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The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration

Publication Date: 1986 Publisher: Word Music Publication Place: Nashville Editors: Tom Fettke; Ken Barker Description: This hymnal is available in two editions. One contains King James Version Scripture readings. The other contains readings taken from a combination of four modern translations.

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His Way

Author: Gerald S. Henderson; William Cowper Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,129 hymnals First Line: God moves in a mysterious way Lyrics: 1 God moves in a mysterious way His glorious wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the raging storm. 2 You fearful saints, fresh courage take; the threat'ning clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In countless blessings on your head. 3 God moves in a mysterious way His glorious wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the raging storm. Topics: Canons and Rounds; Comfort and Encouragement; God Guidance and Care Used With Tune: TALLIS' CANON

Lift High the Cross

Author: George W. Kitchin; Michael R. Newbolt Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 95 hymnals First Line: Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod Refrain First Line: Lift high the Cross, the love of Christ proclaim Lyrics: Refrain: Lift high the Cross, the love of Christ proclaim, Till all the world adore His sacred name. 1 Come, Christians, follow where our Savior trod, Our King victorious, Christ, the Son of God. [Refrain] 2 Led on their way by this triumphant sign, The hosts of God in conqu'ring ranks combine. [Refrain] 3 O Lord, once lifted on the glorious Tree, As Thou hast promised, draw men unto Thee. [Refrain] 4 Set up Thy throne, that earth's despair may cease Beneath the shadow of its healing peace. [Refrain] 5 For Thy blest Cross which doth for all atone, Creation's praises rise before Thy throne. [Refrain] Topics: Christ Atonement, Crucifixion, Suffering and Death Used With Tune: CRUCIFER

Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine

Author: Adoniram Judson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 132 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Spirit, Dove divine, On these baptismal waters shine, And teach our hearts, in highest strain, To praise the Lamb for sinners slain. 2 We love Thy name, we love Thy laws, And joyfully embrace Thy cause; We love Thy cross, the shame, the pain, O Lamb of God for sinners slain. 3 We sink beneath the water's face, And thank Thee for Thy saving grace; We die to sin and seek a grave With Thee, beneath the yielding wave. 4 And as we rise with Thee to live, O let the Holy Spirit give The sealing unction from above, The joy of life, the fire of love. Amen. Topics: Baptism; Holy Spirit Used With Tune: MARYTON

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RATHBUN

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 794 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ithamar Conkey Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51317 65155 63234 Used With Text: In the Cross of Christ I Glory

LANCASHIRE

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 617 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: The Day of Resurrection

JESUS SAVES

Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 350 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Kirkpatrick Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55151 23555 31255 Used With Text: Jesus Saves!

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Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Author: Henry van Dyke Hymnal: HWC1986 #1 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, Opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, Drive the dark of doubt away; Giver of immortal gladness, Fill us with the light of day. 2 All Thy works with joy surround Thee, Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays, Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, Ever blessing, ever blest, Wellspring of the joy of living, Ocean depth of happy rest! Thou our Father Christ, our Brother– All who live in love are Thine; Teach us how to love each other, Lift us to the joy divine. 4 Mortals, join the happy chorus Which the morning stars began; Father love is reigning o'er us, Brother love binds man to man. Ever singing, march we onward, Victors in the midst of strife. Joyful music leads us sunward In the triumph song of life. Amen. Topics: Adoration and Praise God the Father; Church Fellowship of Believers (Unity); God Creation; God Father; Joy; Love God's Love; Love Our Love for God; Love, Our Love for Others; Social Concern; Victory; Wedding Languages: English Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Author: Margaret Clarkson; Robert Robinson Hymnal: HWC1986 #2 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above; Praise His name - I'm fixed upon it - Name of God's redeeming love. 2 Hitherto Thy love has blest me; Thou hast bro't me to this place; And I know Thy hand will bring me Safely home by thy good grace. Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to rescue me from danger, Bought me with His precious blood. 3 O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee: Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it; Seal it for Thy courts above. Amen. Topics: Adoration and Praise God the Father; Aspiration; Christ Grace, Love and Mercy; Commitment and Consecration; God Guidance and Care Languages: English Tune Title: NETTLETON

Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

Author: Henry F. Lyte Hymnal: HWC1986 #3 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, To His feet thy tribute bring; Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Evermore His praises sing; Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the everlasting King. 2 Praise Him for His grace and favor To our fathers in distress; Praise Him, still the same as ever, Slow to chide, and swift to bless; Alleluia! Alleluia! Glorious in His faithfulness 3 Frail as summer's flow'r we flourish; Blows the wind and it is gone; But, while mortals rise and perish, God endures unchanging on: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the high Eternal One. 4 Angels in the height, adore Him; Ye behold Him face to face; Saints triumphant, bow before Him; Gathered in from every race; Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace. Topics: Adoration and Praise God the Father; God Attributes; God Father; Healing Scripture: Psalm 103 Languages: English Tune Title: LAUDA ANIMA (Andrews)

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W. D. Cornell

1858 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 500 Author of "Wonderful Peace" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Rv Warren Donald Cornell USA 1858-1936. Born in Whiteford, MI, he trained as a school teacher and began teaching in Dallas Public Schools at age 19. Licensed by the Southern Methodist conference in 1879, he was appointed to preach in Denton and Gainesville, TX, for a year in each place. He married Jennie Estelle Roberts in 1880, and they five sons: Warren, Louis, William, Robert, and Donald, and a daughter, Florence. In 1881 he removed to the Oshkosh, WI, area and spent most of his career preaching at various pastorates and in Berlin, WI. He was an eloquent precher, poet, and evangelist. In 1894 he became minister of the People's Christian Assn., in Fond du Lac, WI. The group met for 10 years and disbanded. Cornell pastored an independent church there. In 1905, after pastoring, he entered real estate. He took an interest in political and social issues, and became secretary of the Paving Cutter's Union, and leader of the 'Anti-Tramp Society”. He became a lecturer, and a founding member of the anti-socialist Constitutional Defense League, spending much of his time in this cause. He was no longer a member of clergy, but a touring lecturer for several years. By 1925 he and his family had moved to NY state, where he eventually died. He was buried in Fond du Lac, WI. John Perry

Frederick Whitfield

1829 - 1904 Hymnal Number: 529 Author of "O, How I Love Jesus" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Whitfield, Frederick, B.A., son of H. Whitfield, was born at Threapwood, Shropshire, Jan. 7, 1829, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his B.A. in 1859. On taking Holy Orders, he was successively curate of Otley, vicar of Kirby-Ravensworth, senior curate of Greenwich, and Vicar of Stanza John's, Bexley. In 1875 he was preferred to St. Mary's, Hastings. Mr. Whitfield's works in prose and verse number upwards of thirty, including Spiritual unfolding from the Word of Life; Voices from the Valley Testifying of Jesus; The Word Unveiled; Gleanings from Scripture, &c. Several of his hymns appeared in his Sacred Poems and Prose, 1861, 2nd Series, 1864; The Casket, and Quiet Hours in the Sanctuary. The hymn by which he is most widely known is I need Thee, precious Jesu.” Other hymns by him in common use include:~ 1. I have a Great High Priest above. Christ the High Priest. 2. I saw the Cross of Jesus. The Cross. 3. In spirit, Lord, we meet Thee now. Missions. This was written at the request of the Committee of the Irish Church Missions for one of their annual meetings in London. 4. Jesus, Thou Name of magic power. The Name of Jesus. Sometimes given as "Jesus, Thou Name of power divine." 5. The sprinkled blood is speaking. The Blood of Christ. 6. There is a day I long to see. Heaven Anticipated. 7. There is a Name I love to hear. The Name of Jesus. Published in 1855 in hymnsheets and leaflets in various languages. From this the hymn “Jesus, the Name I love so well" is taken. 8. There's naught on earth to rest upon. God Unchangeable. 9. When dead in sin and far from God. Redemption. All these hymns, with the exception of No. 3, are in his Sacred Poems and Prose, 1861, and several of them have been printed as leaflets, and set to special music. The Sacred Poems, &c, contains 26 hymns, some of which are of considerable merit. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Chandler

1806 - 1876 Hymnal Number: 120 Translator of "The Advent of Our God" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration John Chandler, one of the most successful translators of hymns, was born at Witley in Surrey, June 16, 1806. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830. Ordained deacon in 1831 and priest in 1832, he succeeded his father as the patron and vicar of Whitley, in 1837. His first volume, entitled The Hymns of the Primitive Church, now first Collected, Translated and Arranged, 1837, contained 100 hymns, for the most part ancient, with a few additions from the Paris Breviary of 1736. Four years later, he republished this volume under the title of hymns of the Church, mostly primitive, collected, translated and arranged for public use, 1841. Other publications include a Life of William of Wykeham, 1842, and Horae sacrae: prayers and meditations from the writings of the divines of the Anglican Church, 1854, as well as numerous sermons and tracts. Chandler died at Putney on July 1, 1876. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion =============== Chandler, John, M.A.,one of the earliest and most successful of modern translators of Latin hymns, son of the Rev. John F. Chandler, was born at Witley, Godalming, Surrey, June 16, 1806, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1827. He took Holy Orders in 1831, and became Vicar of Witley in 1837. He died at Putney, July 1, 1876. Besides numerous Sermons and Tracts, his prose works include Life of William of Wykeham, 1842; and Horae Sacrae; Prayers and Meditations from the writings of the Divines of the Anglican Church, with an Introduction, 1844. His translations, he says, arose out of his desire to see the ancient prayers of the Anglican Liturgy accompanied by hymns of a corresponding date of composition, and his inability to find these hymns until he says, "My attention was a short time ago directed to some translations [by Isaac Williams] which appeared from time to time in the British Magazine, very beautifully executed, of some hymns extracted from the Parisian Breviary,with originals annexed. Some, indeed, of the Sapphic and Alcaic and other Horatian metres, seem to be of little value; but the rest, of the peculiar hymn-metre, Dimeter Iambics, appear ancient, simple, striking, and devotional—in a word in every way likely to answer our purpose. So I got a copy of the Parisian Breviary [1736], and one or two other old books of Latin Hymns, especially one compiled by Georgius Cassander, printed at Cologne, in the year 1556, and regularly applied myself to the work of selection and translation. The result is the collection I now lay before the public." Preface, Hymns of the Primitive Church, viii., ix. This collection is:— (1) The Hymns of the Primitive Church, now first Collected, Translated, and Arranged, by the Rev. J. Chandler. London, John W. Parker, 1837. These translations were accompanied by the Latin texts. The trsanslations rearranged, with additional translations, original hymns by Chandler and a few taken from other sources, were republished as (2) The Hymns of the Church, mostly Primitive, Collected, Translated, and Arranged/or Public Use, by the Rev. J. Chandler, M.A. London, John W. Parker, 1841. From these works from 30 to 40 translations have come gradually into common use, some of which hold a foremost place in modern hymnals, "Alleluia, best and sweetest;" "Christ is our Corner Stone;" "On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry;" "Jesus, our Hope, our hearts' Desire;" "Now, my soul, thy voice upraising;" "Once more the solemn season calls;" and, "O Jesu, Lord of heavenly grace;" being those which are most widely used. Although Chandler's translations are somewhat free, and, in a few instances, doctrinal difficulties are either evaded or softened down, yet their popularity is unquestionably greater than the translations of several others whose renderings are more massive in style and more literal in execution. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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