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Sometimes a Light Surprises
Author: William Cowper Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 408 hymnals Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17-18 Lyrics: 1 Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings;
it is the Lord, who rises with healing in his wings:
when comforts are declining, he grants the soul again
a season of clear shining, to cheer it after rain.
2 In holy contemplation we sweetly then pursue
the theme of God's salvation, and find it ever new;
set free from present sorrow, we cheerfully can say,
"Let the unknown tomorrow bring with it what it may."
3 It can bring with it nothing but he will bear us through;
who gives the lilies clothing will clothe his people too:
beneath the spreading heavens no creature but is fed;
and he who feeds the ravens will give his children bread.
4 Though vine nor fig tree neither their wonted fruit shall bear,
though all the field should wither, nor flocks nor herds be there;
yet God the same abiding, his praise shall tune my voice,
for, while in him confiding, I cannot but rejoice.
Topics: Trust in God; The Christian Life God's Refreshing Grace; Opening and Closing of the Year; Peace and Joy; Tribulation and Suffering Prayer in Used With Tune: BENTLEY
Sometimes a Light Surprises
Revive Thy Work, O Lord
Author: Albert Midlane Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 216 hymnals Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Lyrics: 1 Revive thy work, O Lord,
thy mighty arm make bare;
speak with the voice that wakes the dead,
and make thy people hear.
2 Revive thy work, O Lord,
disturb this sleep of death;
quicken the smould'ring embers now
by thine almighty breath.
3 Revive thy work, O Lord,
create soul-thirst for thee;
and hung'ring for the Bread of Life
O may our spirits be.
4 Revive thy work, O Lord,
exalt thy precious name;
and, by the Holy Ghost, our love
for thee and thine inflame.
5 Revive thy work, O Lord,
give Pentecostal show'rs:
the glory shall be all thine own,
the blessing, Lord, be ours.
Topics: Bread of Life; The Church The Kingdom of God; Calling; Holy Spirit Efficacious Grace of; Supplication For Revival Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG
Revive Thy Work, O Lord
O Lord, thy work revive
Author: P. H. Brown Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 186 hymnals Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Lyrics: 1 O Lord, thy work revive,
In Zion's gloomy hour,
And let our dying graces live
By thy restoring power.
2 Oh, let thy chosen few
Awake to earnest prayer;
Their covenant again renew,
And walk in filial fear.
3 Thy spirit then will speak
Through lips of humble clay,
Till hearts of adamant shall break--
Til rebels shall obey.
4 Now lend thy gracious ear;
Now listen to our cry:
Oh, come, and bring salvation near;
Our souls on thee rely. Topics: The Christian Life Courage and Triumph; For Revival
O Lord, thy work revive
REVIVE US AGAIN
Meter: 11.11 with refrain Appears in 788 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John J. Husband Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51111 12333 31355 Used With Text: Revive Us Again
REVIVE US AGAIN
OFFERTORIUM
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 18 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Haydn Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17 Tune Sources: offertory in a mass (melody adapted from) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 34511 76715 53234 Used With Text: Sometimes a Light Surprises
OFFERTORIUM
We Praise Thee, O God (Revive Us Again)
Author: William P. MacKay, 1837-1885 Hymnal: African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #97 (2011) Meter: 11.11 with refrain Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 First Line: We praise Thee, O God! for the Son of Thy love Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Thine the glory Lyrics: 1 We praise Thee, O God! for the Son of Thy love,
For Jesus who died, and is now gone above.
Refrain:
Hallelujah! Thine the glory, Hallelujah! amen;
Hallelujah! Thine the glory, Revive us again.
2 We praise Thee, O God! for the Spirit of light ,
Who has shown us the Savior, and scattered our night. [Refrain]
3 All glory and praise to the Lamb that was slain,
Who hath bore all our sins, and has cleansed every stain. [Refrain]
4 Revive us again; fill each heart with Thy love;
May our souls be rekindled with fire from above. [Refrain]
Amen.
Topics: Jesus Christ Praise; Conversion; Jesus Lamb of God; Jesus Passion; Peace Languages: English Tune Title: REVIVE US AGAIN
We Praise Thee, O God (Revive Us Again)
Revive Us Again
Author: William P. Mackay Hymnal: Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) #263 (1975) Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 First Line: We praise thee, O God! for the Son of thy love Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! thine the glory Topics: Renewal and Revival Languages: English Tune Title: REVIVE US AGAIN
Revive Us Again
Revive Us Again
Author: William P. Mackay Hymnal: Baptist Hymnal 1991 #469 (1991) Meter: 11.11 with refrain Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 First Line: We praise thee, O God! For the Son of thy love Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Thine the glory. Lyrics: 1. We praise Thee, O God! for the Son of Thy love,
For Jesus who died, and is now gone above.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
Hallelujah! Amen.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory,
Revive us again.
2. We praise Thee, O God! for Thy Spirit of light,
Who hath shown us our Savior, and scattered our night.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
Hallelujah! Amen.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory,
Revive us again.
3. All glory and praise to the Lamb that was slain,
Who hath borne all our sins, and hath cleans'd ev'ry stain.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
Hallelujah! Amen.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory,
Revive us again.
4. Revive us again; fill each heart with Thy love;
May each soul be rekindled with fire from above.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory.
Hallelujah! Amen.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory,
Revive us again.
Languages: English Tune Title: REVIVE US AGAIN
Revive Us Again
William Cowper
1731 - 1800 Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17-18 Author of "Sometimes a Light Surprises" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) 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
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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)
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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)
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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)
William Cowper
Albert Midlane
1825 - 1909 Scripture: Habakkuk 3:2 Author of "Revive Thy Work, O Lord" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Midlane, Albert, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, Jan. 23, 1825, and was engaged in business in that town for many years. To his Sunday school teacher he ascribes the honour of prompting him to poetic efforts: and the same teacher did much to shape his early life. His first printed hymn, "Hark! in the presence of our God," was written in September, 1842, at Carisbrooke Castle, and printed in the Youth’s Magazine in November of the same year. Since then he has written over 300, and of these a large proportion are in common use. They appeared in magazines and small mission hymn-books, including:—
(1) The Youth's Magazine; (2) The British Messenger; (3) The London Messenger; (4) Trotter's Evangelical Hymn Book, 1860; (5) The Ambassador's Hymn Book, 1861; (6) Second edition of the same, 1868; (7)Hymn Book for Youth; (8) Good News for the Little Ones, 1860; (9) William Carter's Gospel Hymn Book, 1862; and several other works of a similar kind.
In addition to several small works in prose, Mr. Midlane has gathered his verse together from time to time and published it as:—
(1) Poetry addressed to Sabbath School Teachers, 1844; (2) Vecta Garland, 1850; (3) Leaves from Olivet, 1864; (4) Gospel Echoes, 1865; (5) Above the Bright Blue Sky, 1867; (6) Early Lispings, 1880.
Of the hymns contained in these works nearly 200 have been in common use from 1861 to 1887, the most popular being "There's a Friend for little children." The hymn-books, however, in which many of them are found are usually very small, are used in what are commonly known as Gospel Missions, and have gradually given way to other and more important collections. We therefore append only those hymns which are at the present time in use in official or quasi-official hymn-books, or such collections as have a wide circulation. Those hymns which are omitted from the following list may be found in the works given above, and especially in the Gospel Echoes. The bracketed dates below are those of the composition of the hymns.
i. Given in Trotter's Evangelical Hymn Book, 1860.
1. How sweet the cheering words. (Aug. 1860.) The Gospel.
2. Lord Jesus, save! (July 1860.) Lent.
ii. Given in The Ambassador's Hymn Book, 1861.
3. Angels rejoice o'er sinners saved. (Aug. 1860.) Joy in Heaven over Repenting Sinners.
4. Come to the royal feast. (Aug. 1860.) The Gospel Feast.
5. Father, bless the heavenly message. (Aug. 1860.) Divine blessing implored.
6. How vast, how full, how free. (Aug. 1860.) Divine Mercy.
7. I am not told to labour. (June 25, 1860.) Salvation by Faith.
8. Jesus died upon the tree. (Aug. 13, 1860.) Good Friday.
9. Lord, prepare the hearts of sinners. (Aug. 28, 1861.) Preparation of the heart.
10. Not all the gold of all the world. Peace through Jesus.
11. Now we'll render to the Saviour. (Sept. 1, 1861.) Praise for Salvation.
12. O what a gift the Father gave. (Aug. 22, 1860.) The Gift of The Son.
13. O what a Saviour is Jesus the Lord. (Aug. 29, 1861.) Jesus the Saviour.
14. Passing onward, quickly passing. (Sept. 10, 1861.) Prepared?
15. Salvation, Lord, is Thine. (Aug., 1860.) Salvation through Jesus.
16. Sinner, where is room for doubting? (Sept., 1861.) Expostulation.
17. Soft the voice of mercy sounded. Grace.
18. The perfect righteousness of God. (Sept. 21, 1861.) God our Righteousness.
19. There is a throne of grace. (Sept. 14, 1860.) The Throne of Grace.
20. We speak of the mercy of God. (Sept. 19, 1861.) Divine Mercy.
iii. Given in W. Carter's Gospel Hymn Book, 1863.
21. Can any say, I do believe ? (Aug., 1860.) Assurance in Christ.
22. If Jesus came to seek and save. (Oct., 1861.) Salvation in Jesus.
iv. Given in Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
23. See the blessed Saviour dying. (Oct. 5, 1860.) Good Friday.
24. Sweet the theme of Jesus' love. (April 22, 1862.) The Love of Jesus.
v. Given in Gospel Echoes, 1865.
25. Come and welcome to the Saviour. (June 8, 1862) Invitation.
26. God be gracious to a sinner. (May 21, 1861.) Lent.
27. God speaks from heaven; in love He speaks. (July, 1860.) Love and Mercy of God.
28. Hark! the cry, Behold He cometh. (June 8, 1862.) Advent.
29. He saves because He will. (April 20, 1862.) The "I Wills" of Jesus.
30. How solemn are the words. (Aug. 1, 1865.) The New Birth.
31. Himself He could not save. (Sept. 1861.) Good Friday.
32. I once was bound in Satan's chains. Pardon.
33. Jesus lived. He lived for sinners. (Jan. 4, 1862.) Easter.
34. Jesus never answered "Nay." (May 13, 1862.) Jesus always the same.
35. Jesus the blessed centre is. (June 8, 1862). Father glorified in the Son.
36. Jesus, the risen Saviour. (July 31, 1862.) Easter.
37. Jesus, the soul that trusts in Thee. (May 7, 1864.) Salvation through Jesus.
38. Look, poor sinner, look to Calvary. Good Friday.
39. Lord, when I think upon the love. (Oct. 1, 1860.) The Love of Jesus.
40. Peace with God ! How great a treasure (Oct. 18, 1861.) Peace.
41. Salvation! What a precious word. (Nov. 22, 1861.) Salvation.
42. Scripture says Where sin abounded. (March 3, 1862.) Abounding Grace.
43. Shall Jesus' love be spoken? (May 4, 1862.) Love of Jesus.
44. The Lamb was slain, the blood was brought. (Aug. 24,1862.) The Passover.
45. The silver trumpets sounding. (May 7, 1862.) The Year of Jubilee.
46. There is a rest for weary souls. (Dec. 4, 1863.) Rest. Peace in Jesus.
47. 'Tis the voice of mercy calls thee. (Nov. 5, 1861.) Mercy.
48. When the Saviour said "'Tis finished" (Oct. 1861.) Good Friday.
49. When God begins His gracious work. (Dec. 27, 1860.) God Unchangeable.
50. Who can praise the blessed God ? (Oct. 1861.) Praise for Salvation.
51. Why those fears, poor trembling sinner. Safety in Jesus.
vi. Given in the Ambassador's Hymn Book, 2nd ed., 1868.
52. Life from the dead, eternal life. (Oct. 11, 1867.) Work of the Holy Spirit.
53. Stern justice cries for blood. (March 2, 1867.) The Atonement.
vii. Various.
54. Apart from every worldly care. (June 1866.) Prayer Meetings. Written for Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book 1866.
55. Be not weary, toiling Christian. (Feb. 1857.) Encouragement. In the British Messenger, Sept. 1857.
56. Eighteen hundred years ago. (Aug. 1859.) Fulness of Time. In the London Messenger, April, 1861.
57. Father, for Thy promised blessing. (Feb. 20, 1860.) Outpouring of the Spirit desired. In The Revival, July, 1860.
58. God bless our Sunday School. Sunday School Anniversary. First printed in the Baptist Children's Magazine, July, 1844. It has passed into numerous collections for children, but usually st. ii. is omitted, thus reducing it to 3 st.
59. He comes! He comes! the Bridegroom comes. (Sept. 9, 1850.) Advent. In The Present Testimony, 1851.
60. Kept by the power of God. (May 6 ,1858.) Security in God. In the London Messenger, Sept., 1860.
61. Let the waves of blessing roll. (Jan. 6, 1868.) Missions. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873.
62. Lord, 'our waiting spirits bow. (June, 1866.) Prayer Meetings. Written for Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book 1866.
63. Love us freely, blessed Jesus. (July 2, 1858.) Lent. In the Churchman's Penny Magazine. Oct., 1858.
64. Never perish! words of mercy. Mercy in Christ. Printed in the monthly Girdle, June, 1857, and in the British Messenger, Aug. 1857, in 4 double st. In the collections it is reduced to the first two stanzas.
65. No separation, O my soul. (May 6, 1863.) Perseverance. In the British Herald, Aug., 1863.
66. Nought but the voice of God can speak. (Jan. 29, 1863.) All things are of God. In the 1873 Appendix to Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory.
67. Now, O joy, my sins are pardoned. Pardon and Peace. (Nov. 9, 1860). Printed in the London Messenger, March, 1861, then in the Gospel Echoes, 1865; and then in several hymn-books. The original began, "Once I sang, but not in earnest." Usually st. ii., iii., of 8 l, are given as "Now, O joy, &c."
68. O art thou an heir of glory? (June 4, 1861.) Cautions. In Hymn Book for Youth, 1862.
69. O what a glorious truth is this. (Aug. 3, 1860.) Jesus Died. In the London Messenger, Sept., 1860.
70. Once it was mine, the cup of wrath. (Aug. 8, 1860.) Wrath and Pardon. In the London Messenger, Oct., 1861.
71. Onward, upward, heavenward. (Feb. 7, 1860.) Pressing Onward. In the London Messenger, March, 186l.
72. Perennial spring of pure delight. (March 17, 1864.) Jesus All in All. In the London Messenger, Jan., 1865.
73. Sheltered by the [Thy] sprinkled blood. (Sept. 23, 1863.) Safety in Jesus. In the London Messenger, Feb. 1864.
74. Showers of blessing, gracious promise. (April 19, 1862.) Missions. In the London Messenger, Aug., 1862, and Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
75. The Church of God, amazing, precious thought. (July 6, 1857.) The Church. In The Present Testimony, 1858, and Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
76. The whispers of Thy love divine. (May 3, 1868.) Love of God. In the Island Greeting, Oct., 1872.
77. Though billows round me roll. (April 2, 1853.) Trust. In Food for Christ's Flock, 1853.
78. 'Tis finished, cried the dying Lamb. (Feb. 21, 1850.) Good Friday. In the Baptist Children's Magazine, 1850).
79. Tis heaven where Jesus is. (Oct. 23, 1862.) Joy and Peace in Jesus. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873.
80. Together all things work for good. (Aug. 14, 1860.) All work for Good. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1813.
81. Waiting for Jesus, and loving while waiting. (Jan. 9, 1872.) Second Advent desired. In the 1873 Appendix to Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory.
82. Without a cloud between. (Mar. 18,1862.) Jesus, Face to Face. In the London Messenger, June, 1862.
83. Yet awhile; how sweet the thought. (Dec, 1864.) Second Advent desired. In theLondon Messenger, 1865.
The collections in which these hymns are mainly found are Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866; Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872-3; Hurditch's Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873, and smaller books for Evangelical mission work. Of Mr. Midlane's hymns as a whole, Miher's estimate that "His hymns are full of spiritual thought, careful in their wording, and often very pleasing without reaching the highest form of poetical excellence " (Singers and Songs, p. 572), is just. A marked feature of these hymns is the constant and happy use of Scripture phraseology.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Midlane, A., p. 733, ii. Mr. Midlane published in 1901 The Bright Blue Sky Hymn Book, of 315 of his hymns, and the same year The Gospel Hall Hymn Book, for use in the Gospel Hall, Newport, I.W., with 218 additional, making 533 original compositions. A broad-sheet of seven special hymns for Jewish children, in connection with the Mildmay Mission to the Jews, was also issued in December, 1904. Other publications previously noticed give, with these, over 800 hymns to Mr. Midlane as his contribution to the hymnody of the Church.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Albert Midlane
John Hullah
1812 - 1884 Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17-18 Composer of "BENTLEY" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Born: June 27, 1812, Worcester, England.
Died: February 21, 1884, London, England.
John Hullah
