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O thou with whom in sweet content
Author: Henry Wilder Foote Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: MELITA
O thou with whom in sweet content
GOTTLOB, ES GEHT
Appears in 42 hymnals Incipit: 31343 21233 36711 Used With Text: O thou, with whom, in sweet content
GOTTLOB, ES GEHT
O Thou, With Whom, In Sweet Content
Author: Henry W. Foote I Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #14196 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 O Thou, with whom, in sweet content,
The soul that loves Thee shall abide,
Grant that Thy spirit may be sent,
That by its influence purified
And touched and blessed, we may be free,
Father and Friend, to dwell with Thee.
2 Oh, fire our hearts with quenchless love
For men, and for Thy truth divine—
That we may guide to things above,
Where in Thy heav’ns eternal shine
The strong attractions of that home
From which, when found, no soul can roam.
3 And if upon our lonely way,
We faint and cry to Thee for aid,
Then, O our Father, grant, we pray,
That, by us trembling and afraid,
May walk the Leader of our race,
Filling with light and joy the place.
4 Crown us with love, and so with peace,
Transfigure duty to delight;
Our lips inspire, our faith increase,
Brighten with hope our darkest night.
Bring us from earthly bondage free,
To find our heav’n in serving Thee. Languages: English Tune Title: MELITA
O Thou, With Whom, In Sweet Content
O thou, with whom, in sweet content
Author: Henry Wilder Foote Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #259 (1937) Languages: English Tune Title: GOTTLOB, ES GEHT
O thou, with whom, in sweet content
O thou with whom in sweet content
Author: Henry Wilder Foote Hymnal: Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #289 (1914) Languages: English Tune Title: MELITA
O thou with whom in sweet content
John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Composer of "MELITA" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
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John Bacchus Dykes
Henry Wilder Foote
1838 - 1889 Author of "O thou with whom in sweet content" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book
Henry Wilder Foote
Henry Wilder Foote
1875 - 1964 Author of "O thou, with whom, in sweet content" in Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (II), D.D., Litt.D. (Boston, Massachusetts, February 2, 1875--August 27, 1964). Educated at Harvard, A.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He entered the Unitarian ministry and has served churches in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Belmont, Massachusetts; and Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1914 to 1924 he was an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School where he gave a course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was secretary of the committee which edited The New Hymn and Tune Book, published in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was chairman of the committee which edited Hymns of the Spirit, published in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished from the earlier Hymns of the Spirit by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, 1864). This later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote beginning "Thou whose love brought us to birth."
Dr. Foote also edited the words in The Concord Anthem Book, 1924, and in The Second Concord Anthem Book, 1936, for which Professor Archibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. He is the author of several books and articles on the cultural or religious aspects of American colonial history, one of which, Three Centuries of American Hymnody, 1940, covers the period from the publication of the Bay Psalm Book in 1640 to the late nineteen-thirties.
--DNAH Archives
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