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Hymns of the Rural Spirit
Publication Date: 1947 Publisher: The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Publication Place: New York Editors: Deane Edwards; Harold V. Milligan; The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
Hymns of the Rural Spirit
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee
Author: Henry van Dyke Appears in 269 hymnals Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee
The spacious firmament on high
Author: Joseph Addison Appears in 790 hymnals Used With Tune: CREATION
The spacious firmament on high
For the beauty of the earth
Author: Folliott S. Pierpoint Appears in 638 hymnals Used With Tune: DIX
For the beauty of the earth
CRUSADER'S HYMN
Appears in 502 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard S. Willis Incipit: 11127 13333 42351 Used With Text: Fairest Lord Jesus
CRUSADER'S HYMN
LANCASHIRE
Appears in 620 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smart Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: Sing to the Lord of harvest
LANCASHIRE
FOREST GREEN
Appears in 253 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. Vaughan Williams Tune Sources: English Traditional Melody Incipit: 51112 32345 34312 Used With Text: All beautiful the march of days
FOREST GREEN
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee
Author: Henry van Dyke Hymnal: HoRS1947 #1 (1947) Languages: English Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee
The spacious firmament on high
Author: Joseph Addison Hymnal: HoRS1947 #2 (1947) Languages: English Tune Title: CREATION
The spacious firmament on high
For the beauty of the earth
Author: Folliott S. Pierpoint Hymnal: HoRS1947 #3 (1947) Languages: English Tune Title: DIX
For the beauty of the earth
Henry Van Dyke
1852 - 1933 Person Name: Henry van Dyke Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Joyful, joyful, we adore thee" in Hymns of the Rural Spirit
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Henry Van Dyke
Joseph Addison
1672 - 1719 Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "The spacious firmament on high" in Hymns of the Rural Spirit Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through his contributions to The Spectator, The Toiler, The Guardian, and The Freeholder. To the first of these he contributed his hymns. His Cato, a tragedy, is well known and highly esteemed. Addison's claims to the authorship of the hymns usually ascribed to him, or to certain of them, have been called in question on two occasions. The first was the publication, by Captain Thompson, of certain of those hymns in his edition of the Works of Andrew Marvell, 1776, as the undoubted compositions of Marvell; and the second, a claim in the Athenaeum, July 10th, 1880, on behalf of the Rev. Richard Richmond. Fully to elucidate the subject it will be necessary, therefore, to give a chronological history of the hymns as they appeared in the Spectator from time to time.
i. The History of the Hymns in The Spectator. This, as furnished in successive numbers of the Spectator is :—
1. The first of these hymns appeared in the Spectator of Saturday, July 26, 1712, No. 441, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. The article in which it appeared was on Divine Providence, signed “C." The hymn itself, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," was introduced with these words:—
"David has very beautifully represented this steady reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third psalm, which is a kind of pastoral hymn, and filled with those allusions which are usual in that kind of writing As the poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it." (Orig. Broadsheet, Brit. Mus.)
2. The second hymn appeared in the Spectator on Saturday, Aug. 9, 1712, No. 453, in 13 st. of 4 1., and forms the conclusion of an essay on " Gratitude." It is also signed " C," and is thus introduced:—
“I have already obliged the public with some pieces of divine poetry which have fallen into my hands, and as they have met with the reception which they deserve, I shall, from time to time, communicate any work of the same nature which has not appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum)
Then follows the hymn:—"When all Thy mercies, 0 my God."
3. The number of the Spectator for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1712, No. 461, is composed of three parts. The first is an introductory paragraph by Addison, the second, an unsigned letter from Isaac Watts, together with a rendering by him of Ps. 114th; and the third, a letter from Steele. It is with the first two we have to deal. The opening paragraph by Addison is:—
“For want of time to substitute something else in the Boom of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters. It is no small Satisfaction, to have given Occasion to ingenious Men to employ their Thoughts upon sacred Subjects from the Approbation of such Pieces of Poetry as they have seen in my Saturday's papers. I shall never publish Verse on that Day but what is written by the same Hand; yet shall I not accompany those Writings with Eulogiums, but leave them to speak for themselves." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum
Joseph Addison
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
1835 - 1917 Person Name: Folliott S. Pierpoint Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "For the beauty of the earth" in Hymns of the Rural Spirit In the spring of 1863, Folliott S. Pierpoint (b. Bath, Somerset, England, 1835; d. Newport, Monmouthshire, England, 1917) sat on a hilltop outside his native city of Bath, England, admiring the country view and the winding Avon River. Inspired by the view to think about God's gifts in creation and in the church, Pierpont wrote this text. Pierpont was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, England, and periodically taught classics at Somersetshire College. But because he had received an inheritance, he did not need a regular teaching position and could afford the leisure of personal study and writing. His three volumes of poetry were collected in 1878; he contributed hymns to The Hymnal Noted (1852) and Lyra Eucharistica (1864). "For the Beauty of the Earth" is the only Pierpont hymn still sung today.
Bert Polman
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Pierpoint, Folliott Sandford, M.A., son of William Home Pierpoint of Bath, was born at Spa Villa, Bath, Oct. 7, 1835, and educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, graduating in classical honours in 1871. He has published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, Bath, N.D. This was republished in 1878 as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature, and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman's Companion (London Masters), the Lyra Eucharistica, &c. His hymn on the Cross, "0 Cross, O Cross of shame," appeared in both these works. He is most widely known through:—
"For the beauty of the earth." Holy Communion, or Flower Service. This was contributed to the 2nd edition of Orby Shipley's Lyra Eucharistica, 1864, in 8 stanzas of 6 lines, as a hymn to be sung at the celebration of Holy Communion. In this form it is not usually found, but in 4, or sometimes in 5, stanzas, it is extensively used for Flower Services and as a Children's hymn.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
