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Author: Alexander Means, 1801-1853 Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Topics: Penance First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul? What wondrous love is this, O my soul? What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, To bear the dreadful curse for my soul? 2 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing, To God and to the Lamb, I will sing; To God and to the Lamb who is the great I Am, While millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing; While millions join the theme, I will sing. 3 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on; And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on; And when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be, And through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on! And through eternity I'll sing on. Scripture: John 3:16 Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE

Our Father, We Have Wandered

Author: Kevin Nichols, 1929-2006 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Penance Sacraments Scripture: Luke 15:1-3 Used With Tune: PASSION CHORALE

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God

Author: Karen Lafferty, b. 1948; Anon. Meter: Irregular Appears in 75 hymnals Topics: Penance Scripture: Matthew 6:33 Used With Tune: SEEK YE FIRST

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SEEK YE FIRST

Meter: Irregular Appears in 82 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Karen Lafferty, b. 1948 Topics: Penance Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33453 21612 34543 Used With Text: Seek Ye First

RESIGNATION

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 101 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Proulx, b. 1937 Topics: Penance Tune Sources: Funk's Compilation of Genuine Church Music, 1832 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 13532 35165 31351 Used With Text: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need

PASSION CHORALE

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 512 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612; J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: Penance Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: Our Father, We Have Wandered

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Psalm 130: With the Lord There Is Mercy

Author: Timothy R. Smith, b. 1960 Hymnal: Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #106 (2012) Topics: Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation); Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation) First Line: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord Refrain First Line: With the Lord there is mercy Scripture: Psalm 130 Languages: English Tune Title: [Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord]

Let There Be Peace on Earth

Author: Sy Miller, 1908-1971; Jill Jackson, 1913-1995 Hymnal: Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #703 (2012) Topics: Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation); Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation) Scripture: John 14:27 Languages: English Tune Title: [Let there be peace on earth]

Lead Me, Guide Me

Author: Doris M. Akers, 1922-1995 Hymnal: RitualSong #712 (1996) Topics: Penance; Penance First Line: I am weak and I need thy strength and pow'r Refrain First Line: Lead me, guide me, along the way Scripture: Psalm 27:11 Languages: English Tune Title: [I am week and I need thy strength and pow'r]

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H. R. Palmer

1834 - 1907 Person Name: Horatio R. Palmer, 1834-1907 Topics: Penance Sacraments Author of "Yield Not to Temptation" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry Van Dyke

1852 - 1933 Person Name: Henry van Dyke, 1852-1933 Topics: Penance Author of "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You" in Worship (3rd ed.) See biography and works at CCEL

Bland Tucker

1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Topics: Penance Author of "Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death" in Worship (3rd ed.) Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940

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