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Daß es auf der armen Erde
Author: Leonhard Meißer, 1803-1872 Appears in 33 hymnals Used With Tune: [Daß es auf der armen Erde]
Daß es auf der armen Erde
[Daß es auf der armen Erde]
Appears in 212 hymnals Tune Sources: Herrnhut, um 1740 Incipit: 12354 32232 12171 Used With Text: Daß es auf der armen Erde
[Daß es auf der armen Erde]
[Dass es auf der armen Erde]
Appears in 377 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Incipit: 55151 32255 51321 Used With Text: Ein neues Pfingsten
[Dass es auf der armen Erde]
[Daß es auf der armen Erde]
Appears in 17 hymnals Incipit: 54333 45654 25453 Used With Text: Daß es auf der armen Erde
[Daß es auf der armen Erde]
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Author: Leonhard Meisser Hymnal: Sonntagsschul-Gesangbuch der Reformirten Kirchen in den Vereinigten Staaten #d32 (1876)
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Author: Leonhard Meisser Hymnal: Sonntagsschul-Gesangbuch der Reformirten Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten #62 (1876)
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Author: Leonhard Meisser Hymnal: Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft für öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesdienst #d89 (1877) Languages: German
Dass es auf der armen Erde, Unter Deiner Christenschaar
Christoph Georg Ludwig Meister
Person Name: L. Meister Author of "Daß es auf der armen Erde" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft
Christoph Georg Ludwig Meister
Lowell Mason
1792 - 1872 Composer of "[Dass es auf der armen Erde]" in Heils-Lieder, eine Sammlung Geistlicher Lieder für Sonntagsschulen, Jugendvereine Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man.
Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit.
The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank.
In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious.
Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them."
The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging.
Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage.
Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals.
As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced.
Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College.
--Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Lowell Mason
Albert Midlane
1825 - 1909 Author of "Pfingstgeist" in Pilgerklänge Midlane, Albert, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, Jan. 23, 1825, and was engaged in business in that town for many years. To his Sunday school teacher he ascribes the honour of prompting him to poetic efforts: and the same teacher did much to shape his early life. His first printed hymn, "Hark! in the presence of our God," was written in September, 1842, at Carisbrooke Castle, and printed in the Youth’s Magazine in November of the same year. Since then he has written over 300, and of these a large proportion are in common use. They appeared in magazines and small mission hymn-books, including:—
(1) The Youth's Magazine; (2) The British Messenger; (3) The London Messenger; (4) Trotter's Evangelical Hymn Book, 1860; (5) The Ambassador's Hymn Book, 1861; (6) Second edition of the same, 1868; (7)Hymn Book for Youth; (8) Good News for the Little Ones, 1860; (9) William Carter's Gospel Hymn Book, 1862; and several other works of a similar kind.
In addition to several small works in prose, Mr. Midlane has gathered his verse together from time to time and published it as:—
(1) Poetry addressed to Sabbath School Teachers, 1844; (2) Vecta Garland, 1850; (3) Leaves from Olivet, 1864; (4) Gospel Echoes, 1865; (5) Above the Bright Blue Sky, 1867; (6) Early Lispings, 1880.
Of the hymns contained in these works nearly 200 have been in common use from 1861 to 1887, the most popular being "There's a Friend for little children." The hymn-books, however, in which many of them are found are usually very small, are used in what are commonly known as Gospel Missions, and have gradually given way to other and more important collections. We therefore append only those hymns which are at the present time in use in official or quasi-official hymn-books, or such collections as have a wide circulation. Those hymns which are omitted from the following list may be found in the works given above, and especially in the Gospel Echoes. The bracketed dates below are those of the composition of the hymns.
i. Given in Trotter's Evangelical Hymn Book, 1860.
1. How sweet the cheering words. (Aug. 1860.) The Gospel.
2. Lord Jesus, save! (July 1860.) Lent.
ii. Given in The Ambassador's Hymn Book, 1861.
3. Angels rejoice o'er sinners saved. (Aug. 1860.) Joy in Heaven over Repenting Sinners.
4. Come to the royal feast. (Aug. 1860.) The Gospel Feast.
5. Father, bless the heavenly message. (Aug. 1860.) Divine blessing implored.
6. How vast, how full, how free. (Aug. 1860.) Divine Mercy.
7. I am not told to labour. (June 25, 1860.) Salvation by Faith.
8. Jesus died upon the tree. (Aug. 13, 1860.) Good Friday.
9. Lord, prepare the hearts of sinners. (Aug. 28, 1861.) Preparation of the heart.
10. Not all the gold of all the world. Peace through Jesus.
11. Now we'll render to the Saviour. (Sept. 1, 1861.) Praise for Salvation.
12. O what a gift the Father gave. (Aug. 22, 1860.) The Gift of The Son.
13. O what a Saviour is Jesus the Lord. (Aug. 29, 1861.) Jesus the Saviour.
14. Passing onward, quickly passing. (Sept. 10, 1861.) Prepared?
15. Salvation, Lord, is Thine. (Aug., 1860.) Salvation through Jesus.
16. Sinner, where is room for doubting? (Sept., 1861.) Expostulation.
17. Soft the voice of mercy sounded. Grace.
18. The perfect righteousness of God. (Sept. 21, 1861.) God our Righteousness.
19. There is a throne of grace. (Sept. 14, 1860.) The Throne of Grace.
20. We speak of the mercy of God. (Sept. 19, 1861.) Divine Mercy.
iii. Given in W. Carter's Gospel Hymn Book, 1863.
21. Can any say, I do believe ? (Aug., 1860.) Assurance in Christ.
22. If Jesus came to seek and save. (Oct., 1861.) Salvation in Jesus.
iv. Given in Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
23. See the blessed Saviour dying. (Oct. 5, 1860.) Good Friday.
24. Sweet the theme of Jesus' love. (April 22, 1862.) The Love of Jesus.
v. Given in Gospel Echoes, 1865.
25. Come and welcome to the Saviour. (June 8, 1862) Invitation.
26. God be gracious to a sinner. (May 21, 1861.) Lent.
27. God speaks from heaven; in love He speaks. (July, 1860.) Love and Mercy of God.
28. Hark! the cry, Behold He cometh. (June 8, 1862.) Advent.
29. He saves because He will. (April 20, 1862.) The "I Wills" of Jesus.
30. How solemn are the words. (Aug. 1, 1865.) The New Birth.
31. Himself He could not save. (Sept. 1861.) Good Friday.
32. I once was bound in Satan's chains. Pardon.
33. Jesus lived. He lived for sinners. (Jan. 4, 1862.) Easter.
34. Jesus never answered "Nay." (May 13, 1862.) Jesus always the same.
35. Jesus the blessed centre is. (June 8, 1862). Father glorified in the Son.
36. Jesus, the risen Saviour. (July 31, 1862.) Easter.
37. Jesus, the soul that trusts in Thee. (May 7, 1864.) Salvation through Jesus.
38. Look, poor sinner, look to Calvary. Good Friday.
39. Lord, when I think upon the love. (Oct. 1, 1860.) The Love of Jesus.
40. Peace with God ! How great a treasure (Oct. 18, 1861.) Peace.
41. Salvation! What a precious word. (Nov. 22, 1861.) Salvation.
42. Scripture says Where sin abounded. (March 3, 1862.) Abounding Grace.
43. Shall Jesus' love be spoken? (May 4, 1862.) Love of Jesus.
44. The Lamb was slain, the blood was brought. (Aug. 24,1862.) The Passover.
45. The silver trumpets sounding. (May 7, 1862.) The Year of Jubilee.
46. There is a rest for weary souls. (Dec. 4, 1863.) Rest. Peace in Jesus.
47. 'Tis the voice of mercy calls thee. (Nov. 5, 1861.) Mercy.
48. When the Saviour said "'Tis finished" (Oct. 1861.) Good Friday.
49. When God begins His gracious work. (Dec. 27, 1860.) God Unchangeable.
50. Who can praise the blessed God ? (Oct. 1861.) Praise for Salvation.
51. Why those fears, poor trembling sinner. Safety in Jesus.
vi. Given in the Ambassador's Hymn Book, 2nd ed., 1868.
52. Life from the dead, eternal life. (Oct. 11, 1867.) Work of the Holy Spirit.
53. Stern justice cries for blood. (March 2, 1867.) The Atonement.
vii. Various.
54. Apart from every worldly care. (June 1866.) Prayer Meetings. Written for Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book 1866.
55. Be not weary, toiling Christian. (Feb. 1857.) Encouragement. In the British Messenger, Sept. 1857.
56. Eighteen hundred years ago. (Aug. 1859.) Fulness of Time. In the London Messenger, April, 1861.
57. Father, for Thy promised blessing. (Feb. 20, 1860.) Outpouring of the Spirit desired. In The Revival, July, 1860.
58. God bless our Sunday School. Sunday School Anniversary. First printed in the Baptist Children's Magazine, July, 1844. It has passed into numerous collections for children, but usually st. ii. is omitted, thus reducing it to 3 st.
59. He comes! He comes! the Bridegroom comes. (Sept. 9, 1850.) Advent. In The Present Testimony, 1851.
60. Kept by the power of God. (May 6 ,1858.) Security in God. In the London Messenger, Sept., 1860.
61. Let the waves of blessing roll. (Jan. 6, 1868.) Missions. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873.
62. Lord, 'our waiting spirits bow. (June, 1866.) Prayer Meetings. Written for Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book 1866.
63. Love us freely, blessed Jesus. (July 2, 1858.) Lent. In the Churchman's Penny Magazine. Oct., 1858.
64. Never perish! words of mercy. Mercy in Christ. Printed in the monthly Girdle, June, 1857, and in the British Messenger, Aug. 1857, in 4 double st. In the collections it is reduced to the first two stanzas.
65. No separation, O my soul. (May 6, 1863.) Perseverance. In the British Herald, Aug., 1863.
66. Nought but the voice of God can speak. (Jan. 29, 1863.) All things are of God. In the 1873 Appendix to Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory.
67. Now, O joy, my sins are pardoned. Pardon and Peace. (Nov. 9, 1860). Printed in the London Messenger, March, 1861, then in the Gospel Echoes, 1865; and then in several hymn-books. The original began, "Once I sang, but not in earnest." Usually st. ii., iii., of 8 l, are given as "Now, O joy, &c."
68. O art thou an heir of glory? (June 4, 1861.) Cautions. In Hymn Book for Youth, 1862.
69. O what a glorious truth is this. (Aug. 3, 1860.) Jesus Died. In the London Messenger, Sept., 1860.
70. Once it was mine, the cup of wrath. (Aug. 8, 1860.) Wrath and Pardon. In the London Messenger, Oct., 1861.
71. Onward, upward, heavenward. (Feb. 7, 1860.) Pressing Onward. In the London Messenger, March, 186l.
72. Perennial spring of pure delight. (March 17, 1864.) Jesus All in All. In the London Messenger, Jan., 1865.
73. Sheltered by the [Thy] sprinkled blood. (Sept. 23, 1863.) Safety in Jesus. In the London Messenger, Feb. 1864.
74. Showers of blessing, gracious promise. (April 19, 1862.) Missions. In the London Messenger, Aug., 1862, and Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
75. The Church of God, amazing, precious thought. (July 6, 1857.) The Church. In The Present Testimony, 1858, and Leaves from Olivet, 1864.
76. The whispers of Thy love divine. (May 3, 1868.) Love of God. In the Island Greeting, Oct., 1872.
77. Though billows round me roll. (April 2, 1853.) Trust. In Food for Christ's Flock, 1853.
78. 'Tis finished, cried the dying Lamb. (Feb. 21, 1850.) Good Friday. In the Baptist Children's Magazine, 1850).
79. Tis heaven where Jesus is. (Oct. 23, 1862.) Joy and Peace in Jesus. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873.
80. Together all things work for good. (Aug. 14, 1860.) All work for Good. In the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1813.
81. Waiting for Jesus, and loving while waiting. (Jan. 9, 1872.) Second Advent desired. In the 1873 Appendix to Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory.
82. Without a cloud between. (Mar. 18,1862.) Jesus, Face to Face. In the London Messenger, June, 1862.
83. Yet awhile; how sweet the thought. (Dec, 1864.) Second Advent desired. In theLondon Messenger, 1865.
The collections in which these hymns are mainly found are Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866; Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872-3; Hurditch's Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873, and smaller books for Evangelical mission work. Of Mr. Midlane's hymns as a whole, Miher's estimate that "His hymns are full of spiritual thought, careful in their wording, and often very pleasing without reaching the highest form of poetical excellence " (Singers and Songs, p. 572), is just. A marked feature of these hymns is the constant and happy use of Scripture phraseology.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Midlane, A., p. 733, ii. Mr. Midlane published in 1901 The Bright Blue Sky Hymn Book, of 315 of his hymns, and the same year The Gospel Hall Hymn Book, for use in the Gospel Hall, Newport, I.W., with 218 additional, making 533 original compositions. A broad-sheet of seven special hymns for Jewish children, in connection with the Mildmay Mission to the Jews, was also issued in December, 1904. Other publications previously noticed give, with these, over 800 hymns to Mr. Midlane as his contribution to the hymnody of the Church.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Albert Midlane
