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The New Alleluia
Publication Date: 1886 Publisher: Biglow & Main Person Name: M. Woolsey Stryker Publication Place: New York Editors: M. Woolsey Stryker; Hubert P. Main; Biglow & Main
The New Alleluia
Hearken to the Music
Author: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Appears in 8 hymnals Person Name: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Refrain First Line: Duty is our watchword Used With Tune: [Hearken to the music]
Hearken to the Music
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Author: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Appears in 2,481 hymnals Person Name: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Used With Tune: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Why Do We Say?
Author: Cecil F. Alexander Appears in 4 hymnals Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander First Line: Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!" Used With Tune: [Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!"]
Why Do We Say?
[Hearken to the music]
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hubert P. Main Person Name: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Incipit: 11712 34543 23234 Used With Text: Hearken to the Music
[Hearken to the music]
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elias Howe, Jr. Person Name: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Incipit: 31576 64217 13157 Used With Text: Nearer, My God, to Thee
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
[Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!"]
Appears in 98 hymnals Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander Tune Sources: German, 1735 Incipit: 12323 45365 43223 Used With Text: Why Do We Say?
[Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!"]
Hearken to the Music
Author: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Hymnal: NA1886 #174 (1886) Person Name: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Refrain First Line: Duty is our watchword Languages: English Tune Title: [Hearken to the music]
Hearken to the Music
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Author: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Hymnal: NA1886 #90a (1886) Person Name: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Languages: English Tune Title: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Why Do We Say?
Author: Cecil F. Alexander Hymnal: NA1886 #191 (1886) Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander First Line: Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!" Languages: English Tune Title: [Why do we say, "Thy kingdom come!"]
Why Do We Say?
Mary M. Adams
1840 - 1902 Person Name: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Barnes Hymnal Number: 174 Author of "Hearken to the Music" in The New Alleluia Mary Jane Matthews, married C. M. Smith; married A. S. Barnes, 1883; married Charles Kendall Adams, 1890.
She has written verses in the leisure of her happy life. First her hymns sang themselves from her heart and then her poems caroled their way from her soul. Few of her classmates in Packer Institute, where she was for the most part educated, knew that the popular Mary Mathews was not American born and a Brooklyn girl. Her birthplace was Ireland and her ancestry Irish. She is the author of thirty or more known hymns, many of them incorporated in song books of a score of more songs and ballads, several of which have been set to music, and are familiar favorites, and of many lyrics and sonnets.
Excerpts from The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 2
Mary M. Adams
Sarah Flower Adams
1805 - 1848 Person Name: Sarah Fuller Adams, (1805-1848) Hymnal Number: 90a Author of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" in The New Alleluia Adams, Sarah, nee Flower. born at Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22nd, 1805; died in London, Aug. 14, 1848, and was buried at Harlow, Aug. 21,1848. She was the younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor and proprietor, of The Cambridge Intelligencer; and was married, in 1834, to William B. Adams, a civil engineer. In 1841 she published Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem dealing with the conflict of heathenism and Christianity, in which Vivia Perpetua suffered martyrdom; and in 1845, The Flock at the Fountain; a catechism and hymns for children. As a member of the congregation of the Rev. W. J. Fox, an Unitarian minister in London, she contributed 13 hymns to the Hymns and Anthems, published by C. Fox, Lond., in 1841, for use in his chapel. Of these hymns the most widely known are— "Nearer,my God,to Thee," and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." The remaining eleven, most of which have come into common use, more especially in America, are:—
Creator Spirit! Thou the first. Holy Spirit.
Darkness shrouded Calvary. Good Friday.
Gently fall the dews of eve. Evening.
Go, and watch the Autumn leaves. Autumn.
O hallowed memories of the past. Memories.
O human heart! thou hast a song. Praise.
O I would sing a song of praise. Praise.
O Love! thou makest all things even. Love.
Part in Peace! is day before us? Close of Service.
Sing to the Lord! for His mercies are sure. Praise.
The mourners came at break of day. Easter.
Mrs. Adams also contributed to Novello's musical edition of Songs for the Months, n. d. Nearly all of the above hymns are found in the Unitarian collections of Great Britain, and America. In Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873, No. 389, there is a rendering by her from Fenelon: —" Living or dying, Lord, I would be Thine." It appeared in the Hymns and Anthems, 1841.
-John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Sarah Flower Adams
Cecil Frances Alexander
1818 - 1895 Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander Hymnal Number: 200b Author of "Once in Royal David's City" in The New Alleluia As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies. She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandments, and prayer, writing in simple language for children. Her more than four hundred hymn texts were published in Verses from the Holy Scripture (1846), Hymns for Little Children (1848), and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional ( 1858).
Bert Polman
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Alexander, Cecil Frances, née Humphreys, second daughter of the late Major John Humphreys, Miltown House, co. Tyrone, Ireland, b. 1823, and married in 1850 to the Rt. Rev. W. Alexander, D.D., Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Mrs. Alexander's hymns and poems number nearly 400. They are mostly for children, and were published in her Verses for Holy Seasons, with Preface by Dr. Hook, 1846; Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament, pt. i. 1854, pt. ii. 1857; Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, 1853; Hymns for Little Children, 1848; Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858; The Legend of the Golden Prayers 1859; Moral Songs, N.B.; The Lord of the Forest and his Vassals, an Allegory, &c.; or contributed to the Lyra Anglicana, the S.P.C.K. Psalms and Hymns, Hymns Ancient & Modern, and other collections. Some of the narrative hymns are rather heavy, and not a few of the descriptive are dull, but a large number remain which have won their way to the hearts of the young, and found a home there. Such hymns as "In Nazareth in olden time," "All things bright and beautiful," "Once in Royal David's city," "There is a green hill far away," "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," "The roseate hues of early dawn," and others that might be named, are deservedly popular and are in most extensive use. Mrs. Alexander has also written hymns of a more elaborate character; but it is as a writer for children that she has excelled.
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Alexander, Cecil F., née Humphreys, p. 38, ii. Additional hymns to those already noted in this Dictionary are in common use:—
1. Christ has ascended up again. (1853.) Ascension.
2. His are the thousand sparkling rills. (1875.) Seven Words on the Cross (Fifth Word).
3. How good is the Almighty God. (1S48.) God, the Father.
4. In [a] the rich man's garden. (1853.) Easter Eve.
5. It was early in the morning. (1853.) Easter Day.
6. So be it, Lord; the prayers are prayed. (1848.) Trust in God.
7. Saw you never in the twilight? (1853.) Epiphany.
8. Still bright and blue doth Jordan flow. (1853.) Baptism of Our Lord.
9. The angels stand around Thy throne. (1848.) Submission to the Will of God.
10. The saints of God are holy men. (1848.) Communion of Saints.
11. There is one Way and only one. (1875.) SS. Philip and James.
12. Up in heaven, up in heaven. (1848.) Ascension.
13. We are little Christian children. (1848.) Holy Trinity.
14. We were washed in holy water. (1848.) Holy Baptism.
15. When of old the Jewish mothers. (1853.) Christ's Invitation to Children.
16. Within the Churchyard side by side. (1848.) Burial.
Of the above hymns those dated 1848 are from Mrs. Alexander's Hymns for Little Children; those dated 1853, from Narrative Hymns, and those dated 1875 from the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern.
Several new hymns by Mrs. Alexander are included in the 1891 Draft Appendix to the Irish Church Hymnal.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Alexander, Cecil F. , p. 38, ii. Mrs. Alexander died at Londonderry, Oct. 12, 1895. A number of her later hymns are in her Poems, 1896, which were edited by Archbishop Alexander.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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