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Author: George Richards Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: How rich the types of future grace
Show Bread
How rich the types of future grace
Author: George Richards Hymnal: Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation #d169 (1817) Hymnal Title: Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation Languages: English
How rich the types of future grace
How rich the types of future grace
Author: George Richards Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #A14 (1808) Hymnal Title: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
How rich the types of future grace
Shew Bread
Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #XXXIX (1792) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs First Line: How rich the types of future grace Lyrics: 1 How rich the types of future grace,
Which thro' the law are spread!
Aloud they preach th'eternal Son,
The true, the living bread.
2 From day to day till Jesus came,
His mystick form was shown;
Where all distinctions lost to view,
Of many made but one.
3 In him, nor Jew nor Gentile's found,
Christ's body forms one bread.
And all the diff'rent grains of wheat
Are one, in Christ the head.
Topics: The Shadow of the Law, reflecting the Body, which is Christ Scripture: Exodus 25:30 Languages: English
Shew Bread
George Richards
1755 - 1814 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Show Bread" Richards, George, born near Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1755. For some years he was Purser and Chaplain in the United States Navy, and also taught a school in Boston. In 1789 he became an Universalist preacher, ministered at Portsmouth, New Haven, 1793-1809, and from 1809 in Philadelphia, where, his mind having given way under trouble, he died by his own hand, March 16, 1816. With S. Lane he edited the Universalist Hymn Book, published at Boston, 1792. This was one of the earliest collections of that body. It contained 49 of Richards's hymns. In 1801 he published A Collection of Hymns, Dover, New Hampshire, which contained 6 additional hymns by himself, and in 1806, also at Dover, a second edition of the same, greatly enlarged, with another 26 hymns.
Of these the following are in common use at the present time:—
1. 0 Christ, what gracious words. The Gospel Message. This hymn appeared in the Boston Collection, 1792, and is the best of the early Universalist hymns. In the Andover Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, it is given as "Saviour, what gracious words." In this form and also in the original, it is found in several collections.
2. Long as the darkening cloud abode. Easter. This hymn in modern collections, as the Songs of the Sanctuary, 1865, No. 687, is composed thus: stanza i. and ii., 11. 1-4, are from Richards, and the rest of the hymn, 3 stanzas of 8 lines in all, is anonymous.
Additional hymns by Richards, from both the Boston and the Dover collections, are in modern Universalist hymn-books. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
George Richards
