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I will sing the wondrous story

Author: Francis Harold Rowley (1854-1952) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 287 hymnals Topics: Future hope Scripture: Isaiah 43:2 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

Beneath the cross of Jesus

Author: Keith Getty (b. 1974); Kristyn Getty (B. 1980) Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Future hope Scripture: Hebrews 2:10-13 Used With Tune: [Beneath the cross of Jesus]

Come, thou fount of every blessing

Author: Robert Robinson (1735-1790) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,203 hymnals Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Come, thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious measure sung by flaming tongues above; O the vast, the boundless treasure of my Lord's unchanging love! 2 Here I find my greatest treasure: hither by thy help I've come, and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood. 3 O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be! Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; take my heart, O take and seal it, seal it from thy courts above! Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Used With Tune: NETTLETON

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MACCABAEUS

Meter: 10.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 139 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) Topics: Future hope Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 53451 23454 32345 Used With Text: Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son

IN DULCI JUBILO

Appears in 201 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer; Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795-1856) Topics: Future hope Tune Sources: Later form of 14th-century German melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christians all, rejoice

AR HYD Y NOS

Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 286 hymnals Topics: Future hope Tune Sources: Welsh traditional melody harmonised Compilers of English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 17612 17567 71176 Used With Text: God, that madest earth and heaven

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There is a hope that burns within my heart

Author: Stuart Townend (b. 1963); Mark Edwards Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #803 (2013) Topics: Future hope Scripture: Romans 6:1-11 Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a hope that burns within my heart]

Year by year, from past to future

Author: Alan Luff (b. 1928) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #829 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Year by year, from past to future worship marks our upward climb, sets the rhythm of our journey to eternity through time: though the outward things diminish we are held more firm by grace, following God's heavenward calling and the everlasting prize. 2 As we seek to weave life's fabric on the lengthening loom of days, may Christ guide the threads that form it, be the pattern it displays; may the Father, master craftsman, sorrowing over each mistake, plan for us a new perfection from the ugliness we make. 3 Though we long for the adventure of the mystery of bliss, to the pilgrim's eyes the pathway breaks, and ends in death's abyss; but within the dark are waiting hands that bear the print of nails, which will hold us safe and bear us where the worship never fails. Scripture: John 14:1-4 Languages: English Tune Title: EBENEZER

Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side

Author: Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel (1697-after 1768); Jane Laurie Borthwick (1813-1897) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #594 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Topics: Future hope Lyrics: 1 Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side; bear patiently the cross of grief and pain; leave to your God to order and provide; in every change he faithful will remain. Be still, my soul: your best, your heavenly friend through thorny ways leads to a joyful end. 2 Be still, my soul: your God will undertake to guide the future as he has the past. Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake, all now mysterious shall be clear at last. Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know his voice, who ruled them while he dwelt below. 3 Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart and all is darkened in the vale of tears, then you shall better know his love, his heart, who comes to soothe your sorrow, calm your fears. Be still, my soul: for Jesus can repay from his own fullness all he takes away. 4 Be still, my soul: the hour is hastening on when we shall be for ever with the Lord, when disappointment, grief and fear are gone, sorrow forgotten, love's pure joy restored. Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past, all safe and blessèd we shall meet at last. Scripture: Psalm 124 Languages: English Tune Title: FINLANDIA

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Topics: Future hope Arranger of "CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in Ancient and Modern Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Topics: Future hope Author of "Light of the minds that know him" in Ancient and Modern Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Henry J. Gauntlett

1805 - 1876 Person Name: Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876) Topics: Future hope Composer (melody) of "IRBY" in Ancient and Modern Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extended the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844). Bert Polman

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