Hymn Writers Of The Church – Part II
Table of Contents
201. Monsen
202. Montgomery
203. Moore
204. Mote
205. Moultrie
206. Muhlenberg
207. Neale
208. Needham
209. Neumark
210. Newman
211. Newton
212. Noel
213. North
214. Olivers
215. Palmer
216. Park
217. Perronet
218. Phelps
219. Pierpoint
220. Pierpont
221. Plumptree
222. Pott
223. Potter
224. Prentiss
225. Procter
226. Prynne
227. Rabanus Maurus
228. Rankin
229. Rawson
230. Reed
231. Rice
232. Richter
233. Rinkart
234. Robert IX.
235. Roberts
236. Robinson
237. Robinson
238. Robinson
239. Rodigast
240. Roscoe
241. Rothe
242. Scheffler
243. Schmolke
244. Scott
245. Scott
246. Scriven
247. Seagrave
248. Sears
249. Seymour
250. Shepherd
251. Shurtleff
252. Slade
253. Singleton
254. Smith
255. Spangenberg
256. Spitta
257. Stanley
258. Steele
259. Stennett
260. Stennett
261. Stockton
262. Stone
263. Stowe
264. Stowell
265. Stratton
266. Strong
267. Stryker
268. Swain
269. Tappan
270. Tate
271. Taylor
272. Tennyson
273. Tersteegen
274. Theodulph
275. Thomas of Celano
276. Thomson
277. Thring
278. Toplady
279. Tuttiett
280. Twells
281. Unknown
282. Van Alstyne
283. Vokes
284. Walford
285. Ware
286. Waring
287. Warner
288. Warren
289. Waterbury
290. Watts
291. Wells
292. Wesley
293. Wesley
294. Wesley
295. West
296. White
297. Whittier
298. Williams
299. Williams
300. Willis
301. Winchester
302. Winckler
303. Winkworth
304. Wolcott
305. Woodhull
306. Wordsworth
307. Wreford
308. Xavier
309. Zinzendorf
310. Subject Index
311. Entry
201. Monsen
Monsen, John Samuel Bewley, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born at Londonderry, Ireland, March 2, 1811, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the B.A. degree in 1832. Taking holy orders in 1834, he served in several offices of the Church of England. His death, April 9, 1875, was caused by his falling from the roof of his church, which was at the time in process of erection. He wrote a large number of hymns, some three hundred in all being published in the six different volumes which he issued between 1837 and 1873. About eighty of his hymns are said to be in common use in England. |While only a few of his hymns| says Dr. Julian, |are of enduring excellence, they are, as a whole, bright, joyous, and musical.| The three here given are of a high order of excellence.
Fight the good fight with all thy 409
Lord of the living harvest 219
To thee, O dear, dear Saviour 324
202. Montgomery
Montgomery, James, the poet, holds an enviable place among English hymnists. He was the son of a Moravian minister; was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, November 4, 1771; was religiously instructed at home, and while attending a Moravian school at Fulneck, England, made a public profession of religion by uniting with the Moravian Church. As he grew up, however, the pleasures of the world led him astray. The influence of early education preserved him from gross sins, but he was not at peace with God. After many years of doubt and dissatisfaction, he was led to look to the Saviour of his youth, and found rest. At his own request he was readmitted into the Moravian congregation at Fulneck when forty-three years of age. He expressed his feelings at the time in the following lines:
People of the living God,
I have sought the world around,
Paths of sin and sorrow trod,
Peace and comfort nowhere found.
Now to you my spirit turns —
Turns a fugitive unblest;
Brethren, where your altar burns,
O receive me into rest.
Montgomery was an editor by profession, and for publishing what were then called libelous articles was twice fined and imprisoned in the Castle of York — once in 1795 for three months, and once in the following year for six months. While imprisoned he wrote his first book of poems, entitled Prison Amusements. In addition to several poetical works, he published three volumes of hymns: Songs of Zion: Being Imitations of Psalms, 1822; The Christian Psalmist, 1825; Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion, 1853. From 1833 till his death he received a royal pension of two hundred pounds a year. He died quietly in his sleep on April 30, 1854, at his home, in Sheffield. Nineteen of Montgomery’s hymns appear in this book:
According to thy gracious word 234
Angels from the realms of glory 113
Behold the Christian warrior stand 397
Forever with the Lord 625
Friend after friend departs 587
God is my strong salvation 448
God is our refuge and defense 97
Hail to the Lord’s anointed 650
Hark the song of jubilee 646
Hosanna be the children’s song 679
In the hour of trial 431
O Spirit of the living God 188
O where shall rest be found 250
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire 497
Servant of God, well done 597
Sow in the morn thy seed 389
The Lord is my Shepherd, no want 104
We bid thee welcome in the name 226
What is the thing of greatest price 243
203. Moore
Moore, Thomas, the noted Irish poet, was born in Dublin May 28, 1779; began to write poetry at quite an early age; graduated at Trinity College, in his native city, in 1798, and the following year moved to London and began the study of law. From 1800 until his death, February 26, 1852, he published works in prose and poetry too numerous to hiention. His Sacred Songs was published in 1816. It contained thirty-two lyrics, twelve of which have found a place in various hymn books, and these more largely in America than in England. |Of all the song writers that ever warbled or chanted or sung,| says Professor Wilson, |the best, in our estimation, is verily none other than Thomas Moore.| He was a musician as well as a poet, and often sung his own songs to the delight of the social circles aniong the great and noble, where he was ever a welcome and favored visitor. His religious life was anything else but that of a Christian; but his songs are nevertheless among the sweetest, tenderest, and most admired in the hymn book.
Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye 526
O Thou who driest the mourner’s 522
204. Mote
Mote, Edward, an English Baptist minister, was born in London January 21, 1797. He went astray, he tells us, from his youth, but was happily converted in 1813 under the preaching of the Rev. J. Hyatt, one of Lady Huntingdon’s preachers, and joined the Church of which Rev. Alexander Fletcher was pastor, but two years later united with the Baptist Church. He engaged in business as a cabinetmaker for some years, but employed part of his time writing for the press, and at length entered the ministry. From 1852 until his death, November 13, 1874, he was pastor of the Baptist Church at Horsham, Essex. Mr. Mote was the editor of Hymns of Praise, London, 1836, to which he contributed nearly one hundred of his own compositions.
My hope is built on nothing less 330
205. Moultrie
Moultrie, Gerard, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born September 16, 1829, in the Rugby rectory, of which his father, Rev. John Moultrie (also a hymn writer of note), was incumbent. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford, whence he received both the B.A. (1851) and M.A. (1856) degrees. He filled various clerical offices in the Church of England. He died April 25, 1885. Among his published volumes are the following: Hymns and Lyrics for the Seasons and Saints’ Days of the Church, 1867, and Cantica Sanctorum; or, Hymns for the Black Letter Saints’ Days in the English and Scottish Calendars, 1880. His hymns include translations from the Latin, Greek, and German. About fifty of his hymns are found in different Church hymnals.
We march, we march to victory 418
206. Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, an eminent Episcopal minister, was born in Philadelphia September 16, 1796, being the son of Rev. Frederick Muhlenberg, D.D., who was at first a Lutheran clergyman, but entered Congress and became Speaker of the House of Representatives in the first Congress; and was the grandson of Rev. Henry M. Muhlenberg, D.D., who was the revered patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1814, and was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1820. Subsequently he established St. Paul’s College at Flushing, Long Island. From 1846 to 1859 he was recter of the Church of the Holy Communion, in New York City. In 1855 he founded St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City, and was its pastor and superintendent until his death. He also founded in 1865 St. Johnland, a home for the needy. Dr. Muhlenberg was one of the committee that edited Hymns Suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church, 1826. He died April 6, 1871.
I would not live alway 584
Shout the glad tidings, exultingly 119
207. Neale
All glory, laud, and honor 21
Art thou weary, art thou languid 293
Christian! dost thou see them 616
Christ is made the sure Foundation 662
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain 163
For thee, O dear, dear country 614
Jerusalem the golden 612
O Lord of hosts, whose glory fills 658
The day of resurrection 164
208. Needham
Needham, John, was an English Baptist minister of the eighteenth century, the exact dates of whose birth and death are not known. In 1768 he published a hymn book with the following lengthy title: Hymns Devotional and Moral, on Various Subjects Collected Chiefly from the Holy Scriptures, and Suited to the Christian State and Worship. From this book compilers have selected a few good hymns.
Rise, O my soul, pursue the path 404
209. Neumark
Neumark, Georg, a German poet, was born in Thuringia March 16, 1621. After graduating at a gymnasium, he was for a time a family tutor. In 1643 he was matriculated at the university at Königsberg, where he remained five years. In 1652 he was appointed court poet at Weimar, where he wrote many secular poems. He was also a hymn writer and musician. Only a few of his thirty-four hymns survive, the one given here being considered his best. He died at Weimar July 18, 1681.
Leave God to order all thy ways 476
210. Newman
Newman, John Henry, a distinguished cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was born in London February 21, 1801; was graduated at Oxford in 1820, and for several years was a tutor in the college. He was a leader of the High-Church party in the Church of England from the first, and had great influence among the young men at Oxford. He was ordained to the ministry in the Church of England in 1824, but in 1845 left that communion and united with the Roman Catholic. He was made a cardinal in 1879. He died in London August 11, 1890. He was the most prominent and influential English Roman Catholic of the nineteenth century. His collected works include many well-known volumes on doctrinal and ecclesiastical subjects. His translations of Latin hymns and his original hymns are found in Lyra Apostolica, 1836, and in Verses on Various Occasions, 1868. Only a few are in common use.
Lead, kindly Light, amid the 460
211. Newton
Newton, John, the child of many prayers, the profligate youth, the wicked sailor boy, the contrite penitent, the happy Christian, the consecrated minister, the eminent divine, the sweet singer, was born in London July 24, 1725. His mother, a devotedly pious woman, died when he was only seven years of age. His only |schooling| was from his eighth to his tenth year. He was engaged in the African slave trade for several years, and was even himself held as a slave at one time in Sierra Leone. He became an infidel, but was converted in a storm at sea while returning from Africa. He married a noble and pious woman in 1750. He became a minister in the Established Church in 1758, but was not ordained until 1764, when be obtained the curacy of Olney, near Cambridge. He remained here for nearly sixteen years, being intimately associated with the poet Cowper, who was joint author with him of the Olney Hymns, 1779. Soon after the appearance of this volume he moved to London, where he did faithful and successful work for many years as rector of St. Mary Woolnoth. He attained an honored old age, dying December 21, 1807. Newton wrote his own epitaph, which he requested might be put upon a plain marble tablet near the vestry door of his church in London:
JOHN NEWTON, Clerk,
Once an Infidel and Libertine,
A servant of slaves in Africa,
Was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour
JESUS CHRIST,
Preserved, restored, and pardoned,
And appointed to preach the Faith
He had long labored to destroy,
Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks
And . . . years in this church
On Feb.1, 1750, he married
MARY
Daughter of the late George Catlett
Of Catham, Kent.
He resigned her to the Lord who gave her
On 15th of December, 1790.
The following thirteen hymns are among the best in our Hymnal:
Amazing grace! how sweet the 309
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat 285
Come, my soul, thy suit prepare 507
Glorious things of thee are spoken 210
How sweet the name of Jesus 137
How tedious and tasteless the hours 538
Joy is a fruit that will not grow 546
Lord, I cannot let thee go 514
May the grace of Christ our Saviour 40
One there is, above all others 174
Safely through another week 69
Though troubles assail, and dangers 92
While with ceaseless course the sun 574
212. Noel
Noel, Gerard Thomas, a clergyman in the Church of England, was born December 2, 1782. He was educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge, He was successively curate of Radwell, vicar of Romsey, and canon of Winchester Cathedral. He died at Romsey February 24, 1851. He was a brother of the noted divine, Rev. Baptist W. Noel. He published two volumes of sernions and compiled a hymn book, A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, 1810. Only two or three of his hymns are in common use.
If human kindness meets return 236
When musing sorrow weeps the 455
213. North
North, Frank Mason, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in New York, December 3, 1850. He was graduated at Wesleyan University in 1872, and entered the ministry the same year. After filling important stations in the Methodist Episcopal Church for twenty years, he became in 1892 Corresponding Secretary of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, since which date he has also been editor of the Christian City, published in New York City. Dr. North’s home mission hymn found here (No.423) is one of the best in the entire Hymnal.
Jesus, the calm that fills my breast 549
Where cross the crowded ways of 423
214. Olivers
O thou God of my Salvation 25
The God of Abraham praise 4
215. Palmer
Palmer, Ray, an eminent Congregational minister, son of Judge Thomas Palmer, was born at Little Compton, R. I., November 12, 1808. At thirteen years of age he became a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston, where he identified himself with the Park Street Congregational Church, whose pastor, Dr. S. E. Dwight, discerning the promise of great usefulness in the boy, took a deep interest in him, inducing him to go to Phillips Academy, Andover, where he prepared for Yale College, from which institution he was graduated in 1820. The next year he lived in New York City, taking up the study of theology privately and supporting himself by teaching in a woman’s college. He taught in a young ladies’ institute at New Haven during 1832-34, continuing his theological studies and entering the ministry at the close of this period. From 1835 to 1850 he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Bath, Me., and from 1850 to 1865 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church of Albany, N. Y. For thirteen years (1865-78) he lived in New York City and filled the office of Corresponding Secretary of the American Congregational Union. He resigned this office in 1878 and retired to private life, making his home in Newark, N. J., until his death, March 29, 1887. Between 1829 and 1881 he published eleven volumes, among them Hymns and Sacred Pieces, 1865, and Hymns of My Holy Hours and Other Pieces, 1868. About forty of Dr. Palmer’s hymns have found a place in the various Church hymnals. He is regarded by many as the greatest hymn writer that America has produced, and his hymn beginning |My faith looks up to thee| as the greatest hymn of American origin. |He has written more and better hymns than any other American,| says Dr. Duffield, author of English Hymns. |In their tender spirit of reverential worship, the beauty of their poetical conceptions, the choiceness of their diction, and the gracefulness of their expression the hymns of Ray Palmer are unsurpassed by any similar compositions in the language,| says W. H. Parker in his Psalmody of the Church. |The best of his hymns, by their combination of thought, poetry, and devotion, are superior to almost all others of American origin.| So writes Prof. F. M. Bird In Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology.
Come, Holy Ghost, in love 184
My faith looks up to thee 334
Jesus, these eyes have never seen 537
Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts 536
216. Park
Park, Roswell, an Episcopal clergyman and educator, was born at Lebanon, Conn., October 1, 1807. He received a military education, graduating at West Point in 1831, and served several years in the United States Engineer Corps. In 1842 he began to study theology, and soon after entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1852 he became President of Racine College (Wisconsin). In 1863 he founded a school in Chicago, where he died, July 16, 1869. He was the author of a volume entitled Selections of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems. Written or Translated. Philadelphia, 1836.
Jesus spreads his banner o’er us 235
217. Perronet
Perronet, Edward, an Independent English clergyman, was born in 1726. He was the son of Rev. Vincent Perronet, vicar of Shoreham, who was a friend and supporter of the Wesleys, and lived to be ninety-one years old; and John Wesley makes frequent and affectionate allusions in his Journal to his visits to the white-haired patriarch and saint. Edward Perronet was educated in the Church of England, but became a Wesleyan preacher when quite a young man, and continued such until 1756, when the question arose among the Methodists concerning separation from the Church of England, which the Wesleys strenuously opposed and Perronet as strongly favored and urged. He went so far as to administer the Lord’s Supper to the |societies,| and wrote a scathing satire on the Church of England titled The Miter, a Satyricall Poem. The Wesleys were much irritated by this production, and succeeded in suppressing and destroying all but about thirty copies. Perronet then joined the Lady Huntingdon Connection, and later became a Dissenter. His home was at Canterbury for several years previous to his death, which occurred January 2, 1792. He was too independent in spirit to call any man master, but he was always loyal and true to Christ.
All hail the Power of Jesus’ name 180
218. Phelps
Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden, a Baptist minister, was born in Suffield, Conn., May 15, 1816; a graduate of Brown University, class of 1844. In 1846 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church at New Haven, Conn. He died November 23, 1895. Three volumes of poetry came from his pen. Five of Dr. Phelps’s hymns are found in Church hymnals.
Saviour, thy dying love 349
219. Pierpoint
Pierpoint, Folliott Sanford, a native of England, was born at Bath October 7, 1835; educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1871. He published a volume of poems in 1878. He has contributed a few hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, Lyra Eucharistica, and other publications. He is a member of the Church of England. His most popular hymn is the one given in this book:
For the beauty of the earth 28
220. Pierpont
Pierpont, John, a Unitarian preacher, was born in Litchfield, Conn., April 6, 1785; graduated at Yale College in 1804. After spending some years as a teacher, lawyer, and merchant, he became a minister when about thirty-three years old, and in 1819 was installed as pastor of the Hollis Street Unitarian Church, in Boston, where he remained twenty-one years. His strong antislavery and temperance utterances brought him under fire. From 1845 to 1849 he was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Troy, N. Y., and from 1849 to 1859, of the Unitarian Church at Medford, Mass. He was for a while a chaplain in the army during the Civil War, but was later in the government employ at Washington. He died August 27, 1866. His Poems and Hymns was published in 1840; second edition, 1854. About twenty of his hymns are found in Church hymnals.
O thou to whom in ancient time 12
On this stone, now laid with prayer 657
221. Plumptree
Rejoice, ye pure in heart 421
222. Pott
Pott, Francis, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born December 29, 1832. He was a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford (A.B.1854, A.M.1857). He wrote a number of original hymns, and is the translator of hymns from the Latin and Syriac. He edited Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common Prayer, 1861. His hymns and translations are widely used and enjoy great popularity in England. Dr. Pott is still living.
Angel voices ever singing 27
223. Potter
Potter, Thomas Joseph, an English Roman Catholic priest and professor, was born at Scarborough, England, in 1827. He became a Roman Catholic in 1847, and later took orders in that Church. He was for a number of years the Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in a college at Dublin, where he died in 1873. He was the author of several books in prose, contributed poems to Holy Family Hymns, 1860, and published Legends, Lyrics, and Hymns, 1862. His most popular hymn is the one given in this book:
Brightly beams our banner 681
224. Prentiss
Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson, the author of Stepping Heavenward, was the daughter of that saintly man, Rev. Edward Payson, of Portland, Me., where she was born October 26, 1818. She became a contributor of both prose and poetry to the Youth’s Companion as early as her sixteenth year. She was a devotedly pious woman. She taught school in Portland, in Ipswich, Mass., and in Richmond, Va. She was married in 1845 to Rev. George L. Prentiss, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian divine and professor in Union Theological Seminary, of New York City. She was never in robust health, but did much literary work, publishing several volumes. Her Stepping Heavenward (1869) is one of the most popular books ever published in the English language. Her Religious Poems appeared in 1873, and her Golden Hours; or, Hymns and Songs of the Christian Life, in 1874. She died August 13, 1878. Soon after her death her husband published her Life and Letters.
More love to thee, O Christ 317
225. Procter
Procter, Adelaide Anne, the daughter of Bryan Walla Procter, better known as |Barry Cornwall,| was born in London October 30, 1825; and died there February 2, 1864. Her hymns are sweet and pathetic. They are found in her Legends and Lyrics, 1858 (enlarged edition, 1862). In 1851 she became a devout member of the Roman Catholic Church. Possessed of more than ordinary intellectual powers, she was especially skilled in music and languages. Three of her hymns are given in this collection:
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may 542
My God, I thank thee who hast 29
The shadows of the evening hours 62
226. Prynne
Prynne, George Rundle, an English clergyman of the Established Church, was born in Cornwall, England, August 23, 1818. He was educated at Cambridge (A.B.1839) and was ordained to the ministry in 1841. He became vicar of St. Peter’s, in Plymouth, in 1848. Among his publications were three volumes of sermons, a Hymnal Suited for the Services of the Church, 1858, and a volume of Poems and Hymns in 1881. He died March 25, 1903.
Jesus, meek and gentle 685
227. Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mayence, was born at Mayence about 776, and died there in 856. He was educated at the cloister school at Fulda, to the headship of which he was soon afterwards appointed. He was made a bishop in 847. He is the author of several works, among them two volumes of hymns. It is by no means certain that he is the author of the famous Latin hymn, |Veni, Creator, Spiritus,| here attributed to him.
Creator, Spirit! by whose aid 194
228. Rankin
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, a Congregational minister and educator, the son of Rev. Andrew Rankin, was born at Thornton, N. H., January 2, 1828; was graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in 1848; a pastor of Congregational Churches successively in Potsdam, N. Y., St. Albans, Vt., Lowell and Boston, Mass., Washington and Orange, N. J. From 1889 to 1903 he was President of Howard University, Washington City. He was the author of about a dozen volumes of prose and poetry. In 1878 he edited and issued the Gospel Temperance Hymnal. He died June 15, 1904. Of all modern |goodby| hymns used in religious services, this one by Dr. Rankin is the most popular:
God be with you till we meet again 564
229. Rawson
Rawson, George, an English Congregational layman, was born June 5, 1807, in Leeds, where he practiced many years as a solicitor. He contributed to various books. His knowledge of music and his gifts as a hymn writer led the Congregational ministers of Leeds to call on him for assistance in compiling the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853. In 1858 he assisted Dr. Green and other Baptist ministers in the preparation of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Denomination. His Hymns, Verses, and Chants, published in London in 1876, contained eighty original pieces. His Songs of Spiritual Thought appeared in 1885. He died March 25, 1889.
By Christ redeemed, in Christ 239
230. Reed
Reed, Andrew, an English Independent minister, was born in London November 27, 1787; was graduated from Hackney College, and soon afterwards became pastor of a Church in East London, where he remained for fifty years, devoting much of his time to philanthropic work. In 1834, on a visit to America, he received from Yale College the degree of D.D. He published a Supplement to Watts in 1817, a revised and enlarged edition of which appeared in 1841, containing twenty-seven hymns by himself and nineteen by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes Reed. He died at Hackney, London, February 25, 1862. Dr. Reed is best known in England as the founder of the London Orphan Asylum, the Asylum for Fatherless Children, The Asylum for Idiots, the Infant Orphan Asylum, and the Hospital for Incurables. If the value of every song is to be determined by the intrinsic merits of the hymn, plus the life and character of the man who wrote it, it must follow that the hymns of the man who founded and worked for all these philanthropic and beneficent institutions are among the most valuable hymns in the entire collection. Mrs. Reed’s hymn beginning |O do not let the word depart| is quite as popular and useful as anything her husband wrote.
Holy Ghost, with light divine 185
Spirit Divine, attend our prayer 190
231. Rice
Rice, Caroline Laura, was the wife of the Rev. William Rice, D.D., a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. After Dr. Rice retired from the active ministry he resided at Springfield, Mass. Mrs. Rice was born in 1819, and died August 29, 1899.
Wilt thou hear the voice of praise 675
232. Richter
Richter, Christian Frederic, was born at Sorau, in Silesia, October 5, 1676; was graduated from the University of Halle, and became identified with the celebrated orphanage there. He was a student of medicine, as well as of theology. A Christian physician and scientist, he took his religion into everything that he did. |He made many chemical experiments, for which he prepared himself by special prayer, and invented many compounds which came into extensive use under the name of the ‘Halle medicines.’| Among the holy men and gifted writers of hymns and other forms of devotional literature who made famous the earlier school of German Pietists at Halle Richter was one of the most noted. Many of the thirty-three hymns that he wrote are not only deeply spiritual, but are possessed of genuine poetic merit. Richter died October 5, 1711.
My soul before thee prostrate lies 273
233. Rinkart
Rinkart, Martin, a German minister, musician, and poet, was born at Eilenburg, Saxony, April 23, 1586. He was educated at the Latin school of Eilenburg and at the University of Leipzig, which he entered in 1602. He was the beloved pastor of a Church in his native town for many years, and died there December 8, 1649. |The greater part of Rinkart’s professional life was passed amid the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War. Eilenburg, being a small walled town, became a refuge for fugitives from all around, and, being so overcrowded, not unnaturally suffered from pestilence and famine.| His duties as a clergyman at that time were very arduous. His memory is cherished in his native land, and his most famous hymn, |Nun Danket,| is widely used.
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234. Robert IX.
Robert IX., King of France (972-1031), is the reputed author of the hymn,to which his name is here attached, but his claim to the authorship of it is very slender. There are at least four men for whom the authorship of the famous Latin hymn, |Veni Sancte Spiritus,| is claimed, and no conclusive evidence exists that any one of them wrote it. The other three alleged authors are: Hermannus Contractus, 1013-1054; Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated in 1207; and Pope Innocent III. This hymn, therefore, will be most properly designated as of unknown authorship. One of the best of the many excellent translations of it is that here given by Dr. Ray Palmer.
Come, Holy Ghost, in love 184
235. Roberts
Roberts, Daniel C., a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Bridge Hampton, Long Island, November 5, 1841. He graduated at Gambier College in 1857, and was ordained in 1866. In 1905 he became rector at Concord, N. H., where he now resides. The patriotic hymn by Dr. Roberts, found in this volume, is likely to find a place in many American hymnals.
God of our fathers, whose almighty 704
236. Robinson
Robinson, George, is an English hymn writer of whom little is known. In 1842 the Rev. J. Leifchild published in London a volume of Original Hymns by various authors. In a list of contributors |G. Robinson| is credited with the authorship of five hymns, among them the hymn accredited to him in this book. Nothing more seems to be known of this author. It is to be hoped that other information may be obtained that may appear in later editions of this volume. Suffice it in the meantime that we know two most important facts about him, gathered from this short hymn — viz., that his views of the atonement are evangelical and sound, and his Christian catholicity quite in accord with the growing spirit of fraternity and brotherhood that characterizes the best type of modern Christianity.
One sole baptismal sign 559
237. Robinson
Robinson, Richard Hayes, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born in London in 1842; educated at King’s College, London; became curate of St. Paul’s, Penge, in 1866; later was in charge of Octagon Chapel, Bath, and St. Germans, Blackheath; died November 5, 1892.
Holy Father, cheer our way 56
238. Robinson
Robinson, Robert, the author of |Come, thou Fount of every blessing,| an English Baptist minister, was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, September 27, 1735. He received a good grammar school education. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a London hairdresser, but the Lord was preparing him for a higher calling. He was converted among the Methodists in his twentieth year, and became a lay preacher among them, but soon left them and became an Independent. In less than a year, however, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Cambridge, where he remained as an |open communion| Baptist until the year of his death. He died June 9, 1790, being succeeded in the pastorate of the Church by Rev. Robert Hall. He was a very popular preacher and author of several able works, among them A Plea for the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1776, a volume which |dignitaries and divines of the Church of England united with Nonconformists in lauding as an exceptionally able, scholarly, and pungently written book,| His History of Baptism and the Baptists appeared in 1790. A few months before he died he retired to Birmingham, where he seems to have had friendly fellowship with Dr. Priestley, the noted Unitarian divine. This led some Unitarians to infer and to declare that before his death he came into sympathy with their views. But this inference is unwarranted.
Come, thou Fount of every blessing 19
Mighty God, while angels bless thee 85
239. Rodigast
Rodigast, Samuel, a German minister and educator, was born near Jena October 19, 1649; educated at the University of Jena, taking the degree of Master of Arts in 1671. For several years he was engaged in educational work. In 1698 he became rector of Greyfriars Gymnasium, Berlin, which position he held until his death, in 1708.
Whate’er my God ordains is right 487
240. Roscoe
Roscoe, William, an English lawyer, banker, author, a member of the Unitarian Church, was born in Liverpool March 8, 1753; and died June 30, 1831. He was educated as a lawyer, and practiced until 1796, when he gave up the profession of law for that of literature. His Life of Lorenzo de Medici was published in 1796, and the Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth in 1805. He was one of the compilers of a hymn book titled A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship, 1818. To this book he contributed nine hymns. Three of Mr. Roscoe’s children were hymn writers. A son (William Stanley) and two daughters (Mary Ann and Jane) have written valuable hymns.
Great God, beneath whose piercing 708
241. Rothe
Rothe, Johann Andreas, a German clergyman, the son of Rev. Aegidius Rothe, was born at Lissa May 12, 1688; educated at the University of Leipzig, taking the degree of M.A. in 1712. Soon after this he was licensed to preach. In 1722 Count Zinzendorf gave him the pastorate at Berthelsdorf, where he remained many years. Herrnhut was a part of his parish. In 1737 he resigned this pastorate and became a Lutheran minister. He died July 6, 1758.
Now I have found the ground 302
242. Scheffler
Scheffler, Johann Angelus, an eminent mystic of the seventeenth century, better known as |Angelus Silesius,| was the son of Stanislaus Scheffler, a Polish nobleman, who was compelled to leave his fatherland because of his adherence to Lutheranism. He was born in 1624 at Breslau, Silesia. He was early enamored of the writings of the mystics, and became a disciple of Jacob Boehme. He entered the medical profession, and in 1649 received the appointment of private physician to the Duke of Wurtemberg-Oels. The Lutheran clergy regarded Scheffler as a heretic, and, finding no sympathy in them, he went to the Roman Catholic Church. He now became private physician to the Emperor Ferdinand III., but soon abandoned his profession and entered the priesthood, returning to Breslau, where he died July 9, 1677. Most of his hymns were written before he became a Roman Catholic. Of twenty-five hymns by him in common use, we have here only one, a translation by John Wesley.
I thank thee, uncreated Sun 267
243. Schmolke
Schmolke, Benjamin, a Lutheran pastor, hymn writer, and poet, was born December 21, 1672. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Lauban and the University of Leipzig. He was married in 1702, and the same year became one of the pastors of the Lutheran Church at Schweidnitz, where he remained until the time of his death. |Schmolke was well known in his own district as a popular and useful preacher, a diligent pastor, and a man of wonderful tact and discretion.| He was also a great poet. His original hymns greatly widened his influence and increased his popularity. His poetic writings were numerous and manifested a deep, genuine, and warm-hearted piety, and have been used extensively in Germany. He died February 12, 1737.
My Jesus, as thou wilt 524
244. Scott
Scott, Thomas, an English Presbyterian clergyman, son of Rev. Thomas Scott, an Independent minister, and brother of Elizabeth Scott, also well known as a hymn writer, was born at Norwich in 1705, and succeeded Mr. Baxter as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ipswich in 1737. He died in 1775. He was the author of a translation in verse of the book of Job (1771) and of a volume of Lyric Poems (1773). |Doctrinally,| says Julian, |Scott may be described as an evangelical Arian.|
Hasten, sinner, to be wise 248
245. Scott
Scott, Sir Walter, the |Wizard of the North,| was born in Edinburgh August 15, 1771, and educated in the high school and university of his native city. The leading events of his career as a poet and novelist are so well known that they do not need to be repeated here. Two of his hymns appear in this Hymnal, and are every way worthy of the genius of the author. Scott died at Abbotsford September 21, 1832.
The day of wrath, that dreadful day 603
When Israel of the Lord beloved 95
246. Scriven
Scriven, Joseph, the author of |What a Friend we have in Jesus,| was born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1820; was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin; moved to Canada in 1845, where he led a humble but useful life till his death at Port Hope, October 10, 1886. Mr. Ira D. Sankey, in his Story of the Gospel Hymns, says that the young lady to whom he was to be married was accidentally drowned on the eve of their wedding day, which sad event led him to consecrate his life and property to the service of Christ. It is said that no service was too lowly for him to render if it could be done without compensation and without observation for one of the least of Christ’s disciples. His hymn is one of the most popular of all modern hymns.
What a Friend we have in Jesus 551
247. Seagrave
Seagrave, Robert, the son of Rev. Robert Seagrave, was an English clergyman who was born November 22, 1693. He was educated at Cambridge, taking the degree of M.A. in 1718. He fraternized with and defended the Calvinistic Methodists, and wrote and published pamphlets and sermons designed to reform the clergy and Church of England. While preaching at Lorimer’s Hall, London, he published a hymn book for the use of his congregation: Hymns for Christian Worship, 1742 (fourth edition, 1748). To this book he contributed fifty original hymns, one of which is found here. The year of his death is not known; it was probably about 1756.
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings 623
248. Sears
Sears, Edward Hamilton, a Unitarian clergyman, author, editor, and poet, was born in Berkshire, Mass., April 6, 1810. He served as pastor of Unitarian Churches in Massachusetts for nearly forty years, and in the meantime was active and useful as an author. He was a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., class of 1834, and also of the Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., 1837. Among his poetic writings are two fine Christmas songs, one of which appears in this book. Dr. Sears died January 14, 1876. |Although a member of the Unitarian body,| says Prof. F. M. Bird in Julian’s Dictionary, |his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute divinity of Christ.|
It came upon the midnight clear 110
249. Seymour
Seymour, Aaron Crossley Hobart, the son of an English clergyman, was born in County Limerick December 19, 1789. His parents were intellectual people, and he enjoyed the advantages of a thorough education. While yet a youth he heard a plain gospel sermon at one of Lady Huntingdon’s chapels, and became an earnest Christian. He was the author of several valuable books, among them The Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon, in two volumes (octavo), 1839. This is the standard life of Lady Huntingdon, a very valuable work. He died in October, 1870.
Jesus, immortal King, arise 632
250. Shepherd
Shepherd, Thomas, an English Congregational clergyman, son of Rev. William Shepherd (who was first a minister in the Established Church, but later became an Independent), was born in 1665. After his graduation at the university he took orders in the Established Church, but in 1694 he became a Congregationalist. From 1694 to 1700 he was pastor of the Independent Church in Nottingham, of which Dr. Philip Doddridge was later the more famous pastor. From 1700 till his death, January 29, 1739, he was pastor of a Church in Braintree, Essex.
Must Jesus bear the cross alone 428
251. Shurtleff
Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton, a Congregational minister, was born in Boston April 4, 1862; educated at Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1887; entered the ministry in 1889. He was a pastor in Buenaventura, Cal., 1889-90; Plymouth, Mass., 1891-98; Minneapolis, Minn., 1898-1905. In 1895-96 he organized the American Church at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany; and since 1906 he has had charge of the Students’ Atelier Reunions, Academy Vitti, Paris, France.
Lead on, O King eternal 408
252. Slade
Slade, Mary B. C., was the wife of a clergyman of Fall River, Mass. She was born in 1826, and died in 1882. She was a teacher and at one time assistant editor of the New England Journal of Education, which position she resigned to start Wide Awake, a well-known publication, which she continued to edit until her death. She was a warm-hearted Christian woman. Most of her hymns were written for Prof. R. M. McIntosh.
From all the dark places 633
253. Singleton
Singleton, Robert Corbet, a clergyman of the Established Church of England, was born October 9, 1810; educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.1830, M.A.1833). He was for several years warden of St. Columba College, near Dublin, and was first warden of St. Peter’s College, Radley, from 1847 to 1851, when he removed to Monkstown, near Dublin, and then to York, in which city he died in 1881. In 1868 he and Dr. E. G. Monk published The Anglican Hymn Book, to which volume he contributed twenty-eight original hymns and a number of translations from the Latin and a few from the German.
To God on high be thanks and 93
254. Smith
Smith, Samuel Francis, an eminent Baptist minister and widely known as the author of |My country, ’tis of thee,| was born in Boston October 21, 1808; attended the Boston Latin School and entered Harvard College in 1825. After leaving Harvard in 1829 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, and was graduated in 1832. His first pastorate was at Waterville, Me., where he remained eight years (1834-42), serving also as Professor of Modern Languages at Waterville College. In 1842 he became the pastor of the First Baptist Church at Newton, Mass. He resigned this charge in 1854 and became the editor of the publications of the Baptist Missionary Union, but continued to reside in Newton. He and Baron Stow prepared the Baptist collection of hymns titled The Psalmist (1843), which Julian’s Dictionary (1908) pronounces |the most creditable and influential of the American Baptist collections to the present day.| He published Lyric Gems in 1854 and Rock of Ages in 1870. Prof. F. M. Bird names thirty-two of his original hymns that are in common use in America. Dr. Smith’s long and useful life came to a close in Newton, Mass., November 16, 1895.
Lord of our life, God whom we fear 503
My country, ’tis of thee 702
Softly fades the twilight ray 74
The morning light is breaking 653
255. Spangenberg
Spangenberg, Augustus Gottlieb, a Moravian bishop, son of Rev. George Spangenberg, a Lutheran pastor, was born at Klettenberg, near Nordhausen, Germany, July 15, 1704; graduated at the University of Jena; joined Count Zinzendorf in his work, beginning his ministry at Herrnhut in 1735; visited the Churches of the Brethren in England and America; was ordained bishop at Herrnhut in 1744; died September 18, 1792. He wrote a life of Zinzendorf in eight volumes. He was one of the ablest, most useful, influential, and honored of the Moravian bishops.
High on his everlasting throne 221
256. Spitta
Spitta, Carl Johann Philipp, a German theologian and poet, was born at Hanover August 1, 1801. His early years were without special promise, and he was apprenticed to a watchmaker. While learning this trade he began the study of languages, and in 1821 entered the University of Gottingen to study theology. After graduating he was engaged as tutor in a private family for some time; but from 1828 till his death he was a popular and successful pastor of several Lutheran Churches. He died September 28, 1859. His reputation rests principally upon his hymns, which are deeply spiritual and very popular in his native land. His Psalter and Harfe, Leipzig (first edition, 1833), was translated by Richard Massie in 1860.
I know no life divided 467
O happy home, where thou art loved 671
257. Stanley
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster, one of the most distinguished English Churchmen of the nineteenth century, was the son of Rev. Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, and was born at Alderly, in Cheshire, December 13, 1815. At the age of fourteen he became a pupil of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, in whose famous school he displayed a strength of moral character which was a prophecy of the frank and courageous man that was to be. He took well-nigh all the honors at Oxford, where he graduated in 1837. Entering the ministry of the Church of England, he filled successively various positions of honor and responsibility until in 1855 he was appointed Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. In 1864 he became Dean of Westminster. His marriage that same year to Lady Augusta Bruce, a personal friend and attendant of Queen Victoria, increased the freedom and intimacy of his already cordial relations with the royal family. He died July 18, 1881. He was a Churchman of broad and liberal views. His catholicity of spirit was one of his most notable characteristics. His contributions to theological literature are numerous and well known. His Life of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, 1844, is one of the most successful volumes of biography in the English language. Among his historical writings his lectures on the Eastern Church, 1861, Jewish Church (two volumes), 1863-65, and the Church of Scotland, 1868, are accounted as of highest value. He is the author of about a dozen hymns, and of several translations. These, although of a high order of excellence, do not take rank with his prose writings, which for choice English diction, scholarly erudition, and Christian catholicity are not surpassed, perhaps, by anything in the religious literature of England in the nineteenth century.
Day of wrath, O dreadful day 599
He is gone; a cloud of light 170
O Master, it is good to be 131
258. Steele
Steele, Anne, the daughter of the Rev. William Steele, a Baptist minister in Hampshire, England, was born in 1717, and died in 1778. She was a very talented lady. Although an invalid for many years and a great sufferer, her life was useful and happy. Her published hymns are found in nearly all collections, and have been a blessing to many people. Many of them are good, and a few deserve the highest praise. The following appropriate lines are inscribed upon her tomb:
Silent the lyre, and dumb the tuneful tongue,
That sung on earth her great Redeemer’s praise;
But now in heaven she joins the angelic song,
In more harmonious, more exalted lays.
Her poetical writings were published in two volumes under the name |Theodosia:| Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, London, 1760. A third volume, titled Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, was published two years after her death. Julian’s Dictionary names seventy-five of her hymns as being in common use.
Come ye that love the Saviour’s 34
Father, whate’er of earthly bliss 523
259. Stennett
Stennett, Joseph, an English Baptist minister, the son of Rev. Edward Stennett, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire, in 1663; received a good education, and spent five years teaching in London; entered the ministry, and in 1690 became pastor of a Seventh-Day Baptist Church in Devonshire Square, London, and continued to labor here until his death, July 4, 1713. He is the author of eight or ten hymns found in modern Church hymnals. He is the earliest English Baptist hymn writer whose hymns are still in common use.
Another six days’ work is done 70
260. Stennett
Stennett, Samuel, an English Baptist minister, was born at Exeter in 1727, and was a man of ability and scholarship. In 1758 he succeeded his father as pastor of the Wild Street Church, in London, where he remained for thirty-seven years. The noted philanthropist and social reformer, John Howard, was a member of his congregation and an intimate friend and adviser. He died August 24, 1795. Dr. Stennett was the author of some prose writings and of thirty-eight hymns, which may be found at the end of volume three of his Works, London, 1824.
Majestic sweetness sits enthroned 135
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand 617
|’Tis finished!| so the Saviour cried 149
261. Stockton
Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875.
Come, every soul by sin oppressed 261
262. Stone
Stone, Samuel John, a clergyman of the Church of England, the son of Rev. William Stone, was born at Whitmore, Staffordshire, April 25, 1839. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was graduated B.A. in 1862. Later he took orders and served various Churches. He succeeded his father at St. Paul’s, Haggerstown, in 1874. He was the author of many original hymns and translations, which were collected and published in 1886. His hymns are hopeful in spirit and skillfully constructed. He published several poetic volumes. He died November 19, 1900.
The Church’s one foundation 207
Weary of earth, and laden with my 284
263. Stowe
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher and sister of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was born at Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1812. Her father became President of Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1832; and in 1833 she was married to Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, a professor in the seminary. Mrs. Stowe’s volume titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was first published in 1852 as a serial in the National Era and later in book form, is one of the most widely known and historic volumes in the entire range of American literature. It is a work of fiction which, by means of the pathetic picture which it draws of the ills of slave life and the cruelties, either actual or possible, involved in slave ownership, did much to precipitate the American Civil War (1861-65). Mrs. Stowe published more than forty volumes in all, many of them being works of fiction. Her Religious Poems appeared in 1867. Three of her hymns, including the one here given, were first published in the Plymouth Collection (1855), a volume of hymns edited by her brother, Henry Ward Beecher. She died July 1, 1896, at Hartford, in which city she had lived since 1864.
Still, still with thee, when purple 43
264. Stowell
Stowell, Hugh, an able and popular minister of the Church of England, was born at Douglas, Isle of Man, December 3, 1799. He graduated at Oxford in 1822, and took holy orders the following year. He held various offices in his Church; became rector at Salford in 1831; was appointed honorary Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1845, and later Rural Dean of Eccles. He published several volumes. He also edited a book of hymns: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns Suited to the Services of the Church of England, 1831. To the several editions of this book most of his hymns were contributed. He died at Safford October 8, 1865.
From every stormy wind that blows 495
Lord of all power and might 206
265. Stratton
Stratton, Lovie Ricker, was the wife of the Rev. Frank K. Stratton, D.D., a member of the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was born in Somersworth, N. H., October 31, 1841. She was a graduate of the high school of her native town and a teacher in the public schools of Dover, N. H., for eleven years. She was married to Dr. Stratton June 19, 1872, while he was pastor of the Dorchester Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South Boston. She died at Melrose, Mass., September 6, 1910, where her husband, a diligent and successful pastor, still resides. Mrs. Stratton’s poems were published from time to time in Zion’s Herald, the Christian Witness, and other periodicals.
O Lord, our God, almighty King 664
266. Strong
Strong, Nathan, a Congregational minister of great influence in his day, was born at Coventry, Conn., October 16, 1748. He graduated at Yale College in 1769. In 1773 he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church, Hartford, and remained there until his death, December 25, 1816. He received the degree of D.D. from Princeton University. Dr. Strong was the editor of the Hartford Selection, 1799, a book that had considerable influence upon American hymnody.
Swell the anthem, raise the song 711
267. Stryker
Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey, a Presbyterian minister, son of Rev. Isaac P. Stryker, was born at Vernon, N. Y., January 7, 1851; educated at Hamilton College (1872) and Auburn Theological Seminary (1876); entered ministry in 1876, and has been pastor of Presbyterian Churches in Auburn, N. Y., Ithaca, N. Y., Holyoke, Mass., and Chicago, Ill. Dr. Stryker has been President of Hamilton College since 1892. He is a student of hymnology, and has published several volumes of hymns, among them The Church Praise Book, 1882; Hymns and Verses, 1883; Christian Chorals, 1885; the Song of Miriam and Other Hymns and Verses, 1888; Church Song, 1889. He lives at Clinton, N, Y.
Almighty Lord, with one accord 687
268. Swain
Swain, Joseph, a successful English Baptist minister, was born at Birmingham in 1761. By trade he was an engraver. After his conversion he held meetings, and in 1792 was ordained pastor of a Church in Walworth, where he remained till his early and lamented death, April 14, 1796. He was the author of Walworth Hymns, London, 1792.
How sweet, how heavenly is the 554
O thou, in whose presence my soul 530
269. Tappan
Tappan, William Brigham, an influential leader in Sunday school work in the Congregational Church, was born at Beverly, Mass., October 29, 1794. In early manhood he taught school in Philadelphia. From 1826 until his death he was in the employ of the American Sunday School Union as manager and superintendent at Philadelphia (1826-29), at Cincinnati (1829-34), at Philadelphia (1834-38), and at Boston (1838-49). In 1841 he obtained license to preach as a Congregational minister; but not having any pastoral charge, he was never ordained. From 1819 to 1849 he continued to write and publish poetry, amounting in all to eight or ten volumes. He died at West Needham, Mass., June 18, 1849.
There is an hour of peaceful rest 609
‘Tis midnight; and on Olive’s brow 147
270. Tate
Tate, Nahum, the English poet, was the son of an Irish clergyman, and was born at Dublin in 1652. After his graduation at the University of Dublin he settled in London and entered upon a literary career. He soon won reputation as a poet, publishing successive volumes from time to time. In 1692 he became Poet Laureate. In 1696 he published, in connection with Rev. Nicholas Brady (1659-1726), Chaplain in Ordinary, a New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in the Church. This version supplanted, by royal and episcopal authority, the |old version| by Sternhold, Hopkins, and others, and is to this day the authorized version of the Church of England found in the Prayer Book. It is not known which of the Psalms were translated by Brady and which by Tate; but as Tate was Poet Laureate, he is supposed to have done the greater part of the work. In addition to this joint work, he published several volumes of poetry. He died August 12, 1715.
As pants the hart for cooling 316
O Lord, our fathers oft have told 700
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 720
While shepherds watched their flocks 115
271. Taylor
Taylor, Thomas Rawson, an English Congregational minister, was born at Ossett, near Wakefield, May 9, 1807. In September, 1826, he entered the Airedale Independent College to prepare for the Congregational ministry, and graduated therefrom in 1830. Soon after he became pastor of an Independent Church in Sheffield, but in less time than a year he was obliged to give up the work on account of ill health. Subsequently he accepted a position as tutor in his Alma Mater; but his career was again interrupted, and he died of consumption March 7, 1835, being only twenty-eight years of age. His best-known hymn is that beginning: |I’m but a stranger here; heaven is my home.|
There was a time when children sang 684
272. Tennyson
Tennyson, Alfred, the English poet, was the son of a clergyman. He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, August 6, 1809. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first volume of poetry appeared while he was an undergraduate. Upon the death of Wordsworth, in 1850, he was appointed Poet Laureate. Many regard him as the greatest Poet Laureate England has ever had. He was raised to the peerage in 1884, with the title, Baron Tennyson d’Eyncourt. He died October 6, 1892, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Lord Tennyson was not a hymn writer, yet three of his poems are so used in this book. Biographies of this great poet are so numerous and so accessible to all, and the important facts of his life and of his contributions to modern English literature are so well known as to render it unnecessary to write of him at length here.
Late, late, so late! and dark the 743
Strong Son of God, immortal Love 139
Sunset and evening star 744
273. Tersteegen
Tersteegen, Gerhard, a pious and useful mystic of the eighteenth century, was born at Mörs, Germany, November 25, 1697. He was carefully educated in his childhood, and then apprenticed (1715) to his older brother, a shopkeeper. He was religiously inclined from his youth, and upon coming of age he secured a humble cottage near Mühlheim, where he led a life of seclusion and self-denial for many years. At about thirty years of age he began to exhort and preach in private and public gatherings. His influence became very great, such was his reputation for piety and his success in talking, preaching, and writing concerning spiritual religion. He wrote one hundred and eleven hymns, most of which appeared in his Spiritual Flower Garden (1731). He died April 3, 1769.
God calling yet! shall I not hear 252
Thou hidden love of God, whose 345
274. Theodulph
Theodulph is said to have been a native of Italy. The exact date of his birth is not known. He came to France in the time of Charlemagne, about 781, and was made Bishop of Orleans in 785. He was imprisoned by Louis I. at Angers in 818. There are differing traditions concerning him after this period.
All glory, laud, and honor 31
275. Thomas of Celano
Thomas of Celano is so called from Celano, a town on the borders of Lake Fucino, Italy. He was born the latter part of the twelfth century. He joined the order of Friars founded by St. Francis of Assisi soon after its organization in 1208. He had charge successively of the Franciscan convents of Worms, Metz, and Cologne. At the death of St. Francis, in 1226, he returned to Assisi, and by appointment of Pope Gregory IX. wrote the life of St. Francis. The year of his death is not known. His Dies Irae, the greatest of all the Latin hymns, has been attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, and others. The preponderance of evidence, however, seems to be in favor of the authorship of Thomas of Celano. His celebrated hymn has had various renderings into English, among the best of which are the following:
Day of wrath! O day of (Irons) 747
Day of wrath, O dreadful (Stanley) 599
The day of wrath, that (W. Scott) 603
276. Thomson
Thomson, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. John Thomson, Librarian of the Free Library, Philadelphia, was born in London, England, December 5, 1834. She has written about forty hymns, which have appeared mostly in the Churchman, New York, and in the Living Church, Chicago. Four of her hymns are found in the Protestant Episcopal Hymnal, 1892. Of the origin of the missionary hymn by Mrs. Thomson which is found in our Hymnal she writes as follows:
I wrote the greater part of the hymn, |O Zion, haste,| in the year 1838. I had written many hymns before, and one night, while I was sitting up with one of my children who was ill of typhoid fever, I thought I should like to write a missionary hymn to the tune of the hymn beginning |Hark, hark, my soul, angelic songs are swelling,| as I was fond of that tune; but as I could not then get a refrain I liked, I left the hymn unfinished, and about three years later I finished it by writing the refrain which now forms part of it. By some mistake 1891 is given instead of 1871 as the date of the hymn in the (Episcopal) Hymnal. I do not think it is ever sung to the tune for which I wrote it. Rev. John Anketell told me, and I am sure he is right, that it is better for a hymn to have a tune of its own, and I feel much indebted to the composer of the tune |Tidings| for writing so inspiring a tune to my words.
O Zion, haste, thy mission high 654
277. Thring
Thring, Godfrey, an English clergyman, Prebendary of Wells Cathedral, son of Rev. J. G. D. Thring, was born at Alford March 25, 1823; graduated at Oxford, 1845; served different charges as curate and rector, 1846-67; Rural Dean, 1867-76; Prebendary of Wells Cathedral from 1876 till his death, September 13, 1903. He has written many hymns, about twenty-five of which are found in different Church hymnals in England and America. He published Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866; Hymns and Verses, 1866; Hymns and Sacred Lyrics, 1874; Church of England Hymn Book, 1880 (second edition, 1882). |His hymns,| says Dr. Julian, |are mainly objective, and are all of them of a strong and decided character. In some of his finer hymns his tone is high and his structure massive; in several others his plaintiveness is very tender, whilst very varied, and his rhythm is almost always perfect. The prominent features throughout are a clear vision, a firm faith, a positive reality, and an exulting hopefulness.|
Fierce raged the tempest o’er the 485
I saw the holy city 626
Saviour, blessed Saviour 344
278. Toplady
Toplady, Augustus Montague, the author of |Rock of Ages,| was born at Farnham, Surrey, November 4, 1740. His father was an officer in the British army. His mother was a woman of remarkable piety. He prepared for the university at Westminster School, and subsequently was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. The text was Ephesians ii.13: |But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.| The preacher was an illiterate but warm-hearted layman named Morris. Concerning this experience Toplady wrote: |Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should be brought nigh unto God in an obscure part of Ireland, amidst a handful of God’s people met together in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his name. Surely this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous.| In 1758, through the influence of sermons preached by Dr. Manton on the seventeenth chapter of John, he became an extreme Calvinist in his theology, which brought him later into conflict with Mr. Wesley and the Methodists. He was ordained to the ministry in the Church of England in 1762, and in 1768 he became vicar of Broadhembury, a small living in Devonshire, which he held until his death. The last two or three years of his life he passed in London, where he preached in a chapel on Orange Street. His last sickness was of such a character that he was able to make a repeated and emphatic dying testimony. A short time before his death he asked his physician what he thought. The reply was that his pulse showed that his heart was beating weaker every day. Toplady replied with a smile: |Why, that is a good sign that my death is fast approaching; and, blessed be God, I can add that my heart beats stronger and stronger every day for glory.| To another friend he said: |O, my dear sir, I cannot tell you the comforts I feel in my soul; they are past expression. . . . My prayers are all converted into praise.| He died of consumption August 11, 1778. His volume of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship was published in 1776. Of the four hundred and nineteen hymns which it contained, several were his own productions.
If on a quiet sea 446
Rock of ages, cleft for me 279
279. Tuttiett
Tuttiett, Lawrence, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born at Colyton, Devonshire, in 1825; educated at King’s College, London; entered the ministry in 1848; vicar of Lea Marston, Warwickshire, 1854-60; incumbent of Episcopal Church of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1870-80; became prebendary in St. Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth, 1880. He died May 21, 1897. Among his published volumes are Hymns for Churchmen, 1854, and Hymns for the Children of the Church, 1862. |Mr. Tuttiett’s hymns,| says Dr. Julian, |are characterized by smoothness of rhythm, directness of aim, simplicity of language, and deep earnestness.|
Go forward, Christian soldier 387
280. Twells
Twells, Henry, a clergyman in the Church of England, was born at Birmingham March 13, 1823. He was educated at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, taking the degree of B.A. in 1848. He took orders in 1849, and occupied various positions of service and honor in the ministry. He was subvicar at Stratford-on-Avon in 1851-54, and in 1884 he became honorary canon of Peterborough Cathedral. A few of his hymns were contributed to Hymns Ancient and Modern. He died January 19, 1900. His biographer says of him:
He was a preacher of power, a builder of churches, a helper of parochial missions, a defender of country parsons, and an altogether friendly and wholesome sort of man. He died as he lived, in quietness and peace. Shortly before his death he asked for the gathering of his household and the singing of |Now thank we all our God| and |When all thy mercies, O my God.|
At even, e’er the sun was set 54
281. Unknown
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
That song alone can hope to live forever that has its real and true elements of immortality not in its author but in itself, in its own power to awaken the spirit of devotion and inspire adoration and praise. In the following list of hymns we place not only those whose authorship is absolutely unknown, but also those hymns which, although accredited on circumstantial evidence to the hymn-writers whose names are given, are nevertheless of uncertain authorship. Some of the hymns in this list are translations by well-known writers from the Latin or other languages, the authorship of the originals alone being unknown.
Cast thy burden on the Lord 468
Christ is made the sure foundation 662
Come, Holy Ghost, in love 184
Come, thou almighty King 2
Creator, Spirit, by whose aid 194
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 599, 603, 747
Fairest Lord Jesus 118
Fear not, O little flock 445
How firm a foundation 461
I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of 335
Jerusalem, my happy home 608
Lord, for to-morrow and its needs 510
My God, I love thee, not because 483
Near the cross was Mary weeping 154
O come, all ye faithful 125
O for a heart of calm repose 376
O mother dear, Jerusalem 610
Our highest joys succeed our griefs 474
Saviour, like a shepherd lead us 677
Soon may the last glad song arise 630
To God on high be thanks and praise 93
Why should our tears in sorrow 591
283. Vokes
Vokes, Mrs., is a hymn writer concerning whom very little is known. Some of her hymns are found in a Selection of Missionary and Devotional Hymns, published in 1797 by Rev. J. Griffin, an English Congregational minister, and several of these are reproduced in J. Dobell’s New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns, 1806. In W. B. Collyer’s Collection, 1812, there are seven hymns signed |Mrs. Vokes.| While the hymn beginning |Soon may the last glad song arise| is generally accredited to Mrs. Vokes, Dr. Julian, our greatest authority in hymnology, says he has been unable to find any definite and satisfactory evidence that she wrote it. We find the name of this writer spelled |Voke| in some volumes.
Soon may the last glad song arise 630
284. Walford
Walford, William W., a blind preacher of England, is the author of the hymn beginning |Sweet hour of prayer.| This hymn first appeared in print in the New York Observer September 13, 1845. The contributor who furnished the hymn says:
During my residence at Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, I became acquainted with W. W. Walford, the blind preacher, a man of obscure birth and connections and no education, but of strong mind and most retentive memory. In the pulpit he never failed to select a lesson well adapted to his subject, giving chapter and verse with unerring precision, and scarcely ever misplacing a word in his repetition of the Psalms, every part of the New Testament, the prophecies, and some of the histories, so as to have the reputation of knowing the whole Bible by heart.|
Rev. Thomas Salmon, who was settled as the pastor of the Congregational Church at Coleshill in 1838, remained until 1842, and then removed to the United States, is believed to have been the contributor who says of the hymn: |I rapidly copied the lines with my pencil as he uttered them, and send them for insertion in the Observer if you think them worthy of preservation.|
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour 516
285. Ware
Ware, Henry, a Unitarian minister and professor of theology, was born at Hingham, Mass., April 21, 1794; graduated at Harvard College in 1812, and taught school for two or three years in Exeter Academy; was licensed to preach in the Unitarian Church in 1815; became pastor of the Second Unitarian Church of Boston in 1817, and in 1829, his health being impaired, Ralph Waldo Emerson was called in to be his assistant pastor. In 1830 he became Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology in the Cambridge Theological School, continuing there until 1842, when he resigned. He died at Framingham September 25, 1843. Four years after his death his works were collected and publish in four volumes. He wrote a large number of hymns, about a dozen or more of which are possessed of more than ordinary excellence and are in common use, particularly among Unitarians.
Lift your glad voices in triumph on 159
We rear not a temple like Judah’s 666
286. Waring
Waring, Anna Lvetitia, the daughter of Elijah Waring and niece of Samuel Miller Waring, the hymn writer, was born at Neath, in Southern Wales, in 1820. As late as 1893 she was living at Clifton, near Bristol, England. Her Hymns and Meditations were published in London in 1853. This book was republished in Philadelphia in 1859 by |The Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge,| and again in Boston in 1863. The volume contains only thirty-two pieces, and three of these are in this Hymnal. |The tone of spiritual thought and feeling in most of the pieces is very lofty and very pure. The ideas of a Christian life which are wrought into the poetry are always both strong and tender, vigorous and gentle, brave and trustful.| We hope to obtain additional facts concerning Miss Waring for insertion in later editions of this volume.
Father, I know that all my life 465
In heavenly love abiding 452
My Saviour, on thy word of truth 364
287. Warner
Warner, Anna Bartlett, daughter of Henry W. Warner and sister of Susan Warner (1819-85), the authoress, was born in 1820 at Martlaer, West Point, New York. She is the author of some fifteen or twenty volumes. She edited Hymns of the Church Militant, 1858. Her first volume, Say and Seal, 1859, prepared in association with her sister, contained one of the most popular hymns for young people ever written in America, beginning:
Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
In 1869 she published Wayfaring Hymns, Original and Translated. The titles of her successive volumes (most of which have been published under the pen name of |Amy Lothrop|) may be found in any biography of American authors. She resides at Martlaer’s Rock, West Point, N. Y.
One more day’s work for Jesus 419
We would see Jesus, for the shadows 323
288. Warren
Warren, Willis Fairfield, is the Dean Emeritus of the Theological School of Boston University. He was born at Williamsburg, Mass., March 13, 1833; is a graduate of Wesleyan University. After a few years spent in teaching and preaching, he became a professor at Bremen, Germany, 1861-66. Returning to America, he was elected acting President of Boston Theological School, which place he held until 1873, when he was elected President of Boston University, a position which he held with distinction for thirty years. He is the author of numerous published volumes. Dr. Warren resides at Brookline, Mass.
I worship thee, O Holy Ghost 186
289. Waterbury
Waterbury, Jared Bell, a Congregational minister, was born in New York City August 11, 1799. He was graduated at Yale College in 1822, and subsequently studied theology at Princeton. He was a pastor in Hudson, N. Y., in Boston, and elsewhere. His active and useful life closed in Brooklyn December 31, 1876. He contributed several hymns to The Christian Lyre, New York, 1830, which was compiled by the Rev. Joshua Leavitt.
Soldiers of the cross, arise 385
290. Watts
Watts, Isaac, may be considered the father of English hymnody. The beginning of the eighteenth century marks a distinct period in the history of hymnology. The apostle of the new departure was Dr. Isaac Watts. He was the first to see the real need, and in large measure he succeeded in supplying it. (See note under No.167.) He was born at Southampton July 17, 1674. He was a precocious child; learned to read almost as soon as he could articulate, and wrote verses when a little boy. He was firmly attached to the principles of the Nonconformists, for which his father had suffered imprisonment, and was therefore compelled to decline the advantages of the great English universities, which at that time received only Church of England students. He availed himself, however, of the privilege of attending a Dissenting academy in London, taught by Mr. Thomas Rowe, where he applied himself to study with uncommon diligence and success. During his school days it was his habit frequently to attempt poetry both in English and in Latin, according to the custom of the time. In this manner he was unconsciously preparing himself for a long, brilliant, and useful career. In 1705 he published his first volume of poems, Horae Lyricae, which was received with approbation in Great Britain and America, and gave the author, in the opinion of the learned Dr. Johnson, an honorable place among English poets. His Hymns and Spiritual Songs appeared in 1707; Psalms, in 1719; and Divine Songs for Children, in 1720. One characteristic of Watts’s hymns is majesty. He is bold, massive, tremendous. This was not his only style of writing; some of his hymns are very pathetic. For example, |When I survey the wondrous cross| and |Alas! and did my Saviour bleed.| Grandeur was his forte, but he could be as simple as a child and as tender as a mother. The same hand that wrote
Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love,
also wrote the familiar little cradle song,
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber;
Holy angels guard thy bed.
He became pastor of an Independent Church in London in 1702. He was so feeble that much of the time the work of the parish was done by an assistant, but he held the place nominally until his death. Dr. Watts never married. In 1713 he was invited to the elegant and hospitable home of Sir Thomas Abney. Years later he wrote to Lady Huntingdon: |This day thirty years I came hither to the house of my good friend, Sir Thomas Abney, intending to spend but one single week under his friendly roof; and I have extended my visit to exactly the length of thirty years.| He wrote many works in prose as well as in poetry, amounting altogether to fifty-two publications. He lived to be seventy-five years of age, and was for many years before his death recognized as a patriarch among the Dissenting clergy. He died November 25, 1748. Westminster Abbey, that vast inausoleum of England’s heroes, statesmen, poets, and saints, has been honored with a memorial of this great, good man. Underneath a bust of the poet the artist has sculptured Watts sitting at a table writing, while behind and above him an angel is whispering heavenly thoughts. The design is artistic and very appropriate. This Hymnal contains fifty-three hymns by Dr. Watts.
A broken heart, my God, my King 266
Alas! and did my Saviour bleed 146
Am I a soldier of the cross 393
Awake, our souls! away our fears 405
Before Jehovah’s awful throne 6
Begin, my tongue, some heavenly 89
Behold the glories of the Lamb 167
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove 183
Come, let us join our cheerful songs 24
Come, sound his praise abroad 3
Come, ye that love the Lord 22
Eternal Power, whose high abode 17
Father, how wide thy glory shines 79
From all that dwell below the skies 5
Give me the wings of faith to rise 606
God is the name my soul adores 80
God is the refuge of his saints 218
Great God! attend, while Zion sings 213
Hear what the voice from heaven 588
He dies, the Friend of sinners dies 165
How pleasant, how divinely fair 215
How sad our state by nature is 268
How shall the young secure their 204
I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve 534
I’m not ashamed to own my Lord 441
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun 631
Jesus, thou everlasting King 7
Joy to the world! the Lord is come 107
Let all on earth their voices raise 9
Long have I sat beneath the sound 281
Lord, how secure and blest are they 439
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear 41
My dear Redeemer and my Lord 140
My God, the spring of all my joys 535
My soul, repeat his praise 94
Now let the Father and the Son 719
O God, our help in ages past 577
Plunged in a gulf of dark despair 242
Salvation! O the joyful sound 287
Show pity, Lord, O Lord forgive 270
Sweet is the work, my God, my King 71
The God of mercy be adored 721
The heavens declare thy glory, Lord 202
The Lord Jehovah reigns 81
There is a land of pure delight 604
Thus far the Lord hath led me on 51
Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb 586
Welcome, sweet day of rest 64
When I can read my title clear 440
When I survey the wondrous cross 141
Why do we mourn departing friends 595
Why should the children of a King 299
Why should we start and fear to die 581
291. Wells
Wells, Marcus Morris, is the author of one of our most popular modern hymns on the Holy Spirit and also the composer of the tune to which it is universally sung. Beyond the published date of his birth (1815) and his death (1895) and the statement that he was a lawyer living in the State of New York, we have no facts concerning him. It is hoped that some facts may be learned about him which may be incorporated in later editions of this volume. The date assigned to the hymn by Mr. Ira D. Sankey is 1858. It is to be regretted that we have not other hymns and tunes from one who can write devotional poetry and music such as that represented by the single hymn and tune which we have here from his pen.
Holy Spirit, faithful Guide 193
292. Wesley
Wesley, Charles, has been called |the poet of Methodism,| but this designation is too narrow for him. He might more properly be called the poet of Christendom, for the entire Christian world is indebted to him for many of its most valuable hymns. For the first place among English hymn writers he has never had but one competitor. Hymnologists have sometimes instituted a comparison between the hymns of Wesley and those of Watts. Some have given the preference to one, and some to the other. We must remember that these men were not rivals. They were too good, too great, and too unlike to be antagonists. They were both princes — aye, kings — of song, but each in his own realm. Watts’s great theme was divine majesty, and no one approaches him in excellence upon this subject. Wesley’s grandest theme was love — the love of God — and here he had no rival. Charles Wesley was born in Epworth, England, December 18, 1707. He was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University, where he took his degree in 1728. It was while a student at Christ Church College that Wesley and a few associates, by strict attention to duty and exemplary conduct, won for themselves the derisive epithet of |Methodists.| He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1735, and that same year he sailed with his brother John as a missionary to Georgia, but soon returned to England. He was not converted, according to his own statement, until Whitsunday, May 21, 1738. (See note under No.1.) On that day he received a conscious knowledge of sins forgiven, and this event was the real beginning of his mission as the singer of Methodism. He tells his own experience beautifully in the hymn beginning:
And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Saviour’s blood?
Charles Wesley’s hymns may be generally classified as follows: Hymns of Christian experience (|O for a thousand tongues to sing| is an example); invitation hymns (of which |Come, sinners, to the gospel feast| is a good specimen); sanctification hymns (|O for a heart to praise my God| is one of them); funeral hymns (|Rejoice for a brother deceased|); and hymns on the love of God, a subject on which he never became weary. |Wrestling Jacob| represents the last class. But it is preëminently in portraying the various phases of experimental religion — conviction of sin, penitence, saving faith, pardon, assurance, entire sanctification — that Charles Wesley is quite without a peer among hymn writers. His songs have been one of the most potent forces in Methodism since its organization. Nor was he a singer alone, but as an itinerant preacher he was a busy and earnest colaborer with his brother John. After his marriage, in 1749, his itinerant labors were largely restricted to London and Bristol. He died March 29, 1788. |After all,| says Dr. John Julian, the greatest authority in English Hymnology, |it was Charles Wesley who was the great hymn writer of the Wesley family, and perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn writer of all ages.| Of the six thousand and five hundred hymns by Charles Wesley (all of which were written after his conversion), this collection contains one hundred and twenty-one. (See page 451 for a complete list of the poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley.)
A charge to keep I have 388
A thousand oracles divine 75
Ah! whither should I go 283
All praise to our redeeming Lord 553
And am I born to die 590
And are we yet alive 560
And can I yet delay 275
And can it be that I should gain 310
And let our bodies part 227
And let this feeble body fail 607
And must I be to judgment brought 600
Arise, my soul, arise 301
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake 216
Author of faith, eternal Word 298
Awake, Jerusalem, awake 217
Blest be the dear uniting love 228
Blow ye the trumpet, blow 294
Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day 156
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 229
Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire 181
Come, let us anew our journey 568
Come, let us join our friends above 611
Come, let us join with one accord 63
Come, let us use the grace divine 569
Come, let us who in Christ believe 36
Come, O thou all-victorious Lord 241
Come, O thou Traveler unknown 511
Come on, my partners in distress 432
Come, sinners, to the gospel feast 256
Come, thou almighty King 2
Come, thou long-expected Jesus 116
Depth of mercy, can there be 267
Father, I stretch my hands to thee 277
Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord 297
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 726
Forever here my rest shall be 357
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go 400
Give me a new, a perfect heart 366
Giver of concord, Prince of peace 563
God of all power and truth and 378
God of love, that hearest prayer 562
Hail the day that sees him rise 162
Happy the man that finds the 372
Hark! the herald angels sing 111
Ho! every one that thirsts, draw 258
Holy and true and righteous Lord 377
How can a sinner know 303
How happy every child of grace 605
I know that my Redeemer lives 370
I the good fight have fought 391
I want a principle within 320
In age and feebleness extreme 746
Infinite God, to thee we raise 10
Jesus, from whom all blessings flow 561
Jesus, let all thy lovers shine 321
Jesus, let thy pitying eye 491
Jesus, Lover of my soul 463
Jesus, my strength, my hope 340
Jesus, my Truth, my Way 471
Jesus, the all-restoring word 331
Jesus, the Conqueror, reigns 172
Jesus, the name high over all 222
Jesus, the sinner’s Friend, to thee 271
Jesus, the Truth and Power divine 220
Jesus, thine all-victorious love 375
Jesus, thou all-redeeming Lord 263
Jesus, united by thy grace 557
Join, all ye ransomed sons of grace 576
Leader of faithful souls, and Guide 459
Let earth and heaven agree 565
Let Him to whom we now belong 373
Let not the wise their wisdom boast 308
Lift up your hearts to things above 558
Light of those whose dreary 638
Lo! He comes, with clouds 601
Lo! on a narrow neck of land 579
Lord, I believe a rest remains 356
Lord, if at thy command 648
Lord, in the strength of grace 352
Lord, whom winds and seas obey 103
Love Divine, all loves excelling 355
Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb 374
O come and dwell in me 362
O for a heart to praise my God 354
O for a thousand tongues to sing 1
O for that tenderness of heart 278
O glorious hope of perfect love 365
O God, most merciful and true 401
O how happy are they 311
O joyful sound of gospel grace 371
O love divine, how sweet thou art 368
O love divine, what hast thou done 153
O that I could repent! O that 264
O that I could repent! With all 265
O that my load of sin were gone 381
O thou who earnest from above 313
O thou whom all thy saints adore 13
Our Lord is risen from the dead 158
Rejoice, the Lord is King 178
See how great a flame aspires 643
Servant of God, well done! Thy 593
Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise 575
Sing we to our God above 725
Sinners, turn, why will ye die 247
Soldiers of Christ, arise 382
Spirit of faith, come down 191
Stand the omnipotent decree 598
Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay 269
Talk with us, Lord, thyself reveal 499
Thou great mysterious God unknown 318
Thou hidden source of calm repose 466
Thou Son of God, whose flaming eyes 245
To God your every want 512
Try us, O God, and search the 555
Weary souls that wander wide 262
Weep not for a brother deceased 594
What is our calling’s glorious hope 358
Wherewith, O Lord, shall I draw 244
Who are these arrayed in white 619
With glorious clouds encompassed 327
Ye servants of God, your Master 11
293. Wesley
Come, Saviour, Jesus Bourignon 379
Commit thou all thy Gerhardt 435
Give to the winds thy Gerhardt 437
High on his everlast Spangenberg 221
How happy is the Original 624
I thank thee, uncreat Scheffler 367
I thirst, thou wounded Zinzendorf 335
Into thy gracious Dessler 305
Jesus, thy blood and Zinzendorf 148
Jesus, thy boundless Gerhardt 333
My soul before thee Richter 273
Now I have found the Rothe 302
O thou, to whose Zinzendorf 359
Shall I, for fear of Winkler 225
Thou hidden love of Tersteegen 345
To God, the Father Original 722
We lift our hearts to Original 45
294. Wesley
Wesley, Samuel, the son of Rev. John Wesley and the father of John and Charles Wesley, was born in 1662. While an academy student Wesley expected to enter the ministry of the Dissenters. The change in his opinions was a little remarkable. Some one had written severely against the Dissenters, and Mr. Samuel Wesley was appointed to reply. This led him to a course of reading which in the end resulted differently from what was expected. He left the Dissenters and attached himself to the Established Church. Entering Exeter College, Oxford, as a servitor, he was graduated in 1688. Ordained soon after, he served as curate in several places. In 1696 he dedicated his Life of Christ, an Heroic Poem, to Queen Mary, who presented him with the living at Epworth, where he remained until his death, April 22, 1735. In 1689, he married Susanna Annesley, whose fame has gone wherever Christian motherhood is honored. They had nineteen children, nine of whom died in infancy. He published The Old and New Testaments Attempted in Verse in 1716, and had just finished at the time of his death a volume of learned Dissertations on the Book of Job. His oldest son, Samuel Wesley, Jr., was also a hymn writer of some note. On December 1, 1730, he wrote the following: |I hear my son John has the honor of being styled ‘the father of the holy club.’ If it be so, I must be the grandfather of it; and I need not say that I had rather any of my sons should be so dignified and distinguished than to have the title of ‘His Holiness.’|
Behold the Saviour of mankind 142
295. West
West, Robert Athow, an English-American Methodist layman, editor, and author, was born at Thetford, England, in 1809; came to this country in 1843; was the official reporter of the important and historic session of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. Mr. West was a member of a committee of seven appointed by the General Conference of 1848 to prepare a standard edition of the hymn book which appeared later as Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1849. To this volume he contributed two hymns, one of which is that found in this collection. From 1846 to 1849 he edited the Columbia Magazine (New York). In 1858 he became editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser. He also published Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers, 1848, and A Father’s Letters to His Daughter, 1865. He died at Georgetown, D. C., February 1, 1865.
Come, let us tune our loftiest song 21
296. White
White, Henry Kirke, a gifted English poet who died early in life, was born in Nottingham, England, March 21, 1785. Very early he manifested a remarkable love for books and a decided talent for composition. But his parents were poor, and he was apprenticed in early boyhood to a stocking weaver, from which uncongenial servitude he escaped as soon as he could and began the study of law; but later he was converted and felt called to the ministry. The story of his conversion from deism to Christianity is briefly but beautifully told in the poem titled |The Star of Bethlehem.| He entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1805 as a servitor; but died October 19, 1806, in the second year of his college course, when only twenty-one years of age. In 1803 he published a small volume of poems. Some of them are very fine, but no doubt he would have produced others far better if he had lived to the ordinary age of man. His rare poetic genius, his victory over skepticism and subsequent faith and piety, his hard struggle with poverty and early death invest the story of his life with more than ordinary pathos. His hymns, ten in number, appeared in Collyer’s Collection, 1812.
Oft in danger, oft in woe 412
The Lord our God is clothed with 99
When marshaled on the mighty 124
297. Whittier
Whittier, John Greenleaf, commonly known as the |Quaker Poet,| was born at Haverhill, Mass., December 17, 1807; and died at Hampton Falls, N. H., September 7, 1892. Beginning life as a farmer boy and village shoemaker, and with only a limited education, he entered the profession of journalism in 1828, becoming that year editor of the American Manufacturer, published in Boston, and in 1830 editor of the New England Review. In 1836 he became Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of its official organ, the Freeman. In Boston, Hartford, Haverhill, Philadelphia, and Washington he pursued his profession successfully for about twenty years, after which, beginning with 1847, he became the corresponding editor of the National Era in Washington, D. C. He was a strong advocate for the freedom of the slaves, and his pen both as journalist and poet was ever at the call of the cause that was so near to his heart. The Quaker poet was as much opposed to war as he was to slavery. With the rigid and narrow type of Calvinistic theology that so long dominated New England he had no sympathy, but felt that a part of his mission as a poet was to rebuke and refute a theology which he felt to be a caricature upon the heart and character of God. Many of his poems are described as |rhetoric on fire with emotion.| In his religious poems he always magnified the goodness and love of God for man and man’s love for and service of his fellow-man as that which proves far better than creeds and ceremonies could that one possesses the Christian character. Whittier’s poems are pervaded by the ethical and religious element more largely, perhaps, than is true of the writings of any other great English poet of modern times. From 1824 to the year of his death (1892) he wrote and published poems singly in periodicals and collectively in book form. From these poems about seventy-five hymns have been made by selecting verses of religious and devotional sentiments. Our Hymnal contains seven of his hymns:
Dear Lord and Father of mankind 543
I bow my forehead in the dust 472
It may not be our lot to wield 398
O Love! O Life! Our faith and sight 479
Our thought of thee is glad with 712
We may not climb the heavenly 128
When on my day of life the night 589
298. Williams
Williams, Helen Maria, was born in the North of England in 1762. She published a volume of poems when only twenty-one years old, and in 1786 her Poems appeared in two small volumes. She visited Paris in 1788, and lived there for some years with a sister who had married a French Protestant. This was during the period of the Revolution and the Reign of Terror. She was an outspoken republican in her sympathies, and was imprisoned by Robespierre because of some of her utterances in advocacy of the Girondist cause, being released from prison only after his death, in 1794. Her Letters from France (1790 and 1795) were published in England, America, and France. They dealt with political, religious, and literary questions, and showed her to be a woman of more than ordinary intellectual strength. She published many volumes between 1786 and 1823, when her last volume appeared, titled Poems on Various Occasions, being a collection of all her previously published poems. She lived partly in England, but mostly in France, though the closing years of her life were spent in Holland in the home of a nephew who lived at Amsterdam and was pastor of the reformed Church there. Her death occurred at Paris December 14, 1827.
While thee I seek, protecting Power 517
299. Williams
Williams, William, has been called |the Watts of Wales.| He was born in 1717. His |awakening| was due to an open-air sermon by the famous Welsh preacher, Howell Harris. Williams received deacon’s orders in the Established Church, but subsequently became a preacher in the Calvinistic Methodist connection. As an evangelistic preacher he was popular and successful, abounding in labors and exercising a wide influence among the Welsh. He died January 11, 1791.
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah 91
300. Willis
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, the well-known American poet and man of letters, was born at Portland, Me., January 20, 1807; graduated at Yale in 1827; followed a literary life with great success, publishing many volumes, one of poems; died at his beautiful home, |Idlewild,| near Newburg-on-the-Hudson, January 29, 1867. He published a volume of Sacred Poems in 1843. His sister, Mrs. Parton, was a writer widely known under the nom de plume of |Fanny Fern.|
The perfect world, by Adam trod 660
301. Winchester
Winchester, Caleb Thomas, an educator and author, the son of Rev. George F. Winchester, was born at Montville, Conn., January 18, 1847; graduated at Wesleyan University with the A.D. degree in 1869, in which institution he has been Professor of English Literature since 1873. He has delivered courses of lectures at Amherst, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and other universities. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Dickinson College in 1892. He is the author of several scholarly volumes, among them Some Principles of Literary Criticism, 1899; Life of John Wesley, 1906; A Group of English Essayists, 1910. He was a member of the Joint Commission that prepared this Hymnal. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He resides at Middletown, Conn., the seat of Wesleyan University.
The Lord our God alone is strong 686
302. Winckler
Winckler, John Joseph, a German Pietist, was born at Luckau, in Saxony, December 23, 1670. He was at first a pastor at Magdeburg, then a chaplain in the Protestant army, accompanying the troops to Holland and Italy, and at length returned to Magdeburg and became chief minister of the cathedral. He was no less eminent for his mental culture than for his piety. He was a preacher and writer who had the courage of his convictions, and this quality is notably manifest in the hymn by him found in this collection. He died August 11, 1722.
Shall I, for fear of feeble man 225
303. Winkworth
Winkworth, Catherine, an English poetess unusually gifted as a translator of hymns, was a member of the Church of England. She was born in London September 13, 1829. Much of her early life was spent near Manchester, the family moving later to Clifton, near Bristol. She made a specialty of translations from the German. She was the author of the following books: Lyra Germanica (first series, 1855; second series, 1858); The Chorale Book for England, 1863; Christian Singers of Germany, 1869. She died suddenly of heart disease at Monnetier, Savoy, July, 1878. Dr. James Martineau said: |Her translations contained in these volumes are invariably faithful and, for the most part, both terse and delicate; and an admirable art is applied to the management of complex and difficult versification.| |Miss Winkworth,| says Dr. Julian, |although not the earliest of modern translators of German into English, is certainly the foremost in rank and popularity.| She possessed great intellectual and social gifts, and was deeply interested in the higher education of women. Six of her translations have a place in this volume.
Faith is a living power from heaven 286
Fear not, O little flock, the foe 445
Leave God to order all thy ways 476
Now God be with us, for the night 58
Now thank we all our God 30
Whate’er my God ordains is right 487
304. Wolcott
Wolcott, Samuel, a Congregational clergyman, was born at South Windsor, Conn., July 2, 1813; graduated at Yale in 1833 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837; was missionary in Syria in 1840-42, after which time he served as pastor in various towns and cities, including Providence, R. I., Chicago, Ill., and Cleveland, Ohio, and later served for some time as Secretary of the Ohio Home Missionary Society. He then retired from active work, and died February 24, 1886. Although he did not begin writing hymns until late in life, he wrote altogether some two hundred hymns, about a dozen of which are found in modern Church hymnals.
Christ for the world we sing 635
305. Woodhull
Woodhull, Alfred Alexander, a physician, the son of Rev. George S. Woodhull, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Cranbury, N. J., March 25, 1810; graduated at Princeton in 1828, and soon after began the study of medicine. He received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. After a year as a resident physician in a hospital in Philadelphia, he began the practice of his profession at Marietta, Pa., removing in 1835 to Princeton, where within a year he contracted a fever which occasioned his death October 5, 1836. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Although but twenty-six years of age, he had so secured the confidence of his fellows, both as a Christian man and a skilled physician, that his death was greatly lamented.
Great God of nations, now to thee 706
306. Wordsworth
Wordsworth, Christopher, a bishop of the Church of England, was born October 30, 1807, at Lambeth, England, his father, Christopher Wordsworth, being rector of the parish. He distinguished himself in athletics as well as in scholarship at Winchester. Entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1826, he won numerous university honors, graduating in 1830, after which he served as fellow, lecturer, and public orator in the college. In 1836 he became Headmaster of Harrow School, working in the school during his incumbency a moral reform which filled many students in the school with enthusiastic admiration. He was appointed a canon of Westminster in 1844, which offee he continued to fill during the nineteen years of his residence in Berkshire as the rector of a quiet country parish, living four months of each year in London, as was made necessary by his canonry. He was appointed Bishop of Lincoln in 1869, which office he held for fifteen years, resigning only a few months before his death, March 20, 1885. He, was a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth, with whom his relations were most intimate. He was a voluminous author, among his works being a Commentary on the Whole Bible (1856-70), a Church History (1881-83), and a volume of hymns titled The Holy Year, 1862. |This last-named volume,| says Prebendary Overton, in Julian’s Dictionary, |contains hymns not only for every season of the Church’s year, but for every phase of that season, as indicated in the Book of Common Prayer. Like the Wesleys, he looked upon hymns as a valuable means of stamping permanently upon the memory the great doctrines of the Christian Church. He held it to be the first duty of a hymn writer to teach sound doctrine, and thus to save souls.| Of Bishop Wordsworth’s one hundred and twenty-seven hymns, about fifty are in common use.
Father of all, from land and sea 566
Hark! the sound of holy voices 613
Holy, holy, holy, Lord 77
O day of rest and gladness 68
O Lord of heaven and earth and sea 692
The day is gently sinking to a close 61
307. Wreford
Wreford, John Reynell, an English Unitarian minister, was born December 12, 1800, at Barnstaple; educated at Manchester College, and in 1826 became pastor of a Church in Birmingham. In 1831, on account of the failure of his voice, he withdrew from the active work of the ministry and, in canjunction with Rev. Hugh Hutton, established a school at Edgbaston. He wrote a History of Presbyterian Nonconformity in Birmingham, 1832, and Lays of Loyalty, 1837. He contributed fifty-five hymns to Rev. J. R. Beard’s Collection, 1837. His most popular and valuable hymn is the one given in this book. The last years of his life were spent in retirement at Bristol, where he died in 1891.
Lord, while for all mankind we pray 701
308. Xavier
Xavier, Francis, a noted Jesuitic missionary of the Roman Catholic Church, was born of a noble family at the Castle of Xavier, near Pampeluna, in Spain, April 7, 1506. While at the University of Paris he came under the influence of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the order of Jesuits. He was of an ardent and earnest religious temperament, full of zeal and courage. He was one of the greatest missionary spirits that ever lived, visiting India, Travancore, Ceylon, Malacca, Japan, and dying on his way to China December 22, 1552. He was in due time canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. While it is not certain that Xavier wrote the hymn here accredited to him, it must be said that the tradition that he wrote it is of long standing. Not only does Edward Caswall, the translator, accredit it to him, but both the editor and the assistant editor of Julian’s Dictionary also decide in favor of his probable authorship. |The Latin form,| says Mearns, |is probably by Xavier or by some German Jesuit.| |This hymn,| says Julian, |breathes Xavier’s abnegation of self in every word, his spirit in every line.|
My God, I love thee not because 483
309. Zinzendorf
Zinzendorf, Count Nicolaus Ludwig, the founder of the religious community of Herrnhut and the apostle of the United Brethren, was born at Dresden May 26, 1700. It is not often that noble blood and worldly wealth are allied with true piety and missionary zeal. Such, however, was the case with Count Zinzendorf. Spener, the father of Pietism, was his godfather; and Franke, the founder of the famous Orphan House, in Halle, was for several years his tutor. In 1731 Zinzendorf resigned all public duties and devoted himself to missionary work. He traveled extensively on the Continent, in Great Britain, and in America, preaching |Christ, and him crucified,| and organizing societies of Moravian brethren. John Wesley is said to have been under obligation to Zinzendorf for some ideas on singing, organization of classes, and Church government. Zinzendorf was the author of some two thousand hymns. Many of them are of little worth, but a few are very valuable, full of gospel sweetness and holy fervor. He died at Herrnhut May 6, 1760.
I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of God 335
Jesus, thy blood and righteousness 148
O Thou, to whose all-searching sight 359
310. Subject Index
Adams, Sarah Flower, AdamsS-p0.1
Addison, Joseph, AddisonJ-p0.1
Alexander, Cecil Frances, AlexandC-p0.1
Alexander, James Waddell, AlexandJ-p0.1
Alford, Henry, AlfordH-p0.1
Amis, Lewis Randolph, AmisLR-p0.1
Andrew of Crete, AndrewC-p0.1
Anstice, Joseph, AnsticeJ-p0.1
Auber, Harriet, AuberH-p0.1
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, BabcockM-p0.1
Baker, Sir Henry Williams, BakerHW-p0.1
Bakewell, John, Bakewell-p0.1
Barbauld, Anna Letitia, Barbauld-p0.1
Barber, Mary Ann Serrett, BarberM-p0.1
Baring-Gould, Sabine, BaringGd-p0.1
Barton, Bernard, BartonB-p0.1
Bateman, Henry, BatemanH-p0.1
Bathurst, William Hiley, Bathurst-p0.1
Baxter, Lydia, BaxterL-p0.1
Baxter, Richard, BaxterR-p0.1
Beddome, Benjamin, BeddomeB-p0.1
Bernard of Clairvaux, BernClai-p0.1
Bernard of Cluny, BernClun-p0.1
Berridge, John, Berridge-p0.1
Bethune, George Washington, BethuneG-p0.1
Bickersteth, Edward Henry, Bickerst-p0.1
Blacklock, Thomas, Blacklok-p0.1
Bode, John Ernest, BodeJE-p0.1
Boehm, Anthony Wilhelm, BoehmAW-p0.1
Bonar, Horatius, BonarH-p0.1
Bonar, Jane Catherine, BonarJC-p0.1
Borthwick, Jane, Borthwik-p0.1
Bourignon, Antoinette, BourignA-p0.1
Bourne, William St. Hill, BourneW-p0.1
Bowring, Sir John, BowringJ-p0.1
Brace, Seth Collins, BraceSC-p0.1
Brady, Nicholas, BradyN-p0.1
Brewer, Leigh Richmond, BrewerL-p0.1
Bridges, Matthew, BridgesM-p0.1
Bromehead, Joseph, Bromehed-p0.1
Brooks, Charles Timothy, BrooksC-p0.1
Brooks, Phillips, BrooksP-p0.1
Brown, Phoebe Hinsdale, BrownPH-p0.1
Browne, Simon, BrowneS-p0.1
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Browning-p0.1
Bryant, William Cullen, BryantW-p0.1
Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, Bulfinch-p0.1
Burleigh, William Henry, Burleigh-p0.1
Burns, James Drummond, BurnsJD-p0.1
Burton, Henry, BurtonH-p0.1
Campbell, Jane Montgomery, CampbeJM-p0.1
Campbell, Margaret Cockburn, CampbeMC-p0.1
Carney, Julia A., CarneyJ-p0.1
Cary, Phoebe, CaryP-p0.1
Caswall, Edward, CaswallE-p0.1
Cawood, John, CawoodJ-p0.1
Cennick, John, CennickJ-p0.1
Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, CharlesE-p0.1
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, ChorleyH-p0.1
Claudius, Matthias, Claudius-p0.1
Clement of Alexandria, ClementA-p0.1
Codner, Elizabeth, CodnerE-p0.1
Coghill, Annie Louisa, CoghillA-p0.1
Collyer, William Bengo, CollyerW-p0.1
Colquhoun, Frances Sara, Colquhun-p0.1
Conder, Josiah, ConderJ-p0.1
Copeland, Benjamin, Copeland-p0.1
Cotterill, Jane, CotteriJ-p0.1
Cotterill, Thomas, CotteriT-p0.1
Cowper, Frances Maria, CowperF-p0.1
Cowper, William, CowperW-p0.1
Cox, Christopher Christian, CoxChCh-p0.1
Cox, Samuel Keener, CoxSamK-p0.1
Coxe, Arthur Cleveland, CoxeAC-p0.1
Crewdson, Jane, Crewdson-p0.1
Croly, George, CrolyG-p0.1
Crosby, Fanny Jane, CrosbyF-p0.1
Cross, Ada Cambridge, CrossAC-p0.1
Cummins, James John, CumminsJ-p0.1
Cutter, William, CutterW-p0.1
Davies, Samuel, DaviesS-p0.1
Decius, Nicolaus, DeciusN-p0.1
Deems, Charles Force, DeemsCF-p0.1
Denny, Sir Edward, DennyE-p0.1
Dessler, Wolfgang Christopher, DesslerW-p0.1
Dexter, Henry Martyn, DexterHM-p0.1
Dix, William Chatterton, DixWC-p0.1
Doane, George Washington, DoaneGW-p0.1
Doane, William Crosswell, DoaneWC-p0.1
Doddridge, Philip, Doddridg-p0.1
Dryden, John, DrydenJ-p0.1
Duffield, George, Duffield-p0.1
Dwight, John Sullivan, DwightJS-p0.1
Dwight, Timothy, DwightT-p0.1
Edmeston, James, Edmeston-p0.1
Ela, David Hough, ElaDH-p0.1
Ellerton, John, Ellerton-p0.1
Elliott, Charlotte, ElliottC-p0.1
Elliott, Emily Elizabeth Steele, ElliottE-p0.1
Esling, Catherine Harbison, EslingC-p0.1
Evans, William Edwin, EvansWE-p0.1
Everest, Charles William, EverestC-p0.1
Faber, Frederick William, FaberFW-p0.1
Fabricius, Jacob, Fabricis-p0.1
Farrar, Frederick William, FarrarFW-p0.1
Fawcett, John, FawcettJ-p0.1
Findlater, Sarah Borthwick, Findlatr-p0.1
Fortunatus, Venantius, Fortunats-p0.1
Francis, Benjamin, FrancisB-p0.1
Freckelton, Thomas Wesley, Freckelt-p0.1
Gerhardt, Paul, Gerhardt-p0.1
Gibbons, Thomas, GibbonsT-p0.1
Gilder, Richard Watson, GilderRW-p0.1
Gill, Thomas Hornblower, GillTH-p0.1
Gilman, Samuel, GilmanS-p0.1
Gilmore, Joseph Henry, GilmoreJ-p0.1
Gladden, Washington, GladdenW-p0.1
Goode, William, GoodeW-p0.1
Grant, Robert, GrantR-p0.1
Greg, Samuel, GregS-p0.1
Grigg, Joseph, GriggJ-p0.1
Gurney, Dorothy Frances, GurneyD-p0.1
Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus-p0.1
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, GuyonJM-p0.1
Hall, Christopher Newman, HallCN-p0.1
Hammond, William, HammondW-p0.1
Hankey, Katherine, HankeyK-p0.1
Hart, Joseph, HartJos-p0.1
Hastings, Thomas, HastingT-p0.1
Hatch, Edwin, HatchEd-p0.1
Hatfield, Edwin Francis, Hatfield-p0.1
Havergal, Frances Ridley, HaverglF-p0.1
Haweis, Hugh Reginald, HaweisH-p0.1
Hawker, Robert, HawkerR-p0.1
Hawks, Annie Sherwood, HawksAS-p0.1
Hay, John, HayJohn-p0.1
Hayward, Hayward-p0.1
Hearn, Marianne, HearnM-p0.1
Heath, George, HeathG-p0.1
Heber, Reginald, HeberR-p0.1
Hedge, Frederick Henry, HedgeFH-p0.1
Herbert, George, HerbertG-p0.1
Herbert, Petrus, HerbertP-p0.1
Holden, Oliver, HoldenO-p0.1
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, HollandJ-p0.1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, HolmesO-p0.1
Hopper, Edward, HopperE-p0.1
Hopps, John Page, HoppsJP-p0.1
Hosmer, Frederick Lucian, HosmerF-p0.1
Hoss, Elijah Embree, HossEE-p0.1
How, William Walsham, HowWW-p0.1
Hunter, William, HunterW-p0.1
Hutton, Frances A., HuttonFA-p0.1
Ingemann, Bernhardt Severin, Ingemann-p0.1
Irons, William Josiah, IronsWJ-p0.1
Jacobi, John Christian, JacobiJC-p0.1
Jacopone da Todi, Jacopone-p0.1
John of Damascus, JohnDam-p0.1
Johnson, E., JohnsonE-p0.1
Johnson, Samuel, JohnsonS-p0.1
Jones, Edmund, JonesEd-p0.1
Julian, John, JulianJ-p0.1
Keble, John, KebleJ-p0.1
Keen, R., KeenR-p0.1
Kelly, Thomas, KellyT-p0.1
Ken, Thomas, KenTh-p0.1
Kethe, William, KetheW-p0.1
Kimball, Harriet McEwen, KimballH-p0.1
Kipling, Rudyard, KiplingR-p0.1
Lanier, Sidney, LanierS-p0.1
Lathbury, Mary Artemisia, LathburyM-p0.1
Leeson, Jane Elizabeth, LeesonJE-p0.1
Lloyd, William Freeman, LloydWF-p0.1
Longfellow, Samuel, LongfelS-p0.1
Luke, Jemima Thompson, LukeJT-p0.1
Luther, Martin, LutherM-p0.1
Lynch, Thomas Toke, LynchTT-p0.1
Lyte, Henry Francis, LyteHF-p0.1
Macduff, John Ross, MacduffJ-p0.1
Mackay, Margaret, MackayM-p0.1
Macleod, Norman, MacleodN-p0.1
Madan, Martin, MadanM-p0.1
Malan, Henri Abraham Caesar, MalanHA-p0.1
March, Daniel, MarchD-p0.1
Marcy, Elizabeth Eunice, MarcyEE-p0.1
Marriott, John, MarriotJ-p0.1
Marsden, Joshua, MarsdenJ-p0.1
Mason, John, MasonJ-p0.1
Massie, Richard, MassieR-p0.1
Matheson, George, Matheson-p0.1
McDonald, William, McDonalW-p0.1
Medley, Samuel, MedleyS-p0.1
Messenger, John Alexander, Messengr-p0.1
Midlane, Albert, MidlaneA-p0.1
Miller, Emily Huntington, MillerE-p0.1
Mills, Henry, MillsH-p0.1
Milman, Henry Hart, MilmanHH-p0.1
Milton, John, MiltonJ-p0.1
Mohr, Joseph, MohrJ-p0.1
Monod, Theodore, MonodT-p0.1
Monsen, John Samuel Bewley, MonsenJS-p0.1
Montgomery, James, Montgomr-p0.1
Moore, Thomas, MooreT-p0.1
Mote, Edward, MoteEd-p0.1
Moultrie, Gerard, MoultriG-p0.1
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, Muhlenbg-p0.1
Neale, John Mason, NealeJM-p0.1
Needham, John, NeedhamJ-p0.1
Neumark, Georg, NeumarkG-p0.1
Newman, John Henry, NewmanJH-p0.1
Newton, John, NewtonJ-p0.1
Noel, Gerard Thomas, NoelGT-p0.1
North, Frank Mason, NorthFM-p0.1
Olivers, Thomas, OliversT-p0.1
Palmer, Ray, PalmerR-p0.1
Park, Roswell, ParkR-p0.1
Perronet, Edward, Perronet-p0.1
Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden, PhelpsS-p0.1
Pierpoint, Folliott Sanford, Pierpoin-p0.1
Pierpont, John, Pierpont-p0.1
Plumptree, Edward Hayes, Plumptre-p0.1
Pott, Francis, PottF-p0.1
Potter, Thomas Joseph, PotterTJ-p0.1
Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson, Prentiss-p0.1
Procter, Adelaide Anne, ProcterA-p0.1
Prynne, George Rundle, PrynneGR-p0.1
Rabanus Maurus, RabanusM-p0.1
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, RankinJE-p0.1
Rawson, George, RawsonG-p0.1
Reed, Andrew, ReedAnd-p0.1
Rice, Caroline Laura, RiceCL-p0.1
Richter, Christian Frederic, RichterC-p0.1
Rinkart, Martin, RinkartM-p0.1
Robert IX., RobertIX-p0.1
Roberts, Daniel C., RobertsD-p0.1
Robinson, George, RobinsnG-p0.1
Robinson, Richard Hayes, RobnsnRH-p0.1
Robinson, Robert, RobinsnR-p0.1
Rodigast, Samuel, Rodigast-p0.1
Roscoe, William, RoscoeW-p0.1
Rothe, Johann Andreas, RotheJA-p0.1
Scheffler, Johann Angelus, Schefflr-p0.1
Schmolke, Benjamin, Schmolke-p0.1
Scott, Sir Walter, ScottW-p0.1
Scott, Thomas, ScottT-p0.1
Scriven, Joseph, ScrivenJ-p0.1
Seagrave, Robert, SeagravR-p0.1
Sears, Edward Hamilton, SearsEH-p0.1
Seymour, Aaron Crossley Hobart, SeymourA-p0.1
Shepherd, Thomas, ShephrdT-p0.1
Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton, Shurtlef-p0.1
Singleton, Robert Corbet, SingltnR-p0.1
Slade, Mary B. C., SladeNB-p0.1
Smith, Samuel Francis, SmithSF-p0.1
Spangenberg, Augustus Gottlieb, Spangnbg-p0.1
Spitta, Carl Johann Philipp, SpittaCJ-p0.1
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, StanleyA-p0.1
Steele, Anne, SteeleA-p0.1
Stennett, Joseph, StennetJ-p0.1
Stennett, Samuel, StennetS-p0.1
Stockton, John Hart, StocktnJ-p0.1
Stone, Samuel John, StoneSJ-p0.1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, StoweHB-p0.1
Stowell, Hugh, StowellH-p0.1
Stratton, Lovie Ricker, StrattnL-p0.1
Strong, Nathan, StrongN-p0.1
Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey, StrykerM-p0.1
Swain, Joseph, SwainJ-p0.1
Tappan, William Brigham, TappanWB-p0.1
Tate, Nahum, TateNah-p0.1
Taylor, Thomas Rawson, TaylorTR-p0.1
Tennyson, Alfred, TennysnA-p0.1
Tersteegen, Gerhard, Terstegn-p0.1
Theodulph, Theodulf-p0.1
Thomas of Celano, ThomasC-p0.1
Thomson, Mary Ann, ThomsonM-p0.1
Thring, Godfrey, ThringG-p0.1
Toplady, Augustus Montague, TopladyA-p0.1
Tuttiett, Lawrence, TuttietL-p0.1
Twells, Henry, TwellsH-p0.1
Unknown, Unknown-p0.1
Van Alstyne, Mrs. Fanny Crosby, VanAlstn-p0.1
Vokes, Mrs., Vokes-p0.1
Walford, William W., WalfordW-p0.1
Ware, Henry, WareHen-p0.1
Waring, Anna Laetitia, WaringAL-p0.1
Warner, Anna Bartlett, WarnerAB-p0.1
Warren, Willis Fairfield, WarrenWF-p0.1
Waterbury, Jared Bell, Watrbury-p0.1
Watts, Isaac, WattsI-p0.1
Wells, Marcus Morris, WellsMM-p0.1
Wesley, Charles, WesleyC-p0.1
Wesley, John, WesleyJ-p0.1
Wesley, Samuel, WesleyS-p0.1
West, Robert Athow, WestRA-p0.1
White, Henry Kirke, WhiteHK-p0.1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Whittier-p0.1
Williams, Helen Maria, WilliamH-p0.1
Williams, William, WilliamW-p0.1
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, WillisNP-p0.1
Winchester, Caleb Thomas, WinchstC-p0.1
Winckler, John Joseph, WincklrJ-p0.1
Winkworth, Catherine, Winkwrth-p0.1
Wolcott, Samuel, WolcottS-p0.1
Woodhull, Alfred Alexander, WoodhulA-p0.1
Wordsworth, Christopher, WordswthC-p0.1
Wreford, John Reynell, WrefordJ-p0.1
Xavier, Francis, XavierF-p0.1
Zinzendorf, Count Nicolaus Ludwig, Zinzendf-p0.1
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