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The New English Hymnal
Publication Date: 1986 Publisher: The Canterbury Press Publication Place: Norwich, UK
The New English Hymnal
O thou who camest from above
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 176 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Thou who camest from above,
The pure celestial fire to impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
On the mean altar of my heart.
2 There let it for thy glory burn
With inextinguishable blaze,
And trembling to its source return
In humble prayer, and fervent praise.
3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
To work, and speak, and think for thee;
Still let me guard the holy fire,
And still stir up the gift in me.
4 Ready for all thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love repeat,
Till death thy endless mercies seal,
And make my sacrifice complete.
Topics: Confirmation; Ordination Used With Tune: HEREFORD
O thou who camest from above
For all thy saints, O Lord
Author: Richard Mant, 1776-1848 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For all thy saints, O Lord,
Who strove in thee to live,
Who followed thee, obeyed, adored,
Our grateful hymn receive.
2 For all thy saints, O Lord,
Who strove in thee to die,
Who counted thee their great reward,
Accept our thankful cry.
3 O Lord, thy name we bless,
And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness
Who lived and died in thee.
4 Thine earthly members fit
To join thy saints above,
In one communion ever knit,
One fellowship of love.
5 All praise to thee, O Lord,
The Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, God adored
While endless ages run. Amen.
Topics: The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holidays: General; Common of Saints; All Saints November 1st Used With Tune: MOUNT EPHRAIM
For all thy saints, O Lord
Day of wrath and doom impending
Author: Thomas of Celano, 13th century; W. J. Irons, 1812-83 Appears in 108 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Day of wrath and doom impending.
David's word with Sibyl's blending!
Heaven and earth in ashes ending!
2 O, what fear man's bosom rendeth,
When from heav'n the Judge descendeth,
On whose sentence all dependeth!
3 Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth,
Through earth's sepulchers it ringeth,
All before the throne it bringeth.
4 Death is struck, and nature quaking,
All creation is awaking,
To its Judge an answer making.
5 Lo! the book exactly worded,
Wherein all hath been recorded:
Thence shall judgments be awarded.
6 When the Judge his seat attaineth,
And each hidden deed arraigneth,
Nothing undisclos'd remaineth.
7 What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
Who for me be interceding,
When the just are mercy needing?
8 King of majesty tremendous,
Who dost free salvation send us,
Fount of pity then befriend us!
9 Think, kind Jesu! my salvation
Caused thy wondrous Incarnation;
Leave me not to reprobation.
10 Faint and weary thou hast sought me,
On the Cross of suff'ring bought me;
Shall such grace be vainly brought me?
11 Rightous Judge! for sin's pollution
Grant thy gift of absolution,
Ere that day of retribution.
12 Guilty, now I pour my moaning,
All my shame with anguish owning:
Spare, O God, thy suppliant groaning!
13 Through the sinful woman shriven,
Through the dying thief forgiven,
Thou to me a hope hast given.
14 Worthless are my prayers and sighing,
Yet, good Lord, in grace complying,
Rescue me from night undying.
15 With thy sheep a place provide me,
From the goats afar divide me,
To thy right hand do thou guide me.
16 When the wicked are confounded,
Doom'd to shame and woe unbounded,
Call me, with thy Saints surrounded.
17 Low I kneel, with heart's submission;
See, like ashes my contrition!
Help me in my last condition!
18 Ah! that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning.
Man for judgement must prepare him:
Spare, O God, in mercy spare him!
Lord, all pitying, Jesu blest,
Grant them thine eternal rest. Amen. Topics: Sequence for All Souls Used With Tune: DIES IRAE, DIES ILLA
Day of wrath and doom impending
CROSS OF JESUS
Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 124 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer, 1840-1901 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 31555 11713 67143 Used With Text: There's a wideness in God's mercy
CROSS OF JESUS
ROCKINGHAM
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 501 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Miller, 1731-1807 Tune Sources: Harmony chiefly from Webbe's Collection of Psalm-Tunes Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13421 35655 17655 Used With Text: When I survey the wondrous Cross
ROCKINGHAM
LAUDES DOMINI
Meter: 6.6.6 D Appears in 446 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby, 1838-96 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34561 76567 13217 Used With Text: When morning gilds the skies
LAUDES DOMINI
Creator of the stars of night
Author: J. M. Neale, 1818-66 Hymnal: NEH1985 #1a (1986) Topics: The Christian Year Advent; Office Hymn Languages: English Tune Title: CONDITOR ALME
Creator of the stars of night
Creator of the stars of night
Author: J. M. Neale, 1818-66 Hymnal: NEH1985 #1b (1986) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: The Christian Year Advent; Office Hymn Languages: English Tune Title: ST. GREGORY
Creator of the stars of night
O heavenly Word of God on high
Hymnal: NEH1985 #2 (1986) Topics: The Christian Year Advent; Office Hymn Languages: English Tune Title: VERBUM SUPERNUM
O heavenly Word of God on high
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-47 Hymnal Number: 26 Composer of "MENDELSSOHN" in The New English Hymnal Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Anonymous
Hymnal Number: 22 Author of "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed" in The New English Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Dorothy Frances Gurney
1858 - 1932 Person Name: Dorothy F. Gurney, 1858-1932 Hymnal Number: 320b Author of "O perfect Love, all human thought transcending" in The New English Hymnal Blomfield, Dorothy F. , was born at 3 Finsbury Circus, Oct. 4, 1858. Miss Blomfield is the eldest daughter of the late Rev. F. G. Blomfield, sometime Rector of St. Andrew's Undershaft, London, and granddaughter of the late Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London. Her very beautiful hymn for Holy Matrimony, “O perfect Love, all human thought transcending," was written for her sister's marriage in 1883, and was intended to be sung to Strength and Stay, in Hymns Ancient & Modern, No. 12. Subsequently it was set as an anthem by J. Barnby for the marriage of the Duke of Fife with the Princess Louise of Wales, on July 27, 1889. In 1889 it was included in the Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, and in 1890 in the Hymnal Companion.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Gurney, Dorothy Frances, née Blomfield, p. 1553, ii. Married to Mr. Gerald Gurney. Mrs. Gurney's personal account of her hymn, "O perfect Love," &c, is given in detail in the Rev. J. Brownlie's Hymns and Hymn Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, p. 248. Her hymn is given in most hymn books published since 1889.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Dorothy Frances Gurney
