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To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray

Author: Samuel W. Duffield Appears in 5 hymnals

BUNYAN

Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: fr. Mendelssohn Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 35653 12332 55455 Used With Text: Evening Song to Christ

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To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray

Author: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Hymnal: Light in the Valley #55 (1898) Lyrics: 1 To thee, O Christ, we ever pray, And blend our prayer with tears: Thou pure and holy One, alway Protect our night of years! 2 Our hearts shall be at rest in thee, In sleep they dream thy praise; And to thy glory faithfully They hail the coming days. 3 Give us a life that cannot fail! Refresh our spirits then; Let blackest night before thee pale; And bring thy light to men. 4 Our vows in song we pay thee still, And, at this evening hour, May all that we have purposed ill Be right thro' perfect power. Topics: Devotional Languages: English Tune Title: [To thee, O Christ, we ever pray]

To thee, O Christ, we ever pray

Author: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Hymnal: Laudes Domini #70 (1888) Languages: English Tune Title: RUNYAN

To thee, O Christ, we ever pray

Author: S. W. Duffield Hymnal: The New Laudes Domini #126 (1892) Topics: Evening Worship Languages: English

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809 - 1847 Person Name: fr. Mendelssohn Arranger of "BUNYAN" in Laudes Domini Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Samuel Willoughby Duffield

1843 - 1887 Person Name: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Author of "To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray" in Light in the Valley Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby, son of G. Duffield, jun., was born at Brooklyn, Sept. 24, 1843, and graduated at Yale College, 1863. In 1866 he was licensed, and in 1867 ordained as a Presbyterian Minister, and is now [1886] Pastor of West¬minster Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey. He published in 1867 a translation of Bernard's Hora novissima (q.v.): Warp and Woof; a Book of Verse, 1868 (copyright, 1870); and The Burial of the Dead (in conjunction with his father), 1882. In the Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, the following translations and an original hymn are by him:— 1. Holy Spirit, come and shine. A translation of "Veni Sancte Spiritus." 1883. 2. O Christ, the Eternal Light. A translation of "Christe lumen perpetuum." 1883. 3. O land, relieved from sorrow. On Heaven, written in 1875. 4. O what shall be, O when shall be. A translation of "O quanta qualia." 1883. 5. To Thee, O Christ, we ever pray. A translation of "Christe precamur annue." 1883. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Duffield, S. A. W. , p. 315, ii. He died May 12, 1887. His English Hymns, Their Authors and History, was published in 1886, and his Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns posthumously, edited by Dr. R. E. Thompson, in 1889. (See p. 1526, i.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Magnus F. Ennodius

473 - 531 Author of "To thee, O Christ, we ever pray" in Laudes Domini Ennodius, Magnus Felix, was born at Aries, circa 473, and was connected with several Romans of distinction. Losing his property at an early age through the invasion of the Visigoths, he went to Milan, where he was received and educated by an aunt. In 489, through the death, of his aunt, he was again reduced to destitution: but soon retrieved his fortunes by marrying a lady of wealth. A recovery from a dangerous sickness led him to reflect on his somewhat dissolute character, and to change his whole life. His wife retired into a convent, and he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Pavia. Under Pope Hermisdas he was advanced to the see of Pavia about 514, and was employed on two important missions to the Emperor Anastasius in order to oppose the spread of the Eutychian heresy; but in both instances he was unsuccessful. He died in 521, and was buried in the Church of St. Michael, Pavia, July 17, 521. His works, eleven in all, were published amongst the Auctores Orthodoxographici, Basle, 1591; again, by Andrew Schott, Tournai, 1611, and in Migne, tom, lxiii. Sixteen of his hymns, some consisting only of a few lines, were included in Daniel , i., cxxi.-cxxxvi. Of these the following have been translated by the Rev. S. A. W. Duffield:— 1. Christe lumen perpetuum. Trust in Christ. Translated as “0 Christ, the eternal light," in Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1883. 2. Christe precamur annue. Evening. Translated as "To Thee, 0 Christ, we ever pray," in Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1883. For fuller details concerning Ennodius and his works, see Dictionary of Christian Biog., art. Ennodius. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Ennodius, Magnus Felix, p. 350, ii. Since this article was sent to press we have reason to conclude that the two hymns annotated on p, 351, i. are not by Ennodius. They are not in the two critical editions of his Opera, viz.: (1) the Monumenta Germaniae, by F. Vogel, Berlin, vol. vii., 1885, (2) and the Corpus Scriptorum, by E. Hartel, Vienna, vol. vi., 1882. We have not found them earlier than the Mozarabic Breviary, published at Toledo in 1502. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)