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Behold! O God! Thy chosen race
Author: A. J. Gordon Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Coronation Hymnal Used With Tune: DARLEY
Behold! O God! Thy chosen race
[Behold! O God! Thy chosen race]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: May Agnew Stephens Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Incipit: 12433 46556 57652 Used With Text: Behold! O God!
[Behold! O God! Thy chosen race]
Behold! O God!
Hymnal: Hymns of the Christian Life No. 2 #284 (1897) Hymnal Title: Hymns of the Christian Life No. 2 First Line: Behold! O God, Thy chosen race Refrain First Line: O Israel! O Israel! Languages: English
Behold! O God!
Behold! O God!
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 #137 (1904) Hymnal Title: Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 First Line: Behold! O God! Thy chosen race Refrain First Line: O Israel! O Israel! Languages: English Tune Title: [Behold! O God! Thy chosen race]
Behold! O God!
O Isr'l, O Isr'l
Author: Adoniram J. Gordon Hymnal: Songs of Israel's Glory (The Messiah) #d10 (1935) Hymnal Title: Songs of Israel's Glory (The Messiah) First Line: Behold, O God, thy chosen race
O Isr'l, O Isr'l
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Hymnal Title: Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Author of "Behold! O God!" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 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.
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May Agnew Stephens
1865 - 1935 Hymnal Title: Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Arranger of "[Behold! O God! Thy chosen race]" in Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 Born: 1865, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Died: March 19, 1935, Nyack, New York.
Stephens joined the Salvation Army in New York’s 3 Corps in 1890. She helped edit The War Cry, and worked on the training home staff and in the Candidates Department. Around 1897, she began serving as song leader and pianist at the Gospel Tabernacle with Albert Simpson. Two years later, she helped found the Eighth Avenue Mission, and in 1902 married Harold Stephens (later pastor of the Parkdale Alliance Tabernacle in Toronto, Canada). For the next two and half decades she and her husband were traveling evangelists in America, Canada and Britain. Her works include:
Missionary Messages in Song, circa 1910
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May Agnew Stephens
Adoniram J. Gordon
1836 - 1895 Person Name: A. J. Gordon Hymnal Title: The Coronation Hymnal Author of "Behold! O God! Thy chosen race" in The Coronation Hymnal Adoniram J. Gordon (b. New Hampton, NH, 1836; d. Boston, MA, 1895) was educated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and Newton Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts. After being ordained in 1863, he served the Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston. A close friend of Dwight L. Moody, he promoted evangelism and edited The Service of Song for Baptist Churches (1871) as well as The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book (1872). Both Gordon College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary are named after Gordon.
Bert Polman
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Gordon, Adoniram Judson, D.D., born at New Hampton, N.H., Apr. 19, 1836. Graduated at Brown University, 1860; entered the Baptist ministry; Pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, 1869; and died in 1895. He published The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book, 1872; and was one of the editors of the Service of Song for Baptist Churches, 1871. His hymns in common use include:—
1. O blessed Paraclete. [Holy Spirit .] Given in Sursum Corda, 1898, as having been written in 1890.
2. O Spirit's anointing, for service appointing . [Foreign Missions.] This hymn was "written in the summer of 1886, at Northfield School for Bible Study, organised by Mr. Moody. More than one hundred college students connected with this school gave themselves to the work of foreign missions during their stay at Northfield. Four of their number were chosen to visit the colleges in different parts of the country, and endeavour to awaken a deeper interest in missions during the succeeding academic year. At their request Dr. Gordon” wrote this hymn. Baptist Hymns and Hymn Writers.
3. Where art thou, soul! I hear God say. [Divine Chiding.] Published in social meeting edition of The Service of Song, 1881.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Adoniram J. Gordon
