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O God, Our Help in Ages Past
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,255 hymnals Topics: Anniversaries; God the Father His Care and Guidance; Psalm Adaptations; Worship
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
O For a Heart to Praise My God
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,169 hymnals Topics: Christ Example; Righteousness
O For a Heart to Praise My God
Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2,345 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?
2. Was it for crimes that I have done,
he groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
3. Well might the sun in darkness hide,
and shut its glories in,
when God, the mighty maker, died
for his own creature's sin.
4. Thus might I hide my blushing face
while his dear cross appears;
dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
and melt mine eyes to tears.
5. But drops of tears can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe.
Here, Lord, I give myself away;
'tis all that I can do.
Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Passion and Death; Christian Year Lent; Christian Year Holy Week; Commitment; Forgiveness; Grace; Gratitude; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Cross Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM
Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed
WINCHESTER OLD
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 342 hymnals Tune Sources: Thomas Este Psalmes, 1592; Harm.: adapted from Este and Ravenscroft Psalmes, 1621 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
WINCHESTER OLD
CORONATION
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,319 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Oliver Holden Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51133 21232 13212 Used With Text: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
CORONATION
O God, we praise thee, and confess
Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #222a (2010) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: General Hymns God the Father Languages: English Tune Title: MANCESTER
O God, we praise thee, and confess
O God, we praise thee, and confess
Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #222b (2010) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 O God, we praise thee, and confess
that thou the only Lord
and everlasting Father art,
by all the earth adored.
2 To thee all angels cry aloud;
to thee the powers on high,
both cherubim and seraphim,
continually do cry:
3 O holy, holy, holy Lord,
whom heavenly hosts obey,
the world is with the glory filled
of thy majestic sway!
4 The apostles' glorious company
and prophets crowned with light,
with all the martyrs' noble host,
thy constant praise recite.
5 The holy church in faith acclaims
thy Son who for us died,
also the Holy Comforter
our advocate and guide.
*6 Thou art the King of glory, Christ,
the everlasting Son;
humbly thou cam'st to set us free,
nor Virgin womb didst shun.
*7 When thou hadst overcome death's sting
and opened heaven's door,
thou didst ascend to God's right hand
in glory evermore.
*8 When thou shalt come to be our judge,
bring us whom thou hast bought
to dwell on high with all thy saints
in joy surpassing thought. Topics: General Hymns God the Father Languages: English Tune Title: NATIVITY
O God, we praise thee, and confess
O God, we praise thee, and confess
Hymnal: The Hymnal 1982 #364 (1985) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Holy Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: MANCHESTER
O God, we praise thee, and confess
Craig Sellar Lang
1891 - 1971 Person Name: Craig S. Lang, 1891-1971 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Composer (desc.) of "RICHMOND" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Craig S. Lang (b. Hastings, New Zealand, 1891; d. London, England, 1971), was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, England, and earned his D.Mus. at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout his life he was an organist and a music educator as well as a composer of organ, piano, and choral works. Lang was also music editor of The Public School Hymn Book (1949). He named many of his hymn tunes after Cornish villages.
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Craig Sellar Lang
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Arranger of "NEW BRITAIN" in African American Heritage Hymnal Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist.
Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University.
She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North).
Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era.
--en.wikipedia.org
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
John Logan
1748 - 1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Author of "O God of Bethel, by Whose Hand" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Logan, John, son of a farmer, born at Fala, Midlothian, 1748, and educated at Edinburgh University, in due course entering the ministry of the Church of Scotland and becoming the minister of South Leith in 1770. During the time he held this charge he delivered a course of lectures on philosophy and history with much success. While he was thus engaged, the chair of Universal History in the University became vacant; but as a candidate he was unsuccessful. A tragedy, entitled Runnamede, followed. He offered it to the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, but it was interdicted by the Lord Chamberlain "upon suspicion of having a seditious tendency." It was subsequently acted in Edinburgh. In 1775 he formed one of the Committee by whom the Translations and Paraphrases of the Church of Scotland was prepared. In 1782 he was compelled to resign his charge at Leith in order to prevent deposition, and finally, having passed on to London, he supported himself partly by his pen, and died there, Dec. 28, 1788.
[Also, see Bruce, Michael]
The names of Michael Bruce and John Logan are brought together because of the painful controversy which has long prevailed concerning the authorship of certain Hymns and Paraphrases of Holy Scripture which are in extensive use in the Christian Church both at home and abroad. During the latter years of Bruce's short life he wrote various Poems, and also Hymns for a singing class at Kinnesswood, which were well known to his family and neighbours, and were eventually copied out by Bruce himself in a quarto MS. book, with the hope that some day he might see them in print. Immediately upon his death, in 1767, Logan called upon his father and requested the loan of this book that he might publish the contents for the benefit of the family. This was granted. Not till three years afterwards did a certain work, containing seventeen poems, and entitled Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce, 1770, appear, with a Preface in which it was stated that some of the Poems were by others than Bruce. Bruce's father immediately pointed out the absence from the volume of certain hymns which he called his son's "Gospel Sonnets," and members of the singing class at Kinnesswood also noted the absence of hymns with which they were familiar. Letters of remonstrance and demands for the return of the quarto manuscript book of Bruce by the father remaining unanswered, led him eventually to see Logan in person. No book was forthcoming, a few scraps of manuscript only were returned, and Logan accounted for the absence of the book by saying he feared "that the servants had singed fowls with it." For a time the matter rested here, only to be revived with renewed interest by the publication, in 1781 (14 years after the death of Bruce, and 11 after the Poems, &c, were issued), of Poems. By the Rev. Mr. Logan, One of the Ministers of Leith. In this volume, an "Ode to the Cuckoo," a poem of exquisite beauty, and other poetical pieces which appeared in the Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce, were repeated, and claimed as his own by Logan. In addition, certain Hymns and Paraphrases were included, most of which were of sterling merit, and poetical excellence. It has been shown, we think, most conclusively by Dr. Mackelvie in his Life of Bruce prefixed to the Poems, 1837 and by Dr. Grosart in his Works of M. Bruce, 1865, that the "Ode to the Cuckoo," "Lochleven," and other poetical pieces were taken from MS. book of M. Bruce. The Hymns and Paraphrases, most of which were included in the Translations and Paraphrases during the same year, were also claimed for Bruce.
Until clearer evidence is brought forward on behalf of Bruce, the hymns, or paraphrases, following must be ascribed to John Logan: —
"Who can resist th'Almighty arm"; "In streets and op'nings of the gates”; "Thus speaks the heathen: How shall man"; "Take comfort, Christians, when your friends"; "The hour of my departure's come."
The following, which are found only in the Translations and Paraphrases of 1781, are claimed by W. Cameron for Logan, and have never been seriously disputed by the friends of Bruce, the second being original, the first a revise from the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745; and the third a revise of Doddridge and Dr. Hugh Blair:—
"Let Christian faith and hope dispel"; “Thus speaks the high and lofty One"; "What though no flowers the fig-tree clothe."
In addition, we see no cause to deny to Logan the few changes, and new stanza, which are found in Doddridge's "0 God of Bethel, by Whose hand."
Of the above hymns 5 are recasts of hymns in the Scottish Translations and Paraphrases of 1745. Those are: "Behold the mountain of the Lord " (see "In latter days the mount of God "); "When Jesus by the Virgin brought" (see "Now let Thy servant die in peace"); "Behold the Ambassador divine" (see "Behold my Servant, see Him rise"); "Let Christian faith and hope dispel" (see “Now let our souls ascend above"); and "What though no flowers the fig-tree clothe" (see "So firm the saints' foundation stands").
…It is curious to note that every hymn which we have ascribed to M. Bruce has come into more or less extensive use outside of the Translations and Paraphrases, and that not one which we have ascribed to Logan, except "Let Christian faith and hope dispel," and “Take comfort, Christians," &c, is found beyond that work, unless we give to Logan the plaintive "The hour of my departure's come" (which Dr. Grosart claims for Bruce), and the recast "O God of Bethel, by Whose hand," whose success is due to Doddridge. This is the verdict of 100 years' use of those hymns, and shows conclusively the poetic strength of Bruce and the weakness of Logan.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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John Logan
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Meter: 8.6.8.6
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
The Book of Psalms for Singing
Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: Crown and Covenant Publications Meter: 8.6.8.6 Publication Place: Pittsburgh, PA
The Book of Psalms for Singing
The Book of Common Praise
Publication Date: 1939 Publisher: Oxford University Press Meter: 8.6.8.6 Publication Place: Toronto
The Book of Common Praise
