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Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 184 hymnals Topics: Father and Creator First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; as thou hast been thou forever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided; great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me! 2 Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 8:21-22 Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS

I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord

Author: Timothy Dwight Appears in 1,323 hymnals Topics: Father and Creator Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

We'Ve a Story To Tell To the Nations

Author: Colin Sterne Appears in 306 hymnals Topics: Father and Creator Refrain First Line: For the darkness shall turn to dawning Used With Tune: [We've a story to tell to the nations]

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EIN FESTE BURG

Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 642 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther, 1483-1546; J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: God the Father/Creator Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 194 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane, 1832-1915 Topics: God the Father, Creator Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55671 51252 33464 Used With Text: To God Be the Glory

ST. DENIO

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 248 hymnals Topics: God As Ancient of Days; God as Creator; God As Father; God's Glory; God's Mystery; God's Power; God's Reign; God's Wisdom; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Tune Sources: Welsh, in J. Roberts' Caniadau y Cyssegr, 1839 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 16427 51332 11642 Used With Text: Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

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This Is My Father's World

Author: Maltbie Davenport Babcock; Mary Babcock Crawford Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #456 (1995) Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Topics: Father and Creator Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears all nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is my Father's world; I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, of skies and seas - his hand the wonders wrought. 2 This is my Father's world: O let us not forget that though the wrong is often strong, God is the ruler yet. He trusts us with his world, to keep it clean and fair - all earth and trees, all skies and seas, all creatures ev'rywhere. 3 This is my Father's world: he shines in all that's fair; in rustling grass I hear him pass - he speaks to me ev'rywhere. this is my Father's world: why should my heart be sad? The Lord is King, let heaven ring! God reigns; let earth be glad. Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: TERRA BEATA

Immortal, Invisible

Author: Walter Chalmers Smith Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #457 (1995) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Topics: Father and Creator First Line: Immortal, invisible, God only wise Lyrics: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, O Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, your great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, you rule day and night; your justice like mountains high soaring above, your clouds which are fountains of goodness and love. 3 Life-giving Creator of both great and small; of all life the maker, the true life of all; we blossom, then wither like leaves on the tree, but you live forever who was and will be. 4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, your angels adore you, all veiling their sight; all praise we would render, O lead us to see the light of your splendor, your love's majesty. Scripture: Psalm 34:1-3 Languages: English Tune Title: JOANNA (ST. DENIO)

What Colors God Has Made

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #466 (1995) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Father and Creator Lyrics: 1 What colors God has made in flow'r and field and tree! From springing green of leaf and blade I learn his love for me. 2 The summer's yellow sand, the blue of sky and sea, they tell of God their Maker's hand, and all his love for me. 3 The turning autumn leaves, the fruit so full and free, the golden glow of harvest sheaves declare his love for me. 4 He frames the winter skies, his silver stars I see; he makes the sun in splendor rise, the God who cares for me. 5 So sing my Father's praise, the living God is he, whose colors brighten all our days, who loves and cares for me. Scripture: Isaiah 54:11-14 Languages: English Tune Title: COLORBURST

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Thomas Olivers

1725 - 1799 Topics: Father and Creator Author of "The God of Abraham Praise" in Moravian Book of Worship Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was led to a change of life. He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed his trade in several places. In 1763, John Wesley engaged him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties of an itinerant ministry. During the latter portion of his life he was dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference. He died in 1799. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872. ================== Olivers, Thomas, was born at Tregynon, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His father's death, when the son was only four years of age, followed by that of the mother shortly afterwards, caused him to be passed on to the care of one relative after another, by whom he was brought up in a somewhat careless manner, and with little education. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker. His youth was one of great ungodliness, through which at the age of 18 he was compelled to leave his native place. He journeyed to Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Bristol, miserably poor and very wretched. At Bristol he heard G. Whitefield preach from the text "Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?" That sermon turned the whole current of his life, and he became a decided Christian. His intention at the first was to join the followers of Whitefield, but being discouraged from doing so by one of Whitefield's preachers, he subsequently joined the Methodist Society at Bradford-on-Avon. At that town, where he purposed carrying on his business of shoemaking, he met John Wesley, who, recognising in him both ability and zeal, engaged him as one of his preachers. Olivers joined Wesley at once, and proceeded as an evangelist to Cornwall. This was on Oct. 1, 1753. He continued his work till his death, which took place suddenly in London, in March 1799. He was buried in Wesley's tomb in the City Road Chapel burying ground, London. Olivers was for some time co-editor with J. Wesley of the Arminian Magazine, but his lack of education unfitted him for the work. As the author of the tune Helmsley, and of the hymn “The God of Abraham praise," he is widely known. He also wrote “Come Immortal King of glory;" and "O Thou God of my salvation," whilst residing at Chester; and an Elegy on the death of John Wesley. His hymns and the Elegy were reprinted (with a Memoir by the Rev. J. Kirk) by D. Sedgwick, in 1868. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1809 - 1894 Topics: Father and Creator Author of "Lord of All Being" in Hymns for Creative Living Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D, LL.D., son of the Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D. of Cambridge, U.S.A., was born at Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1809, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After practising for some time in Boston, he was elected in 1847 to the chair of Anatomy, in Harvard. His writings in prose and verse are well known and widely circulated. They excel in humour and pathos. Although not strictly speaking a hymnwriter, a few of his hymns are in extensive use, and include:— 1. Father of mercies, heavenly Friend. Prayer during war. 2. Lord of all being, throned afar. God's Omnipresence. This is a hymn of great merit. It is dated 1848. 3. 0 Lord of hosts, Almighty King. Soldiers’ Hymn. Dated 1861. 4. 0 Love divine that stoop'st to share. Trust. 1859. Of these Nos. 2 and 4 are in his Professor at the Breakfast Table, and are in common use in Great Britain, in Martineau's Hymns, 1873, and others. In 1886 the D.C.L. degree was conferred upon Professor Holmes by the University of Oxford. He was a member of the Unitarian body. He died Oct 7, 1894. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Holmes, O. W. , p. 530, i. His Songs in Many Keys was published in 1861, his Poems, 1869, and the Cambridge edition of his Complete Poetical Works, 1895. Additional hymns of his have come into common use of late, including:— 1. Land where the banners wave last in the sun. [American National Hymn.] Appeared in his Songs in Many Keys, 1861 (7th ed. 1864, p. 289) as "Freedom, our Queen." 2. Lord, Thou hast led us as of old. [Promised Unity.] In his Before the Curfew and other Poems, chiefly occasional, Boston, 1888, as "An hymn set forth to bo sung by the Great Assembly at Newtown [Mass.]." In the Complete Poetical Works it is dated 1886. The hymn "Soon shall the slumbering morn awake," in Hymns for Church and Home, Boston, 1895, is composed of stanzas v.-vii. 3. Our Father, while our hearts unlearn The creeds that wrong Thy name. [Fruits of the Spirit.] Written for the 25th Anniversary Reorganization of the Poston Young Men's Christian Union, May 31, 1893. In his Complete Poetical Works, 1895, p. 298, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and other collections. 4. Thou gracious [God] Power Whose mercy lends. [Reunion.] "Written for the annual meeting of the famous class '29, Harvard University, in 1869. ln the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, it begins "Thou gracious God, Whose mercy lends." [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Walter C. Smith

1824 - 1908 Person Name: Walter Chalmers Smith Topics: Father and Creator Author of "Immortal, Invisible" in Moravian Book of Worship Smith, Walter Chalmer, D.D., was born at Aberdeen Dec. 5, 1824, and educated at the Grammar School and University of that City. He pursued his Theological studies at Edinburgh, and was ordained Pastor of the Scottish Church in Chad well Street, Islington, London, Dec. 25, 1850. After holding several pastorates he became, in 1876, Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh. His contributions to poetical literature have been many and of great merit. His principal works are:— (1) The Bishop's Walk, 1860; (2) Olrig Grange, 1872; (3) Borland Hall, 1874; (4) Hilda among the Broken Gods, 1878; (5) North Country Folk, 1883; (6) Kildrostan, 1884; (7) Hymns of Christ and Christian Life, 1876. From his Hymns of Christ, &c, 1876, the following, after revision, were included in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884 :— 1. Immortal, Invisible, God only wise. God, All in All. 2. Lord, God, Omnipotent. Omnipotence. 3. Our portion is not here. Treasure in Heaven. 4. There is no wrath to be appeased. God is Love. In Horder's Congregational Hymns a new opening stanza was added to this hymn by Dr. Smith at the request of the editor, and in that collection the hymn begins "I vexed me with a troubled thought." Dr. Smith's hymns are rich in thought and vigorous in expression. They deserve and probably will receive greater notice than hitherto at the hands of hymnal compilers. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Smith, W. C., p. 1064, i. The following additional hymns by Dr. Smith have come into common use, mainly through The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1900:— 1. Earth was waiting, spent and restless. Christmas. 2. Faint and weary Jesus stood. Our Lord's Temptation. 3. If any to the feast have come. Holy Communion. 4. The Lord hath hid His face from us. Providence. 5. To me to live is Christ. Union with Christ. These hymns appeared in his Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life, 1867, pp. Ill, 122, 241, 10, and 36, respectively. A collected ed. of his Poetical Works (not including his hymns) appeared in 1902. Other hymns that have come into use are:— 1. Gird your loins about with truth. Manliness. 2. Jesus, unto Whom we pray. Christ the Way. 3. One thing I of the Lord desire. Consecration. Nos. 1, 3 are from his Thoughts and Fancies for Sunday Evenings, 1887, pp. 3, 84. No. 2 is from his Hymns of Christ, 1867, p. 31. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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