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Lord, Cause Thy Face On Us To Shine

Author: Thomas Cotterill Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: The Means of Grace The Ministry Lyrics: 1 Lord, cause Thy face on us to shine, Give us Thy peace and seal us Thine; Teach us to prize the means of grace And love Thine earthly dwelling-place. 2 One is our faith and one our Lord; One body, Spirit, hope, reward: May we in one communion be One with each other, one with Thee. 3 Bless all whose voice salvation brings, Who minister in holy things; Our pastors, elders, deacons bless; Clothe them with zeal and righteousness: 4 Let many in the judgment day, Turned from the error of their way, Their hope, their joy, their crown appear:-- Save those who preach and those who hear. Amen. Used With Tune: HEBRON

Thy Table I Approach

Author: M. Loy; G. W. Molanus Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: The Means of Grace Holy Communion Lyrics: 1 Thy table I approach, Dear Savior, hear my prayer, O let no unrepented sin Prove hurtful to me there. 2 Lo, I confess my sins And mourn their wretched bands; A contrite heart is ever wont To find grace at Thy hands. 3 Thy body and Thy blood, Once slain and shed for me, Are taken at Thy table here-- O wondrous mystery! 4 Ask not how this takes place, Nor whether it can be; God can accomplish vastly more Than seemeth plain to thee. 5 O may I never fail To thank Thee day and night For Thy true body and true blood, O God, my peace and light. Amen. Used With Tune: BOYLSTON

My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less

Author: Edward Mote Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,085 hymnals Topics: The Means of Grace The Redeemer Lyrics: 1 My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness; No merit of my own I claim, But wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand. 2 When darkness veils His lovely face I rest on His unchanging grace; In ev'ry high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand. 3 His oath, His covenant and blood, Support me in the raging flood; When ev'ry earthly prop gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand. 4 When judgment's trump at last shall sound, O may I then in Him be found; Dressed in His righteousness alone, I faultless stand before the throne. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand. Amen. Used With Tune: MELITA

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VENI, VENI, EMMANUEL

Appears in 279 hymnals Topics: The Means of Grace Jewish Missions Tune Sources: Ancient Plain Song Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13555 46543 4531 Used With Text: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

ELLACOMBE

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 600 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mainzer Gesangbuch; Xavier Ludwig Hartig Topics: The Means of Grace The Sarraments-Holy Baptism Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51765 13455 67122 Used With Text: At Jesus' Feet Our Infant Sweet

BREAD OF LIFE

Meter: 6.4.6.4 D Appears in 498 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. F. Sherwin Topics: The Means of Grace The Word Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 31356 53132 31356 Used With Text: Break Thou The Bread Of Life

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Lord, Thy Omniscience I Adore

Author: Emanuel Cronenwett Hymnal: American Lutheran Hymnal #155 (1930) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: The Means of Grace God Lyrics: 1 Lord, Thy omniscience I adore! Thou knowest all that was before, Is now, and all that e'er shall be In time and thro' eternity. 2 Lord, Thou hast searched and seen me thro'; Awake, asleep, I'm in Thy view; My going out, my coming in, Thou seest, and my tho'ts within. 3 Before my lips my thoughts obey, Thou knowest what I mean to say; Yea, long ere yet they are my own, My tho'ts, as Thine, to Thee are known. 4 Such knowledge is too great for me, Too wonderful! I bow to Thee In humble awe, and rapt adore Thy vast omniscience all the more! 5 Lord Jesus do Thou light my heart And bid all darkness thence depart! O keep me steadfast in Thy grace Till I shall see Thee face to face. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ROCKINGHAM (NEW)

He that believes and is baptized

Author: T. Kingo Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #141 (1913) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: The Means of Grace Baptism; The Means of Grace Baptism Lyrics: 1 He that believes and is baptized Shall see the Lord's salvation; Baptized into the death of Christ, He is a new creation; Through Christ's redemption he shall stand Among the glorious heavenly band Of every tribe and nation. 2 With one accord, O God, we pray: Grant us Thy Holy Spirit; Look Thou on our infirmity Through Jesus' blood and merit! Grant us to grow in grace each day By holy baptism that we may Eternal life inherit! Tune Title: [He that believes and is baptized]

Savior, who Thy flock art feeding

Author: W. A. Muhlenberg Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnary #146 (1913) Topics: The Means of Grace Baptism; The Means of Grace Baptism Lyrics: 1 Savior, Who Thy flock art feeding, With the shepherd's kindest care, All the feeble gently leading, While the lambs Thy bosom share; 2 Now, these little ones receiving, Fold them in Thy gracious arm! There, we know, Thy word believing, Only there secure from harm! 3 Never, from Thy pasture roving, Let them be the lion's prey; Let Thy tenderness so loving, Keep them all life's dangerous way. 4 Then, within Thy fold eternal, Let them find a resting-place, Feed in pastures ever vernal, Drink the rivers of Thy grace. Tune Title: [Savior, who Thy flock art feeding]

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Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel S. Wesley Topics: The Means of Grace The Christian Church Composer of "AURELIA" in American Lutheran Hymnal Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman

Johann Crüger

1598 - 1662 Topics: The Means of Grace The Lord's Supper; The Means of Grace The Lord's Supper Composer of "[Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness]" in The Lutheran Hymnary Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figured bass accompaniment (musical shorthand) with the chorale melody rather than full harmonization written out. It included eighteen of Crüger's tunes. His next publication, Praxis Pietatis Melica (1644), is considered one of the most important collections of German hymnody in the seventeenth century. It was reprinted forty-four times in the following hundred years. Another of his publications, Geistliche Kirchen Melodien (1649), is a collection arranged for four voices, two descanting instruments, and keyboard and bass accompaniment. Crüger also published a complete psalter, Psalmodia sacra (1657), which included the Lobwasser translation set to all the Genevan tunes. Bert Polman =============================== Crüger, Johann, was born April 9, 1598, at Gross-Breese, near Guben, Brandenburg. After passing through the schools at Guben, Sorau and Breslau, the Jesuit College at Olmütz, and the Poets' school at Regensburg, he made a tour in Austria, and, in 1615, settled at Berlin. There, save for a short residence at the University of Wittenberg, in 1620, he employed himself as a private tutor till 1622. In 1622 he was appointed Cantor of St. Nicholas's Church at Berlin, and also one of the masters of the Greyfriars Gymnasium. He died at Berlin Feb. 23, 1662. Crüger wrote no hymns, although in some American hymnals he appears as "Johann Krüger, 1610,” as the author of the supposed original of C. Wesley's "Hearts of stone relent, relent" (q.v.). He was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. Of his hymn tunes, which are generally noble and simple in style, some 20 are still in use, the best known probably being that to "Nun danket alle Gott" (q.v.), which is set to No. 379 in Hymns Ancient & Modern, ed. 1875. His claim to notice in this work is as editor and contributor to several of the most important German hymnological works of the 16th century, and these are most conveniently treated of under his name. (The principal authorities on his works are Dr. J. F. Bachmann's Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gesangbücher 1857; his Vortrag on P. Gerhard, 1863; and his edition of Gerhardt's Geistliche Lieder, 1866. Besides these there are the notices in Bode, and in R. Eitner's Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte, 1873 and 1880). These works are:— 1. Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch, Augspur-gischer Confession, &c, Berlin, 1640 [Library of St. Nicholas's Church, Berlin], with 248 hymns, very few being published for the first time. 2. Praxis pietatis melica. Das ist: Ubung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen. The history of this, the most important work of the century, is still obscure. The 1st edition has been variously dated 1640 and 1644, while Crüger, in the preface to No. 3, says that the 3rd edition appeared in 1648. A considerable correspondence with German collectors and librarians has failed to bring to light any of the editions which Koch, iv. 102, 103, quotes as 1644, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653. The imperfect edition noted below as probably that of 1648 is the earliest Berlin edition we have been able to find. The imperfect edition, probably ix. of 1659, formerly in the hands of Dr. Schneider of Schleswig [see Mützell, 1858, No. 264] was inaccessible. The earliest perfect Berlin edition we have found is 1653. The edition printed at Frankfurt in 1656 by Caspar Röteln was probably a reprint of a Berlin edition, c. 1656. The editions printed at Frankfurt-am-Main by B. C. Wust (of which the 1666 is in the preface described as the 3rd) are in considerable measure independent works. In the forty-five Berlin and over a dozen Frankfurt editions of this work many of the hymns of P. Gerhardt, J. Franck, P. J. Spener, and others, appear for the first time, and therein also appear many of the best melodies of the period. 3. Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, &c, Leipzig, 1649 [Library of St. Katherine's Church, Brandenburg]. This contains the first stanzas only of 161 hymns, with music in four vocal and two instrumental parts. It is the earliest source of the first stanzas of various hymns by Gerhardt, Franck, &c. 4. D. M. Luther's und anderer vornehmen geisU reichen und gelehrten Manner Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, &c, Berlin, 1653 [Hamburg Town Library], with 375 hymns. This was edited by C. Runge, the publisher, and to it Crüger contributed some 37 melodies. It was prepared at the request of Luise Henriette (q.v.), as a book for the joint use of the Lutherans and the Re¬formed, and is the earliest source of the hymns ascribed to her, and of the complete versions of many hymns by Gerhardt and Franck. 5. Psalmodia Sacra, &c, Berlin, 1658 [Royal Library, Berlin]. The first section of this work is in an ed. of A. Lobwasser's German Psalter; the second, with a similar title to No. 4, and the date 1657, is practically a recast of No. 4,146 of those in 1653 being omitted, and the rest of the 319 hymns principally taken from the Praxis of 1656 and the hymn-books of the Bohemian Brethren. New eds. appeared in 1676, 1700, 1704, 1711, and 1736. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Crüger, Johann, p. 271, ii. Dr. J. Zahn, now of Neuendettelsau, in Bavaria, has recently acquired a copy of the 5th ed., Berlin, 1653, of the Praxis. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

William Croft

1678 - 1727 Person Name: W. Croft Topics: The Means of Grace God Composer of "ST. ANNE" in American Lutheran Hymnal William Croft, Mus. Doc. was born in the year 1677 and received his musical education in the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow. In 1700 he was admitted a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Chapel Boyd; and in 1707, upon the decease of Jeremiah Clarke, he was appointed joint organist with his mentor, Dr. Blow. In 1709 he was elected organist of Westminster Abbey. This amiable man and excellent musician died in 1727, in the fiftieth year of his age. A very large number of Dr. Croft's compositions remain still in manuscript. Cathedral chants of the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries, ed. by Edward F. Rimbault, London: D. Almaine & Co., 1844

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