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The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ
Publication Date: 1974 Publisher: United Church Press Publication Place: Philadelphia, Penn. Editors: William Nelson; John Ferguson; United Church Press
The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ
The church of Christ is one
Author: F. L. Battles; Cyprian of Carthage, 3d century Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Romans 11:17-21 Text Sources: De Unitate Ecclesiae, V
The church of Christ is one
I wonder as I wander, out under the sky
Appears in 19 hymnals
I wonder as I wander, out under the sky
When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun
Appears in 113 hymnals First Line: Let us break bread together on our knees
When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun
From all that [who] dwell [dwells] below the [in earth and] skies
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: HUCC1974 #1 (1974) Languages: English
From all that [who] dwell [dwells] below the [in earth and] skies
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
Author: William Kethe Hymnal: HUCC1974 #2 (1974) Languages: English
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator
Author: Julia Cady Cory; Julia Bulkley Cady Cory Hymnal: HUCC1974 #3 (1974) Languages: English
We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator
George Matheson
1842 - 1906 Hymnal Number: 172 Author of "Make me a captive, Lord" in The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ Matheson, George, D.D., was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Matheson, G., p. 1579, i. In addition to Dr. Matheson's hymn, "O Love, that wilt not let me go," p. 1583, i,, the following from his Sacred Songs, 1890, have come into common use since 1892:—
1. Come, let us raise a common song. Brotherhood.
2. Father divine, I come to Thee. Strength for Life. This, in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is altered to”Saviour divine, I come to Thee."
3. Gather us in, Thou Love that fillest all. One in Christ.
4. Jesus, Fountain of my days. Christian's Polestar.
5. Lend me, O Lord, Thy softening cloud. The Fire and the Cloud. In the Sunday Magazine, 1875.
6. Lord, Thou hast all my frailty made. Strength for the Day.
7. Make me a captive, Lord. Christian Freedom.
8. There are coming changes great. The Glad New Time.
9. Three doors there are in the temple. Prayer.
Dr. Matheson informed us that these hymns, together with the rest of his Sacred Songs, 1890, were written at Bow, Dumbartonshire, in 1890. The 3rd ed. of the Sacred Songs was published in 1904. He died suddenly at Avenelle, North Berwick, Aug. 28, 1906.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
George Matheson
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Number: 290 Author of "Leaning, leaning, safe and secure" in The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
Mary Louise VanDyke
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Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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E. A. Hoffman
Ford Lewis Battles
1915 - 1979 Person Name: F. L. Battles Hymnal Number: 168 Paraphraser of "A Christian must by faith be filled" in The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ Battles, Ford Lewis. (Erie, Pennsylvania, 1915--Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1979). West Virginia University, B.A.; Tufts College, M.A. Studied at Oxford with C.S. Lewis as a Rhodes Scholar. Air Force Intelligence during World War II, and taught English at West Virginia University before completing his Ph.D. in church history at Hartford Seminary. Professor of church history at Hartford from 1950 to 1967, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1967 to 1978, and then Calvin Theological Seminary.
--Seminary News, Calvin Theological Seminary, including all addresses given at his funeral. DNAH Archives
Ford Lewis Battles
