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O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord
Author: Harriet Auber, 1773-1862; Wilmer D. Swope; John J. Overholt Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 20 hymnals Matching Instances: 20 Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Psalms Scripture: Psalm 78 Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE
O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord
ST. URSULA
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 18 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Frederick Westlake Tune Sources: Hymns and Sacred Songs for the Year, Part I, 1863 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 35431 32156 11272 Used With Text: O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord
ST. URSULA
O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord
Author: Harriet Auber Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5281 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. O praise our great and gracious Lord,
And call upon His name;
To strains of joy tune every chord,
His mighty acts proclaim;
Tell how He led His chosen race
To Canaan’s promised land;
Tell how His covenant of grace
Unchanged shall ever stand.
2. He gave the shadowing cloud by day,
The moving fire by night;
To guide His Israel on their way,
He made their darkness light;
And have we not a sure retreat,
A Savior ever nigh,
The same clear light to guide our feet,
The dayspring from on high?
3. We, too, have manna from above,
The bread that came from Heav’n;
To us the same kind hand of love
Hath living waters giv’n;
A rock have we, from whence the spring
In rich abundance flows;
The rock is Christ, our Priest, our King,
Who life and health bestows.
4. O may we praise this blessèd Food,
And trust our heavenly guide;
So shall we find death’s fearful flood
Serene as Jordan’s tide,
And safely reach that happy shore,
The land of peace and rest,
Where angels worship and adore
In God’s own presence blest. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. URSULA
O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord
O praise our great and glorious Lord, and call upon his name
Author: Harriet Auber Hymnal: The Baptist Hymn Book #511 (1871)
O praise our great and glorious Lord, and call upon his name
Oh, praise our great and glorious Lord
Hymnal: The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book for Public Worship #511 (1873)
Oh, praise our great and glorious Lord
Harriet Auber
1773 - 1862 Person Name: Harriet Auber, 1773-1862 Author of "O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Auber, Harriet, daughter of Mr. James Auber, b. in London, Oct. 4, 1773. During the greater part of her quiet and secluded life she resided at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, and died at the latter place on the 20th Jan., 1862. Miss Auber wrote devotional and other poetry, but only a portion of the former was published in her Spirit of the Psalms, in 1829. This collection is mainly her work, and from it some useful versions of the Psalms have been taken and included in modern hymn-books, about 20 appearing in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. Miss Auber's name is widely known, but it is principally through her exquisite lyric, "Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed," and the Epiphany hymn, "Bright was the guiding star that led." (For criticism of her work, see English Psalters, §. 17.)
In addition to these and other hymns by Miss Auber, which are annotated under their respective first lines, the following are also in C. V., but principally in America:—
1. Arise, ye people, and adore. Easter.
2. As Thy chosen people, Lord. Ps. lxciii.
3. Can guilty man indeed believe? Ps. xciv.
4. Delightful is the task to sing. Ps. cxlvii.
5. Father of Spirits, Nature's God. Ps. cxxxi.
6. Hail, gracious Source of every good. Ps. Ixv.
7. Hasten, Lord, the glorious time. Ps. lxxii.
8. Jehovah reigns, O earth, rejoice. Ps. xccii.
9. Join, all ye servants of the Lord. H. Scriptures.
10. Jesus, Lord, to Thee we sing. Ps. cx.
11. O all ye lands, rejoice in God. Ps. lxvi.
12. O God our Strength, to Thee the song. Ps. lIxxxi.
13. O praise our great and gracious Lord. Ps. lxxviii.
14. On thy church, O power divine. Ps. lxvii.
15. Sweet is the work, O Lord. Sunday.
16. That Thou, O Lord, art ever nigh. Ps. lxxv.
17. The Lord, Who hath redeemed our souls. Ps. xxxi.
18. When all bespeaks a Father's love. Ps. set.
19. When dangers press and fears invade. Ps. lxii.
20. Who, O Lord, when life is o'er. Ps. xv.
21. Whom have we Lord, in heaven, but Thee. Ps. lxxiii.
22. Wide, ye heavenly gates, unfold. Ascension.
23. With hearts in love abounding. Ps. xlv.
24. With joy we hail the sacred day. Sunday.
25. Vainly through the night the ranger. Ps. cxvii.
All these psalm-versions and hymns are from her Spirit of the Psalms, London, 1829.
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Auber, Harriet, p. 90, ii. The following versions of psalms from her Spirit of the Psalms, 1829, are also in common use:-
1. Great God, wert Thou extreme to mark. Ps. cxxx. "Thy servants in the temple watched," begins with stanza ii. of this.
2. How blest are they who daily prove. Ps. xli.
3. How blest the children of the Lord. Altered from Ps. cxii.
4. Jehovah, great and awful name. Part of Ps. Ixxviii.
5. 0 Thou Whom heaven's bright host revere. Ps. Ixxxiv.
6. Praise the Lord, our mighty King. Ps. cxxxv.
7. Spirit of peace, Who as a [celestial] Dove. Ps. cxxxiii.
8. Thou by Whose strength the mountains stand. Ps. Ixv.
9. To heaven our longing eyes we raise. Ps. cxxi.
10. Vainly through night's weary hours. Ps. cxxvii. Sometimes "Vainly through the night the ranger."
11. While all the golden harps above. Easter.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Harriet Auber
Frederick Westlake
1840 - 1898 Composer of "ST. URSULA" in The Cyber Hymnal Westlake, Frederick; b. Feb. 25, 1840, Romsey, Hampshire; d. Feb. 12, 1898, London; English pianist and compose
Frederick Westlake
Wilmer D. Swope
1925 - 2010 Alterer of "O Praise Our Great and Gracious Lord" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Born Dec. 16, 1925 in Leetonia, OH to Herman and Mabel Swope. He was a farmer and also worked at the A & P Warehouse in Salem, OH and the Buechner Residence Hall near YSU in Youngstown, OH. He served as Fairfield Township Trustee from 1970-2001. He was a member of the Midway Mennonite Church and enjoyed writing hymns and Mennonite Church history. He died in Leetonia, OH on February 1, 2010.
--See Youngstown News.
Wilmer D. Swope
