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O love divine, how sweet thou art!
Author: C. Wesley Appears in 379 hymnals Scripture: Luke 10:39-42 Lyrics: 1 O love divine, how sweet thou art!
When shall I find my longing heart
All taken up by thee?
I thirst, I faint, I die to prove
The greatness of redeeming love,
The love of Christ to me.
2 God only knows the love of God;
Oh, that it now were shed abroad
In my poor, longing heart!
For love I sigh, for love I pine;
This only portion, Lord, be mine;
Be mine this better part.
3 Oh, that I may forever sit,
With Mary, at the Master's feet:
Be this my happy choice--
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth be this,
To hear the Bridegroom's voice.
4 Oh, that I may, with favored John,
Recline my weary head upon
The dear Redeemer's breast!
From care and sin and sorrow free,
Give me, O Lord, to find in thee
My everlasting rest.
Topics: The Christian System Adoption And Sanctification; Perfect Love
O love divine, how sweet thou art!
One Thing needful
Author: Philip Doddridge Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Luke 10:42 First Line: Why will ye waste on trifling cares Lyrics: 1 Why will ye waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion spares?
While, in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?
2 Shall God invite you from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?
Shall troubled conscience give you pain?
And all these please unite in vain?
3 Not so your eyes will always view
Those objects which you now pursue;
Not so will heaven and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.
4 Almighty God! thy grace impart;
Fix deep conviction on each heart:
Nor let us waste on trifling cares
That life which thy compassion spares. Topics: Access to God; Conscience Used With Tune: SEASONS
One Thing needful
A los pies de Jesucristo
Author: Mary D. James; H. C. Ball Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Luke 10:38-42 Lyrics: 1 A los pies de Jesucristo
es el sitio aquí mejor,
Escuchando cual María
las palabras de su amor.
A los pies de Jesucristo,
gozaré su comunión,
Pues su mano fiel y tierna
me ha provisto protección.
2 A los pies de Jesucristo,
hallo tierna compasión;
Él quitó ya mis afanes,
y me dio su bendición.
Puedo yo decirle a Cristo
mis cuidados y temor,
Y con él tendrá mi alma
gozo, paz, eterno amor.
3 A los pies de Jesucristo,
yo tendré su bendición;
En sus ojos hay dulzura,
y en su seno protección.
¡Qué feliz es el momento
que yo paso junto a ti!
Y anhelo el encuentro
cuando vengas tú por mí. Topics: Comunión con Dios; Communion with God; Presencia Divina; Divine Presence; Protección Divina; Divine Protection Used With Tune: ALL FOR JESUS
A los pies de Jesucristo
ALL FOR JESUS
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 168 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Scripture: Luke 10:39 Tune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Sitting_at_the_Feet_of_Jesus); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (175); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (317) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33332 35322 55423 Used With Text: Sitting at the Feet of Jesus
ALL FOR JESUS
TRUST AND OBEY
Meter: 6.6.9 D with refrain Appears in 343 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel B. Towner, 1850-1919 Scripture: Luke 10:39 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12332 11355 43334 Used With Text: Trust and Obey
TRUST AND OBEY
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Author: Joseph Medlicott Scriven, 1819-1886; William Gladstone Walton, 1867-1948; Daisy Alice Spence Walton, 1873-1948 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #532 (1998) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Scripture: Luke 10:38-42 Topics: Salvation/Redemption; Trust Languages: Cree; English Tune Title: FRIENDSHIP
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Evening: Solitude
Hymnal: New Hymn and Tune Book #37e (1889) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Luke 10:40 First Line: I love to steal awhile away Topics: Means of Grace The Closet Languages: English Tune Title: LA MIRA
Evening: Solitude
Evening—solitude
Author: Mrs. Phoebe H. Brown Hymnal: Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #709 (1891) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Luke 10:40 First Line: I love to steal awhile away Topics: Evening Prayer; Faith Vision of; God Promises of; Meditation Evening; Prayer Delight in ; Prayer Hour of ; Retirement; Solitude Languages: English
Evening—solitude
Charles Wesley
1707 - 1788 Scripture: Luke 10:40-42 Author of "Lo! I Come with Joy" in Rejoice in the Lord Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepened, and he became one of the first band of "Oxford Methodists."
In 1735 he went with his brother John to Georgia, as secretary to General Oglethorpe, having before he set out received Deacon's and Priest's Orders on two successive Sundays. His stay in Georgia was very short; he returned to England in 1736, and in 1737 came under the influence of Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians, especially of that remarkable man who had so large a share in moulding John Wesley's career, Peter Bonier, and also of a Mr. Bray, a brazier in Little Britain. On Whitsunday, 1737, [sic. 1738] he "found rest to his soul," and in 1738 he became curate to his friend, Mr. Stonehouse, Vicar of Islington, but the opposition of the churchwardens was so great that the Vicar consented that he "should preach in his church no more." Henceforth his work was identified with that of his brother John, and he became an indefatigable itinerant and field preacher. On April 8, 1749, he married Miss Sarah Gwynne. His marriage, unlike that of his brother John, was a most happy one; his wife was accustomed to accompany him on his evangelistic journeys, which were as frequent as ever until the year 1756," when he ceased to itinerate, and mainly devoted himself to the care of the Societies in London and Bristol. Bristol was his headquarters until 1771, when he removed with his family to London, and, besides attending to the Societies, devoted himself much, as he had done in his youth, to the spiritual care of prisoners in Newgate. He had long been troubled about the relations of Methodism to the Church of England, and strongly disapproved of his brother John's "ordinations." Wesley-like, he expressed his disapproval in the most outspoken fashion, but, as in the case of Samuel at an earlier period, the differences between the brothers never led to a breach of friendship. He died in London, March 29, 1788, and was buried in Marylebone churchyard. His brother John was deeply grieved because he would not consent to be interred in the burial-ground of the City Road Chapel, where he had prepared a grave for himself, but Charles said, "I have lived, and I die, in the Communion of the Church of England, and I will be buried in the yard of my parish church." Eight clergymen of the Church of England bore his pall. He had a large family, four of whom survived him; three sons, who all became distinguished in the musical world, and one daughter, who inherited some of her father's poetical genius. The widow and orphans were treated with the greatest kindness and generosity by John Wesley.
As a hymn-writer Charles Wesley was unique. He is said to have written no less than 6500 hymns, and though, of course, in so vast a number some are of unequal merit, it is perfectly marvellous how many there are which rise to the highest degree of excellence. His feelings on every occasion of importance, whether private or public, found their best expression in a hymn. His own conversion, his own marriage, the earthquake panic, the rumours of an invasion from France, the defeat of Prince Charles Edward at Culloden, the Gordon riots, every Festival of the Christian Church, every doctrine of the Christian Faith, striking scenes in Scripture history, striking scenes which came within his own view, the deaths of friends as they passed away, one by one, before him, all furnished occasions for the exercise of his divine gift. Nor must we forget his hymns for little children, a branch of sacred poetry in which the mantle of Dr. Watts seems to have fallen upon him. It would be simply impossible within our space to enumerate even those of the hymns which have become really classical. The saying that a really good hymn is as rare an appearance as that of a comet is falsified by the work of Charles Wesley; for hymns, which are really good in every respect, flowed from his pen in quick succession, and death alone stopped the course of the perennial stream.
It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works.
The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century.
-- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Charles Wesley, the son of Samuel Wesley, was born at Epworth, Dec. 18, 1707. He was educated at Westminster School and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. In 1735, he took Orders and immediately proceeded with his brother John to Georgia, both being employed as missionaries of the S.P.G. He returned to England in 1736. For many years he engaged with his brother in preaching the Gospel. He died March 29, 1788. To Charles Wesley has been justly assigned the appellation of the "Bard of Methodism." His prominence in hymn writing may be judged from the fact that in the "Wesleyan Hymn Book," 623 of the 770 hymns were written by him; and he published more than thirty poetical works, written either by himself alone, or in conjunction with his brother. The number of his separate hymns is at least five thousand.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.
Charles Wesley
Johann Heinrich Schröder
1667 - 1699 Person Name: Johann H. Schröder Scripture: Luke 10:42 Author of "One Thing's Needful; Lord, This Treasure" in The Lutheran Hymnal Schröder, Johann Heinrich, was born Oct. 4,1667, at Springe (Hallerspringe) near Hannover. He studied at the University of Leipzig, where he experienced the awakening effects of A. H. Francke's lectures. In 1696 he was appointed pastor at Meseberg, near Neuhaldensleben; and in the registers there records of himself (writing in the third person), " 1696, on the 17th Sunday after Trinity, viz. on Oct. 4, on which day he was born, with the beginning of his 30th year, he entered on the pastorate of this parish." He died at Meseberg, June 30, 1699 (Koch, iv., 381; Blatter für Hymnologie, 1883, p. 192, &c).
Schröder is best known by the four hymns which he contributed to the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Halle, 1697; and which are repeated in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Darmstadt, 1698; and in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704. They are very good examples of the early hymns of the Pietists, being genuine and earnest outpourings of Love to Christ, not unmixed with Chiliastic hopes for the victory of Zion and the overthrow of Babylon. In the same books are two hymns by his wife (Tranquilla Sophia née Wolf), who died at Meseberg, April 29, 1697.
Two of Schröder's hymns have passed into English, viz.:—
i. Eins ist noth, aoh Herr, dies eine. Love to Christ. This is included in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Halle, 1097, p. 505, in 10 stanzas of 8 lines, entitled, "One thing is needful. Luke x. 42. Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Cor. i. 30."
Its popularity has been due, not only to its own beauty and power, but also to the taking character of the melody to which it is set. This is by J. Neander, in his Bundes Lieder, Bremen, 1680, as the melody of Grosser Prophete; and was altered in Freylinghausen to suit Schroder's hymn. The full form from Freylinghausen is in Mercer's The Church Psalter & Hymn Book, and there called Landsberg. The second part is given in the Bristol Tune Book as Ems. A greatly altered form, as Ratisbon, has passed through W. H. Havergal's Old Church Psalmody into the Irish Church Hymnal, the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal and others.
The translation in common use from Schröder is:—
One thing's needful, then, Lord Jesus. This is a good and full tr., by Miss Cox, in her Sacred Hymns from the German, 1841, p. 137. Other translations are:—
(1) "One thing is needful! Let me deem." By Miss Winkworth, 1855, p. 183. (2) "One thing's needful:— this rich treasure." By Dr. H. Mills, 1856, p. 92.
ii. Jesu, hilf siegen, du Furste des Lebens. Christian Warfare…It is said to have been written, in 1696, as a companion to his wife's hymn, "Trautster Jesu, Ehrenkonig". It was accused of Chiliasm, by the Theological Faculty of Wittenberg, but still holds an honoured place in German collections. The translations are:—(1) "Jesus, help conquer ! Thou Prince everliving." By Dr. H. Mills, 1856, p. 126. (2) "Jesus, help conquer. Thou Prince of my being." By Miss Manington, 1863, p. 2.
The hymn beginning, "Jesus, help conquer! my spirit is sinking," by Miss Warner, in 6 stanzas, in her Hymns of the Church Militant, N. Y., 1858, p. 161, borrows little more than the first line from the German. It is repeated in Boardman's Selection, Philadelphia, 1861, No. 463. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Heinrich Schröder
H. C. Ball
1896 - 1989 Scripture: Luke 10:38-42 Translator of "A los pies de Jesucristo" in Celebremos Su Gloria
H. C. Ball
