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Author: Epigmenio Velasco, 1880-1940; Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: La Vida Cristiana en General Lyrics: 1 Yo tengo que guardar Mi alma de todo mal Y prepararla para entrar Al reino celestial. 2 Para este gran deber, Mi Dios, poder llenar, Haz que, a servirte, hoy mi ser Te quiera consagrar. 3 Yo quiero tu hijo ser De todo corazón, Y para siempre poseer Tu eterna bendición. 4 Ayúdame a velar, Confírmame en la fe, Que si en Ti puedo siempre fiar Por siempre viviré. Amén. Used With Tune: BOYLSTON

Refugio de este pecador

Author: Thomas M. Westrup, 1837-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: La Vida Cristiana Arrepentimiento y Confesión Lyrics: 1 Refugio de este pecador, Iré, Jesús, a Ti; En las riquezas de tu amor Acuérdate de mí. 2 Confieso que culpable soy, Confieso que soy vil, Empero por Ti salvo estoy, Seguro en tu redil. 3 Auxíliame, Señor Jesús, Libértame del mal, En mí derrama de tu luz Bellísimo raudal. 4 En toda mi necesidad Escucha mi clamor; Revísteme de santidad Y cólmame de amor. Amén. Used With Tune: DUNDEE

Más cerca, ¡oh Dios! de Ti

Author: Vicente Mendoza, 1875-1955; Sarah Flower de Adams, 1805-1848 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: La Vida Cristiana Cruz y Consuelo Lyrics: 1 Más cerca ¡oh Dios!, de Ti Yo quiero estar, Aunque sobre una cruz Me haya de alzar; Mi canto aún así Constante habrá de ser: Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti, Más cerca sí. 2 Si caminando voy, Y de ansiedad Me lleno al presentir La oscuridad, Aún mi sueño así Me mostrará que estoy Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti, Más cerca sí. 3 Que encuentre senda aquí Que al cielo va, Y en ella tu bondad Me sostendrá; Y ángeles habrá Que me conducirán Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti, Más cerca sí. 4 Después, al despertar Te elevaré Un nuevo y santo altar De gratitud: Así mis penas mil Me harán sentir que estoy Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti Más cerca, sí. 5 Si en vuelo celestial Al cielo voy, Y sol y luna atrás Dejando estoy, Alegre entonaré Mi canto sin igual: Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti, Más cerca sí. Used With Tune: BETHANY (MASON)

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ELLACOMBE

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 600 hymnals Topics: Chrism Mass; Misa Crismal; Rites of the Church Christian Initiation/Baptism; Ritos de la Iglesia Christiana/Bautismo; Rites of the Church Holy Orders; Ritos de la Iglesia Sagradas Ordenes; Alabanza; Praise; Christian Life; Christian Life; Vida Cristiana; Vida Cristiana; Comisión; Commissioning; Commitment; Compromiso; Confianza; Trust; Courage; Valor; Despedida; Sending Forth; Discipleship; Discipulado; Evangelización; Evangelization; Ministerio; Ministry; Misión; Mission; Reign of God; Reino de Dios; Service; Servicio; Trinidad, Santísima; Trinity; Vocación; Vocation Tune Sources: Gesangbuch der Herzogl, Wirtemberg, 1784 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 51765 13455 67122 Used With Text: Go Make of All Disciples (¡Discípulos Han de Ganar!)

INTERGER VITAE

Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 431 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Friedrich F. Flemming, 1778-1813 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Acción de Gracias Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 11122 31121 73333 Used With Text: Nunca, Dios mío, cesará mi labio

OLIVET

Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 1,040 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Comunión con Cristo Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13554 32244 32326 Used With Text: Mi fe descana en Ti

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Fuente de la vida eterna

Author: Thomas M. Westrup, 1837-1909; Robert Robinson, 1735-1790 Hymnal: Culto Cristiano #172 (1964) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Peticiones Lyrics: 1 Fuente de la vida eterna Y de toda bendición, Ensalzar tu gracia tierna Debe cada corazón, Tu piedad inagotable, Abundante en perdonar; ¡Único SEr adorable! Gloria Ti debemos dar. 2 Como espíritus celestes Te quisieran hoy cantar Las agradecidas huestes Que lograste rescatar; Almas que a buscar viniste, Porque les tuviste amor; De ellas te compadeciste Con ternísimo favor. 3 Toma nuestros corazones: Llénalos de tu verdad, De tu Espíritu los dones Y de toda santidad. Guíanos en obediencia, Humildad, amor y fe; Nos ampare tu clemencia; Salvador, propicio sé. Languages: Spanish Tune Title: RIPLEY

Con ansia clamo, ¡oh santo Dios!

Author: David Schmidt, 1922-1961; Martín Lutero, 1483-1546 Hymnal: Culto Cristiano #207 (1964) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Arrepentimiento y Confesión; La Vida Cristiana en General Languages: Spanish Tune Title: AUS TEIFER NOT

Con ansiedad busqué a Jesús

Author: Vicente Mendoza, 1875-1955 Hymnal: Culto Cristiano #236 (1964) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Comunión con Cristo Languages: Spanish Tune Title: SAINT CATHERINE

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Edward Hopper

1816 - 1888 Person Name: Edward Hopper, 1818-1888 Topics: La Vida Cristiana La Vida Christiana en General Author of "Cristo, mi piloto sé" in Culto Cristiano Rv Edward Hopper DD USA 1816-1888. Born at New York City, the son of a merchant, he graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He married Margaretta Wheeler. He was an author and poet and wrote several books. He pastored the Greenville Presbyterian Church, Sag Harbor Presbyterian Church on Long Island, and the Church of Sea and Land, NYC, a church for sailors, where he remained the rest of his life (for years the church building was shared with the First Chinese Presbyterian Church). Once he was asked to compose a hymn verse for the anniversary of the Seamen’s Friend’s Society meeting. Instead, he brought the verse for a hymn he had written eight years before (noted below). John Edgar Gould saw Hopper’s poem (6 stanzas) and composed a tune for it. Hopper died of a heart attack while writing a poem about heaven at his desk. John Perry =============== Hopper, Edward, D.D., was born in 1818, and graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1842. He is pastor of the Church of Sea and Land, N. Y. He is the author of 1. Jesus, Saviour, pilot me [us]. Jesus the Pilot. 2. They pray the best who pray and watch. Watching & Prayer. 3. Wrecked and struggling in mid-ocean. Wreck & Rescue. Of these No. 1 appeared in the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and 2 & 3 in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology ======================= See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars

1837 - 1916 Person Name: Juan Bautista Cabrera, 1837-1916 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Acción de Gracias Translator of "Al trono majestuoso" in Culto Cristiano Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars was born in Benisa, Spain, April 23, 1837. He attended seminary in Valencia, studying Hebrew and Greek, and was ordained as a priest. He fled to Gibraltar in 1863 due to religious persecution where he abandoned Catholicism. He worked as a teacher and as a translator. One of the works he translated was E.H. Brown's work on the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church, which was his introduction to Protestantism. He was a leader of a Spanish Reformed Church in Gibraltar. He continued as a leader in this church when he returned to Spain after the government of Isabel II fell, but continued to face legal difficulties. He then organized the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church and was consecrated as bishop in 1894. He recognized the influence of music and literature on evangelism which led him to write and translate hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from Real Academia de la Historia (https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/39825/juan-bautista-cabrera-ivars) and Himnos Cristanos (https://www.himnos-cristianos.com/biografia-juan-bautista-cabrera/) (accessed 7/30/2021)

William Cowper

1731 - 1800 Person Name: William Cowper, 1731-1800 Topics: La Vida Cristiana La Vida Christiana en General Author of "Oh, quién pudiera andar con Dios" in Culto Cristiano William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"; b. Berkampstead, Hertfordshire, England, 1731; d. East Dereham, Norfolk, England, 1800) is regarded as one of the best early Romantic poets. To biographers he is also known as "mad Cowper." His literary talents produced some of the finest English hymn texts, but his chronic depression accounts for the somber tone of many of those texts. Educated to become an attorney, Cowper was called to the bar in 1754 but never practiced law. In 1763 he had the opportunity to become a clerk for the House of Lords, but the dread of the required public examination triggered his tendency to depression, and he attempted suicide. His subsequent hospitalization and friendship with Morley and Mary Unwin provided emotional stability, but the periods of severe depression returned. His depression was deepened by a religious bent, which often stressed the wrath of God, and at times Cowper felt that God had predestined him to damnation. For the last two decades of his life Cowper lived in Olney, where John Newton became his pastor. There he assisted Newton in his pastoral duties, and the two collaborated on the important hymn collection Olney Hymns (1779), to which Cowper contributed sixty-eight hymn texts. Bert Polman ============ Cowper, William, the poet. The leading events in the life of Cowper are: born in his father's rectory, Berkhampstead, Nov. 26, 1731; educated at Westminster; called to the Bar, 1754; madness, 1763; residence at Huntingdon, 1765; removal to Olney, 1768; to Weston, 1786; to East Dereham, 1795; death there, April 25, 1800. The simple life of Cowper, marked chiefly by its innocent recreations and tender friendships, was in reality a tragedy. His mother, whom he commemorated in the exquisite "Lines on her picture," a vivid delineation of his childhood, written in his 60th year, died when he was six years old. At his first school he was profoundly wretched, but happier at Westminster; excelling at cricket and football, and numbering Warren Hastings, Colman, and the future model of his versification. Churchill, among his contemporaries or friends. Destined for the Bar, he was articled to a solicitor, along with Thurlow. During this period he fell in love with his cousin, Theodora Cowper, sister to Lady Hesketh, and wrote love poems to her. The marriage was forbidden by her father, but she never forgot him, and in after years secretly aided his necessities. Fits of melancholy, from which he had suffered in school days, began to increase, as he entered on life, much straitened in means after his father's death. But on the whole, it is the playful, humorous side of him that is most prominent in the nine years after his call to the Bar; spent in the society of Colman, Bonnell Thornton, and Lloyd, and in writing satires for The Connoisseur and St. James's Chronicle and halfpenny ballads. Then came the awful calamity, which destroyed all hopes of distinction, and made him a sedentary invalid, dependent on his friends. He had been nominated to the Clerkship of the Journals of the House of Lords, but the dread of appearing before them to show his fitness for the appointment overthrew his reason. He attempted his life with "laudanum, knife and cord,"—-in the third attempt nearly succeeding. The dark delusion of his life now first showed itself—a belief in his reprobation by God. But for the present, under the wise and Christian treatment of Dr. Cotton (q. v.) at St. Albans, it passed away; and the eight years that followed, of which the two first were spent at Huntingdon (where he formed his lifelong friendship with Mrs. Unwin), and the remainder at Olney in active piety among the poor, and enthusiastic devotions under the guidance of John Newton (q. v.), were full of the realisation of God's favour, and the happiest, most lucid period of his life. But the tension of long religious exercises, the nervous excitement of leading at prayer meetings, and the extreme despondence (far more than the Calvinism) of Newton, could scarcely have been a healthy atmosphere for a shy, sensitive spirit, that needed most of all the joyous sunlight of Christianity. A year after his brother's death, madness returned. Under the conviction that it was the command of God, he attempted suicide; and he then settled down into a belief in stark contradiction to his Calvinistic creed, "that the Lord, after having renewed him in holiness, had doomed him to everlasting perdition" (Southey). In its darkest form his affliction lasted sixteen months, during which he chiefly resided in J. Newton's house, patiently tended by him and by his devoted nurse, Mrs. Unwin. Gradually he became interested in carpentering, gardening, glazing, and the tendance of some tame hares and other playmates. At the close of 1780, Mrs. Unwin suggested to him some serious poetical work; and the occupation proved so congenial, that his first volume was published in 1782. To a gay episode in 1783 (his fascination by the wit of Lady Austen) his greatest poem, The Task, and also John Gilpin were owing. His other principal work was his Homer, published in 1791. The dark cloud had greatly lifted from his life when Lady Hesketh's care accomplished his removal to Weston (1786): but the loss of his dear friend William Unwin lowered it again for some months. The five years' illness of Mrs. Unwin, during which his nurse of old became his tenderly-watched patient, deepened the darkness more and more. And her death (1796) brought “fixed despair," of which his last poem, The Castaway, is the terrible memorial. Perhaps no more beautiful sentence has been written of him, than the testimony of one, who saw him after death, that with the "composure and calmness" of the face there “mingled, as it were, a holy surprise." Cowper's poetry marks the dawn of the return from the conventionality of Pope to natural expression, and the study of quiet nature. His ambition was higher than this, to be the Bard of Christianity. His great poems show no trace of his monomania, and are full of healthy piety. His fame as a poet is less than as a letter-writer: the charm of his letters is unsurpassed. Though the most considerable poet, who has written hymns, he has contributed little to the development of their structure, adopting the traditional modes of his time and Newton's severe canons. The spiritual ideas of the hymns are identical with Newton's: their highest note is peace and thankful contemplation, rather than joy: more than half of them are full of trustful or reassuring faith: ten of them are either submissive (44), self-reproachful (17, 42, 43), full of sad yearning (1, 34), questioning (9), or dark spiritual conflict (38-40). The specialty of Cowper's handling is a greater plaintiveness, tenderness, and refinement. A study of these hymns as they stood originally under the classified heads of the Olney Hymns, 1779, which in some cases probably indicate the aim of Cowper as well as the ultimate arrangement of the book by Newton, shows that one or two hymns were more the history of his conversion, than transcripts of present feelings; and the study of Newton's hymns in the same volume, full of heavy indictment against the sins of his own regenerate life, brings out the peculiar danger of his friendship to the poet: it tends also to modify considerably the conclusions of Southey as to the signs of incipient madness in Cowper's maddest hymns. Cowper's best hymns are given in The Book of Praise by Lord Selborne. Two may be selected from them; the exquisitely tender "Hark! my soul, it is the Lord" (q. v.), and "Oh, for a closer walk with God" (q. v.). Anyone who knows Mrs. Browning's noble lines on Cowper's grave will find even a deeper beauty in the latter, which is a purely English hymn of perfect structure and streamlike cadence, by connecting its sadness and its aspiration not only with the “discord on the music" and the "darkness on the glory," but the rapture of his heavenly waking beneath the "pathetic eyes” of Christ. Authorities. Lives, by Hayley; Grimshaw; Southey; Professor Goldwin Smith; Mr. Benham (attached to Globe Edition); Life of Newton, by Rev. Josiah Bull; and the Olney Hymns. The numbers of the hymns quoted refer to the Olney Hymns. [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Cowper, W. , p. 265, i. Other hymns are:— 1. Holy Lord God, I love Thy truth. Hatred of Sin. 2. I was a grovelling creature once. Hope and Confidence. 3. No strength of nature can suffice. Obedience through love. 4. The Lord receives His highest praise. Faith. 5. The saints should never be dismayed. Providence. All these hymns appeared in the Olney Hymns, 1779. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Cowper, W., p. 265, i. Prof. John E. B. Mayor, of Cambridge, contributed some letters by Cowper, hitherto unpublished, together with notes thereon, to Notes and Queries, July 2 to Sept. 24, 1904. These letters are dated from Huntingdon, where he spent two years after leaving St. Alban's (see p. 265, i.), and Olney. The first is dated "Huntingdon, June 24, 1765," and the last "From Olney, July 14, 1772." They together with extracts from other letters by J. Newton (dated respectively Aug. 8, 1772, Nov. 4, 1772), two quotations without date, followed by the last in the N. & Q. series, Aug. 1773, are of intense interest to all students of Cowper, and especially to those who have given attention to the religious side of the poet's life, with its faint lights and deep and awful shadows. From the hymnological standpoint the additional information which we gather is not important, except concerning the hymns "0 for a closer walk with God," "God moves in a mysterious way," "Tis my happiness below," and "Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken." Concerning the last three, their position in the manuscripts, and the date of the last from J. Newton in the above order, "Aug. 1773," is conclusive proof against the common belief that "God moves in a mysterious way" was written as the outpouring of Cowper's soul in gratitude for the frustration of his attempted suicide in October 1773. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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