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How Shall I My Savior Set Forth?

Author: James Maxwell, 1720-1800 Appears in 60 hymnals Refrain First Line: O wonderful love! O wonderful love! Lyrics: 1 How shall I my Savior set forth? How shall I His beauties declare? Or how shall I speak of His worth, Or what His chief dignities are? Refrain: O wonderful love! O wonderful love! O wonderful, wonderful love, My Savior showed to me. 2 Tho’ once He was nailed to the cross, Vile rebels like me to set free, His glory sustainèd no loss, Eternal His kingdom shall be. [Refrain] 3 O sinners! believe and adore This Savior, so rich to redeem; No creature can ever explore The treasure of goodness in Him. [Refrain] 4 Come, all ye who see yourselves lost, And feel yourselves burdened with sin, Draw near while with terror you’re tossèd, Obey, and your peace shall begin. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [How shall I my Savior set forth]

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SMART

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jas. H. Fillmore Incipit: 51713 21243 21712 Used With Text: How shall I my Savior set forth?

[How shall I my Saviour set forth?]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. W. McGarvey, Jr. Incipit: 53432 32161 32354 Used With Text: Wonderful Love

SOMERSET

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13333 33532 22212 Used With Text: How shall I my Savior set forth?

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How Shall I My Savior Set Forth?

Author: James Maxwell, 1720-1800 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10469 Refrain First Line: O wonderful love! O wonderful love! Lyrics: 1 How shall I my Savior set forth? How shall I His beauties declare? Or how shall I speak of His worth, Or what His chief dignities are? Refrain: O wonderful love! O wonderful love! O wonderful, wonderful love, My Savior showed to me. 2 Tho’ once He was nailed to the cross, Vile rebels like me to set free, His glory sustainèd no loss, Eternal His kingdom shall be. [Refrain] 3 O sinners! believe and adore This Savior, so rich to redeem; No creature can ever explore The treasure of goodness in Him. [Refrain] 4 Come, all ye who see yourselves lost, And feel yourselves burdened with sin, Draw near while with terror you’re tossèd, Obey, and your peace shall begin. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [How shall I my Savior set forth]

How Shall I My Savior Set Forth?

Author: Maxwell Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #92 (1921) Refrain First Line: O wonderful love! Languages: English Tune Title: [How shall I my Savior set forth?]

O Wonderful Love

Author: Maxwell Hymnal: Christian Hymns #332 (1948) First Line: How shall I my Savior set forth? Languages: English Tune Title: [How shall I my Savior set forth?]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: Jas. H. Fillmore Composer of "SMART" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

James Maxwell

1720 - 1800 Person Name: Maxwell Author of "How shall I my Saviour set forth?" in New Christian Hymn and Tune Book Maxwell, James , was born in Renfrewshire in 1720. In his youth he journeyed to England with a hardware pack, but eventually returning to Scotland, he followed the joint occupation of schoolmaster and poet. In 1783, during a famine in Scotland he was reduced to great destitution, and had to earn his bread by breaking stones on the highway. Most of his publications (from 30 to 40 in all) were produced after that period. The two works in which we are interested are:— (1) Hymns and Spiritual Songs. In Three Books. 1759. (2) A New Version of the whole of the Book of Psalms in Metre; by James Maxwell, S. D. P. [Student of Divine Poetry.] Glasgow, 1773. From the former of these the following hymns are in common use:— 1. All glory to the eternal Three. Holy Trinity. 2. Didst Thou, dear Jesus [Saviour], suffer shame. Resignation and Courage. 3. Go forth, ye heralds, in my Name. Missions. The last of these is in somewhat extensive use in America, where it appeared as early as in the Prayer Book Collection, 1789. Maxwell died at Paisley (where he was known as the Paisley Poet, or as he put it on the title-page of some of his books, Poet in Paisley) in 1800. [Rev. J. T. Bingley, L.R.A.M., F.G.O.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)