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Publication Date: 1917 Publisher: The Methodist Book and Publishing House Publication Place: Toronto Editors: Methodist Book and Publishing House

O happy home! where Thou art loved the dearest

Author: Mrs. E. J. Findlater, 1823-1886; C. J. P Spitta, 1801-1859 Appears in 137 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O happy home! where Thou art loved the dearest, Thou loving Friend, and Saviour of our race; And where among the guests there never cometh One who can hold such high and honoured place. 2 O happy home! where two in heart united In holy faith and blessed hope are one, Whom death a little while alone divideth, And cannot end the union here begun. 3 O happy home! whose little ones are given Early to Thee, in humble faith and prayer, To Thee, their Friend, who from the heights of heaven Guides them, and guards with more than mother's care. 4 O happy home! where each one serves Thee, lowly, Whatever his appointed work may be, Till every common task seems grea and holy, When it is done, O Lord, as unto Thee. 5 O happy home! where Thou art not forgotten. When joy is overflowing, full and free, O happy home! where every wounded spirit Is brought, Physician, Comforter, to Thee 6 Until at last, when earth's day's work is ended, All meet Thee in the blessed home above, From whence Thou camest, where Thou hast ascended, Thy everlasting home of peace and love. Topics: Christian Home ; Conscience Guilty; The Christian Life The Home; Family Religion; Service Of Christ; Home The Christian; Religion Family Used With Tune: ALVERSTOKE

When all Thy mercies, O my God

Author: Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 Appears in 999 hymnals Lyrics: 1. When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. 2. Unnumbered comforts on my soul Thy tender care bestowed, Before my infant heart conceived From whom those comforts flowed. 3. When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man. 4. Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, It gently cleared my way; And through the pleasing snares of vice, More to be feared than they. 5. Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue; And after death, in distant worlds, The pleasing theme renew. 6. Through all eternity, to Thee A grateful song I'll raise; But O, eternity's too short To utter all Thy praise! Topics: The Godhead Adoration and Praise; Guidance Acknowledged; Providence; Thanksgiving For Life's Mercies; Song Of Praise; Praise For Deliverance; Mercies of God; Protection, Divine Used With Tune: AZMON

God is love; His mercy brightens

Author: Sir John Bowring, L.L.D., 1792-1872 Appears in 730 hymnals Lyrics: 1. God is love; His mercy brightens All the path in which we rove; Bliss He wakes and woe He lightens: God is wisdom, God is love. 2. Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays and ages move; But His mercy waneth never: God is wisdom, God is love. 3. E'en the hour that darkest seemeth Will His changeless goodness prove; From the mist His brightness streameth: God is wisdom, God is love. 4. He with earthly cares entwineth Hope and comfort from above; Everywhere His glory shineth: God is wisdom, God is love. Topics: The Godhead Adoration and Praise; Cares Rest from; God Love of; Wisdom God's; Love Of God; Mercy Of God Used With Tune: TRUST

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CANTATE DOMINO

Appears in 67 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir J. Barnby, 1838-1896 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 35653 21235 34567 Used With Text: The spacious firmament on high

WINCHESTER OLD

Appears in 320 hymnals Tune Sources: Este's Psalter, 1592 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: O for a thousand tongues to sing

IN MEMORIAM

Appears in 53 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33432 31123 45365 Used With Text: There's a Friend for little children

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O for a thousand tongues to sing

Author: C. Wesley Hymnal: MHTB1917 #1 (1917) Lyrics: 1. O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of His grace! 2. My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad The honours of Thy Name. 3. Jesus! the Name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace. 4. He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me. 5. See all your sins on Jesus laid: The Lamb of God was slain, His soul was once an offering made For every soul of man. Topics: Grace Triumphs of; Sin Cancelled; Grace Triumphs of; Sin Cancelled; Adoration Of Jesus; Jesus Abiding; Blood of Christ; Christ Deliverer; Christ Blood of; Christ Heavenly Lamb; Christ Lamb of God; Christ Name of ; Christ Praise to; Christ Redeemer; Believers (See also Christian Saints) Joy of; The Godhead Adoration and Praise; Deliverer, Christ our; Glory Of God; God Glory of; Triumph, of the Gospel; Joy In Christ; Joy Of Believers; Praise To Christ; Nations Submitting to God; Sin Freedom from ; Redeemer, the; Poor, the ; Lamb Christ, the Heavenly ; Prisoners, set free Languages: English Tune Title: WINCHESTER OLD

Being of beings, God of Love!

Author: C. Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: MHTB1917 #2 (1917) Lyrics: 1. Being of beings, God of Love! To Thee our hearts we raise; Thine all-sustaining power we prove, And gladly sing Thy praise. 2. Thine, only Thine, we pant to be; Our sacrifice receive; Made, and preserved, and saved by Thee, To Thee ourselves we give. 3. Heavenward our every wish aspires: For all Thy mercies' store, The sole return Thy love requires Is that we ask for more. 4. For more we ask; we open then Our hearts to embrace Thy will; Turn, and revive us, Lord, again, With all Thy fulness fill. 5. Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love Shed in our hearts abroad! So shall we ever live, and move, And be, with Christ in God. Topics: The Godhead Adoration and Praise; Aspiration After God; Consecration Prayer for; Entire Sanctification; God Longing for; Self-Dedication ; Prayer For Entire Sanctification ; Santification By the Spirit; Longing For God Languages: English Tune Title: EAGLEY

Come, let us join our cheerful songs

Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: MHTB1917 #3a (1917) Lyrics: 1. Come, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2. "Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!" "Worthy the Lamb!" our hearts reply; "For He was slain for us." 3. Jesus is worthy to receive Honour and power divine And blessings; more than we can give, Be, Lord, for ever Thine! 4. The whole creation join in one, To bless the sacred name Of Him who sits upon the throne, And to adore the Lamb! Topics: Adoration and Praise Of the Lamb; Christ Heavenly Lamb; Christ Lamb of God; Christ Name of ; Christ Praise to; The Godhead Adoration and Praise; Worship Call to ; Worship Of the Lamb; Praise To Christ; Name Of Jesus ; Lamb Christ, the Heavenly ; Lamb Of God, worshipped Languages: English Tune Title: CAMBRIDGE NEW

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J. H. Gilmore

1834 - 1918 Person Name: Dr. J. H. Gilmore, 1834- Hymnal Number: 495 Author of "He leadeth me! He leadeth me!" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Joseph H. Gilmore (b. Boston, MA, 1834; d. Rochester, NY, 1918) Educated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and Newton Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts, Gilmore was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1862. He served churches in Fisherville, New Hampshire, and Rochester, New York. In 1868 he was appointed to the English faculty at the University of Rochester, where he served until retirement in 1911. He published various literary works, including Outlines of English and American Literature (1905). Bert Polman ============ Gilmore, Joseph Henry, M. A., Professor of Logic in Rochester University, New York, was born at Boston, April 29, 1834, and graduated in Arts at Brown University, and in Theology at Newton Theological Institution. In the latter he was Professor of Hebrew in 1861-2. For some time he held a Baptist ministerial charge at Fisherville, New Hampshire, and at Rochester. He was appointed Professor at Rochester in 1868. His hymn, "He leadeth me, O blessed thought" (Ps. xxiii.), is somewhat widely known. It was written at the close of a lecture in the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and is dated 1859. It is in the Baptist Hymnal [and Tune] Book, Philadelphia, 1871. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Whiting

1825 - 1878 Person Name: W. Whiting, 1825-1878 Hymnal Number: 647 Author of "Eternal Father! strong to save" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book William Whiting was born in Kensington, November 1, 1825, and was educated at Clapham and Winchester Colleges. He was later master of Winchester College Choristers' School, where he wrote Rural Thoughts and Other Poems, 1851. He died at Winchester. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion =============== Whiting, William, was born in Kensington, London, Nov. 1, 1825, and educated at Clapham. He was for several years Master of the Winchester College Choristers' School. His Rural Thoughts and other poems were published in 1851; but contained no hymns. His reputation as a hymnwriter is almost exclusively confined to his “Eternal Father, strong to save". Other hymns by him were contributed to the following collections:— i. To the 1869 Appendix to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Psalms & Hymns 1. O Lord the heaven Thy power displays. Evening. 2. Onward through life Thy children stray. Changing Scenes of Life. ii. To an Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern issued by the Clergy of St. Philip's, Clerkenwell, 1868. 3. Jesus, Lord, our childhood's Pattern. Jesus the Example to the Young. 4. Lord God Almighty, Everlasting Father. Holy Trinity. 5. Now the harvest toil is over. Harvest. 6. 0 Father of abounding grace. Consecration of a Church. 7. We thank Thee, Lord, for all. All Saints Day. iii. To The Hymnary, 1872. 8. Amen, the deed in faith is done. Holy Baptism. 9. Jesus Christ our Saviour. For the Young. 10. Now the billows, strong and dark. For Use at Sea. 11. 0 Father, Who the traveller's way. For Travellers by Land. 12. When Jesus Christ was crucified. Holy Baptism. Mr. Whiting's hymns, with the exception of his “Eternal Father," &c, have not a wide acceptance. He died in 1878. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Cowper

1731 - 1800 Person Name: William Cowper, 1731-1800 Hymnal Number: 170 Author of "God moves in a mysterious way" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"; b. Berkampstead, Hertfordshire, England, 1731; d. East Dereham, Norfolk, England, 1800) is regarded as one of the best early Romantic poets. To biographers he is also known as "mad Cowper." His literary talents produced some of the finest English hymn texts, but his chronic depression accounts for the somber tone of many of those texts. Educated to become an attorney, Cowper was called to the bar in 1754 but never practiced law. In 1763 he had the opportunity to become a clerk for the House of Lords, but the dread of the required public examination triggered his tendency to depression, and he attempted suicide. His subsequent hospitalization and friendship with Morley and Mary Unwin provided emotional stability, but the periods of severe depression returned. His depression was deepened by a religious bent, which often stressed the wrath of God, and at times Cowper felt that God had predestined him to damnation. For the last two decades of his life Cowper lived in Olney, where John Newton became his pastor. There he assisted Newton in his pastoral duties, and the two collaborated on the important hymn collection Olney Hymns (1779), to which Cowper contributed sixty-eight hymn texts. Bert Polman ============ Cowper, William, the poet. The leading events in the life of Cowper are: born in his father's rectory, Berkhampstead, Nov. 26, 1731; educated at Westminster; called to the Bar, 1754; madness, 1763; residence at Huntingdon, 1765; removal to Olney, 1768; to Weston, 1786; to East Dereham, 1795; death there, April 25, 1800. The simple life of Cowper, marked chiefly by its innocent recreations and tender friendships, was in reality a tragedy. His mother, whom he commemorated in the exquisite "Lines on her picture," a vivid delineation of his childhood, written in his 60th year, died when he was six years old. At his first school he was profoundly wretched, but happier at Westminster; excelling at cricket and football, and numbering Warren Hastings, Colman, and the future model of his versification. Churchill, among his contemporaries or friends. Destined for the Bar, he was articled to a solicitor, along with Thurlow. During this period he fell in love with his cousin, Theodora Cowper, sister to Lady Hesketh, and wrote love poems to her. The marriage was forbidden by her father, but she never forgot him, and in after years secretly aided his necessities. Fits of melancholy, from which he had suffered in school days, began to increase, as he entered on life, much straitened in means after his father's death. But on the whole, it is the playful, humorous side of him that is most prominent in the nine years after his call to the Bar; spent in the society of Colman, Bonnell Thornton, and Lloyd, and in writing satires for The Connoisseur and St. James's Chronicle and halfpenny ballads. Then came the awful calamity, which destroyed all hopes of distinction, and made him a sedentary invalid, dependent on his friends. He had been nominated to the Clerkship of the Journals of the House of Lords, but the dread of appearing before them to show his fitness for the appointment overthrew his reason. He attempted his life with "laudanum, knife and cord,"—-in the third attempt nearly succeeding. The dark delusion of his life now first showed itself—a belief in his reprobation by God. But for the present, under the wise and Christian treatment of Dr. Cotton (q. v.) at St. Albans, it passed away; and the eight years that followed, of which the two first were spent at Huntingdon (where he formed his lifelong friendship with Mrs. Unwin), and the remainder at Olney in active piety among the poor, and enthusiastic devotions under the guidance of John Newton (q. v.), were full of the realisation of God's favour, and the happiest, most lucid period of his life. But the tension of long religious exercises, the nervous excitement of leading at prayer meetings, and the extreme despondence (far more than the Calvinism) of Newton, could scarcely have been a healthy atmosphere for a shy, sensitive spirit, that needed most of all the joyous sunlight of Christianity. A year after his brother's death, madness returned. Under the conviction that it was the command of God, he attempted suicide; and he then settled down into a belief in stark contradiction to his Calvinistic creed, "that the Lord, after having renewed him in holiness, had doomed him to everlasting perdition" (Southey). In its darkest form his affliction lasted sixteen months, during which he chiefly resided in J. Newton's house, patiently tended by him and by his devoted nurse, Mrs. Unwin. Gradually he became interested in carpentering, gardening, glazing, and the tendance of some tame hares and other playmates. At the close of 1780, Mrs. Unwin suggested to him some serious poetical work; and the occupation proved so congenial, that his first volume was published in 1782. To a gay episode in 1783 (his fascination by the wit of Lady Austen) his greatest poem, The Task, and also John Gilpin were owing. His other principal work was his Homer, published in 1791. The dark cloud had greatly lifted from his life when Lady Hesketh's care accomplished his removal to Weston (1786): but the loss of his dear friend William Unwin lowered it again for some months. The five years' illness of Mrs. Unwin, during which his nurse of old became his tenderly-watched patient, deepened the darkness more and more. And her death (1796) brought “fixed despair," of which his last poem, The Castaway, is the terrible memorial. Perhaps no more beautiful sentence has been written of him, than the testimony of one, who saw him after death, that with the "composure and calmness" of the face there “mingled, as it were, a holy surprise." Cowper's poetry marks the dawn of the return from the conventionality of Pope to natural expression, and the study of quiet nature. His ambition was higher than this, to be the Bard of Christianity. His great poems show no trace of his monomania, and are full of healthy piety. His fame as a poet is less than as a letter-writer: the charm of his letters is unsurpassed. Though the most considerable poet, who has written hymns, he has contributed little to the development of their structure, adopting the traditional modes of his time and Newton's severe canons. The spiritual ideas of the hymns are identical with Newton's: their highest note is peace and thankful contemplation, rather than joy: more than half of them are full of trustful or reassuring faith: ten of them are either submissive (44), self-reproachful (17, 42, 43), full of sad yearning (1, 34), questioning (9), or dark spiritual conflict (38-40). The specialty of Cowper's handling is a greater plaintiveness, tenderness, and refinement. A study of these hymns as they stood originally under the classified heads of the Olney Hymns, 1779, which in some cases probably indicate the aim of Cowper as well as the ultimate arrangement of the book by Newton, shows that one or two hymns were more the history of his conversion, than transcripts of present feelings; and the study of Newton's hymns in the same volume, full of heavy indictment against the sins of his own regenerate life, brings out the peculiar danger of his friendship to the poet: it tends also to modify considerably the conclusions of Southey as to the signs of incipient madness in Cowper's maddest hymns. Cowper's best hymns are given in The Book of Praise by Lord Selborne. Two may be selected from them; the exquisitely tender "Hark! my soul, it is the Lord" (q. v.), and "Oh, for a closer walk with God" (q. v.). Anyone who knows Mrs. Browning's noble lines on Cowper's grave will find even a deeper beauty in the latter, which is a purely English hymn of perfect structure and streamlike cadence, by connecting its sadness and its aspiration not only with the “discord on the music" and the "darkness on the glory," but the rapture of his heavenly waking beneath the "pathetic eyes” of Christ. Authorities. Lives, by Hayley; Grimshaw; Southey; Professor Goldwin Smith; Mr. Benham (attached to Globe Edition); Life of Newton, by Rev. Josiah Bull; and the Olney Hymns. The numbers of the hymns quoted refer to the Olney Hymns. [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Cowper, W. , p. 265, i. Other hymns are:— 1. Holy Lord God, I love Thy truth. Hatred of Sin. 2. I was a grovelling creature once. Hope and Confidence. 3. No strength of nature can suffice. Obedience through love. 4. The Lord receives His highest praise. Faith. 5. The saints should never be dismayed. Providence. All these hymns appeared in the Olney Hymns, 1779. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ===================== Cowper, W., p. 265, i. Prof. John E. B. Mayor, of Cambridge, contributed some letters by Cowper, hitherto unpublished, together with notes thereon, to Notes and Queries, July 2 to Sept. 24, 1904. These letters are dated from Huntingdon, where he spent two years after leaving St. Alban's (see p. 265, i.), and Olney. The first is dated "Huntingdon, June 24, 1765," and the last "From Olney, July 14, 1772." They together with extracts from other letters by J. Newton (dated respectively Aug. 8, 1772, Nov. 4, 1772), two quotations without date, followed by the last in the N. & Q. series, Aug. 1773, are of intense interest to all students of Cowper, and especially to those who have given attention to the religious side of the poet's life, with its faint lights and deep and awful shadows. From the hymnological standpoint the additional information which we gather is not important, except concerning the hymns "0 for a closer walk with God," "God moves in a mysterious way," "Tis my happiness below," and "Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken." Concerning the last three, their position in the manuscripts, and the date of the last from J. Newton in the above order, "Aug. 1773," is conclusive proof against the common belief that "God moves in a mysterious way" was written as the outpouring of Cowper's soul in gratitude for the frustration of his attempted suicide in October 1773. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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