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Author: Elizabeth Prentiss, 1818-1878; Margaret Clarkson, 1915- Meter: 10.10.6.6.4.4 Appears in 818 hymnals Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs First Line: More love to thee, O Christ, more love to thee Lyrics: 1 More love to thee, O Christ, more love to thee: hear thou the prayer I make on bended knee; this is my earnest plea: more love, O Christ, to thee; More love to thee, more love to thee! 2 Through all that life may bring– joy, grief or pain, work out thy perfect plan– true heavenly gain; only create in me more love, O Christ, to thee, more love to thee, more love to thee! Used With Tune: MORE LOVE TO THEE

He is Lord

Meter: 6.11.10.6 Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs First Line: He is Lord, he is Lord Lyrics: He is Lord, he is Lord; he is risen from the dead and he is Lord! Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Scripture: Philippians 2:10-11 Used With Tune: HE IS LORD

Father, I adore you

Author: Terrye Coelho-Strom, 19520 Meter: 6.7.4 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs First Line: Father, I adore you (Père, je t'adore) Used With Tune: FATHER, I ADORE YOU

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AS THE DEER

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.9.8.7 Appears in 39 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Nystrom, 1956- Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 35532 12432 16654 Used With Text: As the deer

MORE LOVE TO THEE

Meter: 10.10.6.6.4.4 Appears in 356 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 56512 33212 56512 Used With Text: More love to thee

LEAD ME, LORD

Meter: 10.8.9.7 Appears in 49 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32143 21332 53212 Used With Text: Lead me, Lord

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O Lord, hear my prayer (The Lord is my song)

Author: Taizé Community (France) Hymnal: The Book of Praise #446 (1997) Meter: 5.5.6 D Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs First Line: O Lord, hear my prayer Scripture: Psalm 33:3-4 Languages: English Tune Title: O LORD, HEAR MY PRAYER

Oh sing to our God

Author: Gerhard Cartford, 1923-; Daniel Forget, 1956- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #453 (1997) Meter: 11.11.11.10 Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs First Line: Oh sing to our God, oh sing out a new song (Oh chantons à Dieu un chant d'allégresse) Scripture: Psalm 33:3 Languages: English; French Tune Title: CANTAD AL SEÑOR

Awake, arise, oh sing a new song

Author: Marna Leasure, 20th cent. Hymnal: The Book of Praise #819 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-3 Languages: English Tune Title: AWAKE, ARISE

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E. Prentiss

1818 - 1878 Person Name: Elizabeth Prentiss, 1818-1878 Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Author (v. 1) of "More love to thee" in The Book of Praise Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry. John Perry ================ Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:— 1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869. 2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. Howard Doane

1832 - 1915 Person Name: William H. Doane Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Composer of "MORE LOVE TO THEE" in The Book of Praise An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman ============ Doane, William Howard, p. 304, he was born Feb. 3, 1832. His first Sunday School hymn-book was Sabbath Gems published in 1861. He has composed about 1000 tunes, songs, anthems, &c. He has written but few hymns. Of these "No one knows but Jesus," "Precious Saviour, dearest Friend," and "Saviour, like a bird to Thee," are noted in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers. 1888, p. 557. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Doane, W. H. (William Howard), born in Preston, Connecticut, 1831, and educated for the musical profession by eminent American and German masters. He has had for years the superintendence of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resides. Although not a hymnwriter, the wonderful success which has attended his musical setting of numerous American hymns, and the number of his musical editions of hymnbooks for Sunday Schools and evangelistic purposes, bring him within the sphere of hymnological literature. Amongst his collections we have:— (1) Silver Spray, 1868; (2) Pure Gold, 1877; (3) Royal Diadem, 1873; (4) Welcome Tidings, 1877; (5) Brightest and Best, 1875; (6) Fountain of Song; (7) Songs of Devotion, 1870; (8) Temple Anthems, &c. His most popular melodies include "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass me Not," "More Love to Thee," "Rescue the Perishing," "Tell me the Old, Old Story," &c. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Iona Community

Person Name: Iona Community (Scotland) Topics: Choruses and Meditative Songs Composer of "LAMB OF GOD" in The Book of Praise Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian group of men and women based on the small island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. The community began in 1938 when the Rev. George MacLeod of the Church of Scotland began a ministry among the unemployed poor who had been neglected by the church. He took a handful of men to the island to rebuild the ruins of a thousand-year-old abbey church. That rebuilding became a metaphor for the rebuilding of the common life, a return to the belief that daily activity is the stuff of godly service – work, and worship. The Community has since grown to include a group of members, associates, and friends all over the United Kingdom and many other countries. In addition to many conferences that attract people to Iona from around the world, the Community is known for its publishing of new songs and prayers for worship, both developed in community and gathered from around the world. For more information on the Iona Community, check their website: www.iona.org.uk. John Bell is probably the community’s most well-known member, having composed and arranged much of the community’s music. Sing! A New Creation

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