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Eternal Rock!--to thee I flee

Author: McDuff Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 6 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Eternal Rock!--to thee I flee; In thy rent fissures would I hide: No rill of mercy flows to me But issues from thy wounded side. 2 Earth's fondest hopes, and brightest dreams, Are fitful, fugitive, and vain; The best of its polluted streams I only drink to thirst again. 3 Forgiveness, peace, salvation, heaven, Jesus, I owe alone to thee-- The Rock whose clefts for me were riven, The smitten One of Calvary! Topics: The Christian System Atonement; And that Rock was Christ Scripture: Psalm 61:2

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Eternal Rock!--to thee I flee

Author: McDuff Hymnal: The Voice of Praise #388 (1873) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Rock!--to thee I flee; In thy rent fissures would I hide: No rill of mercy flows to me But issues from thy wounded side. 2 Earth's fondest hopes, and brightest dreams, Are fitful, fugitive, and vain; The best of its polluted streams I only drink to thirst again. 3 Forgiveness, peace, salvation, heaven, Jesus, I owe alone to thee-- The Rock whose clefts for me were riven, The smitten One of Calvary! Topics: The Christian System Atonement; And that Rock was Christ Scripture: Psalm 61:2

Eternal Rock, to thee I flee

Author: John R. Macduff Hymnal: Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part I #d46 (1880)

Eternal Rock, to thee I flee

Author: John R. Macduff Hymnal: Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver #d56 (1867) Languages: English

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John R. MacDuff

1818 - 1895 Author of "Eternal Rock, to thee I flee" Macduff, John Ross, D.D., second son of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, near Perth, was born at Bonhard, May 23, 1818. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he became in 1842 parish minister of Kettins, Forfarshire, in 1849 of St. Madoes, Perthshire, and in 1855 of Sandyford, Glasgow. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1862, and about the same time also from the University of New York. He retired from pastoral work in 1871, lived at Chislehurst, Kent and died in 1887. He has published many practical and devotional works which have attained a wide circulation. In 1857 he was appointed by the General Assembly a member of their Hymnal Committee. His 31 hymns appeared in his Altar Stones, 1853, and were also included with his later poems in his The Gates of Praise, 1876. Of these hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Christ Is coming! Let creation. Second Advent. 2. Eternal Rock! To Thee I flee. (1853.) Christ the Rock. 3. Everlasting arms of love. (1853.) Support in Christ. 4. From Thy habitation holy. Whitsuntide. 5. Hasten, Lord, that morn of glory. Second Advent. 6. Jesus wept! Those tears are over. (1853.) The raising of Lazarus. 7. O do not, blessed Lord, depart. Christ's presence desired. 8. Where shall I look for holy calm. (1853.) Passiontide. 9. Why should I murmur or repine? Resignation. Of these hymns those dated 1853 are parts only of Dr. Macduff’s originals. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============== Macduff, J. R., p. 708, i. Another hymn from his Gates of Praise, 1876, is "Blessed feast! most gracious token" (Holy Communion). He died April 30, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_Macduff
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