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Lord, Who Shall Sit Beside Thee?

Author: William Romanis Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Lord, who shall sit beside thee Lyrics: 1 Lord, who shall sit beside thee, enthroned on either hand, when clouds no longer hide thee 'mid all thy faithful band? 2 Who drinks the cup of sorrow the Father gave to thee 'neath shadows of the morrow in dark Gethsemane? 3 Who on thy passion thinking can find in loss a gain, and dare to meet unshrinking thy baptism of pain? 4 O Jesus, form within us thy likeness clear and true; by thine example win us to suffer and to do. 5 This law itself fulfilleth; Christlike to Christ is nigh; whoe'er the Father willeth shall sit with Christ on high. Scripture: Matthew 20:20-28 Used With Tune: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN

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CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 312 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Melchior Vulpius, 1560-1616; J. S. Bach, 1685-1750; J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: Lord, who shall sit beside thee

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Lord, Who Shall Sit Beside Thee?

Author: William Romanis Hymnal: Rejoice in the Lord #264 (1985) Meter: 7.6.7.6 First Line: Lord, who shall sit beside thee Lyrics: 1 Lord, who shall sit beside thee, enthroned on either hand, when clouds no longer hide thee 'mid all thy faithful band? 2 Who drinks the cup of sorrow the Father gave to thee 'neath shadows of the morrow in dark Gethsemane? 3 Who on thy passion thinking can find in loss a gain, and dare to meet unshrinking thy baptism of pain? 4 O Jesus, form within us thy likeness clear and true; by thine example win us to suffer and to do. 5 This law itself fulfilleth; Christlike to Christ is nigh; whoe'er the Father willeth shall sit with Christ on high. Scripture: Matthew 20:20-28 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Lord, who shall sit beside thee

Author: William Romanis, 1824-99 Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #175 (1986) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Lord, who shall sit beside thee, Enthroned on either hand, When clouds no longer hide thee, 'Mid all thy faithful band? 2 Who drinks the cup of sorrow Thy Father gave to thee 'Neath shadows of the morrow In dark Gethsemane; 3 Who on thy Passion thinking Can find in loss a gain, And dare to meet unshrinking Thy baptism of pain. 4 O Jesu, form within us Thy likeness clear and true; By thine example win us To suffer and to do. 5 This law itself fulfilleth,-- Christlike to Christ is nigh, And, where the Father willeth, Shall sit with Christ on high. Topics: St James the Great July 25th; The Christian Year Festivals and Other Holy Days: Proper Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Lord, who shall sit beside thee

Author: William Romanis, 1824-1899 Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #807 (2010) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 Lord, who shall sit beside thee, enthroned on either hand, when clouds no longer hide thee, 'mid all thy faithful band? 2 Who drinks the cup of sorrow thy Father gave to thee 'neath shadows of the morrow in dark Gethsemane; 3 who on thy passion thinking can find in loss a gain, and dare to meet unshrinking thy baptism of pain. 4 O Jesu, form within us thy likeness clear and true; by thine example win us to suffer and to do. 5 This law itself fulfilleth – Christlike to Christ is nigh, and, where the Father willeth, shall sit with Christ on high. Topics: Saints' and Other Holy Days St. James the Great and St. John Languages: English Tune Title: VULPIUS

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach Harmonizer of "CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in Rejoice in the Lord 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)

Melchior Vulpius

1570 - 1615 Person Name: M. Vulpius Composer of "CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in Rejoice in the Lord Born into a poor family named Fuchs, Melchior Vulpius (b. Wasungen, Henneberg, Germany, c. 1570; d. Weimar, Germany, 1615) had only limited educational opportunities and did not attend the university. He taught Latin in the school in Schleusingen, where he Latinized his surname, and from 1596 until his death served as a Lutheran cantor and teacher in Weimar. A distinguished composer, Vulpius wrote a St. Matthew Passion (1613), nearly two hundred motets in German and Latin, and over four hundred hymn tunes, many of which became popular in Lutheran churches, and some of which introduced the lively Italian balletto rhythms into the German hymn tunes. His music was published in Cantiones Sacrae (1602, 1604), Kirchengesangund Geistliche Lieder (1604, enlarged as Ein schon geistlich Gesanglmch, 1609), and posthumously in Cantionale Sacrum (1646). Bert Polman

William Romanis

1824 - 1899 Author of "Lord, Who Shall Sit Beside Thee?" in Rejoice in the Lord Romanis, William, M.A., born in 1824, and educated at Emmanuel College, Camb., B.A. in honours, 1846, M.A. 1849, D. 1847, P. 1848. From 1846 to 1856 he was Assistant Master in the Classical Dept. of Cheltenham College. Subsequently he was Curate of Axminster; then of St. Mary's, Reading. In 1863 he became Vicar of Wigston Magna, Leicester, and in 1888 of Twyford, Hants. He retired from active work in 1895, and died in 1899. His Sermons Preached at St. Mary's, Reading, were published in 1862; 2nd series, 1864. His hymns in common use are:— 1. Dark lies before us, hid from mortal view. [For Divine Guidance.] 2. Lord, who shall sit beside Thee? [SS. James and John.] 3. Round me falls the night. [Evening.] These hymns appeared in the Wigston Magna School Hymns, 1878, and are also given in The Public School Hymn Book, 1903. Nos. 2 and 3 are in The English Hymnal, 1906. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)