--a sublime ode that recalls1 in a different movement1 the tones of the ,dies ,irae4 ,dean ,milman 7of ,st ,paul's71 besides his many striking poems and learned historical works1 wrote at least twelve hymns1 among which are-- ,ride on1 ride on in majesty1 ,o help us ,lord2 each hour of need ,thy heavenly succor give1 ,when our heads are bowed with woe1 --which last may have been written soon after he laid three of his children in one grave1 in the north aisle of ,westminster ,abbey4 ,he lived a laborious and useful life of seventy-seven years1 dying ,sept4 #bd1 #ahfh4 ,there were times in the old revivals when the silver clarion of the ,chariot ,hymn must needs replace the ruder blast of ,occum in old ,ganges and sinners unmoved by the invisible ,god of ,horeb be made to behold ,him--in a vision of the ,last ,day4 ,the ,chariot6 the ,chariot6 its wheels roll in fire ,when the ,lord cometh down in the pomp of ,his ire1 ,lo1 self-moving1 it drives on its pathway of cloud1 ,and the heavens with the burden of ,godhead are bowed4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,judgment6 the ,judgment6 the thrones are all set1 ,where the ,lamb and the white-vested elders are met2 ,there all flesh is at once in the sight of the ,lord1 ,and the doom of eternity hangs on ,his word4 ,the name ,williams or ,j4 ,williams is attached to various editions of the trumpet-like tune1 but so far no guide book gives us location1 date or sketch of the composer4 ,,come1 ,,my ,,brethren4 ,another of the unstudied revival hymns of invitation4 ,come1 my brethren1 let us try ,for a little season ,every burden to lay by1 ,come and let us reason4 ,what is this that casts you down4 ,what is this that grieves you8 ,speak and let your wants be known2 ,speaking may relieve you4 ,this colloquial rhyme was apt to be started by some good brother or sister in one of the chilly pauses of a prayer-meeting4 ,the air 7there was never anything more to it7 with a range of only a fifth1 slurred the last syllable of every second line1 giving the quaint effect of a bent note1 and altogether the music was as homely as the verse4 ,both are anonymous4 ,but the little chant sometimes served its purpose wonderfully well4 ,,brethren1 ,,while ,,we ,,sojourn ,,here4 ,this hymn was always welcome in the cottage meetings as well as in the larger greenwood assemblies4 ,it was written by ,rev4 ,joseph ,swain1 about #aghc4 ,brethren1 while we sojourn here ,fight we must1 but should not fear4 ,foes we have1 but we've a ,friend1 ,one who loves us to the end2 ,forward then with courage go2 ,long we shall not dwell below1 ,soon the joyful news will come1 ,child1 your ,father calls1 ',come home4' ,the tune was sometimes ,pleyel's ,hymn1 but oftener it was sung to a melody now generally forgotten of much the same movement but slurred in peculiarly sweet and tender turns4 ,the cadence of the last tune gave the refrain line a melting effect3 ,child1 your ,father calls1 ,come home4 ,some of the spirit of this old tune 7in the few hymnals where the hymn is now printed7 is preserved in ,geo4 ,kingsley's ,messiah which accompanies the words1 but the modulations are wanting4 ,joseph ,swain was born in ,birmingham1 ,eng4 in #agfa4 ,bred among mechanics1 he was early apprenticed to the engraver's trade1 but he was a boy of poetic temperament and fond of writing verses4 ,after the spiritual change which brought a new purpose into his life1 he was baptized by ,dr4 ,rippon and studied for the ministry4 ,at the age of about twenty-five1 he was settled over the ,baptist church in ,walworth1 where he remained till his death1 ,april #af1 #agif4 ,for more than a century his hymns have lived and been loved in all the ,english-speaking world4 ,among those still in use are-- ,how sweet1 how heavenly is the sight1 ,pilgrims we are to ,canaan bound1 ,o ,thou in whose presence my soul takes delight4 ,,happy ,,day4 ,o happy day that fixed my choice4 --,doddridge4 ,o how happy are they who the ,saviour obey4 --,charles ,wesley4 ,these were voices as sure to be heard in converts' meetings as the leader's prayer or text1 the former sung inevitably to ,rimbault's tune1 ,happy ,day1 and the latter to a ,western ,melody quite as closely akin to ,wesley's words4 ,edward ,francis ,rimbault1 born at ,soho1 ,eng41 ,june #ac1 #ahaf1 was at sixteen years of age organist at the ,soho ,swiss ,church1 and became a skilled though not a prolific composer4 ,he once received--and declined--the offer of an appointment as professor of music in ,harvard ,college4 ,died of a lingering illness ,sept1 #bf1 #ahgf4 ,,come1 ,,holy ,,spirit1 ,,heavenly ,,dove4 --,watts4 ,this was the immortal song-litany that fitted almost anywhere into every service4 ,the ,presbyterians and ,congregationalists sang it in ,tansur's ,st4 ,martins1 the ,baptists in ,william ,jones' ,stephens and the ,methodists in ,maxim's ,turner 7which had the most music71 but the hymn went about as well with one as with another4 ,the ,rev4 ,william ,jones 7#agbf-ahjj7 an ,english rector1 and ,abraham ,maxim of ,buckfield1 ,me41 7#aggc-ahbi7 contributed quite a liberal share of the continental tunes popular in the latter part of the #ahth century4 ,maxim was eccentric1 but the tradition that an unfortunate affair of the heart once drove him into the woods to make away with himself1 but a bird on the roof of a logger's hut1 making plaintive sounds1 interrupted him1 and he sat down and wrote the tune ,hallowell1 on a strip of white birch bark1 is more likely legendary4 ,the following words1 said to have inspired his minor tune1 are still set to it in the old collections3 ,as on some lonely building's top ,the sparrow makes her moan1 ,far from the tents of joy and hope ,i sit and grieve alone4#be ,footnote #be3 ,versified by ,nahum ,tate from ,ps4 #ajb3g4 ,maxim was fond of the minor mode1 but his minors1 like ,hallowell1 ,new ,durham1 etc41 are things of the past4 ,his major chorals and fugues1 such as ,portland1 ,buckfield1 and ,turner had in them the spirit of healthier melody and longer life4 ,he published at least two collections1 ,the ,oriental ,harmony1 in #ahjb1 and ,the ,northern ,harmony1 in #ahje4 ,william ,tansur 7,tans-ur71 author of ,st4 ,martins 7#affi-aghc71 was an organist1 composer1 compiler1 and theoretical writer4 ,he was born at ,barnes1 ,surrey1 ,eng41 7according to one account17 and died at ,st4 ,neot's4 ,,come1 ,,thou ,,fount ,,of ,,every ,,blessing4 ,this hymn of ,rev4 ,robert ,robinson was almost always heard in the tune of ,nettleton1 composed by ,john ,wyeth1 about #ahab4 ,the more wavy melody of ,sicily 7or ,sicilian ,hymn7 sometimes carried the verses1 but never with the same sympathetic unction4 ,the sing-song movement and accent of old ,nettleton made it the country favorite4 ,robert ,robinson1 born in ,norfolk1 ,eng41 ,sept4 #bg1 #agce1 was a poor boy1 left fatherless at eight years of age1 and apprenticed to a barber1 but was converted by the preaching of ,whitefield and studied till he obtained a good education1 and was ordained to the ,methodist ministry4 ,he is supposed to have written his well-known hymn in #ageh4 ,a certain unsteadiness of mind1 however1 caused him to revise his religious beliefs too often for his spiritual health or enjoyment1 and after preaching as a ,methodist1 a ,baptist1 and an ,independent1 he finally became a ,socinian4 ,on a stage-coach journey1 when a lady fellow-passenger began singing ,come1 ,thou ,fount of ,every ,blessing1 to relieve the monotony of the ride1 he said to her1 ,madam1 ,i am the unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago2 and ,i would give a thousand worlds1 if ,i had them1 if ,i could feel as ,i felt then4 ,robinson died ,june #i1 #agij4 ,john ,wyeth was born in ,cambridge1 ,mass41 #agib1 and died at ,harrisburg1 ,pa41 #aheh4 ,he was a musician and publisher1 and issued a ,music ,book1 ,wyeth's ,repository of ,sacred ,music4 ,a ,,poor ,,wayfaring ,,man ,,of ,,grief1 ,written by ,james ,montgomery1 ,dec41 #ahbf1 was a hymn of tide and headway in ,george ,coles' tune of ,duane ,st41 with a step that made every heart beat time4 ,the four picturesque eight-line stanzas made a practical sermon in verse and song from ,matt4 #be3ce1 telling how-- ,a poor wayfaring man of grief ,hath often crossed me on my way1 ,who sued so humbly for relief ,that ,i could never answer nay4 ,i had no power to ask his name1 ,whither he went or whence he came1 ,yet there was something in his eye ,that won my love1 ,i knew not why2 --and in the second and third stanzas the narrator relates how he entertained him1 and this was the sequel-- ,then in a moment to my view ,the stranger started from disguise ,the token in ,his hand ,i knew2 ,my ,saviour stood before my eyes4 ,when once that song was started1 every tongue took it up1 7and it was strange if every foot did not count the measure17 and the coldest kindled with gospel warmth as the story swept on4#bf ,footnote #bf3 ,montgomery's poem1 ,the ,stranger1 has seven stanzas4 ,the full dramatic effect of their connection could only be produced by a set piece4 ,,when ,,for ,,eternal ,,worlds ,i ,,steer4 ,it was no solitary experience for hearers in a house of prayer where the famous ,elder ,swan held the pulpit1 to feel a climactic thrill at the sudden breaking out of the eccentric orator with this song in the very middle of his sermon-- ,when for eternal worlds ,i steer1 ,and seas are calm and skies are clear1 ,and faith in lively exercise1 ,and distant hills of ,canaan rise1 ,my soul for joy then claps her wings1 ,and loud her lovely sonnet sings1 ,vain world1 adieu6 ,with cheerful hope her eyes explore ,each landmark on the distant shore1 ,the trees of life1 the pastures green1 ,the golden streets1 the crystal stream1 ,again for joy1 she claps her wings1 ,and loud her lovely sonnet sings1 ,vain world1 adieu6 ,elder ,jabez ,swan was born in ,stonington1 ,ct41 ,feb4 #bc1 #ahjj1 and died #ahhd4 ,he was a tireless worker as a pastor 7long in ,new ,london1 ,ct417 and a still harder toiler in the field as an evangelist and as a helper eagerly called for in revivals2 and1 through all1 he was as happy as a boy in vacation4 ,he was unlearned in the technics of the schools1 but always eloquent and armed with ready wit2 unpolished1 but poetical as a ,hebrew prophet and as terrible in his treatment of sin4 ,scoffers and hoodlums who interrupted him in his meetings never interrupted him but once4 ,illustration3 ,james ,montgomery ,the more important and canonical hymnals and praise-books had no place for ,sonnet1 as the bugle-like air to this hymn was called4 ,rev4 ,jonathan ,aldrich1 about #ahfj1 harmonized it in his ,sacred ,lyre1 but this1 and the few other old vestry and field manuals that contain it1 were compiled before it became the fashion to date and authenticate hymns and tunes4 ,in this case both are anonymous4 ,another 7and probably earlier7 tune sung to the same words is credited to ,s4 ,arnold1 and appears to have been composed about #agij4 ,i',m ,a ,,pilgrim1 ,,and ,i',m ,a ,,stranger4 ,this hymn still lives--and is likely to live1 at least in collections that print revival music4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,stanley 7,bunce7 ,dana1 born in ,beaufort1 ,s4,c41 ,feb4 #ae1 #ahaj1 wrote it while living in a northern state1 where her husband died4 ,by the name ,dana she is known in hymnology1 though she afterwards became ,mrs4 ,shindler4 ,the tune identified with the hymn1 ,i'm a ,pilgrim1 is untraced1 save that it is said to be an ,italian ,air1 and that its original title was ,buono ,notte 7good night74 ,no other hymn better expresses the outreaching of ardent faith4 ,its very repetitions emphasize and sweeten the vision of longed-for fruition4 ,i can tarry1 ,i can tarry but a night1 ,do not detain me1 for ,i am going4 99 99 99 99 99 ,there the sunbeams are ever shining1 ,o my longing heart1 my longing heart is there4 99 99 99 99 99 ,of that country to which ,i'm going1 ,my ,redeemer1 my ,redeemer is the light4 ,there is no sorrow1 nor any sighing1 ,nor any sin there1 nor any dying1 ,i'm a pilgrim1 etc4 ,the same devout poetess also wrote 7#ahdj7 the once popular consolatory hymn1-- ,o sing to me of heaven ,when ,i'm about to die1 --sung to the familiar tune by ,rev4 ,e4,w4 ,dunbar2 also to a melody composed #ahed by ,dr4 ,william ,miller4 ,the line was first written-- ,when ,i am called to die1 --in the author's copy4 ,the hymn 7occasioned by the death of a pious friend7 was written ,jan4 #ae1 #ahdj4 ,mrs4 ,dana 7,shindler7 died in ,texas1 ,feb4 #h1 #ahhc4 ,,joyfully1 ,,joyfully ,,onward ,i ,,move4 ,the maker of this hymn has been confounded with the maker of its tune--partly1 perhaps1 from the fact that the real composer of the tune also wrote hymns4 ,the author of the words was the ,rev4 ,william ,hunter1 ,d4,d41 an ,irish-,american1 and a ,methodist minister4 ,he was born near ,ballymoney1 ,county ,antrim1 ,ire41 ,may1 #ahaa1 and was brought to ,america when a child six years old4 ,he received his education in the common schools and at ,madison ,college1 ,hamilton1 ,n4,y41 7now ,madison ,university71 and was successively a pastor1 editor and ,hebrew professor4 ,besides his work in these different callings1 he wrote many helpful hymns--in all one hundred and twenty-five--of which ,joyfully1 ,joyfully1 dated #ahdb1 is the best4 ,it began originally with the line-- ,friends fondly cherished have passed on before1 --and the line1-- ,home to the land of delight ,i will go4 --was written1-- ,home to the land of bright spirits ,i'll go4 ,dr4 ,hunter died in ,ohio1 #ahgg4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,rev4 ,abraham ,dow ,merrill1 the author of the music to this triumphal death-song1 was born in ,salem1 ,n4,h41 #agif1 and died ,april #bi1 #ahgh4 ,he also was a ,methodist minister1 and is still everywhere remembered by the denomination to which he belonged in ,new ,hampshire and ,vermont4 ,he rode over these states mingling in revival scenes many years4 ,his picture bears a close resemblance to that of ,washington1 and he was somewhat famous for this resemblance4 ,his work was everywhere blessed1 and he left an imperishable influence in ,new ,england4 ,the tune1 linked with ,dr4 ,hunter's hymn1 formed the favorite melody which has been the dying song of many who learned to sing it amid the old revival scenes3 ,death1 with thy weapons of war lay me low2 ,strike1 king of terrors2 ,i fear not the blow4 ,jesus has broken the bars of the tomb1 ,joyfully1 joyfully haste to thy home4 ,,tis ,,the ,,old ,,ship ,,of ,,zion1 ,,hallelujah6 ,this may be found1 vocalized with full harmony1 in the ,american ,vocalist4 ,with all the parts together 7more or less7 it must have made a vociferous song-service1 but the hymn was oftener sung simply in soprano unison2 and there was sound enough in the single melody to satisfy the most zealous4 ,all her passengers will land on the bright eternal shore1 ,o1 glory hallelujah6 ,she has landed many thousands1 and will land as many more1 ,o1 glory hallelujah6 ,both hymn and tune have lost their creators' names1 and1 like many another voice crying in the wilderness1 they have left no record of their beginning of days4 ,,my ,,brother1 ,i ,,wish ,,you ,,well4 ,my brother1 ,i wish you well1 ,my brother1 ,i wish you well2 ,when my ,lord calls ,i trust you will ,be mentioned in the ,promised ,land4 ,echoes that remain to us of those fervid and affectionate1 as well as resolute and vehement1 expressions of religious life as sung in the early revivals of ,new ,england1 in parts of the ,south1 and especially in the ,middle ,west1 are suggestive of spontaneous melody forest-born1 and as unconscious of scale1 clef or tempo as the song of a bird4 ,the above hand-shaking ditty at the altar gatherings apparently took its tune self-made1 inspired in its first singer's soul by the feeling of the moment--and the strain was so simple that the convert could join in at once and chant-- ,when my ,lord comes ,i trust ,i shall --through all the loving rotations of the crude hymn-tune4 ,such song-births of spiritual enthusiasm are beyond enumeration--and it is useless to hunt for author or composer4 ,under the momentum of a wrestling hour or a common rapture of experience1 counterpoint was unthought of1 and the same notes for every voice lifted pleading and praise in monophonic impromptu4 ,the refrains-- ,o how ,i love ,jesus1 ,o the ,lamb1 the ,lamb1 the loving ,lamb1 ,i'm going home to die no more1 ,pilgrims we are to ,canaan's land1 ,o turn ye1 ,o turn ye1 for why will you die1 ,come to ,jesus1 come to ,jesus1 just now1 --each at the sound of its first syllable brought its own music to every singer's tongue1 and all--male and female--were sopranos together4 ,this habit in singing those rude liturgies of faith and fellowship was recognized by the editors of the ,revivalist1 and to a multitude of them space was given only for the printed melody1 and of this sometimes only the three or four initial bars4 ,the tunes were the church's rural field-tones that everybody knew4 ,culture smiles at this unclassic hymnody of long ago1 but its history should disarm criticism4 ,to wanderers its quaint music and pedestrian verse were threshold call and door-way welcome into the church of the living ,god4 ,even in the flaming days of the ,second ,advent following1 in #ahdb-c1 they awoke in many hardened hearts the spiritual glow that never dies4 ,the delusion passed away1 but the grace remained4 ,the church--and the world--owe a long debt to the old evangelistic refrains that rang through the sixty years before the ,civil ,war1 some of them flavored with tuneful piety of a remoter time4 ,they preached righteousness1 and won souls that sermons could not reach4 ,they opened heaven to thousands who are now rejoicing there4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,sunday-,,school ,,hymns4 ,,shepherd ,,of ,,tender ,,youth4 ,greek3 ,stomion polon adaon ,we are assured by repeated references in the patristic writings that the primitive years of the ,christian ,church were not only years of suffering but years of song4 ,that the despised and often persecuted ,nazarenes1 scattered in little colonies throughout the ,roman ,empire1 did not forget to mingle tones of praise and rejoicing with their prayers could readily be believed from the much-quoted letter of a pagan lawyer1 written about as long after ,jesus' death1 as from now back to the death of ,john ,quincy ,adams--the letter of ,pliny the younger to the ,emperor ,trajan1 in which he reports the ,christians at their meetings singing hymns to ,christ as to a god4 ,those disciples who spoke ,greek seem to have been especially tuneful1 and their land of poets was doubtless the cradle of ,christian hymnody4 ,believers taught their songs to their children1 and it is as certain that the oldest ,sunday-school hymn was written somewhere in the classic ,east as that the ,book of ,revelation was written on the ,isle of ,patmos4 ,the one above indicated was found in an appendix to the ,tutor1 a book composed by ,titus ,flavius ,clemens of ,alexandria1 a ,christian philosopher and instructor whose active life began late in the second century4 ,it follows a treatise on ,jesus as the ,great ,teacher1 and1 though his own words elsewhere imply a more ancient origin of the poem1 it is always called ,clement's ,hymn4 ,the line quoted above is the first of an ,english version by the late ,rev4 ,henry ,martyn ,dexter1 ,d4,d4 ,it does not profess to be a translation1 but aims to transfer to our common tongue the spirit and leading thoughts of the original4 ,shepherd of tender youth1 ,guiding in love and truth ,through devious ways2 ,christ1 our triumphant ,king1 ,we come ,thy name to sing1 ,hither our children bring ,to shout ,thy praise4 ,the last stanza of ,dr4 ,dexter's version represents the sacred song spirit of both the earliest and the latest ,christian centuries3 ,so now1 and till we die ,sound we ,thy praises high1 ,and joyful sing2 ,infants1 and the glad throng ,who to ,thy church belong ,unite to swell the song ,to ,christ our ,king4 ,while they give us the sentiment and the religious tone of the old hymn1 these verses1 however1 recognize the extreme difficulty of anything like verbal fidelity in translating a ,greek hymn1 and in this instance there are metaphors to avoid as being strange to modern taste4 ,the first stanza1 literally rendered and construed1 is as follows3 ,bridle of untaught foals1 ,wing of unwandering birds1 ,helm and ,girdle of babes1 ,shepherd of royal lambs6 ,assemble ,thy simple children ,to praise holily1 ,to hymn guilelessly ,with innocent mouths ,christ1 the ,guide of children4 ,figures like-- ,catching the chaste fishes1 ,heavenly milk1 etc4 --are necessarily avoided in making good ,english of the lines1 and the profusion of adoring epithets in the ancient poem 7no less than twenty-one different titles of ,christ7 would embarrass a modern song4 ,dr4 ,dexter might have chosen an easier metre for his version1 if 7which is improbable7 he intended it to be sung1 since a tune written to sixes and fours takes naturally a more decided lyrical movement and emphasis than the hymn reveals in his stanzas1 though the second and fifth possess much of the hymn quality and would sound well in ,giardini's ,italian ,hymn4 ,more nearly a translation1 and more in the cantabile style1 is the version of a ,scotch ,presbyterian minister1 ,rev4 ,hamilton ,m4 ,macgill1 ,d4,d41 two of whose stanzas are these3 ,thyself1 ,lord1 be the ,bridle ,these wayward wills to stay2 ,be ,thine the ,wing unwand'ring1 ,to speed their upward way4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let them with songs adoring ,their artless homage bring ,to ,christ the ,lord1 and crown ,him ,the children's ,guide and ,king4 ,the ,dexter version is set to ,monk's slow harmony of ,st4 ,ambrose in the ,plymouth ,hymnal 7,ed4 ,dr4 ,lyman ,abbott1 #ahid7 without the writer's name--which is curious1 inasmuch as the hymn was published in the ,congregationalist in #ahdi1 in ,hedge and ,huntington's 7,unitarian7 ,hymn-book in #ahec1 in the ,hymnal of the ,presbyterian ,church in #ahff1 and in ,dr4 ,schaff's ,christ in ,song in #ahfi4 ,clement died about ,a4,d4 #bbj4 ,rev4 ,henry ,martyn ,dexter1 ,d4,d41 for twenty-three years the editor of the ,congregationalist1 was born in ,plymouth1 ,mass41 ,aug4 #ac1 #ahba4 ,he was a graduate of ,yale 7#ahdj7 and ,andover ,divinity ,school 7#ahdd71 a well-known antiquarian writer and church historian4 ,died ,nov4 #ac1 #ahij4 ,,how ,,happy ,,is ,,the ,,child ,,who ,,hears4 ,this hymn was quite commonly heard in ,sunday-schools during the eighteen-thirties and forties1 and1 though retained in few modern collections1 its ,sabbath echo lingers in the memory of the living generation4 ,it was written by ,michael ,bruce1 born at ,kinneswood1 ,kinross-shire1 ,scotland1 ,march #bg1 #agdf4 ,he was the son of a weaver1 but obtained a good education1 taught school1 and studied for the ministry4 ,he died1 however1 while in preparation for his expected work1 ,july #e1 #agfg1 at the age of twenty-one years1 three months and eight days4 ,young ,bruce wrote hymns1 and several poems1 but another person wore the honors of his work4 ,john ,logan1 who was his literary executor1 appropriated the youthful poet's ,mss4 verses1 and the hymn above indicated--as well as the beautiful poem1 ,to the ,cuckoo1#bg still a classic in ,english literature1--bore the name of ,logan for more than a hundred years4 ,in ,julian's ,dictionary of ,hymnology is told at length the story of the inquiry and discussion which finally exposed the long fraud upon the fame of the rising genius who sank1 like ,henry ,kirke ,white1 in his morning of promise4 ,footnote #bg3 ,hail1 beauteous stranger of the wood1 ,attendant on the ,spring2 ,now ,heaven repairs thy rural seat1 ,and woods thy welcome ring4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,old ,balerma was so long the musical mouth-piece of the pious boy-schoolmaster's verses that the two became one expression1 and one could not be named without suggesting the other4 ,balerma 7,palermo7 was ages away in style and sound from the later type of ,sunday-school tunes1 resembling rather one of ,palestrina's chorals than the tripping melodies that took its place2 but in its day juvenile voices enjoyed it1 and it suited very well the grave but winning words4 ,how happy is the child who hears ,instruction's warning voice1 ,and who celestial ,wisdom makes ,his early1 only choice6 ,for she hath treasures greater far ,than ,east and ,west unfold1 ,and her rewards more precious are ,than all their stores of gold4 ,she guides the young with innocence ,in pleasure's path to tread1 ,a crown of glory she bestows ,upon the hoary head4 ,robert ,simpson1 author of the old tune1#bh was a ,scottish composer of psalmody2 born1 about #agbb1 in ,glasgow2 and died1 in ,greenock1 ,june1 #ahch4 ,footnote #bh3 ,the tune was evidently reduced from the still older ,sardius 7or ,autumn7--,hubert ,p4 ,main4 ,o ,,do ,,not ,,be ,,discouraged4 ,written about #ahjc1 by the ,rev4 ,john ,a4 ,grenade1 born in #aggj2 died #ahjf4 ,o do not be discouraged1 ,for ,jesus is your ,friend2 bis ,he will give you grace to conquer1 ,and keep you to the end4 ,fight on1 ye little soldiers1 ,the battle you shall win1 bis ,for the ,saviour is your ,captain1 ,and ,he has vanquished sin4 ,and when the conflict's over1 ,before ,him you shall stand1 bis ,you shall sing ,his praise forever ,in ,canaan's happy land4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn was made popular thirty or more years ago in a musical arrangement by ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 with a chorus1-- ,i'm glad ,i'm in this army1 ,and ,i'll battle for the school4 ,children took to the little song with a keen relish1 and put their whole souls--and bodies--into it4 ,,little ,,travellers ,,zionward ,belongs to a generation long past4 ,its writer was an architect by occupation1 and a man whose piety equalled his industry4 ,he was born in ,london #agia1 and his name was ,james ,edmeston4 ,he loved to compose religious verses--so well1 in fact1 that he is said to have prepared a new piece every week for ,sunday morning devotions in his family and in this way accumulated a collection which he published and called ,cottager's ,hymns4 ,besides these he is credited with a hundred ,sunday-school hymns4 ,little travellers ,zionward1 ,each one entering into rest ,in the ,kingdom of your ,lord1 ,in the mansions of the blest1 ,there to welcome ,jesus waits1 ,gives the crown ,his followers win1 ,lift your heads1 ye golden gates1 ,let the little travellers in4 ,the original tune is lost--and the hymn is vanishing with it2 but the felicity of its rhyme and rhythm show how easily it adapted itself to music4 ,i',m ,,but ,a ,,stranger ,,here4 ,the simple beauty of this hymn1 and the sympathetic sweetness of its tune made children love to sing it1 and it found its way into a few ,sunday-school collections1 though not composed for such use4 ,a young ,congregational minister4 ,rev4 ,thomas ,rawson ,taylor1 wrote it on the approach of his early end4 ,he was born at ,osset1 near ,wakefield1 ,yorkshire1 ,eng41 ,may #i1 #ahjg1 and studied in ,bradford1 where his father had taken charge of a large church1 and at ,manchester ,academy and ,airesdale ,college4 ,sensible of a growing ailment that might shorten his days1 he hastened to the work on which his heart was set1 preaching in surrounding towns and villages while a student1 and finally quitting college to be ordained to his sacred profession4 ,he was installed as pastor of ,howard ,st4 ,chapel1 ,sheffield1 ,july1 #ahcj1 when only twenty-three4 ,but in less than three years his strength failed1 and he went back to ,bradford1 where he occasionally preached for his father1 when able to do so1 during his last days4 ,he died there ,march #ae1 #ahce4 ,taylor was a brave and lovely ,christian--and his hymn is as sweet as his life4 ,i'm but a stranger here1 ,heaven is my home2 ,earth is a desert drear1 ,heaven is my home4 ,dangers and sorrows stand ,round me on every hand2 ,heaven is my ,fatherland-- ,heaven is my home4 ,what though the tempest rage1 ,heaven is my home2 ,short is my pilgrimage1 ,heaven is my home4 ,and time's wild1 wintry blast ,soon will be overpast2 ,i shall reach home at last-- ,heaven is my home4 ,in his last attempt to preach1 young ,taylor uttered the words1 ,i want to die like a soldier1 sword in hand4 ,on the evening of the same ,sabbath day he breathed his last4 ,his words were memorable1 and ,montgomery1 who loved and admired the man1 made them the text of a poem1 part of which is the familiar hymn ,servant of ,god1 well done4#bi ,footnote #bi3 ,see page #dih ,,the ,,tune4 ,sir ,arthur ,sullivan put the words into classic expression1 but1 to ,american ears at least1 the tune of ,oak1 by ,lowell ,mason1 is the hymn's true sister4 ,it was composed in #ahed4 ,,dear ,,jesus1 ,,ever ,,at ,,my ,,side4 ,one of ,frederick ,william ,faber's sweet and simple lyrics4 ,it voices that temper and spirit in the human heart which the ,saviour first looks for and loves best4 ,none better than ,faber could feel and utter the real artlessness of ,christian love and faith4 ,dear ,jesus1 ever at my side1 ,how loving must ,thou be ,to leave ,thy home in heaven to guard ,a sinful child like me4 ,thy beautiful and shining face ,i see not1 tho' so near2 ,the sweetness of ,thy soft low voice ,i am too deaf to hear4 ,i cannot feel ,thee touch my hand ,with pressure light and mild1 ,to check me as my mother did ,when ,i was but a child2 ,but ,i have felt ,thee in my thoughts ,fighting with sin for me1 ,and when my heart loves ,god ,i know ,the sweetness is from ,thee4 ,illustration3 ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby 7,mrs4 ,van ,alstyne7 ,,the ,,tune4 ,audientes by ,sir ,arthur ,sullivan is a gentle1 emotional piece1 rendering the first quatrain of each stanza in ,e flat unison1 and the second in ,c harmony4 ,,tis ,,religion ,,that ,,can ,,give4 ,this simple rhyme1 which has been sung perhaps in every ,sunday-school in ,england and the ,united ,states1 is from a small ,english book by ,mary ,masters4 ,in the preface to the work1 we read1 ,the author of the following poems never read a treatise of rhetoric or an art of poetry1 nor was ever taught her ,english grammar4 ,her education rose no higher than the spelling-book or her writing-master1 ',tis religion that can give ,sweetest pleasure while we live2 ',tis religion can supply ,solid comfort when we die4 ,after death its joys shall be ,lasting as eternity4 ,save the two sentences about herself1 quoted above1 there is no biography of the writer4 ,that she was good is taken for granted4 ,the tune-sister of the little hymn is as scant of date or history as itself4 ,no4 #dbb points it out in ,the ,revivalist1 where the name and initial seem to ascribe the authorship to ,horace ,waters4#cj ,footnote #cj3 ,from his ,sabbath ,bell4 ,horace ,waters1 a prominent ,baptist layman1 was born in ,jefferson1 ,lincoln ,co41 ,me41 ,nov4 #a1 #ahab1 and died in ,new ,york ,city1 ,april #bb1 #ahic4 ,he was a piano-dealer and publisher4 ,,there ,,is ,a ,,happy ,,land ,,far1 ,,far ,,away ,this child's hymn was written by a lover of children1 ,mr4 ,andrew ,young1 head master of ,niddrey ,st4 ,school1 ,edinburgh1 and subsequently ,english instructor at ,madras ,college1 ,e4,i4 ,he was born ,april #bc1 #ahjg1 and died ,nov4 #cj1 #ahii1 and long before the end of the century which his life-time so nearly covered his little carol had become one of the universal hymns4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a ,hindoo air or natural chanson1 that may have been hummed in a pagan temple in the hearing of ,mr4 ,young1 was the basis of the little melody since made familiar to millions of prattling tongues4 ,such running tone-rhythms create themselves in the instinct of the ruder nations and tribes1 and even the ,south ,african savages have their incantations with the provincial clicks that mark the singers' time4 ,with an ear for native chirrups and trills1 the author of our pretty infant-school song succeeded in capturing one1 and making a ,christian tune of it4 ,the musician1 ,samuel ,sebastian ,wesley1 sometime in the eighteen-forties1 tried to substitute another melody for the lines1 but ,there is a happy land needs its own birth-music4 ,i ,,have ,a ,,father ,,in ,,the ,,promised ,,land4 ,another cazonet for the infant class4 ,instead of a hymn1 however1 it is only a refrain1 and--like the ring-chant of the ,hebrew ,children1 and even more simple--owes its only variety to the change of one word4 ,the third and fourth lines1-- ,my father calls me1 ,i must go ,to meet ,him in the ,promised ,land1 --take their cue from the first1 which may sing1-- ,i have a ,saviour---- ,i have a mother---- ,i have a brother---- --and so on ad libitum4 ,but the little ones love every sound and syllable of the lisping song1 for it is plain and pleasing1 and when a pinafore school grows restless nothing will sooner charm them into quiet than to chime its innocent unison4 ,both words and tune are nameless and storyless4 ,i ,,think ,,when ,i ,,read ,,that ,,sweet ,,story ,while riding in a stage-coach1 after a visit to a mission school for poor children1 this hymn came to the mind of ,mrs4 ,jemima ,thompson ,luke1 of ,islington1 ,england4 ,it speaks its own purpose plainly enough1 to awaken religious feeling in young hearts1 and guide and sanctify the natural childlike interest in the sweetest incident of the ,saviour's life4 ,i think when ,i read that sweet story of old ,when ,jesus was here among men1 ,how ,he called little children as lambs to ,his fold1 ,i should like to have been with them then4 ,i wish that ,his hands had been laid on my head1 ,and ,i had been placed on ,his knee1 ,and that ,i might have seen ,his kind look when ,he said1 ,let the little ones come unto me4 ,this is not poetry1 but it phrases a wish in a child's own way1 to be melodized and fixed in a child's reverent and sensitive memory4 ,mrs4 ,luke was born at ,colebrook ,terrace1 near ,london1 ,aug4 #ai1 #ahac4 ,she was an accomplished and benevolent lady who did much for the education and welfare of the poor4 ,her hymn--of five stanzas--was first sung in a village school at ,poundford ,park1 and was not published until #ahda4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,it is interesting1 not to say curious1 testimony to the vital quality of this meek production that so many composers have set it to music1 or that successive hymn-book editors have kept it1 and printed it to so many different harmonies4 ,all the chorals that carry it have substantially the same movement--for the spondaic accent of the long lines is compulsory--but their offerings sing to one clear harp in divers tones4 ,the appearance of the words in one hymnal with ,sir ,william ,davenant's air 7full scored7 to ,moore's love-song1 ,believe me1 if all those endearing young charms1 now known as the tune of ,fair ,harvard1 is rather startling at first1 but the adoption is quite in keeping with the policy of ,luther and ,wesley4 ,st4 ,kevin written to it forty years ago by ,john ,henry ,cornell1 organist of ,st4 ,paul's1 ,new ,york ,city1 is sweet and sympathetic4 ,the newest church collection 7#aije7 gives the beautiful air and harmony of ,athens to the hymn1 and notes the music as a ,greek ,melody4 ,but the nameless ,english tune1 of uncertain authorship#ca that accompanies the words in the smaller old manuals1 and which delighted ,sunday-schools for a generation1 is still the favorite in the memory of thousands1 and may be the very music first written4 ,footnote #ca3 ,harmonized by ,hubert ,p4 ,main4 ,,we ,,speak ,,of ,,the ,,realms ,,of ,,the ,,blest4 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,mills1 wife of the ,hon4 ,thomas ,mills1 ,m4,p41 was born at ,stoke ,newington1 ,eng41 #ahje4 ,she was one of the brief voices that sing one song and die4 ,this hymn was the only note of her minstrelsy1 and it has outlived her by more than three-quarters of a century4 ,she wrote it about three weeks before her decease in ,finsbury ,place1 ,london1 ,april #ba1 #ahci1 at the age of twenty-four4 ,we speak of the land of the blest1 ,a country so bright and so fair1 ,and oft are its glories confest1 ,but what must it be to be there6 99 99 99 99 99 ,we speak of its freedom from sin1 ,from sorrow1 temptation and care1 ,from trials without and within1 ,but what must it be to be there6 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn1 like several of the ,gospel hymns besides1 was carried into the ,sunday-schools by its music4 ,mr4 ,stebbins' popular duet-and-chorus is fluent and easily learned and rendered by rote2 and while it captures the ear and compels the voice of the youngest1 it expresses both the pathos and the exaltation of the words4 ,george ,coles ,stebbins was born in ,east ,carleton1 ,orleans ,co41 ,n4,y41 ,feb4 #bf1 #ahdf4 ,educated at common school1 and an academy in ,albany1 he turned his attention to music and studied in ,rochester1 ,chicago1 and ,boston4 ,it was in ,chicago that his musical career began1 while chorister at the ,first ,baptist ,church2 and while holding the same position at ,clarendon ,st4 ,church1 ,boston1 7#ahgd-f71 he entered on a course of evangelistic work with ,d4,l4 ,moody as gospel singer and composer4 ,he was co-editor with ,sankey and ,mc,granahan of ,gospel ,hymns4 ,,only ,,remembered4 ,this hymn1 beginning originally with the lines1-- ,up and away like the dew of the morning1 ,soaring from earth to its home in the sun1 --has been repeatedly altered since it left ,dr4 ,bonar's hands4 ,besides the change of metaphors1 the first personal pronoun singular is changed to the plural4 ,there was strength1 and a natural vivacity in-- ,so let me steal away gently and lovingly1 ,only remembered for what ,i have done4 ,as at present sung the first stanza reads--1 ,fading away like the stars of the morning ,losing their light in the glorious sun1 ,thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling ,only remembered for what we have done4 ,the idea voiced in the refrain is true and beautiful1 and the very euphony of its words helps to enforce its meaning and make the song pleasant and suggestive for young and old4 ,it has passed into popular quotation1 and become almost a proverb4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the tune 7in ,gospel ,hymns ,no4 #f7 is ,mr4 ,sankey's4 ,ira ,david ,sankey was born in ,edinburgh1 ,lawrence ,co41 ,pa41 ,aug4 #bh1 #ahdj4 ,he united with the ,methodist ,church at the age of fifteen1 and became choir leader1 ,sunday-school superintendent and president of the ,y4,m4,c4,a41 all in his native town4 ,hearing ,philip ,phillips sing impressed him deeply1 when a young man1 with the power of a gifted solo vocalist over assembled multitudes1 but he did not fully realize his own capability till ,dwight ,l4 ,moody heard his remarkable voice and convinced him of his divine mission to be a gospel singer4 ,the success of his revival tours with ,mr4 ,moody in ,america and ,england is history4 ,mr4 ,sankey has compiled at least five singing books1 and has written the ,story of the ,gospel ,hymns4 ,until overtaken by blindness1 in his later years he frequently appeared as a lecturer on sacred music4 ,the manuscript of his story of the ,gospel ,hymns was destroyed by accident1 but1 undismayed by the ruin of his work1 and the loss of his eye-sight1 like ,sir ,isaac ,newton and ,thomas ,carlyle1 he began his task again4 ,with the help of an amanuensis the book was restored and1 in #aije1 given to the public4 7,see page #beh47 ,,saviour1 ,,like ,a ,,shepherd ,,lead ,,us4 ,mrs4 ,dorothy ,ann ,thrupp1 of ,paddington ,green1 ,london1 the author of this hymn1 was born ,june #bj1 #agii1 and died1 in ,london1 ,dec4 #ad1 #ahdg4 ,her hymns first appeared in ,mrs4 ,herbert ,mayo's ,selection of ,poetry and ,hymns for the ,use of ,infant and ,juvenile ,schools1 7#ahch74 ,we are ,thine1 do ,thou befriend us1 ,be the ,guardian of our way3 ,keep ,thy flock1 from sin defend us1 ,seek us when we go astray2 ,blessed ,jesus1 ,hear1 ,o hear us when we pray4 ,the tune everywhere accepted and loved is ,w4,b4 ,bradbury's2 written in #ahef4 ,,yield ,,not ,,to ,,temptation ,a much used and valued hymn1 with a captivating tune and chorus for young assemblies4 ,both words and music are by ,h4,r4 ,palmer1 composed in #ahfh4 ,yield not to temptation1 ,for yielding is sin2 ,each vict'ry will help you ,some other to win4 ,fight manfully onward1 ,dark passions subdue2 ,look ever to ,jesus1 ,he will carry you through4 ,horatio ,richmond ,palmer was born in ,sherburne1 ,n4,y41 ,april #bf4 #ahcd1 of a musical family1 and sang alto in his father's choir when only nine4 ,he studied music unremittingly1 and taught music at fifteen4 ,brought up in a ,christian home1 his religious life began in his youth1 and he consecrated his art to the good of man and the glory of ,god4 ,he became well-known as a composer of sacred music1 and as a publisher--the sales of his ,song ,queen amounting to #bjj1jjj copies4 ,as a leader of musical conventions and in the ,church ,choral ,union1 his influence in elevating the standard of song-worship has been widely felt4 ,,there ,,are ,,lonely ,,hearts ,,to ,,cherish4 ,while the days are going by is the refrain of the song1 and the line by which it is recognized4 ,the hymn or poem was written by ,george ,cooper4 ,he was born in ,new ,york ,city1 ,may #ad1 #ahdj--;a writer of poems and magazine articles1--composed ,while the days are going by in #ahgj4 ,there are lonely hearts to cherish ,while the days are going by4 ,there are weary souls who perish ,while the days are going by4 ,up6 then1 trusty hearts and true1 ,though the day comes1 night comes1 too3 ,oh1 the good we all may do ,while the days are going by6 ,there are few more practical and always-timely verses than this three-stanza poem4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,a very musical tune1 with spirited chorus1 7in ,gospel ,hymns7 bears the name of the refrain1 and was composed by ,mr4 ,sankey4 ,a sweet and quieter harmony 7uncredited7 is mated with the hymn in the old ,baptist ,praise ,book 7p4 #ejg7 and this was long the fixture to the words1 in both ,sunday-school and week-day school song-books4 ,,jesus ,,the ,,water ,,of ,,life ,,will ,,give4 ,this ,sunday-school lyric is the work of ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby 7,mrs4 ,van ,alstyne74 ,like her other and greater hymn1 ,jesus keep me near the ,cross1 7noted on p4 #aef17 it reveals the habitual attitude of the pious author's mind1 and the simple earnestness of her own faith as well as her desire to win others4 ,jesus the water of life will give ,freely1 freely1 freely2 ,jesus the water of life will give ,freely to those who love ,him4 ,the ,spirit and the ,bride say ,come ,freely1 freely1 freely4 ,and he that is thirsty let him come ,and drink the water of life4 ,full chorus1-- ,the ,fountain of life is flowing1 ,flowing1 freely flowing2 ,the ,fountain of life is flowing1 ,is flowing for you and for me4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn must be sung as it was made to be sung1 and the composer being many years en rapport with the writer1 knew how to put all her metrical rhythms into sweet sound4 ,the tune--in ,mr4 ,bradbury's ,fresh ,laurels 7#ahfg7--;is one of his sympathetic interpretations1 and1 with the duet sung by two of the best singers of the middle class ,sunday-school girls1 is a melodious and impressive piece4 ,,when ,,he ,,cometh1 ,,when ,,he ,,cometh4 ,the ,rev4 ,w4,o4 ,cushing1 with the beautiful thought in ,malachi #c3ag singing in his soul1 composed this favorite ,sunday-school hymn1 which has gone round the world4 ,when ,he cometh1 when ,he cometh ,to make up ,his jewels1 ,all the jewels1 precious jewels1 ,his loved and ,his own4 ,like the stars of the morning1 ,his bright brow adorning ,they shall shine in their beauty ,bright gems for ,his crown4 ,he will gather1 ,he will gather ,the gems for ,his ,kingdom1 ,all the pure ones1 all the bright ones1 ,his loved and ,his own4 ,like the stars1 etc4 ,little children1 little children ,who love their ,redeemer1 ,are the jewels1 precious jewels ,his loved and ,his own1 ,like the stars1 etc4 ,rev4 ,william ,orcutt ,cushing of ,hingham1 ,mass41 born ,dec4 #ca1 #ahbc1 wrote this little hymn when a young man 7#ahef71 probably with no idea of achieving a literary performance4 ,but it rings2 and even if it is a ringing of changes on pretty syllables1 that is not all4 ,there is a thought in it that sings4 ,its glory came to it1 however1 when it got its tune--and he must have had a subconsciousness of the tune he wanted when he made the lines for his ,sunday-school4 ,he died ,oct4 #ai1 #aijb4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the composer of the music for the ,jewel ,hymn#cb was ,george ,f4 ,root1 then living in ,reading1 ,mass4 ,footnote #cb3 ,comparison of the ,jewel ,hymn tune with the old glee of ,johnny ,schmoker gives color to the assertion that ,mr4 ,root caught up and adapted a popular ditty for his ,christian melody--as was so often done in ,wales1 and in the ,lutheran and ,wesleyan reformations4 ,he baptized the comic fugue1 and promoted it from the vaudeville stage to the ,sunday ,school4 ,a minister returning from ,europe on an ,english steamer visited the steerage1 and after some friendly talk proposed a singing service--it something could be started that everybody knew--for there were hundreds of emigrants there from nearly every part of ,europe4 ,it will have to be an ,american tune1 then1 said the steerage-master2 try ',his jewels4' ,the minister struck out at once with the melody and words1-- ,when ,he cometh1 when ,he cometh1 --and scores of the poor half-fare multitude joined voices with him4 ,many probably recognized the music of the old glee1 and some had heard the sweet air played in the church-steeples at home4 ,other voices chimed in1 male and female1 catching the air1 and sometimes the words--they were so easy and so many times repeated--and the volume of song increased1 till the singing minister stood in the midst of an international concert1 the most novel that he ever led4 ,he tried other songs in similar visits during the rest of the voyage with some success1 but the ,jewel ,hymn was the favorite2 and by the time port was in sight the whole crowd of emigrants had it by heart4 ,the steamer landed at ,quebec1 and when the trains1 filled with the new arrivals1 rolled away1 the song was swelling from nearly every car1-- ,when ,he cometh1 when ,he cometh1 ,to make up ,his jewels4 ,the composer of the tune--with all the patriotic and sacred master-pieces standing to his credit--never reaped a richer triumph than he shared with his poet-partner that day1 when ,precious ,jewels came back to them from over the sea4 ,more than this1 there was missionary joy for them both that their tuneful work had done something to hallow the homes of alien settlers with an ,american ,christian psalm4 ,george ,frederick ,root1 ,doctor of ,music1 was born in ,sheffield1 ,mass41 #ahbj1 eldest of a family of eight children1 and spent his youth on a farm4 ,his genius for music drew him to ,boston1 where he became a pupil of ,lowell ,mason1 and soon advanced so far as to teach music himself and lead the choir in ,park ,st4 church4 ,afterwards he went to ,new ,york as director of music in ,dr4 ,deems's ,church of the ,strangers4 ,in #aheb1 after a year's absence and study in ,europe1 he returned to ,new ,york1 and founded the ,normal ,musical ,institute4 ,in #ahfj1 he removed to ,chicago where he spent the remainder of his life writing and publishing music4 ,he died ,aug4 #f1 #ahie1 in ,maine4 ,in the truly popular sense ,dr4 ,root was the best-known ,american composer2 not excepting ,stephen ,c4 ,foster4 ,root's ,hazel ,dell1 ,there's ,music in the ,air1 and ,rosalie the ,prairie ,flower were universal tunes--7words by ,fanny ,crosby17--as also his music to ,henry ,washburn's ,vacant ,chair4 ,the songs in his cantata1 ,the ,haymakers1 were sung in the shops and factories everywhere1 and his war-time music1 in such melodies as ,shouting the ,battle-cry of ,freedom and ,tramp1 ,tramp1 ,tramp1 the ,boys are ,marching took the country by storm4 ,,scatter ,,seeds ,,of ,,kindness4 ,this amiable and tuneful poem1 suggested by ,rom4 #ab3aj1 is from the pen of ,mary ,louise ,riley 7,mrs4 ,albert ,smith7 of ,new ,york ,city4 ,she was born in ,brighton1 ,monroe ,co41 ,n4,y4 ,may #bg1 #ahdc4 ,let us gather up the sunbeams ,lying all along our path2 ,let us keep the wheat and roses ,casting out the thorns and chaff4 ,,chorus4 ,then scatter seeds of kindness 7ter7 ,for our reaping by and by4 ,silas ,jones ,vail1 the tune-writer1 for this hymn1 was born ,oct4 #ahah1 and died ,may #bj1 #ahhc4 ,for years he worked at the hatter's trade1 with ,beebe on ,broadway1 ,n4,y4 and afterwards in an establishment of his own4 ,his taste and talent led him into musical connections1 and from time to time1 after relinquishing his trade1 he was with ,horace ,waters1 ,philip ,phillips1 ,w4,b4 ,bradbury1 and ,f4,j4 ,smith1 the piano dealer4 ,he was a choir leader and a good composer4 ,,by ,,cool ,,siloam',s ,,shady ,,rill4 ,this hymn of ,bp4 ,heber inculcates the same lesson as that in the stanzas of ,michael ,bruce before noted1 with added emphasis for the young on the briefness of time and opportunity even for them4 ,how fair the lily grows1 --is answered by-- ,the lily must decay1 --but1 owing to the sweetness of the favorite melody1 it was never a saddening hymn for children4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,though ,george ,kingsley's ,heber has in some books done service for the ,bishop's lines1 ,siloam1 easy-flowing and finely harmonized1 is knit to the words as no other tune can be4 ,it was composed by ,isaac ,baker ,woodbury on shipboard during a storm at sea4 ,a stronger illustration of tranquil thought in terrible tumult was never drawn4 ,o ,galilee1 ,sweet ,galilee1 whose history has been given at the end of chapter six1 was not only often sung in ,sunday-schools1 but chimed 7in the cities7 on steeple-bells--nor is it by any means forgotten today--on the ,sabbath and in social singing assemblies4 ,like ,precious ,jewels1 it has been1 in many places1 taken up by street boys with a relish1 and often displaced the play-house ditties in the lips of little newsboys and bootblacks during a leisure hour or a happy mood4 ,i ,,am ,,so ,,glad ,this lively little melody is still a welcome choice to many a lady teacher of fluttering five-year-olds1 when both vocal indulgence and good gospel are needed for the prattlers in her class4 ,it has been as widely sung in ,scotland as in ,america4 ,mr4 ,philip ,p4 ,bliss1 hearing one day the words of the familiar chorus-- ,o1 how ,i love ,jesus1 --suddenly thought to himself1-- ,i have sung long enough of my poor love to ,christ1 and now ,i will sing of ,his love for me4 ,under the inspiration of this thought1 he wrote-- ,i am so glad that our ,father in heaven ,tells of ,his love in the book ,he has given ,wonderful things in the ,bible ,i see1 ,this is the dearest--that ,jesus loves me4 ,both words and music are by ,mr4 ,bliss4 ,the history of modern ,sunday-school hymnody--or much of it--is so nearly identified with that of the ,gospel ,hymns that other selections like the last1 which might be appropriate here1 may be considered in a later chapter1 where that eventful series of sacred songs receives special notice4 ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,patriotic ,,hymns4 ,the ethnic anthologies growing out of love of country are a mingled literature of filial and religious piety1 ranging from war-like paeans to lyric prayers4 ,they become the cherished inheritance of a nation1 and1 once fixed in the common memory and common heart1 the people rarely let them die4 ,the ,songs of the ,fathers have perennial breath1 and in every generation-- ,the green woods of their native land ,shall whisper in the strain2 ,the voices of their household band ,shall sweetly speak again4 --,felicia ,hemans4 ,,ultima ,,thule4 ,american pride has often gloried in ,seneca's ,vision of the ,west1 more than eighteen hundred years ago4 ,venient annis ,saecula seris1 quibus ,oceanus ,vincula rerum laxet1 et ingens ,pateat tellus1 ,typhisque novos ,detegat orbes1 nec sit terris ,ultima ,thule4 ,a time will come in future ages far ,when ,ocean will his circling bounds unbar4 ,and1 opening vaster to the ,pilot's hand1 ,new worlds shall rise1 where mightier kingdoms are1 ,nor ,thule longer be the utmost land4 ,this poetic forecast1 of which ,washington ,irving wrote the predictions of the ancient oracles were rarely so unequivocal1 is part of the chorus at the end of the second act of ,seneca's ,medea1 written near the date of ,st4 ,paul's first ,epistle to the ,thessalonians4 ,seneca1 the celebrated ,roman 7,stoic7 philosopher1 was born at or very near the time of our ,saviour's birth4 ,there are legends of his acquaintance with ,paul1 at ,rome1 but though he wrote able and quotable treatises ,on ,consolation1 ,on ,providence1 ,on ,calmness of ,soul1 and ,on the ,blessed ,life1 there is no direct evidence that the savor of ,christian faith ever qualified his works or his personal principles4 ,he was a man of grand ideas and inspirations1 but he was a time server and a flatterer of the ,emperor ,nero1 who1 nevertheless1 caused his death when he had no further use for him4 ,his compulsory suicide occurred ,a4,d4 #fe1 the year in which ,st4 ,paul is supposed to have suffered martyrdom4 ,,the ,,breaking ,,waves ,,dashed ,,high4 ,sitting at the tea-table one evening1 near a century ago1 ,mrs4 ,hemans read an old account of the ,landing of the ,pilgrims1 and was inspired to write this poem1 which became a favorite in ,america--like herself1 and all her other works4 ,the ballad is inaccurate in details1 but presents the spirit of the scene with true poet insight4 ,mr4 ,james ,t4 ,fields1 the noted ,boston publisher1 visited the lady in her old age1 and received an autograph copy of the poem1 which is seen in ,pilgrim ,hall1 ,plymouth1 ,mass4 ,the breaking waves dashed high1 on a stern and rock-bound coast1 ,and the woods against a stormy sky1 their giant branches tossed1 ,and the heavy night hung dark1 the hills and waters o'er1 ,when a band of exiles moored their bark on the wild ,new ,england shore4 ,not as the conqueror comes1 they1 the true-hearted1 came2 ,not with the roll of stirring drums1 and the trumpet that sings of fame2 ,not as the flying come1 in silence and in fear1-- ,they shook the depths of the desert's gloom with their hymns of lofty cheer4 ,amidst the storm they sang1 and the stars heard1 and the sea6 ,and the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang to the anthem of the free6 ,the ocean eagle soared from his nest by the white waves' foam1 ,and the rocking pines of the forest roared1--this was their welcome home6 ,there were men with hoary hair amidst that pilgrim band1-- ,why had they come to wither there1 away from their childhood's land8 ,there was woman's fearless eye1 lit by her deep love's truth2 ,there was manhood's brow1 serenely high1 and the fiery heart of youth4 ,what sought they thus afar8 bright jewels of the mine8 ,the wealth of seas8 the spoils of war8--,they sought a faith's pure shrine6 ,ay1 call it holy ground1 the soil where first they trod2 ,they left unstained what there they found1--freedom to worship ,god6 ,felicia ,dorothea ,browne 7,mrs4 ,hemans7 was born in ,liverpool1 ,eng41 #agff1 and died #ahde4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the original tune is not now accessible4 ,it was composed by ,mrs4 ,mary ,e4 7,browne7 ,arkwright1 ,mrs4 ,hemans' sister1 and published in ,england about #ahce4 ,but the words have been sung in this country to ,silver ,st41 a choral not entirely forgotten1 credited to an ,english composer1 ,isaac ,smith1 born1 in ,london1 about #agce1 and died there in #ahjj4 ,,westward ,,the ,,course ,,of ,,empire4 ,usually misquoted ,westward the ,star of ,empire1 etc4 ,this poem of ,bishop ,berkeley possesses no lyrical quality but1 like the ancient ,roman's words1 partakes of the prophetic spirit1 and has always been dear to the ,american heart by reason of the above line4 ,it seems to formulate the manifest destiny of a great colonizing race that has already absorbed a continent1 and extended its sway across the ,pacific ocean4 ,not such as ,europe breeds in her decay2 ,such as she bred when fresh and young1 ,when heavenly flame did animate her clay1 ,by future poets shall be sung4 ,westward the course of empire takes its way2 ,the four first acts already past1 ,the fifth shall close the drama of the day3 ,time's noblest offspring is the last4 ,george ,berkeley was born ,march #ab1 #afhd1 and educated at ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin4 ,a remarkable student1 he became a remarkable man1 as priest1 prelate1 and philosopher4 ,high honors awaited him at home1 but the missionary passion seized him4 ,inheriting a small fortune1 he sailed to the ,west1 intending to evangelize and educate the ,indians of the ,summer ,islands1 but the ship lost her course1 and landed him at ,newport1 ,r4,i41 instead of the ,bermudas4 ,here he was warmly welcomed1 but was disappointed in his plans and hopes of founding a native college by the failure of friends in ,england to forward funds1 and after a residence of six years he returned home4 ,he died at ,cloyne1 ,ireland1 #agec4 ,the house which ,bishop ,berkeley built is still shown 7or was until very recently7 at ,newport after one hundred and seventy-eight years4 ,he wrote the ,principles of ,human ,knowledge1 the ,minute ,philosopher1 and many other works of celebrity in their time1 and a scholarship in ,yale bears his name2 but he is best loved in this country for his ,ode to ,america4 ,pope in his list of great men ascribes-- ,to ,berkeley every virtue under heaven4 ,,sound ,,the ,,loud ,,timbrel4 ,one would scarcely guess that this bravura hymn of victory and ,come1 ye disconsolate1 were written by the same person1 but both are by ,thomas ,moore4 ,the song has all the vigor and vivacity of his ,harp ,that ,once ,through ,tara's ,halls1 without its pathos4 ,the ,irish poet chose the song of ,miriam instead of the song of ,deborah doubtless because the sentiment and strain of the first of these two great female patriots lent themselves more musically to his lyric verse--and his poem is certainly martial enough to convey the spirit of both4 ,sound the loud timbrel o'er ,egypt's dark sea6 ,jehovah hath triumphed1 ,his people are free6 ,sing1 for the pride of the tyrant is broken2 ,his chariots1 his horsemen1 all splendid and brave-- ,how vain was their boasting1 the ,lord hath but spoken1 ,and chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,of all the different composers to whose music ,moore's sacred songs were sung--,beethoven1 ,mozart1 ,stevenson1 and the rest--,avison seems to be the only one whose name and tune have clung to the poet's words2 and we have the man and the melody sent to us1 as it were1 by the lyrist himself4 ,the tune is now rarely sung except at church festivals and village entertainments1 but the life and clamor of the scene at the ,red ,sea are in it1 and it is something more than a mere musical curiosity4 ,its style1 however1 is antiquated--with its timbrel beat and its canorous harmony and coda fortis--and modern choirs have little use in religious service for the sonata written for viols and horns4 ,it was ,moore's splendid hymn that gave it vogue in ,england and ,ireland1 and sent it across the sea to find itself in the house of its friends with the psalmody of ,billings and ,swan4 ,moore was the man of all men to take a fancy to it and make language to its string-and-trumpet concert4 ,he was a musician himself1 and equally able to adapt a tune and to create one4 ,as a festival performance1 replete with patriotic noise1 let ,avison's old ,sound the ,timbrel live4 ,charles ,avison was born at ,newcastle-on-,tyne1 #agaj4 ,he studied in ,italy1 wrote works on music1 and composed sonatas and concertos for stringed orchestras4 ,for many years he was organist of ,st4 ,nicholas' ,kirk in his native town4 ,the tune to ,sound the ,loud ,timbrel is a chorus from one of his longer compositions4 ,he died in #aggj4 ,,the ,,harp ,,that ,,once ,,through ,,tara',s ,,halls4 ,this is the only one of ,moore's patriotic ,irish ,melodies that lives wherever sweet tones are loved and poetic feeling finds answering hearts4 ,the exquisite sadness of its music and its text is strangely captivating1 and its untold story beckons from its lines4 ,tara was the ancient home of the ,irish kings4 ,king ,dermid1 who had apostatized from the faith of ,st4 ,patrick and his followers1 in ,a4,d41 #eed1 violated the ,christian right of sanctuary by taking an escaped prisoner from the altar of refuge in ,temple ,ruadan 7,tipperary7 and putting him to death4 ,the patron priest and his clergy marched to ,tara and solemnly pronounced a curse upon the ,king4 ,not long afterwards ,dermid was assassinated1 and superstition shunned the place as a castle under ban4 ,the last human resident of ,tara's ,hall was the ,king's bard1 who lingered there1 forsaken and ostracized1 till he starved to death4 ,years later one daring visitor found his skeleton and his broken harp4 ,moore utilized this story of tragic pathos as a figure in his song for fallen ,erin lamenting her lost royalty--under a curse that had lasted thirteen hundred years4 ,the harp that once through ,tara's halls ,the soul of music shed1 ,now hangs as mute on ,tara's walls ,as if that soul were fled4 ,so sleeps the pride of former days1 ,so glory's thrill is o'er1 ,and hearts that once beat high for praise ,now feel that pulse no more4 ,no one can read the words without thinking the tune4 ,it is supposed that ,moore composed them both4 ,,the ,,marseillaise ,,hymn4 ,ye sons of ,france1 awake to glory6 ,hark6 hark6 what millions bid you rise6 ,the ,marseillaise ,hymn so long supposed to be the musical as well as verbal composition of ,roget de ,lisle1 an army engineer1 was proved to be only his words set to an air in the ,credo of a ,german mass1 which was the work of one ,holzman in #agbf4 ,de ,lisle was known to be a poet and musician as well as a soldier1 and1 as he is said to have played or sung at times in the churches and convents1 it is probable that he found and copied the manuscript of ,holzman's melody4 ,his haste to rush his fiery ,hymn before the public in the fever of the ,revolution allowed him no time to make his own music1 and he adapted the ,german's notes to his words and launched the song in the streets of ,strasburg4 ,it was first sung in ,paris by a band of chanters from ,marseilles1 and1 like the trumpets blown around ,jericho1 it shattered the walls of the ,french monarchy to their foundations4 ,the ,marseillaise ,hymn is mentioned here for its patriotic birth and associations4 ,an attempt to make a religious use of it is recorded in the ,fourth ,chapter4 ,,ode ,,on ,,science4 ,this is a patriotic hymn1 though a queer production with a queer name1 considering its contents2 and its author was no intimate of the ,muses4 ,liberty is supposed to be somehow the corollary of learning1 or vice versa--whichever the reader thinks4 ,the morning sun shines from the ,east ,and spreads his glories to the ,west4 99 99 99 99 99 ,so ,science spreads her lucid ray ,o'er lands that long in darkness lay2 ,she visits fair ,columbia1 ,and sets her sons among the stars4 ,fair ,freedom1 her attendant1 waits1 etc4 ,,the ,,tune ,was the really notable part of this old-time ,ode1 the favorite of village assemblies1 and the inevitable practice-piece for amateur violinists4 ,the author of the crude symphony was ,deacon ,janaziah 7or ,jazariah7 ,summer1 of ,taunton1 ,mass41 who prepared it--music and probably words--for the semi-centennial of ,simeon ,dagget's ,academy in #agih4 ,the ,ode was subsequently published in ,philadelphia1 and also in ,albany4 ,it was a song of the people1 and sang itself through the country for fifty or sixty years1 always culminating in the swift crescendo chorus and repeat-- ,the ,british yoke and ,gallic chain ,were urged upon our necks in vain2 ,all haughty tyrants we disdain1 ,and shout ,long live ,america6 ,the average patriot did not mind it if ,columbi-ay and ,ameri-kay were not exactly classic orthoepy4 ,,hail ,,columbia4 ,this was written 7#agih7 by ,judge ,joseph ,hopkinson1 born1 in ,philadelphia1 #aggj1 and died there1 #ahdc4 ,he wrote it for a friend in that city who was a theatre singer1 and wanted a song for ,independence ,day4 ,the music 7to which it is still sung7 was ,the ,president's ,march1 by a composer named ,fyles1 near the end of the #ahth century4 ,there is nothing hymn-like in the words1 which are largely a glorification of ,gen4 ,washington1 but the tune1 a concerted piece better for band than voices1 has the drum-and-anvil chorus quality suitable for vociferous mass singing--and a zealous ,salvation ,army corps on field nights could even fit a processional song to it with gospel words4 ,,old ,,chester4 ,let tyrants shake their iron rod1 ,and slavery clank her galling chains3 ,we'll fear them not2 we trust in ,god2 ,new ,england's ,god forever reigns4 ,old ,chester1 both words and tune the work of ,william ,billings1 is another of the provincial freedom songs of the ,revolutionary period1 and of the days when the ,republic was young4 ,billings was a zealous patriot1 and 7says a writer in ,moore's ,cyclopedia of ,music7 one secret1 no doubt1 of the vast popularity his works obtained was the patriotic ardor they breathed4 ,the words above quoted are an example1 and ',chester1' it is said1 was frequently heard from every fife in the ,new ,england ranks4 ,the spirit of the ,revolution was also manifest in his ',lamentation over ,boston1' his ',retrospect1' his ',independence1' his ',columbia1' and many other pieces4 ,william ,billings was born1 in ,boston1 ,oct4 #g1 #agdf4 ,he was a man of little education1 but his genius for music spurred him to study the tuneful art1 and enabled him to learn all that could be learned without a master4 ,he began to make tunes and publish them1 and his first book1 the ,new ,england ,psalm-singer was a curiosity of youthful crudity and confidence1 but in considerable numbers it was sold1 and sung--and laughed at4 ,he went on studying and composing1 and compiled another work1 which was so much of an improvement that it got the name of ,billings' ,best4 ,a third singing-book followed1 and finally a fourth entitled the ,psalm ,singer's ,amusement1 both of which were popular in their day4 ,his ,majesty has tremendous capabilities of sound1 and its movement is fully up to the requirements of ,nahum ,tate's verses1-- ,and on the wings of mighty winds ,came flying all abroad4 ,william ,billings died in #ahjj1 and his remains lie in an unmarked grave in the old ,granary ,burying ,ground in the city of his birth4 ,national feeling has taken maturer speech and finer melody1 but it was these ruder voices that set the pitch4 ,they were sung with native pride and affection at fireside vespers and rural feasts with the adopted songs of ,burns and ,moore and ,mrs4 ,hemans1 and1 like the lays of ,scotland and ,provence1 they breathed the flavor of the country air and soil1 and taught the generation of home-born minstrelsy that gave us the ,hutchinson family1 ,ossian ,e4 ,dodge1 ,covert with his ,sword of ,bunker ,hill1 and ,philip ,phillips1 the ,singing ,pilgrim4 ,,the ,,star ,,spangled ,,banner4 ,near the close of the last war with ,england1 ,francis ,scott ,key1 of ,baltimore1 the author of this splendid national hymn1 was detained under guard on the ,british flag-ship at the mouth of the ,petapsco1 where he had gone under a flag of truce to procure the release of a captured friend1 ,dr4 ,william ,beanes of ,upper ,marlboro1 ,md4 ,the enemy's fleet was preparing to bombard ,fort ,mc,henry1 and ,mr4 ,key's return with his friend was forbidden lest their plans should be disclosed4 ,forced to stay and witness the attack on his country's flag1 he walked the deck through the whole night of the bombardment until the break of day showed the brave standard still flying at full mast over the fort4 ,relieved of his patriotic anxiety1 he pencilled the exultant lines and chorus of his song on the back of a letter1 and1 as soon as he was released1 carried it to the city1 where within twenty-four hours it was printed on flyers1 circulated and sung in the streets to the air of ,anacreon in ,heaven--which has been the ,star ,spangled ,banner tune ever since4 ,o say1 can you see by the dawn's early light ,what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming8 ,whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ,o'er the ramparts we watched1 were so gallantly streaming1 ,and the rockets red glare1 the bombs bursting in air ,gave proof through the night that the flag was still there3 ,o say1 does the star-spangled banner yet wave1 ,o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave8 99 99 99 99 99 ,o thus be it ever when freemen shall stand1 ,between their loved homes and the war's desolation2 ,blessed with victory and peace1 may the heaven-rescued land ,praise the ,power that hath made and preserved us a nation4 ,then conquer we must1 when our cause it is just1 ,and this be our motto1 ,in ,god is our trust4 ,and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave1 ,o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave4 ,the original star-spangled banner that waved over ,fort ,mc,henry in sight of the poet when he wrote the famous hymn was made and presented to the garrison by a girl of fifteen1 afterwards ,mrs4 ,sanderson1 and is still preserved in the ,sanderson family at ,baltimore4 ,illustration3 ,samuel ,f4 ,smith ,the additional stanza to the ,star-,spangled ,banner-- ,when our land is illumined with ,liberty's smile1 etc41 --was composed by ,dr4 ,o4,w4 ,holmes1 in #ahfa4 ,the tune ,anacreon in ,heaven was an old ,english hunting air composed by ,john ,stafford ,smith1 born at ,gloucester1 ,eng4 #agej4 ,he was composer for ,covent ,garden ,theater1 and conductor of the ,academy of ,ancient ,music4 ,died ,sep4 #bj1 #ahcf4 ,the melody was first used in ,america to ,robert ,treat ,paine's song1 ,adams and ,liberty4 ,paine1 born #aggh--;died #ahaa1 was the son of ,robert ,treat ,paine1 signer of the ,declaration of ,independence4 ,,stand6 ,,the ,,ground',s ,,your ,,own1 ,,my ,,braves4 ,sympathetic admiration for the air1 ,scots wha hae wi' ,wallace bled1 7or ,bruce's address1 as it was commonly called71 with the syllables of ,robert ,burns' silvery verse1 lingered long in the land after the wars were ended4 ,it spoke in the poem of ,john ,pierpont1 who caught its pibroch thrill1 and built the metre of ,warren's ,address at the ,battle of ,bunker ,hill on the model of ,scots wha hae4 ,stand6 the ground's your own1 my braves2 ,will ye give it up to slaves8 ,will ye look for greener graves8 99 99 99 99 99 ,in the ,god of battles trust3 ,die we may1 or die we must1 ,but ,o where can dust to dust ,be consigned so well1 ,as where ,heaven its dews shall shed1 ,on the martyred patriot's bed1 ,and the rocks shall raise their head ,of his deeds to tell8 ,this poem1 written about #ahbc1 held a place many years in school-books1 and was one of the favorite school-boy declamations4 ,whenever sung on patriotic occasions1 the music was sure to be ,bruce's ,address4 ,that typical ,scotch tune was played on the ,highland bag-pipes long before ,burns was born1 and known as ,hey tuttie taite4 ,heard on ,fraser's hautboy1 it used to fill my eyes with tears1 ,burns himself once wrote4 ,rev4 ,john ,pierpont was born in ,litchfield1 ,ct41 ,april #f1 #aghe4 ,he was graduated at ,yale1 #ahjd1 taught school1 studied law1 engaged in trade1 and finally took a course in theology and became a ,unitarian minister1 holding the pastorate of ,hollis ,st4 ,church1 ,boston1 thirty-six years4 ,he travelled in the ,east1 and wrote ,airs of ,palestine4 ,his poem1 ,the ,yankee ,boy1 has been much quoted4 ,died in ,medford1 ,mass41 ,aug4 #bf1 #ahff4 ,,my ,,country1 ',,tis ,,of ,,thee4 ,this simple lyric1 honored so long with the name ,america1 and the title ,our ,national ,hymn1 was written by ,samuel ,francis ,smith1 while a theological student at ,andover1 ,feb4 #b1 #ahcb4 ,he had before him several hymn and song tunes which ,lowell ,mason had received from ,germany1 and1 knowing young ,smith to be a good linguist1 had sent to him for translation4 ,one of the songs1 of national character1 struck ,smith as adaptable to home use if turned into ,american words1 and he wrote four stanzas of his own to fit the tune4 ,mason printed them with the music1 and under his magical management the hymn made its debut on a public occasion in ,park ,st4 ,church1 ,boston1 ,july #d1 #ahcb4 ,its very simplicity1 with its reverent spirit and easy-flowing language1 was sure to catch the ear of the multitude and grow into familiar use with any suitable music1 but it was the foreign tune that1 under ,mason's happy pilotage1 winged it for the western world and launched it on its long flight4 ,my country1 'tis of thee1 ,sweet land of liberty1 ,of thee ,i sing2 ,land where my fathers died1 ,land of the pilgrims' pride1 ,from every mountain-side ,let freedom ring4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let music swell the breeze1 ,and ring from all the trees ,sweet ,freedom's song2 ,let mortal tongues awake1 ,let all that breathe partake1 ,let rocks their silence break1 ,the sound prolong4 ,our fathers' ,god1 to ,thee1 ,author of liberty1 ,to ,thee we sing2 ,long may our land be bright ,with ,freedom's holy light2 ,protect us by ,thy might1 ,great ,god1 our ,king4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,pages1 and at least two volumes1 have been written to prove the origin of that cosmopolitan1 half-,gregorian descant known here as ,america1 and in ,england as ,god ,save the ,king4 ,william ,c4 ,woodbridge of ,boston brought it home with him from ,germany4 ,the ,germans had been singing it for years 7and are singing it now1 more or less7 to the words1 ,heil ,dir ,im ,siegel ,kranz1 and the ,swiss to ,rufst ,du mein ,vaterland4 ,it was sung in ,sweden1 also1 and till #ahcc it was in public use in ,russia commonly enough to give it a national character4 ,von ,weber introduced it in his ,jubel overture1 and ,beethoven1 in #ahad1 copied it in ,c ,major and wrote piano variations on it4 ,it has been ascribed to ,henry ,purcell 7#afif71 to ,lulli1 a ,french composer 7#afgj71 to ,dr4 ,john ,bull 7#afai71 and to ,thomas ,ravenscroft and an old ,scotch carol as old as #afji4 ,one might fancy that the biography of the famous air resembled ,melchizedek's4 ,the truth appears to be that certain bars of music which might easily happen to be similar1 or even identical1 when plain-song was the common style1 were produced at different times and places1 and one man finally harmonized the wandering strains into a complete tune4 ,it is now generally conceded that the man was ,henry ,carey1 a popular ,english composer and dramatist of the first half of the #ahth century1 who sang the melody as it now is1 in #agdj1 at a public dinner given in honor of ,admiral ,vernon after his capture of ,porto ,bello 7,brazil74 ,this antedates any authenticated use of the tune ipsissima forma in ,england or continental ,europe4 ,the ,american history of it simply is that ,woodbridge gave it to ,mason and ,mason gave it to ,smith--and ,smith gave it ,my ,country ',tis of ,thee4 ,,by ,,the ,,rude ,,bridge4 ,this genuinely ,american poem1 written by ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson and called usually the ,concord ,hymn1 was prepared for the dedication of the ,battle-monument in ,concord1 ,april #ai1 #ahcf1 and sung there to the tune of ,old ,hundred4 ,apparently no change has been made in the original except of a single word in the first line4 ,by the rude bridge that arched the flood1 ,their flag to ,april's breeze unfurled1 ,here once the embattled farmers stood1 ,and fired the shot heard round the world4 ,the foe long since in silence slept2 ,alike the conqueror silent sleeps2 ,and ,time the ruined bridge has swept ,down the dark stream which seaward creeps4 ,on this green bank1 by this soft stream1 ,we set today a votive stone2 ,that memory may their deed redeem1 ,when1 like our sires1 our sons are gone4 ,spirit1 that made those heroes dare ,to die1 and leave their children free1 ,bid ,time and ,nature gently spare ,the shaft we raise to them and ,thee4 ,this does not appear in the hymnals and owns no special tune4 ,its niche of honor is in the temple of anthology1 but it will always be called the ,concord ,hymn--and the fourth line of its first stanza is a perennial quotation4 ,ralph ,waldo ,emerson1 ,,ll4,d41 the renowned ,american essayist and poet1 was born in ,boston1 #ahjc4 ,he graduated at ,harvard in #ahba1 and was ordained to the ,unitarian ministry1 but turned his attention to literature1 writing and lecturing on ethical and philosophical themes1 and winning universal fame by his original and suggestive prose and verse4 ,he died ,april #bg1 #ahhb4 ,,battle ,,hymn ,,of ,,the ,,republic4 ,after a visit to the ,federal camps on the ,potomac in #ahfa1 ,mrs4 ,julia ,ward ,howe returned to her lodgings in ,washington1 fatigued1 as she says1 by her long1 cold drive1 and slept soundly4 ,awakening at early daybreak1 she began to twine the long lines of a hymn which promised to suit the measure of the ',john ,brown' melody4 ,this hymn was written out after a fashion in the dark1 by ,mrs4 ,howe1 and she then went back to sleep4 ,mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the ,lord2 ,he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored2 ,he hath loosed the fateful lightning of ,his terrible swift sword2 ,his truth is marching on4 ,i have seen ,him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps1 ,they have builded ,him an altar in the evening dews and damps2 ,i can read ,his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps2 ,his day is marching on4 ,i have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel2 ,as ye deal with my contemners1 so with you my grace shall deal2 ,let the ,hero1 born of woman1 crush the serpent with ,his heel1 ,since ,god is marching on4 ,he has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat2 ,he is sifting out the hearts of men before ,his judgment seat2 ,oh1 be swift1 my soul1 to answer ,him6 be jubilant my feet6 ,our ,god is marching on4 ,in the beauty of the lilies ,christ was born across the sea1 ,with a glory in ,his bosom that transfigures you and me2 ,as ,he died to make men holy1 let us die to make men free4 ,while ,god is marching on4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music of the old camp-meeting refrain1-- ,say1 brothers will you meet us8 --or1-- ,o brother1 will you meet me1 7,no4 #agc in the ,revivalist17 was written in #ahee1 by ,john ,william ,steffe1 of ,richmond1 ,va41 for a fire company1 and was afterwards arranged by ,franklin ,h4 ,lummis4 ,the air of the ,john ,brown ,song was caught from this religious melody4 ,the old hymn-tune had the ,glory1 ,hallelujah coda1 cadenced off with1 ,for ever1 ever more4 ,in #ahfj-fa the garrison of soldiers at work on the half-dismantled defenses of ,fort ,warren in ,boston ,harbor1 were fain to lighten labor and mock fatigue with any species of fun suggested by circumstances or accident1 and1 as for music1 they sang everything they could remember or make up4 ,john ,brown's memory and fate were fresh in the ,northern mind1 and the jollity of the not very reverent army men did not exclude frequent allusions to the rash old ,harper's ,ferry hero4 ,a wag conjured his spirit into the camp with a witticism as to what he was doing1 and a comrade retorted1 ,marchin' on1 of course4 ,a third cried1 ,pooh1 ,john ,brown's underground4 ,a serio-comic debate added more words1 and in the midst of the banter1 a musical fellow strung a rhythmic sentence and trolled it to the ,methodist tune4 ,john ,brown's body lies a mould'rin' in the ground was taken up by others who knew the air1 the following line was improvised almost instantly1 and soon1 to the accompaniment of pick1 shovel and crowbar1-- ,his soul goes marching on1 --rounded the couplet with full lung power through all the repetitions1 till the inevitable glory1 glory hallelujah had the voice of every soldier in the fort4 ,the song took1 and the marching chorus of the ,federal armies of the ,civil ,war was started on its way4 ,mrs4 ,howe gave it a poem that made its rusticity sublime1 and the ,battle ,hymn of the ,republic began a career that promises to run till battle hymns cease to be sung4 ,julia ,ward was born in ,new ,york city1 ,may #bg1 #ahai4 ,in #ahdc she became the wife of ,samuel ,gridley ,howe1 the far-famed philanthropist and champion of liberty1 and with him edited an anti-slavery paper1 the ,boston ,commonwealth1 until the ,civil ,war closed its mission4 ,during the war she was active and influential--and has never ceased to be so--in the cause of peace and justice1 and in every philanthropic movement4 ,her great hymn first brought her prominently before the public1 but her many other writings would have made a literary reputation4 ,her four surviving children are all eminent in the scientific and literary world4 ,,keller',s ,,american ,,hymn4 ,naturally the title suggests the authorship of the ode1 but fate made ,keller a musician rather than a poet and hymnist1 and the honors of the fine anthem are divided4 ,at the grand performance which created its reputation1 the hymn of ,dr4 ,o4,w4 ,holmes was substituted for the composer's words4 ,this is ,keller's first stanza3 ,speed our republic1 ,o ,father on high6 ,lead us in pathways of justice and right1 ,rulers1 as well as the ruled1 one and all1 ,girdle with virtue the armor of might4 ,hail6 three times hail1 to our country and flag6 ,rulers1 as well as the ruled1 one and all1 ,girdle with virtue the armor of might2 ,hail6 three times hail1 to our country and flag6 ,flag was the unhappy word at the end of every one of the four stanzas4 ,to match a short vowel to an orotund concert note for two beats and a hold was impossible4 ,when the great ,peace ,jubilee of #ahgb1 in ,boston1 was projected1 ,dr4 ,holmes was applied to1 and responded with a lyric that gave each stanza the rondeau effect designed by the composer1 but replaced the flat final with a climax syllable of breadth and music3 ,angel of ,peace1 thou hast wandered too long6 ,spread thy white wings to the sunshine of love6 ,come while our voices are blended in song1 ,fly to our ark like the storm-beaten dove6 ,fly to our ark on the wings of the dove1 ,speed o'er the far-sounding billows of song1 ,crown'd with thine olive-leaf garland of love1 ,angel of ,peace1 thou hast waited too long6 99 99 99 99 99 ,angels of ,bethlehem1 answer the strain6 ,hark6 a new birth-song is filling the sky6 ,loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main1 ,bid the full breath of the organ reply1 ,let the loud tempest of voices reply1 ,roll its long surge like the earth-shaking main6 ,swell the vast song till it mounts to the sky6 ,angels of ,bethlehem1 echo the strain6 ,but the glory of the tune was ,keller's own4 ,soon after the close of the war a prize of #ejj had been offered by a committee of ,american gentlemen for the best national hymn 7meaning words and music74 ,mr4 ,keller1 though a foreigner1 was a naturalized citizen and patriot and entered the lists as a competitor with the zeal of a native and the ambition of an artist4 ,sometime in #ahff he finished and copyrighted the noble anthem that bears his name1 and then began the struggle to get it before the public and test its merit4 ,to enable him to bring it out before the ,new ,york ,academy of ,music1 where 7unfortunately7 he determined to make his first trial1 his brother kindly lent him four hundred dollars 7which he had laid by to purchase a little home71 and he borrowed two hundred more elsewhere4 ,the performance proved a failure1 the total receipts being only forty-two dollars1 ,keller was #ejj in debt1 and his brother's house-money was gone4 ,but he refused to accept his failure as final4 ,boston 7where he should have begun7 was introduced to his masterpiece at every opportunity1 and gradually1 with the help of the city bands and a few public concerts1 a decided liking for it was worked up4 ,it was entered on the program of the ,peace ,jubilee and sung by a chorus of ten thousand voices4 ,the effect was magnificent4 ,keller's ,american ,hymn became a recognized star number in the repertoire of best national tunes2 and now few public occasions where patriotic music is demanded omit it in their menu of song4#cc ,footnote #cc3 ,in ,butterworth's ,story of the ,tunes1 under the account of ,keller's grand motet1 the following sacred hymn is inserted as often sung to it3-- ,father ,almighty1 we bow at thy feet2 ,humbly thy grace and thy goodness we own4 ,answer in love when thy children entreat1 ,hear our thanksgiving ascend to thy throne4 ,seeking thy blessing1 in worship we meet1 ,trusting our souls on thy mercy alone2 ,father ,almighty1 we bow at thy feet4 ,breathe1 ,holy ,spirit1 thy comfort divine1 ,tune every voice to thy music of peace2 ,hushed in our hearts1 with one whisper of thine1 ,pride and the tumult of passion will cease4 ,joy of the watchful1 who wait for thy sign1 ,hope of the sinful1 who long for release1 ,breathe1 ,holy ,spirit1 thy comfort divine4 ,god of salvation1 thy glory we sing1 ,honors to thee in thy temple belong2 ,welcome the tribute of gladness we bring1 ,loud-pealing organ and chorus of song4 ,while our high praises1 ,redeemer and ,king1 ,blend with the notes of the angelic throng1 ,god of salvation1 thy glory we sing4 --,theron ,brown4 ,it is pathetic to know that the composer's one great success brought him only a barren renown4 ,the prize committee1 on the ground that none of the competing pieces reached the high standard of excellence contemplated1 withheld the #ejj1 and ,keller's work received merely the compliment of being judged worth presentation4 ,the artist had his copyright1 but he remained a poor man4 ,matthias ,keller was born at ,ulm1 ,wurtemberg1 ,march #bj1 #ahac4 ,in his youth he was both a musician and a painter4 ,coming to this country1 he chose the calling that promised the better and quicker wages1 playing in bands and theatre orchestras1 but never accumulating money4 ,he could make fine harmonies as well as play them1 but ,english was not his mother-tongue1 and though he wrote a hundred and fifty songs1 only one made him well-known4 ,when fame came to him it did not bring him wealth1 and in his latter days1 crippled by partial paralysis1 he went back to his early art and earned a living by painting flowers and retouching portraits and landscapes4 ,he died in #ahge1 only three years after his ,coliseum triumph4 ,,god ,,bless ,,our ,,native ,,land4 ,this familiar patriotic hymn is notable--though not entirely singular--for having two authors4 ,the older singing-books signed the name of ,j4,s4 ,dwight to it1 until inquiring correspondence brought out the testimony and the joint claim of ,dwight and ,c4,t4 ,brooks1 and it appeared that both these scholars and writers translated it from the ,german4 ,later hymnals attach both their names to the hymn4#cd ,footnote #cd3 ,for a full account of this disputed hymn1 and the curious trick of memory which confused four names in the question of its authorship1 see ,dr4 ,benson's ,studies of ,familiar ,hymns1 pp4 #agi-aij ,john ,sullivan ,dwight1 born1 in ,boston1 ,may #ac1 #ahac1 was a virtuoso in music1 and an enthusiastic student of the art and science of tonal harmony4 ,he joined a ,harvard musical club known as ,the ,pierian ,sodality while a student at the ,university1 and after his graduation became a prolific writer on musical subjects4 ,six years of his life were passed in the ,brook ,farm ,community4 ,he was best known by his serial magazine1 ,dwight's ,journal of ,music1 which was continued from #aheb to #ahha4 ,his death occurred in #ahic4 ,rev4 ,charles ,timothy ,brooks1 the translator of ,faust1 was born1 in ,salem1 ,mass41 ,june #bj1 #ahac1 being only about a month younger than his friend ,dwight4 ,was a student at ,harvard ,university and ,divinity ,school #ahbi-ahce1 and was ordained to the ,unitarian ministry and settled at ,newport1 ,r4,i4 ,he resigned his charge there 7#ahga7 on account of ill health1 and occupied himself with literary work until his death1 ,jan4 #ad1 #ahhc4 ,god bless our native land6 ,firm may she ever stand ,through storm and night6 ,when the wild tempests rave4 ,ruler of wind and wave1 ,do ,thou our country save ,by ,thy great might6 ,for her our prayer shall rise ,to ,god above the skies2 ,on ,him we wait4 ,thou who art ever nigh1 ,guarding with watchful eye2 ,to ,thee aloud we cry1 ,god save the ,state6 ,the tune of ,dort1 by ,lowell ,mason1 has long been the popular melody for this hymn4 ,indeed the two were united by ,mason himself4 ,it is braver music than ,america1 and would have carried ,dr4 ,smith's hymn nobly1 but the borrowed tune1 on the whole1 better suits ,my ,country 'tis of thee1--and besides1 it has the advantage of a middle-register harmony easy for a multitude of voices4 ,,thou1 ,,too1 ,,sail ,,on1 ,o ,,ship ,,of ,,state1 ,the closing canto of ,longfellow's ,launching of the ,ship1 almost deserves a patriotic hymn-tune1 though its place and use are commonly with school recitations4 ,,god ,,of ,,our ,,fathers1 ,,known ,,of ,,old4 ,rudyard ,kipling1 in a moment of serious reflection on the flamboyant militarism of ,british sentiment during the ,south ,african ,war1 wrote this remarkable ,recessional1 so strikingly unlike his other war-time poems4 ,it is to be hoped he did not suddenly repent his ,christian impulse1 but with the chauvinistic cry around him1 ,our ,country1 right or wrong6 he seems to have felt the contrast of his prayer--and flung it into the waste-basket4 ,his watchful wife rescued it 7the story says7 and bravely sent it to the ,london ,times4 ,the world owes her a debt4 ,the hymn is not only an anthem for ,peace ,societies1 but a tonic for true patriotism4 ,when ,freedom fights in self-defense1 she need not force herself to forget the ,lord of ,hosts4 ,god of our fathers1 known of old1 ,lord of our far-flung battle-line1 ,beneath whose awful hand we hold ,dominion over palm and pine2 ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1 lest we forget4 ,the tumult and the shouting dies1 ,the captains and the kings depart1 ,still stands ,thine ancient sacrifice1 ,an humble and a contrite heart4 ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1 lest we forget4 ,far-called1 our navies melt away1 ,on dune and headland sinks the fire2 ,lo all our pomp of yesterday ,is one with ,nineveh and ,tyre4 ,judge of the nations1 spare us yet1 ,lest we forget1 lest we forget4 ,if1 drunk with sight of power1 we loose ,wild tongues that have not ,thee in awe1 ,such boasting as the ,gentiles use ,or lesser breeds without the law1 ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 ,lest we forget1 lest we forget4 ,for heathen heart that puts her trust1 ,in recking tube and iron shard1 ,all valiant dust that builds on dust ,and guarding1 calls not ,thee to guard1 ,for frantic boast and foolish word ,thy mercy on thy people1 ,lord6 ,had ,kipling cared more for his poem1 and kept it longer in hand1 he might have revised a line or two that would possibly seem commonplace to him--and corrected the grammar in the first line of the second stanza4 ,but of so fine a composition there is no call for finical criticism4 ,the ,recessional is a product of the poet's holiest mood4 ,the ,spirit of the ,lord came upon him--as the old ,hebrew phrase is1 and for the time he was a rapt prophet1 with a backward and a forward vision4 ,providence saved the hymn1 and it touched and sank into the better mind of the nation4 ,it is already learned by heart--and sung--wherever ,english is the common speech1 and will be heard in numerous translations1 with the wish that there were more patriotic hymns of the same ,christian temper and strength4 ,rudyard ,kipling was born in ,hindostan in #ahfe4 ,even with his first youthful experiments in the field of literature he was hailed as the coming apostle of muscular poetry and prose4 ,for a time he made ,america his home1 and it was while here that he faced death through a fearful and protracted sickness that brought him very near to ,god4 ,he has visited many countries and described them all1 and1 though sometimes his imagination drives a reckless pen1 the ,christian world hopes much from a man whose genius can make the dullest souls listen4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music set to ,kipling's hymn is ,stainer's ,magdalen--7not his ,magdalina1 which is a common-metre tune7--and wonderfully fits the words and enhances their dignity4 ,it is a grave and earnest melody in ,d flat1 with two bars in unison at ,lord ,god of ,hosts1 be with us yet1 making the utterance of the prayer a deep and powerful finale4 ,john ,stainer1 ,doctor of ,music1 born ,june #f1 #ahdj1 was nine years the chorister of ,st4 ,paul's1 ,london1 and afterwards organist to the ,university of ,oxford4 ,he is a member of the various musical societies of the ,kingdom1 and a ,chevalier of the ,legion of ,honor4 ,his talent for sacred music is rare and versatile1 and he seems to have consecrated himself as a musician and composer to the service of the church4 99 99 99 99 99 ,every civilized nation has its patriotic hymns4 ,in fact what makes a nation a nation is largely the unifying influences of its common song4 ,even the homeless ,hebrew nation is kept together by its patriotic ,psalms4 ,the ethnic melodies would fill a volume with their story4 ,the few presented in this chapter represent their range of quality and character--defiant as the ,marseillaise1 thrilling as ,scots' wha hae1 joyful as ,the ,star-spangled ,banner1 breezy and bold as the ,ranz de ,vaches1 or sweet as the ,switzers' ,song of ,home4 ,,chapter ,x4 ,,sailors' ,,hymns4 ,the oldest sailors' hymn is found in the #ajgth ,psalm1 vss4 #bc-cj3 ,they that go down to the sea in ships1 ,to do business in great waters1 ,these see the works of the ,lord1 ,and ,his wonders in the deep1 etc4 ,montgomery has made this metrical rendering of these verses3 ,they that toil upon the deep1 ,and in vessels light and frail ,o'er the mighty waters sweep ,with the billows and the gale1 ,mark what wonders ,god performs ,when ,he speaks1 and1 unconfined1 ,rush to battle all ,his storms ,in the chariots of the wind4 ,the hymn is not in the collections1 and has no tune4 ,addison paraphrased the succeeding verses of the ,psalm in his hymn1 ,how are thy servants blessed ,o ,lord1 sung to ,hugh ,wilson's#ce tune of ,avon3 ,when by the dreadful tempest borne ,high on the broken wave1 ,they know ,thou art not slow to hear1 ,nor impotent to save4 ,the storm is laid1 the winds retire1 ,obedient to ,thy will2 ,the sea that roars at ,thy command1 ,at ,thy command is still4 ,footnote #ce3 ,hugh ,wilson was a ,scotch weaver of ,kilmarnock1 born #agfd2 died #ahbd4 ,,fierce ,,was ,,the ,,wild ,,billow4 7,greek3 ,zopheras trikumias7 ,the ancient writer1 ,anatolius1 who composed this hymn has for centuries been confounded with ,st ,anatolius1 patriarch of ,constantinople1 who died ,a4,d4 #deh4 ,the author of the hymn lived in the seventh century1 and except that he wrote several hymns1 and also poems in praise of the martyrs1 nothing or next to nothing1 is known of him4 ,the ,wild ,billow song was the principle seaman's hymn of the early church4 ,it is being introduced into modern psalmody1 the translation in use ranking among the most successful of ,dr4 ,john ,mason ,neale's renderings from the ,greek4 ,fierce was the wild billow1 ,dark was the night2 ,oars labored heavily1 ,foam glimmered white2 ,trembled the mariners2 ,peril was nigh2 ,then said the ,god of ,god1 ,peace6 ,it is ,i6 ,ridge of the mountain wave1 ,lower thy crest6 ,wall of ,euroclydon1 ,be thou at rest6 ,sorrow can never be1 ,darkness must fly1 ,when saith the ,light of ,light1 ,peace6 ,it is ,i6 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the desire to represent the antiquity of the hymn and the musical style of ,its age1 and on the other hand the wish to utilize it in the tune-manuals for ,manners' ,homes and ,seamen's ,bethels1 makes a difficulty for composers to study--and the task is still open to competition4 ,considering the peculiar tone that sailors' singing instinctively takes--and has taken doubtless from time immemorial perhaps the plaintive melody of ,neale1 by ,j4,h4 ,cornell1 comes as near to a vocal success as could be hoped4 ,the music is of middle register and less than octave range1 natural scale1 minor1 and the triple time lightens a little the dirge-like harmony while the weird sea-song effect is kept4 ,a chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion1 chanting this coronach of the storm4 ,john ,henry ,cornell was born in ,new ,york city1 ,may #h1 #ahch1 and was for many years organist at ,st4 ,paul's ,chapel1 ,trinity ,church4 ,he is the author of numerous educational works on the theory and practice of music4 ,he composed the above tune in #ahgb4 ,died ,march #a1 #ahid4 ,,ave1 ,,maris ,,stella4 ,one of the titles which the ,roman ,catholic world applied to the ,mother of ,jesus1 in the ,middle ,ages1 was ,stella ,maris1 ,star of the ,sea4 ,columbus1 being a ,catholic1 sang this hymn1 or caused it to be sung1 every evening1 it is said1 during his perilous voyage to an unknown land4 ,the marine epithet by which the ,virgin ,mary is addressed is admirable as a stroke of poetry1 and the hymn--of six stanzas--is a prayer which1 though offered to her as to a divine being1 was no doubt sincere in the simple sailor hearts of #adib4 ,the two following quatrains finish the voyagers' petition1 and point it with a doxology-- ,vitam praesta puram1 ,iter para tutum1 ,ut videntes ,jesum ,semper collaetemur4 ,sit laus ,deo ,patri1 ,summo ,christo decus1 ,spiritui ,sancto1 ,tribus honor unus6 ,a free translation is-- ,guide us safe1 unspotted ,through life's long endeavor ,till with ,thee and ,jesus ,we rejoice forever4 ,praise to ,god the ,father1 ,son and ,spirit be2 ,one and equal honor ,to the ,holy ,three4 ,inasmuch as this ancient hymn did not attain the height of its popularity and appear in all the breviaries until the #ajth century1 its assumed age has been doubted1 but its reputed author1 ,venantius ,fortunatus1 ,bishop of ,poitiers1 was born about #eca1 at ,treviso1 ,italy1 and died about #fji4 ,though a religious teacher1 he was a man of romantic and convivial instincts--a strange compound of priest1 poet and beau chevalier4 ,duffield calls him the last of the classics and first of the troubadours1 and states that he was the first of the ,christian poets to begin that worship of the ,virgin ,mary which rose to a passion and sank to an idolatry4 ,,tunes ,to this ancient rogation poem have been composed by ,aiblinger 7,johann ,caspar71 ,bavarian1 7#aggi-ahfg17 by ,proch 7,heinrich71 ,austrian1 7#ahji-ahgh17 by ,tadolini 7,giovanni71 ,italian1 7#ahjc-ahgb17 and by many others4 ,the ,ave1 ,maris ,stella is in constant use in the ,romish church1 and its ,english translation by ,caswall is a favorite hymn in the ,lyra ,catholica4 ,,ave1 ,,sanctissima6 ,this beautiful hymn is not introduced here in order of time1 but because it seems akin to the foregoing1 and born of its faith and traditions--though it sounds rather too fine for a sailor song1 on ship or shore4 ,like the other1 the tuneful prayer is the voice of ultramontane piety accustomed to deify ,mary1 and is entitled the ,evening ,song to the ,virgin4 ,ave ,sanctissima6 we lift our souls to ,thee ,ora pro nobis6 'tis nightfall on the sea4 ,watch us while shadows lie ,far o'er the waters spread2 ,hear the heart's lonely sigh2 ,thine1 too1 hath bled4 ,thou that hast looked on death1 ,aid us when death is near2 ,whisper of heaven to faith2 ,sweet ,mother1 hear6 ,ora pro nobis6 the wave must rock our sleep2 ,ora1 ,mater1 ora6 ,star of the ,deep6 ,this was first written in four separate quatrains1 ',tis nightfall on the sea being part of the first instead of the second line1 and ,we lift our souls1 etc41 was ,our souls rise to ,thee1 while the apostrophe at the end read1 ,thou ,star of the ,deep4 ,the fact of the modern origin of the hymn does not make it less probable that the earlier one of ,fortunatus suggested it4 ,it was written by ,mrs4 ,hemans1 and occurs between the forty-third and forty-fourth stanzas of her long poem1 ,the ,forest ,sanctuary4 ,a ,spanish ,christian who had embraced the ,protestant faith fled to ,america 7such is the story of the poem7 to escape the cruelties of the ,inquisition1 and took with him his ,catholic wife and his child4 ,during the voyage the wife pined away and died1 a martyr to her conjugal loyalty and love4 ,the hymn to the ,virgin purports to have been her daily evening song at sea1 plaintively remembered by the broken-hearted husband and father in his forest retreat on the ,american shore with his motherless boy4 ,the music was composed by a sister of ,mrs4 ,hemans1 ,mrs4 ,hughes1 who probably arranged the lines as they now stand in the tune4 ,the song1 though its words appear in the ,parochial ,hymn-book1 seems to be in use rather as parlor music than as a part of the liturgy4 ,,jesus1 ,,lover ,,of ,,my ,,soul4 ,the golden quality of this best-known and loved of ,charles ,wesley's hymns is attested by two indorsements that cannot be impeached2 its perennial life1 and the blessings of millions who needed it4 ,jesus1 ,lover of my soul ,let me to ,thy bosom fly1 ,while the billows near me roll1 ,while the tempest still is high4 ,hide me1 ,o my ,saviour1 hide1 ,till the storm of life is past1 ,safe into the haven guide1 ,o receive my soul at last6 ,wesley is believed to have written it when a young man1 and story and legend have been busy with the circumstances of its birth4 ,the most poetical account alleges that a dove chased by a hawk dashed through his open window into his bosom1 and the inspiration to write the line-- ,let me to ,thy bosom fly1 --was the genesis of the poem4 ,another report has it that one day ,mr4 ,wesley1 being pursued by infuriated persecutors at ,killalee1 ,county ,down1 ,ireland1 took refuge in a milk-house on the homestead of the ,island ,band ,farm4 ,when the mob came up the farmer's wife1 ,mrs4 ,jane ,lowrie ,moore1 offered them refreshments and secretly let out the fugitive through a window to the back garden1 where he concealed himself under a hedge till his enemies went away4 ,when they had gone he had the hymn in his mind and partly jotted down4 ,this tale is circumstantial1 and came through ,mrs4 ,mary ,e4 ,hoover1 ,jane ,moore's granddaughter1 who told it many years ago to her pastor1 ,dr4 ,william ,laurie of ,bellefonte1 ,pa4 ,so careful a narrative deserves all the respect due to a family tradition4 ,whether this or still another theory of the incidental cause of the wonderful hymn shall have the last word may never be decided nor is it important4 ,there is antecedent probability1 at least1 in the statement that ,wesley wrote the first two stanzas soon after his perilous experience in a storm at sea during his return voyage from ,america to ,england in #agcf4 ,in a letter dated ,oct4 #bh of that year1 he describes the storm that washed away a large part of the ship's cargo1 strained her seams so that the hardest pumping could not keep pace with the inrushing water1 and finally forced the captain to cut the mizzen-mast away4 ,young ,wesley was ill and sorely alarmed1 but knew1 he says1 that he abode under the shadow of the ,almighty1 and finally1 in this dreadful moment1 he was able to encourage his fellow-passengers who were in an agony of fear1 and to pray with and for them4 ,it was his awful hazard and bare escape in that tempest that prompted the following stanzas-- ,o ,thou who didst prepare ,the ocean's caverned cell1 ,and teach the gathering waters there ,to meet and dwell2 ,toss'd in our reeling bark ,upon this briny sea1 ,thy wondrous ways1 ,o ,lord1 we mark1 ,and sing to ,thee4 99 99 99 99 99 ,borne on the dark'ning wave1 ,in measured sweep we go1 ,nor dread th' unfathomable grave1 ,which yawns below2 ,for ,he is nigh who trod ,amid the foaming spray1 ,whose billows own'd th' ,incarnate ,god1 ,and died away4 ,and naturally the memory of his almost shipwreck on the wild ,atlantic colored more or less the visions of his muse1 and influenced the metaphors of his verse for years4 ,the popularity of ,jesus1 ,lover of my ,soul not only procured it1 at home1 the name of ,england's song of the sea1 but carried it with the course of ,empire to the ,west1 where it has reigned with ,rock of ,ages1 for more than a hundred and fifty years1 joint primate of inspired human songs4 ,compiled incidents of its heavenly service would fill a chapter4 ,a venerable minister tells of the supernal comfort that lightened his after years of sorrow from the dying bed of his wife who whispered with her last breath1 ,hide me1 ,o my ,saviour1 hide4 ,a childless and widowed father in ,washington remembers with a more than earthly peace1 the wife and mother's last request for ,wesley's hymn1 and her departure to the sound of its music to join the spirit of her babe4 ,a summer visitor in ,philadelphia1 waiting on a hot street-corner for a car to ,fairmount ,park1 overheard a quavering voice singing the same hymn and saw an emaciated hand caressing a little plant in an open window--and carried away the picture of a fading life1 and the words-- ,other refuge have ,i none1 ,hangs my helpless soul on ,thee4 ,on one of the fields of the ,civil ,war1 just after a bloody battle1 the ,rev4 ,james ,rankin of the ,united ,presbyterian ,church bent over a dying soldier4 ,asked if he had any special request to make1 the brave fellow replied1 ,yes1 sing ',jesus1 ,lover of my ,soul4' ,the clergyman belonged to a church that sang only ,psalms4 ,but what a tribute to that ubiquitous hymn that such a man knew it by heart6 ,a moment's hesitation and he recalled the words1 and1 for the first time in his life1 sang a sacred song that was not a ,psalm4 ,when he reached the lines1-- ,safe into the haven guide1 ,o receive my soul at last1 --his hand was in the frozen grip of a dead man1 whose face wore the light that never was on sea or land4 ,the minister went away saying to himself1 ,if this hymn is good to die by1 it is good to live by4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,of all the tone-masters who have studied and felt this matchless hymn1 and given it vocal wings--,marsh1 ,zundel1 ,bradbury1 ,dykes1 ,mason--none has so exquisitely uttered its melting prayer1 syllable by syllable1 as ,joseph ,p4 ,holbrook in his ,refuge4 ,unfortunately for congregational use1 it is a duo and quartet score for select voices2 but the four-voice portion can be a chorus1 and is often so sung4 ,its form excludes it from some hymnals or places it as an optional beside a congregational tune4 ,but when rendered by the choir on special occasions its success in conveying the feeling and soul of the words is complete4 ,there is a prayer in the swell of every semitone and the touch of every accidental1 and the sweet concord of the duet--soprano with tenor or bass--pleads on to the end of the fourth line1 where the full harmony reinforces it like an organ with every stop in play4 ,the tune is a rill of melody ending in a river of song4#cf ,footnote #cf3 ,holbrook has also an arrangement of ,franz ,abt's1 ,when the ,swallows ,homeward ,fly written to ,jesus1 ,lover of my ,soul1 but with ,wesley's words it is far less effective than his original work4 ,refuge is not a manufacture but an inspiration4 ,for general congregational use1 ,mason's ,whitman has wedded itself to the hymn perhaps closer than any other4 ,it has revival associations reaching back more than sixty years4 ,,when ,,marshalled ,,on ,,the ,,nightly ,,plain4 ,perhaps no line in all familiar hymnology more readily suggests the name of its author than this4 ,in the galaxy of poets ,henry ,kirke ,white was a brief luminary whose brilliancy and whose early end have appealed to the hearts of three generations4 ,he was born at ,nottingham1 ,eng41 in the year #agie4 ,his father was a butcher1 but the son1 disliking the trade1 was apprenticed to a weaver at the age of fourteen4 ,two years later he entered an attorney's office as copyist and student4 ,the boy imbibed sceptical notions from some source1 and might have continued to scoff at religion to the last but for the experience of his intimate friend1 a youth named ,almond1 whose life was changed by witnessing one day the happy death of a ,christian believer4 ,decided to be a ,christian himself1 it was some time before he mustered courage to face ,white's ridicule and resentment4 ,he simply drew away from him4 ,when ,white demanded the reason he was obliged to tell him that they two must henceforth walk different paths4 ,good ,god6 exclaimed ,white1 you surely think worse of me than ,i deserve6 ,the separation was a severe shock to ,henry1 and the real grief of it sobered his anger to reflection and remorse4 ,the light of a better life came to him when his heart melted--and from that time he and ,almond were fellows in faith as well as friendship4 ,in his hymn the young poet tells the stormy experience of his soul1 and the vision that guided him to peace4 ,when1 marshalled on the nightly plain1 ,the glittering host bestud the sky1 ,one star alone of all the train ,can fix the sinner's wandering eye4 ,hark1 hark6 to ,god the chorus breaks1 ,from every host1 from every gem1 ,but one alone the ,saviour speaks2 ,it is the ,star of ,bethlehem4 ,once on the raging seas ,i rode3 ,the storm was loud1 the night was dark2 ,the ocean yawned1 and rudely blowed ,the wind that tossed my foundering bark4 ,deep horror then my vitals froze1 ,death-struck1 ,i ceased the tide to stem1 ,when suddenly a star arose2 ,it was the ,star of ,bethlehem4 ,it was my guide1 my light1 my all1 ,it bade my dark forebodings cease2 ,and through the storm and danger's thrall1 ,it led me to the port of peace4 ,now1 safely moored1 my perils o'er1 ,i'll sing1 first in night's diadem1 ,for ever and for evermore1 ,the ,star1 the ,star of ,bethlehem6 ,besides this delightful hymn1 with its graphic sea-faring metaphors1 two others1 at least1 of the same boy-poet hold their place in many of the church and chapel collections3 ,the ,lord our ,god is clothed with might1 ,the winds obey ,his will2 ,he speaks1 and in his heavenly height ,the rolling sun stands still4 ,and-- ,oft in danger1 oft in woe1 ,onward1 ,christians1 onward go4 ,henry ,kirke ,white died in the autumn of #ahjf1 when he was scarcely twenty years old4 ,his ,ode to ,disappointment1 and the miscellaneous flowers and fragments of his genius1 make up a touching volume4 ,the fire of a pure1 strong spirit burning through a consumptive frame is in them all4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,when1 marshalled on the mighty plain has a choral set to it in the ,methodist ,hymnal--credited to ,thos4 ,harris1 and entitled ,crimea--which divides the three stanzas into six1 and breaks the continuity of the hymn4 ,better sing it in its original form--long metre double--to the dear old melody of ,bonny ,doon4 ,the voices of ,scotland1 ,england and ,america are blended in it4 ,illustration3 ,william ,b4 ,bradbury ,the origin of this ,caledonian air1 though sometimes fancifully traced to an ,irish harper and sometimes to a wandering piper of the ,isle of ,man1 is probably lost in antiquity4 ,burns1 however1 whose name is linked with it1 tells this whimsical story of it1 though giving no date save a good many years ago1--7apparently about #agec74 ,a virtuoso1 ,mr4 ,james ,millar1 he writes1 wishing he were able to compose a ,scottish tune1 was told by a musical friend to sit down to his harpsichord and make a rhythm of some kind solely on the black keys1 and he would surely turn out a ,scotch tune4 ,the musical friend1 pleased at the result of his jest1 caught the string of plaintive sounds made by ,millar1 and fashioned it into ,bonny ,doon4 ,,land ,,ahead6 ,the burden of this hymn was suggested by the dying words of ,john ,adams1 one of the crew of the ,english ship ,bounty who in #aghi mutinied1 set the captain and officers adrift1 and ran the vessel to a tropical island1 where they burned her4 ,in a few years vice and violence had decimated the wicked crew1 who had exempted themselves from all divine and human restraint1 until the last man alive was left with only native women and half-breed children for company4 ,his true name was ,alexander ,smith1 but he had changed it to ,john ,adams4 ,the situation forced the lonely ,englishman to a sense of solemn responsibility1 and in bitter remorse1 he sought to retrieve his wasted life1 and spend the rest of his exile in repentance and repentant works4 ,he found a ,bible in one of the dead seamen's chests1 studied it1 and organized a community on the ,christian plan4 ,a new generation grew up around him1 reverencing him as governor1 teacher1 preacher and judge1 and speaking his language--and he was wise enough to exercise his authority for the common good1 and never abuse it4 ,pitcairn's ,island became the ,paradise of the ,pacific4 ,it has not yet belied its name4 ,besides its opulence of rural beauty and natural products1 its inhabitants1 now the third generation from the mutineer missionary1 are a civilized community without the vices of civilization4 ,there is no licentiousness1 no profanity1 no ,sabbath-breaking1 no rum or tobacco--and no sickness4 ,john ,adams died in #ahbi--;after an island residence of forty years4 ,in his extreme age1 while he lay waiting for the end1 he was asked how he felt in view of the final voyage4 ,land ahead6 murmured the old sailor--and his last words were1 ,rounding the ,cape--into the harbor4 ,that the veteran's death-song should be perpetuated in sacred music is not strange4 ,land ahead6 its fruits are waving ,o'er the hills of fadeless green2 ,and the living waters laving ,shores where heavenly forms are seen4 ,,chorus4 ,rocks and storms ,i'll fear no more1 ,when on that eternal shore2 ,drop the anchor6 furl the sail6 ,i am safe within the veil4 ,onward1 bark6 the cape ,i'm rounding2 ,see1 the blessed wave their hands2 ,hear the harps of ,god resounding ,from the bright immortal bands4 ,the authorship of the hymn is credited to ,rev4 ,e4 ,adams--whether or not a descendent of the ,island ,patriarch we have no information4 ,it was written about #ahfi4 ,the ringing melody that bears the words was composed by ,john ,miller ,evans1 born ,nov4 #cj1 #ahbe2 died ,jan4 #a1 #ahib4 ,the original air--with a simple accompaniment--was harmonized by ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 and published in ,winnowed ,hymns in #ahgc4 ,,eternal ,,father1 ,,strong ,,to ,,save4 ,this is sung almost universally on ,english ships4 ,it is said to have been one of ,sir ,evelyn ,wood's favorites4 ,the late ,william ,whiting wrote it in #ahfj1 and it was incorporated with some alterations in the standard ,english ,church collection entitled ,hymns ,ancient and ,modern4 ,it is a translation from a ,latin hymn1 a triune litany addressing a stanza each to ,father1 ,son and ,holy ,spirit4 ,the whole four stanzas have the same refrain1 and the appeal to the ,father1 who bids-- --the mighty ocean deep ,its own appointed limits keep1 --varies in the appeal to ,christ1 who-- --walked upon the foaming deep4 ,the third and fourth stanzas are the following3 ,o ,holy ,spirit1 ,who didst brood ,upon the waters dark and rude1 ,and bid their angry tumult cease1 ,and give1 for wild confusion1 peace2 ,oh1 hear us when we cry to ,thee ,for those in peril on the sea4 ,o ,trinity of love and power1 ,our brethren shield in danger's hour2 ,from rock and tempest1 fire and foe1 ,protect them wheresoe'er they go3 ,thus evermore shall rise to ,thee ,glad hymns of praise from land to sea4 ,william ,whiting was born at ,kensington1 ,london1 ,nov4 #a1 #ahbe4 ,he was ,master of ,winchester ,college ,chorister's ,school ,died in #ahgh4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the choral named ,melita 7in memory of ,st4 ,paul's shipwreck7 was composed by ,dr4 ,dykes in #ahfa1 and its strong and easy chords and moderate note range are nobly suited to the devout hymn4 ,,the ,,ocean ,,hath ,,no ,,danger4 ,this charming sailors' lyric is the work of the ,rev4 ,godfrey ,thring4 ,its probable date is #ahfb1 and it appeared in ,morell and ,howe's collection and in ,hymns ,congregational and ,others1 published in #ahff1 which contained a number from his pen4 ,rector ,thring was born at ,alford1 ,somersetshire1 ,eng41 ,march #be1 #ahbc1 and educated at ,shrewsbury ,school and ,baliol ,college1 ,oxford4 ,in #aheh he succeeded his father as ,rector of ,alford4 ,he compiled ,a ,church of ,england ,hymnbook in #ahhj4 ,the ocean hath no danger ,for those whose prayers are made ,to ,him who in a manger ,a helpless ,babe was laid1 ,who1 born to tribulation ,and every human ill1 ,the ,lord of ,his creation1 ,the wildest waves can still4 99 99 99 99 99 ,though life itself be waning ,and waves shall o'er us sweep1 ,the wild winds sad complaining ,shall lull us still to sleep1 ,for as a gentle slumber ,e'en death itself shall prove ,to those whom ,christ doth number ,as worthy of ,his love4 ,the tune ,morlaix1 given to the hymn by ,dr4 ,dykes1 is simple1 but a very sweet and appropriate harmony4 ,,fierce ,,raged ,,the ,,tempest ,,on ,,the ,,deep4 ,this fine lyric1 based on the incident in the storm on the ,sea of ,galilee1 is the work of the same writer and owes its tune ,st4 ,aelred to the same composer4 ,the melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain1 ,peace1 be still1 after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas4 ,the wild winds hushed1 the angry deep ,sank like a little child to sleep1 ,the sullen waters ceased to leap4 99 99 99 99 99 ,so when our life is clouded o'er ,and storm-winds drift us from the shore ,say1 lest we sink to rise no more1 ,peace6 be still4 ,,pull ,,for ,,the ,,shore4 ,when a shipwrecked crew off a rocky coast were hurrying to the long-boat1 a sailor begged leave to run back to the ship's forecastle and save some of his belongings4 ,no sir1 shouted the ,captain1 she's sinking6 ,there's nothing to do but to pull for the shore4 ,philip ,p4 ,bliss caught up the words1 and wrought them into a hymn and tune4 ,light in the darkness1 sailor1 day is at hand6 ,see o'er the foaming billows fair ,haven's land2 ,drear was the voyage1 sailor1 now almost o'er2 ,safe in the life-boat1 sailor1 pull for the shore6 ,,chorus4 ,pull for the shore1 sailor1 pull for the shore6 ,heed not the rolling waves1 but bend to the oar2 ,safe in the life-boat1 sailor1 cling to self no more2 ,leave the poor old stranded wreck and pull for the shore6 ,the hymn-tune is a buoyant allegro--solo and chorus--full of hope and courage1 and both imagery and harmony appeal to the hearts of seamen4 ,it is popular1 and has long been one of the song numbers in demand at religious services both on sea and land4 ,,jesus1 ,,saviour1 ,,pilot ,,me4 ,the ,rev4 ,edward ,hopper1 ,d4,d4 wrote this hymn while pastor of ,mariner's ,church at ,new ,york harbor1 ,the ,church of the ,sea and ,land4 ,he was born in #ahah1 and graduated at ,union ,theological ,seminary in #ahdc4 ,jesus1 ,saviour1 pilot me ,over life's tempestuous sea1 ,unknown waves before me roll1 ,hiding rock and treacherous shoal2 ,chart and compass come from ,thee1 ,jesus1 ,saviour1 pilot me6 ,only three stanzas of this rather lengthy hymn are in common use4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,without title except ,savior1 pilot me4 ,a simple and pleasing melody composed by ,john ,edgar ,gould1 late of the firm of ,gould and ,fischer1 piano dealers1 ,phila41 ,pa4 ,he was born in ,bangor1 ,me41 ,april #i1 #ahbb4 ,conductor of music and composer of psalm and hymn tunes and glees1 he also compiled and published no less than eight books of church1 ,sunday-school1 and secular songs4 ,died in ,algiers1 ,africa1 ,feb4 #ac1 #ahge4 ,,throw ,,out ,,the ,,life-,,line4 ,this is one of the popular refrains that need but a single hearing to fix themselves in common memory and insure their own currency and eclat4 ,the ,rev4 ,e4,s4 ,ufford1 well-known as a ,baptist preacher1 lecturer1 and evangelist1 was witnessing a drill at the life-saving station on ,point ,allerton1 ,nantasket ,beach1 when the order to throw out the life-line and the sight of the apparatus in action1 combined with the story of a shipwreck on the spot1 left an echo in his mind till it took the form of a song-sermon4 ,returning home1 he pencilled the words of this rousing hymn1 and1 being himself a singer and player1 sat down to his instrument to match the lines with a suitable air4 ,it came to him almost as spontaneously as the music of ,the ,ninety and ,nine came to ,mr4 ,sankey4 ,in fifteen minutes the hymn-tune was made--so far as the melody went4 ,it was published in sheet form in #ahhh1 and afterwards purchased by ,mr4 ,sankey1 harmonized by ,mr4 ,stebbins1 and published in ,winnowed ,songs1 #ahij4 ,included in ,gospel ,hymns1 ,nov4 #f1 #ahia4 ,ever since it has been a favorite with singing seamen1 and has done active service as one of our most stirring field-songs in revival work4 ,throw out the ,life-line across the dark wave1 ,there is a brother whom some one should save2 ,somebody's brother6 oh1 who1 then1 will dare ,to throw out the ,life-line1 his peril to share8 ,throw out the ,life-line with hand quick and strong6 ,why do you tarry1 why linger so long8 ,see6 he is sinking2 oh1 hasten today-- ,and out with the ,life-boat6 away1 then away6 ,,chorus4 ,throw out the ,life-line6 ,throw out the ,life-line6 ,some one is drifting away2 ,throw out the ,life-line6 ,throw out the ,life-line6 ,some one is sinking today4 ,one evening1 in the midst of their hilarity at their card-tables1 a convivial club in one of the large ,pennsylvania cities heard a sweet1 clear female voice singing this solo hymn1 followed by a chime of mingled voices in the chorus4 ,a room in the building had been hired for religious meetings1 and tonight was the first of the series4 ,a strange coolness dampened the merriment in the club-room1 as the singing went on1 and the gradual silence became a hush1 till finally one member threw down his cards and declared1 ,if what they're saying is right1 then we're wrong4 ,others followed his example1 then another1 and another4 ,there is a brother whom some one should save4 ,quietly the revellers left their cards1 cigars and half-emptied glasses and went home4 ,said the ex-member who told the story years after to ,mr4 ,ufford1 ',throw ,out the ,life-line' broke up that club4 ,he is today one of the responsible editors of a great city daily--and his old club-mates are all holding positions of trust4 ,a ,christian man1 a prosperous manufacturer in a city of ,eastern ,massachusetts1 dates his first religious impressions from hearing this hymn when sung in public for the first time1 twenty years ago4 ,visiting ,california recently1 ,mr4 ,ufford sang his hymn at a watch-meeting and told the story of the loss of the ,elsie ,smith on ,cape ,cod in #aijb1 exhibiting also the very life-line that had saved sixteen lives from the wreck4 ,by chance one of those sixteen was in the audience4 ,an ,english clergyman who was on duty at ,gibraltar when an emigrant ship went on the rocks in a storm1 tells with what pathetic power and effect ,throw out the ,life-line was sung at a special ,sunday service for the survivors4 ,at one of ,evan ,roberts' meetings in ,laughor1 ,wales1 one speaker related the story of a vision1 when in his room alone1 and a ,voice that bade him pray1 and when he knelt but could not pray1 commanded him to ,throw out the ,life-line4 ,he had scarcely uttered these words in his story when the whole great congregation sprang to its feet and shouted the hymn together like the sound of many waters4 ,there is more electricity in that song than in any other ,i ever heard1 ,dr4 ,cuyler said to ,mr4 ,sankey when he heard him sing it4 ,its electricity has carried it nearly round the world4 ,the ,rev4 ,edward ,smith ,ufford was born in ,newark1 ,n4,j41 #ahea1 and educated at ,stratford ,academy 7,ct47 and ,bates ,theological ,seminary1 ,me4 ,he held several pastorates in ,maine and ,massachusetts1 but a preference for evangelistic work led him to employ his talent for object-teaching in illustrated religious lectures through his own and foreign lands1 singing his hymn and enforcing it with realistic representation4 ,he is the author and compiler of several ,sunday-school and chapel song-manuals1 as ,converts' ,praise1 ,life-long ,songs1 ,wonderful ,love and ,gathered ,gems4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,wales4 ,in writing this chapter the task of identifying the tune1 and its author1 in the case of every hymn1 would have required more time and labor than1 perhaps1 the importance of the facts would justify4 ,peculiar interest1 however1 attaches to ,welsh hymns1 even apart from the airs which accompany them1 and a general idea of ,welsh music may be gathered from the tone and metre of the lyrics introduced4 ,more particular information would necessitate printing the music itself4 ,from the days of the ,druids1 ,wales has been a land of song4 ,from the later but yet ancient time when the people learned the ,christian faith1 it has had its ,christian psalms4 ,the ,march of the ,white ,monks of ,bangor 7#gth century7 is an epic of bravery and death celebrating the advance of ,christian martyrs to their bloody fate at the hands of the ,saxon savages4 ,its very rhythm pictures the long procession of white-cowled patriots bearing peaceful banners and in faith taking their way to ,chester to stimulate the valor of their countrymen4 ,and ever since the ,battle of the ,hallelujahs--near ,chirk on the border1 nine miles from ,wrexham--when the invading ,danes were driven from the field in fright by the rush of the ,cymric army shouting that mighty cry1 every ,christian poet in ,wales has had a hallelujah in his verse4 ,through the centuries1 while chased and hunted by their conquerors among the ,cambrian hills1 but clinging to their independent faith1 or even when paralyzed into spiritual apathy under tribute to a foreign church1 the heavenly song still murmured in a few true hearts amidst the vain and vicious lays of carnal mirth4 ,it survived even when people and priest alike seemed utterly degenerate and godless4 ,the voice of ,walter ,bute 7#acgb7 rang true for the religion of ,jesus in its purity4 ,brave ,john ,oldcastle1 the martyr1 7#adag7 clung to the gospel he learned at the foot of the cross4 ,william ,wroth1 clergyman1 saved from fiddling at a drunken dance by a disaster that turned a house of revelry into a house of death1 confessed his sins to ,god and became the ,apostle of ,south ,wales4 ,the young vicar1 ,rhys ,pritchard 7#aegi7 rose from the sunken level of his profession1 rescued through an incident less tragic4 ,accustomed to drink himself to inebriety at a public-house--a socially winked-at indulgence then--he one day took his pet goat with him1 and poured liquor down the creature's throat4 ,the refusal of the poor goat to go there again forced the reckless priest to reflect on his own ways4 ,he forsook the ale-house and became a changed man4 ,among his writings--later than this--is found the following plain1 blunt statement of what continued long to be true of ,welsh society1 as represented in the common use of ,sunday time4 ,of all the days throughout the rolling year ,there's not a day we pass so much amiss1 ,there's not a day wherein we all appear ,so irreligious1 so profaned as this4 ,a day for drunkenness1 a day for sport1 ,a day to dance1 a day to lounge away1 ,a day for riot and excess1 too short ,amongst the ,welshmen is the ,sabbath day4 ,a day to sit1 a day to chat and spend1 ,a day when fighting 'mongst us most prevails1 ,a day to do the errands of the ,fiend-- ,such is the ,sabbath in most parts of ,wales4 ,meantime some who could read the language--and the better educated 7like the author of the above rhymes7 knew ,english as well as ,welsh--had seen a rescued copy of ,wycliffs ,new ,testament1 a precious publication seized and burnt 7like the bones of its translator7 by hostile ecclesiastics1 and suppressed for nearly two hundred years4 ,walter ,bute1 like ,obadiah who hid the hundred prophets1 may well be credited with such secret salvage out of the general destruction4 ,and there were doubtless others equally alert for the same quiet service4 ,we can imagine how far the stealthy taste of that priceless book would help to strengthen a better religion than the one doled out professionally to the multitude by a ,civil church2 and how it kept the hallelujah alive in silent but constant souls2 and in how many cases it awoke a conscience long hypnotized under corrupt custom1 and showed a renegade ,christian how morally untuned he was4 ,daylight came slowly after the morning star1 but when the dawn reddened it was in welcome to ,pritchard's and ,penry's gospel song2 and sunrise hastened at the call of ,caradoc1 and ,powell1 and ,erbury1 and ,maurice1 the holy men who followed them1 some with the trumpet of ,sinai and some with the harp of ,calvary4 ,cambria was being prepared for its first great revival of religion4 ,there was no rich portfolio of ,christian hymns such as exists to-day1 but surely there were not wanting pious words to the old chants of ,bangor and the airs of ,wild ,wales4 ,when time brought ,howell ,harris and ,daniel ,rowland1 and the great ,reformation of the eighteenth century1 the renowned ,william ,williams1 the ,watts of ,wales1 appeared1 and began his tuneful work4 ,the province soon became a land of hymns4 ,the candles lit and left burning here and there by ,penry1 ,maurice1 and the ,owens1 blazed up to beacon-fires through all the twelve counties when ,harris1 at the head of the mighty movement1 carried with him the sacred songs of ,williams1 kindling more lights everywhere between the ,dee and the ,british ,channel4 ,william ,williams of ,pantycelyn was born in #agag1 at ,cefncoed ,farm1 near ,llandovery4 ,three years younger than ,harris1 7an ,oxford graduate17 and educated only at a village school and an academy at ,llwynllwyd1 he was the song protagonist of the holy campaign as the other was its champion preacher4 ,from first to last ,williams wrote nine hundred and sixteen hymns1 some of which are still heard throughout the church militant1 and others survive in local use and affection4 ,he died ,jan4 #aa1 #agia1 at ,pantycelyn1 where he had made his home after his marriage4 ,one of the hymns in his ,gloria1 his second publication1 may well have been his last4 ,it was dear to him above others1 and has been dear to devout souls in many lands4 ,my ,god1 my portion and my love2 ,my all on earth1 my all above1 ,my all within the tomb2 ,the treasures of this world below ,are but a vain1 delusive show1 ,thy bosom is my home4 ,it was fitting that ,williams should name the first collection of his hymns 7all in his native ,welsh7 ,the ,hallelujah4 ,its lyrics are full of adoration for the ,redeemer1 and thanksgivings for ,his work4 ,,onward ,,ride ,,in ,,triumph1 ,,jesus1 ,marchog1 ,jesu1 yn llwyddiannus1 ,has been sung in ,wales for a century and a half1 and is still a favorite4 ,onward ride in triumph1 ,jesus1 ,gird thy sword upon thy thigh2 ,neither earth nor ,hell's own vastness ,can ,thy mighty power defy4 ,in ,thy ,name such glory dwelleth ,every foe withdraws in fear1 ,all the wide creation trembleth ,whensoever ,thou art near4#cg ,the unusual militant strain in this paean of conquest soon disappears1 and the gentler aspects of ,christ's atoning sacrifice occupy the writer's mind and pen4 ,footnote #cg3 ,the following shows the style of ,rev4 ,elvet ,lewis' translation3 ,blessed ,jesus1 march victorious ,with ,thy sword fixed at ,thy side2 ,neither death nor hell can hinder ,the ,god-,warrior in ,his ride4 ,,in ,,eden--,o ,,the ,,memory6 ,yn ,eden cofiaf hyny byth6 ,the text1 ,he was wounded for our transgressions1 is amplified in this hymn1 and the ,saviour is shown bruising ,himself while bruising the serpent4 ,the first stanza gives the key-note1-- ,in ,eden--,o the memory6 ,what countless gifts were lost to me6 ,my crown1 my glory fell2 ,but ,calvary's great victory ,restored that vanished crown to me2 ,on this my songs shall dwell2 --and the multitude of ,williams' succeeding songs that chant the same theme shows how well he kept his promise4 ,the following hymn in ,welsh 7,cymmer1 ,jesu fi fel'r ydwyf7 antedates the advice of ,dr4 ,malan to ,charlotte ,elliott1 ,come just as you are-- ,take me as ,i am1 ,o ,saviour1 ,better ,i can never be2 ,thou alone canst bring me nearer1 ,self but draws me far from ,thee4 ,i can never ,but within ,thy wounds be saved2 --and another 7,mi dafla maich oddi ar fy ngway7 reminds us of ,bunyan's ,pilgrim in sight of the ,cross3 ,i'll cast my heavy burden down1 ,remembering ,jesus' pains2 ,guilt high as towering mountain tops ,here turns to joyful strains4 99 99 99 99 99 ,he stretched ,his pure white hands abroad1 ,a crown of thorns ,he wore1 ,that so the vilest sinner might ,be cleansed forevermore2 ,williams was called ,the ,sweet ,singer of ,wales and ,the ,watts of ,wales because he was the chief poet and hymn-writer of his time1 but the lady he married1 ,miss ,mary ,francis1 was literally a singer1 with a voice so full and melodious that the people to whom he preached during his itineraries1 which she sometimes shared with him1 were often more moved by her sweet hymnody than by his exhortations4 ,on one occasion the good man1 accompanied by his wife1 put up at ,bridgend ,tavern in ,llangefin1 ,anglesea1 and a mischievous crowd1 wishing to plague the ,methodists1 planned to make night hideous in the house with a boisterous merry-making4 ,the fiddler1 followed by a gang of roughs1 pushed his way to the parlor1 and mockingly asked the two guests if they would have a tune4 ,yes1 replied ,williams1 falling in with his banter1 anything you like1 my lad2 ',nancy ,jig' or anything else4 ,and at a sign from her husband1 as soon as the fellow began the jig1 ,mrs4 ,williams struck in with one of the poet-minister's well-known ,welsh hymns in the same metre1-- ,gwaed ,dy groes sy'n c' odi fyny ,calvary's blood the weak exalteth ,more than conquerors to be1#ch --and followed the player note for note1 singing the sacred words in her sweet1 clear voice1 till he stopped ashamed1 and took himself off with all his gang4 ,footnote #ch3 ,a less literal but more hymn-like translation is3 ,jesu's blood can raise the feeble ,as a conqueror to stand2 ,jesu's blood is all-prevailing ,o'er the mighty of the land3 ,let the breezes ,blow from ,calvary on me4 ,says the author of ,sweet ,singers of ,wales1 ,this refrain has been the password of many powerful revivals4 ,another hymn-- ,o' ,llefara6 addfwyn ,jesu1 ,speak1 ,o speak1 thou gentle ,jesus1 --recalls the well-known verse of ,newton1 ,how sweet the name of ,jesus sounds4 ,like many of ,williams' hymns1 it was prompted by occasion4 ,some converts suffered for lack of a clear experience and complained to him4 ,they were like the disciples in the ship1 ,it was dark1 and ,jesus had not yet come unto them4 ,the poet-preacher immediately made this hymn-prayer for all souls similarly tried4 ,edward ,griffiths translates it thus3 ,speak1 ,i pray ,thee1 gentle ,jesus1 ,o how passing sweet ,thy words1 ,breathing o'er my troubled spirit1 ,peace which never earth affords1 ,all the world's distracting voices1 ,all th' enticing tones of ill1 ,at ,thy accents1 mild1 melodious ,are subdued1 and all is still4 ,tell me ,thou art mine1 ,o ,saviour ,grant me an assurance clear1 ,banish all my dark misgivings1 ,still my doubting1 calm my fear4 ,besides his ,welsh hymns1 published in the first and in the second and larger editions of his ,hallelujah1 and in two or three other collections1 ,william ,williams wrote and published two books of ,english hymns1#ci the ,hosanna 7#agei7 and the ,gloria 7#aggb74 ,he fills so large a space in the hymnology and religious history of ,wales that he will necessarily reappear in other pages of this chapter4 ,footnote #ci3 ,possibly they were written in ,welsh1 and translated into ,english by his friend and neighbor1 ,peter ,williams4 ,from the days of the early religious awakenings under the #afth century preachers1 and after the ecclesiastical dynasty of ,rome had been replaced by that of the ,church of ,england1 there were periods when the independent conscience of a few pious ,welshmen rose against religious formalism1 and the credal constraints of established teaching--and suffered for it4 ,burning heretics at the stake had ceased to be a church practice before the #agdj's1 but ,howell ,harris1 ,daniel ,rowlands1 and the rest of the ,methodist ,fathers1 with their followers1 were not only ostracised by society and haled before magistrates to be fined for preaching1 and sometimes imprisoned1 but they were chased and beaten by mobs1 ducked in ponds and rivers1 and pelted with mud and garbage when they tried to speak or sing4 ,but they kept on talking and singing4 ,harris 7who had joined the army in #agfj7 owned a commission1 and once he saved himself from the fury of a mob while preaching--with cloak over his ordinary dress--by lifting his cape and showing the star on his breast4 ,no one dared molest an officer of ,his ,britannic ,majesty4 ,but all were not able to use ,st4 ,paul's expedient in critical moments4#dj ,footnote #dj3 ,acts #bb3be4 ,william ,williams often found immunity in his hymns1 for like ,luther--and like ,charles ,wesley among the ,cornwall sea-robbers--he caught up the popular glees and ballad-refrains of the street and market and his wife sang their music to his words4 ,it is true many of these old ,welsh airs were minors1 like ,elvy and ,babel 7a significant name in ,english7 and would not be classed as glees in any other country--always excepting ,scotland--but they had the swing1 and their mode and style were catchy to a ,welsh multitude4 ,in fact many of these uncopyrighted bits of musical vernacular were appropriated by the hymnbook makers1 and christened with such titles as ,pembroke1 ,arabia1 ,brymgfryd1 ,cwyfan1 ,thydian1 and the two mentioned above4 ,it was the time when ,whitefield and the ,wesleys were sweeping the kingdom with their conquering eloquence1 and ,howell ,harris 7their fellow-student at ,oxford7 had sided with the conservative wing of the ,gospel ,reformation workers1 and become a ,whitfield ,methodist4 ,the ,welsh ,methodists1 ad exemplum1 marched with this ,calvinistic branch--as they do today4 ,each division had its ,christian bard4 ,charles ,wesley could put regenerating power into sweet1 poetic hymns1 and ,william ,williams' lyrical preaching made the ,bible a travelling pulpit4 ,the great ,beibl ,peter ,williams with its commentaries in ,welsh1 since so long reverenced and cherished in provincial families1 was not published till #aggj1 and for many the printed ,word was far to seek4#da ,but the gospel minstrels carried the ,word with them4 ,some of the long hymns contained nearly a whole body of divinity4 ,footnote #da3 ,as an incident contributory to the formation of the ,british and ,foreign ,bible ,society1 the story has been often repeated of the little girl who wept when she missed her ,catechism appointment1 and told ,thomas ,charles of ,bala that the bad weather was the cause of it1 for she had to walk seven miles to find a ,bible every time she prepared her lessons4 ,see page #chj4 ,the ,welsh learn their hymns by heart1 as they do the ,bible--a habit inherited from those old days of scarcity1 when memory served pious people instead of print--so that a ,welsh prayer-meeting is never embarrassed by a lack of books4 ,an anecdote illustrates this characteristic readiness4 ,in ,february1 #agig1 when ,napoleon's name was a terror to ,england1 the ,french landed some troops near ,fishguard1 ,pembrokeshire4 ,mounted heralds spread the news through ,wales1 and in the village of ,rhydybont1 ,cardiganshire1 the fright nearly broke up a religious meeting2 but one brave woman1 ,nancy ,jones1 stopped a panic by singing this stanza of one of ,thomas ,williams' hymns1-- ,diuw os wyt am ddylenu'r bya ,if ,thou wouldst end the world1 ,o ,lord1 ,accomplish first ,thy promised ,word1 ,and gather home with one accord ,from every part ,thine own1 ,send out ,thy ,word from pole to pole1 ,and with ,thy blood make thousands whole1 ,and1 after that come down4 ,nancy ,jones would have been a useful member of the ,singing ,sisters band1 so efficient a century or more afterwards4 ,the tunes of the ,reformation under the ,methodist ,fathers continued far down the century to be the country airs of the nation1 and reverberations of the great spiritual movement were heard in their rude music in the mountain-born revival led by ,jack ,edward ,watkin in #aggi and in the local awakenings of #agia and #ahag4 ,later in the #aith century new hymns1 and many of the old1 found new tunes1 made for their sake or imported from ,england and ,america4 ,the sanctified gift of song helped to make #ahbi a year of jubilee in ,south ,wales1 nor was the same aid wanting during the plague in #ahca1 when the famous ,presbyterian preacher1 ,john ,elias1#db won nearly a whole county to ,christ4 ,footnote #db3 ,those who read his biography will call him the ,seraphic ,john ,elias4 ,his name was ,john ,jones when he was admitted a member of the presbytery4 ,what followed is a commentary on the embarrassing frequency of a common name1 nowhere realized so universally as it is in ,wales4 ,what is his father's name8 asked the moderator when ,john ,jones was announced4 ,elias ,jones1 was the answer4 ,then call the young man ,john ,elias1 said the speaker1 otherwise we shall by and by have nobody but ,john ,joneses4 ,and ,john ,elias it remained4 ,an accession of temperance hymns in ,wales followed the spread of the ,washingtonian movement on the other side of the ,atlantic in #ahdj1 and began a moral reformation in the county of ,merioneth that resulted in a spiritual one1 and added to the churches several thousand converts1 scarcely any of whom fell away4 ,the revival of #ahea-b was a local one1 but was believed by many to have been inspired by a celestial antiphony4 ,the remarkable sounds were either a miracle or a psychic wonder born of the intense imagination of a sensitive race4 ,a few pious people in a small village of ,montgomeryshire had been making special prayer for an outpouring of the spirit1 but after a week of meetings with no sign of the result hoped for1 they were returning to their homes1 discouraged1 when they heard strains of sweet music in the sky4 ,they stopped in amazement1 but the beautiful singing went on--voices as of a choir invisible1 indistinct but melodious1 in the air far above the roof of the chapel they had just left4 ,next day1 when the astonished worshippers told the story1 numbers in the district said they had heard the same sounds4 ,some had gone out at eleven o'clock to listen1 and thought that angels must be singing4 ,whatever the music meant1 the good brethren's and sisters' little meetings became crowded very soon after1 and the longed-for out-pouring came mightily upon the neighborhood4 ,hundreds from all parts flocked to the churches1 all ages joining in the prayers and hymns and testimonies1 and a harvest of glad believers followed a series of meetings led by the ,holy ,ghost4 ,the sounds in the sky were never explained2 but the belief that ,god sent ,his angels to sing an answer to the anxious prayers of those pious brethren and sisters did no one any harm4 ,whether this event in ,montgomeryshire was a preparation for what took place six or seven years later is a suggestive question only1 but when the wave of spiritual power from the great ,american revival of #aheg-h reached ,england1 its first messenger to ,wales1 ,rev4 ,h4,r4 ,jones1 a ,wesleyan1 had only to drop the spark that lit a prairie fire4 ,the reformation1 chiefly under the leadership of ,mr4 ,jones and ,rev4 ,david ,morgan1 a ,presbyterian1 with their singing bands1 was general and lasting1 hundreds of still robust and active ,christians today dating their new birth from the ,pentecost of #ahei and its ingathering of eighty thousand souls4 ,a favorite hymn of that revival was the penitential cry1-- ,o'th flaem1 ,o ,dduw6 'r wy'n dyfod1 --in the seven-six metre so much loved in ,wales4 ,unto ,thy presence coming1 ,o ,god1 far off ,i stand3 ,a sinner is my title1 ,no other ,i demand4 ,for mercy ,i am seeking ,for mercy still shall cry2 ,deny me not ,thy mercy2 ,o grant it or ,i die6 99 99 99 99 99 ,i heard of old that ,jesus1 ,who still abides the same1 ,to publicans gave welcome1 ,and sinners deep in shame4 ,oh ,god6 receive me with them1 ,me also welcome in1 ,and pardon my transgression1 ,forgetting all my sin4 ,the author of the hymn was ,thomas ,williams of ,glamorganshire1 born #agfa2 died #ahdd4 ,he published a volume of hymns1 ,waters of ,bethesda in #ahbc4 ,the ,welsh minor tune of ,clwyd may appropriately have been the music to express the contrite prayer of the words4 ,the living composer1 ,john ,jones1 has several tunes in the ,welsh revival manual of melodies1 ,ail ,attodiad4 ,the unparalleled religious movement of #aijd-e was a praying and singing revival4 ,the apostle and spiritual prompter of that unbroken campaign of ,christian victories--so far as any single human agency counted--was ,evan ,roberts1 of ,laughor1 a humble young worker in the mines1 who had prayed thirteen years for a mighty descent of the heavenly blessing on his country and for a clear indication of his own mission4 ,his convictions naturally led him to the ministry1 and he went to ,newcastle ,emlyn to study4 ,evangelical work had been done by two societies1 made up of earnest ,christians1 and known as the ,forward ,movement and the ,simultaneous ,mission4 ,beginnings of a special season of interest as a result of their efforts1 appeared in the young people's prayer meetings in ,february1 #aijd1 at ,new ,quay1 ,cardiganshire4 ,the interest increased1 and when branch-work was organized a young praying and singing band visited ,newcastle ,emlyn in the course of one of their tours1 and held a rally meeting4 ,evan ,roberts went to the meeting and found his own mission4 ,he left his studies and consecrated himself1 soul and body1 to revival work4 ,in every spiritual and mental quality he was surpassingly well-equipped4 ,to the quick sensibility of his poetic nature he added the inspiration of a seer and the zeal of a devotee4 ,like ,moses1 ,elijah1 and ,paul in ,arabian solitudes1 and ,john in the ,dead ,sea wilds1 he had prepared himself in silence and alone with ,god2 and though1 on occasion1 he could use effectively his gift of words1 he stood distinct in a land of matchless pulpit orators as the silent leader4 ,without preaching he dominated the mood of his meetings1 and without dictating he could change the trend of a service and shape the next song or prayer on the intuition of a moment4 ,in fact1 judged by its results1 it was ,god ,himself who directed the revival1 only ,he endowed ,his minister with the power of divination to watch its progress and take the stumbling-blocks out of the way4 ,by a kind of hallowed psychomancy1 that humble man would detect a discordant presence1 and hush the voices of a congregation till the stubborn soul felt ,god in the stillness1 and penitently surrendered4 ,many tones of the great awakening of #ahei heard again in #aijd-e1--the harvest season without a precedent1 when men1 women and children numbering ten per cent of the whole population of a province were gathered into the membership of the church of ,christ4 ,but there were tones a century older heard in the devotions of that harvest-home in ,wales4 ,a ,new ,england ,christian would have felt at home1 with the tuneful assemblies at ,laughor1 ,trencynon1 ,bangor1 ,bethesda1 ,wrexham1 ,cardiff1 or ,liverpool1 singing ,lowell ,mason's ,meribah or the clarion melody of ,edson's ,lenox to ,wesley's-- ,blow ye the trumpet1 blow1 ,the gladly solemn sound2 --or to his other well-known-- ,arise my soul1 arise1 ,shake off thy guilty fears1 ,the bleeding ,sacrifice ,in thy behalf appear4 ,in short1 the flood tide of #aijd and #aije brought in very little new music and very few new hymns4 ,aberystwyth and ,tanymarian1 the minor harmonies of ,joseph ,party and ,stephens2 ,e4,m4 ,price's ,st4 ,garmon2 ,r4,m4 ,pritchard's1 ,hyfrydol1 and a few others1 were choral favorites1 but their composers were all dead1 and the congregations loved the still older singers who had found familiar welcome at their altars and firesides4 ,the most cherished and oftenest chosen hymns were those of ,william ,williams and ,ann ,griffiths1 of ,charles ,wesley1 of ,isaac ,watts--indeed the very tongues of fire that appeared at ,jerusalem took on the ,cymric speech1 and sang the burning lyrics of the poet-saints4 ,and in their revival joy ,calvinistic ,wales sang the ,new ,testament with more of its ,johannic than of its ,pauline texts4 ,the covenant of peace--,christ and ,his ,cross--is the theme of all their hymns4 ,,here ,,behold ,,the ,,tent ,,of ,,meeting4 ,dyma ,babell y cyfarfod4 ,this hymn1 written by ,ann ,griffiths1 is entitled ,love ,eternal1 and praises the ,divine plan to satisfy the ,law and at the same time save the sinner4 ,the first stanza gives an idea of the thought3 ,here behold the tent of meeting1 ,in the blood a peace with heaven1 ,refuge from the blood-avengers1 ,for the sick a ,healer given4 ,here the sinner nestles safely ,at the very ,throne divine1 ,and ,heaven's righteous law1 all holy4 ,still on him shall smile and shine4 ,,how ,,sweet ,,the ,,covenant ,,to ,,remember4 ,bydd melus gofio y cyfammod4 ,this1 entitled ,mysteries of ,grace1 is also from the pen of ,ann ,griffiths4 ,it has the literalness noticeable in much of the ,welsh religious poetry1 and there is a note of pietism in it4 ,the two last stanzas are these3 ,he is the great ,propitiation ,who with the thieves that anguish bare2 ,he nerved the arms of ,his tormentors ,to drive the nails that fixed ,him there4 ,while ,he discharged the sinner's ransom1 ,and made the ,law in honor be1 ,righteousness shone undimmed1 resplendent1 ,and me the ,covenant set free4 ,my soul1 behold ,him laid so lowly1 ,of peace the ,fount1 of ,kings the ,head1 ,the vast creation in ,him moving ,and ,he low-lying with the dead6 ,the ,life and portion of lost sinners1 ,the marvel of heaven's seraphim1 ,to sea and land the ,god ,incarnate ,the choir of heaven cries1 ,unto ,him6 ,ann ,griffiths' earliest hymn will be called her sweetest4 ,fortunately1 too1 it is more poetically translated4 ,it was before the vivid consciousness and intensity of her religious experience had given her spiritual writings a more involved and mystical expression4 ,my soul1 behold the fitness ,of this great ,son of ,god1 ,trust ,him for life eternal ,and cast on ,him thy load1 ,a man--touched with the pity ,of every human woe1 ,a ,god--to claim the kingdom ,and vanquish every foe4 ,this stanza1 the last of her little poem on the ,eternal ,fitness of ,jesus1 came to her when1 returning from an exciting service1 filled with thoughts of her unworthiness and of the glorious beauty of her ,saviour1 she had turned down a sheltered lane to pray alone4 ,there on her knees in communion with ,god her soul felt the spirit of the sacred song4 ,by the time she reached home she had formed it into words4 ,the first and second stanzas1 written later1 are these3 ,great ,author of salvation ,and providence for man1 ,thou rulest earth and heaven ,with ,thy far-reaching plan4 ,today or on the morrow1 ,whatever woe betide1 ,grant us ,thy strong assistance1 ,within ,thy hand to hide4 ,what though the winds be angry1 ,what though the waves be high ,while wisdom is the ,ruler1 ,the ,lord of earth and sky8 ,what though the flood of evil ,rise stormily and dark8 ,no soul can sink within it2 ,god is ,himself the ark4 ,mrs4 ,ann ,griffiths1 of ,dolwar ,fechan1 ,montgomeryshire1 was born in #aggf1 and died in #ahje4 ,she remains1 says ,dr4 ,parry1 her fellow-countryman1 a romantic figure in the religious history of ,wales4 ,her hymns leave upon the reader an undefinable impression both of sublimity and mysticism4 ,her brief life-history is most worthy of study both from a literary and a religious point of view4 ,illustration3 ,isaac ,watts1 ,d4,d4 ,a suggestive chapter of her short earthly career is compressed in a sentence by the author of ,sweet ,singers of ,wales3 ,she had a ,christian life of eight years and a married life of ten months4 ,she died at the age of twenty-nine4 ,in #aijd1 near the centennial of her death1 amid the echoes of her own hymns1 and the rising waves of the great ,refreshing over her native land1 the people of ,dolwar ,fechan dedicated the new ,ann ,griffiths ,memorial ,chapel to her name and to the glory of ,god4 ,although the ,welsh were not slow to adopt the revival tones of other lands1 it was the native1 and what might be called the national1 lyrics of that emotional race that were sung with the richest unction and hwyl 7as the ,cymric word is7 during the recent reformation1 and that evinced the strongest hold on the common heart4 ,needless to say that with them was the world-famous song of ,william ,williams1-- ,guide me1 ,o ,thou ,great ,jehovah2 ,arglwydd ar wain truy'r anialoch2 --and that of ,dr4 ,heber ,evans1-- ,keep me very near to ,jesus1 ,though beneath ,his ,cross it be1 ,in this world of evil-doing ',tis the ,cross that cleanseth me2 --and also that native hymn of expectation1 high and sweet1 whose writer we have been unable to identify-- ,the glory is coming6 ,god said it on high1 ,when light in the evening will break from the sky2 ,the ,north and ,south and the ,east and the ,west1 ,with joy of salvation and peace will be bless'd4 99 99 99 99 99 ,o summer of holiness1 hasten along6 ,the purpose of glory is constant and strong2 ,the winter will vanish1 the clouds pass away2 ,o ,south wind of ,heaven1 breath softly today6 ,of the almost countless hymns that voiced the spirit of the great revival1 the nine following are selected because they are representative1 and all favorites--and because there is no room for a larger number4 ,the first line of each is given in the original ,welsh3 ,,dwy ,,aden ,,colomen ,,pe ,,cawn4 ,o had ,i the wings of a dove ,how soon would ,i wander away ,to gaze from ,mount ,nebo ,i'd love ,on realms that are fairer than day4 ,my vision1 not clouded nor dim1 ,beyond the dark river should run2 ,i'd sing1 with my thoughts upon ,him1 ,the sinless1 the crucified one4 ,this is another of ,thomas ,williams' hymns4 ,one of the tunes suitable to its feeling and its measure was ,edom1 by ,thomas ,evans4 ,it was much sung in #ahei1 as well as in #aijd4 ,,caelbod ,,yn ,,forsec ,,dan ,,yr ,,ian4 ,early to bear the yoke excels ,by far the joy in sin that dwells2 ,the paths of wisdom still are found ,in peace and solace to abound4 ,the young who serve ,him here below ,the wrath to come shall never know2 ,of such in heaven are pearls that shine ,unnumbered in the crown divine4 ,written for children and youth by ,rev4 ,thomas ,jones1 of ,denbigh1 born #agef2 died #ahbj1--;a ,calvinistic ,methodist preacher1 author of a biography of ,thomas ,charles of ,bala1 and various theological works4 ,,dyma ,,gariad ,,fel ,y ,,moroedd1 ,,tosturiasthan ,,fel ,y ,,lli4 ,love unfathomed as the ocean ,mercies boundless as the wave6 ,lo the ,king of ,life1 the guiltless1 ,dies my guilty soul to save2 ,who can choose but think upon it1 ,who can choose but praise and sing8 ,here is love1 while heaven endureth1 ,nought can to oblivion bring4 ,this is called ,the great ,welsh love-song4 ,it was written by ,rev4 ,william ,rees1 ,d4,d41 eminent as a preacher1 poet1 politician and essayist4 ,one of the greatest names of nineteenth century ,wales4 ,he died in #ahhc4 ,the tune1 ,cwynfan ,prydian1 sung to this hymn is one of the old ,welsh minors that would sound almost weird to our ears1 but ,welsh voices can sing with strange sweetness the ,saviour's passion on which ,christian hearts of that nation love so well to dwell1 and the shadow of it1 with ,his love shining through1 creates the paradox of a joyful lament in many of their chorals4 ,we cannot imitate it4 ,,rhyfeddodau ,,dydd ,,yr ,,adgyfodidd4 ,unnumbered are the marvels ,the ,last ,great ,day shall see1 ,with earth's poor storm-tossed children ,from tribulation free1 ,all in their shining raiment ,transfigured1 bright and brave1 ,like to their ,lord ascending ,in triumph from the grave4 ,the author of this ,easter hymn is unknown4 ,the most popular ,welsh hymns would be named variously by different witnesses according to the breadth and length of their observation4 ,two of them1 as a ,wrexham music publisher testifies1 are certainly the following2 ,heaven and ,home1 and ,lo1 a ,saviour for the ,fallen4 ,the first of these was sung in the late revival with stormy rapture4 ,o ,,frynau ,,caersalem ,,ceir ,,giveled4 ,the heights of fair ,salem ascended1 ,each wilderness path we shall see2 ,now thoughts of each difficult journey ,a sweet meditation shall be4 ,on death1 on the grave and its terrors ,and storms we shall gaze from above ,and freed from all cares we shall revel 787 ,in transports of heavenly love4 ,according to the mood of the meeting this was pitched in three sharps to ,evelyn ,evans' tune of ,eirinwg or with equal ,welsh enthusiasm in the ,c minor of old ,darby4 ,the author of the hymn was the ,rev4 ,david ,charles1 of ,carmarthen1 born #agfb2 died #ahcd4 ,he was a heavenly-minded man who loved to dwell on the divine and eternal wonders of redemption4 ,a volume of his sermons was spoken of as ,apples of gold in pictures of silver1 and the beautiful piety of all his writings made them strings of pearls4 ,he understood ,english as well as ,welsh1 and enjoyed the hymns not only of ,william and ,thomas ,williams but of ,watts1 ,wesley1 ,cowper1 and ,newton4#dc ,footnote #dc3 ,the following verses were written by him in ,english3 ,spirit of grace and love divine1 ,help me to sing that ,christ is mine2 ,and while the theme my tongue employs ,fill ,thou my soul with living joys4 ,jesus is mine--surpassing thought6 ,well may ,i set the world at nought2 ,jesus is mine1 ,o can it be ,that ,jesus lived and died for me8 ,,dyma ,,geidwad ,i ,r ,,colledig4 ,lo6 a ,saviour for the fallen1 ,healer of the sick and sore1 ,one whose love the vilest sinners ,seeks to pardon and restore4 ,praise ,him1 praise ,him ,who has loved us evermore6 ,the little now known of the ,rev4 ,morgan ,rhys1 author of this hymn1 is that he was a schoolmaster and preacher1 and that he was a contemporary and friend of ,william ,williams4 ,several of his hymns remain in use of which the oftenest sung is one cited above1 and ,o agor fy llygaid i weled3 ,i open my eyes to this vision1 ,the deeps of ,thy purpose and word2 ,the law of ,thy lips is to thousands ,of gold and of silver preferred2 ,when earth is consumed1 and its treasure1 ,god's words will unchanging remain1 ,and to know the ,god-man is my ,saviour ,is life everlasting to gain4 ,lo6 a ,saviour for the ,fallen finds an appropriate voice in ,w4,m4 ,robert's tune of ,nesta1 and also1 like many others of the same measure1 in the much-used minors ,llanietyn1 ,catharine1 and ,bryn ,calfaria4 ,o ,,sancteiddia ,f',,enaid ,,arglwydd4 ,sanctify1 ,o ,lord1 my spirit1 ,every power and passion sway1 ,bid ,thy holy law within me ,dwell1 my wearied soul to stay2 ,let me never ,rove beyond ,thy narrow way4 ,this one more hymn of ,william ,williams is from his ,song of a ,cleansed ,heart and is amply provided with tunes1 popular ones like ,tyddyn ,llwyn1 ,y ,delyn ,aur1 or ,capel-,y-,ddol lending their deep minors to its lines with a thrilling effect realized1 perhaps1 only in the land of ,taliessin and the ,druids4 ,the singular history and inspiring cause of one old ,welsh hymn which after various mutilations and vicissitudes survives as the key-note of a valued song of trust1 seems to illustrate the ,providence that will never let a good thing be lost4 ,it is related of the ,rev4 ,david ,williams1 of ,llandilo1 an obscure but not entirely forgotten preacher1 that he had a termagant wife1 and one stormy night1 when her bickerings became intolerable1 he went out in the rain and standing by the river composed in his mind these lines of tender faith3 ,in the waves and mighty waters ,no one will support my head ,but my ,saviour1 my ,beloved1 ,who was stricken in my stead4 ,in the cold and mortal river ,he would hold my head above2 ,i shall through the waves go singing ,for one look of ,him ,i love4 ,apparently the sentiment and substantially the expression of this humble hymn became the burden of more than one ,christian lay4 ,altered and blended with a modern gospel hymn1 it was sung at the crowded meetings of #aijd to ,robert ,lowry's air of ,jesus ,only1 and often rendered very impressively as a solo by a sweet female voice4 ,in the deep and mighty waters ,there is none to hold my head ,but my loving ,bridegroom1 ,jesus1 ,who upon the cross hath bled4 ,if ,i've ,jesus1 ,jesus only ,then my sky will have a gem ,he's the ,sun of brightest splendor1 ,he's the ,star of ,bethlehem4 ,he's the ,friend in ,death's dark river1 ,he will lift me o'er the waves1 ,i will sing in the deep waters ,if ,i only see ,his face4 ,if ,i've ,jesus1 ,jesus only1 etc4 ,a few of the revival tunes have living authors and are of recent date2 and the minor harmony of ,ebenezer 7marked ,ton ,y ,botel71 which was copied in this country by the ,new ,york ,examiner1 with its hymn1 is apparently a contemporary piece4 ,it was first sung at ,bethany ,chapel1 ,cardiff1 ,jan1 #h1 #aije1 the hymn bearing the name of ,rev4 ,w4,e4 ,winks4 ,send ,thy ,spirit1 ,i beseech ,thee1 ,gracious ,lord1 send while ,i pray2 ,send the ,comforter to teach me1 ,guide me1 help me in ,thy way4 ,sinful1 wretched1 ,i have wandered ,far from ,thee in darkest night1 ,precious time and talents squandered1 ,lead1 ,o lead me into light4 ,thou hast heard me2 light is breaking-- ,light ,i never saw before4 ,now1 my soul with joy awaking1 ,gropes in fearful gloom no more3 ,o the bliss6 my soul1 declare it2 ,say what ,god hath done for thee2 ,tell it out1 let others share it-- ,christ's salvation1 full and free4 ,one cannot help noticing the fondness of the ,welsh for the #g-f1 #h-g1 and #h-g-d metres4 ,these are favorites since they lend themselves so naturally to the rhythms of their national music--though their newest hymnals by no means exclude exotic lyrics and melodies4 ,even ,o mother dear1 ,jerusalem1 one of the echoes of ,bernard of ,cluny's great hymn1 is cherished in their tongue 7,o1 ,frynian ,caerselem7 among the favorites of song4 ,old ,truro by ,dr4 ,burney appears among their tunes1 ,mason's ,ernan1 ,lowell and ,shawmut1 ,i4,b4 ,woodbury's ,nearer ,home 7to ,phebe ,cary's hymn71 and even ,george ,hews' gently-flowing ,holley4 ,most of these tunes retain their own hymns1 but in ,welsh translation4 ,to find our ,daniel ,read's old ,windham there is no surprise4 ,the minor mode--a song-instinct of the ,welsh1 if not of the whole ,celtic family of nations1 is their rural inheritance4 ,it is in the wind of their mountains and the semitones of their streams2 and their nature can make it a gladness as the ,anglo-,saxon cannot4 ,so far from being a gloomy people1 their capacity for joy in spiritual life is phenomenal4 ,in psalmody their emotions mount on wings1 and they find ecstacy in solemn sounds4 ,a temporary excitement is the verdict of skepticism on the ,reformation wave that for a twelvemonth swept over ,wales with its ringing symphonies of hymn and tune4 ,but such excitements are the ,may-blossom seasons of ,god's eternal husbandry4 ,they pass because human vigor cannot last at flood-tide1 but in spiritual economy they will always have their place1 ,if the blossoms had not come and gone there would be no fruit4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,field ,,hymns4 ,hymns of the hortatory and persuasive tone are sufficiently numerous to make an embarrassment of riches in a compiler's hands4 ,not a few songs of invitation and awakening are either quoted or mentioned in the chapter on ,old ,revival ,hymns1 and many appear among those in the last chapter1 7on the ,hymns of ,wales27 but the working songs of ,christian hymnology deserve a special space as such4 ,,come ,,hither ,,all ,,ye ,,weary ,,souls1 ,sung to ,federal ,st41 is one of the older soul-winning calls from the great hymn-treasury of ,dr4 ,watts2 and another note of the same sacred bard1-- ,life is the time to serve the ,lord1 --is always coupled with the venerable tune of ,wells4#dd ,aged ,christians are still remembered who were wont to repeat or sing with quavering voices the second stanza1-- ,the living know that they must die1 ,but all the dead forgotten lie2 ,their memory and their sense are gone1 ,alike unknowing and unknown4 ,and likewise from the fourth stanza1-- ,there are no acts of pardon passed ,in the cold grave to which we haste4 ,footnote #dd3 ,one of ,israel ,holroyd's tunes4 ,he was born in ,england1 about #afij1 and was both a composer and publisher of psalmody4 ,his chief collection is dated #agdf4 ,,and ,,will ,,the ,,judge ,,descend8 ,is one of ,doddridge's monitory hymns1 once sung to ,j4,c4 ,woodman's tune of ,state ,st4 with the voice of both the ,old and ,new ,testaments in the last verse3 ,ye sinners1 seek ,his grace ,whose wrath ye cannot bear2 ,fly to the shelter of ,his ,cross1 ,and find ,salvation there4 ,jonathan ,call ,woodman was born in ,newburyport1 ,mass41 ,july #ab1 #ahac1 and was a teacher1 composer1 and compiler4 ,was organist of ,st4 ,george's ,chapel1 in ,flushing1 ,l4,i41 and in #aheh published ,the ,musical ,casket4 ,died ,january1 #ahid4 ,he wrote ,state ,st4 for ,william ,b4 ,bradbury1 in ,august1 #ahdd4 ,,hasten ,,sinner1 ,,to ,,be ,,wise ,is one of the few unforgotten hymns of ,thomas ,scott1 every second line repeating the solemn caution1-- ,stay not for tomorrow's sun1 --and every line enforcing its exhortation with a new word1 ,to be wise1 to implore1 to return1 and to be blest were natural cumulatives that summoned and wooed the sinner careless and astray4 ,it is a finished piece of work1 but it owes its longevity less to its structural form than to its spirit4 ,for generations it has been sung to ,pleyel's ,hymn4 ,the ,rev4 ,thomas ,scott 7not ,rev4 ,thomas ,scott the ,commentator7 was born in ,norwich1 ,eng41 in #agje1 and died at ,hupton1 in ,norfolk1 #aggf4 ,he was a ,dissenting minister1 pastor for twenty-one years--until disabled by feeble health--at ,lowestoft in ,suffolk4 ,he was the author of-- ,angels roll the rock away4 ,,must ,,jesus ,,bear ,,the ,,cross ,,alone8 ,this emotional and appealing hymn still holds its own in the hearts of millions1 though probably two hundred years old4 ,it was written by a clergyman of the ,church of ,england1 the ,rev4 ,thomas ,shepherd1 ,vicar of ,tilbrook1 born in #affe4 ,joining the ,nonconformists in #afid1 he settled first in ,castle ,hill1 ,nottingham1 and afterward in ,bocking1 ,essex1 where he remained until his death1 ,january1 #agci4 ,he published a selection of his sermons1 and ,penitential ,cries1 a book of sacred lyrics1 some of which still appear in collections4 ,the startling question in the above line is answered with emphasis in the third of the stanza1-- ,no6 ,there's a cross for every one1 ,and there's a cross for me1 --and this is followed by the song of resolve and triumph1-- ,the consecrated cross ,i'll bear1 ,till death shall set me free4 ,and then go home my crown to wear1 ,for there's a crown for me4 99 99 99 99 99 ,o precious cross6 ,o glorious crown6 ,o ,resurrection ,day6 ,ye angels from the stars flash down ,and bear my soul away6 ,the hymn is a personal ,new ,testament4 ,no one who analyzes it and feels its ,christian vitality will wonder why it has lived so long4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,for half a century ,george ,n4 ,allen1 composer of ,maitland1 the music inseparable from the hymn1 was credited with the authorship of the words also1 but his vocal aid to the heart-stirring poem earned him sufficient praise4 ,the tune did not meet the hymn till the latter was so old that the real author was mostly forgotten1 for ,allen wrote the music in #ahdi2 but if the fine stanzas needed any renewing it was his tune that made them new4 ,since it was published nobody has wanted another4 ,george ,nelson ,allen was born in ,mansfield1 ,mass41 ,sept4 #g1 #ahab1 and lived at ,oberlin1 ,o4 ,it was there that he composed ,maitland1 and compiled the ,social and ,sabbath ,hymn-book--besides songs for the ,western ,bell1 published by ,oliver ,ditson and ,co4 ,he died in ,cincinnati1 ,dec4 #i1 #ahgg4 ,,awake ,,my ,,soul1 ,,stretch ,,every ,,nerve6 ,this most popular of ,dr4 ,doddridge's hymns is also the richest one of all in lyrical and spiritual life4 ,it is a stadium song that sounds the starting-note for every young ,christian at the outset of his career1 and the slogan for every faint ,christian on the way4 ,a heavenly race demands thy zeal1 ,and an immortal crown4 ,like the ,coronation hymn1 it transports the devout singer till he feels only the momentum of the words and forgets whether it is common or hallelujah metre that carries him along4 ,a cloud of witnesses around ,hold thee in full survey2 ,forget the steps already trod1 ,and onward urge thy way6 ',tis ,god's all-animating voice ,that calls thee from on high1 ',tis ,his own hand presents the prize ,to thine aspiring eye4 ,in all persuasive hymnology there is no more kindling lyric that this4 ,as a field-hymn it is indispensable4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,whenever and by whomsoever the brave processional known as ,christmas was picked from among the great ,handel's ,songs and mated with ,doddridge's lines1 the act gave both hymn and tune new reason to endure1 and all posterity rejoices in the blend4 ,old ,christmas was originally one of the melodies in the great ,composer's ,opera of ,ciroe 7,cyrus7 #agch4 ,it was written to ,latin words 7,non vi piacque7 and afterwards adapted to an ,english versification of ,job #bi3ae1 ,i was eyes to the blind4 ,handel himself became blind at the age of sixty eight 7#agec74 ,,there ,,is ,a ,,green ,,hill ,,far ,,away4 ,written in #ahdh by ,miss ,cecil ,frances ,humphreys1 an ,irish lady1 daughter of ,major ,john ,humphreys of ,dublin4 ,she was born in that city in #ahbc4 ,her best known name is ,mrs4 ,cecil ,frances ,alexander1 her husband being the ,rt4 ,rev4 ,william ,alexander1 ,bishop of ,derry4 ,among her works are ,hymns for ,little ,children1 ,narrative ,hymns1 ,hymns ,descriptive and ,devotional1 and ,moral ,songs4 ,died #ahie4 ,there is a green hill is poetic license1 but the hymn is sweet and sympathetic1 and almost childlike in its simplicity4 ,there is a green hill far away ,without the city wall1 ,where our dear ,lord was crucified ,who died to save us all4 ,we may not know1 we cannot tell ,what pains ,he had to bear2 ,but we believe it was for us ,he hung and suffered there4 ,illustration3 ,george ,frederick ,handel ,,the ,,tunes4 ,there is no room here to describe them all4 ,airs and chorals by ,berthold ,tours1 ,pinsuti1 ,john ,henry ,cornell1 ,richard ,storrs ,willis1 ,george ,c4 ,stebbins and ,hubert ,p4 ,main have been adapted to the words--one or two evidently composed for them4 ,it is a hymn that attracts tune-makers--literally so commonplace and yet so quiet and tender1 with such a theme and such natural melody of line--but most of the scores indicated are choir music rather than congregational4 ,mr4 ,stebbins' composition comes nearest to being the favorite1 if one judges by the extent and frequency of its use4 ,it can be either partly or wholly choral2 and the third stanza makes the refrain-- ,o dearly1 dearly has ,he loved ,and we must love ,him too1 ,and trust in ,his redeeming blood1 ,and try ,his works to do4 ,,rejoice ,,and ,,be ,,glad6 ,this musical shout of joy1 written by ,dr4 ,horatius ,bonar1 scarcely needs a new song helper1 as did ,bishop ,heber's famous hymn--not because it is better than ,heber's but because ,it was wedded at once to a tune worthy of it4 ,rejoice and be glad6 for our ,king is on high2 ,he pleadeth for us on ,his throne in the sky4 ,rejoice and be glad6 for ,he cometh again2 ,he cometh in glory1 the ,lamb that was slain ,hallelujah6 ,amen4 ,the hymn was composed in #ahgd4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the author of the ,english ,melody 7as ascribed in ,gospel ,hymns7 is said to have been ,john ,jenkins ,husband1 born in ,plymouth1 ,eng41 about #agfj4 ,he was clerk at ,surrey ,chapel and composed several anthems4 ,came to the ,united ,states ,in #ahji4 ,settled in ,philadelphia1 where he taught music and was clerk of ,st4 ,paul's ,p4,e4 ,church4 ,died there in #ahbe4 ,his tune1 exactly suited to the hymn1 is a true ,christian paean4 ,it has few equals as a rouser to a sluggish prayer-meeting--whether sung to ,bonar's words or those of ,rev4 ,william ,paton ,mackay 7#ahff7-- ,we praise ,thee1 ,o ,god1 for the ,son of ,thy love1 --with the refrain of similar spirit in both hymns-- ,hallelujah6 ,thine the glory1 ,hallelujah6 ,amen1 ,hallelujah6 ,thine the glory2 revive us again2 --or1-- ,sound ,his praises6 tell the story of ,him who was slain6 ,sound ,his praises6 tell with gladness1 ,he liveth again4 ,husband's tune is supposed to have been written very early in the last century4 ,another tune composed by him near the same date to the words-- ,we are on our journey home ,to the ,new ,jerusalem1 --is equally musical and animating1 and with a vocal range that brings out the full strength of choir and congregation4 ,,come1 ,,sinner1 ,,come4 ,a singular case of the same tune originating in the brain of both author and composer is presented in the history of this hymn of ,rev4 ,william ,ellsworth ,witter1 ,d4,d41 born in ,la ,grange1 ,n4,y41 ,dec4 #i1 #ahed4 ,he wrote the hymn in the autumn of #ahgh1 while teaching a district school near his home4 ,the first line-- ,while ,jesus whispers to you1 --came to him during a brief turn of outdoor work by the roadside and presently grew to twenty-four lines4 ,soon after1 ,prof4 ,horatio ,palmer1 knowing ,witter to be a verse writer1 invited him to contribute a hymn to a book he had in preparation1 and this hymn was sent4 ,dr4 ,palmer set it to music1 it soon entered into several collections1 and ,mr4 ,sankey sang it in ,england at the ,moody meetings4 ,dr4 ,witter gives this curious testimony1 ,while ,i cannot sing myself1 though very fond of music1 the hymn sang itself to me by the roadside in almost the exact tune given to it by ,professor ,palmer4 ,which proves that ,professor ,palmer had the feeling of the hymn--and that the maker of a true hymn has at least a sub-consciousness of its right tune1 though he may be neither a musician nor a poet4 ,while ,jesus whispers to you1 ,come1 sinner1 come6 ,while we are praying for you1 ,come1 sinner1 come6 ,now is the time to own ,him1 ,come1 sinner1 come6 ,now is the time to know ,him1 ,come1 sinner1 come6 ,,one ,,more ,,day',s ,,work ,,for ,,jesus4 ,the writer of this hymn was ,miss ,anna ,warner1 one of the well-known ,wetherell ,sisters1 joint authors of ,the ,wide ,world1 ,queechy1 and a numerous succession of healthful romances very popular in the middle and later years of the last century4 ,her own pen name is ,amy ,lothrop1 under which she has published many religious poems1 hymns and other varieties of literary work4 ,she was born in #ahbj1 at ,martlaer1 ,west ,point1 ,n4,y41 where she still resides4 ,one more day's work for ,jesus1 ,one less of life for me3 ,but heaven is nearer1 ,and ,christ is dearer ,than yesterday to me4 ,his love and light ,fill all my soul tonight4 ,,refrain3-- ,one more day's work for ,jesus1 7ter7 ,one less of life for me4 ,the hymn has five stanzas all expressing the gentle fervor of an active piety loving service3 ,,the ,,tune was composed by the ,rev4 ,robert ,lowry1 and first published in ,bright ,jewels4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,hymns4 ,these popular religious songs have been criticised as degenerate psalmody but those who so style them do not seem to consider the need that made them4 ,the great majority of mankind can only be reached by missionary methods1 and in these art and culture do not play a conspicuous part4 ,the multitude could be supplied with technical preaching and technical music for their religious wants1 but they would not rise to the bait1 whereas nothing so soon kindles their better emotions or so surely appeals to their better nature as even the humblest sympathetic hymn sung to a simple and stirring tune4 ,if the music is unclassical and the hymn crude there is no critical audience to be offended4 ,the artless1 almost colloquial1 words of a happily rhymed camp-meeting lyric and the wood-notes wild of a new melody meet a situation4 ,moral and spiritual lapse makes it necessary at times for religion to put on again her primitive raiment1 and be a voice crying in the wilderness4 ,between the slums and the boulevards live the masses that shape the generations1 and make the state4 ,they are wage-earners who never hear the great composers nor have time to form fine musical and literary tastes4 ,the spiritual influences that really reach them are of a very direct and simple kind2 and for the good of the church--and the nation--it is important that at least this elementary education in the school of ,christ should be supplied them4 ,it is the popular hymn tunes that speed a reformation4 ,so say history and experience4 ,once in two hundred years a great revival movement may produce a ,charles ,wesley1 but the humbler singers carry the divine fire that quickens religious life in the years between4 ,all this is not saying that the gospel hymns1 as a whole1 are or ever professed to be suitable for the stated service of the sanctuary4 ,their very style and movement show exactly what they were made for--to win the hearing of the multitude1 and put the music of ,god's praise and ,jesus' love into the mouths and hearts of thousands who had been strangers to both4 ,they are the modern lay songs that go with the modern lay sermons4 ,they give voice to the spirit and sentiment of the conference1 prayer and inquiry meetings1 the ,epworth ,league and ,christian ,endeavor meetings1 the temperance and other reform meetings1 and of the mass-meetings in the cities or the seaside camps4 ,during their evangelistic mission in ,england and ,scotland in #ahgc1 ,dwight ,l4 ,moody and ,ira ,d4 ,sankey used the hymnbook of ,philip ,phillips1 a compilation entitled ,hallowed ,songs1 some of them his own4 ,to these ,mr4 ,sankey added others of his own composing from time to time which were so enthusiastically received that he published them in a pamphlet4 ,this1 with the simultaneous publication in ,america of the revival melodies of ,philip ,p4 ,bliss1 was the beginning of that series of popular hymn-and-tune books1 which finally numbered six volumes4 ,sankey's ,sacred ,songs and ,solos combined with ,bliss's ,gospel ,songs were the foundation of the ,gospel ,hymns4 ,subjectively their utterances are indicative of ardent piety and unquestioning faith1 and on the other hand their direct and intimate appeal and dramatic address are calculated to affect a throng as if each individual in it was the person meant by the words4 ,the refrain or chorus feature is notable in nearly all4 ,a selection of between thirty and forty of the most characteristic is here given4 ,,hallelujah6 ',,tis ,,done4 ,this is named from its chorus4 ,the song is one of the spontaneous thanksgivings in revival meetings that break out at the announcement of a new conversion4 ',tis the promise of ,god full salvation to give ,unto him who on ,jesus ,his ,son will believe1 ,hallelujah6 'tis done2 ,i believe on the ,son2 ,i am saved by the blood of the crucified ,one4 ,though the pathway be lonely and dangerous too1 ,surely ,jesus is able to carry me through-- ,hallelujah6 etc4 ,the words and music are both by ,p4,p4 ,bliss4 ,,the ,,ninety ,,and ,,nine4 ,the hymn was written by ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,cecilia ,clephane at ,melrose1 ,scotland1 early in #ahfh4 ,she was born in ,edinburgh1 ,june #aj1 #ahcj1 and died of consumption1 ,feb4 #ai1 #ahfi4 ,the little poem was seen by ,mr4 ,sankey in the ,christian ,age1 and thinking it might be useful1 he cut it out4 ,at an impressive moment in one of the great meetings in ,edinburgh1 ,mr4 ,moody said to him in a quiet aside1 ,sing something4 ,precisely what was wanted for the hour and theme1 and for the thought in the general mind1 was in ,mr4 ,sankey's vest pocket4 ,but how could it be sung without a tune8 ,with a silent prayer for help1 the musician took out the slip containing ,mrs4 ,clephane's poem1 laid it on the little reed-organ and began playing1 and singing4 ,he had to read the unfamiliar words and at the same time make up the music4 ,the tune came--and grew as he went along till he finished the first verse4 ,he remembered it well enough to repeat it with the second1 and after that it was easy to finish the hymn4 ,a new melody was born--in the presence of more than a thousand pairs of eyes and ears4 ,it was a feat of invention1 of memory1 of concentration--and such was the elocution of the trained soloist that not a word was lost4 ,he had a tearful audience at the close to reward him2 but we can easily credit his testimony1 ,it was the most intense moment of my life4 ,in a touching interview afterwards1 a sister of ,mrs4 ,clephane told ,mr4 ,sankey the authoress had not lived to see her hymn in print and to know of its blessed mission4 ,the first six lines give the situation of the lost sheep in the parable of that name-- ,there were ninety and nine that safely lay ,in the shelter of the fold2 ,but one was out on the hills away1 ,far off from the gates of gold4 ,away on the mountains wild and bare1 ,away from the tender ,shepherd's care4 ,and1 after describing the ,shepherd's arduous search1 the joy at his return is sketched and spiritualized in the concluding stanza-- ,but all through the mountains1 thunder-riven1 ,and up from the rocky steeps ,there arose a cry to the gate of heaven1 ,rejoice6 ,i have found my sheep4 ,and the angels echoed around the ,throne1 ,rejoice6 for the ,lord brings back ,his own4 ,,hold ,,the ,,fort6 ,this is named also from its chorus4 ,the historic foundation of the hymn was the flag-signal waved to ,gen4 ,g4,m4 ,corse by ,gen4 ,sherman's order from ,kenesaw ,mountain to ,altoona during the ,march through ,georgia1 in ,october1 #ahfc4 ,the flag is still in the possession of ,a4,d4 ,frankenberry1 one of the ,federal ,signal-,corps whose message to the besieged ,general said1 ,hold the fort6 ,we are coming6 ,a visit to the scene of the incident inspired ,p4,p4 ,bliss to write both the words and the music4 ,ho6 my comrades1 see the signal ,waving in the sky6 ,reinforcements now appearing1 ,victory is nigh4 ,hold the fort1 for ,i am coming6 ,jesus signals still2 ,wave the answer back to heaven1 ,by ,thy grace we will6 ,the popularity of the song 7it has been translated into several languages71 made it the author's chief memento in many localities4 ,on his monument in ,rome1 ,pennsylvania1 is inscribed ,p4,p4 ,bliss--author of ',hold the ,fort4' ,,rescue ,,the ,,perishing4 ,few hymns1 ancient or modern1 have been more useful1 or more variously used1 than this little sermon in song from ,luke #ad3bc1 by the blind poet1 ,fanny ,j4 ,crosby1 7,mrs4 ,van ,alstyne74 ,it is sung not only in the church prayer-meetings with its spiritual meaning and application1 but in ,salvation ,army camps and marches1 in mission-school devotions1 in social settlement services1 in ,king's ,daughters and ,sons of ,temperance ,meetings1 and in the rallies of every reform organization that seeks the lost and fallen4 ,rescue the perishing1 care for the dying1 ,snatch them in pity from sin and the grave2 ,weep o'er the erring ones1 lift up the fallen1 ,tell them of ,jesus1 the ,mighty to ,save4 99 99 99 99 99 ,down in the human heart crushed by the ,tempter1 ,feelings lie buried that grace can restore4 ,touched by a loving heart1 wakened by kindness1 ,chords that were broken will vibrate once more4 ,the tune is by ,w4,h4 ,doane1 ,mus4,d41 composed in #ahgj4 ,,what ,a ,,friend ,,we ,,have ,,in ,,jesus4 ,the author was a pious gentleman of ,dublin1 ,ireland1 who came to ,canada when he was twenty-five4 ,his name was ,joseph ,scriven1 born in ,dublin1 #ahbj1 and graduated at ,trinity ,college4 ,the accidental death by drowning of his intended bride on the eve of their wedding day1 led him to consecrate his life and fortune to the service of ,christ4 ,he died in ,canada1 ,oct4 #aj1 #ahhf1 7,sankey's ,story of the ,gospel ,hymns1 pp4 #bde-f47 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music was composed by ,charles ,crozat ,converse1 ,,ll4,d41 musician1 lawyer1 and writer4 ,he was born in ,warren1 ,mass41 #ahcb2 a descendant of ,edward ,converse1 the friend of ,gov4 ,winthrop and founder of ,woburn1 ,mass4 ,he pursued musical and other studies in ,leipsic and ,berlin4 ,his compositions are numerous including concert overtures1 symphonies and many sacred and secular pieces4 ,residence at ,highwood1 ,bergen ,co41 ,n4,j4 ,the hymn is one of the most helpful of the ,gospel ,collections1 and the words and music have strengthened many a weak and failing soul to try again4 ,have we trials and temptations8 ,is there trouble anywhere8 ,we should never be discouraged3 ,take it to the ,lord in prayer4 ,i ,,hear ,,the ,,saviour ,,say4 ,this is classed with the ,gospel ,hymns1 but it was a much-used and much-loved revival hymn--especially in the ,methodist churches--several years before ,mr4 ,moody's great evangelical movement4 ,it was written by ,mrs4 ,elvina ,m4 ,hall 7since ,mrs4 ,myers7 who was born in ,alexandria1 ,va41 in #ahah4 ,she composed it in the spring of #ahfe1 while sitting in the choir of the ,m4,e4 ,church1 ,baltimore1 and the first draft was pencilled on a fly-leaf of a singing book1 ,the ,new ,lute of ,zion4 ,i hear the ,saviour say1 ,thy strength indeed is small2 ,child of weakness1 watch and pray1 ,find in me thine all in all4 ,the music of the chorus helped to fix its words in the common mind1 and some idea of the ,atonement acceptable1 apparently1 to both ,arminians and ,calvinists2 for ,sunday-school children in the families of both1 hummed the tune or sang the refrain when alone-- ,jesus paid it all1 ,all to ,him ,i owe1 ,sin had left a crimson stain2 ,he washed it white as snow4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,john ,thomas ,grape1 who wrote the music1 was born in ,baltimore1 ,md41 ,may #f1 #ahcc4 ,his modest estimate of his work appears in his remark that he dabbled in music for his own amusement4 ,few composers have amused themselves with better results4 ,,tell ,,me ,,the ,,old1 ,,old ,,story4 ,miss ,kate ,hankey1 born about #ahdf1 the daughter of an ,english banker1 is the author of this very devout and tender ,christian poem1 written apparently in the eighteen-sixties4 ,at least it is said that her little volume1 ,heart to ,heart1 was published in #ahfe or #ahff1 and this volume contains ,tell me the ,old1 ,old ,story1 and its answer4 ,we have been told that ,miss ,hankey was recovering from a serious illness1 and employed her days of convalescence in composing this song of devotion1 beginning it in ,january and finishing it in the following ,november4 ,the poem is very long--a thesaurus of evangelical thoughts1 attitudes1 and moods of faith--and also a magazine of hymns4 ,four quatrains of it1 or two eight-line stanzas1 are the usual length of a hymnal selection1 and editors can pick and choose anywhere among its expressive verses4 ,tell me the old1 old story ,of unseen things above1 ,of ,jesus and ,his glory1 ,of ,jesus and ,his love4 ,tell me the story simply ,as to a little child1 ,for ,i am weak and weary1 ,and helpless and defiled4 99 99 99 99 99 ,tell me the story simply ,that ,i may take it in-- ,that wonderful ,redemption1 ,god's remedy for sin4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,dr4 ,w4,h4 ,doane was present at the ,international ,conference of the ,y4,m4,c4,a4 at ,montreal in #ahfg1 and heard the poem read--with tears and in a broken voice--by the veteran ,major-,general ,russell4 ,it impressed him so much that he borrowed and copied it1 and subsequently set it to music during a vacation in the ,white ,mountains4 ,the poem of fifty stanzas was entitled ,the ,story ,wanted2 the sequel or answer to it1 by ,miss ,hankey1 was named ,the ,story ,told4 ,this second hymn1 of the same metre but different accent1 was supplied with a tune by ,william ,gustavus ,fischer4 ,i love to tell the story ,of unseen things above1 ,of ,jesus and ,his glory1 ,of ,jesus and ,his love4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i love to tell the story ,because ,i know its true2 ,it satisfies my longings ,as nothing else can do4 ,,chorus4 ,i love to tell the story2 ',twill be my theme in glory2 ,to tell the old1 old story ,of ,jesus and his love4 ,william ,gustavus ,fischer was born in ,baltimore1 ,md41 ,oct4 #ad1 #ahce4 ,he was a piano-dealer in the firm 7formerly7 of ,gould and ,fischer4 ,his melody to the above hymn was written in #ahfi1 and was harmonized the next year by ,hubert ,p4 ,main4 ,,the ,,prodigal ,,child4 ,this is not only an impressive hymn as sung in sympathetic music1 but a touching poem4 ,come home6 come home6 ,you are weary at heart1 ,for the way has been dark ,and so lonely and wild-- ,o prodigal child1 ,come home6 ,come home6 ,come home6 ,for we watch and we wait1 ,and we stand at the gate ,while the shadows are piled2 ,o prodigal child1 ,come home6 ,the author is ,mrs4 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates1 known to the ,english speaking world by her famous poem1 ,your ,mission4 ,,the ,,tune ,to ,the ,prodigal ,child was composed by ,dr4 ,doane in #ahfi and no hymn ever had a fitter singing ally4 ,all a mother's yearning is in the refrain and cadence4 ,come home6 ,oh1 come home6 ,,let ,,the ,,lower ,,lights ,,be ,,burning6 ,an illustration1 recited in ,mr4 ,moody's graphic fashion in one of his discourses1 suggested this hymn to ,p4,p4 ,bliss4 ,a stormy night on ,lake ,erie1 and the sky pitch dark4 ',pilot1 are you sure this is ,cleveland8 ,there's only one light4' ',quite sure1 ,cap'n4' ',where are the lower lights8' ',gone out1 sir4' ',can you run in8' ',we've got to1 ,cap'n--or die4' ,the brave old pilot did his best1 but1 alas1 he missed the channel4 ,the boat was wrecked1 with a loss of many lives4 ,the lower lights had gone out4 ,brethren1 the ,master will take care of the great ,lighthouse4 ,it is our work to keep the lower lights burning6 ,brightly beams our ,father's mercy ,from ,his lighthouse evermore2 ,but to us ,he gives the keeping ,of the lights along the shore4 ,,chorus4 ,let the lower lights be burning6 ,send a gleam across the wave2 ,some poor fainting1 struggling seaman ,you may rescue1 you may save4 ,both words and music--composed in #ahga--;are by ,mr4 ,bliss4 ,there are wakening chords in the tune--and especially the chorus--when the counterpoint is well vocalized2 and the effect is more pronounced the greater the symphony of voices4 ,congregations find a zest in every note4 ,hold the ,fort can be sung in the street4 ,let the ,lower ,lights be ,burning is at home between echoing walls4 ,the use of the song in ,bethel meetings classes it with sailors' hymns4 ,,sweet ,,hour ,,of ,,prayer4 ,included with the ,gospel ,hymns1 but of older date4 ,rev4 ,william ,w4 ,walford1 a blind ,english minister1 was the author1 and it was probably written about the year #ahdb4 ,it was recited to ,rev4 ,thomas ,salmon1 ,congregational pastor at ,coleshill1 ,eng41 who took it down and brought it to ,new ,york1 where it was published in the ,new ,york ,observer4 ,little is known of ,mr4 ,walford save that in his blindness1 besides preaching occasionally1 he employed his mechanical skill in making small useful articles of bone and ivory4 ,the tune was composed by ,w4,b4 ,bradbury in #ahei1 and first appeared with the hymn in ,cottage ,melodies4 ,sweet hour of prayer1 sweet hour of prayer ,that calls me from a world of care1 ,and bids me at my ,father's throne ,make all my wants and wishes known4 ,in seasons of distress and grief ,my soul has often found relief1 ,and oft escaped the tempter's snare ,by thy return1 sweet hour of prayer4 ,o ,,bliss ,,of ,,the ,,purified6 ,,bliss ,,of ,,the ,,free6 ,rev4 ,francis ,bottome1 ,d4,d41 born in ,belper1 ,derbyshire1 ,eng41 ,may #bf1 #ahbc1 removed to the ,united ,states in #ahej1 and entered the ,methodist ministry4 ,a man of sterling character and exemplary piety4 ,he received the degree of ,doctor of ,divinity at ,dickinson ,college1 ,carlisle1 ,pa4 ,was assistant compiler of several singing books1 and wrote original hymns4 ,the above1 entitled ,o sing of ,his mighty love was composed by him in #ahfi4 ,the last stanza reads1-- ,o ,jesus the ,crucified6 ,thee will ,i sing1 ,my blessed ,redeemer1 my ,god and my ,king6 ,my soul1 filled with rapture shall shout o'er the grave ,and triumph in death in the ,mighty to save4 ,,chorus4 ,o sing of ,his mighty love 7ter7 ,mighty to save6 ,dr4 ,bottome returned to ,england1 and died at ,tavistock ,june #bi1 #ahid4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,bradbury's ,songs of the ,beautiful 7in ,fresh ,laurels74 ,the hymn was set to this chorus in #ahga4 ,,what ,,shall ,,the ,,harvest ,,be8 ,very popular in ,england4 ,mr4 ,sankey in his ,story of the ,gospel ,hymns relates at length the experience of ,rev4 ,w4,o4 ,lattimore1 pastor of a large church in ,evanston1 ,ill41 who was saved to ,christian manhood and usefulness by this hymn4 ,it has suffered some alterations1 but its original composition was ,mrs4 ,emily ,oakey's work4 ,the ,parables of the ,sower and of the ,tares may have been in her mind when she wrote the lines in #ahej1 but more probably it was the text in ,gal4 #f3g-- ,sowing the seed by the daylight fair1 ,sowing the seed by the noonday glare1 ,sowing the seed by the fading light1 ,sowing the seed in the solemn night4 ,o1 what shall the harvest be8 ,lattimore1 the man whose history was so strangely linked with this hymn1 entered the army in #ahfa1 a youth of eighteen with no vices1 but when promoted to first lieutenant he learned to drink in the officers' mess4 ,the habit so contracted grew upon him till when the war was over1 though he married and tried to lead a sober life1 he fell a victim to his appetite1 and became a physical wreck4 ,one day in the winter of #ahgf he found himself in a half-drunken condition1 in the gallery of ,moody's ,tabernacle1 ,chicago4 ,discovering presently that he had made a mistake1 he rose to go out1 but ,mr4 ,sankey's voice chained him4 ,he sat down and heard the whole of the thrilling hymn from beginning to end4 ,then he stumbled out with the words ringing in his ears4 ,sowing the seed of a lingering pain1 ,sowing the seed of a maddened brain1 ,sowing the seed of a tarnished name1 ,sowing the seed of ,eternal shame4 ,o1 what shall the harvest be8 ,in the saloon1 where he went to drown the awakenings of remorse1 those words stood in blazing letters on every bottle and glass4 ,the voice of ,god in that terrible song of conviction forced him back to the ,tabernacle1 with his drink untasted4 ,he went into the inquiry meeting where he found friends1 and was led to ,christ4 ,his wife and child1 from whom he had long been exiled1 were sent for and work was found for him to do4 ,a natural eloquence made him an attractive and efficient helper in the meetings1 and he was finally persuaded to study for the ministry4 ,his faithful pastorate of twenty years in ,evanston ended with his death in #ahii4 ,mrs4 ,emily ,sullivan ,oakey was an author and linguist by profession1 and though in her life of nearly fifty-four years she never enjoyed a day of good health1 she earned a grateful memory4 ,born in ,albany1 ,n4,y41 ,oct4 #h1 #ahbi1 she was educated at the ,albany ,female ,academy1 and fitted herself for the position of teacher of languages and ,english literature in the same school1 which she honored by her service while she lived4 ,her contributions to the daily press and to magazine literature were numerous1 but she is best known by her remarkable hymn4 ,her death occurred on the #aath of ,may1 #ahhc4 ,,the ,,tune1 ,by ,p4,p4 ,bliss1 is one of that composer's tonal successes4 ,the march of the verses with their recurrent words is so automatic that it would inevitably suggest to him the solo and its organ-chords2 and the chorus with its sustained soprano note dominating the running concert adds the last emphasis to the solemn repetition4 ,the song with its warning cry owes no little of its power to this choral appendix-- ,gathered in time or eternity1 ,sure1 ah sure will the harvest be4 ,o ,,think ,,of ,,the ,,home ,,over ,,there4 ,a hymn of ,rev4 ,d4,w4,c4 ,huntington1 suggested by ,ps4 #ee3f4 ,it was a favorite from the first4 ,rev4 ,de,witt ,clinton ,huntington was born at ,townshend1 ,vt41 ,apr4 #bg1 #ahcj4 ,he graduated at the ,syracuse ,university1 and received the degrees of ,d4,d4 and ,,ll4,d4 from ,genesee ,college4 ,preacher1 instructor and author--,removed to ,lincoln1 ,nebraska4 ,o think of the home over there1 ,by the side of the river of light1 ,where the saints all immortal and fair ,are robed in their garments of white4 ,over there1 7rep7 ,o think of the friends over there1 ,who before us the journey have trod1 ,of the songs that they breathe on the air1 ,in their home in the palace of ,god4 ,over there4 7rep7 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the melody was composed by ,tullius ,clinton ,o',kane1 born in ,delaware1 ,o41 ,march #aj1 #ahcj1 a hymnist and musician4 ,it is a flowing tune1 with sweet chords1 and something of the fugue feature in the chorus as an accessory4 ,the voices of a multitude in full concord make a building tremble with it4 ,,when ,,jesus ,,comes4 ,down life's dark vale we wander ,till ,jesus comes2 ,we watch and wait and wonder ,till ,jesus comes4 ,both words and music are by ,mr4 ,bliss4 ,a relative of his family1 ,j4,s4 ,ellsworth1 says the song was written in ,peoria1 ,illinois1 in #ahgb1 and was suggested by a conversation on the second coming of ,christ1 a subject very near his heart4 ,the thought lingered in his mind1 and as he came down from his room1 soon after1 the verses and notes came to him simultaneously on the stairs4 ,singing them over1 he seized pencil and paper1 and in a few minutes fixed hymn and tune in the familiar harmony so well known4 ,no more heart-pangs nor sadness ,when ,jesus comes2 ,all peace and joy and gladness ,when ,jesus comes4 ,the choral abounds in repetition1 and is half refrain1 but among all ,gospel ,hymns remarkable for their tone-delivery this is unsurpassed in the swing of its rhythm4 ,all joy his loved ones bringing ,when ,jesus comes4 ,all praise thro' heaven ringing ,when ,jesus comes4 ,all beauty bright and vernal ,when ,jesus comes4 ,all glory grand1 eternal ,when ,jesus comes4 ,,to ,,the ,,work1 ,,to ,,the ,,work4 ,one of ,fanny ,crosby's most animating hymns--with ,dr4 ,w4,h4 ,doane's full part harmony to re-enforce its musical accent4 ,mr4 ,sankey says1 ,i sang it for the first time in the home of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,j4,b4 ,cornell at ,long ,branch4 ,the servants gathered from all parts of the house while ,i was singing1 and looked into the parlor where ,i was seated4 ,when ,i was through one of them said1 ',that is the finest hymn ,i have heard for a long time1' ,i felt that this was a test case1 and if the hymn had such power over those servants it would be useful in reaching other people as well2 so ,i published it in the ,gospel ,hymns in #ahge1 where it became one of the best work-songs for our meetings that we had4 7,story of the ,gospel ,hymns47 ,the hymn1 written in #ahgj1 was first published in #ahga in ,pure ,gold--a book that had a sale of one million two hundred thousand copies4 ,to the work6 to the work6 there is labor for all1 ,for the ,kingdom of darkness and error shall fall1 ,and the name of ,jehovah exalted shall be1 ,in the loud-swelling chorus1 ,salvation is free6 ,,chorus4 ,toiling on1 toiling on1 toiling on1 toiling on6 7rep7 ,let us hope and trust1 let us watch and pray1 ,and labor till the ,master comes4 ,o ,,where ,,are ,,the ,,reapers8 ,matt4 #ac3cj is the text of this lyric from the pen of ,eben ,e4 ,rexford4 ,go out in the by-ways1 and search them all1 ,the wheat may be there though the weeds are tall2 ,then search in the highway1 and pass none by1 ,but gather them all for the home on high4 ,,chorus4 ,where are the reapers8 ,o who will come1 ,and share in the glory of the harvest home8 ,o who will help us to garner in ,the sheaves of good from the fields of sin8 ,,the ,,tune4 ,hymn and tune are alike4 ,the melody and harmony by ,dr4 ,george ,f4 ,root have all the eager trip and tread of so many of the gospel hymns1 and of so much of his music1 and the lines respond at every step4 ,any other composer could not have escaped the compulsion of the final spondees1 and much less the author of ,tramp1 ,tramp1 ,tramp1 and all the best martial song-tunes of the great war4 ,in this case neither words nor notes can say to the other1 ,we have piped unto you and ye have not danced1 but a little caution will guard too enthusiastic singing against falling into the drum-rhythm1 and travestying a sacred piece4 ,eben ,eugene ,rexford was born in ,johnsburg1 ,n4,y41 ,july #af1 #ahda1 and has been a writer since he was fourteen years old4 ,he is the author of several popular songs1 as ,silver ,threads ,among the ,gold1 ,only a ,pansy ,blossom etc41 and many essays and treatises on flowers1 of which he is passionately fond4 ,,it ,,is ,,well ,,with ,,my ,,soul4 ,horatio ,gates ,spafford1 the writer of this hymn1 was a lawyer1 a native of ,new ,york state1 born ,oct4 #cj1 #ahbh4 ,while connected with an institution in ,chicago1 as professor of medical jurisprudence1 he lost a great part of his fortune by the great fire in that city4 ,this disaster was followed by the loss of his children on the steamer1 ,ville de ,havre1 ,nov4 #bb1 #ahgc4 ,he seems to have been a devout ,christian1 for he wrote his hymn of submissive faith towards the end of the same year-- ,when peace like a river attendeth my way1 ,when sorrows like sea-billows roll-- ,whatever my lot1 ,thou hast taught me to say1 ,it is well1 it is well with my soul4 ,a friend of ,spafford who knew his history read this hymn while repining under an inferior affliction of his own4 ,if he can feel like that after suffering what he has suffered1 he said1 ,i will cease my complaints4 ,it may not have been the weight of ,mr4 ,spafford's sorrows wearing him down1 but one would infer some mental disturbance in the man seven or eight years later4 ,in #ahha writes ,mr4 ,hubert ,p4 ,main he went to ,jerusalem under the hallucination that he was a second ,messiah--and died there on the seventh anniversary of his landing in ,palestine1 ,sept4 #e1 #ahhh4 ,the aberrations of an over-wrought mind are beckonings to ,god's compassion4 ,when reason wanders ,he takes the soul of ,his helpless child into his own keeping--and it is well4 ,the tune to ,spafford's hymn is by ,p4,p4 ,bliss2 a gentle1 gliding melody that suits the mood of the words4 ,,waiting ,,and ,,watching ,,for ,,me4 ,written by ,mrs4 ,marianne ,farningham ,hearn1 born in ,kent1 ,eng41 ,dec4 #ag1 #ahcd4 ,the hymn was first published in the fall of #ahfd in the ,london ,church ,world4 ,its unrhythmical first line-- ,when mysterious whispers are floating about1 --was replaced by the one now familiar-- ,when my final farewell to the world ,i have said1 ,and gladly lain down to my rest1 ,when softly the watchers shall say1 ,he is dead1 ,and fold my pale hands on my breast1 ,and when with my glorified vision at last ,the walls of that ,city ,i see1 ,will any one there at the ,beautiful ,gate ,be waiting and watching for me8 ,mrs4 ,hearn--a member of the ,baptist denomination--has long been the editor of the 7,english7 ,sunday ,school ,times1 but her literary work has been more largely in connection with the ,christian ,world newspaper of which she has been a staff-member since its foundation4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the long lines1 not easily manageable for congregational singing1 are wisely set by ,mr4 ,bliss to duet music4 ,there is a weighty thought in the hymn for every ,christian1 and experience has shown that a pair of good singers can make it very affecting1 but the only use of the repeat1 by way of a chorus1 seems to be to give the miscellaneous voices a brief chance to sing4 ,,he ,,will ,,hide ,,me4 7,isa4 #di3b47 ,miss ,mary ,elizabeth ,servoss1 the author of this trustful hymn1 was born in ,schenectady1 ,n4,y41 ,aug4 #bb1 #ahdi4 ,when a very young girl her admiration of ,fanny ,crosby's writings1 and the great and good service they were doing in the world1 inspired her with a longing to resemble her4 ,though her burden was as real1 it was not like the other's1 and her opportunities for religious meditation and literary work were fewer than those of the elder lady1 but the limited number of hymns she has written have much of the spirit and beauty of their model4 ,providence decreed for her a life of domestic care and patient waiting4 ,for eighteen years she was the constant attendant of a disabled grandmother1 and long afterwards love and duty made her the home nurse during her mother's protracted illness and the last sickness of her father1 until both parents passed away4 ,from her present home in ,edeson1 ,ill41 some utterances of her chastened spirit have found their way to the public1 and been a gospel of blessing4 ,besides ,he ,will ,hide ,me other hymns of ,miss ,servoss are ,portals of ,light1 ,he ,careth1 ,patiently ,enduring1 and ,gates of ,praise1 the last being the best known4 ,when the storms of life are raging4 ,tempests wild on sea and land1 ,i will seek a place of refuge ,in the shadow of ,god's hand4 ,,chorus4 ,he will hide me1 ,he will hide me1 ,where no harm can e'er betide me1 ,he will hide me1 safely hide me ,in the shadow of ,his hand4 99 99 99 99 99 ,so while here the cross ,i'm bearing1 ,meeting storms and billows wild1 ,jesus for my soul is caring1 ,naught can harm ,his ,father's child4 ,he will hide me1 etc4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,an animating choral in nine-eight tempo1 with a swinging movement and fugue chorus1 is rather florid for the hymn1 but undeniably musical4 ,mr4 ,james ,mc,granahan was the composer4 ,he was born in ,adamsville1 ,pa41 ,july #d1 #ahdj4 ,his education was acquired mostly at the public schools1 and both in general knowledge and in musical accomplishments it may be said of him that he is self-made4 ,music was born in him1 and at the age of nineteen1 with some valuable help from men like ,bassini1 ,webb1 ,root and ,zerrahn1 he had studied to so good purpose that he taught music classes himself4 ,this talent1 joined to the gift of a very sweet tenor voice1 made him the natural successor of the lamented ,bliss1 and1 with ,major ,d4,w4 ,whittle1 he entered on a career of gospel work1 making between #ahha and #ahhe two successful tours of ,england1 ,scotland and ,ireland1 and through the chief ,american cities4 ,among his publications are the ,male ,chorus ,book1 ,songs of the ,gospel and the ,gospel ,male ,choir4 ,resides at ,kinsman1 ,o4 ,,revive ,,thy ,,work1 ,o ,,lord4 7,heb4 #c3b47 ,the supposed date of the hymn is #ahfj2 the author1 ,albert ,midlane4 ,he was born at ,newport on the ,isle of ,wight1 ,jan4 #bc1 #ahbe a business man1 but1 being a ,sunday-school teacher1 he was prompted to write verses for children4 ,the habit grew upon him till he became a frequent and acceptable hymn-writer1 both for juvenile and for general use4 ,english collections have at least three hundred credited to him4 ,revive ,thy work1 ,o ,lord1 ,thy mighty arm make bare1 ,speak with the voice that wakes the dead1 ,and make ,thy people hear4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,music and words together make a song-litany alive with all the old psalm-tune unction and the new vigor2 and both were upon ,mr4 ,mc,granahan when he wrote the choral4 ,it is one of his successes4 ,revive thy work1 ,o ,lord1 ,exalt ,thy precious name1 ,and by the ,holy ,ghost our love ,for ,thee and ,thine inflame4 ,,refrain4 ,revive ,thy work1 ,o ,lord1 ,and give refreshing showers2 ,the glory shall be all ,thine own1 ,the blessing shall be ours4 ,,where ,,is ,,my ,,wandering ,,boy ,,to-,,night8 ,this remarkable composition--words and music by ,rev4 ,robert ,lowry--has a record among sacred songs like that of ,the ,prodigal ,son among parables4 ,a widowed lady of culture1 about forty years of age1 who was an accomplished vocalist1 had ceased to sing1 though her sweet voice was still in its prime4 ,the cause was her sorrow for her runaway boy4 ,she had not heard from him for five years4 ,while spending a week with friends in a city distant from home1 her hidden talent was betrayed by the friends to the pastor of their church1 where a revival was in progress1 and persuasion that seemed to put a duty upon her finally procured her consent to sing a solo4 ,the church was crowded4 ,with a force and feeling that can easily be guessed she sang ,where ,is ,my ,boy ,tonight8 and finished the first stanza4 ,she began the second1-- ,once he was pure as morning dew1 ,as he knelt at his mother's knee1 ,no face was so bright1 no heart more true1 ,and none were so sweet as he2 --and as the congregation caught up the refrain1-- ,o where is my boy tonight8 ,o where is my boy tonight8 ,my heart overflows1 for ,i love him he knows1 ,o where is my boy tonight8 --a young man who had been sitting in a back seat made his way up the aisle and sobbed1 ,mother1 ,i'm here6 ,the embrace of that mother and her long-lost boy turned the service into a general hallelujah4 ,at the inquiry meeting that night there were many souls at the ,mercy ,seat who never knelt there before--and the young wanderer was one4 ,illustration3 ,philip ,doddridge1 ,d4,d4 ,mr4 ,sankey1 when in ,california with ,mr4 ,moody1 sang this hymn in one of the meetings and told the story of a mother in the far east who had commissioned him to search for her missing son4 ,by a happy providence the son was in the house--and the story and the song sent him home repentant4 ,at another time ,mr4 ,sankey sang the same hymn from the steps of a snow-bound train1 and a man between whose father and himself had been trouble and a separation1 was touched1 and returned to be reconciled after an absence of twenty years4 ,at one evening service in ,stanberry1 ,mo41 the singing of the hymn by the leader of the choir led to the conversion of one boy who was present1 and whose parents were that night praying for him in an eastern state1 and inspired such earnest prayer in the hearts of two other runaway boys' parents that the same answer followed4 ,there would not be room in a dozen pages to record all the similar saving incidents connected with the singing of ,where ,is ,my ,wandering ,boy8 ,the rhetoric of love is strong in every note and syllable of the solo1 and the tender chorus of voices swells the song to heaven like an antiphonal prayer4 ,strange to say1 ,dr4 ,lowry set lightly by his hymns and tunes1 and deprecated much mention of them though he could not deny their success4 ,an active ,christian since seventeen years of age1 through his early pulpit service1 his six years' professorship1 and the long pastorate in ,plainfield1 ,n4,j41 closed by his death1 he considered preaching to be his supreme function as it certainly was his first love4 ,music was to him a side-issue1 an efflorescence1 and writing a hymn ranked far below making and delivering a sermon4 ,i felt a sort of meanness when ,i began to be known as a composer1 he said4 ,and yet he was the author of a hymn and tune which has done more to bring back wandering boys than any other ever written4#de ,footnote #de3 ,where ,is ,my ,boy ,tonight was composed for a book of temperance hymns1 ,the ,fountain of ,song1 #ahgg4 ,,eternity4 ,this is the title and refrain of both ,mrs4 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates' impressive poem and its tune4 ,o the clanging bells of ,time6 ,night and day they never cease2 ,we are weaned with their chime1 ,for they do not bring us peace4 ,and we hush our hearts to hear1 ,and we strain our eyes to see ,if thy shores are drawing near ,eternity6 ,eternity6 ,skill was needed to vocalize this great word1 but the ear of ,mr4 ,bliss for musical prosody did not fail to make it effective4 ,after the beautiful harmony through the seven lines1 the choral reverently softens under the rallentando of the closing bars1 and dwelling on the awe-inspiring syllables1 solemnly dies away4 ,,triumph ,,by ,,and ,,by4 ,this rally-song of the ,christian arena is wonderfully stirring1 especially in great meetings1 for it sings best in full choral volume4 ,the prize is set before us1 ,to win ,his words implore us1 ,the eye of ,god is o'er us ,from on high4 ,his loving tones are falling ,while sin is dark1 appalling1 ',tis ,jesus gently calling2 ,he is nigh6 ,,chorus4 ,by and by we shall meet ,him1 ,by and by we shall greet ,him1 ,and with ,jesus reign in glory1 ,by and by6 ,we'll follow where ,he leadeth1 ,we'll pasture where ,he feedeth1 ,we'll yield to ,him who pleadeth ,from on high4 ,then nought from ,him shall sever1 ,our hope shall brighten ever ,and faith shall fail us never2 ,he is nigh4 ,,chorus-- ,by and by1 etc4 ,dr4 ,christopher ,ruby ,blackall1 the author of the hymn1 was born in ,albany1 ,n4,y41 ,sept4 #ah1 #ahcj4 ,he was a surgeon in the ,civil ,war1 and in medical practice fifteen years1 but afterwards became connected with the ,american ,baptist ,publication ,society as manager of one of its branches4 ,he has written several ,sunday-school songs set to music by ,w4,h4 ,doane4 ,,the ,,tune1 ,by ,horatio ,r4 ,palmer is exactly what the hymn demands4 ,the range scarcely exceeds an octave1 but with the words ,from on high1 the stroke of the soprano on upper ,d carries the feeling to unseen summits1 and verifies the title of the song4 ,from that note1 through melody and chorus the ,triumph by and by rings clear4 ,,not ,,half ,,has ,,ever ,,been ,,told ,this is emotional1 but every word and note is uplifting1 and creates the mood for religious impressions4 ,the writer1 ,rev4 ,john ,bush ,atchison1 was born at ,wilson1 ,n4,y41 ,feb4 #ah1 #ahdj1 and died ,july #ae1 #ahhb4 ,i have read of a beautiful city ,far away in the kingdom of ,god1 ,i have read how its walls are of jasper1 ,how its streets are all golden and broad2 ,in the midst of the street is ,life's ,river ,clear as crystal and pure to behold1 ,but not half of that city's bright glory ,to mortals has ever been told4 ,the chorus 7twice sung7-- ,not half has been told1 --concludes with repeat of the two last lines of this first stanza4 ,mr4 ,atchison was a ,methodist clergyman who composed several good hymns4 ,behold the ,stone is ,rolled ,away1 ,o ,crown of ,rejoicing1 and ,fully ,persuaded1 indicate samples of his work more or less well-known4 ,not ,half ,has ,ever ,been ,told was written in #ahge4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,dr4 ,otis ,f4 ,presbry1 the composer1 was a young farmer of ,york1 ,livingston ,co41 ,n4,y41 born there the #bjth of ,december1 #ahbj4 ,choice of a professional life led him to ,berkshire ,medical ,college1 where he graduated in #ahdg4 ,in after years his natural love of musical studies induced him to give his time to compiling and publishing religious tunes1 with hymns more especially for ,sunday-schools4 ,he became a composer and wrote the melody to ,atchison's words in #ahgg1 which was arranged by a blind musician of ,washington1 ,d4,c41 ,j4,w4 ,bischoff by name1 with whom he had formed a partnership4 ,the solo is long--would better1 perhaps1 have been four-line instead of eight--but well sung1 it is a flight of melody that holds an assembly1 and touches hearts4 ,dr4 ,presbry's best known book was ,gospel ,bells 7#ahhc71 the joint production of himself1 ,bischoff1 and ,rev4 ,j4,e4 ,rankin4 ,he died ,aug4 #bj1 #aija4 ,,come4 ,one of the most characteristic 7both words and music7 of the ,gospel ,hymns--,mrs4 ,james ,gibson ,johnson is the name attached to it as its author1 though we have been unable to trace and verify her claim4 ,o1 word of words the sweetest1 ,o1 words in which there lie ,all promise1 all fulfillment1 ,and end of mystery2 ,lamenting or rejoicing1 ,with doubt or terror nigh1 ,i hear the ,come of ,jesus1 ,and to ,his cross ,i fly4 ,,chorus4 ,come1 come-- ,weary1 heavy-laden1 come1 ,o come to me4 ,,the ,,tune1 ,composed by ,james ,mc,granahan1 delivers the whole stanza in soprano or tenor solo1 when the alto1 joining the treble1 leads off the refrain in duet1 the male voices striking alternate notes until the full harmony in the last three bars4 ,the style and movement of the chorus are somewhat suggestive of a popular glee1 but the music of the duet is flexible and sweet1 and the bass and tenor progress with it not in the ride-and-tie-fashion but marking time with the title-syllable4 ,the contrast between the spiritual and the intellectual effect of the hymn and its wakeful tune is illustrated by a case in ,baltimore4 ,while ,moody and ,sankey were doing their gospel work in that city1 a man1 who1 it seems1 had brought a copy of the ,gospel ,hymns1 walked out of one of the meetings after hearing this hymn-tune1 and on reaching home1 tore out the leaves that contained the song and threw them into the fire1 saying he had never heard such twaddle in all his life4 ,the sequel showed that he had been too hasty4 ,the hymn would not leave him4 ,after hearing it night and day in his mind till he began to realize what it meant1 he went to ,mr4 ,moody and told him he was a vile sinner and wanted to know how he could come to ,christ4 ,the divine invitation was explained1 and the convicted man underwent a vital change4 ,his converted opinion of the hymn was quite as remarkably different4 ,he declared it was the sweetest one in the book4 7,story of the ,gospel ,hymns47 ,,almost ,,persuaded4 ,the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,brundage tells the origin of this hymn4 ,in a sermon preached by him many years ago1 the closing words were3 ,he who is almost persuaded is almost saved1 but to be almost saved is to be entirely lost4 ,mr4 ,bliss1 being in the audience1 was impressed with the thought1 and immediately set about the composition of what proved one of his most popular songs1 deriving his inspiration from the sermon of his friend1 ,mr4 ,brundage4 ,memoir of ,bliss4 ,almost persuaded now to believe1 ,almost persuaded ,christ to receive2 ,seems now some soul to say ,go ,spirit1 go thy way1 ,some more convenient day ,on ,thee ,i'll call4 99 99 99 99 99 ,almost persuaded--the harvest is past6 ,both hymn and tune are by ,mr4 ,bliss--and the omission of a chorus is in proper taste4 ,this revival piece brings the eloquence of sense and sound to bear upon the conscience in one monitory pleading4 ,incidents in this country and in ,england related in ,mr4 ,sankey's book1 illustrate its power4 ,it has a convicting and converting history4 ,,my ,,ain ,,countree4 ,this hymn was written by ,miss ,mary ,augusta ,lee one ,sabbath day in #ahfj at ,bowmount1 ,croton ,falls1 ,n4,y41 and first published in the ,new ,york ,observer1 ,dec1 #ahfa4 ,the authoress had been reading the story of ,john ,macduff who1 with his wife1 left ,scotland for the ,united ,states1 and accumulated property by toil and thrift in the great ,west4 ,in her leisure after the necessity for hard work was past1 the ,scotch woman grew homesick and pined for her ain countree4 ,her husband1 at her request1 came east and settled with her in sight of the ,atlantic where she could see the waters that washed the ,scotland shore4 ,but she still pined1 and finally to save her life1 ,john ,macduff took her back to the heather hills of the mother-land1 where she soon recovered her health and spirits4 ,i am far from my hame an' ,i'm weary aften whiles ,for the langed-for hame-bringing an' my ,father's welcome smiles4 ,i'll ne'er be fu' content until mine eyes do see ,the shinin' gates o' heaven an' mine ain countree4 ,the airt' is flecked wi' flowers mony-tinted1 frish an' gay1 ,the birdies warble blithely1 for my ,father made them sae1 ,but these sights an' these soun's will naething be to me ,when ,i hear the angels singin' in my ain countree4 ,miss ,lee was born in ,croton ,falls in #ahch1 and was of ,scotch descent1 and cared for by her grandfather and a ,scotch nurse1 her mother dying in her infancy4 ,in #ahgj she became the wife of a ,mr4 ,demarest1 and her married life was spent in ,passaic1 ,n4,j41 until their removal to ,pasadena1 ,cal41 in hope of restoring her failing health4 ,she died at ,los ,angeles1 ,jan4 #h1 #ahhh4 ,,the ,,tune ,is an air written in #ahfd in the ,scottish style by ,mrs4 ,ione ,t4 ,hanna1 wife of a banker in ,denver1 ,colo41 and harmonized for choral use by ,hubert ,p4 ,main in #ahgc4 ,its plaintive sweetness suits the words which probably inspired it4 ,the tone and metre of the hymn were natural to the young author's inheritance2 a memory of her grandfather's home-land melodies1 with which he once crooned little ,mary to sleep4 ,sung as a closing hymn1 ,my ain countree sends the worshipper away with a tender1 unworldly thought that lingers4 ,mrs4 ,demarest wrote an additional stanza in #ahha at the request of ,mr4 ,main4 ,some really good gospel hymns and tunes among those omitted in this chapter will cry out against the choice that passed them by4 ,others are of the more ephemeral sort1 the phenomena 7and the demand7 of a generation4 ,carols of pious joy with inordinate repetition1 choruses that surprise old lyrics with modern thrills1 ballads of ringing sound and slender verse1 are the spray of tuneful emotion that sparkles on every revival high-tide1 but rarely leaves floodmarks that time will not erase4 ,religious songs of the demonstrative1 not to say sensational1 kind spring impromptu from the conditions of their time--and give place to others equally spontaneous when the next spiritual wave sweeps by4 ,their value lingers in the impulse their novelty gave to the life of sanctuary worship1 and in the ,christian characters their emotional power helped into being4 ,,chapter ,,xiii4 ,,hymns1 ,,festival ,,and ,,occasional4 ,,christmas4 ,,adeste ,,fideles4 ,this hymn is of doubtful authorship1 by some assigned to as late a date as #afhj1 and by others to the #acth century as one of the ,latin poems of ,st4 ,bonaventura1 ,bishop of ,albano1 who was born at ,bagnarea in ,tuscany1 ,a4,d4 #abba4 ,he was a learned man1 a ,franciscan friar1 one of the greatest teachers and writers of his church1 and finally a cardinal4 ,certainly ,roman ,catholic in its origin1 whoever was its author1 it is a ,christian hymn qualified in every way to be sung by the universal church4 ,adeste1 fideles ,laeti triumphantes1 ,venite1 venite in ,bethlehem2 ,natum videte ,regem angelorum4 ,,chorus4 ,venite1 adoremus1 ,venite1 adoremus6 ,venite1 adoremus ,dominum4 ,this has been translated by ,rev4 ,frederick ,oakeley 7#ahjh-ahhj7 and by ,rev4 ,edward ,caswall 7#ahad-ahgh7 the version of the former being the one in more general use4 ,the ancient hymn is much abridged in the hymnals1 and even the translations have been altered and modernized in the three or four stanzas commonly sung4 ,caswall's version renders the first line ,come hither1 ye faithful1 literally construing the ,latin words4 ,the following is substantially ,oakeley's ,english of the ,adeste1 fideles4 ,o come all ye faithful ,joyful and triumphant1 ,to ,bethlehem hasten now with glad accord2 ,come and behold ,him1 ,born the ,king of ,angels4 ,,chorus4 ,o come1 let us adore ,him1 ,o come1 let us adore ,him1 ,o come1 let us adore ,him1 ,christ1 the ,lord4 ,sing choirs of angels1 ,sing in exultation ,through ,heaven's high arches be your praises poured2 ,now to our ,god be ,glory in the highest6 ,o come1 let us adore ,him6 ,yea1 ,lord1 we bless ,thee1 ,born for our salvation ,jesus1 forever be ,thy name adored6 ,word of the ,father ,now in flesh appearing2 ,o come1 let us adore ,him6 ,the hymn with its primitive music as chanted in the ancient churches1 was known as ,the ,midnight ,mass1 and was the processional song of the religious orders on their way to the sanctuaries where they gathered in preparation for the ,christmas morning service4 ,the modern tune--or rather the tune in modern use--is the one everywhere familiar as the ,portuguese ,hymn4 7,see page #bje47 ,,milton',s ,,hymn ,,to ,,the ,,nativity4 ,it was the winter wild ,while the ,heavenly ,child ,all meanly wrapped in the rude manger lies4 ,nature in awe of ,him ,had doffed her gaudy trim ,with her great ,master so to sympathize4 99 99 99 99 99 ,no war nor battle sound ,was heard the world around4 ,the idle spear and shield were high uphung4 ,the hooked chariot stood ,unstained with hostile blood1 ,the trumpets spake not to the armed throng1 ,and ,kings sat still with awful eye ,as if they knew their ,sovereign ,lord was by4 ,this exalted song--the work of a boy of scarcely twenty-one--is a ,greek ode in form1 of two hundred and sixteen lines in twenty-seven strophes4 ,some of its figures and fancies are more to the taste of the seventeenth century than to ours1 but it is full of poetic and ,christian sublimities1 and its high periods will be heard in the ,christmas hymnody of coming centuries1 though it is not the fashion to sing it now4 ,john ,milton1 son and grandson of ,john ,miltons1 was born in ,breadstreet1 ,london1 ,dec4 #i1 #afjh1 fitted for the ,university in ,st4 ,paul's school1 and studied seven years at ,cambridge4 ,his parents intended him for the church1 but he chose literature as a profession1 travelled and made distinguished friendships in ,italy1 ,switzerland and ,france1 and when little past his majority was before the public as a poet1 author of the ,ode to the ,nativity1 of a ,masque1 and of many songs and elegies4 ,in later years he entered political life under the stress of his ,puritan sympathies1 and served under ,cromwell and his successor as ,latin ,secretary of ,state through the time of the ,commonwealth4 ,while in public duty he became blind1 but in his retirement composed ,paradise ,lost and ,paradise ,regained4 ,died in #afgf4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,in the old ,carmina ,sacra a noble choral 7without name except ,no war nor battle sound7 well interprets portions of the #dth and #eth stanzas of the great hymn1 but replaces the line-- ,the idle spear and shield were high uphung4 --with the more modern and less figurative-- ,no hostile chiefs to furious combat ran4 ,three stanzas are also added1 by the ,rev4 ,h4,o4 ,dwight1 missionary to ,constantinople4 ,the substituted line1 which is also1 perhaps1 the composition of ,mr4 ,dwight1 rhymes with-- ,his reign of peace upon the earth began1 --and as it is not un-,miltonic1 few singers have ever known that it was not ,milton's own4 ,dr4 ,john ,knowles ,paine1 ,professor of ,music at ,harvard ,university1 and author of the ,oratorio of ,st4 ,peter1 composed a cantata to the great ,christmas ,ode of ,milton1 probably about #ahfh4 ,professor ,paine died ,apr4 #be1 #aijf4 ,it is worth noting that ,john ,milton senior1 the great poet's father1 was a skilled musician and a composer of psalmody4 ,the old tunes ,york and ,norwich1 in ,ravenscroft's collection and copied from it in many early ,new ,england singing-books1 are supposed to be his4 ,the ,miltons were an old ,oxfordshire ,catholic family1 and ,john1 the poet's father1 was disinherited for turning ,protestant1 but he prospered in business1 and earned the comfort of a country gentleman4 ,he died1 very aged1 in ,may1 #afdf1 and his son addressed a ,latin poem 7,ad ,patrem7 to his memory4 ,,hark6 ,,the ,,herald ,,angels ,,sing4 ,this hymn of ,charles ,wesley1 dating about #agcj1 was evidently written with the ,adeste ,fideles in mind1 some of the stanzas1 in fact1 being almost like translations of it4 ,the form of the two first lines was originally-- ,hark6 how all the welkin rings1 ,glory to the ,king of ,kings6 --but was altered thirty years later by ,rev4 ,martin ,madan 7#agbf-agij7 to-- ,hark6 the herald angels sing ,glory to the new-born ,king6 ,other changes by the same hand modified the three following stanzas1 and a fifth stanza was added by ,john ,wesley-- ,hail the heavenly ,prince of ,peace6 ,hail the ,sun of ,righteousness6 ,light and life to all ,he brings1 ,ris'n with healing in ,his wings4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,mendelssohn is the favorite musical interpreter of the hymn4 ,it is a noble and spirited choral from ,felix ,mendelssohn ,bartholdy's cantata1 ,gott ist ,licht4 ,,joy ,,to ,,the ,,world1 ,,the ,,lord ,,is ,,come6 ,this inspirational lyric of ,dr4 ,watts never grows old4 ,it was written in #agai4 ,joy to the world6 the ,saviour reigns6 ,let men their songs employ ,while fields and floods1 rocks1 hills and plains ,repeat the sounding joy4 ,dr4 ,edward ,hodges 7#agif-ahfg7 wrote an excellent psalm-tune to it which is still in occasional use1 but the music united to the hymn in the popular heart is ,antioch1 an adaptation from ,handel's ,messiah4 ,this companionship holds unbroken from hymnal to hymnal and has done so for sixty or seventy years2 and1 in spite of its fugue1 the tune--apparently by some magic of its own--contrives to enlist the entire voice of a congregation1 the bass falling in on the third beat as if by intuition4 ,the truth is1 the tune has become the habit of the hymn1 and to the thousands who have it by heart1 as they do in every village where there is a singing school1 ,antioch is ,joy to the ,world1 and ,joy to the ,world is ,antioch4 ,,hark6 ,,what ,,mean ,,those ,,holy ,,voices8 ,this fine hymn1 so many years appearing with the simple sign ,cawood or ,j4 ,cawood printed under it1 still holds its place by universal welcome4 ,hark6 what mean those holy voices ,sweetly sounding through the skies8 ,lo th' angelic host rejoices2 ,heavenly hallelujahs rise4 ,hear them tell the wondrous story1 ,hear them chant in hymns of joy1 ,glory in the highest1 glory1 ,glory be to ,god on high6 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,cawood1 a farmer's son1 was born at ,matlock1 ,derbyshire1 ,eng41 ,march #ah1 #agge1 graduated at ,oxford1 #ahja1 and was appointed perpetual curate of ,st4 ,anne's in ,bendly1 ,worcestershire4 ,died ,nov4 #g1 #aheb4 ,he is said to have written seventeen hymns1 but was too modest to publish any4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,dr4 ,dykes' ,oswald1 and ,henry ,smart's ,bethany are worthy expressions of the feeling in ,cawood's hymn4 ,in ,america1 ,mason's ,amaland1 with fugue in the second and third lines1 has long been a favorite4 ,,while ,,shepherds ,,watched ,,their ,,flocks4 ,this was written by ,nahum ,tate 7#afeb-agae71 and after two hundred years the church remembers and sings the song4 ,six generations have grown up with their childhood memory of its pictorial verses illustrating ,st4 ,luke's ,christmas story4 ,while shepherds watched their flocks by night1 ,all seated on the ground1 ,the angel of the ,lord came down ,and glory shone around4 ,fear not said he1 for mighty dread ,had seized their troubled mind1 ,glad tidings of great joy ,i bring ,to you and all mankind4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,modern hymnals have substituted ,christmas and other more or less spirited tunes for ,read's ,sherburne1 which was the first musical translation of the hymn to ,american ears4 ,but1 to show the traditional hold that the ,new ,england fugue melody maintains on the people1 many collections print it as alternate tune4 ,some modifications have been made in it1 but its survival is a tribute to its real merit4 ,daniel ,read1 the creator of ,sherburne1 ,windham1 ,russia1 ,stafford1 ,lisbon1 and many other tunes characteristic of a bygone school of psalmody1 was born in ,rehoboth1 ,mass41 ,nov4 #b1 #ageg4 ,he published ,the ,american ,singing ,book1 #aghe1 ,columbian ,harmony1 #agic1 and several other collections4 ,died in ,new ,haven1 ,ct41 #ahcf4 ,,it ,,came ,,upon ,,the ,,midnight ,,clear4 ,rev4 ,edmund ,hamilton ,sears1 author of this beautiful hymn-poem1 was born at ,sandisfield1 ,berkshire ,co41 ,mass41 ,april #f1 #ahaj1 and educated at ,union ,college and ,harvard ,university4 ,he became pastor of the ,unitarian ,church in ,wayland1 ,mass41 #ahch4 ,died in the adjoining town of ,weston1 ,jan4 #ad1 #ahgf4 ,the hymn first appeared in the ,christian ,register in #aheg4 ,it came upon the midnight clear1 ,that glorious song of old1 ,from angels bending near the earth ,to touch their harps of gold4 ,peace to the earth1 good will to men ,from ,heaven's all-gracious ,king4 ,the world in solemn stillness lay1 ,to hear the angels sing4 ,still through the cloven skies they come ,with peaceful wings unfurled ,and still their heavenly music floats ,o'er all the weary world4 ,above its sad and lonely plains ,they bend on hovering wing1 ,and ever o'er its ,babel sounds ,the blessed angels sing4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,no more sympathetic music has been written to these lines than ,carol1 the tune composed by ,richard ,storrs ,willis1 a brother of ,nathaniel ,parker ,willis the poet1 and son of ,deacon ,nathaniel ,willis1 the founder of the ,youth's ,companion4 ,he was born ,feb1 #aj1 #ahai1 graduated at ,yale in #ahda1 and followed literature as a profession4 ,he was also a musician and composer4 ,for many years he edited the ,n4,y4 ,musical ,world1 and1 besides contributing frequently to current literature1 published ,church ,chorals and ,choir ,studies1 ,our ,church ,music and several other volumes on musical subjects4 ,died in ,detroit1 ,may #g1 #aijj4 ,the much-loved and constantly used advent psalm of ,mr4 ,sears1-- ,calm on the listening ear of night ,come heaven's melodious strains ,where wild ,judea stretches far ,her silver-mantled plains1 --was set to music by ,john ,edgar ,gould1 and the smooth choral with its sweet chords is a remarkable example of blended voice and verse4 ,o ,,little ,,town ,,of ,,bethlehem6 ,phillips ,brooks1 the eloquent bishop of ,massachusetts1 loved to write simple and tender poems for the children of his church and diocese4 ,they all reveal his loving heart and the beauty of his consecrated imagination4 ,this one1 the best of his ,christmas ,songs1 was slow in coming to public notice1 but finally found its place in hymn-tune collections4 ,o little town of ,bethlehem1 ,how still we see thee lie6 ,above thy deep and dreamless sleep ,the silent stars go by2 ,yet in thy dark streets shineth ,the everlasting light2 ,the hopes and fears of all the years ,are met in thee tonight4 ,for ,christ is born of ,mary1 ,and gathered all above1 ,while mortals sleep1 the angels keep ,their watch of wondering love4 ,o morning stars1 together ,proclaim the holy birth6 ,and praises sing to ,god the ,king ,and peace to men on earth4 ,how silently1 how silently1 ,the wondrous gift is given6 ,so ,god imparts to human hearts ,the blessings of ,his heaven4 ,no ear may hear ,his coming1 ,but in this world of sin1 ,where meek souls will receive ,him still ,the dear ,christ enters in4 ,phillips ,brooks1 late bishop of the diocese of ,massachusetts1 was born in ,boston1 ,dec4 #ac1 #ahce2 died ,jan4 #bc1 #ahic4 ,he was graduated at ,harvard in #ahee1 and at the ,episcopal ,divinity ,school of ,alexandria1 ,va41 #ahei4 ,the first ten years of his ministry were spent in ,pennsylvania1 after which he became rector of ,trinity ,church1 ,boston1 and was elected bishop in #ahia4 ,he was an inspiring teacher and preacher1 an eloquent pulpit orator1 and a man of deep and rich religious life4 ,the hymn was written in #ahfh1 and it was1 no doubt1 the ripened thought of his never-forgotten visit to the little town of ,bethlehem two years before4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,bethlehem is the appropriate name of a tune written by ,j4 ,barnby1 and adapted to the words1 but it is the hymn's first melody 7named ,st4 ,louis by the compiler who first printed it in the ,church ,porch from original leaflets7 that has the credit of carrying it to popularity4 ,the composer was ,mr4 ,redner1 organist of the ,church of the ,holy ,trinity1 ,philadelphia1 of which ,rector ,brooks was then in charge4 ,lewis ,henry ,redner1 born #ahca1 was not only near the age of his friend and pastor but as much devoted to the interests of the ,sunday-school1 for whose use the hymn was written1 and he had promised to write a score to which it could be sung on the coming ,sabbath4 ,waking in the middle of the night1 after a busy ,saturday that sent him to bed with his brain in a whirl1 he heard an angel strain1 and immediately rose and pricked the notes of the melody4 ,the tune had come to him just in time to be sung4 ,a much admired tune has also been written to this hymn by ,hubert ,p4 ,main4 ,,palm ,,sunday4 ,,faure',s ,,palm ,,branches4 ,sur nos chemins les rameaux et les fleurs ,sont repandos-- ,o'er all the way green palms and blossoms gay ,are strewn to-day in festive preparation1 ,where ,jesus comes to wipe our tears away4 ,e'en now the throng to welcome ,him prepare2 ,join all and sing4-- ,jean ,baptiste ,faure1 author of the words and music1 was born at ,moulins1 ,france1 ,jan4 #ae1 #ahcj4 ,as a boy he was gifted with a beautiful voice1 and crowds used to gather wherever he sang in the streets of ,paris4 ,little is known of his parentage1 and apparently the sweet voice of the wandering lad was his only fortune4 ,he found wealthy friends who sent him to the ,conservatoire1 but when his voice matured it ceased to serve him as a singer4 ,he went on with his study of instrumental music1 but mourned for his lost vocal triumphs1 and his longing became a subject of prayer4 ,he promised ,god that if his power to sing were given back to him he would use it for charity and the good of mankind4 ,by degrees he recovered his voice1 and became known as a great baritone4 ,as professional singer and composer at the ,paris ,grand ,opera1 he had been employed largely in dramatic work1 but his ,ode to ,charity is one of his enduring and celebrated pieces1 and his songs written for benevolent and religious services have found their way into all ,christian lands4 ,his ,palm-,branches has come to be a sine qua non on its calendar ,sunday wherever church worship is planned with any regard to the ,feasts of the ,christian year4 ,,easter4 ,perhaps the most notable feature in the early hymnology of the ,oriental ,church was its ,resurrection songs4 ,being hymns of joy1 they called forth all the ceremony and spectacle of ecclesiastical pomp4 ,among them--and the most ancient one of those preserved--is the hymn of ,john of ,damascus1 quoted in the second chapter 7p4 #ed74 ,this was the proclamation-song in the watch-assemblies1 when exactly on the midnight moment at the shout of ,christos egerthe6 7,greek3 ,christos egerthe47 ,christ is risen6 thousands of torches were lit1 bells and trumpets pealed1 and 7in the later centuries7 salvos of cannon shook the air4 ,another favorite hymn of the ,eastern ,church was the ,salve1 ,beate ,mane1 ,welcome1 ,happy ,morning1 of ,fortunatus4 7,chap4 #aj1 p4 #ceg47 ,this poem furnished cantos for ,easter hymns of the ,middle ,ages4 ,jerome of ,prague sang stanzas of it on his way to the stake4 ,an anonymous hymn1 ,poneluctum1 ,magdelena1 in medieval ,latin rhyme1 is addressed to ,mary ,magdelene weeping at the empty sepulchre4 ,the following are the #c;d and #dth stanzas1 with a translation by ,prof4 ,c4,s4 ,harrington of ,wesleyan ,university3 ,gaude1 plaude1 ,magdalena6 ,tumba ,christus exiit6 ,tristis est peracta scena1 ,victor mortis rediit2 ,quem deflebas morientem1 ,nunc arride resurgentem6 ,alleluia6 ,tolle vultum1 ,magdalena6 ,redivivum aspice2 ,vide frons quam sit amoena1 ,quinque plagas inspice2 ,fulgent1 sic ut margaritae1 ,ornamenta novae vitae4 ,alleluia6 99 99 99 99 99 ,magdalena1 shout for gladness6 ,christ has left the gloomy grave2 ,finished is the scene of sadness2 ,death destroyed1 ,he comes to save2 ,whom with grief thou sawest dying1 ,greet with smiles1 the tomb defying4 ,hallelujah6 ,lift thine eyes1 ,o ,magdalena6 ,lo6 thy ,lord before thee stands2 ,see6 how fair the thorn-crowned forehead2 ,mark ,his feet1 ,his side1 ,his hands2 ,glow ,his wounds with pearly whiteness6 ,hallowing life with heavenly brightness6 ,hallelujah6 ,the hymnaries of the ,christian ,church for seventeen hundred years are so rich in ,easter hallelujahs and hosannas that to introduce them all would swell a chapter to the size of an encyclopedia--and even to make a selection is a responsible task4 ,simple mention must suffice of ,luther's-- ,in the bonds of death ,he lay2 --of ,watts'-- ,he dies1 the ,friend of sinners dies2 --of ,john ,wesley's-- ,our ,lord has gone up on high2 --of ,c4,f4 ,gellert's-- ,christ is risen6 ,christ is risen6 ,he hath burst ,his bonds in twain2 --omitting hundreds which have been helpful in psalmody1 and are1 perhaps1 still in choir or congregational use4 ,,christ ,,the ,,lord ,,is ,,risen ,,today ,begins a hymn of ,charles ,wesley's and is also the first line of a hymn prepared for ,sunday-school use by ,mrs4 ,storrs1 wife of the late ,dr4 ,richard ,salter ,storrs of ,brooklyn1 ,n4,y4 ,wesley's hymn is sung--with or without the hallelujah interludes--to ,telemann's ,chant1 7,zeuner71 to an air of ,mendelssohn1 and to ,john ,stainer's ,paschale ,gaudium4 ,like the old ,new ,england ,easter ,anthem it appears to have been suggested by an anonymous translation of some more ancient 7,latin7 antiphony4 ,jesus ,christ is risen to day1 ,hallelujah6 ,our triumphant holy day1 ,hallelujah6 99 99 99 99 99 ,who endured the cross and grave4 ,hallelujah6 ,sinners to redeem and save1 ,hallelujah6 ,,an ,,anthem ,,for ,,easter4 ,this work of an amateur genius1 with its rustic harmonies1 suited the taste of colonial times1 and no doubt the devout church-goers of that day found sincere worship and thanksgiving in its flamboyant music4 ,an ,anthem for ,easter1 in ,a major by ,william ,billings 7#aghe7 occupied several pages in the early collections of psalmody and the sounding joy was in it4 ,organs were scarce1 but beyond the viols of the village choirs it needed no instrumental accessories4 ,the language is borrowed from the ,new ,testament and ,young's ,night ,thoughts4 ,the ,lord is risen indeed6 ,hallelujah6 ,the ,lord is risen indeed6 ,hallelujah6 ,following this triumphant overture1 a recitative bass solo repeats ,i ,cor4 #ae3bj1 and the chorus takes it up with crowning hallelujahs4 ,different parts1 per fugam1 inquire from clef to clef-- ,and did ,he rise8 ,and did ,he rise8-- ,hear the answer1 ,o ye nations6 ,hear it1 ,o ye dead6 ,then duet1 trio and chorus sing it1 successively-- ,he rose6 ,he rose6 ,he rose6 ,he burst the bars of death1 ,and triumphed o'er the grave6 ,the succeeding thirty-four bars--duet and chorus--take home the sacred gladness to the heart of humanity-- ,then1 then ,i rose1 99 99 99 99 99 ,and seized eternal youth1 ,man all immortal1 hail6 ,heaven's all the glory1 man's the boundless bliss4 ,,yes1 ,,the ,,redeemer ,,rose4 ,in the six-eight syllable verse once known as hallelujah metre--written by ,dr4 ,doddridge to be sung after a sermon on the text in #ast ,corinthians noted in the above anthem-- ,yes1 the ,redeemer rose1 ,the ,saviour left the dead1 ,and o'er our hellish foes ,high raised ,his conquering head4 ,in wild dismay the guards around ,fall to the ground and sink away4 ,lewis ,edson's ,lenox 7#aghb7 is an old favorite among its musical interpreters4 ,o ,,short ,,was ,,his ,,slumber4 ,this hymn for the song-service of the ,ruggles ,st4 ,church1 ,boston1 was written by ,rev4 ,theron ,brown4 ,o short was ,his slumber2 ,he woke from the dust2 ,the ,saviour death's chain could not hold2 ,and short1 since ,he rose1 is the sleep of the just2 ,they shall wake1 and ,his glory behold4 99 99 99 99 99 ,dear grave in the garden2 hope smiled at its door ,where love's brightest triumph was told2 ,christ lives6 and ,his life will ,his people restore6 ,they shall wake1 and ,his glory behold4 ,the music is ,bliss' tune to ,spafford's ,when ,peace ,like a ,river4 ,another by the same writer1 sung by the same church chorus1 is-- ,he rose6 ,o morn of wonder6 ,they saw ,his light go down ,whose hate had crushed ,him under1 ,a ,king without a crown4 ,no plume1 no garland wore ,he1 ,despised death's ,victor lay1 ,and wrapped in night ,his glory1 ,that claimed a grander day4 99 99 99 99 99 ,he rose6 ,he burst immortal ,from death's dark realm alone1 ,and left its heavenward portal ,swung wide for all his own4 ,nor need one terror seize us ,to face earth's final pain1 ,for they who follow ,jesus1 ,but die to live again4 ,the composer's name is lost1 the tune being left nameless when printed4 ,the impression is that it was a secular melody4 ,a very suitable tune for the hymn is ,geo4 ,j4 ,webb's ,millennial ,dawn 7the ,morning ,light is breaking47 ,,thanksgiving4 ,,die ,,felder ,,wir ,p,f,l,ue,g,e,n ,,und ,,streuen4 ,we plow the fields and scatter ,the good seed on the land1 ,but it is fed and watered ,by ,god's ,almighty hand1 ,he sends the snow in winter1 ,the warmth to swell the grain1 ,the breezes1 and the sunshine ,and soft1 refreshing rain1 ,all1 all good gifts around us ,are sent from heaven above ,then thank the ,lord1 ,o thank the ,lord ,for all ,his love6 ,matthias ,claudius1 who wrote the ,german original of this little poem1 was a native of ,reinfeld1 ,holstein1 born #aggj and died #ahae4 ,he wrote lyrics1 humorous1 pathetic and religious1 some of which are still current in ,germany4 ,the translator of the verses is ,miss ,jane ,montgomery ,campbell1 whose identity has not been traced4 ,hers is evidently one of the retiring names brought to light by one unpretending achievement4 ,english readers owe to her the above modest and devout hymn1 which was first published here in ,rev4 ,c4,s4 ,bere's ,garland of ,songs with ,tunes1 #ahfa4 ,little is known of ,arthur ,cottman1 composer to ,miss ,campbell's words4 ,he was born in #ahdb1 and died in #ahgi4 ,illustration3 ,lowell ,mason ,,with ,,songs ,,and ,,honors ,,sounding ,,loud4 ,stanzas of this enduring hymn of ,watts' have been as often recited as sung4 ,he sends ,his showers of blessing down ,to cheer the plains below2 ,he makes the grass the mountains crown1 ,and corn in valleys grow4 ,,the ,,tune1 ,one of the chorals--if not the best--to claim partnership with this sacred classic1 is ,john ,cole's ,geneva1 distinguished among the few fugue tunes which the singing world refuses to dismiss4 ,there is a growing grandeur in the opening solo and its following duet as they climb the first tetra-chord1 when the full harmony suddenly reveals the majesty of the music4 ,the little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath1 and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason4 ,one thinks of a bird-note making a waterfall listen4 ,,harvest ,,home4 ,let us sing of the sheaves1 when the summer is done1 ,and the garners are stored with the gifts of the sun4 ,shouting home from the fields like the voice of the sea1 ,let us join with the reapers in glad jubilee1-- ,refrain4 ,harvest home6 7double rep47 ,let us chant ,his praise who has crowned our days ,with bounty of the harvest home4 ,who hath ripened the fruits into golden and red8 ,who hath grown in the valleys our treasures of bread1 ,that the owner might heap1 and the stranger might glean ,for the days when the cold of the winter is keen8 ,harvest home6 ,let us chant1 etc4 ,for the smile of the sunshine1 again and again1 ,for the dew on the garden1 the showers on the plain1 ,for the year1 with its hope and its promise that end1 ,crowned with plenty and peace1 let thanksgiving ascend1 ,harvest home6 ,let us chant1 etc4 ,we shall gather a harvest of glory1 we know1 ,from the furrows of life where in patience we sow4 ,buried love in the field of the heart never dies1 ,and its seed scattered here will be sheaves in the skies1 ,harvest home6 ,let us chant1 etc4 ,thanksgiving ,hymn4 ,boston1 #ahij4 ,theron ,brown4 ,tune ,to the ,work1 ,to the ,work4 ,w4,h4 ,doane4 ,,the ,,god ,,of ,,harvest ,,praise4 ,written by ,james ,montgomery in #ahdj1 and published in the ,evangelical ,magazine as the ,harvest ,hymn for that year4 ,the ,god of harvest praise2 ,in loud thanksgiving raise ,heart1 hand and voice4 ,the valleys smile and sing1 ,forests and mountains sing1 ,the plains their tribute bring1 ,the streams rejoice4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,god of harvest praise2 ,hearts1 hands and voices raise ,with sweet accord2 ,from field to garner throng1 ,bearing your sheaves along1 ,and in your harvest song ,bless ye the ,lord4 ,tune1 ,dort--,lowell ,mason4 ,,morning4 ,,still1 ,,still ,,with ,,thee4 ,these stanzas of ,mrs4 ,harriet ,beecher ,stowe1 with their poetic beauty and grateful religious spirit1 have furnished an orison worthy of a place in all the hymn books4 ,in feeling and in faith the hymn is a matin song for the world1 supplying words and thoughts to any and every heart that worships4 ,still1 still with ,thee1 when purple morning breaketh1 ,when the bird waketh and the shadows flee2 ,fairer than morning1 lovelier than daylight1 ,dawns the sweet consciousness1 ,i am with ,thee4 ,alone with ,thee1 amid the mystic shadows ,the solemn hush of nature newly born2 ,alone with ,thee1 in breathless adoration1 ,in the calm dew and freshness of the morn4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when sinks the soul1 subdued by toil1 to slumber1 ,its closing eyes look up to ,thee in prayer1 ,sweet the repose beneath ,thy wings o'ershadowing1 ,but sweeter still to wake and find ,thee there4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,barnby's ,windsor1 and ,stowe by ,charles ,h4 ,morse 7#ahic7--;both written to the words4 ,mendelssohn's ,consolation is a classic interpretation of the hymn1 and finely impressive when skillfully sung1 but simpler--and sweeter to the popular ear--is ,mason's ,henley1 written to ,mrs4 ,eslings'-- ,come unto me when shadows darkly gather4 ,,evening ,,hymns4 ,john ,keble's beautiful meditation-- ,sun of my soul1 ,thou ,saviour dear2 ,john ,leland's-- ,the day is past and gone2 and ,phebe ,brown's-- ,i love to steal awhile away2 --have already been noticed4 ,bishop ,doane's gentle and spiritual lines express nearly everything that a worshipping soul would include in a moment of evening thought4 ,the first and last stanzas are the ones most commonly sung4 ,softly now the light of day ,fades upon my sight away3 ,free from care1 from labor free1 ,lord ,i would commune with ,thee4 99 99 99 99 99 ,soon for me the light of day ,shall forever pass away2 ,then1 from sin and sorrow free1 ,take me1 ,lord1 to dwell with ,thee4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,both ,kozeluck and ,j4,e4 ,gould1 besides ,louis ,m4 ,gottschalk and ,dr4 ,henry ,john ,gauntlett1 have tried their skill in fitting music to this hymn1 but only ,gottschalk and ,kozeluck approach the mood into which its quiet words charm a pious and reflective mind4 ,possibly its frequent association with ,holley1 composed by ,george ,hews1 may influence a hearer's judgement of other melodies but there is something in that tune that makes it cling to the hymn as if by instinctive kinship4 ,others may have as much or more artistic music but ,holley in its soft modulations seems to breathe the spirit of every word4 ,it was this tune to which a stranger recently heard a group of mill-girls singing ,bishop ,doane's verses4 ,the lady1 a well-known ,christian worker1 visited a certain factory1 and the superintendent1 after showing her through the building1 opened a door into a long work-room1 where the singing of the girls delighted and surprised her4 ,it was sunset1 and their hymn was-- ,softly now the light of day4 ,several of the girls were ,sunday-school teachers1 who had encouraged others to sing at that hour1 and it had become a habit4 ,has it made a difference8 the lady inquired4 ,there is seldom any quarrelling or coarse joking among them now1 said the superintendent with a smile4 ,dr4 ,s4,f4 ,smith's hymn of much the same tone and tenor-- ,softly fades the twilight ray ,of the holy ,sabbath day1 --is commonly sung to the tune of ,holley4 ,george ,hews1 an ,american composer and piano-maker1 was born in ,massachusetts #ahjj1 and died ,july #f1 #ahgc4 ,no intelligence of him or his work or former locality is at hand1 beyond this brief note in ,baptie1 ,he is believed to have followed his trade in ,boston1 and written music for some of ,mason's earlier books4 ,,dedication4 ,,christ ,,is ,,our ,,corner-,,stone4 ,this reproduces in ,chandler's translation a song-service in an ancient ,latin liturgy 7angulare fundamentum74 ,christ is our ,corner-,stone2 ,on ,him alone we build1 ,with ,his true saints alone ,the courts of heaven are filled1 ,on ,his great love ,our hopes we place ,of present grace ,and joys above4 ,o then with hymns of praise ,these hallowed courts shall ring2 ,our voices we will raise ,the ,three-in-,one to sing4 ,and thus proclaim ,in joyful song ,but loud and long ,that glorious ,name4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,chandler was born at ,witley1 ,surrey1 ,eng4 ,june #af1 #ahjf4 ,he took his ,a4,m4 degree at ,oxford1 and entered the ministry of the ,church of ,england1 was ,vicar of ,witley many years1 and became well-known for his translations of hymns of the primitive church4 ,died at ,putney1 ,july #a1 #ahgf4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,sebastian ,wesley's ,harewood is plainer and of less compass1 but ,zundel's ,brooklyn is more than its rival1 both in melody and vivacity4 ,,oh ,,lord ,,of ,,hosts ,,whose ,,glory ,,fills ,,the ,,bounds ,,of ,,the ,,eternal ,,hills4 ,a hymn of ,dr4 ,john ,mason ,neale-- ,endue the creatures with ,thy grace ,that shall adorn ,thy dwelling-place ,the beauty of the oak and pine1 ,the gold and silver1 make them ,thine4 ,the heads that guide endue with skill1 ,the hands that work preserve from ill1 ,that we who these foundations lay ,may raise the top-stone in its day4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,welton1 by ,rev4 ,caesar ,malan--author of ,hendon1 once familiar to ,american singers4 ,henri ,abraham ,caesar ,malan was born at ,geneva1 ,switzerland1 #aghg1 and educated at ,geneva ,college4 ,ordained to the ministry of the ,state church1 7,reformed17 he was dismissed for preaching against its formalism and spiritual apathy2 but he built a chapel of his own1 and became a leader with ,d',aubigne1 ,monod1 and others in reviving the purity of the ,evangelical faith and laboring for the conversion of souls4 ,malan wrote many hymns1 and published a large collection1 the ,chants de ,sion1 for the ,evangelical ,society and the ,french ,reformed ,church4 ,he composed the music of his own hymns4 ,died at ,vandosurre1 #ahfd4 ,,daughter ,,of ,,zion1 ,,from ,,the ,,dust4 ,cases may occur where an exhortation hymn earns a place with dedication hymns4 ,the charred fragment of a hymn-book leaf hangs in a frame on the auditorium wall of the ,new ,england ,church1 ,chicago4 ,the former edifice of that church1 all the homes of its resident members1 and all their business offices except one1 were destroyed in the great fire4 ,in the ruins of their sanctuary the only scrap of paper found on which there was a legible word was this bit of a hymn-book leaf with the two first stanzas of ,montgomery's hymn1 ,daughter of ,zion1 from the dust1 ,exalt thy fallen head2 ,again in thy ,redeemer trust1 ,he calls thee from the dead4 ,awake1 awake6 put on thy strength1 ,thy beautiful array2 ,the day of freedom dawns at length1 ,the ,lord's appointed day4 ,the third verse was not long in coming to every mind-- ,rebuild thy walls6 thy bounds enlarge6 --and even without that added word the impoverished congregation evidently enough had received a message from heaven4 ,they took heart of grace1 overcame all difficulties1 and in good time replaced their ruined ,sabbath-home with the noble house in which they worship today4#df ,footnote #df3 ,the story is told by ,rev4 ,william ,e4 ,barton ,d4,d4 of ,oak ,park1 ,ill4 ,if the ,new ,england ,church of ,chicago did not sing this hymn at the dedication of their new temple it was for some other reason than lack of gratitude--not to say reverence4 ,,the ,,sabbath4 ,the very essence of all song-worship pitched on this key-note is the ringing hymn of ,watts-- ,sweet is the day of sacred rest1 ,no mortal cares disturb my breast1 etc4 --but it has vanished from the hymnals with its tune4 ,is it because profane people or thoughtless youth made a travesty of the two next lines-- ,o may my heart in tune be found ,like ,david's harp of solemn sound8 ,,the ,,tune4 ,old ,portland by ,abraham ,maxim1 a fugue tune in ,f major of the canon style1 expressed all the joy that a choir could put into music1 though with more sound than skill4 ,the choral is a relic among relics now1 but it is a favorite one4 ,sweet is the ,light of ,sabbath ,eve by ,edmeston2 ,stennett's ,another ,six ,days' ,work is ,done1 sung to ,spohr1 the joint tune of ,louis ,spohr and ,j4,e4 ,gould2 and ,doddridge's ,thine ,earthly ,sabbath1 ,lord1 ,we ,love retain a feeble hold among some congregations4 ,and ,hayward's ,welcome ,delightful ,morn1 to the impossible tune of ,lischer1 survived unaccountably long in spite of its handicap4 ,but special ,sabbath hymns are out of fashion1 those classed under that title taking an incidental place under the general head of ,worship4 ,,communion4 ,,bread ,,of ,,heaven1 ,,on ,,thee ,,we ,,feed4 ,this hymn of ,josiah ,conder1 copying the physical metaphors of the #fth of ,john1 is still occasionally used at the ,lord's ,supper4 ,vine of ,heaven1 ,thy blood supplies ,this blest cup of sacrifice1 ,lord1 ,thy wounds our healing give1 ,to ,thy ,cross we look and live4 ,the hymn is notable for the felicity with which it combines imagery and reality4 ,figure and fact are always in sight of each other4 ,josiah ,conder was born in ,london1 ,september #ag1 #aghi4 ,he edited the ,eclectic ,review1 and was the author of numerous prose works on historic and religious subjects4 ,rev4 ,garrett ,horder says that more of his hymns are in common use now than those of any other except ,watts and ,doddridge4 ,more in proportion to the relative number may be nearer the truth4 ,in his lifetime ,conder wrote about sixty hymns4 ,he died ,dec4 #bg1 #ahee4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the tune ,corsica sometimes sung to the words1 though written by the famous ,von ,gluck1 shows no sign of the genius of its author4 ,born at ,weissenwang1 near ,new ,markt1 ,prussia1 ,july #b1 #agad1 he spent his life in the service of operatic art1 and is called the father of the lyric drama1 but he paid little attention to sacred music4 ,queen ,marie ,antoinette was for a while his pupil4 ,died ,nov4 #be1 #aghg4 ,wilmot1 7from ,von ,weber7 one of ,mason's popular hymn-tune arrangements1 is a melody with which the hymn is well acquainted4 ,it has a fireside rhythm which old and young of the same circles take up naturally in song4 ,,here1 ,o ,,my ,,lord1 ,i ,,see ,,thee ,,face ,,to ,,face4 ,written in ,october1 #ahee1 by ,dr4 ,horatius ,bonar4 ,james ,bonar1 brother of the poet-preacher1 just after the communion for that month1 asked him to furnish a hymn for the communion record4 ,it was the church custom to print a memorandum of each service at the ,lord's table1 with an appropriate hymn attached1 and an original one would be thrice welcome4 ,horatius in a day or two sent this hymn3 ,here1 ,o my ,lord1 ,i see ,thee face to face1 ,here would ,i touch and handle things unseen ,here grasp with firmer hand th' eternal grace ,and all my weariness upon ,thee lean4 99 99 99 99 99 ,too soon we rise2 the symbols disappear2 ,the feast1 though not the love1 is past and gone2 ,the bread and wine remove1 but ,thou art here ,nearer than ever--still my ,shield and ,sun4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,morecambe is an anonymous composition printed with the words by the ,plymouth ,hymnal editors4 ,berlin by ,mendelssohn is better4 ,the metre of ,bonar's hymn is unusual1 and melodies to fit it are not numerous1 but for a meditative service it is worth a tune of its own4 ,o ,,thou ,,my ,,soul1 ,,forget ,,no ,,more4 ,the author of this hymn found in the ,baptist hymnals1 and often sung at the sacramental seasons of that denomination1 was the first ,hindoo convert to ,christianity4 ,krishna ,pal1 a native carpenter1 in consequence of an accident1 came under the care of ,mr4 ,thomas1 a missionary who had been a surgeon in the ,east ,indies and was now an associate worker with ,william ,carey4 ,mr4 ,thomas set the man's broken arm1 and talked of ,jesus to him and the surrounding crowd with so much tact and loving kindness that ,krishna ,pal was touched4 ,he became a pupil of the missionaries2 embraced ,christ1 and influenced his wife and daughter and his brother to accept his new faith4 ,he alone1 however1 dared the bitter persecution of his caste1 and presented himself for church-membership4 ,he and ,carey's son were baptized in the ,ganges by ,dr4 ,carey1 ,dec4 #bh1 #ahjj1 in the presence of the ,english ,governor and an immense concourse of people representing four or five different religions4 ,krishna ,pal wrote several hymns4 ,the one here noted was translated from the ,bengalee by ,dr4 ,marshman4 ,o thou1 my soul1 forget no more ,the ,friend who all thy sorrows bore2 ,let every idol be forgot2 ,but1 ,o my soul1 forget him not4 ,renounce thy works and ways1 with grief1 ,and fly to this divine relief2 ,nor ,him forget1 who left ,his throne1 ,and for thy life gave up ,his own4 ,eternal truth and mercy shine ,in ,him1 and ,he ,himself is thine3 ,and canst thou then1 with sin beset1 ,such charms1 such matchless charms forget8 ,oh1 no2 till life itself depart1 ,his name shall cheer and warm my heart2 ,and lisping this1 from earth ,i'll rise1 ,and join the chorus of the skies4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,there is no scarcity of good long-metre tunes to suit the sentiment of this hymn4 ,more commonly in the ,baptist manuals its vocal mate is ,bradbury's ,rolland or the sweet and serious ,scotch melody of ,ward1 arranged by ,mason4 ,best of all is ,hursley1 the beautiful ,ritter-,monk choral set to ,sun of ,my ,soul4 ,,new ,,year4 ,two representative hymns of this class are ,john ,newton's-- ,while with ceaseless course the sun1 --and ,charles ,wesley's-- ,come let us anew our journey pursue2 the one a voice at the next year's threshold1 the other a song at the open door4 ,while with ceaseless course the sun ,hasted thro' the former year ,many souls their race have run ,nevermore to meet us here4 99 99 99 99 99 ,as the winged arrow flies ,speedily the mark to find1 ,as the lightening from the skies ,darts and leaves no trace behind1 ,swiftly thus our fleeting days ,bear we down life's rapid stream1 ,upward1 ,lord1 our spirits raise2 ,all below is but a dream4 ,a grave occasion1 whether unexpected or periodical1 will force reflection1 and so will a grave truth2 and when both present themselves at once1 the truth needs only commonplace statement4 ,if the statement is in rhyme and measure more attention is secured4 ,add a tune to it1 and the most frivolous will take notice4 ,newton's hymn sung on the last evening of the year has its opportunity--and never fails to produce a solemn effect2 but it is to the immortal music given to it in ,samuel ,webbe's ,benevento that it owes its unique and permanent place4 ,dykes' ,st4 ,edmund may be sung in ,england1 but in ,america it will never replace ,webbe's simple and wonderfully impressive choral4 ,charles ,wesley's hymn is the antipode of ,newton's in metre and movement4 ,come1 let us anew our journey pursue1 ,roll round with the year ,and never stand still till the ,master appear4 ,his adorable will let us gladly fulfil ,and our talents improve ,by the patience of hope and the labor of love4 ,our life is a dream1 our time as a stream ,glides swiftly away1 ,and the fugitive moment refuses to stay4 ,the arrow is flown1 the moment is gone1 ,the millennial year1 ,rushes on to our view1 and eternity's near4 ,illustration3 ,carl von ,weber ,one could scarcely imagine a greater contrast than between this hymn and ,newton's4 ,in spite of its eccentric metre one cannot dismiss it as rhythmical jingle1 for it is really a sermon shaped into a popular canticle1 and the surmise is not a difficult one that he had in mind a secular air that was familiar to the crowd4 ,but the hymn is not one of ,wesley's poems4 ,compilers who object to its lilting measure omit it from their books1 but it holds its place in public use1 for it carries weighty thoughts in swift sentences4 ,o that each in the ,day of ,his coming may say1 ,i have fought my way through1 ,i have finished the work ,thou didst give me to do4 ,o that each from the ,lord may receive the glad word1 ,well and faithfully done1 ,enter into my joy1 and sit down on my throne4 ,for a hundred and fifty years this has been sung in the ,methodist watch-meetings1 and it will be long before it ceases to be sung--and reprinted in ,methodist1 and some ,baptist hymnals4 ,the tune of ,lucas1 named after ,james ,lucas1 its composer1 is the favorite vehicle of song for the ,watch-hymn4 ,like the tune to ,o ,how ,happy ,are ,they1 it has the movement of the words and the emphasis of their meaning4 ,no knowledge of ,james ,lucas is at hand except that he lived in ,england1 where one brief reference gives his birth-date as #agfb and about #ahje as the birth-date of the tune4 ,,great ,,god1 ,,we ,,sing ,,that ,,mighty ,,hand4 ,the admirable hymn of ,dr4 ,doddridge may be noted in this division with its equally admirable tune of ,melancthon1 one of the old ,lutheran chorals of ,germany4 ,great ,god1 we sing that mighty hand ,by which supported still we stand4 ,the opening year ,thy mercy shows2 ,thy mercy crown it till its close6 ,by day1 by night1 at home1 abroad1 ,still we are guarded by our ,god4 ,as this last couplet stood--and ought now to stand--pious parents teaching the hymn to their children heard them repeat-- ,by day1 by night1 at home1 abroad1 ,we are surrounded still with ,god4 ,many are now living whose first impressive sense of the ,divine ,omnipresence came with that line4 ,,parting4 ,,god ,,be ,,with ,,you ,,till ,,we ,,meet ,,again4 ,a lyric of benediction1 born1 apparently1 at the divine moment for the need of the great ,society of ,christian ,endeavor1 and now adopted into the ,christian song-service of all lands4 ,the author1 ,rev4 ,jeremiah ,eames ,rankin1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 was born in ,thornton1 ,n4,h41 ,jan4 #b1 #ahbh4 ,he was graduated at ,middlebury ,college1 ,vt41 in #ahdh1 and labored as a ,congregational pastor more than thirty years4 ,for thirteen years he was ,president of ,howard ,university1 ,washington1 ,d4,c4 ,besides the ,parting ,hymn he wrote ,the ,auld ,scotch ,mither1 ,ingleside ,rhymes1 ,hymns pro ,patria1 and various practical works and religious essays4 ,died #aijd4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,as in a thousand other partnerships of hymnist and musician1 ,dr4 ,rankin was fortunate in his composer4 ,the tune is a symphony of hearts--subdued at first1 but breaking into a chorus strong with the uplift of hope4 ,it is a farewell with a spiritual thrill in it4 ,its author1 ,william ,gould ,tomer1 was born in ,finesville1 ,warren ,co41 ,n4,j41 ,october #e1 #ahcb2 died in ,phillipsburg1 ,n4,j41 ,sept4 #bf1 #ahif4 ,he was a soldier in the ,civil ,war and a writer of good ability as well as a composer4 ,for some time he was editor of the ,high ,bridge ,gazette1 and music with him was an avocation rather than a profession4 ,he wrote the melody to ,dr4 ,rankin's hymn in #ahhj1 ,prof4 ,j4,w4 ,bischoff supplying the harmony1 and the tune was first published in ,gospel ,bells the same year4 ,,funerals4 ,the style of singing at funerals1 as well as the character of the hymns1 has greatly changed--if1 indeed1 music continues to be a part of the service1 as frequently1 in ordinary cases1 it is not4 ,china with its comforting words--and terrifying chords--is forever obsolete1 and not only that1 but ,dr4 ,muhlenberg's1 ,i ,would ,not ,live ,alway1 with its sadly sentimental tune of ,frederick1 has passed out of common use4 ,anna ,steele's ,so ,fades the ,lovely1 ,blooming ,flower1 on the death of a child1 is occasionally heard1 and now and then ,dr4 ,s4,f4 ,smith's1 ,sister1 ,thou ,wast ,mild and ,lovely1 7with its gentle air of ,mt4 ,vernon17 on the death of a young lady4 ,standard hymns like ,watts'1 ,unveil ,thy ,bosom1 ,faithful ,tomb1 to the slow1 tender melody of the ,dead ,march1 7from ,handel's oratorio of ,saul7 and ,montgomery's ,servant of ,god1 ,well ,done1 to ,olmutz1 or ,woodbury's ,forever with the ,lord1 still retain their prestige1 the music of the former being played on steeple-chimes on some burial occasions in cities1 during the procession-- ,nor pain nor grief nor anxious fear ,invade thy bounds2 no mortal woes ,can reach the peaceful sleeper here ,while angels watch the soft repose4 ,the latter hymn 7,montgomery's7 is biographical--as described on page #cja-- ,servant of ,god1 well done2 ,rest from thy loved employ2 ,the battle fought1 the victory won1 ,enter thy ,master's joy4 ,only five stanzas of this long poem are now in use4 ,the exquisite elegy of ,montgomery1 entitled ,the ,grave1-- ,there is a calm for those who weep1 ,a rest for weary mortals found ,they softly lie and sweetly sleep ,low in the ground4 --is by no means discontinued on funeral occasions1 nor ,margaret ,mackay's beloved hymn1-- ,asleep in ,jesus1 blessed sleep1 --melodized in ,bradbury's ,rest4 ,mrs4 ,margaret ,mackay was born in #ahja1 the daughter of ,capt4 ,robert ,mackay of ,hedgefield1 ,inverness1 and wife of a major of the same name4 ,she was the author of several prose works and ,lays of ,leisure ,hours1 containing seventy-two original hymns and poems1 of which ,asleep in ,jesus is one4 ,she died in #ahhg4 ,,my ,,jesus1 ,,as ,,thou ,,wilt4 7,mein ,jesu1 wie du willst47 ,this sweet hymn for mourners1 known to us here in ,jane ,borthwick's translation1 was written by ,benjamin ,schmolke 7or ,schmolk7 late in the #agth century4 ,he was born at ,brauchitzchdorf1 in ,silesia1 ,dec4 #ba1 #afgb1 and received his education at the ,labau ,gymnasium and ,leipsic ,university4 ,a sermon preached while a youth1 for his father1 a ,lutheran pastor1 showed such remarkable promise that a wealthy man paid the expenses of his education for the ministry4 ,he was ordained and settled as pastor of the ,free ,church at ,schweidnitz1 ,silesia1 in which charge he continued from #agja till his death4 ,schmolke was the most popular hymn-writer of his time1 author of some nine hundred church pieces1 besides many for special occasions4 ,withal he was a man of exalted piety and a pastor of rare wisdom and influence4 ,his death1 of paralysis1 occurred on the anniversary of his wedding1 ,feb4 #ab1 #agcg4 ,my ,jesus1 as ,thou wilt1 ,oh may ,thy will be mine6 ,into ,thy hand of love ,i would my all resign4 ,thro' sorrow or thro' joy ,conduct me as ,thine own1 ,and help me still to say1 ,my ,lord1 ,thy will be done4 ,the last line is the refrain of the hymn of four eight-line stanzas4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,sussex1 by ,joseph ,barnby1 a plain-song with a fine harmony1 is good congregational music for the hymn4 ,but ,jewett1 one of ,carl ,maria ,von ,weber's exquisite flights of song1 is like no other in its intimate interpretation of the prayerful words4 ,we hear ,luther's bird in the heart singing softly in every inflection of the tender melody as it glides on4 ,the tune1 arranged by ,joseph ,holbrook1 is from an opera--the overture to ,weber's ,der ,freischutz--but one feels that the gentle musician when he wrote it must have caught an inspiration of divine trust and peace4 ,the wish among the last words he uttered when dying in ,london of slow disease was1 ,let me go back to my own 7home71 and then ,god's will be done4 ,that wish and the sentiment of ,schmolke's hymn belong to each other1 for they end in the same way4 ,my ,jesus1 as ,thou wilt3 ,all shall be well for me2 ,each changing future scene ,i gladly trust with ,thee4 ,straight to my home above ,i travel calmly on1 ,and sing in life or death ,my ,lord1 ,thy will be done4 ,i ,,cannot ,,always ,,trace ,,the ,,way4 ,in later years1 when funeral music is desired1 the employment of a male quartette has become a favorite custom4 ,of the selections sung in this manner few are more suitable or more generally welcomed than the tender and trustful hymn of ,sir ,john ,bowring1 rendered sometimes in ,dr4 ,dykes' ,almsgiving1 but better in the less-known but more flexible tune composed by ,howard ,m4 ,dow-- ,i cannot always trace the way ,where ,thou1 ,almighty ,one1 dost move1 ,but ,i can always1 always say ,that ,god is love4 ,when fear her chilling mantle flings ,o'er earth1 my soul to heaven above ,as to her native home upsprings1 ,for ,god is love4 ,when mystery clouds my darkened path1 ,i'll check my dread1 my doubts reprove2 ,in this my soul sweet comfort hath ,that ,god is love4 ,yes1 ,god is love4 ,a thought like this ,can every gloomy thought remove1 ,and turn all tears1 all woes to bliss ,for ,god is love4 ,the first line of the hymn was originally1 ',tis seldom ,i can trace the way4 ,howard ,m4 ,dow has been many years a resident of ,boston1 and organist of the ,grand ,lodge of ,freemasons at the ,tremont ,st4 7,masonic7 ,temple4 ,,wedding4 ,time was when hymns were sung at weddings1 though in ,america the practice was never universal4 ,marriage1 among ,protestants1 is not one of the sacraments1 and no masses are chanted for it by ecclesiastical ordinance4 ,the question of music at private marriages depends on convenience1 vocal or instrumental equipment1 and the general drift of the occasion4 ,at public weddings the organ's duty is the ,wedding ,march4 ,to revive a fashion of singing at home marriages would be considered an oddity--and1 where civil marriages are legal1 a superfluity--but in the religious ceremony1 just after the prayer that follows the completion of the nuptial formula1 it will occur to some that a hymn would tide over a proverbially awkward moment4 ,even good1 quaint old ,john ,berridge's lines would happily relieve the embarrassment--besides reminding the more thoughtless that a wedding is not a mere piece of social fun-- ,since ,jesus truly did appear ,to grace a marriage feast ,o ,lord1 we ask ,thy presence here ,to make a wedding guest4 ,upon the bridal pair look down ,who now have plighted hands2 ,their union with ,thy favor crown ,and bless the nuptial bands 99 99 99 99 99 ,in purest love these souls unite ,that they with ,christian care ,may make domestic burdens light ,by taking each a share4 ,tune1 ,lanesboro1 ,mason4 ,a wedding hymn of more poetic beauty is the one written by ,miss ,dorothy ,bloomfield 7now ,mrs4 ,gurney71 born #aheh1 for her sister's marriage in #ahhc4 ,o perfect ,love1 all human thought transcending1 ,lowly we kneel in prayer before ,thy throne ,that their's may be a love which knows no ending ,whom ,thou forevermore dost join in one4 ,o perfect ,life1 be ,thou their first assurance ,of tender charity and steadfast faith1 ,of patient hope and quiet1 brave endurance1 ,with childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death4 ,grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow1 ,grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife1 ,and to their day the glorious unknown morrow ,that dawns upon eternal love and life4 ,tune by ,joseph ,barnby1 ,o ,perfect ,love4 ,,fruition ,,day4 ,,lo6 ,,he ,,comes ,,with ,,clouds ,,descending4 ,thomas ,olivers begins one of his hymns with this line4 ,the hymn is a ,judgment-day lyric of rude strength and once in current use1 but now rarely printed4 ,the ,lo ,he ,comes1 here specially noted1 is the production of ,john ,cennick1 the ,moravian4 ,lo6 ,he comes with clouds descending ,once for favored sinners slain1 ,thousand thousand saints attending ,swell the triumph of ,his train4 ,hallelujah6 ,god appears on earth to reign4 99 99 99 99 99 ,yea1 amen2 let all adore ,thee ,high on ,thy eternal throne4 ,saviour1 take the power and glory1 ,claim the kingdom for thine own2 ,o come quickly2 ,hallelujah6 ,come1 ,lord1 come4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,various composers have written music to this universal hymn1 but none has given it a choral that it can claim as peculiarly its own4 ,brest1 ,lowell ,mason's plain-song1 has a limited range1 and runs low on the staff1 but its solemn chords are musical and commanding4 ,as much can be said of the tunes of ,dr4 ,dykes and ,samuel ,webbe1 which have more variety4 ,those who feel that the hymn calls for a more ornate melody will prefer ,madan's ,helmsley4 ,,lo6 ,,what ,a ,,glorious ,,sight ,,appears4 ,the great ,southampton bard who wrote ,sweet fields beyond the swelling flood was quick to kindle at every reminder of ,fruition ,day4 ,lo6 what a glorious sight appears ,to our believing eyes6 ,the earth and seas are passed away1 ,and the old rolling skies4 ,from the third heaven1 where ,god resides1 ,that holy1 happy place1 ,the ,new ,jerusalem comes down1 ,adorned with shining grace4 ,this hymn of ,watts' sings one of his most exalted visions4 ,it has been dear for two hundred years to every ,christian soul throbbing with millennial thoughts and wishful of the day when-- ,the ,god of glory down to men ,removes ,his best abode1 --and when-- ,his own kind hand shall wipe the tears ,from every weeping eye1 ,and pains and groans1 and griefs and fears1 ,and death itself shall die1 --and the yearning cry of the last stanza1 when the vision fades1 has been the household 8 ,a of myriads of burdened and sorrowing saints-- ,how long1 dear ,saviour1 ,o how long ,shall this bright hour delay8 ,fly swifter round ye wheels of ,time1 ,and bring the welcome day6 ,footnote ,a3 ,transcriber's note--,this question mark is in the original4 ,it is possibly a compositor's query which the author missed when correcting the proofs4 ,the missing text could be word4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,by right of long appropriation both ,northfield and ,new ,jerusalem own a near relationship to these glorious verses4 ,ingalls1 one of the constellation of early ,puritan psalmodists1 to which ,billings and ,swan belonged1 evidently loved the hymn1 and composed his ,new ,jerusalem to the verse1 ,from the third heaven1 and his ,northfield to ,how long1 dear ,saviour4 ,the former is now sung only as a reminiscence of the music of the past1 at church festivals1 charity fairs and entertainments of similar design1 but the action and hearty joy in it always evoke sympathetic applause4 ,northfield is still in occasional use1 and it is a jewel of melody1 however irretrievably out of fashion4 ,its union to that immortal stanza1 if no other reason1 seems likely to insure its permanent place in the lists of sacred song4 ,john ,cole's ,annapolis1 still found in a few hymnals with these words1 is a little too late to be called a contemporary piece1 but there are some reminders of ,ingalls' ,new ,jerusalem in its style and vigor1 and it really partakes the flavor of the old ,new ,england church music4 ,jeremiah ,ingalls was born in ,andover1 ,mass41 ,march #a1 #agfd4 ,a natural fondness for music increased with his years1 but opportunities to educate it were few and far between1 and he seemed like to become no more than a fairly good bass-viol player in the village choir4 ,but his determination carried him higher1 and in time his self-taught talent qualified him for a singing-school master1 and for many years he travelled through ,massachusetts1 ,new ,hampshire and ,vermont1 training the raw vocal material in the country towns1 and organizing choirs4 ,between his thirtieth and fortieth years1 he composed a number of tunes1 and1 in #ahjd published a two hundred page collection of his own and others' music1 which he called the ,christian ,harmony4 ,his home was for some time in ,newberry1 ,vt41 but he subsequently lived at ,rochester and at ,hancock in the same state4 ,among the traditions of him is this anecdote of the origin of his famous tune ,northfield1 which may indicate something of his temper and religious habit4 ,during his travels as a singing-school teacher he stopped at a tavern in the town of ,northfield and ordered his dinner4 ,it was very slow in coming1 but the inevitable how long8 that formulated itself in his hungry thoughts1 instead of sharpening into profane complaint1 fell into the rhythm of ,watts' sacred line--and the tune came with it4 ,to call it ,northfield was natural enough2 the place where its melody first beguiled him from his bodily wants to a dream of the final ,fruition ,day4 ,ingalls died in ,hancock1 ,vt41 ,april #f1 #ahbh4 ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,,hymns ,,of ,,hope ,,and ,,consolation4 ,,jerusalem ,,the ,,golden4 ,urbs ,sion ,aurea4 ,the ,seven ,great ,hymns of the ,latin ,church are3 ,laus ,patriae ,coelestis1--7,praise of the ,heavenly ,country74 ,veni1 ,sancte ,spiritus1--7,come1 ,holy ,spirit7 ,veni1 ,creator ,spiritus1--7,come1 ,creator ,spirit7 ,dies ,irae1--7,the ,day of ,wrath7 ,stabat ,mater1--7,the ,mother ,stood ,by7 ,mater ,speciosa1--7,the ,fair ,mother47 ,vexilla ,regis4--7,the ,banner of the ,king47 ,chief of these is the first named1 though that is but part of a religious poem of three thousand lines1 which the author1 ,bernard of ,cluny1 named ,de ,contemptu ,mundi 7,concerning ,disdain of the ,world47 ,bernard was of ,english parentage1 though born at ,morlaix1 a seaport town in the north of ,france4 ,the exact date of his birth is unknown1 though it was probably about ,a4,d4 #aajj4 ,he is called ,bernard of ,cluny because he lived and wrote at that place1 a ,french town on the ,grone where he was abbot of a famous monastery1 and also to distinguish him from ,bernard of ,clairvaux4 ,his great poem is rarely spoken of as a whole1 but in three portions1 as if each were a complete work4 ,the first is the long exordium1 exhausting the pessimistic title 7contempt of the world71 and passing on to the second1 where begins the real ,laus ,patriae ,coelestis4 ,this being cut in two1 making a third portion1 has enriched the ,christian world with two of its best hymns1 ,for ,thee1 ,o ,dear1 ,dear ,country1 and ,jerusalem the ,golden4 ,bernard wrote the medieval or church ,latin in its prime of literary refinement1 and its accent is so obvious and its rhythm so musical that even one ignorant of the language could pronounce it1 and catch its rhymes4 ,the ,contemptu ,mundi begins with these two lines1 in a hexameter impossible to copy in translation3 ,hora novissima2 tempora pessima sunt2 ,vigilemus6 ,ecce minaciter imminet ,arbiter1 ,ille ,supremus6 ',tis the last hour2 the times are at their worst2 ,watch2 lo the ,judge ,supreme stands threat'ning nigh6 ,or1 as ,dr4 ,neale paraphrases and softens it1-- ,the ,world is very evil1 ,the times are waxing late1 ,be sober and keep vigil1 ,the ,judge is at the gate1 --and1 after the poet's long1 dark diorama of the world's wicked condition1 follows the ,praise of the ,heavenly ,fatherland1 when a tender glory dawns upon the scene till it breaks into sunrise with the vision of the ,golden ,city4 ,all that an opulent and devout imagination can picture of the beauty and bounty of heaven1 and all that faith can construct from the glimpses in the ,revelation of its glory and happiness is poured forth in the lavish poetry of the inspired monk of ,cluny-- ,urbs ,sion aurea1 patria lactea1 cive decora1 ,omne cor obruis1 omnibus obstruis1 et cor et ora4 ,nescio1 nescio quae jubilatio lux tibi qualis1 ,quam socialia gaudia1 gloria quam specialis4 ,jerusalem1 the golden2 ,with milk and honey blest2 ,beneath thy contemplation ,sink heart and voice opprest4 ,i know not1 ,o ,i know not ,what joys await us there1 ,with radiancy of glory1 ,with bliss beyond compare4 ,they stand1 those halls of ,zion1 ,all jubilant with song1#dg ,and bright with many an angel2 ,and all the martyr throng4 ,the ,prince is ever in them1 ,the daylight is serene2 ,the pastures of the blessed ,are decked in glorious sheen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,o sweet and blessed country1 ,the home of ,god's elect6 ,o sweet and blessed country1 ,that eager hearts expect6 ,jesu1 in mercy bring us ,to that dear land of rest1 ,who art1 with ,god the ,father1 ,and ,spirit1 ever blest4 ,footnote #dg3 ,in first editions1 conjubilant with song4 ,dr4 ,john ,mason ,neale1 the translator1 was obliged to condense ,bernard's exuberant verse1 and he has done so with unsurpassable grace and melody4 ,he made his translation while inhibited from his priestly functions in the ,church of ,england for his high ritualistic views and practice1 and so poor that he wrote stories for children to earn his living4 ,his poverty added to the wealth of ,christendom4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the music of ,jerusalem the ,golden used in most churches is the composition of ,alexander ,ewing1 a paymaster in the ,english army4 ,he was born in ,aberdeen1 ,scotland1 ,jan4 #c;d1 #ahcj1 and educated there at ,marischal ,college4 ,the tune bears his name1 and this honor1 and its general favor with the public1 are so much testimony to its merit4 ,it is a stately harmony in ,d major with sonorous and impressive chords4 ,ewing died in #ahie4 ,,why ,,should ,,we ,,start ,,and ,,fear ,,to ,,die8 ,probably it is an embarrassment of riches and despair of space that have crowded this hymn--perhaps the sweetest that ,watts ever wrote--out of some of our church singing-books4 ,it is pleasant to find it in the new ,methodist ,hymnal1 though with an indifferent tune4 ,christians of today should surely sing the last two stanzas with the same exalted joy and hope that made them sacred to pious generations past and gone-- ,o if my ,lord would come and meet1 ,my soul would stretch her wings in haste4 ,fly fearless through death's iron gate1 ,nor feel the terrors as she passed4 ,jesus can make a dying bed ,feel soft as downy pillows are1 ,while on ,his breast ,i lean my head ,and breathe my life out sweetly there4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the plain-music of ,william ,boyd's ,pentecost1 7with modulations in the tenor71 creates a new accent for the familiar lines4 ,preferable in every sense are ,bradbury's tender ,zephyr or ,rest4 ,no coming generation will ever feel the pious gladness of ,amariah ,hall's ,all ,saints ,new in ,e flat major as it stirred the ,christian choirs of seventy five years ago4 ,fitted to this heart-felt lyric of ,watts1 it opened with the words-- ,o if my ,lord would come and meet1 in full harmony and four-four time1 continuing to the end of the stanza4 ,the melody1 with its slurred syllables and beautiful modulations was almost blithe in its brightness1 while the strong musical bass and the striking chords of the counter1 chastened it and held the anthem to its due solemnity of tone and expression4 ,then the fugue took up-- ,jesus can make a dying bed1 --bass1 treble and tenor adding voice after voice in the manner of the old canon song1 and the full harmony again carried the words1 with loving repetitions1 to the final bar4 ,the music closed with a minor concord that was strangely effective and sweet4 ,amariah ,hall was born in ,raynham1 ,mass41 ,april #bh1 #aghe1 and died there ,feb4 #h1 #ahbg4 ,he farmed it1 manufactured straw-bonnets1 kept tavern and taught singing-school4 ,music was only an avocation with him1 but he was an artist in his way1 and among his compositions are found in some ancient ,tune books his ,morning ,glory1 ,canaan1 ,falmouth1 ,restoration1 ,massachusetts1 ,raynham1 ,crucifixion1 ,harmony1 ,devotion1 ,zion1 and ,hosanna4 ,all ,saints ,new was his masterpiece4 ,,when ,i ,,can ,,read ,,my ,,title ,,clear4 ,no sacred song has been more profanely parodied by the thoughtless1 or more travestied1 7if we may use so strong a word71 in popular religious airs1 than this golden hymn which has made ,isaac ,watts a benefactor to every prisoner of hope4 ,not to mention the fancy figures and refrains of camp-meeting music1 which have cheapened it1 neither ,john ,cole's ,annapolis nor ,arne's ,arlington nor a dozen others that have borrowed these speaking lines1 can wear out their association with ,auld lang ,syne4 ,the hymn has permeated the tune1 and1 without forgetting its own words1 the ,scotch melody preforms both a social and religious mission4 ,some arrangements of it make it needlessly repetitious1 but its pathos will always best vocalize the hymn1 especially the first and last stanzas-- ,when ,i can read my title clear ,to mansions in the skies ,i'll bid farewell to every fear ,and wipe my weeping eyes4 99 99 99 99 99 ,there shall ,i bathe my weary soul ,in seas of heavenly rest1 ,and not a wave of trouble roll ,across my peaceful breast4 ,,vital ,,spark ,,of ,,heavenly ,,flame4 ,this paraphrase1 by ,alexander ,pope1 of the ,emperor ,adrian's death-bed address to his soul-- ,animula1 vagula1 blandula1 ,hospes1 comesque corporis1 --transfers the poetry and constructs a hymnic theme4 ,an old hymn writer by the name of ,flatman wrote a ,pindaric1 somewhat similar to ,adrian's ,address1 as follows3 ,when on my sick-bed ,i languish1 ,full of sorrow1 full of anguish1 ,fainting1 gasping1 trembling1 crying1 ,panting1 groaning1 speechless1 dying2 ,methinks ,i hear some gentle spirit say1 ,be not fearful1 come away4 ,pope combined these two poems with the words of ,divine inspiration1 ,o death1 where is thy sting8 ,o grave1 where is thy victory8 and made a pagan philosopher's question the text for a triumphant ,christian anthem of hope4 ,vital spark of heavenly flame1 ,quit1 oh quit this mortal frame4 ,trembling1 hoping1 ling'ring1 flying1 ,oh the pain1 the bliss of dying6 ,cease1 fond nature1 cease thy strife1 ,and let me languish into life4 ,hark6 they whisper3 angels say1 ,sister spirit1 come away6 ,what is this absorbs me quite1 ,steals my senses1 shuts my sight1 ,drowns my spirit1 draws my breath1 ,tell me1 my soul1 can this be death8 ,the world recedes3 it disappears3 ,heaven opens on my eyes2 my ears ,with sounds seraphic ring4 ,lend1 lend your wings6 ,i mount6 ,i fly6 ,o grave where is thy victory8 ,o death1 where is thy sting8 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the old anthem1 ,the ,dying ,christian1 or ,the ,dying ,christian to his ,soul1 which first made this lyric familiar in ,america as a musical piece1 will never be sung again except at antique entertainments1 but it had an importance in its day4 ,beginning in quadruple time on four flats minor1 it renders the first stanza in flowing concords largo affettuoso1 and a single bass fugue1 ,then suddenly shifting to one flat1 major1 duple time1 it executes the second stanza1 ,hark6 they whisper 444 ,what is this1 etc41 in alternate pianissimo and forte phrases2 and finally1 changing to triple time1 sings the third triumphant stanza1 andante1 through staccato and fortissimo4 ,the shout in the last adagio1 on the four final bars1 ,o ,death6 ,o ,death6 softening with where is thy sting8 is quite in the style of old orchestral magnificence4 ,since ,the ,dying ,christian ceased to appear in church music1 the poem1 for some reason1 seems not to have been recognized as a hymn4 ,it is1 however1 a ,christian poem1 and a true lyric of hope and consolation1 whatever the character of the author or however pagan the original that suggested it4 ,the most that is now known of ,edward ,harwood1 the composer of the anthem1 is that he was an ,english musician and psalmodist1 born near ,blackburn1 ,lancaster ,co41 #agjg1 and died about #aghg4 ,,your ,,harps1 ,,ye ,,trembling ,,saints4 ,this hymn of ,toplady1--unlike ,a ,debtor to ,mercy ,alone1 and ,inspirer and ,hearer of ,prayer1 both now little used1--stirs no controversial feeling by a single line of his aggressive ,calvinism4 ,it is simply a song of ,christian gratitude and joy4 ,your harps1 ye trembling saints ,down from the willows take2 ,loud to the praise of ,love ,divine ,bid every string awake4 ,though in a foreign land1 ,we are not far from home1 ,and nearer to our house above ,we every moment come4 99 99 99 99 99 ,blest is the man1 ,o ,god1 ,that stays himself on ,thee1 ,who waits for ,thy salvation1 ,lord1 ,shall ,thy salvation see4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,olmutz was arranged by ,lowell ,mason from a ,gregorian chant4 ,he set it himself to ,toplady's hymn1 and it seems the natural music for it4 ,the words are also sometimes written and sung to ,jonathan ,woodman's ,state ,st4 ,jonathan ,call ,woodman was born in ,newburyport1 ,mass41 ,july #ab1 #ahac4 ,he was the organist of ,st4 ,george's ,chapel1 ,flushing ,l4,i4 and a teacher1 composer and compiler4 ,his ,musical ,casket was not issued until ,dec4 #aheh1 but he wrote the tune of ,state ,st4 in ,august1 #ahdd4 ,it was a contribution to ,bradbury's ,psalmodist1 which was published the same year4 ,,ye ,,golden ,,lamps ,,of ,,heaven1 ,,farewell4 ,dr4 ,doddridge's farewell is not a note of regret4 ,unlike ,bernard1 he appreciates this world while he anticipates the better one1 but his contemplation climbs from ,god's footstool to ,his throne4 ,his thought is in the last two lines of the second stanza1 where he takes leave of the sun-- ,my soul that springs beyond thy sphere ,no more demands thine aid4 ,but his fancy will find a function for the golden lamps even in the glory that swallows up their light-- ,ye stars are but the shining dust ,of my divine abode1 ,the pavement of those heavenly courts ,where ,i shall dwell with ,god4 ,the ,father of eternal light ,shall there ,his beams display1 ,nor shall one moment's darkness mix ,with that unvaried day4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the hymn has been assigned to ,mt4 ,auburn1 a composition of ,george ,kingsley1 but a far better interpretation--if not best of all--is ,h4,k4 ,oliver's tune of ,merton1 7#ahdg17 older1 but written purposely for the words4 ,,triumphant ,,zion1 ,,lift ,,thy ,,head4 ,this fine and stimulating lyric is ,doddridge in another tone4 ,instead of singing hope to the individual1 he sounds a note of encouragement to the church4 ,put all thy beauteous garments on1 ,and let thy excellence be known2 ,decked in the robes of righteousness1 ,the world thy glories shall confess4 99 99 99 99 99 ,god from on high has heard thy prayer2 ,his hand thy ruins shall repair1 ,nor will thy watchful ,monarch cease ,to guard thee in eternal peace4 ,the tune1 ,anvern1 is one of ,mason's charming melodies1 full of vigor and cheerful life1 and everything can be said of it that is said of the hymn4 ,duffield compares the hymn and tune to a ring and its jewel4 ,it is one of the inevitable freaks of taste that puts so choice a strain of psalmody out of fashion4 ,many younger pieces in the church manuals could be better spared4 ,,shrinking ,,from ,,the ,,cold ,,hand ,,of ,,death4 ,this is a hymn of contrast1 the dark of recoiling nature making the background of the rainbow4 ,written by ,charles ,wesley1 it has passed among his forgotten or mostly forgotten productions but is notable for the frequent use of its #crd stanza by his brother ,john4 ,john ,wesley1 in his old age1 did not so much shrink from death as from the thought of its too slow approach4 ,his almost constant prayer was1 ,lord1 let me not live to be useless4 ,at every place1 says ,belcher1 after giving to his societies what he desired them to consider his last advice1 he invariably concluded with the stanza beginning-- ',oh that1 without a lingering groan1 ,i may the welcome word receive4 ,my body with my charge lay down1 ,and cease at once to work and live4' ,the anticipation of death itself by both the great evangelists ended like the ending of the hymn-- ,no anxious doubt1 no guilty gloom ,shall daunt whom ,jesus' presence cheers2 ,my ,light1 my ,life1 my ,god is come1 ,and glory in ,his face appears4 ,,forever ,,with ,,the ,,lord4 ,montgomery had the ,ambrosian gift of spiritual song-writing4 ,whatever may be thought of his more ambitious descriptive or heroic pages of verse1 and his long narrative poems1 his lyrics and cabinet pieces are gems4 ,the poetry in some exquisite stanzas of his ,grave is a dream of peace3 ,there is a calm for those who weep1 ,a rest for weary mortals found2 ,they softly lie and sweetly sleep ,low in the ground4 ,the storms that wreck the winter's sky ,no more disturb their deep repose ,than summer evening's latest sigh ,that shuts the rose4 ,but in the poem1 ,at ,home in ,heaven1 which we are considering--with its divine text in ,i ,thess4 #d3ag--the ,sheffield bard rises to the heights of vision4 ,he wrote it when he was an old man4 ,the contemplation so absorbed him that he could not quit his theme till he had composed twenty-two quatrains4 ,only four or five--or at most only seven of them--are now in general use4 ,like his ,prayer is the ,soul's ,sincere ,desire1 they have the pith of devotional thought in them1 but are less subjective and analytical4 ,forever with the ,lord6 ,amen1 so let it be1 ,life from the dead is in that word2 ',tis immortality4 ,here in the body pent1 ,absent from ,him ,i roam1 ,yet nightly pitch my moving tent ,a day's march nearer home4 ,my ,father's house on high6 ,home of my soul1 how near ,at times to faith's foreseeing eye ,thy golden gates appear4 ,i hear at morn and even1 ,at noon and midnight hour1 ,the choral harmonies of heaven ,earth's ,babel tongues o'erpower4 ,the last line has been changed to read-- ,seraphic music pour1 --and finally the hymnals have dropped the verse and substituted others4 ,the new line is an improvement in melody but not in rhyme1 and1 besides1 it robs the stanza of its leading thought--heaven and earth offsetting each other1 and heavenly music drowning earthly noise--a thought that is missed even in the rich cantos of ,jerusalem the ,golden4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,nearly the whole school of good short metre tunes1 from ,st4 ,thomas to ,boylston have offered their notes to ,montgomery's ,at ,home in ,heaven1 but the two most commonly recognized as its property are ,mornington1 named from ,lord ,mornington1 its author1 and ,i4,b4 ,woodbury's familiar harmony1 ,forever with the ,lord4 ,garret ,colley ,wellesley1 ,earl of ,mornington1 and ancestor of the ,duke of ,wellington1 was born in ,dagan1 ,ireland1 ,july #ai1 #agce4 ,remarkable for musical talent when a child1 he became a skilled violinist1 organ-player and composer in boyhood1 with little aid beyond his solitary study and practice4 ,when scarcely twenty-one1 the ,university of ,dublin conferred on him the degree of ,doctor of ,music1 and a professorship4 ,he excelled as a composer of glees1 but wrote also tunes and anthems for the church1 some of which are still extant in the choir books of the ,dublin ,cathedral ,died ,march #bb1 #agha4 ,,hark6 ,,hark1 ,,my ,,soul6 ,the ,methodist ,reformation1 while it had found no practical sympathy within the established church1 left a deep sense of its reason and purpose in the minds of the more devout ,episcopalians1 and this feeling1 instead of taking form in popular revival methods1 prompted them to deeper sincerity and more spiritual fervor in their traditional rites of worship4 ,many of the next generation inherited this pious ecclesiasticism1 and carried their loyalty to the old ,christian culture to the extreme of devotion till they saw in the sacraments the highest good of the soul4 ,it was ,keble's ,christian ,year and his ,assize ,sermon that began the ,tractarian movement at ,oxford which brought to the front himself and such men as ,henry ,newman and ,frederick ,william ,faber4 ,the hymns and sacred poems of these sacramentarian ,christians would certify to their earnest piety1 even if their lives were unknown4 ,faber's hymn ,hark1 ,hark ,my ,soul1 is welcomed and loved by every ,christian sect for its religious spirit and its lyric beauty4 ,hark6 hark1 my soul6 angelic songs are swelling ,o'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore2 ,how sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling ,of that new life where sin shall be no more4 ,,refrain ,angels of ,jesus1 angels of light ,singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night4 ,onward we go1 for still we hear them singing ,come1 weary souls1 for ,jesus bids you come1 ,and through the dark1 its echoes sweetly ringing1 ,the music of the gospel leads us home4 ,angels of ,jesus4 ,far1 far away1 like bells at evening pealing1 ,the voice of ,jesus sounds o'er land and sea1 ,and laden souls1 by thousands meekly stealing1 ,kind ,shepherd1 turn their weary steps to ,thee4 ,angels of ,jesus4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,john ,b4 ,dykes and ,henry ,smart--both masters of hymn-tune construction--have set this hymn to music4 ,vox ,angelica in ,b flat1 the work of the former1 is a noble composition for choir or congregation1 but ,pilgrim1 the other's interpretation1 though not dissimilar in movement and vocal range1 has1 perhaps1 the more sympathetic melody4 ,it is1 at least1 the favorite in many localities4 ,some books print the two on adjacent pages as optionals4 ,another much-loved hymn of ,faber's is-- ,o ,paradise1 ,o ,paradise6 ,who doth not crave for rest8 ,who would not see the happy land ,where they that loved are blest8 ,,refrain ,where loyal hearts and true ,stand ever in the light1 ,all rapture through and through ,in ,god's most holy sight4 ,o ,paradise1 ,o ,paradise1 ,the world is growing old2 ,who would not be at rest and free ,where love is never cold4 ,where loyal hearts and true4 ,o ,paradise1 ,o ,paradise1 ,i greatly long to see ,the special place my dearest ,lord1 ,in love prepares for me4 ,where loyal hearts and true4 ,this aspiration1 from the ardent soul of the poet has been interpreted in song by the same two musicians1 and by ,joseph ,barnby--all with the title ,paradise4 ,their similarity of style and near equality of merit have compelled compilers to print at least two of them side by side for the singers' choice4 ,a certain pathos in the strains of ,barnby's composition gives it a peculiar charm to many1 and in ,america it is probably the oftenest sung to the words4 ,dr4 ,david ,breed1 speaking of ,faber's unusual imagination1 says1 ,he got more out of language than any other poet of the ,english tongue1 and used words--even simple words--so that they rendered him a service which no other poet ever secured from them4 ,the above hymns are characteristic to a degree1 but the telling simplicity of his style--almost quaint at times--is more marked in ,there's a ,wideness in ,god's ,mercy1 given on p4 #bcd4 ,illustration3 ,horatius ,bonar1 ,d4,d4 ,,beyond ,,the ,,smiling ,,and ,,the ,,weeping4 ,this song of hope--one of the most strangely tuneful and rune-like of ,dr4 ,bonar's hymn-poems--is less frequently sung owing to the peculiarity of its stanza form4 ,but it scarcely needs a staff of notes-- ,beyond the smiling and the weeping ,i shall be soon2 ,beyond the waking and the sleeping1 ,beyond the sowing and the reaping ,i shall be soon4 ,,refrain ,love1 rest and home6 ,sweet hope6 ,lord1 tarry not1 but come4 99 99 99 99 99 ,beyond the parting and the meeting ,i shall be soon2 ,beyond the farewell and the greeting1 ,beyond the pulses' fever-beating ,i shall be soon4 ,love1 rest and home6 ,beyond the frost-chain and the fever ,i shall be soon2 ,beyond the rock-waste and the river ,beyond the ever and the never ,i shall be soon4 ,love1 rest and home6 ,the wild contrasts and reverses of earthly vicissitude are spoken and felt here in the sequence of words4 ,perpetual black-and-white through time2 then the settled life and untreacherous peace of eternity4 ,everywhere in the song the note of heavenly hope interrupts the wail of disappointment1 and the chorus returns to transport the soul from the land of emotional whirlwinds to unbroken rest4 ,,the ,,tunes4 ,mr4 ,bradbury wrote an admirable tune to this hymn1 though the one since composed by ,mr4 ,stebbins has in some localities superseded it in popular favor4 ,skill in following the accent and unequal rhythms produces a melodious tone-poem1 and completes the impression of ,bonar's singular but sweet lyric of hope which suggests a chant-choral rather than a regular polyphonic harmony4 ,w4,a4 ,tarbutton and the young composer1 ,karl ,harrington1 have set the hymn to music1 but the success of their work awaits the public test4 ,,we ,,shall ,,meet ,,beyond ,,the ,,river4 ,the words were written by ,rev4 ,john ,atkinson1 ,d4,d41 in ,january1 #ahfg1 soon after the death of his mother4 ,he had been engaged in revival work and one night in his study1 that song1 in substance1 seemed1 he says1 to sing itself into my heart4 ,he said to himself1 ,i would better write it down1 or ,i shall lose it4 ,there1 he adds1 in the silence of my study1 and not far from midnight1 ,i wrote the hymn4 ,we shall meet beyond the river ,by and by1 by and by2 ,and the darkness will be over ,by and by1 by and by4 ,with the toilsome journey done1 ,and the glorious battle won4 ,we shall shine forth as the sun ,by and by1 by and by4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,atkinson was born in ,deerfield1 ,n4,j4 ,sept4 #f1 #ahce4 ,a clergyman of the ,methodist denomination1 he is well-known as one of its writers4 ,the ,centennial ,history of ,american ,methodism is his work1 and besides the above hymn1 he has written and published ,the ,garden of ,sorrows1 and ,the ,living ,way4 ,he died ,dec4 #h1 #ahig4 ,the tune to ,we ,shall ,meet1 by ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 composed in #ahfg1 exactly translates the emotional hymn into music4 ,s4,j4 ,vail also wrote music to the words4 ,the hymn1 originally six eight-line stanzas1 was condensed at his request to its present length and form by ,fanny ,crosby4 ,,one ,,sweetly ,,solemn ,,thought4 ,phebe ,cary1 the author of this happy poem1 was the younger of the two ,cary sisters1 ,alice and ,phebe1 names pleasantly remembered in ,american literature4 ,the praise of one reflects the praise of the other when we are told that ,phebe possessed a loving and trustful soul1 and her life was an honor to true womanhood and a blessing to the poor4 ,she had to struggle with hardship and poverty in her early years3 ,i have cried in the street because ,i was poor1 she said in her prosperous years1 and the poor always seem nearer to me than the rich4 ,when reputation came to her as a writer1 she removed from her little country home near ,cincinnati1 ,o41 where she was born1 in #ahbd1 and settled in ,new ,york ,city with her sister4 ,she died at ,newport1 ,n4,y41 ,july #ca1 #ahga1 and her hymn was sung at her funeral4 ,her remains rest in ,greenwood ,cemetery4 ,one ,sweetly ,solemn ,thought1 was written in #aheb1 during a visit to one of her friends4 ,she wrote 7to her friend's inquiry7 years afterwards that it first saw the light in your own house 444 in the little back third-story bedroom1 one ,sunday after coming from church4 ,it was a heart experience noted down without literary care or artistic effort1 and in its original form was in too irregular measure to be sung4 ,she set little value upon it as a poem1 but when shown hesitatingly to inquiring compilers1 its intrinsic worth was seen1 and various revisions of it were made4 ,the following is one of the best versions--stanzas one1 two and three3-- ,one sweetly solemn thought ,comes to me o'er and o'er1 ,i am nearer home to-day1 ,than ,i ever have been before4 ,nearer my ,father's house1 ,where the many mansions be1 ,nearer the great white throne1 ,nearer the crystal sea4 ,nearer the bound of life1 ,where we lay our burdens down1 ,nearer leaving the cross ,nearer gaining the crown4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,the old revival tune of ,dunbar1 with its chorus1 ,there'll be no more sorrow there1 has been sung to the hymn1 but the tone-lyric of ,philip ,phillips1 ,nearer ,home1 has made the words its own1 and the public are more familiar with it than with any other4 ,it was this air that a young man in a drinking house in ,macao1 near ,hong-,kong1 began humming thoughtlessly while his companion was shuffling the cards for a new game4 ,both were ,americans1 the man with the cards more than twenty years the elder4 ,noticing the tune1 he threw down the pack4 ,every word of the hymn had come back to him with the echo of the music4 ,harry1 where did you learn that hymn8 ,what hymn8 ,why the one you have been singing4 ,the young man said he did not know what he had been singing4 ,but when the older one repeated some of the lines1 he said they were learned in the ,sunday-school4 ,come1 ,harry1 said the older one1 here's what ,i've won from you4 ,as for me1 as ,god sees me1 ,i have played my last game1 and drank my last bottle4 ,i have misled you1 ,harry1 and ,i am sorry for it4 ,give me your hand1 my boy1 and say that1 for old ,america's sake1 if for no other1 you will quit this infernal business4 ,col4 ,russel ,h4 ,conwell1 of ,boston1 7now ,rev4 ,dr4 ,conwell of ,philadelphia7 who was then visiting ,china1 and was an eye-witness of the scene1 says that the reformation was a permanent one for both4 ,i ,,will ,,sing ,,you ,a ,,song ,,of ,,that ,,beautiful ,,land4 ,one day1 in the year #ahfe1 ,mrs4 ,ellen ,m4,h4 ,gates received a letter from ,philip ,phillips noting the passage in the ,pilgrim's ,progress which describes the joyful music of heaven when ,christian and ,hopeful enter on its shining shore beyond the river of death1 and asking her to write a hymn in the spirit of the extract1 as one of the numbers in his ,singing ,pilgrim4 ,mrs4 ,gates complied--and the sequel of the hymn she wrote is part of the modern song-history of the church4 ,mr4 ,phillips has related how1 when he received it1 he sat down with his little boy on his knee1 read again the passage in ,bunyan1 then the poem again1 and1 turning to his organ1 pencil in hand1 pricked the notes of the melody4 ,the ',home of the ,soul1' he says1 seems to have had ,god's blessing from the beginning1 and has been a comfort to many a bereaved soul4 ,like many loved hymns1 it has had a peculiar history1 for its simple melody has flowed from the lips of ,high ,churchmen1 and has sought to make itself heard above the din of ,salvation ,army cymbals and drums4 ,it has been sung in prisons and in jailyards1 while the poor convict was waiting to be launched into eternity1 and on hundreds of funeral occasions4 ,one man writes me that he has led the singing of it at one hundred and twenty funerals4 ,it was sung at my dear boy's funeral1 who sat on my knee when ,i wrote it4 ,it is my prayer that ,god may continue its solace and comfort4 ,i have books containing the song now printed in seven different languages4 ,a writer in the ,golden ,rule 7now the ,christian ,endeavor ,world7 calls attention to an incident on a night railroad train narrated in the late ,benjamin ,f4 ,taylor's ,world on ,wheels1 in which this hymn appears as a sort of ,traveller's ,psalm4 ,among the motley collection of passengers1 some talkative1 some sleepy1 some homesick and cross1 all tired1 sat two plain women who1 would make capital country aunts4444 ,if they were mothers at all they were good ones4 ,suddenly in a dull silence1 near twelve o'clock1 a voice1 sweet and flexible1 struck up a tune4 ,the singer was one of those women4 ,she sang on1 one after another the good ,methodist and ,baptist melodies of long ago1 and the growing interest of the passengers became chained attention when she began-- ,i will sing you a song of that beautiful land1 ,the far-away home of the soul1 ,where no storms can beat on the glittering strand1 ,while the years of eternity roll4 ,o1 that home of the soul1 in my visions and dreams1 ,its bright jasper walls ,i can see2 ,till ,i fancy but thinly the veil intervenes ,between the fair city and me4 ,the car was a wakeful hush long before she had ended2 it was as if a beautiful spirit were floating through the air4 ,none that heard will ever forget4 ,philip ,phillips can never bring that 'home of the soul' any nearer to anybody4 ,and never1 ,i think1 was quite so sweet a voice lifted in a storm of a ,november night on the rolling plains of ,iowa4 ,in an autograph copy of her hymn1 sent to the editor1 ,mrs4 ,gates changes harps to palms4 ,is it an improvement8 ,palms is a word of two meanings4 ,o how sweet it will be in that beautiful land1 ,so free from all sorrow and pain1 ,with songs on our lips and with harps in our hands ,to meet one another again4 ,,there',s ,a ,,land ,,that ,,is ,,fairer ,,than ,,day4 ,this belongs rather with ,christian ,ballads than with genuine hymns1 but the song has had and still has an uplifting mission among the lowly whom literary perfection and musical nicety could not touch--and the first two lines1 at least1 are good hymn-writing4 ,few of the best sacred lyrics have been sung with purer sentiment and more affectionate fervor than ,the ,sweet ,by-and-,by4 ,to any company keyed to sympathy by time1 place1 and condition1 the feeling of the song brings unshed tears4 ,as nearly as can be ascertained it was in the year #ahfg that a man about forty-eight years old1 named ,webster1 entered the office of ,dr4 ,bennett in ,elkhorn4 ,wis41 wearing a melancholy look1 and was rallied good-naturedly by the doctor for being so blue--,webster and ,bennett were friends1 and the doctor was familiar with the other's frequent fits of gloom4 ,the two men had been working in a sort of partnership1 ,webster being a musician and ,bennett a ready verse-writer1 and together they had created and published a number of sheet-music songs4 ,when ,webster was in a fit of melancholy1 it was the doctor's habit to give him a dose of new verses and cure him by putting him to work4 ,today the treatment turned out to be historic4 ,what's the matter now1 was the doctor's greeting when his patient came with the tell-tale face4 ,o1 nothing1 said ,webster4 ,it'll be all right by and by4 ,why not make a song of the sweet by and by8 rejoined the doctor1 cheerfully4 ,i don't know1 said ,webster1 after thinking a second or two4 ,if you'll make the words1 ,i'll write the music4 ,the doctor went to his desk1 and in a short time produced three stanzas and a chorus to which his friend soon set the notes of a lilting air1 brightening up with enthusiasm as he wrote4 ,seizing his violin1 which he had with him1 he played the melody1 and in a few minutes more he had filled in the counterpoint and made a complete hymn-tune4 ,by that time two other friends1 who could sing1 had come in and the quartette tested the music on the spot4 ,here different accounts divide widely as to the immediate sequel of the new-born song4 ,a ,western paper in telling its story a year or two ago1 stated that ,webster took the ,sweet ,by and ,by 7in sheet-music form71 with a batch of other pieces1 to ,chicago1 and that it was the only song of the lot that ,root and ,cady would not buy2 and finally1 after he had tried in vain to sell it1 ,lyon and ,healy took it out of pity1 and paid him twenty dollars4 ,they sold eight or ten copies 7the story continued7 and stowed it away with dead goods1 and it was not till apparently a long time after1 when a ,sunday-school hymn-book reprinted it1 and began to sell rapidly on its account1 that the ,sweet ,by and ,by started on its career round the world4 ,this seems circumstantial enough1 and the author of the hymn in his own story of it might have chosen to omit some early particulars1 but1 untrustworthy as the chronology of mere memory is1 he would hardly record immediate popularity of a song that lay in obscurity for years4 ,dr4 ,bennett's words are1 ,i think it was used in public shortly after its production1 for within two weeks children on the street were singing it4 ,the explanation may be partly the different method and order of the statements1 partly lapses of memory 7after thirty years7 and partly in collateral facts4 ,the ,sunday-school hymn-book was evidently ,the ,signet ,ring1 which ,bennett and ,webster were at work upon and into which first went the ,sweet ,by and ,by--whatever efforts may have been made to dispose of it elsewhere or whatever copyright arrangement could have warranted ,mr4 ,healy in purchasing a song already printed4 ,the ,signet ,ring did not begin to profit by the song until the next year1 after a copy of it appeared in the publishers' circulars1 and started a demand2 so that the immediate popularity implied in ,doctor ,bennett's account was limited to the children of ,elkhorn village4 ,the piece had its run1 but with no exceptional result as to its hold on the public1 until in #ahgc ,ira ,d4 ,sankey took it up as one of his working hymns4 ,modified from its first form in the ,signet ,ring with pianoforte accompaniment and chorus1 it appeared that year in ,winnowed ,hymns as arranged by ,hubert ,p4 ,main1 and it has so been sung ever since4 ,sanford ,filmore ,bennett1 born in #ahcf1 appears to have been a native of the ,west1 or1 at least1 removed there when a young man4 ,in #ahfa he settled in ,elkhorn to practice his profession4 ,died ,oct41 #ahih4 ,joseph ,philbrick ,webster was born in ,manchester1 ,n4,h4 ,march #bb1 #ahai4 ,he was an active member of the ,handel and ,haydn ,society1 and various other musical associations4 ,removed to ,madison1 ,ind4 #ahea1 ,racine1 ,wis4 #ahef1 and ,elkhorn1 ,wis41 #aheg1 where he died ,jan4 #ah1 #ahge4 ,his ,signet ,ring was published in #ahfh4 ,there's a land that is fairer than day1 ,and by faith ,i can see it afar ,for the ,father waits over the way ,to prepare us a dwelling-place there4 ,,chorus ,in the sweet by and by ,we shall meet on that beautiful shore4 ,we shall sing on that beautiful shore ,the melodious songs of the blest1 ,and our spirits shall sorrow no more1 ,nor sigh for the blessing of rest4 ,in the sweet by and by1 etc4 ,,sunset ,,and ,,evening ,,star4 ,was it only a poet's imagination that made ,alfred ,tennyson approach perhaps nearest of all great ,protestants to a sense of the real ,presence1 every time he took the ,holy ,communion at the altar8 ,whatever the feeling was1 it characterized all his maturer life1 so far as its spiritual side was known4 ,his remark to a niece expressed it1 while walking with her one day on the seashore1 ,god is with us now1 on this down1 just as truly as ,jesus was with his two disciples on the way to ,emmaus4 ,such a man's faith would make no room for dying terrors4 ,sunset and evening star1 ,and one clear call for me1 ,and may there be no moaning of the bar ,when ,i put out to sea1 ,but such a tide as1 moving1 seems asleep1 ,too full for sound and foam1 ,when that which drew from out the boundless deep ,turns again home4 ,twilight and evening bell1 ,and after that the dark1 ,and may there be no sadness of farewell ,when ,i embark4 ,for though from out our bourne of time and place ,the flood may bear me far1 ,i hope to see my ,pilot face to face ,when ,i have crossed the bar4 ,tennyson lived three years after penning this sublime prayer4 ,but it was his swan-song4 ,born at ,somersby1 ,lincolnshire1 ,aug4 #fc #ahji1 dying at ,farringford1 ,oct4 #f1 #ahib1 he filled out the measure of a good old age4 ,and his prayer was answered1 for his death was serene and dreadless4 ,his unseen ,pilot guided him gently across the bar--and then he saw ,him4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,joseph ,barnby's ,crossing the ,bar has supplied a noble choral to this poem4 ,it will go far to make it an accepted tone in church worship1 among the more lyrical strains of verse that sing hope and euthanasia4 ,,safe ,,in ,,the ,,arms ,,of ,,jesus4 ,if ,tennyson had the mistaken feeling 7as ,dr4 ,benson intimates7 that hymns were expected to be commonplace1 it was owing both to his mental breeding and his mental stature4 ,genius in a colossal frame cannot otherwise than walk in strides4 ,what is technically a hymn he never wrote1 but it is significant that as he neared the ,shoreless ,sea1 and looked into the ,infinite1 his sense of the ,divine presence instilled something of the hymn spirit into his last verses4 ,between ,alfred ,tennyson singing trustfully of his ,pilot and ,fanny ,crosby singing ,safe in the ,arms of ,jesus1 is only the width of the choir4 ,the organ tone and the flute-note breathe the same song4 ,the stately poem and the sweet one1 the masculine and the feminine1 both have wings1 but while the one is lifted in anthem and solemn chant in the great sanctuaries1 the other is echoing ,isaiah's tender text#dh in prayer meeting and ,sunday-school and murmuring it at the humble firesides like a mother's lullaby4 ,footnote #dh3 ,isa4 #dj3aa4 ,safe in the arms of ,jesus1 ,safe on ,his gentle breast1 ,there by ,his love o'ershaded ,sweetly my soul shall rest4 ,hark6 'tis the voice of angels ,borne in a song to me ,over the fields of glory1 ,over the jasper sea4 ,,refrain ,safe in the arms of ,jesus 7#ast four lines rep474 ,safe in the arms of ,jesus1 ,safe from corroding care1 ,safe from the world's temptations1 ,sin cannot harm me there4 ,free from the blight of sorrow1 ,free from my doubts and fears1 ,only a few more trials1 ,only a few more tears4 ,safe in the arms of ,jesus4 ,jesus1 my heart's dear refuge ,jesus has died for me2 ,firm on the ,rock of ,ages ,ever my trust shall be1 ,here let me with patience1 ,wait till the night is o'er1 ,wait till ,i see the morning ,break on the ,golden ,shore4 ,safe in the arms of ,jesus4 --,composed #ahfh4 ,,the ,,tune4 ,those who have characterized the ,gospel ,hymns as sensational have always been obliged to except this modest lyric of ,christian peace and its sweet and natural musical supplement by ,dr4 ,w4,h4 ,doane4 ,no hurried and high-pitched chorus disturbs the quiet beauty of the hymn1 a simple da capo being its only refrain4 ,safe in the ,arms of ,jesus sang itself into public favor with the pulses of hymn and tune beating together4 ,,index ,,of ,,names4 ,,abbot1 ,lyman1 #bcg1 #cbf ,,abt1 ,franz1 #bbh1 #cfd ,,adams1 ,e41 #cfi ,,adams1 ,john1 #cfh ,,adams1 ,john ,quincy1 #bic ,,adams1 ,sarah ,f41 #aeb ,,addison1 ,joseph1 #aac1 #aad1 #cec ,,adrian1 7,emperor71 #eae ,,aiblinger1 ,johan ,caspar1 #ceg ,,aldrich1 ,jonathan1 #bhg ,,alexander1 ,mrs4 ,c4,f41 #dad ,,allen1 ,george ,n41 #dab ,,allen1 ,j4,o41 #abi ,,almond1 ----1 #cfd1 #cfe ,,altenburg1 ,johan ,m41 #hd ,,ambrose1 xiii1 #a1 #b1 #c ,,anatolius1 #ced ,,apes1 ,william1 #bfe ,,aratus1 #bcg ,,arne1 ,thomas ,a41 #ajg1 #ajh ,,arnold1 ,matthew1 #aji ,,arnold1 ,s41 #bhg ,,atchison1 ,john ,b41 #dea ,,atkinson1 ,john1 #ebh1 #ebi ,,auber1 ,harriet1 #afh1 #afi ,,augustine1 ix1 #b1 #c ,,avison1 ,charles1 #cbg ,,bach1 ,emanuel1 #i ,,bach1 ,sebastian1 #i1 #ga ,,bailey1 ,thomas ,h41 #aab ,,baker1 ,sir ,henry1 #eg ,,baldwin1 ,thomas1 #bfb ,,barlow1 ,joel1 #bdb1 #bdc ,,barnby1 ,joseph1 #ajb1 #aaa1 #dfi1 #ejj1 #ejd1 #ebf1 #eci ,,barnes1 ,albert1 #ce ,,barthelemon1 ,f4,h41 #bjb1 #bbb ,,basil ,,the ,,great1 #ef ,,bassini1 ----1 #ddd ,,beanes1 ,william1 #ccc ,,beddome1 ,benjamin1 #afj1 #afi ,,beecher1 ,henry ,ward1 #bah ,,beethoven1 ,ludwig ,von1 #e1 #aic1 #cbg1 #cch ,,belcher1 ,dr41 #dd ,,bennett1 ,sanford ,f41 #ece-ecg ,,benson1 ,louis ,f41 #bjd1 #bjf ,,bentham1 ,jeremy1 #ig ,,berkeley1 ,bp4 ,george1 #cbd-cbf ,,bernard ,,of ,,clairvaux1 #ajj ,,bernard ,,of ,,cluny1 #djg1 #eaj1 #eaa1 #eai ,,berridge1 ,john1 #abb1 #abc1 #ejc ,,berthold ,,of ,,tours1 #ee ,,beza1 ,theodore1 xvi ,,biglow ,,and ,,main1 #bbi 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,,proclaim1 #aga1 #agb ,,ye ,,christian ,,heroes1 ,,wake ,,to ,,glory1 #agd ,,ye ,,golden ,,lamps ,,of ,,heaven1 ,,farewell1 #eai ,,ye ,,servants ,,of ,,god1 ,,your ,,master ,,proclaim1 #bjd ,,yes1 ,,my ,,native ,,land1 ,i ,,love ,,thee1 #ahj ,,yes1 ,,the ,,redeemer ,,rose1 #dgf ,,your ,,harps2 ,,ye ,,trembling ,,saints1 #eag 99 99 99 99 99 ,transcriber's note3 ,obvious spelling_/typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurences within the text and consultation of external sources4 ,details can be found in the ,,html version4