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Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

Author: Katharina Elisabet Posse, 1818-1880; Samuel M. Hill, 1851-1921; Ernst W. Olson, 1870-1958 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Devotional; Humility; Inner Life; Mercy; Prayer Used With Tune: COME O LORD JESUS

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FLEMMING

Meter: 11.10.11.6 Appears in 469 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming Tune Key: a flat minor Incipit: 11122 31121 73333 Used With Text: Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

COME O LORD JESUS

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2 hymnals Tune Sources: Polish folk tune Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 54333 33235 44432 Used With Text: Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

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Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

Author: Katarina E. Posse Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #460 (1937) Lyrics: 1 Merciful Savior, come and be my comfort; Vanish all idols in Thy holy presence; Come and establish in my heart Thy kingdom, Come, O Lord Jesus. 2 Come as the Bridegroom to the bride belovèd, Come Thou to strengthen faith and love and patience; Be Thou a very present help in danger; Come, O Lord Jesus. 3 Come in my pleasure, come to me in sorrow, Come in the anguished hour of dire temptation, Come and deliver me from sin and evil, Come, O Lord Jesus. Amen.

Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

Author: Katarina Elisabet Posse, (1818-1880); Samuel Magnus Hill Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #460 (1926) Meter: 11.11.11.5 Lyrics: 1 Merciful Savior, come and be my comfort; Vanish all idols in Thy holy presence; Come and establish in my heart Thy kingdom, Come, O Lord Jesus. 2 Come as the Bridegroom to the bride belovèd, Come Thou to strengthen faith and love and patience; Be Thou a very present help in danger; Come, O Lord Jesus. 3 Come in my pleasure, come to me in sorrow, Come in the anguished hour of dire temptation, Come and deliver me from sin and evil, Come, O Lord Jesus. Amen. Topics: Way of Salvation Sanctification; Advent, First Sunday; Names and Office of Christ Bridegroom; Comfort Languages: English Tune Title: INTEGER VITAE

Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort

Author: Katarina E. Posse, 1818-1880 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4205 Meter: 11.10.11.6 Lyrics: 1. Merciful Savior, come and be my comfort; Vanish all idols in Thy holy presence; Come and establish in my heart Thy kingdom; Come, O Lord Jesus. 2. Come as the bridegroom to the bride belovèd, Come Thou to strengthen faith and love and patience; Be Thou a very present help in danger; Come, O Lord Jesus. 3. Come in my pleasure, come to me in sorrow, Come in the anguished hour of dire temptation, Come and deliver me from sin and evil, Come, O Lord Jesus. Languages: English Tune Title: FLEMMING

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F. F. Flemming

1778 - 1813 Person Name: Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming Composer of "FLEMMING" in The Cyber Hymnal Friedrich Ferdinand Flemming Germany 1778-1813. Born in Neuhausen, Erzgebirge, Germany, he studied medicine at Wittenberg, 1796-1800, Jena, Vienna, and Trieste. He practiced as a physician in Berlin until his death, but, musically, is remembered for his setting of Horace's ode beginning “Integer Vitae”, from which the tune “Flemming” is adapted. He was active in musical circles and composed many songs for a male vocal ensemble, “Liedertafel”. He died in Berlin. John Perry

Ernst W. Olson

1870 - 1958 Person Name: Ernst W. Olson, 1870-1958 Adapter of "Merciful Savior, Come and Be My Comfort" in Ambassador Hymnal Ernst W. Olson (b. Skane, Sweden, 1870; d. Chicago, IL, 1958) prepared the English translation for the 1925 Hymnal of the Lutheran Augustana Synod. As editor, writer, poet, and translator, Olson made a valuable contribution to Swedish-American culture and to church music. His family immigrated to Nebraska when he was five years old, but he spent much of his life in the Chicago area. Educated at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, he was editor of several Swedish-American newspapers and spent most of his professional career as an editor for the Augustana Book Concern (1911-1949). Olson wrote History of the Swedes in Illinois (1908). He also contributed four original hymns and twenty-eight translations to The Hymnal (1925) of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod and served on the committee that produced the Lutheran Service Book and Hymnal (1958). Bert Polman