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An Evening Hymn

Author: Thomas Ken Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,053 hymnals First Line: All praise to Thee, my God, this night Lyrics: 1 All praise to You, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light. Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath the shelter of Your wings. 2 Forgive me, Lord, for this I pray, The wrong that I have done this day. May peace with God and neighbor be, Before I sleep restored to me. 3 Lord, may I be at rest in You And sweetly sleep the whole night thro'. Refresh my strength, for Your own sake, So I may serve You when I wake. 4 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Baptist Hymnal, 1991
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O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High

Author: Thomas á Kempis ; Benjamin Webb Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 141 hymnals Text Sources: Latin, 15th cent.
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Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,809 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does its successive journeys run, his kingdom stretch from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and wane no more. 2 To him shall endless prayer be made, and praises throng to crown his head. His name like sweet perfume shall rise with every morning sacrifice. 3 People and realms of every tongue dwell on his love with sweetest song, and infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name. 4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns: the prisoners leap to lose their chains, the weary find eternal rest, and all who suffer want are blest. 5 Let every creature rise and bring the highest honors to our King, angels descend with songs again, and earth repeat the loud amen. Psalter Hymnal, (Gray) Topics: Missions General; Psalm Adaptations; Soul Winning

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DUKE STREET

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,510 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hatton, c.1710-1793 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13456 71765 55565 Used With Text: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
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WINCHESTER NEW

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 403 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Henry Monk Tune Sources: Musikalisches Handbuch, 1690 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51566 54334 32554 Used With Text: On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
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O WALY WALY

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 211 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Bruce Greer Tune Sources: Appalachian Folk melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51232 16551 71234 Used With Text: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

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Junto al Jordán

Author: Dimas Planas Belfort Hymnal: El Himnario #59 (1998) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Junto al Jordán se oye el clamor Topics: Adviento; Adviento; Advent Scripture: John 1:29 Languages: Spanish Tune Title: PUER NOBIS
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Junto al Jordán

Author: Dimas Planas Belfort Hymnal: El Himnario Presbiteriano #59 (1999) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Junto al Jordán se oye el clamor Lyrics: 1 Junto al Jordán se oye el clamor de Juan Bautista, el precursor. Anuncia que ya viene aquél que habrá de ser nuestro Emanuel. 2 Recto ha de ser el proceder del pueblo que aspira a ser del templo de su habitación y objecto de su redención. 3 Cual nuestra sola redención te acoje nuestro corazón, pues sin tu gracia, oh Salvador, fallece cual marchita flor. 4 Rescátanos ya del sufrir; no nos permitas sucumbir. Y que tu esplendorosa faz al mundo alumbre y traga paz. 5 Jesús que viene con virtud y cuyo adviento trae salud, el Padre y el Consolador reciban gloria, prez y honor. Topics: Adviento; Adviento Scripture: John 1:29 Languages: Spanish Tune Title: PUER NOBIS
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Great God, to thee my voice I raise

Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: Divine and Moral Songs #HV (1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: Great God, to thee my voice I raise, To thee my youngest hours belong: I would begin my life with praise, Till growing years improve the song. ’Tis to thy sovereign grace I owe That I was born on Christian ground; Where streams of heavenly mercy flow, And words of sweet salvation sound. 34 I would not change my native land For rich Peru, with all her gold: A nobler prize lies in my hand Than east or western Indies hold. How do I pity those that dwell Where ignorance and darkness reign! They know no heaven—they fear no hell— That endless joy—that endless pain. Thy glorious promises, O Lord, Kindle my hopes and my desire: While all the preachers of thy word Warn me t’ escape eternal fire. Thy praise shall still employ my breath, Since thou hast mark’d my way to heaven, Nor will I run the road to death, And waste the blessings thou hast given. Languages: English

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Phillip Melanchthon

1497 - 1560 Person Name: P. Melanchthon, 1497-1560 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "Lord God, We All to Thee Give Praise" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Melanchthon, Philipp, son of Georg Schwarzert, armourer to the Elector Philipp of the Palatinate, was born at Bretten, near Carlsruhe, Feb. 16, 1497. From 1507 to 1509 he attended the Latin school at Pforzheim, and here he was already, by Johann Reuchlin, called Melanchthon (the Greek form of "Black Earth," his German surname). In October, 1509, he entered the University of Heidelberg (B.A. 1511), and on Sept. 17, 1512, matriculated at Tubingen, where he graduated M.A., Jan. 25, 1514, and where he remained till 1518 as private lecturer in the philosophical faculty. On Aug. 29, 1518, he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, and in January, 1526, also Professor of theology. He died at Wittenberg, April 19, 1560 (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xxi. 268, &c). Melanchthon is best known as one of the leaders of the German Reforma¬tion; as a theologian (Loci communes, 1521, &c.); and as the framer of the famous Confession presented to the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, and still accepted as a standard by all the sections of Lutheranism in Germany, America, and elsewhere. His poems and hymns were written in Latin, and exercised no appreciable influence on the development of German hymnody. They were edited by Grathusen in 1560, Vincent 1563, Major 1575, &c.; the most complete edition being that by O. G. Bretschneider, at Halle, 1842 (Corpus Reformatorum, vol. x.). A number of his hymns are translated by Miss Fry in her Echoes of Eternity, 1859. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Composer of "HAMBURG" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

John W. Peterson

1921 - 2006 Person Name: John W. Peterson, b. 1921 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Arranger of "RETREAT" in Ambassador Hymnal

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Meter: 8.8.8.8
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The Baptist Standard Hymnal

Publication Date: 1924 Publisher: Sunday School Publishing Board, National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Publication Place: Nashville

The Book of Psalms for Singing

Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: Crown and Covenant Publications Meter: 8.8.8.8 Publication Place: Pittsburgh, PA
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