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For all the saints, who from their labors rest
Author: W. W. How Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead Lyrics: 1 For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy Name, O Jesu, be forever blest.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
2 Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress, and their Might:
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
3 O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win, with them, the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
4 O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
5 And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song,
And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
6 The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest;
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
7 But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of Glory passes on His way.
Alleluia! Allleluia!
8 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Alleluia! Allleluia!
Amen. Used With Tune: SARUM
For all the saints, who from their labors rest
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Author: Sarah F. Adams Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 2,490 hymnals Topics: Burial of the Dead Lyrics:
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee,
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song would be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
There let the way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that Thou sendest me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
Then with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
Or if on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee.
Amen.
Used With Tune: BETHANY
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Author: George N. Allen; Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993 Meter: Irregular Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: Burial Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-2 Used With Tune: PRECIOUS LORD Text Sources: The Oberlin Social and Sabbath School Hymn Book, 1844
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
DUKE STREET
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,443 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John C. Hatton, d. 1793 Topics: Death and Burial Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13456 71765 55565 Used With Text: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
DUKE STREET
JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT
Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 177 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662 Topics: Death and Burial Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 54367 11767 15434 Used With Text: Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won
JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT
Burial of Believers
Author: Watts Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #1205 (1875) Topics: Burial A Brother; Burial A Friend First Line: Unvail thy bosom, faithful tomb
Burial of Believers
When It Seemed that Love Was Dying
Author: Mary Nelson Keithahn Hymnal: Come Away with Me #14 (1998) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Jesus Burial and Resurrection; Mary Magdalene Burial and Resurrection of Jesus; Joseph of Arimathea Burial of Jesus; Nicodemus Burial of Jesus First Line: When it seemed that Love was dying, Scripture: Matthew 27:55-61 Languages: English Tune Title: KRISTA'S TUNE
When It Seemed that Love Was Dying
Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep
Author: M. Mackay Hymnal: The Church Hymnal #244a (1898) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead Lyrics: 1 Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.
2 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing
That death hath lost its painful sting.
3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Saviour's power.
4 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
Waiting the summons from on high.
5 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But there is still a blessèd sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: REST
Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep
Joseph Barnby
1838 - 1896 Person Name: J. Barnby Topics: Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead Composer of "SARUM" in The Church Hymnal Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873).
Bert Polman
Joseph Barnby
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: H. Smart Topics: Burial of the Dead; Burial of the Dead Composer of "REGENT SQUARE" in The Church Hymnal 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
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
1828 - 1904 Person Name: Rev. J. Eames Rankin Topics: Burial of the Dead Author of "Till we meet again! Till we meet again!" in The Book of Common Praise 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)
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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)
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
