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Thy work, O God, needs many hands

Author: Rev. Calvin W. Laufer Appears in 19 hymnals Used With Tune: MANOAH

KILMARNOCK

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 77 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Neil Dougall Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13565 33216 51651 Used With Text: Your Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

[Thy work, O God, needs many hands]

Appears in 137 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Gower Tune Key: E Major Incipit: 33333 31114 43255 Used With Text: Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

MANOAH

Appears in 649 hymnals Tune Sources: Arr. in Henry W. Greatorex's "Collection," Boston, 1851 Incipit: 12321 77662 34321 Used With Text: Thy work, O God, needs many hands

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: Children's Hymnal #122 (1957) Lyrics: 1 Thy work, O God, needs many hands To help you everywhere, And some there are who cannot serve Unless our gifts we share. 2 Because we love you and your work, Our offering now we make: Be pleased to use it as your own, We ask for Jesus' sake. Amen. Topics: Songs Suitable for Juniors; Stewardship; Offerings; Cooperation; Offeringes; Service Languages: English Tune Title: [Thy work, O God, needs many hands]

Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: The Service Hymnal #371 (1935) Lyrics: 1 Thy work, O God, needs many hands To help Thee everywhere, And some there are who cannot serve Unless our gifts we share. 2 Because we love Thee and Thy work, Our offering now we make; Be pleased to use it as Thine own, We ask for Jesus’ sake. Languages: English Tune Title: MANOAH

Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: Hymns for Primary Worship #171 (1946) Languages: English Tune Title: MEDITATION

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H. W. Greatorex

1813 - 1858 Person Name: Henry W. Greatorex Arranger of "MANOAH" in The Hymnal for Youth Henry Wellington Greatorex United Kingdom 1813-1858. Born at Burton upon Trent, England, he received a thorough musical education from his father, Thomas Greatorex, who was for many years organist of Westminster Abbey, and conductor of the London concerts of ancient music. Henry became a composer, author, compiler, editor, and arranger of music. He emigrated to the U.S. In 1839. In 1849 he married artist Eliza Pratt, and they had four children: Elizabeth, Kathleen, Thomas, and Francis Henry. Prior to settling in New York City as a music teacher and organist at Calvary Church, he played at churches in Hartford, CT, including Center Church and St Johns Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT. He frequently sang in oratorios and concerts. For some years he was also organist and conductor of the choir at St. Paul's Chapel. In 1853 he was an organist at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC. He did much to advance the standard of sacred music in the U.S. In days when country singing school teachers imposed more rudimentary melodies on hymn books. He published a collection of “Psalm & hymn tunes, chants, anthems & sentences” (Boston 1851). He died of yellow fever in Charleston, SC. John Perry

Calvin Weiss Laufer

1874 - 1938 Person Name: Calvin W. Laufer Author of "Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands" in The Service Hymnal Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years. Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial. He later began to work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and became its editor of musical publications, producing books such as The Junior Church School Hymnal (1927), The Church School Hymnal for Youth (1928) and When the Little Child Wants to Sing (1935). He was also the associate editor of the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1933, a very popular book which was used in many churches for more than fifty years. In 1932, his book Hymn Lore was published, which contained the stories of fifty hymns from The Church School Hymnal for Youth, with information about their writers and composers (much like this blog). He chose a broad range of hymns, some quite modern and others well-known and loved for centuries. Several of them were by his mentor and friend Louis F. Benson, who had edited the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1895 and its 1911 revision (and also wrote The Best Church Hymns). In the preface to Hymn Lore, Laufer wrote: To live with hymns and to make them one's own is the only sure way of appreciating their literary beauty and spiritual power. (...) That the reading and singing of hymns may become less mechanical, more thoughtful and intelligent, and emotionally more effective, this volume is released to the public. Laufer wrote both hymn texts and tunes himself, most of which first appeared in the books he edited but also had some life outside Presbyterian circles. This tune was written while Laufer was attending a conference in Kansas, though with no particular text in mind. Not long after, he hummed it to a friend, William H. Foulkes, who then wrote the text "Take thou our minds, dear Lord." Laufer's tune was originally called STONY BROOK, but he changed it to honor a friend, William Ralph Hall. Little is known about the writer May Pierpont Hoyt. Her text is generally sung to the tune BREAD OF LIFE by William F. Sherwin, but since that tune is more known with "Break thou the Bread of life," this text could use a different one. --conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/