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Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray

Author: Charles G. Woodhouse Appears in 14 hymnals Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN

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[Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray]

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: E Major Incipit: 34532 35324 32133 Used With Text: Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray
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O LIEBE MEINER LIEBE

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 207 hymnals Tune Sources: Manuscript Herrnhut Choralbuch, 1735. Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12354 32232 12171 Used With Text: Heavenly Shepherd, Thee We Pray
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MENDELSSOHN

Appears in 645 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix B. Mendelssohn Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray

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Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray

Author: C. G. Woodhouse; Godfrey Thring Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #290 (1894) Lyrics: 1 Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray, For Thy servant here to-day: By the cross upon his brow, By his ordination vow, By the prayers which we have prayed For the Holy Spirit's aid, By the deep and fervent love Owing to his Lord above, Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray, For Thy servant here to-day: Grant him faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 2 From the silent power of sin Lurking secretly within, May the grace that flows from Thee, Heavenly Shepherd, set him free; By the blessing on him breathed, By the charge on him bequeathed, Thou the Way, the Truth, the Life, Gird him for the sacred strife, Aye his faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 3 Speed him on his life-long way, Speed him whom we speed to-day; Thou, the gracious, loving Lord, Give him souls for his reward: Till he win the promised crown, When he lays his burden down Humbly at his Saviour's feet, Low before the mercy-seat: Give him, Lord, Thy grace to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 4 To the blessèd Trinity Now let praise and glory be, In Whose Name we meet to-day For our guidance, as we pray That we may, in all we do, Pastor, and his flock, be true; True to man in heavenly love, True to Thee, our God, above, Till we, sheep and shepherd, meet, Ransomed at Thy judgment seat. Amen. Topics: Institution of Ministers Languages: English Tune Title: [Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray]
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Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray

Author: G. Thring; C. G. Woodhouse Hymnal: The Church Hymnal #290 (1898) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7.7 Lyrics: 1 Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray, For Thy servant here to-day: By the cross upon his brow, By his ordination vow, By the prayers which we have prayed For the Holy Spirit's aid, By the deep and fervent love Owing to his Lord above, Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray, For Thy servant here to-day: Grant him faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 2 From the silent power of sin Lurking secretly within, May the grace that flows from Thee, Heavenly Shepherd, set him free; By the blessing on him breathed, By the charge on him bequeathed, Thou the Way, the Truth, the Life, Gird him for the sacred strife, Aye his faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 3 Speed him on his life-long way, Speed him whom we speed to-day; Thou, the gracious, loving Lord, Give him souls for his reward: Till he win the promised crown, When he lays his burden down Humbly at his Saviour's feet, Low before the mercy-seat: Give him, Lord, Thy grace to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 4 To the blessèd Trinity Now let praise and glory be, In Whose Name we meet to-day For our guidance, as we pray That we may, in all we do, Pastor, and his flock, be true; True to man in heavenly love, True to Thee, our God, above, Till we, sheep and shepherd, meet, Ransomed at Thy judgment seat. Amen. Topics: Institution of Ministers; Ordinations Languages: English Tune Title: PASTOR
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Heavenly Shepherd, Thee We Pray

Author: C. G. Woodhouse Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #287 (1937) First Line: Heav'nly Shepherd, Thee we pray Lyrics: 1 Heav'nly Shepherd, Thee we pray For Thy servant here to-day: By the charge he taketh now, By his ordination vow, By the prayers which we have prayed For the Holy Spirit's aid, Grant him faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 2 From the silent pow'r of sin Lurking secretly within, May the grace that flows from Thee, Heav'nly Shepherd, set him free; Thou, the Way, the Truth, the Life, Gird him for the sacred strife, Aye his faithful watch to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 3 Speed him on his life-long way, Speed him whom we speed to-day, Till he win the promised crown, When he lays his burden down Humbly at his Saviour's feet, Low before the mercy-seat: Give him, Lord, Thy grace to keep, Tend Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 4 To the blessèd Trinity Now let praise and glory be, In whose Name we meet to-day For our guidance, as we pray That we may, in all we do, Pastor, and his flock, be true, Till we, sheep and shepherd, meet, Ransomed at Thy judgment seat. Amen.

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix B. Mendelssohn Composer of "MENDELSSOHN" in Hymni Ecclesiae Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Godfrey Thring

1823 - 1903 Author of "Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 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 ================ 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

C. G. Woodhouse

1835 - 1876 Person Name: Charles G. Woodhouse Author of "Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray" in Hymni Ecclesiae Woodhouse, Charles Goddard, B.A., son of George Windus Woodhouse, born Aug. 16, 1835, and educated at Albrighton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1860. He was for some time Vicar of Minsterley, Diocese of Hereford. He died Aug. 20th, 1876. He was the author of a very tender hymn for "Institution to a Parish," beginning "By the Cross upon thy brow," and consisting of 3 stanzas of 8 lines. It was printed on a fly-leaf. In 1881, Prebendary G. Thring recast the hymn, added a doxology, and gave it as “Heavenly Shepherd, Thee we pray," in his Church of England Hymn Book, 1882. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)