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When Comes the Golden Sunset
Author: Calvin W. Laufer Appears in 3 hymnals Refrain First Line: "Holy, holy!" Angel Voices sing it Used With Tune: [When comes the golden sunset]
When Comes the Golden Sunset
[When comes the golden sunset]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Calvin W. Laufer Incipit: 51527 11123 14133 Used With Text: When Comes the Golden Sunset
[When comes the golden sunset]
When Comes the Golden Sunset
Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: Vesper Chimes #22 (1930) Refrain First Line: "Holy, holy!" Angel Voices sing it Languages: English Tune Title: [When comes the golden sunset]
When Comes the Golden Sunset
When Comes the Golden Sunset
Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7148 Refrain First Line: Holy, holy! Angel voices sing it Lyrics: 1. When comes the golden sunset
That trails God’s way on high,
And with its radiant splendor
Illumes the evening sky,
How are the hills and valleys
Aglow with crimson rays,
While nature’s deep toned organ
Lifts heavenward its praise:
Refrain
Holy, holy! Angel voices sing it;
Holy, holy! Cloudy pinions wing it;
Holy, holy! Gleaming towers ring it;
Holy, holy, is the Lord most high.
2. So God reveals at sunset
The grandeur of His throne,
The deeper, fuller glory
Reserved to be our own;
And in that hour’s unfolding
Forgot are fear and pain
In love’s abounding solace,
In heaven’s great refrain: [Refrain]
3. Then come, blest hour of sunset,
Along the golden way,
And thrill us with the splendors
That fill life’s perfect day.
God is the end of living,
He satisfies the soul,
And they who seek His glory
Will find in Him their goal. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING LIGHT
When Comes the Golden Sunset
When comes the golden sunset
Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: Hymns for the Living Age #41 (1923) Topics: Adoration and Worship Evening Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING LIGHT
When comes the golden sunset
Calvin Weiss Laufer
1874 - 1938 Person Name: Calvin W. Laufer Author of "When Comes the Golden Sunset" in The Cyber 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/
Calvin Weiss Laufer
