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Believe not those who say
Author: Anne Bronte Appears in 67 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Earnestness Used With Tune: TRENTHAM
Believe not those who say
ST. MICHAEL (OLD 134th)
Appears in 324 hymnals Incipit: 51322 35432 21176 Used With Text: Believe not those who say
ST. MICHAEL (OLD 134th)
Believe Not Those Who Say
Author: Anne Brontë Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #464 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1. Believe not those who say
The upward path is smooth,
Lest thou should stumble in the way,
And faint before the truth.
2. It is the only road
Unto the realms of joy;
But he who seeks that blest abode
Must all his powers employ.
3. To labor and to love,
To pardon and endure,
To lift thy heart to God above,
And keep thy conscience pure.
4. Be this thy constant aim,
Thy hope, thy chief delight,
What matter who should whisper blame
Or who should scorn or slight.
5. What matters—if God approve,
And if within thy breast,
Thou feel the comfort of His love,
The earnest of His rest? Languages: English Tune Title: FESTAL SONG
Believe Not Those Who Say
Believe Not Those
Author: Anne Bronte Hymnal: Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged. #231 (1948) First Line: Believe not those who say Topics: Social Progress Languages: English Tune Title: [Believe not those who say]
Believe Not Those
Believe Not Those Who Say
Author: Anne Brontë Hymnal: The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church #253 (1957) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Believe not those who say
The upward path is smooth;
Lest thou should stumble in the way,
And faint before the truth.
2 Arm, arm thee for the fight:
Cast useless loads away;
Watch through the darkest hours of night;
Toil through the hottest day.
3 To labor and to love,
To pardon and endure,
To lift thy heart to God above,
And keep thy conscience pure,
4 Be this thy constant aim,
Thy hope, thy chief delight;
What matter who should whisper blame
Or who should scorn or slight,
5 If but thy God approve,
And if, within thy breast,
Thou feel the comfort of His love,
The earnest of His rest?
Amen. Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-17 Tune Title: ST. BRIDE
Believe Not Those Who Say
Anonymous
Author of "Believe not those who say" in The Abingdon 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.
Anonymous
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Composer of "POTSDAM" in The Abingdon Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
A. Williams
1731 - 1776 Person Name: A. Williams, 1731-76 Composer of "ST. THOMAS " in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) was a singing teacher, music engraver, and clerk at the Scottish Church, London Wall. He published various church music collections, some intended for rural church choirs. Representative of his compilations are The Universal Psalmodist (1763)— published in the United States as The American Harmony (1769)—The Royal Harmony (1766), The New Universal Psalmodist (1770), and Psalmody in Miniature (1778). His Harmonia Coelestis (1775) included anthems by noted composers.
Bert Polman
A. Williams
