Parting of Friends

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

Thy presence everlasting God

Author: Philip Doddridge
Published in 120 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Variations on Jesus Shall Reign - (Duke…

Choral
	Good and Simple Gifts

Instrumental
	Sing It Simply (25 Congregational Hymn A…

Representative Text

1 Thy presence, everlasting God,
Wide o'er all nature spreads abroad;
Thy watchful eyes, which cannot sleep,
In every place Thy children keep.

2 While near each other we remain,
Thou dost our lives and souls sustain;
When absent, Thou dost make us share
Thy smiles, thy counsels, and Thy care.

3 To Thee we all our ways commit,
And seek our comforts at Thy feet;
Still on our souls vouchsafe to shine,
And guard and guide us still as Thine.

Source: International Song Service: with Bright Gems from fifty authors, for Sunday-schools, gospel meetings, missionary and young people's societies, prayer-meetings, etc. #192

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	Thy presence everlasting God
Title:	Parting of Friends
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Tune

DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

Go to tune page >

[Thy presence, everliving God] (Davis)

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'Parting of Friends'^ top

Timeline

^ top

Arrangements

Store

Piano/Organ Variations on Jesus Shall Reign - (Duke Street) Seasons of Praise (Artistic Hymn-Based Medleys for Solo Ringing and Piano) ORGAN-PIANO ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR CONGREGATIONAL HYMNS More Piano/Organ...
Choral Good and Simple Gifts Good and Simple Gifts More Choral...
Instrumental An American Tribute - A Suite of Patriotic Songs Sing It Simply (25 Congregational Hymn Accompaniments for Piano, with opt. Guitar, Bass, and Handbells) Festive Hymn Settings for Congregational Singing - Set 2: Easter/General More Instrumental...
Handbells Ring for Joy! (Easy Reproducible Hymn Medleys for Prayer and Rejoicing) Ring for Joy! (Easy Reproducible Hymn Medleys for Prayer and Rejoicing) Let Praises Ring: 18 Introductions and Hymn Accompaniments for Handbells, Organ, and Congregation, Volume 1 More Handbells...