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May the Grace of Christ Our Saviour

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 617 hymnals Topics: Christian unity and fellowship Lyrics: 1 May the grace of Christ our Saviour, And the Father's boundless love, With the Holy Spirit's favor, Rest upon us from above. 2 Thus may we abide in union With each other and the Lord; And possess, in sweet communion, Joys which earth cannot afford. Amen. Used With Tune: BATTY (RINGE RECHT WENN GOTTES GNADE)

Love divine, all loves excelling

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,872 hymnals Topics: Christian unity Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heav'n, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. 2 Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter ev'ry trembling heart. 3 Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into ev'ry troubled breast; let us all in thee inherit, let us find thy promised rest. 4 Take away our love of sinning. Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. 5 Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy grace receive; suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. 6 Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above; pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 7 Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee. 8 Changed from glory into glory till in heav'n we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Used With Tune: LOVE DIVINE

The Church's One Foundation

Author: Samuel J. Stone Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 869 hymnals Topics: Christian unity Lyrics: 1 The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord; we are Christ's new creation by water and the word; From heaven Christ came and sought us in love to set us free; with precious blood Christ bought us for all eternity. 2 Elect from every nation, yet one o’er all the earth, one charter of salvation, one God, one faith, one birth, One name together blessing, one holy food we share, to one hope we are pressing, at one in work and prayer. 3 'Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of our war, we wait the consummation of peace forevermore, Till with the vision glorious, our longing eyes are blessed, and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest. 4 Yet we on earth have union with God, the Three-in-One, and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won. O happy ones and holy! God, give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, may live eternally. Scripture: Ephesians 2:13-22 Used With Tune: AURELIA

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VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS (MECHLIN)

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 150 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Andrew Moore Topics: Christian unity Tune Sources: "Proper Sarum Melody" Tune Key: b minor Incipit: 56545 65122 11561 Used With Text: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire

LAND OF REST

Appears in 190 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Anabel Morris Buchanan, 1889-198e Topics: Community; Faith Journey; God's Presence; Jesus; Sacraments/Rites Christian Initiation of Adults; Unity Tune Sources: American folk melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 51165 51123 Used With Text: I Come with Joy

ST BOTOLPH

Appears in 40 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gordon Slater, 1896-1979 Topics: Christian unity Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13153 21712 35654 Used With Text: I come with joy

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Jesus, united by Thy grace

Author: C. Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #528 (1917) Topics: Believers (See also Christian Saints) Unity of; Believers (See also Christian Saints) Unity of; Christian Unity; Unity, Christian Lyrics: 1 Jesus, united by Thy grace, And each to each endeared, With confidence we seek Thy face, And know our prayer is heard. 2 Still let us own our common Lord And bear Thine easy yoke, A band of love, a threefold cord, Which never can be broke. 3 Make us into one spirit drink; Baptize into Thy name; And let us always kindly think, And sweetly speak, the same. 4 Touched by the loadstone of Thy love, Let all our hearts agree, And ever towards each other move, And ever move towards Thee. 5 To Thee inseparably joined, Let all our spirits cleave; O may we all the loving mind That was in Thee receive! Languages: English Tune Title: DALEHURST

They'll Know We Are Christians

Author: Peter Scholtes Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #494 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.6 with refrain Topics: God's Church Christian Unity; God's Church Christian Unity; Christian unity First Line: We are one in the Spirit Refrain First Line: And they'll know we are Christians by our love Scripture: John 13:35 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. BRENDAN'S

Hear My Prayer for Unity

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Hymnal: Gifts of Love #17 (2000) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Topics: Christian unity First Line: "Hear my prayer for unity," Scripture: John 14:6 Languages: English

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Jeremiah Eames Rankin

1828 - 1904 Topics: Christian unity and fellowship Author of "God Be with You Till We Meet Again" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857. Another of his hymns is "Rest, rest, rest, brother rest." He died in 1904. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Rankin, J. 33., p. 951, ii. Dr. Rankin, b. in N. H. (not New Haven), and received his D.D. 1869, LL.D. 1889 from his Alma Mater. He was President for several years of Howard University, Washington, D.C. His publications included several volumes of Sermons, German-English Lyrics, Sacred and Secular, 1897; 2nd ed. 1898, &c. In addition to his hymns noted on p. 951, ii., he has written and published mainly in sheet form many others, the most important and best-known being:— 1. God be with you till we meet again. [Benediction.] Dr. Rankin's account of this hymn, supplied to us, in common with Mr. Brownlie, for his Hymns and H. Writers of The Church Hymnary, 1899, is: "It was written as a Christian good-bye, and first sung in the First Congregational Church, of which I was minister for fifteen years. We had Gospel meetings on Sunday nights, and our music was intentionally of the popular kind. I wrote the first stanza, and sent it to two gentlemen for music. The music which seemed to me to best suit the words was written by T. G. Tomer, teacher of public schools in New Jersey, at one time on the staff of General 0. 0. Howard. After receiving the music (which was revised by Dr. J. W. Bischoff, the organist of my church), I wrote the other stanzas." The hymn became at once popular, and has been translated into several languages. In America it is in numerous collections; and in Great Britain, in The Church Hymnary, 1898, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, and others. It was left undated by Dr. Rankin, but I.D. Sankey gives it as 1882. 2. Beautiful the little hands. [Little ones for Jesus.] Given without date in Gloria Deo, New York, 1900. Dr. Rankin's translations include versions of German, French, Latin, and Welsh hymns. His contributions to the periodical press have been numerous. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Thomas H. Troeger

1945 - 2022 Topics: Christian unity Adapter (st. 3) of "Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation" in The New Century Hymnal Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009). Laura de Jong

Jane Borthwick

1813 - 1897 Person Name: Jane Laurie Borthwick Topics: Christian unity Author of "Now Is the Time Approaching" in The New Century Hymnal Miss Jane Borthwick, the translator of this hymn and many others, is of Scottish family. Her sister (Mrs. Eric Findlater) and herself edited "Hymns from the Land of Luther" (1854). She also wrote "Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (1859), and has contributed numerous poetical pieces to the "Family Treasury," under the signature "H.L.L." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ================================= Borthwick, Jane, daughter of James Borthwick, manager of the North British Insurance Office, Edinburgh, was born April 9, 1813, at Edinburgh, where she still resides. Along with her sister Sarah (b. Nov. 26, 1823; wife of the Rev. Eric John Findlater, of Lochearnhead, Perthshire, who died May 2, 1886) she translated from the German Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1st Series, 1854; 2nd, 1855; 3rd, 1858; 4th, 1862. A complete edition was published in 1862, by W. P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, of which a reprint was issued by Nelson & Sons, 1884. These translations, which represent relatively a larger proportion of hymns for the Christian Life, and a smaller for the Christian Year than one finds in Miss Winkworth, have attained a success as translations, and an acceptance in hymnals only second to Miss Winkworth's. Since Kennedy's Hymnologia Christiana, 1863, in England, and the Andover Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, in America, made several selections therefrom, hardly a hymnal in England or America has appeared without containing some of these translations. Miss Borthwick has kindly enabled us throughout this Dictionary to distinguish between the 61 translations by herself and the 53 by her sister. Among the most popular of Miss Borthwick's may be named "Jesus still lead on," and "How blessed from the bonds of sin;" and of Mrs. Findlater's "God calling yet!" and "Rejoice, all ye believers." Under the signature of H. L. L. Miss Borthwick has also written various prose works, and has contributed many translations and original poems to the Family Treasury, a number of which were collected and published in 1857, as Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (3rd edition, enlarged, 1867). She also contributed several translations to Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864, five of which are included in the new edition of the Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1884, pp. 256-264. Of her original hymns the best known are “Come, labour on” and "Rest, weary soul.” In 1875 she published a selection of poems translated from Meta Heusser-Schweizer, under the title of Alpine Lyrics, which were incorporated in the 1884 edition of the Hymns from the Land of Luther. She died in 1897. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Borthwick, Jane, p. 163, ii. Other hymns from Miss Borthwick's Thoughtful Hours, 1859, are in common use:— 1. And is the time approaching. Missions. 2. I do not doubt Thy wise and holy will. Faith. 3. Lord, Thou knowest all the weakness. Confidence. 4. Rejoice, my fellow pilgrim. The New Year. 5. Times are changing, days are flying. New Year. Nos. 2-5 as given in Kennedy, 1863, are mostly altered from the originals. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============= Works: Hymns from the Land of Luther

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