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Seek Ye the Lord
Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, Call ye upon Him while He is near
Seek Ye the Lord
[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: R. Wallis Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 56713 32426 75431 Used With Text: Seek Ye The Lord
[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
SEEK YE THE LORD
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel P. Warren Incipit: 51766 66666 21716 Used With Text: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found
SEEK YE THE LORD
[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Calvin W. Laufer, d. 1938 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51253 62364 37217 Used With Text: Seek Ye the Lord
[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
Seek Ye the Lord While He May Be Found
Hymnal: Hymns for Junior Worship #127 (1940) Languages: English Tune Title: [Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
Seek Ye the Lord While He May Be Found
Seek Ye The Lord
Hymnal: Pinebrook Choruses #98 (1934) First Line: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found Lyrics: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found,
Call ye upon Him while He is near;
Seek ye the Lord, call ye upon Him,
Call ye upon Him while He is near.
Scripture: Isaiah 4:6 Languages: English Tune Title: [Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]
Seek Ye The Lord
Sentence--Seek Ye the Lord
Hymnal: Joyful Songs #147 (1875) First Line: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found Lyrics: 1 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found;
Call ye upon him while he is near;
Seek ye the Lord, Seek ye the Lord,
Call ye upon him while he is near. Languages: English Tune Title: [Seek ye the Lord while he may be found]
Sentence--Seek Ye the Lord
Calvin Weiss Laufer
1874 - 1938 Person Name: Calvin W. Laufer, d. 1938 Composer of "[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years.
Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial.
He later began to work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and became its editor of musical publications, producing books such as The Junior Church School Hymnal (1927), The Church School Hymnal for Youth (1928) and When the Little Child Wants to Sing (1935). He was also the associate editor of the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1933, a very popular book which was used in many churches for more than fifty years.
In 1932, his book Hymn Lore was published, which contained the stories of fifty hymns from The Church School Hymnal for Youth, with information about their writers and composers (much like this blog). He chose a broad range of hymns, some quite modern and others well-known and loved for centuries. Several of them were by his mentor and friend Louis F. Benson, who had edited the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1895 and its 1911 revision (and also wrote The Best Church Hymns). In the preface to Hymn Lore, Laufer wrote:
To live with hymns and to make them one's own is the only sure way of appreciating their literary beauty and spiritual power. (...) That the reading and singing of hymns may become less mechanical, more thoughtful and intelligent, and emotionally more effective, this volume is released to the public.
Laufer wrote both hymn texts and tunes himself, most of which first appeared in the books he edited but also had some life outside Presbyterian circles. This tune was written while Laufer was attending a conference in Kansas, though with no particular text in mind. Not long after, he hummed it to a friend, William H. Foulkes, who then wrote the text "Take thou our minds, dear Lord."
Laufer's tune was originally called STONY BROOK, but he changed it to honor a friend, William Ralph Hall. Little is known about the writer May Pierpont Hoyt. Her text is generally sung to the tune BREAD OF LIFE by William F. Sherwin, but since that tune is more known with "Break thou the Bread of life," this text could use a different one.
--conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/
Calvin Weiss Laufer
Henry A. Lewis
Person Name: H. A. Lewis Composer of "[Seek ye the Lord while he may be found]" in Joyful Songs
Henry A. Lewis
Adolph Baumbach
1830 - 1880 Person Name: A. Baumbach Composer of "[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]" in Popular Hymns Number 3 Baumbach, Adolph was born about 1822 in Sachsen, Germany. He was a pianist and organist. About 1844 he emigrated to the United States and was a professor and teacher of music in Boston. In 1858-1860 he served as organist of Rev. Dr. Putnam's Church in Roxbury. He later taught music in Chicago and was an organist at Grace Church there. He died on April 3, 1880 in Chicago, Illinois.
NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: composers-classical-music.com/b/BaumbachAdolph.htm and www.hymntime.com/tch/
Adolph Baumbach
