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Listen, peoples, while I tell
Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project
Listen, peoples, while I tell
Listen Peoples, While I Tell
Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #11053 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal First Line: Listen, peoples, while I tell Lyrics: 1 Listen, peoples, while I tell
What an elder race befell;
Hearken to the solemn word,
Learn obedience to the Lord.
2 Israel, erst from bondage freed,
Chosen for a holy seed,
Blessed with an unerring code,
Worshipped one eternal God!
3 He their enemies subdued,
Hearts by boundless bounties wooed,
Fed them with the finest wheat,
Milk and honey, purest treat!
4 Oft as trouble raised its cry,
Still was their protector nigh;
From His secret place He came,
Swift to rescue, slow to blame.
5 Long His pity had endured,
Long their prosperous state secured;
Till, impatient of reproof,
Impious, they disowned His truth!
6 Then, abandoned to their lust,
Sold to selfishness and dust,
Soon a ’whelming tempest came;
Swept away their place and name. Scripture: Psalm 81 Languages: English Tune Title: GUIDE
Listen Peoples, While I Tell
Listen, peoples, while I tell
Hymnal: The Psalms, Newly Paraphrased for the Service in the Sanctuary . . . #d91 (1833) Hymnal Title: The Psalms, Newly Paraphrased for the Service in the Sanctuary . . .
Listen, peoples, while I tell
M. M. Wells
1815 - 1895 Person Name: Marcus Morris Wells Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "GUIDE" in The Cyber Hymnal Converted to Christianity as a youth at a mission in Buffalo, New York, Marcus Morris Wells (b. Cooperstown, NY, 1815; d. Hartwick, NY, 1895) spent most of his life near Hartwick as a farmer and maker of farm implements. He is remembered in hymnody for writing both the text and tune of "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide." "On a Saturday afternoon, October 1858, while at work in my cornfield, the sentiment of the hymn came to me," writes Wells. "The next day, Sunday, being a very stormy day, I finished the hymn and wrote the tune for it and sent it to Prof. I. B. Woodbury." Isaac Woodbury was the editor of the New York Musical Pioneer, and the original text and tune were first published in that periodical's November 1858 issue.
Bert Polman
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Wells, Marcus M. Concerning this author and his hymn we have no information beyond the following facts:—
Holy Spirit, faithful Guide. [Whitsuntide.] Appeared in The Sacred Lute, by T. E. Perkins, N.Y., undated [1864], p. 373, with music. Both words and music are attributed therein to M. M. Wells. The hymn has since been repeated in several English and American collections, including I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. It is dated 1858.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
M. M. Wells
