Amid life's wild commotion

Translator: Emma J. Whately

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Author: Carl Julius Asschenfeldt

Aschenfeldt, Christoph Carl Julius, born March 5, 1792, at Kiel. After studyiug at Göttingen he became, in 1819, pastor at Windbergen in Holstein. In 1824 he was appointed dioconus, and in 1829 chief pastor of St. Nicholas's Church in Flensburg; as also, in 1850, Probst of the district of Flensburg, and in 1851 Superintendent of the German-speaking portion of the Duchy, when he resigned the last of these offices in 1854, being appointed oberconsistorialrath. He died at Flensburg, Sept. 1, 185S. His 150 hymns, elegant in form, but marked with some of the eighteenth century coldness, were contributed to various works and appeared in collected forms as:— (1) Feierklänge. Geistliche Lieder und Gebete auf die Sonn-und Festtage, Lübeck, 182… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Amid life's wild commotion
German Title:	Aus irdischem Getümmel
Author:	Carl Julius Asschenfeldt
Translator:	Emma J. Whately
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Aus irdischem Getümmel. Aschenfeldt, Christoph Carl Julius. [Following Christ.] Founded on St. John xiv. 6, and contributed to Wehner's Christosophisches Gesang-Buch, Kiel, 1819, No. 40, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, entitled, "Jesus—the Way—the Truth—the Life," and being marked A—dt, has been erroneously ascribed to E. M. Arndt. Included in the Feierklänge, 1823, p. 269, and in various hymn-books, e.g. the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, No. 623. The translations of this in common use are:—
1. Amid life's wild commotion. A full and good translation, included as No. 226 in Bp. Ryle's Hymns for the Church on Earth, 1860, as No. 313 in Kennedy, 1853, and also in Schaff’s Christ in Song, ed. 1869, p. 533, and Library of Mediaeval Poetry, ed. i883, p. 601. The translator is unknown.
2. Amid this world's commotion. A good and and full translation by Mrs. Findlater in the 4th Series, 1862, of the Hymns from the Land of Luther (ed. 1862, p. 298; 1884, p. 218). Unaltered as No. 132 in Jellicoe's Collection, 1867, and as No. 501 in Windle's Collection. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907

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Amid life's wild commotion, p. 86, ii. This translation is by Emma Jane Whately. It is in Abp. Whatey’s Lectures on Prayer, 1860, p. 192.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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[Amid life's wild commotion]

ST. ANSELM (Barnby)

ST. THEODULPH (Teschner)

Now often named ST. THEODULPH because of its association with this text, the tune is also known, especially in organ literature, as VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN. It was composed by Melchior Teschner (b. Fraustadt [now Wschowa, Poland], Silesia, 1584; d. Oberpritschen, near Fraustadt, 1635) for "Valet wi…

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