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Author: Martin Luther, 1483-1546; Frederick H. Hedge, 1805-1890; Alan Tyree, 1929 - Appears in 684 hymnals Topics: Christ's Love; God the Eternal; God's Majesty and Power; God the Sustainer; Grâce; Guidance; Health and Healing; Humanity and Humanness; Humility; Refuge; Strength; Trust; Victory Scripture: Psalm 91:2 Used With Tune: EIN' FESTE BURG

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 180 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand. 2 King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he ... Topics: Jesus Christ's Humanity Scripture: Habakkuk 2:20 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St. James

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Appears in 1,357 hymnals Topics: Christmas; Christ's Divinity; Christ's Humanity; Christ the Universal; Hope; Incarnation; Joy; New Life; National and World Peace; Praise; Reconciliation Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN

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GREENSLEEVES

Appears in 182 hymnals Tune Sources: 16th Century English Tune Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child Is This

EBENEZER

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 290 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas J. Williams, 1869-1944 Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 11232 12234 3215 Used With Text: Jesus, Tempted in the Desert

WINCHESTER OLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 348 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Kirby Tune Sources: Este’s Psalmes, 1592 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

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Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow

Author: William J. S. Simpson Hymnal: The Hymnbook #196 (1955) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow, Where the blood of Christ was shed, Perfect man on thee did suffer, Perfect God on thee has bled! 2 Here the King of all the ages, Throned in light ere worlds could be, Robed in mortal flesh is dying, Crucified by sin for ... Topics: Christ Passion; Christ Atonement; Christ King; Christ Sympathy; Jesus Christ His Passion and Atonement Scripture: Philippians 2:6-8 Tune Title: CROSS OF JESUS

Under the Cross of Jesus

Author: Leonard S. Jenkins Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7025 First Line: We meet at the cross of Christ today Refrain First Line: Under the cross, the crimson cross Lyrics: 1. We meet at the cross of Christ today, The symbol of His giving; And long for a fitting word to say, How sweet the peace of living. Refrain Under the cross, the crimson cross, Under the cross of Jesus; Under the cross, the crimson cross, Under the cross ... Languages: English Tune Title: [We meet at the cross of Christ today]

When Jesus Wept

Author: William Billings, 1746-1800 Hymnal: Hymns of the Saints #270 (1982) First Line: When Jesus wept, the falling tear Topics: Christ's Humanity; Christ's Passion and Death; Mercy Scripture: John 16:32-33 Languages: English Tune Title: WHEN JESUS WEPT

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Russell Kelso Carter

1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. Kelso Carter, 1849-1928 Author of "Standing on the Promises" in Community of Christ Sings Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

H. W. Baker

1821 - 1877 Person Name: Henry W. Baker, 1821-1877 Paraphraser of "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" in Community of Christ Sings Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart., eldest son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker, born in London, May 27, 1821, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847. Taking Holy Orders in 1844, he became, in 1851, Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire. This benefice he held to his death, on Monday, Feb. 12, 1877. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1851. Sir Henry's name is intimately associated with hymnody. One of his earliest compositions was the very beautiful hymn, "Oh! what if we are Christ's," which he contributed to Murray's Hymnal for the Use of the English Church, 1852. His hymns, including metrical litanies and translations, number in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, 33 in all. These were contributed at various times to Murray's Hymnal, Hymns Ancient & Modern and the London Mission Hymn Book, 1876-7. The last contains his three latest hymns. These are not included in Hymns Ancient & Modern. Of his hymns four only are in the highest strains of jubilation, another four are bright and cheerful, and the remainder are very tender, but exceedingly plaintive, sometimes even to sadness. Even those which at first seem bright and cheerful have an undertone of plaintiveness, and leave a dreamy sadness upon the spirit of the singer. Poetical figures, far-fetched illustrations, and difficult compound words, he entirely eschewed. In his simplicity of language, smoothness of rhythm, and earnestness of utterance, he reminds one forcibly of the saintly Lyte. In common with Lyte also, if a subject presented itself to his mind with striking contrasts of lights and shadows, he almost invariably sought shelter in the shadows. The last audible words which lingered on his dying lips were the third stanza of his exquisite rendering of the 23rd Psalm, "The King of Love, my Shepherd is:"— Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed, But yet in love He sought me, And on His Shoulder gently laid, And home, rejoicing, brought me." This tender sadness, brightened by a soft calm peace, was an epitome of his poetical life. Sir Henry's labours as the Editor of Hymns Ancient & Modern were very arduous. The trial copy was distributed amongst a few friends in 1859; first ed. published 1861, and the Appendix, in 1868; the trial copy of the revised ed. was issued in 1874, and the publication followed in 1875. In addition he edited Hymns for the London Mission, 1874, and Hymns for Mission Services, n.d., c. 1876-7. He also published Daily Prayers for those who work hard; a Daily Text Book, &c. In Hymns Ancient & Modern there are also four tunes (33, 211, 254, 472) the melodies of which are by Sir Henry, and the harmonies by Dr. Monk. He died Feb. 12, 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Albert F. Bayly

1901 - 1984 Person Name: Albert F. Bayly, 1901-1984 Author of "Lord, Whose Love" in Community of Christ Sings Albert F. Bayly was born on September 6, 1901, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. He received his education at London University (BA) and Mansfield College, Oxford. Bayly was a Congregationalist (later United Reformed Church) minister from the late 1920s until his death in 1984. His life and ministry spanned the Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the years of reconstruction which followed. After retiring in 1971, he moved to Springfield, Chelmsford, and was active in the local United Reformed Church. He wrote several pageants on mission themes, and librettos for cantatas by W. L. Lloyd Webber. He died on July 26, 1984 in Chichester, Sussex, England. NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: www.hymntime.com/tch and Church Times, an Anglican newspaper, Tuesday 20 October 2015

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