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[Today! O blessed word of hope]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: May Whittle Moody Incipit: 55544 31332 23412 Used With Text: To-Day
[Today! O blessed word of hope]
Today
Author: George Campbell Morgan Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12905 First Line: "Today"! O blessed word of hope Refrain First Line: "Today," if ye will hear His voice, Lyrics: 1 "Today"! O blessed word of hope,
And laden still with Heav’n’s own breath;
The night is past—and has not come,
Between the shades life conquers death.
Refrain:
"Today," if ye will hear His voice,
Today, if ye will hear His voice,
Harden not your heart,
Harden not your heart.
2 Light falls around the ruined soul,
The wind of God blows with new lust!
Fling back the shutters! Swing the door!
Answer God’s breath upon thy dust. [Refrain]
3 Then day shall never end in night,
But night be merged in perfect day;
And all the forces of God’s life
Control thy life with mighty sway. [Refrain]
4 But if thou harden still thy heart,
Today will vanish into night,
The wind of God no longer blow,
Life close in dark eclipse of light. [Refrain]
5 Oh, blessed Master of Today,
To Thee I yield my stubborn will;
Thou Sun of health, renew my life;
And with Thyself my being fill. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Today! O blessed word of hope]
Today
May Whittle Moody
1870 - 1963 Composer of "[Today, O blessed word of hope]" in Northfield Hymnal Mary (May) Jennette Whittle Moody 1870-1963. Born at Chicago, IL, daughter of hymnwriter, Daniel Webster Whittle (El Nathan), and, upon marrying, daughter-in-law to Dwight Lyman Moody, she attended Northfield School in MA (one of two schools founded there by D L Moody), after which she attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. She then attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, England (1890-91). She became a singer, organist, composer, and hymn editor. She assisted her father and Dwight L Moody in their evangelistic work. In 1894 she married William Revell Moody, and they had four children: Irene, Dwight, Beatrice, and Virginia. Only Beatrice lived to adulthood, the others died before age six. She and her husband returned to Northfield, MA, where her husband headed the schools founded by his father. She had an organ in her home, and she collaborated with her father by composing some of the tunes for his hymn lyrics. The last year of his life, her father, Daniel, lived with them (he died in 1901). She died at East Northfield, MA.
John Perry
May Whittle Moody
G. Campbell Morgan
Person Name: Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, D. D. Author of "To-Day" in Northfield Hymnal
G. Campbell Morgan
