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E. L. Muchmore
Composer of "[Ye that have wandered far from your Saviour]" in Scriptural Songs (Memorial Ed.)
E. L. Muchmore
Franz Mücke
1819 - 1863 Composer of "[Gott grüße dich! Gott grüße dich] (11553)" Franz Muuecke
Franz Mücke
Lewis Ward Mudge
Person Name: Lewis W. Mudge Editor of "" in Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes
Lewis Ward Mudge
Lewis Ward Mudge
1839 - 1914 Person Name: L. W. Mudge Editor of "" in Carmina for Social Worship
Lewis Ward Mudge
Lewis Ward Mudge
1839 - 1914 Person Name: Mudge, Lewis Ward, 1839-1914 Author of "" in Songs of praise
Lewis Ward Mudge
Charles Edward Mudie
1818 - 1890 Person Name: Charles E. Mudie Author of "I Lift My Heart to Thee" Mudie, Charles Edward, the founder of the well-known library which bears his name, was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Oct. 18, 1818. In 1872 he collected his poems and published them as Stray Leaves (2nd ed., 1873). Several poems on Scriptural subjects, and a few hymns are included in the volume. The hymn by which he is best known is "I lift my heart to Thee, Saviour divine" (His and Mine). It is from the Stray Leaves, and is in several hymnbooks, including the Scottish Evangelical Union Hymnal, 1878; Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, and many others. It is marked by great beauty and tenderness of expression. Several of Mr. Mudie's hymns, which are not in common use are worthy of attention. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Mudie, Charles E., p. 774, i. He died at 31, Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, Oct. 28, 1890. His hymn, "I lift my heart to Thee, &c," was written in Oct., 1871.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Charles Edward Mudie
David Mudie
b. 1961 Person Name: David Mudie (b. 1961) Author of "Grace is when God gives us" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)
David Mudie
Thomas M. Mudie
1809 - 1876 Composer of "[I lift my heart to thee, Saviour divine]" in Northfield Hymnal
Thomas M. Mudie
Johann Friedrich Mudre
1736 - 1810 Person Name: Joh. Fried. Mudre Author of "Dir, Gott, und Vater, danken wir"
Johann Friedrich Mudre
Carl F. Mueller
1892 - 1982 Person Name: Carl F. Meuller Composer of "[Create in me a clean heart, O God]" in Songs for Life
Carl F. Mueller
Jonathan R. Mueller
b. 1964 Person Name: Jonathan R. Mueller, b. 1964 Composer of "[The LORD will vindicate His people]" in Lutheran Service Book
Jonathan R. Mueller
Steven P. Mueller
b. 1964 Person Name: Steven P. Mueller, b. 1964 Author of "Christ, the Word of God Incarnate" in Lutheran Service Book
Steven P. Mueller
M. Muensterberg
Person Name: Margarete Münsterberg Translator of "How great, Almighty, is thy kindness"
M. Muensterberg
Chris Muglia
b. 1971 Person Name: Chris Muglia, b. 1971 Author of "Our God Is Here" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)
Chris Muglia
Cranmer Muhabura
Person Name: Cranmer Muhabura, 20th cent. Author of "Come and Let Us Worship God" in Sing! A New Creation
Cranmer Muhabura
C. G. Mühle
1792 - 1847 Person Name: C. G. Mühle (1792-1847) Composer of "[Unser Vater, der du bist im Himmel]" in Sammlung Kirchlicher Lieder
C. G. Mühle
Hans Mühle
1887 - 1973 Person Name: Hans Mühle (1897-1973) Author of "Cristo, centro de mi vida" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día
Hans Mühle
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
1711 - 1787 Person Name: D. Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg Editor of "" in Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
Muhlenberg Press
Publisher of "" in Armed Forces Service Book for Public and Private Use. 2nd rev. ed.
Muhlenberg Press
William Augustus Muhlenberg
1796 - 1877 Person Name: William A. Muhlenberg Author of "I would not live alway [always], I ask not to stay" in Musical Gems. 7th ed. Mühlenberg, William Augustus, D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Mühlenberg, and grandson of Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, the patriarch of Lutheranism in America, was born in Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1796. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1814. Entering Holy Orders in 1817, he was successively Assistant Rector of St. James's Lancaster, 1823; Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, 1843; St. Paul's College, Flushing (1828); St. Luke's Hospital, New York (1855); St. John's and Long Island (1865), were established by him. He died April 6, 1877. His poetical gift was genuine, but not largely used. In 1826 he contributed four hymns to the Prayer Book Collection (of which he was one of the Committee). His Poems appeared in 1859. He had previously published Church Poetry, 1823; and The People's Psalter, 1858. I would not live alway followed in 1859 (revised in 1871). This last contains 26 pieces, the hymns in the Prayer Book Collection, 1826, with the exception of "I would not live alway," being omitted. The following are his principal lyrics:—
1. Carol, brothers, carol. Christmas Carol. "Made for the boys of St. Paul's College—-the Chorus adapted from one of the Rev.[Bishop] A.C. Coxe's Christian Ballads"-—in 1840.
2. How short the race our friend has run. Death of a Young Person. Contributed to the Prayer Book Collection, 1826.
3. I would not live alway. Eternal rest desired. Four texts of this poem are extant: 1st the Original; 2nd the version given in the Prayer Book Collection, 1826; 3rd the author's revised version of 1859; and 4th his rewritten text of 1871, the second of these being that known to the hymnbooks. The history of the poem is somewhat complicated. We quote it here as given by us in the History of the American Episcopal Church, 1885, p.637, as we have nothing further to add thereto:-—
"The most famous of these (Dr. Mühlenberg's hymns) was probably first written. 'I will not live alway' has an intricate history, which was not simplified by the author's lapse of memory in his later years. In his brief ‘story of the hymn,' printed with its ‘evangelized’ text in 1871, every date is wrong by two or three years; and his assertion, ‘The legend that it was written on an occasion of private grief is a fancy,' hardly agrees with the clear and minute recollections of persons of the highest character, still living, and who knew the circumstances thoroughly. The date of composition assigned, 1824, is probably (not certainly) correct; it was written at Lancaster, in a lady's album, and began:—
I would not live alway; no, no, holy man,
Not a day, not an hour, should lengthen my span.'
In this shape it seems to have had six eight-line stanzas. The album was still extant in 1876, at Pottstown, Pa., and professed to contain the original manuscript. Said the owner's sister, ‘It was au impromptu. He had no copy, and, wanting it for some occasion, he sent for the album.' In 1826 he entrusted his copy to a friend, who called on him on the way from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, to carry to the Episcopal Recorder, and in that paper it appeared June 3, 1826 (not 1824). For these facts we have the detailed statement of Dr. John B. Clemson, of Claymont, Del., the Ambassador mentioned, who also chances to have preserved that volume of the paper. Thus appearing (without name) it was adopted by the sub-committee [of the Prayer Book Collection, 1826]. When their report was presented to the entire committee in 1826—-not 1829, as Dr. Mühlenberg had it—-'each of the hymns was passed upon. When this came up one of the members remarked that it was very sweet and pretty, but rather sentimental, upon which it was unanimously thrown out. Not suspected as the author, I voted against myself. That, I supposed, was the end of it.’ The committee, which sat until late at night at the house of Bishop White, agreed upon their report to the Convention, and adjourned. But the next morning Dr. Onderdonk (who was not one of their number, but who, on invitation, had acted with the sub-committee, which in fact consisted of him and myself), called on me to inquire what had been done. Upon my telling him that among the rejected hymns was this one of mine, he said, 'That will never do,' and went about among the members of the committee soliciting them to restore the hymn in their report, which accordingly they did; so that to him is due the credit of giving it to the Church.' As thus adopted it was a small and altered selection from the original lines, made by Dr. Onderdonk ‘with some revision' by the author. He was never satisfied with these texts, but revised the poem in 1859, and re¬wrote it in 1871….The authorship of this, as of many another popular lyric, has been disputed. The claim of Henry Ward, a printer of Lichfield, Conn., has been vehemently urged, and revived but a few years ago. Of course it is unsupported by adequate evidence. When Dr. Mühlenberg was asked to assure ‘some of his brethren, editors of Church papers,' of his paternity, his manly reply was, ‘If they thought I was capable of letting the work of another pass for so many years as my own, they would not be sure of anything I might say.'"
4. Jesus' Name shall ever be. The Holy Name, Jesus. This is entitled "The Blessed Name of Jesus. An Evangelical Rosary." It was written in 1842, and revised for Schaff's Christ in Song in Aug., 1868.
5. King of kings, and wilt Thou deign. Submission to Jesus. Appeared in his Poems, 1859.
6. Like Noah's weary dove. The Ark of the Church. Contributed to the Prayer Book Collection, 1826, No. 24, in 5 st. of 4 1. It sometimes begins with st. ii., "0 cease, my wandering soul;" and again with st. in., "Behold the Ark of God."
7. Saviour, Who Thy flock art feeding. Holy Baptism. This is the most widely known of Dr. Mühlenberg's hymns. It was contributed to the Prayer Book Collection, 1826, No. 86, in 4 st. of 4 1. It is sometimes given as "Jesus, Who Thy flock art feeding."
8. Shout the glad tidings, exultingly sing. Christmas. Contributed to the Prayer Book Collection, 1826, No. 46, in 3 st. of 4 1., with the chorus :—
"Shout the glad tidings, exultingly sing,
Jerusalem triumphs, Messiah is King;"
the opening lines, followed by the first stanza, and a repetition of the chorus, and so on to the end. Sometimes the hymn opens with st. i.: "Zion, the marvellous story be telling," or as “Sion the marvellous story be telling," instead of the chorus. Dr. Mühlenberg says that the hymn was written—
"at the particular request of Bishop Hobart, who wanted something that would go to the tune by Avison, then popular, to the words of Moore, ‘Sound the loud timbrel,' &c. He liked the verses I made so well that he had them struck off before the hymns (Prayer Book Collection] were published, and sung in Trinity Church on Christmas day."
9. Since o'er Thy footstool here below. Earth and Heaven. Appeared in the Episcopal Register, 1824, and in his Poems, 1859.
10. The mellow eve is gliding. Evening. Dated 1825 (?) and published in his Poems, 1859.
11. The throne of his glory—-as snow it is white. Advent. Dated 1839, and published in his Poems, 1859.
12. Thine handmaid,Saviour, can it be? Admission of a Nursing Sister. Written on the words, "Come, follow me," for the reception of a Sister at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, 1859.
[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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William Augustus Muhlenberg
Erwin W. Muhlenbruch
Composer of "[Thou God of pow'r and majesty]" in Spiritual Melodies
Erwin W. Muhlenbruch
Heinrich Julius Mühling
1810 - 1880 Person Name: Jul. Mühling Composer of "[Herr, unser Herrscher! Wie herrlich strahlt dein Name]" in Sammlung Kirchlicher Lieder
Heinrich Julius Mühling
Johannes Mühlmann
1573 - 1613 Person Name: J. Mühlmann Author of "While yet the morn is breaking" in Chorale Book for England, The Mühlmann, Johannes, son of Hieronymus Mühlmann or Mühlmann, pastor at Pegau, near Leipzig, was born at Pegau, July 28, 1573. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig (M.A. January, 1597) and Jena, and was then for some time Saturday preacher at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. In 1599 he was appointed diaconus of the St. Wenzel Church in Naumburg, and in 1604 pastor at Laucha on the Unstrut. In the end of 1604 he became archidiaconus of the St. Nicholas Church at Leipzig, and, in 1607, was also appointed Professor of Theology in the University, and D.D. in 1612. He died of typhus at Leipzig, Nov. 14, 1613. (Allgemeine Deutsch Biographie, xxii. 483; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 151, &c.)
Mühlmann was a staunch upholder of Lutheran orthodoxy, alike against Romanists and Calvinists. He was a great lover of the Psalms; his published sermons, as well as his hymns, are based on them, and almost his last words were Ps. lxiii., 3, "Thy lovingkindness is better than life." Wackernagel v. pp. 443-447, gives five hymns under his name, all of which are found in the Geistliche Psalmen, &c, published at Nürnberg in 1618, by J. Lauer. [The only known copy, in the Royal Library, Berlin, has lost its titlepage.]
Two of Mühlmann's hymns have passed into English, viz.:—
i. Dank sei Gott in der Höhe. Morning. The most popular of his hymns. Appeared 1618 as above, with his initials, and thence in Wackernagel v. p. 444, in 7 st. of 8 1. Also in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 443. Translated as:—
While yet the morn is breaking. A good translation of st. i., ii., v., vii. by Miss Winkworth, as No. 163 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. Repeated in full in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880, and abridged in the Marlborough College Hymn Book, 1869.
Another translation "Christ is the vine, we branches are" (st. vii.). By J. Swertner, as No. 438, in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789 (1849, No. 612).
ii. 0 Lebens-Brünnlein tief und gross. Ps. lxv. Appeared 1618 as above, with his initials, in 9 st. of 9 1., entitled "a hymn from the 65th Psalm." Thence in Wackernagel v. p. 446; also in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 426. It is really a hymn on Christ as the Fountain of Life here and in Eternity, and with Ps. lxv. 10 as its motto. Translated as:—
0 spring of Life, so deep, so great. A good translation of st. i., ii., v., vi., ix. by A. T. Russell, as No. 166 in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johannes Mühlmann
Alexander Muir
1830 - 1906 Author of "The Maple Leaf Forever" Muir, Alexander. (fl.1867) Wrote and published "The Maple Leaf Forever" in 1867, just after Confederation, before Canada had taken in any territory where maple trees will not grow. He was principal of an elementary school in Toronto, Ontario, which was later renamed in his honor.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
Alexander Muir
T. D. W. Muir
Person Name: T. D. W. Muir, 1855-1931 Author of "He'll Come and Tarry Not" in Hymns of Worship and Remembrance
T. D. W. Muir
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