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Take My Life That It May Be
Author: Frances R. Havergal Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,200 hymnals Topics: Commitment & Dedication; Commitment & Dedication Lyrics: 1 Take my life that it may be
all you purpose, Lord, for me.
Take my moments and my days;
let them sing your endless praise.
2 Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of your love.
Take my feet and lead their way;
never let them go astray.
3 Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and keep them true,
filled with messages from you.
4 Take my wealth, all I possess;
make me rich in faithfulness.
Take my mind that I may use
every power as you shall choose.
5 Take my motives and my will,
all your purpose to fulfill.
Take my heart– it is your own;
it shall be your royal throne.
6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at your feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
yours for all eternity.
Scripture: Isaiah 6:8 Used With Tune: TEBBEN Text Sources: Psalter Hymnal, 1987, rev.
Take My Life That It May Be
Come, All Christians, Be Committed
Author: Eva B. Lloyd Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Commitment; Commitment Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING
Come, All Christians, Be Committed
When We Walk with the Lord
Author: John H. Sammis Meter: 6.6.9 D with refrain Appears in 441 hymnals Topics: Commitment & Dedication; Commitment & Dedication Refrain First Line: Trust and obey, for there's no other way Lyrics: 1 When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his Word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
2 But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favor he shows
and the joy he bestows
are for those who will trust and obey. Refrain
3 Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at his feet,
or we'll walk by his side in the way;
what he says we will do,
where he sends we will go
never fear, only trust and obey. Refrain
Scripture: Exodus 19:5 Used With Tune: TRUST AND OBEY
When We Walk with the Lord
VATER UNSER IM HIMMELREICH, DER DU
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 174 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Topics: Commitment; Commitment Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 55345 32155 47534 Used With Text: Jesus, Your Boundless Love to Me
VATER UNSER IM HIMMELREICH, DER DU
Come, All Christians, Be Committed
Author: Eva B. Lloyd Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #488 (2010) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: The Church at Worship Commitment; Commitment Languages: English Tune Title: BEACH SPRING
Come, All Christians, Be Committed
What Does the Lord Require of You
Author: Jim Strathdee Hymnal: Voices United #701 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: The Church in the World Commitment: Peace and Justice; Commitment; Commitment First Line: What does the Lord require of you? Languages: English Tune Title: MOON
What Does the Lord Require of You
Commit Thy Way
Hymnal: The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #581 (1986) Meter: Irregular Topics: Commitment and Consecration First Line: Commit thy way unto the Lord Lyrics: Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him.
Commit thy way unto the Lord, and He will bring it to pass. Scripture: Psalm 37 Tune Title: COMMIT THY WAY
Commit Thy Way
George Herbert
1593 - 1633 Person Name: George Herbert (1593-1633) Topics: Commitment Author of "Teach me, my God and King" in Ancient and Modern Herbert, George, M.A., the fifth son of Richard Herbert and Magdalen, the daughter of Sir Richard Newport, was born at his father's seat, Montgomery Castle, April 3, 1593. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1611. On March 15, 1615, he became Major Fellow of the College, M.A. the same year, and in 1619 Orator for the University. Favoured by James I., intimate with Lord Bacon, Bishop Andrewes, and other men of influence, and encouraged in other ways, his hopes of Court preferment were somewhat bright until they were dispelled by the deaths of the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Hamilton, and then of King James himself. Retiring into Kent, he formed the resolution of taking Holy Orders. He was appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln to the Prebend of Lcighton Ecclesia and to the living of Leighton Bromswold, Hunts, July 15, 1626. He remained until 1629, when an attack of ague obliged him to remove to his brother's, house at Woodford, Essex. Not improving in health at Woodford, he removed to Dantsey, in Wiltshire, and then as Rector to Bemerton, to which he was inducted, April 26, 1630, where he died Feb. 1632. The entry in the register of Bemerton is "Mr. George Herbert, Esq., Parson of Foughleston and Bemerton, was buried 3 day of March 1632."
His life, by Izaak Walton, is well known; another Memoir, by Barnabas Oley, is forgotten. Herbert's prose work, Priest to the Temple, appeared several years after his death: but The Temple, by which he is best known, he delivered to Nicholas Ferrar (q.v.), about three weeks before his death, and authorized him to publish it if he thought fit. This was done iu 1633. The work became popular, and the 13th edition was issued in 1709. It is meditative rather than hymnic in character, and was never intended for use in public worship. In 1697 a selection from The Temple appeared under the title Select Hymns Taken out of Mr. Herbert's Temple & turned into the Common Metre To Be Sung In The Tunes Ordinarily us'd in Churches. London, Parkhurst, 1697. In 1739, J. & C. Wesley made a much more successful attempt to introduce his hymns into public worship by inserting over 40 in a much-altered form in their Hymns & Sacred Poems. As some few of these came into their collection of Psalms & Hymns, 1741, revised 1743, they were long sung by the Methodists, but do not now form part of the Wesleyan Hymn Book. No further attempt seems to have been made to use the Temple poems as hymns until 1853, when some altered and revised by G. Rawson were given in the Leeds Hymn Book of that year. From that time onward more attention was paid to Herbert alike by Churchmen and Nonconformists, and some of his hymns are now widely accepted. Many editions of his works have been published, the most popular being that of the Rev. Robert Aris Wilmott, Lond., Geo. Routledge & Son, 1857; but Dr. Grosart's privately printed edition issued in his Fuller Worthies Library in 1874, in three volumes, is not only the most complete and correct, but included also his psalms not before reprinted, and several poems from a ms. in the Williams Library, and not before published. The Temple has also been pub¬lished in facsimile by Elliott Stock, 1876, with preface by Dr. Grosart; and in ordinary type, 1882, by Wells Gardner, with preface by J. A. Shorthouse.
The quaintness of Herbert's lyrics and the peculiarity of several of their metres have been against their adoption for congregational purposes. The best known are: "Let all the world in every corner sing"; "My stock lies dead, and no increase"; "Throw away Thy rod"; "Sweet day, so cool, so calm"; and "Teach me, my God, and King." [William T. Brooke]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Herbert
Julia Ward Howe
1819 - 1910 Person Name: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Topics: Commitment Author of "Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory hallelujah" in Together in Song Born: May 27, 1819, New York City.
Died: October 17, 1910, Middletown, Rhode Island.
Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Howe, Julia, née Ward, born in New York City in 1819, and married in 1843 the American philanthropist S. G. Howe. She has taken great interest in political matters, and is well known through her prose and poetical works. Of the latter there are Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hour, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From Sunset Ridge, 1896. Her Battle Hymn of the Republic, "eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," was written in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was called forth by the sight of troops for the seat of war, and published in her Later Lyrics, 1806, p. 41. It is found in several American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. [M. C. Hazard, Ph.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Howe, Julia Ward. (New York, New York, May 27, 1819--October 17, 1910). Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26, 1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect; an abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several book in prose and verse. The latter include Passion Flower, 1854; Words of the Hours, 1856; Later Lyrics, 1866; and From a Sunset Ridge, 1896.
She became famous as the author of the poem entitled "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which, in spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn for use in public worship, but which has been included in many American hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she and her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples, Boston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to a popular tune called "Glory, Hallelujah" composed a few years earlier by William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School use. Dr. Clarke asked Julie Howe if she could not write more uplifting words for the tune and as she woke early the next morning she found the verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem to The Atlantic Monthly, which paid her $4 and published it in its issue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCable (later a Methodist bishop) who had a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other troops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made a prisoner of war. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an expression of the patriotic emotion of the period.
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
Julia Ward Howe
Fred Pratt Green
1903 - 2000 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green, b. 1903 Topics: Commitment Author of "For the Fruits of His Creation" in Hymnal Supplement 98 The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies.
Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more."
--Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.
Fred Pratt Green
