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Author: Thomas Olivers, 1725 - 99 Appears in 454 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Trinity Sunday - The Holy Trinity; The Church Worship - In The Presence; The Church Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Church Worship - The Close of Service; The Church Worship - Morning; The Life In Christ Adoration and Praise Lyrics: 1 The God of Abraham praise, Who reigns enthroned above; Ancient of everlasting days, And God of love; To him uplift your voice, At whose supreme command From earth we rise, and seek the joys At his right hand. 2 Though nature's strength decay, And earth and hell withstand, To Canaan's bound we urge our way At his command. The watery deep we pass, With Jesus in our view; And through the howling wilderness Our way pursue. A-men. 3 The goodly land we see With peace and plenty blest; A land of sacred liberty And endless rest; There milk and honey flow, And oil and wine abound, And trees of life for ever grow, With mercy crowned. 4 There dwells the Lord our King, The Lord our Righteousness, Triumphant o'er the world and sin, The Prince of Peace; On Zion's sacred height His kingdom He maintains, And glorious with his saints in light For ever reigns. 5 Before the great Three-One They all exulting stand, And tell the wonders he hath done Through all their land; The listening spheres attend And swell the growing frame, And sing, in songs which never end, The wondrous Name. 6 The God who reigns on high The great archangels sing, And, 'Holy, holy, holy,' cry, 'Almighty King, Who was, and is, the same, And evermore shall be: Eternal Father, great I AM, We worship thee.' 7 Before the Saviour's face The ransomed nations bow, O'erwhelmed at his almighty grace, Forever new; He shows his prints of love: They kindle to a flame, And sound through all the worlds above, 'Worthy the Lamb.' 8 The whole triumphant host Give thanks to God on high; 'Hail, Father, Son and Holy Ghost!' They ever cry; Hail, Abraham's God, and mine! I join the heavenly lays. All might and majesty are thine, And endless praise! Amen. Used With Tune: LEONI (YIGDAL) Text Sources: Based on the Yigdal

The head that once was crowned with thorns

Author: Thomas Kelly, 1769 - 1854 Appears in 513 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Ascension; The Church Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Church Worship - The Close of Service; The Church Worship - Morning; The Life In Christ Adoration and Praise Lyrics: 1 The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now; A royal diadem adorns The mighty Victor's brow. 2 The highest place that heaven affords Is his, is his by right, The King of kings, and Lord of lords, And heaven's eternal Light; 3 The joy of all who dwell above, The joy of all below, To whom he manifests his love And grants his Name to know. 4 To them the Cross with all its shame, With all its grace, is given; Their name an everlasting name, Their joy, the joy of heaven. 5 They suffer with their Lord below, They reign with him above; Their profit and their joy to know The mystery of his love. 6 The Cross he bore is life and health, Though shame and death to him; His people's hope, his people's wealth, Their everlasting theme. Used With Tune: NOTTINGHAM (ST. MAGNUS)

Through all the changing scenes of life

Author: Nahum Tate, 1652 - 1715 Appears in 476 hymnals Topics: The Church Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Church Worship - The Close of Service; The Church Worship - Morning; Post-Communion; The Life In Christ Adoration and Praise Lyrics: 1 Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ. 2 O magnify the Lord with me, With me exalt his Name; When in distress to him I called, He to my rescue came. A-men. 3 The hosts of God encamp around The dwellings of the just; Deliverance he affords to all Who on his succor trust. 4 For God preserves the souls of those Who on his truth depend; To them and their posterity His blessing shall descend. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, is now, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 34 Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE

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TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 200 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane; Doug Holck Topics: Bless the Lord; Adoration and Praise God Our Father Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55671 51252 33464 Used With Text: To God Be the Glory

THAT NAME

Meter: Irregular Appears in 33 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Gaither Topics: Adore the Lord Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53535 33211 12135 Used With Text: There's Something About That Name

THUDHI

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: V. Massilaamanni Topics: Adoration and Praise; Images of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit Bridegroom and Lover; Images of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit King, Lord and Master; Obedience; Praise and Thanksgiving Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 56553 32111 71333 Used With Text: Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow (Thandhaanei thudhippoomee)

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There's Something About That Name

Author: Gloria Gaither; Wililam J. Gaither Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #83 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Adore the Lord First Line: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! Languages: English Tune Title: THAT NAME

To Your Unequaled Strength

Author: Michael Morgan Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #21A (2012) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Christ the King; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; God as King; God's Sovereignty; God's Glory; God's Majesty; God's Name; Judgment; Mercy; New Creation; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Leadership; Rejoicing; Royal Psalms; Rulers; Trust; Worship First Line: To your unequaled strength, O Lord Scripture: Psalm 21 Tune Title: DETROIT

Thou Art Worthy

Author: Pauline M. Mills Hymnal: The Celebration Hymnal #100 (1997) Meter: Irregular Topics: Glorify the Lord; Adoration and Praise Jesus Our Savior First Line: Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy Scripture: Revelation 4:11 Languages: English Tune Title: WORTHY

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Godfrey Thring

1823 - 1903 Person Name: Godfrey Thring, 1823-1903 Topics: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord; Easter Vigil ; Easter Season Resurrection; Ascension of the Lord; Christ the King; Gathering; Lamb of God; Life; Majesty and Power; Messianic; Music; Paschal Mystery; Peace; Praise; Salvation; Second Coming; Going Forth, Sending Forth; Song; Victory over Sin and Death; World; Worship and Adoration Author (st. 2) of "Crown Him with Many Crowns" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Godfrey Thring (b. Alford, Somersetshire, England, 1823; d. Shamley Green, Guilford, Surrey, England, 1903) was born in the parsonage of Alford, where his father was rector. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, England, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1847. After serving in several other parishes, Thring returned to Alford and Hornblotten in 1858 to succeed his father as rector, a position he retained until his own retirement in 1893. He was also associated with Wells Cathedral (1867-1893). After 1861 Thring wrote many hymns and published several hymnals, including Hymns Congregational (1866), Hymns and Sacred Lyrics (1874), and the respected A Church of England Hymn Book Adapted to the Daily Services of the Church Throughout the Year (1880), which was enlarged as The Church of England Hymn Book (1882). Bert Polman ================ Thring, Godfrey, B.A., son of the Rev. J. G. D. Thring, of Alford, Somerset, was born at Alford, March 25, 1823, and educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. in 1845. On taking Holy Orders he was curate of Stratfield-Turgis, 1846-50; of Strathfieldsaye, 1850-53; and of other parishes to 1858, when he became rector of Alford-with-Hornblotton, Somerset. R.D. 1867-76. In 1876 he was preferred as prebend of East Harptree in Wells cathedral. Prebendary Thring's poetical works are:— Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866; Hymns and Verses, 1866; and Hymns and Sacred Lyrics, 1874. In 1880 he published A Church of England Hymnbook Adapted to the Daily Services of the Church throughout the Year; and in 1882, a revised and much improved edition of the same as The Church of England Hymn Book, &c. A great many of Prebendary Thring's hymns are annotated under their respective first lines; the rest in common use include:— 1. Beneath the Church's hallowed shade. Consecration of a Burial Ground. Written in 1870. This is one of four hymns set to music by Dr. Dykes, and first published by Novello & Co., 1873. It was also included (but without music) in the author's Hymns & Sacred Lyrics, 1874, p. 170, and in his Collection, 1882. 2. Blessed Saviour, Thou hast taught us. Quinquagesima. Written in 1866, and first published in the author's Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866. It was republished in his Hymns & Sacred Lyrics, 1874; and his Collection, 1882. It is based upon the Epistle for Quinquagesima. 3. Blot out our sins of old. Lent. Written in 1862, and first published in Hymns Congregational and Others

Thomas Aquinas

1225 - 1274 Person Name: St. Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274 Topics: Devotions Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; Rites of the Church Exposition of the Holy Eucharist (Including Benediction); The Liturgical Year Thursday of the Lord's Supper at the Evening Mass Author of "Pange Lingua Gloriosi (Sing of Glory)" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Thomas of Aquino, confessor and doctor, commonly called The Angelical Doctor, “on account of," says Dom Gueranger, "the extraordinary gift of understanding wherewith God had blessed him," was born of noble parents, his father being Landulph, Count of Aquino, and his mother a rich Neapolitan lady, named Theodora. The exact date of his birth is not known, but most trustworthy authorities give it as 1227. At the age of five he was sent to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino to receive his first training, which in the hands of a large-hearted and God-fearing man, resulted in so filling his mind with knowledge and his soul with God, that it is said the monks themselves would often approach by stealth to hear the words of piety and wisdom that fell from the lips of the precocious child when conversing with his companions. After remaining at Monte Cassino for seven years, engaged in study, St. Thomas, "the most saintly of the learned, and the most learned of the saints," returned to his family, in consequence of the sack of the abbey by the Imperial soldiers. From thence he was sent by his parents to the University of Naples then at the height of its prosperity, where, becoming intimate with the Fathers of the Dominican Order, and being struck, probably, by the devotedness and ability of the Dominican Professors in the University, he was induced to petition for admission into that order, though he was at that time not more than seventeen years of age. This step gave such umbrage to his mother that she caused him to be waylaid on the road to Paris (whither he was being hurried to escape from her), and to be kept for more than two years in prison, during which time his brothers, prompted by their mother, used all means, even the most infamous, to seduce him from religion. At last the Dominicans' influence with the Pope induced the latter to move the Emperor Frederick to order his release, when St. Thomas was at once hurried back to Naples by the delighted members of his order. He was afterwards sent to Rome, then to Paris, and thence to Cologne. At Cologne his studies were continued under the celebrated Albertus Magnus, with whom, in 1245, he was sent by the Dominican Chapter once more to Paris for study, under his direction, at the University. In 1248, when he had completed his three years' curriculum at Paris, St. Thomas was appointed, before he was twenty-three years of age, second professor and “magister studentium,” under Albertus, as regent, at the new Dominican school (on the model of that at Paris), which was established by the Dominicans in that year at Cologne. There he achieved in the schools a great reputation as a teacher, though he by no means confined himself to such work. He preached and wrote; his writings, even at that early age, were remarkable productions and gave promise of the depth and ability which mark his later productions. His sermons also at that time enabled him to attract large congregations into the Dominican church. In 1248 he was directed to take his degree at Paris; and though his modesty and dislike of honour and distinction made the proposal distasteful to him, he set out and begged his way thither; but it was not until October 23rd, 1257, that he took his degree. The interval was filled by such labours in writing, lecturing, and preaching, as to enable him by the time he became a doctor to exercise an influence over the men and ideas of his time which we at this time can scarcely realise. So much was this the case that Louis IX. insisted upon St. Thomas becoming a member of his Council of State, and referred every question that came up for deliberation to him the night before, that he might reflect on it in solitude. At this time he was only thirty-two years of age. In 1259 he was appointed, by the Dominican Chapter at Valenciennes, a member of a Commission, in company with Albertus Magnus and Pierre de Tarentaise, to establish order and uniformity in all schools of the Dominicans. In 1261 the Pope, Urban IV., immediately upon his election to the Pontifical throne, sent for St. Thomas to aid him in his project for uniting into one the Eastern and Western Churches. St. Thomas in that same year came to Rome, and was at once appointed by the General of his Order to a chair of theology in the Dominican College in that city, where he obtained a like reputation to that which he had secured already at Paris and Cologne. Pope Urban being anxious to reward his services offered him, first the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and then a Cardinal's hat, but he refused both. After lecturing, at the request of the Pope, with great success at Vitervo, Orvieto, Perugia, and Fondi, he was sent, in 1263, as "Definitor," in the name of the Roman Province, to the Dominican Chapter held in London. Two years later Clement IV., who succeeded Urban as Pope, appointed him, by bull, to the archbishopric of Naples, conferring on him at the same time the revenues of the convent of St. Peter ad Aram. But this appointment he also declined. In 1269 he was summoned to Paris—his last visit— to act as "Definitor" of the Roman Province at the General Chapter of his Order, and he remained there until 1271, when his superiors recalled him to Bologna. In 1272, after visit¬ing Rome on the way, he went to Naples to lecture at the University. His reception in that city was an ovation. All classes came out to welcome him, while the King, Charles I., as a mark of royal favour bestowed on him a pension. He remained at Naples until he was summoned, in 1274, by Pope Gregory X., by special bull, to attend the Second Council of Lyons, but whilst on the journey thither he was called to his rest. His death took place in the Benedictine Abbey of Fossa Nuova in the diocese of Terracina, on the 7th of March 1274, being barely forty-eight years of age. St. Thomas was a most voluminous writer, his principal work being the celebrated Summa Theologiae, which, although never completed, was accepted as such an authority as to be placed on a table in the council-chamber at the Council of Trent alongside of the Holy Scriptures and the Decrees of the Popes. But it is outside the province of this work to enlarge on his prose works. Though not a prolific writer of hymns, St. Thomas has contributed to the long list of Latin hymns some which have been in use in the services of the Church of Rome from his day to this. They are upon the subject of the Lord's Supper. The best known are:— Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis Mysterium; Adoro te devote latens Deitas; Sacris sollemniis juncta sint gaudia; Lauda Sion Salvatorem; and Verbum supernum prodiens. The 1st, 3rd, and 5th of these are found in the Roman Breviary, the 2nd, 4th, and 5th in Newman's Hymni Ecclesiae; the 4th in the Roman Missal; all of them appear in Daniel; the 2nd and 4th in Mone; and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th in Königsfeld. Of these hymns numerous translations have been made from time to time, and amongst the translators are found Caswall, Neale, Woodford, Morgan, and others. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans

750 - 821 Person Name: Theodulph of Orléans, c.760-821 Topics: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord; Children's Hymns; Jesus Christ; Petition, Prayer; Praise; Redemption; Worship and Adoration Author of "All Glory, Laud, and Honor" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Theodulph of Orleans appears to have been a native of Italy. He was brought to France by Charles the Great, perhaps when Charles returned from Italy in 781. He became Bishop of Orleans about 785, and soon afterwards also Abbot of Fleury. After the death of Charles he continued for some time on friendly terms with the Emperor Louis, but, falling under suspicion of being concerned in the plot in favour of Bernard of Italy, was imprisoned in 818, at Angers, where he seems to have died in 821, apparently on Sep. 18. There is a full and interesting sketch of his life and works in the Dictionary of Chr. Biog., iii., pp. 983-989. See also Potthast's Biblical History, Medii Aevi, 1896, vol. ii., p. 1058. The best and most recent edition of his Carmina is in vol. i., Berlin, 1881, of the Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini, which includes his famous "Gloria, laus et honor," p. 426, i. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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