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Crown Him with Many Crowns
Author: Matthew Bridges; Godfrey Thring Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 798 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Adoration; Ascension and Reign; Christ Ascension; Worship Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon his throne.
Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing
of him who died for thee,
and hail him as thy matchless king
through all eternity.
2 Crown him the Lord of life,
who triumphed o'er the grave,
and rose victorious in the strife
for those he came to save;
his glories now we sing
who died and rose on high,
who died eternal life to bring,
and lives that death may die.
3 Crown him the Lord of love;
behold his hands and side,
rich wounds, yet visible above,
in beauty glorified;
no angels in the sky
can fully bear that sight,
but downward bends their burning eye
at mysteries so bright.
4 Crown him the Lord of years,
the potentate of time,
creator of the rolling spheres,
ineffably sublime.
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
for thou hast died for me;
thy praise shall never, never fail
throughout eternity.
Worship and Rejoice, 2003
Crown Him with Many Crowns
Because He Lives
Author: Gloria Gaither; Bill Gaither Meter: 9.8.9.11 with refrain Appears in 60 hymnals First Line: God sent his Son, they called him Jesus Refrain First Line: Because he lives, I can face tomorrow
Because He Lives
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 1,177 hymnals Topics: Easter First Line: Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
BLESSED ASSURANCE
Meter: Irregular Appears in 682 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Phoebe Palmer Knapp, 1839-1908 Topics: Year B Easter 2; Year C Easter 4 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32155 45655 35177 Used With Text: Blessed assurance
BLESSED ASSURANCE
MY SAVIOUR'S LOVE
Meter: 8.7.8.7 irregular Appears in 153 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 1858-1932 Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Easter and Holy Week Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55351 23177 71215 Used With Text: I stand amazed in the presence
MY SAVIOUR'S LOVE
GELOBT SEI GOTT
Meter: 8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 142 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Melchior Vulpius; Emily R. Brink Topics: Easter; Easter Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 17655 67111 25176 Used With Text: Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing
GELOBT SEI GOTT
Bright Easter skies
Hymnal: Voices of Praise #367 (1883) Topics: Easter First Line: Bright Easter skies! Lyrics: 1 Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!
Our Lord is risen, We, too, shall rise.
Nor walls of stone, hewn firm and cold,
Nor Roman soldiers, brave and bold;
Nor Satan's marshalled hosts could keep
The pierced hands in deathly sleep;
Just as the Easter day-beams dawn,
Our buried Lord is risen and gone.
Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!
Our Lord is risen, We, too, shall rise.
2 Green Easter fields! Fair Easter fields!
Heaven's first ripe fruit, Death, conquer'd yields.
In church-yards wide the seed we sow,
Beneath the cross the wheat shall grow;
One Easter-Day death's reign shall end,
And golden sheaves shall heav'nward send.
Hail the blest morn, by whose glad light,
Angels shall reap the harvest white.
Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!
Our Lord is risen, We, too, shall rise.
3 Sweet Easter flowers! White Easter flowers!
From Heaven descend Life-giving showers.
Each plant that bloomed at Eden's birth,
Shall blow again o'er ransomed earth.
Pluck lilies rare and roses sweet,
And strew the path of Jesus' feet.
Throw fragrant palms before our King,
And wreathe the crown the saved shall bring.
Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!
Our Lord is risen, We, too, shall rise.
4 O Christian child! O Christian men!
Our Victor Lord, Shall come again.
Wake we our hearts at His command;
Lift we our love to His right hand.
With warmest hopes, to Easter skies,
Stretch we our arms, and fix our eyes:
Till in the clouds His sign we see,
And quick and dead shout "Jubilee!"
Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!
Our Lord is risen, We, too, shall rise. Languages: English Tune Title: [Bright Easter skies! Fair Easter skies!]
Bright Easter skies
Easter flowers, Easter carols
Hymnal: Voices of Praise #370 (1883) Topics: Easter Lyrics: 1 Easter flowers, Easter carols
Deck the altar, fill the air;
Glorious dawns the happy morning
O'er a world so bright and fair.
Alleluia let us sing,
Alleluia to the King!
2 When the clouds of night were broken,
Angels rolled the stone away,
And on this bright Easter morning
Sing we now the triumph lay.
Alleluia let us sing,
Alleluia to the King!
3 In the mists of early morning,
Came the faithful to the tomb,
Angel guardians clad in white robes,
Sat there in the breaking gloom.
Alleluia let us sing,
Alleluia to the King!
4 "He is risen!" thus the angel
Spake unto the faithful three,
"He is risen" wondrous story,
"He has gone to Galilee."
Alleluia let us sing,
Alleluia to the King!
5 Now the clouds of night are broken,
Mortals now the story tell,
"He is risen! Alleluia!"
Let the joyful anthem swell.
Alleluia let us sing,
Alleluia to the King.
Languages: English Tune Title: [Easter flowers, Easter carols]
Easter flowers, Easter carols
Arise, My Soul, This Easter Morn
Author: Andreas Wexells Hymnal: Hymnal for Church and Home #109 (1927) Meter: 8.8.9.9.8.4 Topics: Passion and Easter Lyrics: 1 Arise, my soul, this Easter morn
With joy and praises heaven-born,
And hear good news from death's dark portals
To all distress'd and grieving mortals.
O blessed Easter morning show'r
On us thy pow'r.
2 Disarm'd and crush'd, forever fell
This morn the pow'r of death and hell,
For He who lay in death's grim prison
With might and glory is arisen.
O blessed Easter morning show'r
On us thy pow'r.
3 Come, souls, by sin and death dismay'd
With all that in the grave ye laid
To Him who rose on Easter morrow
And brings you balm for all your sorrow.
O blessed Easter morning show'r
On us thy pow'r.
4 My soul, why shouldst thou grieve and pine!
The peace and joy of heav'n are thine.
The Lord arose with might supernal,
And thou art heir to life eternal.
O blessed Easter morning show'r
On us thy pow'r.
5 Come, people of the Lord, employ
Your heart and soul in songs of joy,
Go forth to meet with praises ringing
The Lord who life for death is bringing.
O blessed Easter morning show'r
On us thy pow'r. Languages: English Tune Title: [Arise, my soul, this Easter morn]
Arise, My Soul, This Easter Morn
John Stainer
1840 - 1901 Person Name: J. Stainer (1840-1901) Topics: Easter The Resurrection of Christ; Easter 3 The Resurrection and the Life Arranger of "TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)
John Stainer
Samuel Medley
1738 - 1799 Person Name: Samuel Medley, 1738-1799 Topics: Easter Vigil ; Easter; Easter 5, Year A; Easter Season Author of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" in Worship (3rd ed.) Medley, Samuel, born June 23, 1738, at Cheshunt, Herts, where his father kept a school. He received a good education; but not liking the business to which he was apprenticed, he entered the Royal Navy. Having been severely wounded in a battle with the French fleet off Port Lagos, in 1759, he was obliged to retire from active service. A sermon by Dr. Watts, read to him about this time, led to his conversion. He joined the Baptist Church in Eagle Street, London, then under the care of Dr. Gifford, and shortly afterwards opened a school, which for several years he conducted with great success. Having begun to preach, he received, in 1767, a call to become pastor of the Baptist church at Watford. Thence, in 1772, he removed to Byrom Street, Liverpool, where he gathered a large congregation, and for 27 years was remarkably popular and useful. After a long and painful illness he died July 17, 1799. Most of Medley's hymns were first printed on leaflets or in magazines (the Gospel Magazine being one). They appeared in book form as:—
(1) Hymns, &c. Bradford, 1785. This contains 42 hymns. (2) Hymns on Select Portions of Scripture by the Rev. Mr. Medley. 2nd ed. Bristol. W. Pine. 1785. This contains 34 hymns, and differs much from the Bradford edition both in the text and in the order of the hymns. (3) An enlargement of the same in 1787. (4) A small collection of new Hymns, London, 1794. This contains 23 hymns. (5) Hymns. The Public Worship and Private Devotion of True Christians Assisted in some thoughts in Verse; principally drawn from Select Passages of the Word of God. By Samuel Medley. London. Printed for J. Johnson. 1800. A few of his hymns are also found in a Collection for the use of All Denominations, published in London in 1782.
Medley's hymns have been very popular in his own denomination, particularly among the more Calvinistic churches. In Denham's Selections there are 48, and in J. Stevens's Selections, 30. Their charm consists less in their poetry than in the warmth and occasional pathos with which they give expression to Christian experience. In most of them also there is a refrain in the last line of each verse which is often effective. Those in common use include:—
1. Come, join ye saints, with heart and voice. (1800). Complete in Christ.
2. Death is no more among our foes. Easter.
3. Eternal Sovereign Lord of all. (1789). Praise for Providential Care.
4. Far, far beyond these lower skies. (1789). Jesus, the Forerunner.
5. Father of mercies, God of love, whose kind, &c. (1789.) New Year.
6. Great God, today Thy grace impart. Sermon.
7. Hear, gracious God! a sinner's cry. (1789). Lent.
8. In heaven the rapturous song began. Christmas.
9. Jesus, engrave it on my heart. (1789). Jesus, Needful to all.
10. Mortals, awake, with angels join. (1782). Christmas.
11. My soul, arise in joyful lays. (1789). Joy in God.
12. Now, in a song of grateful praise. Praise to Jesus. In the Gospel Magazine, June, 1776.
13. O could I speak the matchless worth. (1789.) Praise of Jesus.
14. O for a bright celestial ray. Lent.
15. O God, Thy mercy, vast and free. (1800). Dedication of Self to God.
16. O let us tell the matchless love. Praise to Jesus.
17. O what amazing words of grace. (1789). Foutain of Living Waters.
18. Saints die, and we should gently weep. (1800). Death and Burial. From his "Dearest of Names, Our Lord and King."
19. See a poor sinner, dearest Lord. Lent.
20. Sing the dear Saviour's glorious fame. (1789). Jesus the Breaker of bonds.
In 1800 a Memoir of Medley was published by his son, which is regarded by members of the family now living as authoritative. But in 1833 appeared another Memoir by Medley's daughter Sarah, to which are appended 52 hymns for use on Sacramental occasions. These she gives as her father's. But 8 of them are undoubtedly by Thos. Kelly, published by him in 1815, and reprinted in subsequent editions of his Hymns. The remainder are by Medley. Nearly all of these 52 hymns (both Medley's and Kelly's) have been altered in order to adapt them to Sacramental use. In Sarah Medley's volume, Kelly's hymns all follow one another, and three of them are in a metre which Medley apparently never used. What could have been Sarah Medley's motive in all this it is hard to divine. She is said to have been a clever, though unamiable woman, and was herself the author of a small volume of Poems published in 1807. In the Memoir she does not conceal her hatred of her brother. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Samuel Medley
George J. Elvey
1816 - 1893 Person Name: George Job Elvey Topics: Easter 1 Year A; Easter 2 Year A; Easter 7 Year A; Easter 6 Year B; Easter 7 Year B; Easter 4 Year C Composer of "DIADEMATA" in Voices United George Job Elvey (b. Canterbury, England, 1816; d. Windlesham, Surrey, England, 1893) As a young boy, Elvey was a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral. Living and studying with his brother Stephen, he was educated at Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music. At age nineteen Elvey became organist and master of the boys' choir at St. George Chapel, Windsor, where he remained until his retirement in 1882. He was frequently called upon to provide music for royal ceremonies such as Princess Louise's wedding in 1871 (after which he was knighted). Elvey also composed hymn tunes, anthems, oratorios, and service music.
Bert Polman
George J. Elvey
