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Create in Me a Clean Heart

Meter: Irregular Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right spirit within me

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,996 hymnals Topics: Lent; Lent Lyrics: 1 When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast Save in the death of Christ, my God. All the vain things that charm me most, I ... Used With Tune: HAMBURG

No Greater Love

Author: Tim Schoenbachler, b. 1952 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Lent (Sundays and Weekdays) First Line: On the night on which our Savior was betrayed Refrain First Line: There can be no greater love Scripture: Isaiah 40:6-8 Used With Tune: [On the night on which our Savior was betrayed]

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PASSION CHORALE

Appears in 512 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans L. Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: Lent and Holy Week Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

WONDROUS LOVE

Meter: 12.9.12.9 Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Paul J. Christiansen Topics: Christian Year Lent Tune Sources: USA folk hymn Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 11724 54211 72576 Used With Text: What Wondrous Love Is This

NEAR THE CROSS

Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 397 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane Topics: Christian Year Lent Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34321 66511 33234 Used With Text: Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

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Litany for the Season of Lent

Hymnal: One in Faith #415 (2015) Topics: Lent First Line: Let us pray at this holy season of Lent Lyrics: ... at this holy season of Lent: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have ... Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us pray at this holy season of Lent]

These Forty Days of Lent

Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997; Claudia F. Hernaman, 1838-1898 Hymnal: One in Faith #432 (2015) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Lent First Line: These forty days of Lent, O Lord Lyrics: These forty days of Lent, O Lord, With you ... Languages: English Tune Title: ST. FLAVIAN

Lord, Thine image Thou hast lent me

Author: John Scheffler; John Christian Jacobi Hymnal: Church Book #404 (1890) Meter: 8.7.7 Topics: Sundays in Lent Lyrics: ... Lord, Thine image Thou hast lent me, In Thy never-fading ... Languages: English Tune Title: LIEBE DIE DU MICH ZUM BILDE

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John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Topics: Lent Composer of "MORE ABOUT JESUS" in The Hymnbook John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: William G. Fischer Topics: Lent 1 Year C Composer of "HANKEY" in Voices United William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs. Bert Polman

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Topics: The Second Sunday before Lent Year B Author of "Light of the minds that know him" in Ancient and Modern Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

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