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This is my Father's world
Author: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901; Mary Babcock Crawford, b. 1909 Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 315 hymnals Person Name: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901 Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings and round me rings
the music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas,
his hands the wonders wrought.
2 This is our Father's world,
oh, let us not forget
that though the wrong is great and strong,
God is our Father yet.
He trusts us with his world,
to keep it clean and fair,
all earth and trees, all skies and seas,
all creatures everywhere. Topics: The Christian Life Used With Tune: MERCER STREET
This is my Father's world
"Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us
Author: Philipp Nicolai, 1556-1608; Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Meter: Irregular Appears in 11 hymnals Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Used With Tune: WACHET AUF
"Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
Author: Johann Rist, 1607-1667 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 57 hymnals Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Used With Tune: ERMUNTRE DICH Text Sources: Hymnal 1982 (ver.)
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
MERCER STREET
Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Malcolm Williamson, b. 1931 Person Name: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901 Tune Key: b minor or modal Incipit: 31354 33136 54313 Used With Text: This is my Father's world
MERCER STREET
WACHET AUF
Meter: Irregular Appears in 322 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Sachs, 1494-1576; Philip Nicolai, 1556-1608; Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13555 56551 51232 Used With Text: "Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us
WACHET AUF
ERMUNTRE DICH
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 66 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Schop, d. 1665?; Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11234 55453 43232 Used With Text: Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
ERMUNTRE DICH
This is my Father's world
Author: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901; Mary Babcock Crawford, b. 1909 Hymnal: EH1982 #651 (1985) Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Person Name: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901 Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings and round me rings
the music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas,
his hands the wonders wrought.
2 This is our Father's world,
oh, let us not forget
that though the wrong is great and strong,
God is our Father yet.
He trusts us with his world,
to keep it clean and fair,
all earth and trees, all skies and seas,
all creatures everywhere. Topics: The Christian Life Languages: English Tune Title: MERCER STREET
This is my Father's world
"Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us
Author: Philipp Nicolai, 1556-1608; Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Hymnal: EH1982 #61 (1985) Meter: Irregular Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Languages: English Tune Title: WACHET AUF
"Sleepers, wake!" A voice astounds us
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
Author: Johann Rist, 1607-1667 Hymnal: EH1982 #91 (1985) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Languages: English Tune Title: ERMUNTRE DICH
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light
Maltbie D. Babcock
1858 - 1901 Person Name: Maltbie D. Babcock, 1858-1901 Hymnal Number: 651 Author (st. 1) of "This is my Father's world" in The Hymnal 1982 Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899).
Bert Polman
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Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, D.D., was born at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1858. Graduating from Syracuse University, he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and was pastor of churches in Lockport, N.Y., Baltimore, and N.Y. City. He died at Naples, Italy, May 18th, 1901. He was richly gifted, and his short career was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching. Extracts from his sermons and poems were published in 1901 as Thoughts for Every Day Living; and his Biography by Dr. C. E. Robinson in 1904. He contributed to the Presbyterian School Hymnal, 1899, the following hymns:—
1. Gaily the bells are ringing. Faster.
2. O blessed Saviour, Lord of love. Unto Me.
3. Shining Sun, shining sun. Child's Hymn.
The tunes to these hymns were of his own composing. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, there is:—
4. Rest in the Lord, my soul. Trust and Peace and in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905:—
5. Be strong: we are not here to play. Activity in God's Service.
Nos. 4 and 5 are from Thoughts for Every Day Living, 1901; but undated. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Maltbie D. Babcock
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Hymnal Number: 46 Harmonizer of "O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN" in The Hymnal 1982 Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
J. F. Bahnmaier
1774 - 1841 Person Name: Jonathan Friedrich Bahnmaier, 1774-1841 Hymnal Number: 530 Author of "Spread, O spread, thou mighty word" in The Hymnal 1982 Bahnmaier, Jonathan Friedrich, son of J. G. Bahnmaier, Town Preacher at Oberstenfeld, near Bottwar, Württemberg, was born at Oberstenfeld, July 12, 1774. After completing his studies at Tübingen, his first appointment was, in 1798, as assistant to his father. He became Diaconus at Marbach on the Neckar in 1806, and at Ludwigsburg in 1810, where he was for a time the head of a young ladies' school. In 1815 he was appointed Professor of Education and Homiletics at Tübingen, but in the troublous times that followed had to resign his post. He received in 1819 the appointment of Decan and Town Preacher at Kirchheim-unter-Teck, where he continued as a faithful, unwearied, and successful worker for 21 years. He was distinguished as a preacher, and greatly interested in the causes of education, of missions, and of Bible societies. He was also one of the principal members of the committee which compiled the Württemberg Gesang-Buch of 1842. He preached his last sermon at Kirchheim, on the 10th Sunday after Trinity, Aug. 15, 1841. Two days later he held a visitation at Owen. While inspecting the school at the adjacent village of Brucker, he was struck by paralysis, and being conveyed back to Owen, died there, Aug. 18, 1841 (Koch vii. 81-84; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, i. 766-767). Of his hymns two have been translated into English:
i. Jesu als du wiederkehrtest. [Schools.] First published in his Christliche Blätter aus Tübingen, pts. 9-12 for 1819, p. 85, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, entitled "Prayer after School"; as one of 7 metrical prayers for Children, and for the School and House. Included as No. 2947 in Knapp's Evanglischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837 (1865, No. 2614), and No. 513 in the Württemberg Gesang-Buch, 1842. The only translation in common use is:
Jesu, when Thou once returnest. In full by Miss Winkworth in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 178.
ii. Walte, fürder, nah und fern. [Missions.] According to Koch, vii. 84, first printed separately 1827. Included as No. 97 in the Kern des deutschen Ziederschatzes, Nürnberg, 1828, and as No. 260, beginning,"Walte, walte, nah und fern" in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, in 7 stanzas of 4 line, and since in the Württemberg Gesang-Buch, 1842, and other recent collections. One of the best and most useful of hymns for Foreign Missions. The translations in common use are:
1. Far and near, Almighty Word. A good and full translation by Miss Cox in her Sacred Hymns, Boston, U.S., 1853, and Dean Alford's Year of Praise, 1867, stanza i. was omitted and the hymn thus began, "Word by God the Father sent."
2. Spread thy triumph far and nigh, by H. J. Buckoll. By omitting stanzas ii., iv. as No. 65 in the Rugby School Hymn Book, 1850 (in the Rugby School Hymn Book, 1870, No. 175, the translation is complete). The translations of stanzas iii., v.-vii. altered and beginning "Word of Him whose sovereign will", were included in the Marylebone Collection, 1851, and Burgess and Money's Psalms and Hymns, 1857. The Wellington College Hymn Book, 1863, begins with the translations of stanza v., "Word of life, so pure and free."
3. Spread, oh spread, thou mighty Word. A full and very good translation by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd Series, 1858, p. 60, repeated in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 176. Since included in Kennedy, People's Hymnal, 1867, Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, and others; and in America in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, Hymns and Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, Evangelical Hymnal, and others. In Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, it begins with st. v., "Word of life, most pure, most strong."
Other translations are:
(1) "Go forth, thou mighty word of grace", by Lady E, Fortescue, 1343 (ed. 1847, p. 31). (2) "0 Word of God, reign everywhere," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 85. (3) "Word of God! with glory crown'd", in L. Rehfuess's Ch. at Sea, 1868, p. 109. [Rev. James Mearns, M. A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
J. F. Bahnmaier
