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[As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edmund Simon Lorenz Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12333 34565 45356 Used With Text: The Lord Will Appear

Author: Mary Elizabeth Servoss Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: As the lightning’s bright flash in the eastern horizon Refrain First Line: Then be watching and waiting Lyrics: 1 As the lightning’s bright flash in the eastern horizon Sweeps over the sky when a storm draweth near; So the people of earth shall awake to the coming Of Him who will soon in His glory appear. Refrain: Then be watching and waiting, Then be watching and waiting, For we know not the hour when He cometh in power! Then be watching and waiting, the Lord will appear! 2 Oh, who then shall go forward in triumph to meet Him; And who shall be scattered like terrified flocks? Who shall lift up glad voices with praises to greet Him, And who for a shelter will cry to the rocks? [Refrain] 3 Oh, the children of faith who await His appearing Shall joy in His presence and bask in His love; For their souls have been washed in the blood of His ransom, And fitted through Him for the glory above. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon] Text Sources: Holy Voices, by Isaiah Baltzell and Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, OH: W. J. Shuey 1883)

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The Lord Will Appear

Author: Mary Elizabeth Servoss Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #78889 First Line: As the lightning’s bright flash in the eastern horizon Refrain First Line: Then be watching and waiting Lyrics: 1 As the lightning’s bright flash in the eastern horizon Sweeps over the sky when a storm draweth near; So the people of earth shall awake to the coming Of Him who will soon in His glory appear. Refrain: Then be watching and waiting, Then be watching and waiting, For we know not the hour when He cometh in power! Then be watching and waiting, the Lord will appear! 2 Oh, who then shall go forward in triumph to meet Him; And who shall be scattered like terrified flocks? Who shall lift up glad voices with praises to greet Him, And who for a shelter will cry to the rocks? [Refrain] 3 Oh, the children of faith who await His appearing Shall joy in His presence and bask in His love; For their souls have been washed in the blood of His ransom, And fitted through Him for the glory above. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon]

The Lord Will Appear

Author: Mrs. M. E. Servoss Hymnal: Holy Voices #134 (1883) First Line: As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon Refrain First Line: Then be watching and waiting Languages: English Tune Title: [As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon]

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: Edmund Simon Lorenz Composer of "[As the lightning's bright flash in the eastern horizon]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives

M. E. Servoss

1849 - 1906 Person Name: Mary Elizabeth Servoss Author of "The Lord Will Appear" in The Cyber Hymnal Servoss, M. E. Hymns by this writer are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1881. (1) “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice" (Joy in the Redeemer); and (2) "When the storms of life are raging" (Refuge in God). Another, "'Tis Jesus when the burdened heart" (Jesus, the Sinner's Friend), is in the Sunday School Union Voice of Praise, 1887. Miss Servoss was born at Schenectady, near New York. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)