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A charge to keep I have

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,379 hymnals Topics: Calling and Commissioning Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:13-14 Used With Tune: CAMBRIDGE (Harrison)

Whiter Than Snow (Blessed Be the Fountain)

Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 130 hymnals Topics: Invitation and Repentance Call Accepted First Line: Blessed be the Fountain of blood Refrain First Line: Whiter than the snow Lyrics: 1 Blessed be the Fountain of blood, To a world of sinners revealed; Blessed be the dear Son of God; Only by his stripes we are healed. Tho' I've wandered far from his fold, Bringing to my heart pain and woe, Wash me in the blood of the Lamb, And I shall be whiter than snow. Chorus: Whiter than the snow, Whiter than the snow, Wash me in the blood of the Lamb, And I shall be whiter than snow. 2 Thorny was the crown that he wore, And the cross his body o'er came; Grievous were the sorrows he bore, But he suffered thus not in vain. May I to the Fountain be led, Made to cleanse my sins here below; Wash me in the blood that he shed, And I shall be whiter than snow. [Chorus] 3 Father, I have wandered from thee, Often has my heart gone astray: Crimson do my sins seem to me, Water cannot wash them away. Jesus, to that Fountain of thine, Leaning on thy promise I go; Cleanse me by thy washing divine, And I shall be whiter than snow. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Blessed be the Fountain of blood]

Busca primero el reino de Dios

Author: Karen Lafferty; Anónimo; Anónimo Meter: Irregular Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Call Scripture: Luke 12:31 Used With Tune: SEEK YE

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ADESTES FIDELES

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1,424 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John F. Wade Topics: Service Music Greeting/Call to Worship Tune Sources: Harm. from Collections of Motetts or Antiphons, 1792 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

PREPARE THE WAY

Meter: Irregular Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jacques Berthier; Community of Taizé Topics: Service Music Greeting/Call to Worship Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55566 61133 4445 Used With Text: Prepare the Way of the Lord

SPANISH HYMN

Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Appears in 562 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Benjamin Carr; Austin C. Lovelace Topics: Service Music Greeting/Call to Worship Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 17161 53142 17117 Used With Text: Come, Christians, Join to Sing

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Jesus Is Calling

Author: Charles H. Gabriel, 1856-1932 Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #578 (2013) Meter: 10.8.10.7 with refrain Topics: Calling and Vocation First Line: Jesus is calling, oh, hear him today Refrain First Line: Calling for you, calling for you Lyrics: 1 Jesus is calling, oh hear him today, calling for you, calling for you. Will you not quickly the summons obey? Jesus is calling for you. Refrain: Calling for you; calling for you. Hear him today; do not turn him away. Jesus is calling for you. 2 Jesus is calling, your service he needs, calling for you, calling for you. Tenderly, patiently with you he pleads; Jesus is calling for you. [Refrain] 3 Jesus is calling, he stands at the door, calling for you, calling for you. Open your heart, and his mercy implore; Jesus is calling for you. [Refrain] Scripture: Mark 1:16-20 Languages: English Tune Title: JESUS IS CALLING TODAY

Jesus Is Tenderly Calling

Author: Fanny J. Crosby Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal #697 (1961) Topics: Calling First Line: Jesus is tenderly calling thee home Refrain First Line: Calling today, calling today Lyrics: 1 Jesus is tenderly calling thee home- Calling today, calling today; Why from the sunshine of love wilt thou roam Farther and farther away? Refrain: Calling today,Calling today, Jesus is calling,is tenderly calling today. 2 Jesus is calling the weary to rest- Calling today, calling today; Bring him thy burden and thou shalt be blest; He will not turn thee away. [Refrain] 3 Jesus is waiting, O come to Him now- Waiting today, waiting today; Come with thy sins; at his feet lowly bow; Come, and no longer delay. [Refrain] 4 Jesus is pleading; O list to his voice; Hear him today, hear him today; They who believe on his name shall rejoice; Quickly arise and away. [Refrain] Amen. Scripture: Matthew 11:28 Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is tenderly calling thee home]

God Is Calling Through the Whisper

Author: Mary Louise Bringle Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #478 (2010) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Topics: The Church at Worship Calling; Calling-to Salvation Languages: English Tune Title: W ZLOBIE LEZY

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Ernest Warburton Shurtleff

1862 - 1917 Person Name: Ernest W. Shurtleff Topics: The Nature of the Church Called to God's Mission Author of "Lead On, O King Eternal" in The United Methodist Hymnal Before studying at Andover, Ernest W. Shurtleff (Boston, MA, 1862; d. Paris, France, 1917) attended Harvard University. He served Congregational churches in Ventura, California; Old Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, before moving to Europe. In 1905 he established the American Church in Frankfurt, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he was involved in student ministry at the Academy Vitti. During World War I he and his wife were active in refugee relief work in Paris. Shurtleff wrote a number of books, including Poems (1883), Easter Gleams (1885), Song of Hope (1886), and Song on the Waters (1913). Bert Polman =============== Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton, b. at Boston, Mass., April 4, 1862, and educated at Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and Andover Theo. Seminary (1887). Entering the Congregational Ministry, he was Pastor at Palmer and Plymouth, Mass., and is now (1905) Minister of First Church, Minneapolis, Minn. His works include Poems, 1883, Easter Gleams, 1883, and others. His hymn, "Lead on, O King Eternal" (Christian Warfare), was written as a parting hymn to his class of fellow students at Andover, and was included in Hymns of the Faith, Boston, 1887. It has since appeared in several collections. [M. C. Hazard, Ph.D]. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry Hart Milman

1791 - 1868 Person Name: Henry Hart Milman, 1791-1868 Topics: The Church The Gospel Call Author of "Ride on, ride on in majesty!" in The Book of Praise Milman, Henry Hart, D.D., the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman (who received his Baronetage as an eminent Court physician), was born Feb. 10th, 1791, and educated at Dr. Burney's at Greenwich, and subsequently at Eton. His career at B. N. C. Oxford, was brilliant. He took a first class in classics, and carried off the Newdigate, Latin Verse, Latin Essay, and English Essay. His Newdigate on the Apollo Belvedere, 1812, is styled by Dean Stanley "the most perfect of Oxford prize poems." His literary career for several years promised to be poetical. His tragedy Fazio was played at Covent Garden, Miss O'Neill acting Bianca. Samor was written in the year of his appointment to St. Mary's, Reading (1817); The Fall of Jerusalem (1820); Belshazzar and The Martyr of Antioch (1822), and Anne Boleyn, gained a brilliant reception from the reviewers and the public. He was appointed Poetry Professor at Oxford in 1821, and was succeeded ten years after by Keble. It must have been before 1823, the date of Heber's consecration to Calcutta, that the 13 hymns he contributed to Heber's Hymns were composed. But his poetry was only the prelude to his larger work. The Bampton Lectures (1827) mark his transition to theological study, and the future direction of it was permanently fixed by his History of the Jews (1829). This book raised a storm of obloquy. It was denounced from the University pulpit, and in the British Critic. "It was the first decisive inroad of German theology into England, the first palpable indication that the Bible could be studied like another book, that the characters and events of the sacred history could be treated at once critically and reverently" (Dean Stanley). In 1835 he was presented by Sir Robert Peel to a Canonry at Westminster and the Rectory of St. Margaret's. In 1839 appeared his valuable edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall; and in 1840 his History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. Among his minor works in a different field were his Life of Keats and his edition and Life of Horace. It was not till 1854 that his greatest work—-for "vast and varied learning, indefatigable industry, calm impartiality, and subtle and acute criticism, among the most memorable in our language" (Quart Rev.)—-Latin Christianity—-appeared. He had been appointed Dean of St. Paul's in 1849. The great services under the dome originated in his tenure of the Deanery. His latest work, published after his death, Sept. 24, 1868, was The Annals of St. Paul’s. Though one of the most illustrious in the school of English liberal theology, he had no sympathy with the extreme speculations of Germany. The "criticism" of Tübingen "will rarely bear criticism." He "should like an Ewald to criticise Ewald." "Christianity will survive the criticism of Dr. Strauss," and the "bright flashing artillery" of Rénan. His historical style has been compared to Gibbon in its use of epigram and antithesis. His narrative is full of rapidity of movement. His long complex paragraphs have often a splendour of imagination as well as wealth of thought. All the varied powers of his mind found vent in his conversation; he was called, after his death, "the last of the great converters." The catalogue of his friends from the days of Heber, "his early friend," to those of Hallam, Macaulay, and Dean Stanley, was long and distinguished. Milman's 13 hymns were published in Heber's posthumous Hymns in 1827, and subsequently in his own Selection of Psalms & Hymns, 1837. The fine hymn for The Burial of the Dead, in Thring's Collection, "Brother, thou art gone before us," is from The Martyr of Antioch (1822). Like Heber's, they aim at higher literary expression and lyric grace. He makes free use of refrains. The structure is often excellent. His style is less florid and fuller of burning, sometimes lurid force than Heber's. His hymn for the 16th Sunday after Trinity, "When our heads are bowed with woe," has no peer in its presentation of Christ's human sympathy; the hymn for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, “Oh! help us, Lord! each hour of need," is a piece of pure deep devotion. "Ride on, ride on in majesty," the hymn for Palm Sunday, is one of our best hymns. And the stanzas for Good Friday, "Bound upon the accursed tree," form one of the finest meditations on the Passion. All his hymns are still in common use. [Rev.H.Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lewis E. Jones

1865 - 1936 Topics: Christ Call of Author of "Would You Be Free from the Burden" in Hymns for the Living Church Pseudonyms: Mary Slater ================ Lewis Edgar Jones USA 1865-1936. Born in Yates City, IL, his family moved near Davenport, IA, where he lived on a farm until age 21. He went into business for awhile, and attended the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He was a classmate of evangelist, Billy Sunday. After graduating, he worked for the YMCA in Davenport, IA; Fort Worth, TX (1915, as general secretary); and Santa Barbara, CA (1925 as general secretary). Hymn writing was his avocation, and he wrote 200+, advising that many came from pastors’ sermons. He married Lora May Wright (1872-1950), and they had a daughter, Frances Ellen (1897-1982). He died in Santa Barbara, CA. John Perry

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