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The Book of Praise
Publication Date: 1997 Publisher: The Presbyterian Church in Canada Publication Place: Canada Editors: Donald Anderson; Andrew Donaldson
The Book of Praise
Christ, whose glory fills the skies
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 475 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,
triumph o'er the shades of night.
Dayspring from on high, be near;
Daystar, in my heart appear.
2 Dark and cheerless is the morn
unaccompanied by thee;
joyless is the day's return,
till thy mercy's beams I see,
till thy inward light impart,
glad my eyes and warm my heart.
3 Visit then, this soul of mine;
pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
fill me, radiancy divine;
scatter all my unbelief;
more and more thyself display,
shining to the perfect day. Topics: Church Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Light of the World Scripture: Proverbs 4:18 Used With Tune: HEATHLANDS
Christ, whose glory fills the skies
Lord Jesus, who through forty days
Author: Claudia Frances Hernaman, 1838-1898 Appears in 85 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, who through forty days
for us did fast and pray,
teach us with you to mourn our sins,
and at your side to stay.
2 As you with Satan did contend,
and did the victory win,
oh give us strength to persevere,
in you to conquer sin.
3 As thirst and hunger once you bore,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and daily live
by your most holy word.
4 And through these days of penitence,
and through the Passion-tide,
now, evermore, in life and death,
Lord Christ, with us abide.
5 Abide with us, that so this life
of suffering over-past,
an Easter of unending joy
we may attain at last. Topics: Church Year Lent; Repentance; Sin / Sinner; Struggle Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11 Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN
Lord Jesus, who through forty days
MACCABAEUS
Meter: 10.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 141 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frideric Handel, 1685-1759 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 53451 23454 32345 Used With Text: Thine be the glory
MACCABAEUS
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Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 888 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart, 1813-1879; C. S. Lang, 1891-1971 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: Glory be to God the Father
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How blest are they, who fearing God
Hymnal: TBP1997 #1 (1997) First Line: How blest are they, who, fearing God Lyrics: 1 How blest are they, who, fearing God,
from sin restrain their feet,
who will not with the wicked stand,
and shun the scorner's seat.
2 How blest are they who make God's law
their treasure and delight,
and meditate upon that word
with gladness day and night.
3 Their lives are nourished like a tree
set by the river's side;
its leaf is green; its fruit is sure;
so all their works abide.
4 The wicked, like the driven chaff,
are blown across the land;
they shall not gather with the just,
nor in the judgement stand.
5 The Lord will guard the righteous well;
their way to God is known,
the way of sinners, far from God,
shall surely be o'erthrown. Topics: Christian Nurture / Teaching; Discipleship; Gladness / Happiness; Law; Metrical Psalms; River Scripture: Psalm 1 Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS' ORDINAL
How blest are they, who fearing God
How many are against me, Lord
Author: Christopher Idle, 1938- Hymnal: TBP1997 #2 (1997) Lyrics: 1 How many are against me, Lord:
how many fierce attacks rise up!
They say, "God will not come to help,"
and people taunt, "There is no hope."
2 But you are round me, Lord, my shield,
but you, my glory, lift my head!
You hear me from your holy hill
and answer when I cry aloud.
3 I go to rest, and sleep in peace–
I wake again; God keeps me safe:
ten thousand shall not make me fear,
for all their threats to take my life.
4 Arise, O Lord, to rescue me:
arise and save me, O my God!
You silence all my enemies
till scorn and spite are all destroyed.
Topics: God Shelter / Shield; Lament; Metrical Psalms; Peace; Rescue ; Rest Scripture: Psalm 3 Languages: English Tune Title: ADON OLAM
How many are against me, Lord
O God, defender of the poor
Author: Christopher Idle, 1938- Hymnal: TBP1997 #3 (1997) Lyrics: 1 O God, defender of the poor,
have mercy when I pray:
you listened to my prayer before–
LORD, hear my prayer today!
2 How long will people choose vain things,
love empty words and wrong?
They scorn to serve the King of kings–
O living God, how long?
3 The saints, O LORD, you set apart
by grace to be your own:
let sinners tremble, search their hearts
and bow before your throne.
4 While many pray that you will bless
and bring them all they need,
unless they long for holiness,
their prayers are vain indeed.
5 Your light, O Lord, let us receive;
your face within us shine,
for richer is the joy you give
than all their grain and wine.
6 And even when I turn to sleep
your blessings still increase,
for you alone, O Lord, will keep
your child in perfect peace. Topics: Joy; Light; Metrical Psalms; Peace; Prayer / Prayers / Poems; Repentance Scripture: Psalm 4 Languages: English Tune Title: LIVERPOOL
O God, defender of the poor
William Kethe
? - 1594 Person Name: William Kethe, c. 1535-1594 Hymnal Number: 65 Paraphraser of "All people that on earth do dwell" in The Book of Praise William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that on Earth do Dwell) is the only one that found its way into modern psalmody.
Bert Polman
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Kethe, William, is said by Thomas Warton in his History of English Poetry, and by John Strype in his Annals of the Reformation, to have been a Scotsman. Where he was born, or whether he held any preferment in England in the time of Edward VI., we have been unable to discover. In the Brieff discours off the troubles begonne at Franckford, 1575, he is mentioned as in exile at Frankfurt in 1555, at Geneva in 1557; as being sent on a mission to the exiles in Basel, Strassburg, &c, in 1558; and as returning with their answers to Geneva in 1559. Whether he was one of those left behind in 1559 to "finishe the bible, and the psalmes bothe in meeter and prose," does not appear. The Discours further mentions him as being with the Earl of Warwick and the Queen's forces at Newhaven [Havre] in 1563, and in the north in 1569. John Hutchins in his County history of Dorset, 1774, vol. ii. p. 316, says that he was instituted in 1561 as Rector of Childe Okeford, near Blandford. But as there were two Rectors and only one church, leave of absence might easily be extended. His connection with Okeford seems to have ceased by death or otherwise about 1593.
The Rev. Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, Bart., of Ranston, Blandford, who very kindly made researches on the spot, has informed me that the Registers at Childe Okeford begin with 1652-53, that the copies kept in Blandford date only from 1732 (the earlier having probably perished in the great fire there in 1731), that no will can be found in the district Probate Court, and that no monument or tablet is now to be found at Childe Okeford.
By a communication to me from the Diocesan Registrar of Bristol, it appears that in a book professing to contain a list of Presentations deposited in the Consistory Court, Kethe is said to have been presented in 1565 by Henry Capel, the Patron of Childe Okeford Inferior. In the 1813 edition of Hutchins, vol. iii. pp. 355-6, William Watkinson is said to have been presented to this moiety by Arthur Capel in 1593.
Twenty-five Psalm versions by Kethe are included in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561, viz. Ps. 27, 36, 47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, 138, 142,—the whole of which were adopted in the Scottish Psalter of 1564-65. Only nine, viz. Ps. 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125, 126, 134, were included in the English Psalter of 1562; Ps. 100 being however added in 1565. Being mostly in peculiar metres, only one, Ps. 100, was transferred to the Scottish Psalter of 1650. The version of Ps. 104, "My soul, praise the Lord," is found, in a greatly altered form, in some modern hymnals.
Warton calls him ”a Scotch divine, no unready rhymer," says he had seen a moralisation of some of Ovid by him, and also mentions verses by him prefixed to a pamphlet by Christopher Goodman, printed at Geneva in 1558; a version of Ps. 93 added to Knox's Appellation to the Scottish Bishops, also printed at Geneva in 1558; and an anti-papal ballad, "Tye the mare Tom-boy." A sermon he preached before the Sessions at Blandford on Jan. 17, 1571, was printed by John Daye in 1571 (preface dated Childe Okeford, Jan. 29,157?), and dedicated to Ambrose Earl of Warwick. [Rev James Mearns, M.A].
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Kethe, William, p. 624, i., line 30. The version which Warton describes as of Psalm 93 is really of Psalm 94, and is that noted under Scottish Hymnody, p. 1022, ii., as the version of Psalms 94 by W. Kethe.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
William Kethe
Thomas John Williams
1869 - 1944 Person Name: Thomas John Williams, 1869-1944 Hymnal Number: 429 Composer of "TON Y BOTEL" in The Book of Praise Although his primary vocation was in the insurance business, Thomas John Williams (b. Ynysmeudwy, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1869; d. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1944) studied with David Evans at Cardiff and later was organist and choirmaster at Zion Chapel (1903-1913) and Calfaria Chapel (1913-1931), both in Llanelly. He composed a number of hymn tunes and a few anthems.
Bert Polman
Thomas John Williams
Eleanor Hull
1860 - 1935 Person Name: Eleanor Hull, 1860-1935 Hymnal Number: 461 Paraphraser of "Be thou my vision" in The Book of Praise
Eleanor Hull
