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What Is the World to Me
Author: G. M. Pferfferkorn; August Crull Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 17 hymnals
What Is the World to Me
WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT
Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 90 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ahasverus Fritsch, 1629-1701 Tune Sources: Lutheran Service Book, 2006 (Setting) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53215 56622 54321 Used With Text: What Is the World to Me
WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT
What Is the World to Me
Author: August Crull, d. 1923; Georg M. Pfefferkorn Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnal #430 (1941) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Lyrics: 1 What is the world to me
With all its vaunted pleasure
When Thou, and Thou alone,
Lord Jesus, art my Treasure!
Thou only, dearest Lord,
My soul's Delight shalt be;
Thou art my Peace, my Rest--
What is the world to me!
2 The world is like a cloud
And like a vapor fleeting,
A shadow that declines,
Swift to its end retreating.
My Jesus doth abide,
Tho' all things fade and flee;
My everlasting Rock--
What is the world to me!
3 The world seeks to be praised
And honored by the mighty,
Yet never once reflects
That they are frail and flighty.
But what I truly prize
Above all things is He,
My Jesus, He alone--
What is the world to me!
4 The world seeks after wealth
And all that Mammon offers,
Yet never is content
Tho' gold should fill its coffers.
I have a higher good,
Content with it I'll be:
My Jesus is my Wealth--
What is the world to me!
5 The world is sorely grieved
Whenever it is slighted
Or when its hollow fame
And honor have been blighted.
Christ, Thy reproach I bear
Long as it pleaseth Thee;
I'm honored by my Lord--
What is the world to me!
6 The world with wanton pride
Exalts its sinful pleasures
And for them foolishly
Gives up the heavenly treasures.
Let others love the world
With all its vanity;
I love the Lord, my God--
What is the world to me!
7 The world abideth not;
Lo, like a flash 'twill vanish;
With all its gorgeous pomp
Pale death it cannot banish;
Its riches pass away,
And all its joys must flee;
But Jesus doth abide--
What is the world to me!
8 What is the world to me!
My Jesus is my Treasure,
My Life, my Health, my Wealth,
My Friend, my Love, my Pleasure,
My Joy, my Crown, my All,
My Bliss eternally.
Once more, then, I declare:
What is the world to me!
Amen. Topics: Sanctification (The Christian Life) Trust Scripture: 1 John 2:15-17 Languages: English Tune Title: WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT
What Is the World to Me
What Is the World to Me
Author: G. M. Pferfferkorn, 1645-1732; A. Crull, 1845-1923 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #446 (1996) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Lyrics: 1 What is the world to me
With all its vaunted pleasure
When Thou, and Thou alone,
Lord Jesus, art my Treasure!
Thou only, dearest Lord,
My soul's Delight shalt be;
Thou art my Peace, my Rest.
What is the world to me!
2 The world is like a cloud
And like a vapor fleeting,
A shadow that declines,
Swift to its end retreating.
My Jesus doth abide,
Though all things fade and flee;
My everlasting Rock.
What is the world to me!
3 The world seeks to be praised
And honored by the mighty,
Yet never once reflects
That they are frail and flighty.
But what I truly prize
Above all things is He,
My Jesus, He alone.
What is the world to me!
4 The world seeks after wealth
And all that Mammon offers,
Yet never is content
Though gold should fill it coffers.
I have a higher good,
Content with it I'll be:
My Jesus is my Wealth.
What is the world to me!
5 The world is sorely grieved
Whenever it is slighted
Or when its hollow fame
And honor have been blighted.
Christ, Thy reproach I bear
Long as it pleaseth Thee;
I'm honored by my Lord.
What is the world to me!
6 The world with wanton pride
Exalts its sinful pleasures
And for them foolishly
Gives up the heav'nly treasures.
Let others love the world
With all its vanity;
I love the Lord, my God.
What is the world to me!
7 The world abideth not;
Lo, like a flash 'twill vanish;
With all its gorgeous pomp
Pale death it cannot banish;
Its riches pass away,
And all its joys must flee;
But Jesus doth abide.
What is the world to me!
8 What is the world to me!
My Jesus is my Treasure,
My Life, my Health, my Wealth,
My Friend, my Love, my Pleasure,
My Joy, my Crown, my All,
My Bliss eternally.
Once more, then, I declare:
What is the world to me!
Topics: Trinity 9 Languages: English Tune Title: WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT
What Is the World to Me
What Is the World to Me?
Author: Georg M. Pfefferkorn; August Crull Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7512 Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 First Line: What is the world to me Lyrics: 1. What is the world to me,
With all its vaunted pleasure
When Thou, and Thou alone,
Lord Jesus, art my treasure!
Thou only, dearest Lord,
My soul’s delight shalt be;
Thou art my peace, my rest—
What is the world to me?
2. The world is like a cloud
And like a vapor fleeting,
A shadow that declines,
Swift to its end retreating.
My Jesus doth abide,
Though all things fade and flee;
My everlasting rock—
What is the world to me?
3. The world seeks to be praised
And honored by the mighty,
Yet never once reflects
That they are frail and flighty.
But what I truly prize
Above all things is He,
My Jesus, He alone—
What is the world to me?
4. The world seeks after wealth
And all that Mammon offers,
Yet never is content
Though gold should fill it coffers.
I have a higher good,
Content with it I’ll be:
My Jesus is my wealth—
What is the world to me?
5. The world is sorely grieved
Whenever it is slighted
Or when its hollow fame
And honor have been blighted.
Christ, Thy reproach I bear
Long as it pleaseth Thee;
I’m honored by my Lord—
What is the world to me?
6. The world with wanton pride
Exalts its sinful pleasures
And for them foolishly
Gives up the heavenly treasures.
Let others love the world
With all its vanity;
I love the Lord, my God—
What is the world to me?
7. The world abideth not;
Lo, like a flash ’twill vanish;
With all it gorgeous pomp
Pale death it cannot banish;
Its riches pass away,
And all its joys must flee;
But Jesus doth abide—
What is the world to me?
8. What is the world to me?
My Jesus is my treasure,
My life, my health, my wealth,
My friend, my love, my pleasure,
My joy, my crown, my all,
My bliss eternally.
Once more, then, I declare—
What is the world to me? Languages: English Tune Title: WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT
What Is the World to Me?
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Harmonizer of "WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
August Crull
1845 - 1923 Person Name: A. Crull, 1845-1923 Translator of "What Is the World to Me" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary August Crull was born January 27, 1845 in Rostock, Germany, where his father, Hofrat Crull, was a lawyer. He was educated at the Gymnasium in Rostock, and at Concordia College in St. Louis and Fort Wayne where he graduated in 1862. His father died soon after he began studying at the Gymnasium. His mother then married Albert Friedrich Hoppe, who later became the editor of the St. Louis edition of Luther's Works. In 1865, Crull graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He became assistant pastor at Trinity Church in Milwaukee and also served as Director of the Lutheran High School. Later he was pastor of the Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From 1873 to 1915, he was professor of the German language and literature at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After his retirement he returned to Milwaukee, where he died on February 17, 1923. His first wife and three of his four children preceded him in death. His second wife, Katharina John, survived him by many years.
Crull was a distinguished hymnologist and translated many hymns that appeared in several Lutheran hymnals. He published a German grammar and edited a book of devotions, Das walte Gott, based on the writings of Dr. C.F.W. Walther. His project of translating Lutheran hymns so they would be accessible to American Lutherans bore its first fruits when he published a book of English hymns at the Norwegian Synod publishers in Decorah, in 1877.
--www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/
August Crull
Ahasuer Fritsch
1629 - 1701 Person Name: A. Fritsch, 1629-1701 Composer of "WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Born: December 16, 1629, Mücheln, Saxony.
Died: August 24, 1701, Rudolstadt, Germany.
With help from the family of a young noble he tutored, Fritsch received a good education, earning his law degree from the University of Jena in 1661. He later became chancellor of the university and president of the Consistory of Rudolstadt. He wrote on numerous subjects, including antiquities, law, and religion, and collected hymns.
Hymns--
"Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen"
"Dearest Immanuel, Prince of the Lowly"
Music--
WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT
--www.cyberhymnal.org/bio
Ahasuer Fritsch
