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Author: C. Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 893 hymnals Topics: Twenty First Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 Soldiers of Christ, arise, And put your armor on, Strong in the strength which God supplies, Through His eternal Son; 2 Strong in the Lord of Hosts, And in His mighty power: Who in the strength of Jesus trusts Is more than conqueror. 3 Stand then in His great might, With all His strength endued; And take, to arm you for the fight, The panoply of God: 4 That having all things done, And all your conflicts past, Ye may o'ercome through Christ alone, And stand entire at last. 5 From strength to strength go on, Wrestle, and fight, and pray: Tread all the powers of darkness down, And win the well-fought day. 6 Still let the Spirit cry, In all His soldiers, "Come," Till Christ the Lord descends from high, And take the conqueror home. Used With Tune: SILVER STREET

Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg

Author: Luther; Landstad Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening Lyrics: 1 Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg, Han er vort Skjold og Bærge, Han hjælper os af Nød og Sorg, Og veed os vel at berge. Vor gamle Fiende haard Til Strid imod os staar, Stor Magt og arge List Han bruger mod os vist, Paa Jord er ei hans Lige. 2 Vor egen Magt er intet værd, Vi vare snart nedhugne, Men En gaar frem i denne Ferd, For ham maa al ting bugne. Vil du hans Navn saa vidst? Han heder Jesus Krist, Den Høvding for Guds Hær, I ham kun Frelse er, Han Marken skal beholde. 3 Om Verden fuld af Djævle var, Der vilde os opsluge, Vi frygte ei, vi med os har Den Mand, som den kan true; Er Verdens Fryste vred, Og vil os støde ned, Han ingen Ting formaar, Fordi alt dømt han gaar, Et Guds ord kan ham binde. 4 Det Ord de skal vel lade staa, Og Utak dertil have, Thi Gud han vil selv med os gaa Alt med sin Aand og Gave; Og tage de vort Liv, Gods, Ære, Børn og Viv, Lad fare hen, lad gaa! De kan ei mere faa, Guds Rige vi beholde. Used With Tune: [Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg]

Nu da til Lykke

Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening Lyrics: 1 Nu da til Lykke Med Kampen, kristen Sjæl! Lad dig ei trykke, Her er Immanuel! Gak fri i Sinde, Din Jesus med dig gaar, Fat Mod at vinde, Det alt paa Troen staar, Lad Satan finde, Hvad Kristi Kraft formaar! 2 Op, op og spænder Guds Sandheds Belte fast Om eders Lænder Mod fiendens haarde Kast! Sank dine Sanser I Jesu blodig Sved, Tag til dit Pantser Guds Søns Retfærdighed! Og Satans Stanser Skal revne for dig ned. 3 Din Storme-Hue Skal være Skriftens Trøst, Dit Sværd og Bue Guds Ord og Aandens Røst, Idet du beder Og ikke bliver træt; Hvad Jesus heder, For al ting glem ei det! Og om du svæder, saa er det Krigens Ret. 4 Op kun at tage Guds fulde Harnisk paa! Kom kun, du Svage, Guds Søn vil med os gaa! Lær kun at føre Det stærke Troens Skjold, Det er at gjøre Sin Jesum til sin Vold; Hvo vil dig røre? Du er i godt Behold. 5 Gud lad os prøve Og gjøre Alvor af, Den Strid at øve Frimodig til vor Grav! Den lunkne Vane Kan ikke taale Stød, Guds Kjæmpers Bane Før os med Blodet flød, Op Korsets Fane, Og viis os Jesu Død! 6 Her skal du være I daglig Kamp og Strid Hist skal du bære Din Krans til evig Tid. Den Sag er vigtig; Og skal det have Klem, Faar mon forsigtig Og mandelig gaa frem, Saa gaar man rigtig Til Gud i Himlen hjem.

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[Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg]

Appears in 642 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Luther Topics: Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: Vor Gud han er saa fast en Borg

FRANCONIA

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 220 hymnals Topics: Twenty First Sunday after Trinity Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12345 35614 32517 Used With Text: To God the only wise

WATCHMAN

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Twenty First Sunday after Trinity Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13513 25451 76551 Used With Text: My soul, be on thy guard

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Jesu, giv Seier! Livs-Fyrste og Kilde!

Author: J. H. Schröder; Ukj. Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #471 (1897) Topics: Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening Lyrics: 1 Jesu, giv Seier! Livs-Fyrste og Kilde! Se dog, hvor Mørket nu trænger sig ind, Søger med Helvedes Kræfter at hilde Og at fordærve mit Hjerte og Sind! Satan kan tusind Kunster optænke, Mig at besnære, at knuse og krænke. 2 Jesu, giv Seier, naar Synden mig frister, Vellyst, Selvkjærlighed, Avind sig ter, Lysternes Lue i Hjertet udbrister, Og jeg kun Helvedes Brand i mig ser, Gjør mine Kinder af Skamfuldhed røde, Og lad din Døds-Kraft al Synd i mig døde! 3 Jesu, giv Seier! at Vilje og Længsel Kun i din Vilje sin Hvile attraar, Og at mit Hjerte i glæde og Trængsel Aabent for dig og opofret dig staar! Lær mig at afdø fra Lysterne mine, Saa jeg maa leve og regnes blandt Dine! 4 Jesu, giv Seier i alle Tilfælde! Skjænk mig din Rustning, og rek mig dit Sverd! Lær mig at stride, saa tidt det skal gjelde, Trøstig mod Satans den mægtig Hær! Midt udi Helvedes gru'ligste Mørke Viis mig, o Jesu, dit Lys og din Styrke! 5 Jesu, giv Seier, og lad mig ei synke! Løgnerens Kræfter tidt skjulte fremstaa, Og sig med Sandhedens Farve opsminke, Hjælp dog, at aldrig de svige mig maa! Lær mig i Ordet mig flittig at øve, Inderlig bede og Aanderne prøve! 6 Jesu, giv Seier, og lær mig at vaage, Som du, min Vægter, ei sov paa din Vagt! Lad mig i Bønnen din Forbøns Kraft smage, Som du saa dyre mig haver tilsagt! Og naar mig Sikkerheds Søvn vil tildække, Lad da din Aand mig opfriske og vække! 7 Jesu, giv Seier, naar alting forsvinder, Og jeg kun Syndens Forgift i mig ser, Naar ingen Styrke til Bønnen jeg finder, Hjertet mistrøstigt og bange sig ter: Lad da, o Jesu, din Aand sig forbinde Med mine Suk, saa jeg Seier maa vinde! 8 Jesu, giv Seier! og lad mig omsider Prøvet i Kampen Klenodiet faa! Saa skal med Lovsang til evige Tider Salig jeg hist i din Helldom staa; Ja hvor dit Navn da med Pris og med Ære Af dine Frelste velsignet skal være! Languages: Norwegian

Mitt Hjarta, tru med Tryggje

Author: Blix Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #763 (1897) Topics: Hymns for the Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass Lyrics: 1 Mitt Hjarta, tru med Tryggje Paa ordet av Guds Munn! Paa dette Berg du byggje: Det er jo god ein Grunn! Um Jrod og Himlar falla, Guds Ord daa aldri fell. I Tru paa honom kalla! So stend du som paa Fjell. 2 Men Verdi helst vil hanga Ved det, som duger minst, Og fyrst til Jesus ganga, Naar ingen Utveg finst: I Trong og tunge Stunder, I Sjukdom,sorg ogSut Ho vil, han ved eit Under Skal fria henne ut. 3 Ja Verdi ligg i Blunder, Ho utan Tru vil sjaa. Ho føkjer Teikn og Under, Som ho kann taka paa. Men Under inkje batar, For Vantru inkje ser, Men berre Trui fatar, Kvat Gud i Teiknet ter. 4 So høyr, kvat Jesus segjer, Og hald deg til hans Ord! Han byd, og Stormen tegjer, Han stiller sorg paa Jord. Ja tru, naar Jesus talar, So skal du Under sjaa: Endaa i Daudens Dalar Du Syn paa Liv skal faa. 5 Hans Ord kann Helsa giva Og turka Taaror av. Han byd den Daude liva, Og fram han gjeng or Grav. Han dermed vil oss visa, Han Dauden yvervann, So me skal hohom prisa Ein Gogn i Livsens Land. Languages: English

Eit Ljos paa Jordi med Jesus rann

Author: Blix Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #764 (1897) Topics: Hymns for the Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass Lyrics: 1 Eit Ljos paa Jordi med Jesus rann, Som vilde til Gud oss lysa. Det straalar klaart fyre kvar ein Mann, Som honom i Tru vil hysa. 2 Ja Jesus Kristus er Livsens Ljos, Som vil i vaart Hjarta renna. Men Verdi styrer sin eigen Kos Og vil ikkje Ljoset kjenna. 3 So vidt um Jord og i Himmelrom Ho leitar og Ljos vil vinna. Men hennar Visdom er Vesaldom, For Gud kann ho ikkje finna. 4 Ho les paa Himmelen som ei Bok Og Vegen til Stjernor kjenner. Paa Sol og Maane ho trur seg klok, Men daa etter skuggar renner. 5 Ho granskar Veder og granskar Vind Og spaar deira ymse Vende, Men er so reint fyre Ljoset blind, Som Gud oss i Kristus sende. 6 Den arme Mann, som Myrker sit, Vil endaa Guds dypter mæla. Men Verdi vantar med alt sitt Vit Den Sanning, som er til Sæla. 7 Det Sannings-Ljos, som er Jesus Krist, Kann berre ved Tru me vinna. For Mannavitet det heve misst Det Ljoset, som Gud kann finna. 8 Aa Jesus, ver du so Ljoset vaart, Som oss til Guds Rike leider! Ja lys i Hjartat, til dess me klaart Skal sjaa deg i Ljos og Heider! Languages: Nynorsk

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Joseph Medlicott Scriven

1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph Scriven Topics: The Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Author of "What a friend we have in Jesus" in The Lutheran Hymnary Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident. Bert Polman ================ Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:— What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Catherine Winkworth

1827 - 1878 Topics: Twenty First Sunday after Trinity Translator of "O Lord, my God, I cry to Thee" in Evangelical Lutheran hymnal Catherine Winkworth (b. Holborn, London, England, 1827; d. Monnetier, Savoy, France, 1878) is well known for her English translations of German hymns; her translations were polished and yet remained close to the original. Educated initially by her mother, she lived with relatives in Dresden, Germany, in 1845, where she acquired her knowledge of German and interest in German hymnody. After residing near Manchester until 1862, she moved to Clifton, near Bristol. A pioneer in promoting women's rights, Winkworth put much of her energy into the encouragement of higher education for women. She translated a large number of German hymn texts from hymnals owned by a friend, Baron Bunsen. Though often altered, these translations continue to be used in many modern hymnals. Her work was published in two series of Lyra Germanica (1855, 1858) and in The Chorale Book for England (1863), which included the appropriate German tune with each text as provided by Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt. Winkworth also translated biographies of German Christians who promoted ministries to the poor and sick and compiled a handbook of biographies of German hymn authors, Christian Singers of Germany (1869). Bert Polman ======================== Winkworth, Catherine, daughter of Henry Winkworth, of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was born in London, Sep. 13, 1829. Most of her early life was spent in the neighbourhood of Manchester. Subsequently she removed with the family to Clifton, near Bristol. She died suddenly of heart disease, at Monnetier, in Savoy, in July, 1878. Miss Winkworth published:— Translations from the German of the Life of Pastor Fliedner, the Founder of the Sisterhood of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserworth, 1861; and of the Life of Amelia Sieveking, 1863. Her sympathy with practical efforts for the benefit of women, and with a pure devotional life, as seen in these translations, received from her the most practical illustration possible in the deep and active interest which she took in educational work in connection with the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women, and kindred societies there and elsewhere. Our interest, however, is mainly centred in her hymnological work as embodied in her:— (1) Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855. (2) Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858. (3) The Chorale Book for England (containing translations from the German, together with music), 1863; and (4) her charming biographical work, the Christian Singers of Germany, 1869. In a sympathetic article on Miss Winkworth in the Inquirer of July 20, 1878, Dr. Martineau says:— "The translations contained in these volumes are invariably faithful, and for the most part both terse and delicate; and an admirable art is applied to the management of complex and difficult versification. They have not quite the fire of John Wesley's versions of Moravian hymns, or the wonderful fusion and reproduction of thought which may be found in Coleridge. But if less flowing they are more conscientious than either, and attain a result as poetical as severe exactitude admits, being only a little short of ‘native music'" Dr. Percival, then Principal of Clifton College, also wrote concerning her (in the Bristol Times and Mirror), in July, 1878:— "She was a person of remarkable intellectual and social gifts, and very unusual attainments; but what specially distinguished her was her combination of rare ability and great knowledge with a certain tender and sympathetic refinement which constitutes the special charm of the true womanly character." Dr. Martineau (as above) says her religious life afforded "a happy example of the piety which the Church of England discipline may implant.....The fast hold she retained of her discipleship of Christ was no example of ‘feminine simplicity,' carrying on the childish mind into maturer years, but the clear allegiance of a firm mind, familiar with the pretensions of non-Christian schools, well able to test them, and undiverted by them from her first love." Miss Winkworth, although not the earliest of modern translators from the German into English, is certainly the foremost in rank and popularity. Her translations are the most widely used of any from that language, and have had more to do with the modern revival of the English use of German hymns than the versions of any other writer. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================ See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Person Name: L. Mason Topics: The Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity Composer of "[The Spirit in our hearts is whispering]" in The Lutheran Hymnary 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 1869. 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). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

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