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Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

Author: Charles Wesley; Martin Madan; John Cennick Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 768 hymnals Topics: Everlasting Fellowship The Second Coming of Christ Lyrics: 1 Lo, He comes with clouds descending, Once for favored sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of His train. Alleluia! Alleluia! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold Him, Robed in dreadful majesty! Those who set at naught and sold Him, Pierced and nailed Him to the tree, Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, Shall their true Messiah see. 3 Now the Savior, long-expected, See in solemn pomp appear. All His saints, by man rejected, Now shall meet Him in the air. Alleluia! Alleluia! See the day of God appear. 4 Yea, amen! let all adore Thee, High on Thine eternal throne. Savior, take the pow'r and glory; Claim the kingdom for Thine own. O come quickly! O come quickly! Everlasting God, come down! Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

Lift Up Your Heads

Author: Steve Fry Meter: Irregular Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Everlasting Fellowship The Second Coming of Christ First Line: Lift up your heads to the coming King Used With Tune: LIFT UP YOUR HEADS

At the Name of Jesus

Author: Caroline M. Noel Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 253 hymnals Topics: Everlasting Fellowship The Second Coming of Christ Lyrics: 1 At the name of Jesus Every knee shall bow, Every tongue confess Him King of Glory now. ’Tis the Father’s pleasure We should call Him Lord, Who from the beginning Was the mighty Word. 2 Humbled for a season To receive a name From the lips of sinners Unto whom He came; Faithfully He bore it, Spotless to the last, Brought it back victorious When from death He passed. 3 In your hearts enthrone Him; There let Him remove All that is not holy, All that is not true. Crown Him as your captain In temptation's hour; Let His will enfold you In its light and pow'r. 4 Watch, for this Lord Jesus Shall return again In His Father's glory, O'er the earth to reign; For the day is coming When each knee shall bow, And our hearts confess Him King of Glory now. Used With Tune: WYE VALLEY (abridged)

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HOW GREAT THOU ART

Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine Topics: Creation; Eternal Life; God as Creator; God's Greatness; God's Majesty; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Blood of; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Jesus Christ Son of God; Music and Singing; Praise of God; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art

SOLID ROCK

Appears in 482 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 Topics: Darkness; Eternal Life; Hope; Jesus Christ Blood of; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Jesus Christ Solid Rock; Testimony/Witness; Trust in God; Unity and Fellowship; Elements of Worship Profession of Faith Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51353 32234 44217 Used With Text: My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less

DIADEMATA

Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 700 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George J. Elvey, 1816-1893 Topics: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord; Domingo de Ramos en la Pasión del Señor; Easter Season; Tiempo de Pascua; Ascension of the Lord; Ascensión del Señor; Solemnities of the Lord Christ the King; Solemnidades del Señor Jesucristo, Rey del Universo; Alabanza; Praise; Canción; Song; Cordero de Dios; Lamb of God; Despedida; Sending Forth; Gathering; Reunión, Entrada; Life; Vida; Majestad y Poder; Majesty and Power; Mesiánico; Messianic; Misterio Pascual; Paschal Mystery; Paz; Peace; Salvación; Salvation; Second Coming; Segunda Venida Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11133 66514 32235 Used With Text: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Al Salvador Jesús)

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What If It Were Today?

Author: Lelia N. Morris Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #759 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Everlasting Fellowship The Second Coming of Christ First Line: Jesus is coming to earth again Refrain First Line: Glory, glory! Joy to my heart 'twill bring Lyrics: 1 Jesus is coming to earth again - What if it were today? Coming in power and love to reign - What if it were today? Coming to claim His chosen Bride, All the redeemed and purified, Over this whole earth scattered wide - What if it were today? Refrain: Glory, glory! Joy to my heart 'twill bring; Glory, glory! When we shall crown Him King. Glory, glory! Haste to prepare the way; Glory, glory! Jesus will come someday. 2 Satan's dominion will then be o'er - O that it were today! Sorrow and sighing shall be no more - O that it were today! Then shall the dead in Christ arise, Caught up to meet Him in the skies; When shall these glories meet our eyes? What if it were today? [Refrain] 3 Faithful and true would He find us here If He should come today? Watching in gladness and not in fear, If He should come today? Signs of His coming multiply, Morning light breaks in eastern sky; Watch, for the time is drawing nigh - What if it were today? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: SECOND COMING

Rejoice! Rejoice, Emmanuel

Author: Dr. J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #86 (1917) Topics: Advent Second Coming of Christ; Second Coming of Christ First Line: O come, O come, Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. 2 O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny; From depths of hell Thy people save, And give them victory o'er the grave, Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. 3 O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine Advent here; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death's dark shadows put to flight, Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. 4 O come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heavenly home; Make safe the way that leads on high, And close the path to misery. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. 5 O come, O come, Thou Lord of might, Who to Thy tribes, from Sinai's height, In ancient time didst give the law In cloud, and majesty and awe. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. Languages: English Tune Title: VENI EMMANUEL

We'll Work Till Jesus Comes

Author: Elizabeth Mills Hymnal: The Majestic Hymnal, number two #382 (1959) Topics: Christ Second Coming of Christ; Christ Second Coming of Christ First Line: O land of rest, of Thee I sigh! Refrain First Line: We'll work, till Jesus comes Languages: English

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Mrs. C. H. Morris

1862 - 1929 Person Name: Lelia N. Morris Topics: Everlasting Fellowship The Second Coming of Christ Author of "What If It Were Today?" in The Celebration Hymnal Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." Mary Louise VanDyke

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Topics: Second Coming of Christ Composer of "HARWELL" in Psalter Hymnal (Red) 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.

Jeremiah Eames Rankin

1828 - 1904 Person Name: Jeremiah E. Rankin Topics: Second Coming of Christ Author of "Dios os guarde" in Celebremos Su Gloria Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857. Another of his hymns is "Rest, rest, rest, brother rest." He died in 1904. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Rankin, J. 33., p. 951, ii. Dr. Rankin, b. in N. H. (not New Haven), and received his D.D. 1869, LL.D. 1889 from his Alma Mater. He was President for several years of Howard University, Washington, D.C. His publications included several volumes of Sermons, German-English Lyrics, Sacred and Secular, 1897; 2nd ed. 1898, &c. In addition to his hymns noted on p. 951, ii., he has written and published mainly in sheet form many others, the most important and best-known being:— 1. God be with you till we meet again. [Benediction.] Dr. Rankin's account of this hymn, supplied to us, in common with Mr. Brownlie, for his Hymns and H. Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, is: "It was written as a Christian good-bye, and first sung in the First Congregational Church, of which I was minister for fifteen years. We had Gospel meetings on Sunday nights, and our music was intentionally of the popular kind. I wrote the first stanza, and sent it to two gentlemen for music. The music which seemed to me to best suit the words was written by T. G. Tomer, teacher of public schools in New Jersey, at one time on the staff of General 0. 0. Howard. After receiving the music (which was revised by Dr. J. W. Bischoff, the organist of my church), I wrote the other stanzas." The hymn became at once popular, and has been translated into several languages. In America it is in numerous collections; and in Great Britain, in The Church Hymnary, 1898, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, and others. It was left undated by Dr. Rankin, but I.D. Sankey gives it as 1882. 2. Beautiful the little hands. [Little ones for Jesus.] Given without date in Gloria Deo, New York, 1900. Dr. Rankin's translations include versions of German, French, Latin, and Welsh hymns. His contributions to the periodical press have been numerous. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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