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God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People

Author: Winfred Garrison, 1874-1969 Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: God of our fathers, the strength of our people and nation Lyrics: 1. God of our fathers, the strength of our people and nation, Gladly we come to Thy presence with true adoration, Seeking Thy face, trusting Thy love and Thy grace, Thou art our health and salvation. 2. God of all mercy, for pardon and peace we implore Thee, Humbly confessing our faults and our failures before Thee. Children of men, falling and rising again, Still give us grace to adore Thee. 3. God of the poor and the weak, to our prayer now attending, Teach us to follow the Master of all men in blending Worship with deed, praises with service to need, All men in His name befriending. 4. God of all peoples, let justice and peace like a river Flow through the world until all, in one common endeavor, Build among men brotherhood’s kingdom, and then Thine be the glory forever. Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN

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LOBE DEN HERREN

Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 443 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William S. Bennett Tune Sources: Ander Theil des Erneuerten Gesangbuch, second edition (Bremen, Germany: 1665) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11532 17656 71215 Used With Text: God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People

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God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People

Author: Winfred E. Garrison, 1874- Hymnal: Christian Worship #158 (1941) Topics: God--Majesty and Power Languages: English Tune Title: LOBE DEN HERREN

God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People

Author: Winfred Garrison, 1874-1969 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1915 Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 First Line: God of our fathers, the strength of our people and nation Lyrics: 1. God of our fathers, the strength of our people and nation, Gladly we come to Thy presence with true adoration, Seeking Thy face, trusting Thy love and Thy grace, Thou art our health and salvation. 2. God of all mercy, for pardon and peace we implore Thee, Humbly confessing our faults and our failures before Thee. Children of men, falling and rising again, Still give us grace to adore Thee. 3. God of the poor and the weak, to our prayer now attending, Teach us to follow the Master of all men in blending Worship with deed, praises with service to need, All men in His name befriending. 4. God of all peoples, let justice and peace like a river Flow through the world until all, in one common endeavor, Build among men brotherhood’s kingdom, and then Thine be the glory forever. Languages: English Tune Title: LOBE DEN HERREN

God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People

Hymnal: North American Hymnal (2nd ed.) #63 (1960) First Line: God of our fathers, the strength of our people and nation Tune Title: LOBE DEN HERREN

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William Sterndale Bennett

1816 - 1875 Person Name: William S. Bennett Harmonizer of "LOBE DEN HERREN" in The Cyber Hymnal William Sterndale Bennett, born in Sheffield, England, April 13, 1816, died in London, Feb. 1, 1875. His father, an organist, died when he was three years old, and his education was cared for by his grandfather. At the age of eight (1824) he entered the choir of King's College Chapel at Cambridge, where his grandfather lived, and in 1826 was sent to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Here he studied composition under Lucas and Dr. Crotch, and pianoforte, first under W. H. Holmes, and then under Cipriani Potter. His first composition of note was his D minor pianoforte concerto, op. 1, written in 1832 and played by himself at the prize concert at the Academy in 1833. Mendelssohn was present and greatly encouraged the young composer. In 1836 the firm of Broadwood offered to pay his expenses for a year's study in Leipsic; here he came under the influence of Mendelssohn and Schumann, both of whom held his talent in high esteem. He came back to London after the specified year, but returned to Leipsic for another year's study in 1840. In 1843 he began to give successful chamber concerts in London, and in 1844 married Mary Anne Wood, daughter of a captain in the Navy. In 1849 he founded the London Bach Society, one of the results of which was the first performance in England of the Matthew Passion, April 6, 1854. In 1853 he was offered the conductorship of the Leipsic Gewandhaus concerts, and in 1856 he was elected to the chair of musical professor at the University of Cambridge, and shortly afterwards received the degree of Mus. Doc. In 1856 he was also made permanent conductor of the Philharmonic Society, a post which he resigned ten years later to become principal of the Royal academy of Music. In 11867 he received the Cambridge degree of M.A. and a salary of 100 pounds was joined to his professorship. In 1870 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary dgree of D.C.L. He was knighted in 1871, and a scholarship was founded at the Royal academy of Music out of subscriptions to a public testimonial to him in St. James's Hall in 1872. He died after a short illness, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Bennett has been called the first English composer of individual genius since Purcell; he certainly was the first English composer who go any real recognition in Germany. He has generally been considered as a follower and imitator of Mendelssohn, although the best English critics deny this. Yet he may truly be said to have held more by Mendelssohn than by Schumann. His compositions are noteworthy for an easy grace, refinement, and elaborate perfection of style. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888) https://archive.org/details/cyclopediaofmusi01cham/mode/2up

Winfred E. Garrison

1874 - 1969 Person Name: Winfred Garrison, 1874-1969 Author of "God of Our Fathers, the Strength of Our People" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: October 1, 1874, St. Louis, Missouri. Died: February 6, 1969, Houston, Texas. Son of Disciples of Christ minister James Harvey Garrison, Winfred earned degrees from Eureka College, Yale University, and the University of Chicago (PhD 1897). He became president of Butler University in 1904, but health concerns sent him west in 1906. There he served as a delegate to New Mexico’s constitutional convention, and president of New Mexico Normal University and New Mexico State University. He later moved to California, where he established a young men’s college preparatory school. Eventually he returned east, where he taught philosophy and religious history at the University of Chicago, and served as Dean of the Disciples Divinity House and literary editor of the Christian Century magazine (1923-55), and wrote many books. After 10 years of retirement, he answered a call to lead the University of Houston School of Philosophy, where he taught for 13 years into his late 80’s. His works include: Thy Sea So Great, 1965 --www.hymntime.com/tch