Teach Me Yet More

Author: James Hutton

James Hutton, son of a clergyman and cousin to Sir Isaac Newton, was born in London, Sept. 3, 1715, and followed for some years the trade of a bookseller. In 1739 he visited the Moravian settlement at Herrnbut, where he became acquainted with Count Zinzendorf. He retired from business in 1745, and was ordained a diaconus of the Moravian Church in 1749. He died May 3, 1795. He contributed several hymns to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. All his hymns were included in an Appendix to his Memoirs, published by Daniel Benham in 1856. --Dictionary of Hymnology, John Julian, 1907… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Teach me yet more of Thy blest ways
Title: Teach Me Yet More
Author: James Hutton
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TALLIS' ORDINAL


MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (Vulpius)

Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) composed this short chorale tune, published as a setting for the anonymous funeral hymn "Christus, der ist mein Leben" ("For Me to Live Is Jesus") in Vulpius's Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (1609). Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) based his Cantata 95 on this tune and provided two…

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Timeline

Instances

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A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs #517

A Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion #d231

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. Rev. ed. #d665

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A Collection of Spiritual Hymns #369

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A Hymn and Prayer-Book #159

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Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #502

Hymns of Zion #98

Missionary Hymns #d89

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Offices of Worship and Hymns #136

Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services #d520

The Bible Hymn Book #d223

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The Brethren Hymnal #495

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The Liturgy and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum #411

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