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Forever With The Lord
Author: J. Montgomery Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 631 hymnals Topics: Comfort and Hope First Line: "Forever with the Lord!" Lyrics: 1 "Forever with the Lord!"
Amen! so let it be!
Life and spirit from above.
'Tis immortality!
2 Here, in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.
3 My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near,
At times, to faith's foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!
4 Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above!
5 "Forever with the Lord!"
Father, if 'tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word
E'en here to me fulfill.
6 Be Thou at my right hand,
Then can I never fail;
Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand;
Fight, and I must prevail.
7 So when my dying breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.
8 Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat, before the throne,
"Forever with the Lord!" Used With Tune: [Forever with the Lord]
Forever With The Lord
Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense
Author: Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78 Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 56 hymnals Topics: Comfort and Rest; Death and Burial; Easter; Faith; Hope Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ, my sure defense
And my Savior, now is living!
Knowing this, my confidence
Rests upon the hope here given
Though the night of death be caught
Still in many an anxious thought.
2 Jesus, my redeemer, lives;
Likewise I to life shall waken.
He will bring me where he is;
Shall my courage then be shaken?
Shall I fear, or could the head
Rise and leave his members dead?
3 No, I am too closely bound
By my hope to Christ forever;
Faith's strong hand the rock has found,
Grasped it, and will leave it never;
Even death now cannot part
From its Lord the trusting heart.
4 I am flesh and must return
To the dust, whence I am taken;
But by faith I now discern
That from death I will awaken
With my Savior to abide
In his glory, at his side.
5 Then these eyes my Lord will know,
My redeemer and my brother;
In his love my soul will glow--
I myself and not another!
Then the weakness I feel here
Will forever disappear.
6 Then take comfort and rejoice,
For his members Christ will cherish.
Fear not, they will hear his voice;
Dying, they will never perish;
For the very grave is stirred
When the trumpet's blast is heard.
7 Oh, then, draw away your hearts
From all pleasures base and hollow.
Strive to share what he imparts
While you here his footsteps follow.
As you now still wait to rise,
Fix your hearts beyond the skies. Used With Tune: JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT Text Sources: Berlin, 1653
Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense
Love From God, Our Lord
Author: Johanne Schjorring Meter: 5.5.7.5.5.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Comfort and Hope Lyrics: 1 Love from God, our Lord,
Has forever poured
Like a fountain pure and clear.
In its quiet source,
In its silent course,
Doth the precious pearl appear.
2 Love from God, our Lord,
Comes with sweet accord
Like a pure and lovely bride.
Dwell within my heart,
Peace from God impart,
Heaven doth with Thee abide.
3 Love from God, our Lord,
Has to men restored
Life and spirit from above.
Who in love remains,
Peace from God obtains;
God Himself is ever love.
Used With Tune: [Love from God, our Lord]
Love From God, Our Lord
SWEET HOUR
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 525 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Bradbury Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Prayer, Trust, Hope; Comfort; Hope; Prayer Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13455 67165 33212 Used With Text: Sweet Hour of Prayer
SWEET HOUR
STAND BY ME
Meter: 8.3.8.3.7.7.8.3 Appears in 42 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Albert Tindley; William Farley Smith Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Prayer, Trust, Hope; Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Strength in Triublation; Comfort; Grief; Jesus Christ Presence Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12333 21567 11355 Used With Text: Stand By Me
STAND BY ME
PRECIOUS LORD
Meter: Irregular Appears in 86 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas A. Dorsey Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Prayer, Trust, Hope; Affliction and Tribulation; Comfort; Eternal Life; Funerals and Memorial Services; Grief; Hope Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 34555 13321 16166 Used With Text: Precious Lord, Take My Hand
PRECIOUS LORD
The Lord Be Praised! I'm Homeward Bound
Author: J. Lassen Hymnal: Hymnal for Church and Home #254 (1927) Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: Comfort and Hope Lyrics: 1 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
To where my Father's house is found,
Beyond death's gloomy portal,
Where God's own Son, my Savior blest,
Receives me as His welcomed guest
Among the saints immortal.
2 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where sin and death, the grave's sad mound,
Forever are forgotten;
Where living fountains ever flow,
And trees their fruit each month shall grow
For those of God begotten.
3 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where I shall join the host renowned,
Before His throne assembling,
And there with all in love shall dwell
In glory, which no tongue can tell,
Relieved of fear and trembling.
4 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where all the saints with beauty crowned
Sing to His praise and glory;
Where I my problems understand,
As they were solved by God's own hand,
And tell the blessed story.
5 So, then, with hope we onward press
Thro' sorrow, trouble, and distress,
In confidence and wonder,
Until by angels borne on high,
With sweet relief and happy sigh,
Our eyes we open yonder.
Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound]
The Lord Be Praised! I'm Homeward Bound
The Lord Be Praised! I'm Homeward Bound
Author: J. Lassen Hymnal: Hymnal for Church and Home (2nd ed.) #254 (1928) Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: Comfort and Hope Lyrics: 1 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
To where my Father's house is found,
Beyond death's gloomy portal,
Where God's own Son, my Savior blest,
Receives me as His welcomed guest
Among the saints immortal.
2 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where sin and death, the grave's sad mound,
Forever are forgotten;
Where living fountains ever flow,
And trees their fruit each month shall grow
For those of God begotten.
3 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where I shall join the host renowned
Before His throne assembling,
And there with all in love shall dwell
In glory, which no tongue can tell,
Relieved of fear and trembling.
4 The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound,
Where all the saints with beauty crowned
Sing to His praise and glory;
Where I my problems understand,
As they were solved by God's own hand,
And tell the blessed story.
5 So, then, with hope we onward press
Through sorrow, trouble, and distress,
In confidence and wonder,
Until by angels borne on high,
With sweet relief and happy sigh,
Our eyes we open yonder.
Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord be praised! I'm homeward bound]
The Lord Be Praised! I'm Homeward Bound
O Land Of Our King
Author: N. F. S. Grundtvig Hymnal: Hymnal for Church and Home #246 (1927) Meter: 5.11.11.11.11.5 Topics: Comfort and Hope First Line: O land of our King! Lyrics: 1 O land of our King!
Where harvest embraces the flowery spring,
Where all things worth having forever remain,
Where nothing we miss but our sorrow and pain,
All mankind is longing to find and explore
Thy beautiful shore.
2 How blessed the land!
Where time is not measured by tears or with sand,
Where fades not the flower, the bird never dies,
Where joys are not bubbles that break as they rise,
Where life does not crown us with white for the gloom
Of death and the tomb.
3 How blessed to be
Where death has no sting, where from sin we are free,
Where all that decayed in new glory shall bloom,
Where all that was ruined shall rise from the tomb,
Where love grows in light as a summer day fair
With flower-crowned hair.
4 My spirit receives
Thro' Christ what the world neither knows nor believes,
This while we are here, we but dimly can know,
Tho' feeling within us its heavenly glow.
The Lord saith: On earth as in heaven above
My kingdom is love. Languages: English Tune Title: [O land of our King]
O Land Of Our King
A. J. Showalter
1858 - 1924 Person Name: Anthony J. Showalter Topics: The Christian Life Assurance and Hope; Assurance; Christian Life; Comfort; Fellowship Composer of "[What a fellowship, what a joy divine]" in The New Church Hymnal Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did.
John Perry
A. J. Showalter
Johann Crüger
1598 - 1662 Person Name: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662 Topics: Comfort and Rest; Death and Burial; Easter; Faith; Hope Composer of "JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT" in Lutheran Worship Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figured bass accompaniment (musical shorthand) with the chorale melody rather than full harmonization written out. It included eighteen of Crüger's tunes. His next publication, Praxis Pietatis Melica (1644), is considered one of the most important collections of German hymnody in the seventeenth century. It was reprinted forty-four times in the following hundred years. Another of his publications, Geistliche Kirchen Melodien (1649), is a collection arranged for four voices, two descanting instruments, and keyboard and bass accompaniment. Crüger also published a complete psalter, Psalmodia sacra (1657), which included the Lobwasser translation set to all the Genevan tunes.
Bert Polman
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Crüger, Johann, was born April 9, 1598, at Gross-Breese, near Guben, Brandenburg. After passing through the schools at Guben, Sorau and Breslau, the Jesuit College at Olmütz, and the Poets' school at Regensburg, he made a tour in Austria, and, in 1615, settled at Berlin. There, save for a short residence at the University of Wittenberg, in 1620, he employed himself as a private tutor till 1622. In 1622 he was appointed Cantor of St. Nicholas's Church at Berlin, and also one of the masters of the Greyfriars Gymnasium. He died at Berlin Feb. 23, 1662. Crüger wrote no hymns, although in some American hymnals he appears as "Johann Krüger, 1610,” as the author of the supposed original of C. Wesley's "Hearts of stone relent, relent" (q.v.). He was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. Of his hymn tunes, which are generally noble and simple in style, some 20 are still in use, the best known probably being that to "Nun danket alle Gott" (q.v.), which is set to No. 379 in Hymns Ancient & Modern, ed. 1875. His claim to notice in this work is as editor and contributor to several of the most important German hymnological works of the 16th century, and these are most conveniently treated of under his name. (The principal authorities on his works are Dr. J. F. Bachmann's Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gesangbücher 1857; his Vortrag on P. Gerhard, 1863; and his edition of Gerhardt's Geistliche Lieder, 1866. Besides these there are the notices in Bode, and in R. Eitner's Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte, 1873 and 1880). These works are:—
1. Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch, Augspur-gischer Confession, &c, Berlin, 1640 [Library of St. Nicholas's Church, Berlin], with 248 hymns, very few being published for the first time.
2. Praxis pietatis melica. Das ist: Ubung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen. The history of this, the most important work of the century, is still obscure. The 1st edition has been variously dated 1640 and 1644, while Crüger, in the preface to No. 3, says that the 3rd edition appeared in 1648. A considerable correspondence with German collectors and librarians has failed to bring to light any of the editions which Koch, iv. 102, 103, quotes as 1644, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653. The imperfect edition noted below as probably that of 1648 is the earliest Berlin edition we have been able to find. The imperfect edition, probably ix. of 1659, formerly in the hands of Dr. Schneider of Schleswig [see Mützell, 1858, No. 264] was inaccessible. The earliest perfect Berlin edition we have found is 1653.
The edition printed at Frankfurt in 1656 by Caspar Röteln was probably a reprint of a Berlin edition, c. 1656. The editions printed at Frankfurt-am-Main by B. C. Wust (of which the 1666 is in the preface described as the 3rd) are in considerable measure independent works.
In the forty-five Berlin and over a dozen Frankfurt editions of this work many of the hymns of P. Gerhardt, J. Franck, P. J. Spener, and others, appear for the first time, and therein also appear many of the best melodies of the period.
3. Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, &c, Leipzig, 1649 [Library of St. Katherine's Church, Brandenburg]. This contains the first stanzas only of 161 hymns, with music in four vocal and two instrumental parts. It is the earliest source of the first stanzas of various hymns by Gerhardt, Franck, &c.
4. D. M. Luther's und anderer vornehmen geisU reichen und gelehrten Manner Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, &c, Berlin, 1653 [Hamburg Town Library], with 375 hymns. This was edited by C. Runge, the publisher, and to it Crüger contributed some 37 melodies. It was prepared at the request of Luise Henriette (q.v.), as a book for the joint use of the Lutherans and the Re¬formed, and is the earliest source of the hymns ascribed to her, and of the complete versions of many hymns by Gerhardt and Franck.
5. Psalmodia Sacra, &c, Berlin, 1658 [Royal Library, Berlin]. The first section of this work is in an ed. of A. Lobwasser's German Psalter; the second, with a similar title to No. 4, and the date 1657, is practically a recast of No. 4,146 of those in 1653 being omitted, and the rest of the 319 hymns principally taken from the Praxis of 1656 and the hymn-books of the Bohemian Brethren. New eds. appeared in 1676, 1700, 1704, 1711, and 1736.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Crüger, Johann, p. 271, ii. Dr. J. Zahn, now of Neuendettelsau, in Bavaria, has recently acquired a copy of the 5th ed., Berlin, 1653, of the Praxis.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Johann Crüger
Joseph Parry
1841 - 1903 Topics: Christ Grace, Love and Mercy; Comfort and Encouragement; Faith and Hope; Funeral Hymns; Love God's Love; Provision and Leading Composer of "ABERYSTWYTH" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where Parry later started a music school. He traveled in the United States and in Wales, performing, studying, and composing music, and he won several Eisteddfodau (singing competition) prizes. Parry studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge, where part of his tuition was paid by interested community people who were eager to encourage his talent. From 1873 to 1879 he was professor of music at the Welsh University College in Aberystwyth. After establishing private schools of music in Aberystwyth and in Swan sea, he was lecturer and professor of music at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff (1888-1903). Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Joseph Parry
