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Author: John H. Sammis Meter: 6.6.9 D with refrain Appears in 441 hymnals Topics: God's Church Life of Discipleship: Trust and Assurance First Line: When we walk with the Lord 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 Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share, but our toil he will richly repay; not a grief or a loss, not a frown or a cross, but is blest if we trust and obey. [Refrain] 3 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 them who will trust and obey. [Refrain] 4 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] Used With Tune: TRUST AND OBEY

Purer in Heart, O God

Author: Fannie Estelle Davison Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4.4 Appears in 105 hymnals Topics: Life of Discipleship Prayer and Guidance; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Prayer and Guidance Lyrics: 1 Purer in heart, O God, help me to be; may I devote my life wholly to thee. Watch thou my wayward feet, guide me with counsel sweet; purer in heart, help me to be. 2 Purer in heart, O God, help me to be; teach me to do thy will most lovingly. Be thou my friend and guide, let me with thee abide; purer in heart, help me to be. 3 Purer in heart, O God, help me to be; that I thy holy face one day may see. Keep me from secret sin, reign thou my soul within; purer in heart, help me to be. Scripture: Matthew 5:8 Used With Tune: PURER IN HEART

Steal Away to Jesus

Meter: 5.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Life of Discipleship Death and Eternal Life; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Death and Eternal Life First Line: My Lord, he calls me Refrain First Line: Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! Lyrics: Refrain: Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! Steal away, steal away home, I ain’t got long to stay here. 1 My Lord, he calls me, he calls me by the thunder; the trumpet sounds within my soul. I ain’t got long to stay here. [Refrain] 2 Green trees are bending, poor sinners stand a trembling; the trumpet sounds within my soul, I ain’t got long to stay here. [Refrain] 3 My Lord he calls me, he calls me by the lightning; the trumpet sounds within my soul, I ain’t got long to stay here. [Refrain] Used With Tune: STEAL AWAY Text Sources: African-American spiritual

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THANK YOU, LORD

Meter: 3.3.3.7 Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. Jefferson Cleveland; Verolga Nix Topics: God's Church Life of Discipleship: Love and Gratitude Tune Sources: Traditional African-American melody Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 32143 26713 43211 Used With Text: Thank You, Lord

HE LEADETH ME

Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 583 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Bradbury Topics: Christian Life; Comfort; Death Trusting God in; Discipleship; God Abiding Presence of; Patience; Pilgrimage and Guidance Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53215 64465 33213 Used With Text: He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought!

TRUST AND OBEY

Meter: 6.6.9 D with refrain Appears in 326 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel B. Towner Topics: God's Church Life of Discipleship: Trust and Assurance Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12332 11355 43334 Used With Text: Trust and Obey

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Take My Life, and Let It Be

Author: Frances R. Havergal Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #609 (1995) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7 D Topics: Life of Discipleship Loyalty and Courage; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Loyalty and Courage Lyrics: 1 Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise, let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee, swift and beautiful for thee. 3 Take my voice, and let me sing; unto God my praise I bring. Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from thee, filled with messages from thee. 4 Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose, every power as thou shalt choose. 5 Take my will, and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne, it shall be thy royal throne. 6 Take my love, my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure-store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee, ever, only, all for thee. Languages: English Tune Title: HENDON

Some There Are Who by Their Living

Author: David L. Edwards Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #648 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Life of Discipleship Death and Eternal Life; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Death and Eternal Life Languages: English Tune Title: GREENCASTLE

Dear Lord, and Father of Mankind (Dear God, Embracing Humankind)

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #594 (1995) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Topics: Life of Discipleship Prayer and Guidance; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Prayer and Guidance First Line: Dear Lord, and Father of mankind Lyrics: 1 Dear Lord, and Father of mankind*, forgive our foolish ways! Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up and follow thee. 3 O sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by love! 4 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. 5 Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm. * Dear God, embracing humankind Languages: English Tune Title: REST

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Frederick C. Maker

1844 - 1927 Topics: Life of Discipleship Prayer and Guidance; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Prayer and Guidance Composer of "REST" in Chalice Hymnal Frederick C. Maker (b. Bristol, England, August 6, 1844; d. January 1, 1927) received his early musical training as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral, England. He pursued a career as organist and choirmaster—most of it spent in Methodist and Congregational churches in Bristol. His longest tenure was at Redland Park Congregational Church, where he was organist from 1882-1910. Maker also conducted the Bristol Free Church Choir Association and was a long-time visiting professor of music at Clifton College. He wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and a cantata, Moses in the Bulrushes. Bert Polman

George Duffield

1818 - 1888 Person Name: George Duffield, Jr. Topics: Life of Discipleship Loyalty and Courage; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Loyalty and Courage Author of "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" in Chalice Hymnal Duffield, George, Jr., D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Duffield, a Presbyterian Minister, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12, 1818, and graduated at Yale College, and at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1840 to 1847 he was a Presbyterian Pastor at Brooklyn; 1847 to 1852, at Bloomfield, New Jersey; 1852 to 1861, at Philadelphia; 1861 to 1865, at Adrian, Michigan; 1865 to 1869, at Galesburg, Illinois; 1869, at Saginaw City, Michigan; and from 1869 at Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan. His hymns include;— 1. Blessed Saviour, Thee I love. Jesus only. One of four hymns contributed by him to Darius E. Jones's Temple Melodies, 1851. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. In Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymnbook it is given in 3 stanzas. The remaining three hymns of the same date are:— 2. Parted for some anxious days. Family Hymn. 3. Praise to our heavenly Father, God. Family Union. 4. Slowly in sadness and in tears. Burial. 5. Stand up, stand up for Jesus. Soldiers of the Cross. The origin of this hymn is given in Lyra Sac. Americana, 1868, p. 298, as follows:— "I caught its inspiration from the dying words of that noble young clergyman, Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, rector of the Epiphany Church, Philadelphia, who died about 1854. His last words were, ‘Tell them to stand up for Jesus: now let us sing a hymn.' As he had been much persecuted in those pro-slavery days for his persistent course in pleading the cause of the oppressed, it was thought that these words had a peculiar significance in his mind; as if he had said, ‘Stand up for Jesus in the person of the downtrodden slave.' (Luke v. 18.)" Dr. Duffield gave it, in 1858, in manuscript to his Sunday School Superintendent, who published it on a small handbill for the children. In 1858 it was included in The Psalmist, in 6 stanzas of 8 lines. It was repeated in several collections and in Lyra Sac. Amer., 1868, from whence it passed, sometimes in an abbreviated form, into many English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

William D. Longstaff

1822 - 1894 Person Name: W. D. Longstaff Topics: Life of Discipleship Prayer and Guidance; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Prayer and Guidance Author of "Take Time to Be Holy" in Chalice Hymnal William Dunn Longstaff United Kingdom 1822-1894. Born at Sunderland, Durham, England, the son of a wealthy ship owner, he was a person of independent financial means. Although Longstaff had everything he desired, he still had an empty feeling in his life, and attended church one day and was inspired by words of a China missionary, Griffith John, on furlough to England, preaching at a service in Keswick, England, citing I Peter 1:16, “Be ye holy, for I am holy”. That resulted in him giving his heart to the Lord and beginning a Christian life, dedicated to God. He became a generous philanthropist and was influential in evangelical circles. Following his friend, Rev Arthur A Rees, a persuasive Welsh preacher, who left the Anglican priesthood after disagreements with his rector and bishop, Dunn served as church treasurer for Ree’s Bethesda Free Chapel in Sunderland. He married Joice Burlinson in 1853 and they had eight children: William, Hannah, Rhoda, Amelia, Ernest, Nora, Marnia, and Minnie. Longstaff befriended well-known evangelists, including William Booth of the Salvation Army, to whose work he generously contributed. Some of Langstaff’s hymns were published in the Salvation Army magazine, “The War Cry” during the 1880s. He also financed Dwight Moody’s evangelical crusades in England and Scotland when Moody’s funding dried up after their financier died. During the crusade they preached to 20,000 people. Longstaff did not forget that first sermon he heard, and it prompted the writing of his hymn lyrics, which he later showed to Ira Sankey during their crusade. Sankey showed it to George Stebbins, who set it to music in 1882 during a revival in India. In 1881 Longstaff’s wife died. He died at Sunderland, England. John Perry

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