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Everlasting Love
Author: Mrs. Mary D. James Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Wondrous words! how rich in blessing Used With Tune: [Wondrous words! how rich in blessing]
Everlasting Love
[Wondrous words, how rich in blessing]
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. Jos. F. Knapp Incipit: 55172 13333 32162 Used With Text: Everlasting Love
[Wondrous words, how rich in blessing]
[Wondrous words, how rich in blessing!]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ira D. Sankey Incipit: 35172 13111 12167 Used With Text: Everlasting Love
[Wondrous words, how rich in blessing!]
Everlasting Love
Author: Mrs. Mary D. James Hymnal: The Ark of Praise #6 (1882) First Line: Wondrous words, how rich in blessing Lyrics: 1 Wondrous words! how rich in blessing!
Deeper than th’unfathomed sea;
Broader than its world of waters,
Boundless, infinite and free;
Higher than the heavens above,
Is that everlasting love;
Higher than the heavens above,
Is that everlasting love.
2 Down to lowest depths it reaches—
The all-loving Father’s arm,
T’ward his rebel children yearning,
Drawing them with magic charm;
Till the yielding spirits move,
Touched by everlasting love;
Till the yielding spirits move,
Touched by everlasting love.
3 Weary spirits—sad with toiling,
‘Mid the sorrows of life’s way—
Feel their heavy burdens lightened,
As they journey day by day.
How with quickened steps they move,
Cheered by everlasting love;
How with quickened steps they move,
Cheered by everlasting love.
4 I have set thee as a signet,
Graven on my hands thy name;
Lo, I still am with thee always,
Evermore thy Friend—the same;
Never changing—thou wilt prove
Mind is everlasting love;
Never changing—thou wilt prove
Mind is everlasting love.
5 In my house of many mansions
I’ve prepared a place for thee,
Where are no dark clouds or tempests
Where I am, there thou shalt be—
All the untold bliss to prove,
Of my everlasting love;
All the untold bliss to prove,
Of my everlasting love. Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3 Tune Title: [Wondrous words, how rich in blessing]
Everlasting Love
Everlasting Love
Author: Mrs. Mary D. James Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #30 (1891) First Line: Wondrous words! how rich in blessing! Languages: English Tune Title: [Wondrous words! how rich in blessing!]
Everlasting Love
Everlasting Love
Hymnal: The New Song #65 (1891) First Line: Wondrous words! how rich in blessing! Languages: English Tune Title: [Wondrous words! how rich in blessing!]
Everlasting Love
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. Jos. F. Knapp Composer of "[Wondrous words, how rich in blessing]" in The Ark of Praise As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today.
Bert Polman
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Mary D. James
1810 - 1883 Person Name: Mrs. Mary D. James Author of "Everlasting Love" in The Ark of Praise Mary Dagworthy Yard James USA 1810-1883. Born at Trenton, NJ, she began teaching Sunday school at age 13 in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She married Henry B James, and they had four children: Joseph, Mary, Ann, and Charles.. She became a prominent figure in the Wesleyan Holiness movement of the early 1800s, assisting Phoebe Palmer (also a hymnist) and often leading meetings at Ocean Grove, NJ, and elsewhere. She wrote articles that appeared in the “Guide to holiness”, “The New York Christian advocate”, “The contributor”, “The Christian witness:, “The Christian woman”, “The Christian standard”, and the “Ocean Grove record”. She wrote a biography of Edmund J Yard entitled, “The soul winner” (1883). She strived to live a life as close to Christ as possible. She died in New York City.
John Perry
Mary D. James
Ira David Sankey
1840 - 1908 Person Name: Ira D. Sankey Composer of "[Wondrous words how rich in blessing]" in Sacred Songs and Solos Sankey, Ira David, was born in Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1840, of Methodist parents. About 1856 he removed with his parents to New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four years afterwards he became the Superintendent of a large Sunday School in which he commenced his career of singing sacred songs and solos. Mr. Moody met with him and heard him sing at the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, at Indianapolis, and through Mr. Moody's persuasion he joined him in his work at Chicago. After some two or three years' work in Chicago, they sailed for England on June 7, 1872, and held their first meeting at York a short time afterwards, only eight persons being present. Their subsequent work in Great Britain and America is well known.
Mr. Sankey's special duty was the singing of sacred songs and solos at religious gatherings, a practice which was in use in America for some time before he adopted it. His volume of Sacred Songs and Solos is a compilation from various sources, mainly American and mostly in use before. Although known as Sankey and Moody’s Songs, only one song, "Home at last, thy labour done" is by Mr. Sankey, and not one is by Mr. Moody. Mr. Sankey supplied several of the melodies. The English edition of the Sacred Songs & Solos has had an enormous sale; and the work as a whole is very popular for Home Mission services. The Songs have been translated into several languages.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Pseudonymns:
Harry S. Lower
Rian A. Dykes
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Sankey, I. D., p. 994, i. During the past fifteen years Mr. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos have had a very large sale, which has justified him in increasing the number of songs and hymns, including " New Hymns and Solos," to 1200. In 1906 he published My Life and Sacred Songs (London : Morgan & Scott). In addition to the "Story of his Own Life," the work contains an account of the most popular of his solos, with interesting reminiscences of the spiritual awakening of many who were influenced through his singing of them in public. In this respect it corresponds in some measure with G. J. Stevenson's Methodist Hymn Book, &c, 1883 (p. 1094, i.). It is an addition to the Sacred Songs and Solos, which will be held in esteem by many. In addition to his hymn, noted on p. 994, ii., Mr. Sankey gives details of the following:—
1. Out of the shadow-land into the sunshine. [Heaven Anticipated.] Mr. Sankey's account of this hymn is:—
"I wrote this hymn specially for the memorial service held for Mr. Moody in Carnegie Hall, where 1 also sang it as a solo. It is the last sacred song of which I wrote both the words and music. The idea was suggested by Mr. Moody's last words, 'Earth recedes; heaven opens before me . . . God is calling me, and I must go.' On account of its peculiar association with my fellow-labourer in the Gospel for so many years, the words are here given in full."
The hymn follows on p. 185, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines and a chorus.
2. Rejoice! Rejoice! our King is coming, [Advent.] Mr. Sankey writes concerning this hymn:—
"During one of my trips to Great Britain on the SS. City of Rome a storm raged on the sea. The wind was howling through the rigging, and waves like mountains of foam were breaking over the bow of the vessel. A great fear had fallen upon the passengers. When the storm was at its worst, we all thought we might soon go to the bottom of the sea. The conviction came to me that the Lord would be with us iu the trying hour, and sitting down in the reading room, I composed this hymn. Before reaching England the tune had formed itself in my mind, and on arriving in London I wrote it out, and had it published in Sacred Songs and Solos, where it is No. 524 in the edition. of 1888.
From Mr. Sankey's autobiographical sketch we gather that he was born at Edinburgh, in Western Pennsylvania, Aug. 28, 1840, joined Mr. Moody in 1871, and visited England for the first time in 1873. The original of the Sacred Songs, &c, of 23 pieces only, was offered as a gift to the London publishers of P. Phillips's Hallowed Song, and declined by them. It was subsequently accepted by Mr. K. O. Morgan, of Morgan & Scott, and is now a volume of 1200 hymns.
From a return kindly sent us by Messrs. Morgan & Scott, we find that the various issues of the Sacred Songs and Solos were:—
In 1873, 24 pp.; 1874, 72 pp. ; 1876, 153 hymns; 1877, 271 hymns; 1881, 441 hymns; 1888, 750 hymns; 1903, 1200 hymns.
In addition, The Christian Choir, which is generally associated with the Sacred Songs and Solos, was issued in 1884 with 75 hymns, and in 1896 with 281. The New Hymns & Solos, by the same firm, were published in 1888.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Ira David Sankey
