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Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Bernhard Schumacher Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51713 21217 12345 Used With Text: How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord

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Un ancla tenemos que el hórrido mar

Author: Priscilla Jane Owens, n. 1829 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Un ancla tenemos que el hórrido mar, Por mucho que ruja, no puede arrancar: La dulce esperanza que infunda Jesús, Legada en su muerte de angustia en la cruz. 2 Allá en las alturas do reina el Señor, Rodeado de seres que ensalzan su amor, Esta ancla tenemos que fija estará, Pues Dios so Palabra muy fiel cumplirá. 3 Por bravo que entonces el piélago esté, Más firme agarremos el cable de fe: Ni furia de vientos, ni embates del mar Del puerto la entrada nos pueden vedar. Topics: El Año Cristiano Septuagésima a Cuaresma; Epifanía; Lent; Epiphany Used With Tune: FIRM FOUNDATION Text Sources: H. M.

How Firm a Foundation

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,168 hymnals First Line: How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled? 2 In ev'ry condition, in sickness, in health, In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth, At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea -- The Lord, the Almighty, your strength e'er shall be. 3 "Fear not, I am with you. Oh, be not dismayed, For I am your God and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 4 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow, For I will be with you your troubles to bless And sanctify to you your deepest distress. 5 "Throughout all their lifetime my people shall prove My sov'reign, eternal, unchangeable love, And then, when gray hair shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still on my shoulders be borne." Topics: Trust; Trust Used With Tune: FIRM FOUNDATION Text Sources: A Selection of Hymns, London, 1787, abr., alt.

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How Firm a Foundation

Hymnal: Christian Worship (1993) #416 (1993) Meter: 11.11.11.11 First Line: How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, O saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled? 2 In ev'ry condition, in sickness, in health, In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth, At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea -- The Lord, the Almighty, your strength e'er shall be. 3 "Fear not, I am with you. Oh, be not dismayed, For I am your God and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 4 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow, For I will be with you your troubles to bless And sanctify to you your deepest distress. 5 "Throughout all their lifetime my people shall prove My sov'reign, eternal, unchangeable love, And then, when gray hair shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still on my shoulders be borne." Topics: Trust; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: FIRM FOUNDATION

How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord

Author: "Keen" Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnal #427 (1941) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled? 2 In ev'ry condition--in sickness, in health, In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth, At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea-- The Lord, the Almighty, thy strength e'er shall be. 3 "Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismayed; For I am thy God and will still give thee aid; I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand. 4 "When thro' the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; For I will be with thee thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 5 "When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie, My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply. The flames shall not hurt thee; I only design Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 6 "E'en down to old age all My people shall prove My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne. 7 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!" Amen. Topics: Sanctification (The Christian Life) Trust Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-7 Languages: Latin Tune Title: FIRM FOUNDATION

Un ancla tenemos que el hórrido mar

Author: Priscilla Jane Owens, n. 1829 Hymnal: Culto Cristiano #44 (1964) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Lyrics: 1 Un ancla tenemos que el hórrido mar, Por mucho que ruja, no puede arrancar: La dulce esperanza que infunda Jesús, Legada en su muerte de angustia en la cruz. 2 Allá en las alturas do reina el Señor, Rodeado de seres que ensalzan su amor, Esta ancla tenemos que fija estará, Pues Dios so Palabra muy fiel cumplirá. 3 Por bravo que entonces el piélago esté, Más firme agarremos el cable de fe: Ni furia de vientos, ni embates del mar Del puerto la entrada nos pueden vedar. Topics: El Año Cristiano Septuagésima a Cuaresma; Epifanía; Lent; Epiphany Languages: Spanish Tune Title: FIRM FOUNDATION

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Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla Jane Owens, n. 1829 Author of "Un ancla tenemos que el hórrido mar" in Culto Cristiano Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

Robert Keen

Person Name: "Keen" Author of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord" in The Lutheran Hymnal Robert Keen (or Keene) was the leader of music and the Carter Lane Baptist Church in London when John Rippon was the pastor. It was during this time that Rippon collected and published his Selections in 1787. He is the likely author of "How Firm a Foundation."

B. Schumacher

1886 - 1978 Person Name: Bernhard Schumacher, 1886-1978 Composer of "FIRM FOUNDATION" in Christian Worship (1993) Bernhard Schumacher wrote a 4th stanza to "Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds" which appears in Evangelical Lutheran Humnary, 1996, #180 and Lutheran Service Book, 2006, #867.