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Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James Russell Lowell Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 198 hymnals Topics: National Hymns; Citizenship, Christian; God the Father His Sovereignty; Memorial Day; National Righteousness; Righteousness; Social Betterment Text Sources: Excerpted from The Present Crisis
Once to Every Man and Nation
TON-Y-BOTEL
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 283 hymnals Tune Sources: Welsh Hymn Melody Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 66717 67712 17323 Used With Text: Once to every man and nation
TON-Y-BOTEL
Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James R. Lowell Hymnal: Sing Joyfully #607 (1989) Lyrics: 1 Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision,
Off'ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever;
'Twixt that darkness and that light.
2 Then to side with truth is noble,
When we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit,
And 'tis prosp'rous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses
While the coward stand aside,
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied.
3 Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet the truth alone is strong:
Tho' her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above His own.
Amen. Topics: National Hymns; Challenge; Courage; Victory Languages: English Tune Title: [Once to every man and nation]
Once to Every Man and Nation
Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James Russell Lowell Hymnal: Hymns for Today #246 (1920) Languages: English Tune Title: [Once to every man and nation]
Once to Every Man and Nation
Once to Every Man and Nation
Author: James Russell Lowell Hymnal: The Hymnbook #361 (1955) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some new decision,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
'Twixt that darkness and that light.
2 Then to side with truth is noble,
When we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit,
And 'tis prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses
While the coward stands aside,
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied.
3 Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above His own.
Amen. Topics: Citizenship; Courage; Nation, The; Trial and Conflict; Life in Christ Trial and Conflict Scripture: Joshua 24:15 Tune Title: EBENEZER (TON-Y-BOTEL)
Once to Every Man and Nation
James Russell Lowell
1819 - 1891 Author of "Once to every man and nation" in The Hymnal Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Part of this is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N.Y., 1865, as "They are slaves who will not choose.” [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Russell Lowell
Thomas John Williams
1869 - 1944 Person Name: Thomas J. Williams, 1869-1944 Composer of "EBENEZER (TON-Y-BOTEL)" in Hymnal of the Church of God Although his primary vocation was in the insurance business, Thomas John Williams (b. Ynysmeudwy, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1869; d. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1944) studied with David Evans at Cardiff and later was organist and choirmaster at Zion Chapel (1903-1913) and Calfaria Chapel (1913-1931), both in Llanelly. He composed a number of hymn tunes and a few anthems.
Bert Polman
Thomas John Williams
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Composer of "BETHANY" in Worship and Song. (Rev. ed.) Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart
