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Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., 1923-2007 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: "How long, O Lord, how long" Lyrics: "How long, O Lord, how long," ... Topics: Challenge of Gospel; Children's Hymns / Youth; Commitment; Cross; Discipleship; Homeless; Hope; Horror of War; Jesus Christ; Poverty; Racial Reconciliation; Reconciliation; Service; Social Concern; Social Concern; Solidarity; Suffering Scripture: 1 John 5:4 Used With Tune: SOUTHWELL

There is a longing in our hearts, O Lord

Author: Anne Quigley Meter: Irregular Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: For justice, for freedom, for mercy Lyrics: There is a longing in our hearts, O ... Topics: Longing Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:25 Used With Tune: LONGING

How Long Will Ye Despise My Name?

Author: William Hiley Bathurst Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal

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LAUDES DOMINI

Meter: 6.6.6 D Appears in 446 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34561 76567 13217 Used With Text: When Morning Gilds the Skies

CANONBURY

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 590 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert Alexander Schumann Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53334 32123 56712 Used With Text: Lord, My Weak Thought in Vain Would Climb

REGENT SQUARE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 878 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: Angels from the Realms of Glory

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My Heart Is Longing

Author: C. W. N. Hymnal: Timeless Truths #1039 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D with refrain First Line: Savior, now my heart is longing Refrain First Line: Savior, take my troubled spirit Lyrics: ... Savior, now my heart is longing For Thy wondrous saving grace ... : Savior, take my troubled spirit, Long by sin oppressed; In Thy ... these galling fetters That so long have pinioned me. Let the ... Savior, now my heart is longing, Thirsting for the rich supply ... Topics: Supplication Scripture: Psalm 51:1 Tune Title: [Savior, now my heart is longing]

It Won't Be Very Long

Author: Rev. Morgan Williams Hymnal: Melodies of Love #71 First Line: It won't be very long till this short life shall end Lyrics: ... won't be very long till this short life shall ... It won't be very long till Jesus shall descend; ... won't be very long till all the saints get ... won't be very long till burdens we lay ... won't be very long till earth shall pass ... won't be very long till works of men ... Languages: English Tune Title: [It won't be very long till this short life shall end]

How Long Must We Wait?

Author: S. M. Glasgow Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2467 First Line: Long have we sought eternal life Refrain First Line: How long? how long must we wait? Lyrics: ... How long? how long must we wait? Refrain How long? how long must ... we wait? How long ... ? how long must we ... ’tis growing late. How long? how long must we wait? [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Long have we sought eternal life]

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John Wesley

1703 - 1791 Person Name: J. Wesley Author of "I Shall Arise" in The Gospel Trumpeter John Wesley, the son of Samuel, and brother of Charles Wesley, was born at Epworth, June 17, 1703. He was educated at the Charterhouse, London, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated M.A. in 1726. At Oxford, he was one of the small band consisting of George Whitefield, Hames Hervey, Charles Wesley, and a few others, who were even then known for their piety; they were deridingly called "Methodists." After his ordination he went, in 1735, on a mission to Georgia. The mission was not successful, and he returned to England in 1738. From that time, his life was one of great labour, preaching the Gospel, and publishing his commentaries and other theological works. He died in London, in 1791, in his eighty-eighth year. His prose works are very numerous, but he did not write many useful hymns. It is to him, however, and not to his brother Charles, that we are indebted for the translations from the German. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ====================== John Wesley, M.A., was born at Epworth Rectory in 1703, and, like the rest of the family, received his early education from his mother. He narrowly escaped perishing in the fire which destroyed the rectory house in 1709, and his deliverance made a life-long impression upon him. In 1714 he was nominated on the foundation of Charterhouse by his father's patron, the Duke of Buckingham, and remained at that school until 1720, when he went up, with a scholarship, from Charterhouse to Christ Church, Oxford. Having taken his degree, he received Holy Orders from the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Potter) in 1725. In 1726 he was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, and remained at Oxford until 1727, when he returned into Lincolnshire to assist his father as curate at Epworth and Wroot. In 1729 he was summoned back to Oxford by his firm friend, Dr. Morley, Rector of Lincoln, to assist in the College tuition. There he found already established the little band of "Oxford Methodists" who immediately placed themselves under his direction. In 1735 he went, as a Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to Georgia, where a new colony had been founded under the governorship of General Oglethorpe. On his voyage out he was deeply impressed with the piety and Christian courage of some German fellow travellers, Moravians. During his short ministry in Georgia he met with many discouragements, and returned home saddened and dissatisfied both with himself and his work; but in London he again fell in with the Moravians, especially with Peter Bohler; and one memorable night (May 24, 1738) he went to a meeting in Aldersgate Street, where some one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. There, "About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." From that moment his future course was sealed; and for more than half a century he laboured, through evil report and good report, to spread what he believed to be the everlasting Gospel, travelling more miles, preaching more sermons, publishing more books of a practical sort, and making more converts than any man of his day, or perhaps of any day, and dying at last, March 2, 1791, in harness, at the patriarchal age of 88. The popular conception of the division of labour between the two brothers in the Revival, is that John was the preacher, and Charles the hymnwriter. But this is not strictly accurate. On the one hand Charles was also a great preacher, second only to his brother and George Whitefield in the effects which he produced. On the other hand, John by no means relegated to Charles the exclusive task of supplying the people with their hymns. John Wesley was not the sort of man to depute any part of his work entirely to another: and this part was, in his opinion, one of vital importance. With that wonderful instinct for gauging the popular mind, which was one element in his success, he saw at once that hymns might be utilized, not only for raising the devotion, but also for instructing, and establishing the faith of his disciples. He intended the hymns to be not merely a constituent part of public worship, but also a kind of creed in verse. They were to be "a body of experimental and practical divinity." "In what other publication," he asks in his Preface to the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780 (Preface, Oct. 20,1779), "have you so distinct and full an account of Scriptural Christianity; such a declaration of the heights and depths of religion, speculative and practical; so strong cautions against the most plausible errors, particularly those now most prevalent; and so clear directions for making your calling and election sure; for perfecting holiness in the fear of God?" The part which he actually took in writing the hymns, it is not easy to ascertain; but it is certain that more than thirty translations from the German, French and Spanish (chiefly from the German) were exclusively his; and there are some original hymns, admittedly his composition, which are not unworthy to stand by the side of his brother's. His translations from the German especially have had a wide circulation. Although somewhat free as translations they embody the fire and energy of the originals. It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works. The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century. -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882 Author of "Down the dark future, through long generations" in The Hymnal of Praise Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth , D.C.L. was born at Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. After residing in Europe for four years to qualify for the Chair of Modern Languages in that College, he entered upon the duties of the same. In 1835 he removed to Harvard, on his election as Professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres. He retained that Professorship to 1854. His literary reputation is great, and his writings are numerous and well known. His poems, many of which are as household words in all English-speaking countries, display much learning and great poetic power. A few of these poems and portions of others have come into common use as hymns, but a hymn-writer in the strict sense of that term he was not and never claimed to be. His pieces in common use as hymns include:— 1. Alas, how poor and little worth. Life a Race. Translated from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique (d. 1479), in Longfellow's Poetry of Spain, 1833. 2. All is of God; if He but wave His hand. God All and in All. From his poem "The Two Angels," published in his Birds of Passage, 1858. It is in the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, &c. 3. Blind Bartimeus at the gate. Bartimeus. From his Miscellaneous Poems, 1841, into G. W. Conder's 1874 Appendix to the Leeds Hymn Book. 4. Christ to the young man said, "Yet one thing more." Ordination. Written for his brother's (S. Longfellow) ordination in 1848, and published in Seaside and Fireside, 1851. It was given in an altered form as "The Saviour said, yet one thing more," in H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855. 5. Sown the dark future through long generations. Peace. This, the closing part of his poem on "The Arsenal at Springfield," published in his Belfrey of Bruges, &c, 1845, was given in A Book of Hymns, 1848, and repeated in several collections. 6. Into the silent land. The Hereafter. A translation from the German. 7. Tell me not in mournful numbers. Psalm of Life. Published in his Voices of the Night, 1839, as "A Psalm of Life: What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist." It is given in several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections it begins with st. ii., "Life is real! Life is earnest." The universal esteem in which Longfellow was held as a poet and a man was marked in a special manner by his bust being placed in that temple of honour, Westminster Abbey. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 685 ======================= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

H. L. Hastings

1831 - 1899 Person Name: Rev. H. L. Hastings Author of "Halting, Lingering, Fearing, Longing" in Gloria Deo Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

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