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Near the Cross
Author: Fanny Crosby Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 680 hymnals Topics: Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of; Cross of Christ First Line: Jesus, keep me near the cross Refrain First Line: In the cross, in the cross Lyrics: 1 Jesus, keep me near the cross,
There a precious fountain;
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calv'ry's mountain.
Refrain:
In the cross, in the cross
Be my glory ever,
Till my ransomed soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.
2 Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the Bright and Morning Star
Shed His beams around me. [Refrain]
3 Near the cross! O lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o'er me. [Refrain]
4 Near the cross! I'll watch and wait,
Hoping, trusting ever;
Till I reach the golden strand,
Just beyond the river. [Refrain]
Baptist Hymnal, 1991
Near the Cross
O Love of God, How Strong and True
Author: Rev. Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 110 hymnals Topics: Cross of Christ Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true,
Eternal, and yet ever new,
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
2 O heavenly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless!
3 O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
We read thee in the sky above,
We read thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell, and streams that flow.
4 We read thee best in Him who came
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.
5 We read thy power to bless and save,
E'en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection-light
We read the fulness of thy might.
6 O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way;
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
Forever safe, forever blest. Used With Tune: LOUVAN
O Love of God, How Strong and True
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Author: George Matheson Meter: 8.8.8.8.6 Appears in 676 hymnals Topics: Cross of Christ Lyrics: 1 O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.
2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain,
that morn shall tearless be.
4 O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be.
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3 Used With Tune: ST. MARGARET
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
STABAT MATER
Meter: 8.8.7 Appears in 63 hymnals Topics: Christ's Sacrifice; Devotion; Good Friday; Jesus Christ Humilation; Jesus Christ Passion and Cross; Saints Days and Holy Days Mary, the Mother of th Lord; Suffering; Virgin Mary Tune Sources: Later form of melody from the 'Maintzisch Gesangbuch', Mainz and Frankfurt, 1661 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12323 54332 17676 Used With Text: At the cross her vigil keeping
STABAT MATER
EVENTIDE
Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 976 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Monk Topics: Particular Times of Worship Evening; New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Comfort; Eternal Life; Evening Prayer; Funerals and Memorial Services; Grief; Jesus Christ Cross; Jesus Christ Presence Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33215 65543 34565 Used With Text: Abide with Me
EVENTIDE
HOW GREAT THOU ART
Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Creation; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Cross; Music and Singing; Testimony and Witness Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art
HOW GREAT THOU ART
Hallelujah for the Cross!
Author: Horatius Bonar Hymnal: Christ in Song #213 (1908) Topics: Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ First Line: The cross! it standeth fast Lyrics: 1 The cross! it standeth fast,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
Defying ev'ry blast,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
The winds of hell have blown,
The world its hate hath shown,
Yet 'tis not overthrown,
Hallelujah for the cross!
Yet 'tis not overthrown,
Hallelujah for the cross!
Chorus:
Hallelujah forever!
It never shall suffer loss,
Hallelujah forever!
We glory in the grand old cross.
2 It is the old cross still,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
Its triumph let us tell,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
The grace of God here shone
Thro' Christ the blessed Son,
Who did for sin atone,
Hallelujah for the cross!
Who did for sin atone,
Hallelujah for the cross! [Chorus]
3 'Twas here the debt was paid,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
Our sin on Jesus laid,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
So round the cross we sing
Of Christ our Offering,
Of Christ our living King,
Hallelujah for the cross!
Of Christ our living King,
Hallelujah for the cross! [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [The cross! it standeth fast]
Hallelujah for the Cross!
Near the Cross
Author: Fanny J. Crosby Hymnal: Christ in Song #289 (1908) Topics: Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ First Line: Jesus, keep me near the cross Refrain First Line: In the cross, in the cross Lyrics: 1 Jesus, keep me near the cross,
There a precious fountain
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calv'ry's mountain.
Chorus:
In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever;
Till my raptur'd soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.
2 Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the bright and Morning Star
Sheds its beams around me. [Chorus]
3 Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day,
With its shadows o'er me. [Chorus]
4 Near the cross I'll watch and wait,
Hoping, trusting ever;
Till I reach the golden strand,
Just beyond the river. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, keep me near the cross]
Near the Cross
In the Cross of Christ
Author: Sir John Bowring Hymnal: Christ in Song #446 (1908) Topics: Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ First Line: In the cross of Christ I glory Lyrics: 1 In the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time,
All the light of sacred story,
Gathers round its head sublime.
2 When the woes of life o'ertake me,
Hopes deceive and fears annoy,
Never shall the cross forsake me;
Lo! it glows with peace and joy.
3 When the sun of bliss is beaming
Light and love upon my way,
From the cross the radiance streaming,
Adds new luster to the sky.
4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
By the cross are sanctified;
Peace is there, that knows no measure,
Joys that through all time abide. Languages: English Tune Title: RATHBUN
In the Cross of Christ
John H. Stockton
1813 - 1877 Topics: Cross of Christ; Cross of Christ Composer of "[Down at the cross where my Savior died]" in Hymns of Faith Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875.
Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911
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Stockton, John Hart, b. April 19, 1813, and d. March 25, 1877, was the author of "Come, every soul by sin oppressed" (Invitation), in I.D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, and of "The Cross, the Cross, the blood¬stained Cross" (Good Friday) in the same collection.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Stockton, John Hart. (New Hope, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1813--March 25, 1877). Born of Presbyterian parents, he was converted at a Methodist camp meeting in 1838, being received into full membership in the New Jersey Conference in 1857. Because of ill health he twice took the "supernumerary relations." He withdrew from actual pastoral work in 1874 and engaged in compiling and publishing gospel hymn books, issuing Salvation Melodies that year and Precious Songs in 1875, writing both words and music for a number of the songs. He died suddenly after attending a Sunday morning service at Arch Street Church, Philadelphia. Our Hymnody, McCutchan, has, perhaps, the fullest account of him readily available.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
John H. Stockton
George Bennard
1873 - 1958 Topics: Cross of Christ Author of "The Old Rugged Cross" in The Worshiping Church George Bennard (1873-1958) was born in Youngstown, OH. When he was a child the family moved to Albia, Iowa. He served with the Salvation Army in Iowa for several years before he was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His hymn "Speak, my Lord" appears in Triumphant Service Songs (Chicago: Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., 1934). He wrote words and tune for his best known hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" in 1913.
Mary Louise VanDyke
George Bennard
Grant Colfax Tullar
1869 - 1950 Topics: Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ; Christ Cross of Christ Composer of "[There was One who was willing to die in my stead]" in Christ in Song Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry.
As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888.
He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals.
His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver":
My Life is but a weaving
Between my Lord and me;
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow
And I, in foolish pride,
Forget He sees the upper,
And I the under side.
Not til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver's skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives His very best to those
Who chose to walk with Him.
Grant Tullar
--http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.
Grant Colfax Tullar
