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PROTECTION

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. Abbott Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 11127 12332 22 Used With Text: How Vain Is All Beneath the Skies!

How Vain Is All Beneath the Skies!

Author: David E. Ford Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 164 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions Funeral Used With Tune: PROTECTION

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How Vain Is All Beneath the Skies!

Author: David E. Ford Hymnal: The Church Hymnal #490 (1941) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Special Occasions Funeral Languages: English Tune Title: PROTECTION

How vain is all beneath the skies!

Author: David E. Ford Hymnal: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #926 (1886) Lyrics: 1 How vain is all beneath the skies! How transient every earthly bliss! How splender all the fondest ties That bind us to a world like this! 2 The evening cloud, the morning dew, The withering grass, the fading flower, Of earthly hopes are emblems true The glory of a passing hour. 3 But though earth's fairest blossoms die, And all beneath the skies is vain, There is a land whose confines lie Beyond the reach of care and pain. 4 Then let the hope of joys to come Dispel our cares, and chase our fears: If God be ours, we're traveling home, Though passing through a vale of tears. Topics: Death and Resurrection Tune Title: PROTECTION

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David E. Ford

1797 - 1875 Author of "How vain is all beneath the skies!" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Ford, David Everard, son of a Congregational Minister at Long Melford, was born there on Sept. 13, 1797. He became pastor of the Congregational Church at Lymington, in Oct. 1821; Travelling Secretary to the Congregational Union in 1841; and pastor of Greengate Chapel, Salford, Manchester, in 1843. He died at Bedford, Oct. 23, 1875. Mr. Ford published several works including, Hymns chiefly on the Parables of Christ, 1828. From this is taken, (1) "Earthly joys no longer please us" (Heaven Anticipated). (2) "How vain is all beneath the skies" (Heaven Anticipated). These are in American common use. See Hymns of the Church, 1869, and Laudes Domini, 1884. Another of his hymns in common use from the same work, p. 107, is:—"Almighty Father, heavenly Friend" (Old and New Year). This is in Dale's English Hymn Book, 1874. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)