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From the Eastern Mountains
Appears in 164 hymnals Matching Instances: 163 First Line: From the eastern mountains Pressing on they come Used With Tune: [From the eastern mountains Pressing on they come]
From the Eastern Mountains
PRINCETHORPE
Appears in 75 hymnals Matching Instances: 16 Composer and/or Arranger: William Pitts, 1829-1903 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 31425 43234 321 Used With Text: From the Eastern Mountains
PRINCETHORPE
[From the eastern mountains]
Appears in 27 hymnals Matching Instances: 9 Composer and/or Arranger: A. H. Mann Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 15121 71234 32333 Used With Text: From The Eastern Mountains
[From the eastern mountains]
From the Eastern Mountains
Author: Godfrey Thring Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1638 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Refrain First Line: Light of life that shineth ere the worlds began Lyrics: 1. From the eastern mountains,
pressing on, they come,
Wise men in their wisdom,
to His humble home;
Stirred by deep devotion,
hasting from afar,
Ever journeying onward,
guided by a star.
Refrain
Light of life that shineth
ere the worlds began,
Draw Thou near, and lighten
every heart of man.
2. There their Lord and Savior
meek and lowly lay,
Wondrous Light that led them
onward on their way,
Ever now to lighten
nations from afar,
As they journey homeward
by that guiding star. [Refrain]
3. Thou who in a manger
once hast lowly lain,
Who dost now in glory
o’er all kingdoms reign,
Gather in the heathen
who in lands afar
Ne’er have seen the brightness
of Thy guiding star. [Refrain]
4. Gather in the outcasts,
all who’ve gone astray,
Throw Thy radiance o’er them,
guide them on their way.
Those who never knew Thee,
those who’ve wandered far,
Guide them by the brightness
of Thy guiding star. [Refrain]
5. Onward through the darkness
of the lonely night,
Shining still before them
with Thy kindly light.
Guide them, Jew and Gentile,
homeward from afar,
Young and old together,
by Thy guiding star. [Refrain]
6. Until every nation,
whether bond or free,
’Neath Thy starlit banner,
Jesus, follows Thee.
O’er the distant mountains
to that heavenly home,
Where nor sin nor sorrow
evermore shall come. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: ROSMORE
From the Eastern Mountains
From the Eastern mountains
Author: Godfrey Thring Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #725 (1916) Topics: Epiphany Languages: English Tune Title: [From the Eastern mountains]
From the Eastern mountains
From the eastern mountains
Author: G. Thring, 1823-1903 Hymnal: The English Hymnal #615 (1906) Languages: English Tune Title: ZUNDEL
From the eastern mountains
Godfrey Thring
1823 - 1903 Author of "From the Eastern Mountains" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Godfrey Thring (b. Alford, Somersetshire, England, 1823; d. Shamley Green, Guilford, Surrey, England, 1903) was born in the parsonage of Alford, where his father was rector. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, England, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1847. After serving in several other parishes, Thring returned to Alford and Hornblotten in 1858 to succeed his father as rector, a position he retained until his own retirement in 1893. He was also associated with Wells Cathedral (1867-1893). After 1861 Thring wrote many hymns and published several hymnals, including Hymns Congregational (1866), Hymns and Sacred Lyrics (1874), and the respected A Church of England Hymn Book Adapted to the Daily Services of the Church Throughout the Year (1880), which was enlarged as The Church of England Hymn Book (1882).
Bert Polman
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Thring, Godfrey, B.A., son of the Rev. J. G. D. Thring, of Alford, Somerset, was born at Alford, March 25, 1823, and educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. in 1845. On taking Holy Orders he was curate of Stratfield-Turgis, 1846-50; of Strathfieldsaye, 1850-53; and of other parishes to 1858, when he became rector of Alford-with-Hornblotton, Somerset. R.D. 1867-76. In 1876 he was preferred as prebend of East Harptree in Wells cathedral. Prebendary Thring's poetical works are:— Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866; Hymns and Verses, 1866; and Hymns and Sacred Lyrics, 1874. In 1880 he published A Church of England Hymnbook Adapted to the Daily Services of the Church throughout the Year; and in 1882, a revised and much improved edition of the same as The Church of England Hymn Book, &c.
A great many of Prebendary Thring's hymns are annotated under their respective first lines; the rest in common use include:—
1. Beneath the Church's hallowed shade. Consecration of a Burial Ground. Written in 1870. This is one of four hymns set to music by Dr. Dykes, and first published by Novello & Co., 1873. It was also included (but without music) in the author's Hymns & Sacred Lyrics, 1874, p. 170, and in his Collection, 1882.
2. Blessed Saviour, Thou hast taught us. Quinquagesima. Written in 1866, and first published in the author's Hymns Congregational and Others, 1866. It was republished in his Hymns & Sacred Lyrics, 1874; and his Collection, 1882. It is based upon the Epistle for Quinquagesima.
3. Blot out our sins of old. Lent. Written in 1862, and first published in Hymns Congregational and Others
Godfrey Thring
Henry G Trembath
1844 - 1908 Person Name: Henry Gough Trembath Composer of "ROSMORE" in The Cyber Hymnal
Henry G Trembath
W. S. Pitts
1830 - 1918 Person Name: William Pitts, 1829-1903 Composer of "PRINCETHORPE" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada William Savage Pitts MD USA 1830-1918. Born at Yates, NY, the son of Puritans, he was the 8th of nine children. He had musical ability from an early age, taking formal music lessons from a graduate of the Boston Handel & Hadyn Society. At age 19, he traveled with his family to Rock County, WI, where he worked as a rural music schoolteacher in Union, WI. He taught for several years, there and at singing schools, and for brass bands, composing much of their music. In 1857 he traveled to Fredericksburg, IA, to visit his fiancee, Ann Eliza Warren, a teacher. Along the way he stopped his horse-drawn wagon at Bradford, IA, to rest. He walked across a field and saw a picturesque wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. Viewing the spot, he envisioned a church building there. He couldn’’t get the image out of his mind. Returning home to WI, he wrote out the words to a poem about the envisioned scene, calling it “Church in the wildwood”, for his own sake. He was then at rest about it. In 1862, he was married in Union, WI, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. Upon returning to Iowa, Pitts stopped along the route at the same location he had five years before to see it again. He was surprised to see a little church being built, and being painted brown. He met with the builders and asked why it was being painted brown, finding out that it was the cheapest paint they could find.. money being tight. The church builders, learning about his poem written several years earlier, asked him to bring his church choir to the dedication and sing a dedicatory song. In 1863 he did so. This was the first time the song was sung in public. The Pitts remained at Fredersicksburg, IA, for 44 years and had five children: Nellie, Grace, Alice, William, and Kate. Pitts served as mayor of Fredericksburg for seven years, as school treasurer for 26 years, wrote a biographical local history, and was a Master Freemason. In 1865 Pitts moved to Chicago to enroll at Rush Medical College. While there, to pay expenses, he offered several songs he had written to a music publisher, who chose his song “Little brown church in the vale”, and he sold the rights to his song for $25. He completed medical school, graduating in 1868, but the song was largely forgotten for several decades. Pitts practiced medicine in Fredericksburg until 1906. His wife died in 1886, and he remarried to Martha Amelia Pierce Grannis in 1887. They moved to Clarion, IA, in 1906. She died in 1909. Pitts then moved to Brooklyn, NY, to be with his son, William, who was working for the U. S. War Department. Pitts joined Fredericksburg’s Baptist Church in 1871, then the Congregational Church in Clarion, IA, in 1906, and later the Dyker Heights Congregational Church in Brooklyn, NY, in 1909. He occasionally performed his most famous song. He died at Brooklyn, NY, but was buried in Fredericksburg, IA.
John Perry
W. S. Pitts
