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An alien from God, and a stranger to grace

Author: Unknown Appears in 83 hymnals Used With Tune: HOME, SWEET HOME

HOME, SWEET HOME

Appears in 315 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Bishop Incipit: 13455 35434 23134 Used With Text: An alien from God, and a stranger to grace

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Hymnal: Juvenile Choir #70 (1840) First Line: An alien from God, and a stranger to grace Lyrics: 1 An alien from God, and a stranger to grace, I wander'd thro' earth, its gay pleasures to trace, In the pathway of sin I continued to roam, Unmindful alas! that it led me from home, Home, home, sweet sweet home, O Saviour direct me to heaven my home. 2 The pleasures of earth, I have seen fade away, They bloom for a season, but soon they decay; But pleasures more lasting in Jesus are given, Salvation on earth, and a mansion in heaven. Home, home, sweet, sweet home, The saints in those mansions are ever at home. 3 Allure me no longer, ye false glowing charms! The Saviour invites me, I'll go to his arms; At the banquet of mercy, I hear there is room, O there may I feast with his children at home. Home, home, sweet, sweet home, O Jesus, conduct me to heaven my home! Languages: English Tune Title: [An alien from God, and a stranger to grace]

An alien from God, and a stranger to grace

Author: L. J. Cox Hymnal: Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church #S51 (1859) Languages: English

An alien from God, and a stranger to grace

Author: L. J. Cox Hymnal: Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (11th ed.) #S51 (1868) Languages: English

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Author of "An alien from God, and a stranger to grace" in The Standard Church Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Henry R. Bishop

1786 - 1855 Person Name: H. R. Bishop Composer of "HOME, SWEET HOME" in The Standard Church Hymnal Bishop, Henry Rowley, was born at London, Nov. 18, 1786, and died at London, April 30, 1855. See a full notice in the Dictionary of Nat. Biog., v., 91. From 1840 he was occasional and from 1843 to 1848 sole conductor of the Antient Concerts. Of his Twelve Corales...as sung at the Concerts of Ancient Music, for which (with Words expressly written to them) they were adapted and arranged by Sir Henry R. Bishop, 1844 (B. M. copy is H. 878), some are fairly literal translations from the German, others have no connection with their nominal originals. Three were noted in this Dictionary, but their source not having been traced in 1892, we now subjoin them:— 1. Behold, how glorious is yon sky, p. 127, ii. This is from "Wie herrlich ist die neue Welt" in C. H. Graun's oratorio Der Tod Jesu, 1756 (B. M. copy, 11. 1805, catalogued as 1766), the words being by Karl Wilhelm Ramler, b. Feb. 25, 1725, at Colberg, in Pomerania; 1748, Professor of Literature at the Cadet School in Berlin; d. at Berlin, April 11, 1798. 2. God is our Refuge in distress, Our Shield, p. 325, i. 3. O let us praise the Lord, With hearts of true devotion, p. 963, ii., No. 4. The Winchester Hymn Book, 1857, alters stanza i., the original line 1. 3, 4 being:— "Whose spirit roams abroad, To calm life's troubled ocean." Another fairly close version is,"Wake, O wake! a voice is crying," from "Wachet auf," p. 805, ii. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Luther J. Cox

1791 - 1870 Author of "An alien from God and a stranger to grace" in The Primitive Methodist Church Hymnal Cox, Luther J. (December 27, 1791--July 26, 1870). He was born on a farm in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and died in Hampden, Maryland, his home for the last twelve years of his life. The "Bard of the American Methodist Reformation," a layman and local preacher, one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, he engaged in mercantile pursuits throughout all of his active life. He was the author of several hymns which were popular with the early-day Methodist Protestants. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives