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God's overshadowing protection
Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: Afflictions Comfort under; Afflictions Promises for; Angels; Assurance Declared; Assurance Enjoyed; Christians Christ the Life of; Christians Conquerors; Christians Conscious of Safety; Christians Graces of; Covenant Promises; Deliverance From Sickness; Faith Confession of; God Hearer of Prayer; God Loving and Merciful; God Refuge; Gospel Privileges of; Grace Growth in; Heaven; Life A Gift from God; Praise Of the Lord; Prayer God Hears; Prayer Promises to; Protection Only from God; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Providential; Safety Assured; Salvation Promised; Trust in God Expressed First Line: The man who once has found abode Scripture: Psalm 91 Used With Tune: [The man who once has found abode]
God's overshadowing protection
God Our Help and Hope
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,239 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Death At Hand; God Attributes of; God Eternity of ; God Our Guardian; God Hearer of Prayer; God Immutability of; God Infinity of; Our Eternal Home; Hope; Life Brevity and Uncertainty of; Man Mortal and Frail; Old Age; Preservation; Protection Only from God; The Righteous Honor and Safety of First Line: O God, our help in ages past Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
2 Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defenxe is sure.
3 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4 A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
6 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home. Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: LAFAYETTE
God Our Help and Hope
Unwavering Trust in God
Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Afflictions Comfort under; Afflictions Promises for; Afflictions Refuge in; Christ Preciousness of; Christ The Saviour; Covenant Promises; Faith Act of; Faith Walking by; God Our Guardian; God Our Refuge; Prayer Promise to; Preservation; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Guarantee of Salvation; Safety Assured; Sin Salvation from First Line: To the hills I lift my eyes Lyrics: 1 To the hills I lift my eyes;
Whence shall help for me arise?
From the Lord comes all my aid,
Who the heav'n and earth has made.
He will guard thro' dangers all,
Will not suffer thee to fall.
He who safe His people keeps
Slumbers not and never sleeps.
2 Thy protector is the Lord;
Shade for thee He will afford.
Neither sun nor moon shall smite,
God shall guard by day and night.
He will ever keep thy soul,
What would harm He will control;
In the home and by the way
He will keep thee day by day. Scripture: Psalm 121 Used With Tune: PILOT
Unwavering Trust in God
LOVE LIFTED ME
Meter: 7.6.7.4 with refrain Appears in 168 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Howard E. Smith Topics: Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Cries; Love (Human); Master; Safety; Sin; Water; Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Cries; Love (Human); Master; Safety; Sin; Water Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56535 65567 12767 Used With Text: Love Lifted Me
LOVE LIFTED ME
GERARD (NOEL)
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 149 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur S. Sullivan Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Difficult Times; God As Refuge/Safety/Shelter; War and Revolution Tune Sources: English Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12321 23432 5534 Used With Text: God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength
GERARD (NOEL)
ST. AGNES
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,057 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Dykes Topics: Afflictions Promises for; Afflictions Refuge in; Christ Preciousness of; Christ The Saviour; Covenant Promises; Faith Act of; Faith Walking by; God Our Guardian; God Our Refuge; Prayer Promise to; Preservation; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Guarantee of Salvation; Safety Assured Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33323 47155 53225 Used With Text: Quiet Trust
ST. AGNES
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (3rd ed.) #83 (1786) Topics: Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel; Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel First Line: Great is the Lord our God Lyrics: 1 [Great is the Lord our God,
And let his praise be great;
He makes his churches his abode,
His most delightful seat.
2 These temples of his grace,
How beautiful they stand?
The honours of our native place,
And bulwarks of our land.]
3 In Sion God is known,
A refuge in distress;
How bright has his salvation shone,
How fair his heavenly grace?
4 When kings against her join'd,
And saw the Lord was there,
In wild confusion of the mind
They fled with hasty fear.
5 When navies tall and proud
Attempt to spoil our peace,
He sends his tempest roaring loud,
And sinks them in the seas.
6 Oft have our fathers told,
Our eyes have often seen,
How well our God secures the fold
Where his own flocks have been.
7 In every new distress
We’ll to his house repair,
Recal to mind his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there. Scripture: Psalm 48:1-8 Languages: English
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David #83 (1790) Topics: Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel; Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel First Line: Great is the Lord our God Lyrics: 1 [Great is the Lord our God,
And let his praise be great;
He makes his churches his abode,
His most delightful seat.
2 These temples of his grace,
How beautiful they stand?
The honours of our native place,
And bulwarks of our land.]
3 In Sion God is known,
A refuge in distress;
How bright has his salvation shone;
How fair his heavenly grace?
4 When kings against her join'd,
And saw the Lord was there,
In wild confusion of the mind
They fled with hasty fear.
5 When navies tall and proud
Attempt to spoil our peace,
He sends his tempest roaring loud,
And sinks them in the seas.
6 Oft have our fathers told,
Our eyes have often seen,
How well our God secures the fold
Where his own flocks have been.
7 In every new distress
We’ll to his house repair,
Recal to mind his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there. Scripture: Psalm 48:1-8 Languages: English
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (2nd ed.) #89 (1786) Topics: Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel; Church its beauty; Church its Safety and Honor for a Nation; Church its worship and order; Delight and safety in the church; Enemies destroyed; Gospel worship and order; Nation's Safety is the Church; Worship and order of the gospel First Line: Great is the Lord our God Lyrics: 1 [Great is the Lord our God,
And let his praise be great;
He makes his churches his abode,
His most delightful seat.
2 These temples of his grace,
How beautiful they stand?
The honours of our native place,
And bulwarks of our land.]
3 In Sion God is known,
A refuge in distress;
How bright has his salvation shone,
How fair his heavenly grace?
4 When kings against her join'd,
And saw the Lord was there,
In wild confusion of the mind
They fled with hasty fear.
5 When navies tall and proud
Attempt to spoil our peace,
He sends his tempest roaring loud,
And sinks them in the seas.
6 Oft have our fathers told,
Our eyes have often seen,
How well our God secures the fold
Where his own flocks have been.
7 In every new distress
We’ll to his house repair,
Recal to mind his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there. Scripture: Psalm 48:1-8 Languages: English
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a Nation
James Rowe
1865 - 1933 Topics: Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Cries; Love (Human); Master; Safety; Sin; Water; Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Cries; Love (Human); Master; Safety; Sin; Water Author of "Love Lifted Me" in Worship and Song Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
James Rowe
Lowell Mason
1792 - 1872 Person Name: Dr. L. Mason Topics: Afflictions Comfort under; Afflictions Promises for; Angels; Assurance Declared; Assurance Enjoyed; Christians Christ the Life of; Christians Conquerors; Christians Conscious of Safety; Christians Graces of; Covenant Promises; Deliverance From Sickness; Faith Confession of; God Hearer of Prayer; God Loving and Merciful; God Refuge; Gospel Privileges of; Grace Growth in; Heaven; Life A Gift from God; Praise Of the Lord; Prayer God Hears; Prayer Promises to; Protection Only from God; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Providential; Safety Assured; Salvation Promised; Trust in God Expressed Composer of "[The man who once has found abode]" in Bible Songs Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man.
Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit.
The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank.
In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious.
Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them."
The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging.
Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage.
Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals.
As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 19G9. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced.
Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College.
--Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biographies of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Lowell Mason
John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Topics: Afflictions Promises for; Afflictions Refuge in; Christ Preciousness of; Christ The Saviour; Covenant Promises; Faith Act of; Faith Walking by; God Our Guardian; God Our Refuge; Prayer Promise to; Preservation; Protection Unceasing; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Royalty of Christ Guarantee of Salvation; Safety Assured Composer of "ST. AGNES" in The Psalter As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
John Bacchus Dykes
