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See, how the nations rage together

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NATIONS RAGE

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Stephen Newby Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 51122 33432 Used With Text: See How the Nations Rage Together

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See How the Nations Rage Together

Author: Richard Allen Hymnal: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #353 (2024) Lyrics: 1. See how the nations rage together, Seeking of each others' blood; See how the Scriptures are fulfilling! Repent, awake, and turn to God. We see the fig tree slowly budding; You who now in ruin lie, Behold the leaves almost appearing, Awake! take heed, your end is nigh. 2. We read of wars and great commotions Calling forth that dreadful day; O sinners, quit your sinful courses And trifle not your time away. Consider now the desolation And the shortness of your time; Behold, there's none but fiery ocean For all who don't repent in time. 3. Ye ministers who wait on preaching, Teachers and exhorters, too, Can you not see the harvest waiting? Arise, there is no rest for you. Arise, dear kindred, let's be doing; See the nations in distress; The Lord of hosts forbids their ruin Before the day of grace is past. 4. We see the land lie in confusion, Dreadful to our mortal eyes, But oh, dear sinners, that is nothing To when the day of gloom draws nigh; To see the Lord in clouds descending, Saints and angels guard him round; The saints from earth will rise to meet him, But sinners speechless at his frown. 5. O sinners, something e’en more dreadful, ’Fore your judge you must appear, To answer for your past transactions And how you ran your courses here. The book of conscience will be opened With your character therein; The sentence is, depart, ye cursèd, And ev’ry saint will cry, “Amen.” 6. O Lord, forbid for this, our nation, That should be their dreadful case; Now sinners, turn and find salvation, While he yet offers you free grace. ’Tis now you have a gospel morning; Still the lamp holds out to burn, And now you have sufficient warning: O sinners! sinners! will you turn? Topics: Ordinary Time Week 28 Scripture: Mark 13:8 Languages: English Tune Title: NATIONS RAGE

See! how the nations rage together

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs #LVIII (1801) Lyrics: 1 See! how the nations rage together, Seeking of each others blood; See how the scriptures are fulfilling! Sinners awake and turn to God. 2 We see the fig-tree budding; You that in open ruin lie, Behold the leaves almost appearing, Awak! behold your end is nigh. 3 We read of wars, and great commotions, To come before that dreadful day; Sinners quit your sinful courses, And trifle not your time away. 4 Consider now the desolation, And the shortness of your time; Since there's none but a dark ocean, For all that don't repent in time, 5 Ye ministers that wait on preaching, Teachers and exhorters too, Don't you see your harvest wasting, Arise, there is no rest for you, 6 O think upon that strict commandment, God has on his teachers laid: The sinner's blood that dips unwarned, Shall fall upon the teacher's head. 7 Arise dear brethren, let's be doing, See the nations in distress; The Lord of hosts forbid their ruin, Before their day of grace is past. 8 To see the land lie in confusion, Looks dreadful in our mortal eye; But O dear sinners, that is nothing, To when the day of doom draws nigh. 9 To see the Lord in clouds descending, Saints and angels guard him round; The saints from earth will rise to meet him, But sinners speechless at his frown. 10 To see the mountains a burning, Mountains and hills must forward fly, The moon in blood, the stars a falling, And comets blazing thro' the sky. 11 O sinners! that's not all that's dreadful, Before your Judge you must appear; To answer for your past transactions, How you ran your courses here. 12 The book of conscience will be open'd And your character read therein; The sentence is, depart ye cursed, And every saint will cry, Amen. 13 O Lord, forbid that this our nation, That this should be their dreadful case; O sinners turn and find salvation, While now he offers you free grace. 14 'Tis now you have a gospel morning, And yet the lamp holds out to burn; 'Tis now you have sufficient warning, O sinners! sinners! will you turn? Languages: English

See, how the nations rage together

Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. #d152 (1806) Languages: English

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Richard Allen

1760 - 1831 Author of "See, how the nations rage together" Richard Allen was born to a slave in Philadelphia, February 14, 1760. The family was later sold to Stokely Sturgis who lived near Dover, Delaware. Sturgis allowed the family to join the Methodist Society in Philadelphia. Allen taught himself to read and write and began to preach at age 22. Sturgis heard his first sermon "Thou Are Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting" and came to believe that slavery was morally wrong, so he offered a plan for his slaves to work to buy their freedom. Allen purchased his freedom in 1780. In 1786, Allen moved back to Philadelphia, which was a center for freed blacks. He was the first ordained person of color in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which had begun dividing over the issue of slavery. He was asked to preach weekly at St. George's Methodist Church, but he also preached three or four sermon every Sunday at other churches in Philadelphia. As the number of black members grew, the white leadership of St. George's began to insist on increased segregation. This led Allen and several others to leave St. George's in 1787. Allen and Absalom Jones (later the first Black Bishop in the Episcopal Church) founded the Free African Society, a non-denominational organization to assist fugitive slaves and free blacks. Allen built the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was completed in 1794. This led to court battles between Bethel and St. George's over control of the church. 29 years after the walk out, in 1816, the Philadelphia Supreme Court declared that Allen and his church were free from Methodist Episcopal Church control, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church became a separate denomination. In 1801, Allen published a hymnal for his congregation A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns" which was the first hymnal published for Blacks.The hymns were published without author attributions or any mention of melodies. Many of the hymns came from Methodist and Baptist sources, but some were written by Allen or members of his congregation. The hymnal is also notable for being the first hymnal to include refrains or choruses freely used with any hymn, rather than attached to specific hymns. This style of hymn was widely used in camp-meeting hymnals, which came a little later, and may have been used in oral traditions, but this was the first time they were published. Dianne Shapiro, from "And Are We Yet Alive? Conception, Actualization and Vitality of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" by Teresa L. Fry Brown, Ph.D. (https://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-05-brown.pdf, accessed 11/6/2020) and "Hymnals of the Black Church" by Eileen Southern in The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 17, No. 1/2 (1989) pp. 153-170

Stephen Newby

b. 1961 Composer of "NATIONS RAGE" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship Stephen Newby is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and received his Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Music Education from Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. He received a Master of Music in Jazz Composition and Arranging from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He returned to Michigan to complete his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served as an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Computer Arts. He received his Master of Arts in Theology from Seattle Pacific Seminary. Stephen is married to Stephanie Ashe Newby, and they have one adult son, Silas Michael Newby. —from Baylor University https://music.baylor.edu/stephennewby