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Praise to God for hearing Prayer
Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: God governing power and goodness; God governing power and goodness First Line: Now shall my solmen vows be paid Lyrics: 1 Now shall my solemn vows be paid
To that Almighty power
That heard the long requests I made
In my distressful hour.
2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare
To make his mercies known:
Come ye that fear my God, and hear
The wonders he has done.
3 When on my head huge sorrows fell,
I sought the heavenly aid;
He sav'd my sinking soul from hell,
And death's eternal shade.
4 If sin lay cover'd in my heart,
While prayer employ'd my tongue;
The Lord had shewn me no regard,
Nor I his praises sung.
5 But God (his name be ever blest)
Has set my spirit free;
Nor turn'd from him my poor request,
Nor turn'd his heart from me. Scripture: Psalm 66:13-20
Praise to God for hearing Prayer
Lofva Gud, min själ, min tunga!
Author: L. L. Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Christ's Kingdom and Government First Line: Lofva Gud, min själ, min tunga Lyrics: 1 Lofva Gud, min själ, min tunga,
Allt hvad i mitt hjärta är,
Upp att Jesu seger sjunga,
Som för oss han vunnit här:
Fienden är nederslagen
Och i härligt segerlopp
Jesus, från de sina tagen,
Far til Fadern åter opp!
2 Nu vår frälsnings höfding vorden,
I sin hand han har all makt,
Och i himlen och på jorden
Allt är Sonen underlgdt:
Till sin tron han återvänder,
Genom korset härliggjord,
Med de genomstungna händer
Än välsignande sin hjord.
3 Under dödens bittra smärta
Han mot världen str¨ckt sin hamn
Och likt Aron på sitt hjärta
Bär de återlöstas namn.
Hos sin Fader idet höga
För de sina beder han,
Och för Faderns helga öga
Står han som vår löftesman.
4 Upp, min själ, att eftertrakta
Endast det i himlen är,
Jordens lust för intet akta:
Ej din ro du finner här!
Din um g¨ngelse skall vara,
Där din Gud, din konung bor,
Tills han med sinhelgenskara
Kommer åter som han for! Used With Tune: HARWELL
Lofva Gud, min själ, min tunga!
Let There be Light
Author: William M. Vories Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Government First Line: Let there be light, O God of hosts! Lyrics: 1 Let there be light, O God of hosts!
Let there be wisdom on the earth!
Let broad humanity have birth!
Let there be deeds instead of boasts.
2 Within our passioned hearts instill
the calm that endeth strain and strife.
Make us your ministers of life.
Drive out the urge to curse and kill.
3 Give us the peace of vision clear
to see each other’s good, our own,
to joy and suffer not alone:
the love that casts aside all fear.
4 Let woe and waste of warfare cease,
that useful labor yet may build
its homes with love and laughter filled!
God, give your wayward children peace! Scripture: Psalm 43:3 Used With Tune: MISSIONARY CHANT Text Sources: Advocate of Peace, 1909, alt.
Let There be Light
MISSIONARY CHANT
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 469 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles H. C. Zeuner Topics: Government Tune Sources: American Harp, 1832 Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 33331 22771 11132 Used With Text: Let There be Light
MISSIONARY CHANT
SHARPTHORNE
Meter: 6.6.6.6.3.3.6 Appears in 22 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Erik Reginald Routley, 1917-82 Topics: Government Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 12342 55642 11123 Used With Text: What does the Lord require
SHARPTHORNE
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (3rd ed.) #79a (1786) Topics: Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ; Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ First Line: I'll speak the honours of my King Lyrics: 1 I'll speak the honours of my King,
His form divinely fair;
None of his sons of mortal race
May with the Lord compare.
2 Sweet is thy speech, and heavenly grace
Upon thy lips is shed;
Thy God with blessings infinite
Hath crown'd thy sacred head.
3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince,
Ride with majestic sway;
Thy terrors shall strike through thy foes,
And make the world obey.
4 Thy throne, O Gof, forever stands,
Thy word of grace shall prove
A peaceful sceptre in thy hands
To rule the saints by love.
5 Justice and truth attend thee still,
But mercy is thy choice;
And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill
With most peculiar joys. Scripture: Psalm 45 Languages: English
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David #79a (1790) Topics: Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ; Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ First Line: I'll speak the honours of my King Lyrics: 1 I'll speak the honours of my King,
His form divinely fair;
None of his sons of mortal race
May with the Lord compare.
2 Sweet is thy speech, and heavenly grace
Upon thy lips is shed;
Thy God with blessings infinite
Hath crown'd thy sacred head.
3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince,
Ride with majestic sway;
Thy terrors shall strike through thy foes,
And make the world obey.
4 Thy throne, O Gof, forever stands,
Thy word of grace shall prove
A peaceful sceptre in thy hands
To rule the saints by love.
5 Justice and truth attend thee still,
But mercy is thy choice;
And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill
With most peculiar joys. Scripture: Psalm 45 Languages: English
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (2nd ed.) #85a (1786) Topics: Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ; Christ his perennial Glories and Government; Governance of Christ First Line: I'll speak the honours of my King Lyrics: 1 I'll speak the honours of my King,
His form divinely fair;
None of his sons of mortal race
May with the Lord compare.
2 Sweet is thy speech, and heavenly grace
Upon thy lips is shed;
Thy God with blessings infinite
Hath crown'd thy sacred head.
3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince,
Ride with majestic sway;
Thy terrors shall strike through thy foes,
And make the world obey.
4 Thy throne, O Gof, forever stands,
Thy word of grace shall prove
A peaceful sceptre in thy hands
To rule the saints by love.
5 Justice and truth attend thee still,
But mercy is thy choice;
And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill
With most peculiar joys. Scripture: Psalm 45 Languages: English
The Personal Glories and Governement of Christ
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry T. Smart Topics: Government; Government Composer of "IRBY" in Voices Together Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart
Lowell Mason
1792 - 1872 Topics: Christ's Kingdom and Government Composer of "HARWELL" in Lutherförbundets Sångbok Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man.
Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit.
The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank.
In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious.
Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them."
The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging.
Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage.
Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals.
As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced.
Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College.
--Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Lowell Mason
Henry Carey
1687 - 1743 Topics: Christ's Kingdom and Government Composer of "AMERICA" in Lutherförbundets Sångbok Henry Carey, b. 1685 (?); d. London, 1743
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Henry Carey
