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This world is a wilderness wide!
Author: J. N. Darby Appears in 5 hymnals Used With Tune: FAITHFULNESS
This world is a wilderness wide!
EBENEZER (Celeste)
Appears in 47 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Unknown Incipit: 51111 23217 12222 Used With Text: This world is a wilderness wide
EBENEZER (Celeste)
FAITHFULNESS
Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 55317 54322 11176 Used With Text: This world is a wilderness wide!
FAITHFULNESS
This World Is a Wilderness Wide
Author: J. N. Darby Hymnal: Choice Hymns of the Faith #364 (1944) Lyrics: 1 This world is a wilderness wide—
I have nothing to seek or to choose;
I’ve no thought in the waste to abide;
I’ve nothing to regret or to lose.
2 The path where our Savior is gone
Has led up to His Father and God—
To the place where He's now on the throne,
And His strength shall be mine on the road.
3 With Him shall our rest be on high,
When in holiness bright I sit down—
In the joy of His love ever nigh—
In the peace that His presence shall crown.
4 'Tis the treasure i’ve found in His love,
That has made me now pilgrims below;
And 'tis there, when O reach Him above,
As I’m known, all His fulness I’ll know.
5 And, Savior, 'tis Thou from on high,
I await till the time Thou shalt come
To take him Thou hast led by Thine eye,
To Thyself in Thy heavenly home.
Languages: English Tune Title: EBENEZER
This World Is a Wilderness Wide
This World Is A Wilderness Wide
Author: John N. Darby (1800-1882) Hymnal: The Believers Hymn Book #298 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Languages: English Tune Title: DAVID
This World Is A Wilderness Wide
This world is a wilderness wide!
Author: J. N. Darby Hymnal: Messages of Love Hymn Book #114 (1920) Languages: English Tune Title: FAITHFULNESS
This world is a wilderness wide!
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "EBENEZER" in Choice Hymns of the Faith In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
J. N. Darby
1800 - 1882 Author of "This World Is a Wilderness Wide" in Choice Hymns of the Faith Darby, John Nelson, M.A., youngest son of John Darby of Leap, King's Co., Ireland, was born at Westminster, Nov. 18, 1800; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1819; and in due course was called to the Bar. He subsequently took Holy Orders; but in a short time allied himself with the Plymouth Brethren. In the exercise of his ministry amongst them he visited most parts of the world, and translated the Bible into English, French, and German. His published works, including a Synopsis of the Books of the Bible; Notes on Revelations, &c, are numerous. He died at Bournemouth, April 29, 1882.
His hymns in common use are:—
1. Hark, ten thousand voices crying. The Second Advent anticipated. Praise. Appeared in Hymns for the Poor of the Flock, 1837, and repeated in Psalms and Hymns and Sacred Songs, Lend., Walther, 1842, and A Few Hymns, &c, 1856. It is also given in a few collections other than those for use amongst the “Brethren."
2. O Lord, thy love's unbounded, So sweet, &c. God's unchanging Love. Given in A Few Hymns, &c., 1856, No. 82, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines. Another hymn in the same collection, No. 85, begins with the same first line: "O Lord, Thy love's unbounded! So full, so vast, so free!" This is in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, and is attributed in the "S. MSS." to J. N. Darby, in common with the first.
3. Rest of the saints above. Heaven. In A Few Hymns, &c, 1856, No. 79, in 14 stanzas of 4 lines.
4. Rise, my soul, thy God directs thee. Divine Guidance. 1st published in Hymns for the Poor of the Flock, 1837; and again in Psalms and Hymns, 1842 (as above); and A Few Hymns, &c, 1856, in 10 stanzas of 41. It is also in Dr. Walker's Cheltenham Psalms and Hymns, 1855-1831.
5. This world is a wilderness wide. Following Christ. This is No. 139, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines, in A Few Hymns, &c, 1856.
6. Though faint, yet pursuing, we go on our way. Divine Strength and Defence. This hymn was given anonymously in the Baptist Psalms and Hymns, 1858, No. 558, in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. In the 1871 ed. of the same collection, it appeared as by "John N. Darby (?) 1861." Here we have a doubt and an error. The doubt is with respect to the authorship; and the error is in the date. A hymn published in 1858 cannot be accurately dated "1861." The evidence for the J. N. Darby authorship is most unsatisfactory. We can simply name it "Anon."
All these hymns were published anonymously; and the ascriptions of authorship of 1-5 are given from the "S. MSS." The same manuscripts say that he edited the work above referred to: A Few Hymns and some Spiritual Songs, Selected, 1856, for the Little Flock. Lond. Groombridge & Sons.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Darby, John N. , p. 279, ii. Respecting the hymn "Though faint, yet pursuing, &c." (No. 6), Miller says in his Singers & Songs of the Church, 1869, p. 587, that Mr. Darby told him that he was not its author.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. N. Darby
George Frideric Handel
1685 - 1759 Person Name: George F. Handel (1685-1759) Composer of "DAVID" in The Believers Hymn Book George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hymnals. A number of hymnal editors, including Lowell Mason, took themes from some of Handel's oratorios and turned them into hymn tunes; ANTIOCH is one example, long associated with “Joy to the World.”
Bert Polman
George Frideric Handel
