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Herre! jeg hjertelig ønsker at fremme din Ære

Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day For Evening Lyrics: 1 Herre! jeg hjertelig ønsker at fremme din Ære, Dertil du skabte mig, at jeg din Tjener skal være. Hvor er jeg sæl, Som kan med Liv og med Sjæl Tjene saa naadig en Herre! 2 O, at jeg kunde i Gjerning saa gjerne, jeg vilde, Prise dig Fader, al Miskunds og Kjærligheds Kilde! Til alt dit Verk Gjær mig lærvillig og sterk, Lad mig dit Venskab ei spilde! 3 Væk selv mit Sind, og opmuntre mig flittig at sjunge, Til din Taksigelse løsne min stammende Tunge! Immanuel, Du bør i Legem og Sjæl Prises af Gamle og Unge! 4 Du er den Første og Sidste, som alle Ting bærer, Du er den Vise og Gode, alt Levende nærer, Intet bestaar, Ingen sit Endemaal naar Uden ved dig, som regjerer. 5 Du er den kjærlige Fader, som Sønnen udsendte, For os Fortabte fra Døden til Livet at hente; Din Miskund gjør, At vi, Dødskyldige, tør Livet og Salighed vente. 6 Du lader Naade ved Aanden i Hjertet nedflyde, Du giver Kraft udi Trængsler til gjennem at bryde; DiN søde Trøst Salver det saarede Bryst, Naar vore Klagemaal lyde. 7 Naade – ak hellige, søde Guds Rørelsers Glæde! Forsmag paa det, som deroppe i Herligheds Sæde Øses skal ud, Naar for vor Saligheds Gud Vi skal i Lyset fremtræde! 8 Naaden, ak kan den saa liflig om Hjerterne lette, Hvad vil da Herligheds Fylde i Himlen udrette! Sødeste Gud! Hvo kan vel tænke det ud? Hvo kan dig takke for dette? Text Sources: Dansk. Ukj. Forf.

O Gud, hvor jammerlig

Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass Lyrics: 1 O Gud, hvor jammerlig Din Kirker-Ager sig I denne Tid befinder! Alt Ukrud fort oprinder, Og tegner sig at sprede Og overgro din Hvede. 2 Du har jo ladet strø Dig Ords det rene Frø; Det Livsens Korn, du saa'de, Til alle Ender naa'de Udi din Kirke-Lykke Til Himmel-Frugt og Smykke 3 Dog skyder Klinten op Sin purpur-kroned' Top, Og i Guds Ager brammer, Som det vor Herre-Stammer Man ser den, og maa lide, Den brasker ved vor Side. 4 O Gud, hvor søvne-blind Er Mennesket i Sind! De, som din Ager vare, Tidt vente ingen Fare, Men før de ud har blundet, Har Helved-Fyrsten vundet. 5 Nu strør han vidt herud Et Kjætter-Klinte-Krud, Som vel udvortes praler, Og herlig sig udmaler, Ja mangen Sjæl forvender, Som Guds Ords Sæd ei kjender. 6 Thi, ak desvær'! man veed, At Søvn og Sikkerhed Har Hjerterne indtaget, Imens har Satan jaget Al Skam og Last i Grøde, Som vil Guds Ære øde. 7 Her vokser Hovmod frem, Had, Gjerrighed saa slem, Hor, Mord og Løgn og Laster Al Ærbarhed omkaster, Rundt om os Synder grove Gror op som tykke Skove. 8 Dog kommer vel den Dag, Gud dømme vil sin Sag, Og samle ind sin Hvede, Og da med Klinten hede Den evig' Ild og Lue I Helveds Mørke-Stue. 9 O Gud, bevar dit Ord Fra Satans Løgn og Mord, Fra al den vrange Lære, Som røver dig din Ære! Lad Ordets Sæd udspænde Sin Frugt til Verdens Ende! 10 Giv os din gode Aand, Som Sæden af din Haand Opelske kan og vande, Saa vore Hjerte-Lande Utallig Frygt maa bære Dit store Navn til Ære!

Jesus! naar jeg Synet ned

Author: J. K. Arnschwanger; Brorson Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Nyaarsdag Til Aftensang; New Years Day For Evening; Retfærdiggjørelse og Syndsforladelse; Righteousness and Sincerity; Helliggjørelse og Fornyelse; Sanctification and Renewal; Bønnen; Bønnen; Prayer; Prayer; Første Søndag efter Hellig Tr0Kongers Dag Til Aftensang; First Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day For Evening; Femte Søndag efter Paaske Til Aftensang; Fifth Sunday after Easter For Evening; Anden Pintesdag Til Aftensang; Second Pentecost Day For Evening; 14 Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Aftensang; Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening Lyrics: 1 Jesus! naar jeg Synet ned I de dybe Grunde sænker, Paa din store Kjærlighed Til mig, arme Synder, tænker, O, da bliver jeg saa glad, Som jeg snart i Himlen sad. 2 Lammet være Pris og Magt, Som sig lod for Synden slagte, At oprette Naadens Pagt, Som en evig Frelse bragte! Den jeg udi Daaben faar, Og med Jesu Barnekaar. 3 Helvede, i Lænker lagt, Kan sig over mig ei glæde, Og den onde Verdens Magt Vil jeg under Fødder træde, Ja ved Jesu Kraft det sker, At jeg kun al Døden leer. 4 Tordner det paa Sinai Over alle Syndeslaver, Jeg i Jesu Krist er fri; Alt det, som han vundet haver, Det er mig af Gud tilkjendt, Som jeg selv det havde tjent. 5 Han, som Naade til mig vandt, Lystes i min Sjæl at blive, Og til sikkert Feste-Pant Mig sin Heligaand vil give; Gud has mig i Hjertet bor, Gjør det til sit Temple-Kor. 6 Driv da fra mig alt det Skum, Som mit Hjerte vil besvære, Lad dit Evangelium, Daab og Nadver mig livnære, At jeg derved Styrke faar, Fast hos Gud i Naaden staar!

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[O Helligaand du Skat saa skjøn]

Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass Tune Sources: Teutsch Kirchenampt 1525 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 54566 56717 65565 Used With Text: O Helligaand du Skat saa skjøn

[Bryd frem, mit Hjertes Trang at lindre]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ludv. M. Lindeman Topics: Tredie Søndag i Advent Til Høimesse; Third Sunday in Advent High Mass; Kjærlighed til og Længsel efter Gud; Love to and Longing for God; Tredie Søndag efter Hellig Tre-Kongers Dag Til Hoimesse; Third Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass; 5 Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Aftensang; Fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday For Evening; 12 Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Hoimesse; 12 Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Hoimesse; Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass; Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56156 45323 54571 Used With Text: Bryd frem, mit Hjertes Trang at lindre

[Ak Fader lad dit Ord, din Aand]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ludv. M. Lindeman Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 13213 45432 12765 Used With Text: Ak Fader lad dit Ord, din Aand

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O Helligaand du Skat saa skjøn

Author: S. Jonassøn; B. Ringwald Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #431 (1897) Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass Lyrics: 1 O Helligaand, du Skat saa skjøn, Som gjør os evig rige, Du, som med Fader og med Søn I Guddomsmagt er lige, Og gaar saa fra dem begge ud, Fra Evighed en mægtig Gud, Som alle Kristne prise! 2 Med Bøn vi falde dig til Fod: O lær du os alene Af ganske Hjerte, Hu og Mod Vor Frelsermand at tjene, Og hannem udi al vor Nød For Herre over Liv og Død At kjende og at prise! 3 Gjør al vor Levnets Vandring ny, Og vore Veie rene; Hjælp os Forargelser at sky, Og tjene Herren ene, At vi kan Jesu Kristi Tro For Verdens Børn, som hos os bo, Med kristen Idræt vise! 4 Din Naade-Dugg lad til enhver Guds Kirkes Lem nedflyde, Lad hver en Sjæl, som saaret er, Din søde Salve nyde! Giv Kraft i Korsets haarde Tid, Lad Kjærlighed i al vor Id Imod vor Næste vises! 5 Giv Styrke og et freidigt Mod At træde mod vor Fiende, At vi mod Verden, Kjød og Blod Og Satan Seier vinde! Naar Døden løsner Livets Baand, Lad Sjælen gjemmes i din Haand, Og Kroppen rolig hvile! Languages: Norwegian Tune Title: [O Helligaand du Skat saa skjøn]

Hvor deilig skal Guds Kirke staa

Author: Kingo Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #484 (1897) Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day For Evening Lyrics: 1 Hvor deilig skal Guds Kirke staa, Og i hans Aasyn Ynde faa, Naar alle Hjerter knytted' er Udi eet Sind og een Begjær: At elske ham og blive ved At vandre frem i Kjærlighed! 2 Hvad er vort Væsen, om vi ei Gaa Kjærligheds den rene Vei, Og broderlig hinanden vil Al velment Troskab byde til Med sligt et Hjerte og Attraa, Som Gud stod hos og saa derpaa? 3 Bort Vrede, Skjelsord, daarlig Harm! I bør ei hyses i dem Barm, Hvor Gud til Fred og salig Ro Vil, sin Velsignelse skal bo: Bort derfor alt, hvad skade kan Og hindre Enigheds Forstand! 4 Gid Tunge, Læber, Sind og Mund De kunde ret af Hjertens Grund Forsage Trædskhed, List og Svig, Og gjøre sig et Himmerig Udaf den søde Venskabs Fred Med hver Mand i Guds Kjærlighed! 5 Guds Øie ser dog al vor Daad, Vor Tanke, Paafund, Hjertens Raad; De Onde gaa ham ei forbi Paa deres Ondskabs skjulte Sti, Han ogsaa paa de Fromme ser, Al Hjælp og Naade han dem ter. 6 Min Sjæl, agt derfor lidet om Den Trusel, Had og Vrede, som Dig Verdens Børn kan lægge paa, Den skal saa snar en Vending faa, Gak du kun frem paa Fredens Vei, Og agt al Verdens Tummel ei! 7 O søde Gud, o gid jeg maa Mit Hjerte ved dig dannet faa, At du kan heliges i mig, Til jeg dig ser i Himmerig, Hvor hellig, hellig, hellig da Jeg synger med Halleluja! Languages: Norwegian

O kjære Sjæl, luk op din Mund

Author: Kingo Hymnal: M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg #578 (1897) Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day For Evening Lyrics: 1 O kjære Sjæl, luk up din Mund, Den Tunge bør sig røre Med Tak udaf dit Hjertes Grund, At Himlens Gud kan høre, Hvor du ved Guds Aand takke vil For Ordet, han dig sendte til: O se, hvad du kan gjøre! 2 Hvor kan jeg noksom skjønne paa, Og værdelig begrunde, At Verden, som i Synden laa, Gud vilde dog forunde Sit saliggjørend' Livsens Ord, Ja Daaben og sin Nadverds Bord, Hvorved den hjælpes kunde! 3 Og, at vi kan hans Naade se, Han Lærere os sender, Hans Ord og Sakramenterne De har i Mund og Hænder, Og med Formaning til enhver, Forstandere i Herren er; Gid vi den Naade kjender! 4 Det Embede saa værdigt er, Gid vi det aldrig savne, Men dem, som deri tjene her, Med Kjærlighed omfavne, Og leve samtlig' udi Fred Med god og frelst Samvittighed! Det vil os meget gavne. 5 Gid Jesu Glæde i os bo, Og Bønnens Aand os røre, At vi vor Gud med Fryd og Ro Taksigelse kan gjøre, Og aldrig staa Guds Aand imod, Men tro hans Ord af Hjerterod, Det elske, ære, høre! 6 Giv os, o Gud, din Helligaand, Hvorved vi ret kan prøve Hver Lærdom, og med sund Forstand Os i den sande øve, Og sky al Ondskabs Skam og Skin, At ei i usund Lærdoms Trin Guds Aand vi skal bedrøve! 7 Men Fredens Gud i Kjærlighed Os saa tilsammen binde, At i hans Kraft vi blive ved Et helligt Navn at vinde, Saa Sjæl og Aand og Legem maa Paa Kristi Dag fuldkomne staa, Guds Salighed at finde! Languages: Norwegian

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Bartholomäus Crasselius

1667 - 1724 Person Name: B. Crasselius Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day For Evening Author of "Min Jesus han er min" in M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg Crasselius, Bartholomäus, son of Johannes Crasselt, sheepmaster at Wemsdorf near Glauchau, Saxony; was born at Wernsdorf, Feb. 21, 1667. After studying at Halle, under A. H. Francke, he became, in 1701, pastor at Nidda, in Wetteravia, Hesse. In 1708 he was appointed Lutheran pastor at Düsseldorf, where he died Nov. 30, 1724, after a somewhat troubled pastorate, during which he felt called upon to testify strongly and somewhat bitterly against the shortcomings of the place and of the times (Koch, iv. 418-421; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, iv. 566-67; Bode, p. 55; manuscript from Pastor Baltzer, Wernsdorf; the second dating his call to Dusseldorf 1706). Of the 9 hymns by him which Freylinghausen included in his Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1704, two have been translated:— i. Dir, dir, Jehovah, will ich singen. Prayer. A hymn of supplication for the spirit of grace rightly to praise and worship God, founded on St. John, xvi. 23-28, the Gospel for Rogation Sunday. First published in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch &., Halle, 1697, p. 587, in 8 stanzas of 6 lines. Repeated as No. 291 in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, and since in almost all collections, as in the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegen. ed. 1863, No. 936. The well-known tune (known in England as Winchester New as reduced to L. M. in Hymns Ancient & Modern, No. 50) which appeared with this hymn in Freylinghausen, 1704, is altered from a melody to “Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten," in the Musicalisch Handbuch der Geistlichen Melodien, Hamburg, 1690. See L. Erk's Choralbuch, 1863, No. 63, and p. 247; also No. 261. The common, but erroneous ascription of this tune to Crasselius arose from confusion between the authorship of the tune and the words. There is no evidence that Crasselius wrote any tunes. Translations in common use:— 1. Jehovah, let me now adore Thee, a good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, as No. 117, in her Chorale Buch for England, 1863, set to the 1704 melody. 2. To Thee, 0 Lord, will I sing praises, in full, by Dr. M. Loy, in the Evangelical Review, Gettysburg, July 1861, and as No. 216 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. Other translations are:— (i) "To Thee, Jehovah, I'll be singing," in the Supplement to German Psalmody, ed. 1765, p. 41, and in Select Hymns from German Psaltery, Tranquebar, 1754, p. 72. (2) "Draw me, O Father, to the Son," a translation of stanza ii., by P. H. Molther, as No. 185 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789. In the ed. of 1886 it is enlarged to 3 stanzas by the addition of the translation of stanzas i. and viii., and in this form it begins:—“To Thee, Jehovah, will I sing." (3) "To Thee, O Lord, I come with singing," by Miss Burlingham, in the British Herald, April, 1866, p. 248, repeated as No. 402 in Reid's Praise Book, 1872. ii. Erwach, 0 Mensch, erwache. Lent. Appeared in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, No. 266, in 4 stanzas of 9 lines. Included in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 298, and Allgemeine Gesang-Buch 1846, No. 13. Translated as "Awake, O man, and from thee shake," by Miss Winkworth, 1855, p. 61. The hymn, "Heiligster Jesu, Heiligungsquelle," ascribed to Crasselius, is noted under J. v. Lodenstein. See also "Hallelujah! Lob, Preis und Ehr." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Georg Neumark

1621 - 1681 Person Name: G. Neumark Topics: Anden Søndag efter Hellig Tre-Kongers Day Til Høimesse; Second Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass; Kjærlighed til og Længsel efter Gud; Love to and Longing for God; Tillid; Trust; 5 Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Hoimesse; Fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass; Særlige Salmer Brude-Vielse; Special Hymns Marriage Author of "Hvo ene lader Herren raade" in M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg Georg Neumark (b. Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany, 1621; d. Weimar, Germany, 1681) lived during the time of the Thirty Years' War, when social and economic conditions were deplorable. He had personal trials as well. On his way to Königsberg to study at the university, traveling in the comparative safety of a group of merchants, he was robbed of nearly all his possessions. During the next two years he spent much of his time looking for employment. He finally secured a tutoring position in Kiel. When he had saved enough money, he returned to the University of Königsberg and studied there for five years. In Königsberg he again lost all his belongings, this time in a fire. Despite his personal suffering Neumark wrote many hymns in which he expressed his absolute trust in God. In 1651 he settled in Weimar, Thuringia, where he became court poet and archivist to Duke Johann Ernst and librarian and registrar of the city. Neumark wrote thirty-four hymns, of which "If You But Trust in God to Guide You" has become a classic. Bert Polman ============== Neumark, Georg, son of Michael Neumark, clothier at Langensalza, in Thuringia (after 1623 at Miihlhausen in Thuringia), was born at Langensalza, March 16, 1621; and educated at the Gymnasium at Schleueingen, and at the Gymnasium at Gotha. He received his certificate of dimission from the latter in Sept. 1641 (not 1640). He left Gotha in the autumn of 1641 along with a number of merchants who were going to the Michaelmas Fair at Leipzig. He then joined a similar party who were going from Leipzig to Lübeck; his intention being to proceed to Königsberg and matriculate at the University there. After passing through Magdeburg they were plundered by a band of highwaymen on the Gardelegen Heath, who robbed Neumark of all he had with him, save his prayer-book and a little money sewed up in the clothes he was wearing. He returned to Magdeburg, but could obtain no employment there, nor in Lüneburg, nor in Winsen, nor in Hamburg, to which in succession the friends he made passed him on. In the beginning of December he went to Kiel, where he found a friend in the person of Nicolaus Becker, a native of Thuringia, and then chief pastor at Kiel. Day after day passed by without an opening, till about the end of the month the tutor in the family of the Judge Stephan Henning fell into disgrace and took sudden flight from Kiel. By Becker's recommendation Neumark received the vacant position, and this sudden end of his anxieties was the occasion of the writing of his hymn as noted below. In Henning's house the time passed happily till he had saved enough to proceed to Königsberg, where he matriculated June 21, 1643, as a student of law. He remained five years, studying also poetry under Dach, and maintaining himself as a family tutor. During this time (in 1046) he again lost all his property, and this time by fire. In 1648 he left Königsberg, was for a short time at Warsaw, and spent 1649-50 at Thorn. He was then in Danzig, and in Sept. 1651 we find him in Hamburg. In the end of 1651 he returned to Thuringia, and bronght himself under the notice of Duke Wilhelm II. of Sachse-Weimar, the chief or president of the Fruit-bearing Society, the principal German literary union of the 17th century. The Duke, apparently in 1652, appointed him court poet, librarian and registrar of the administration at Weimar; and finally secretary of the Ducal Archives. In Sept. 1653 he was admitted as a member of the Fruit-bearing Society, of which he became secretary in 1656, and of which he wrote a history (Der Neu-Sprossende Teutsche Palmbaum, Nürnberg and Weimar, 1668); and, in 1679, became also a member of the Pegnitz Order. In 1681 he became blind, but was permitted to retain his emoluments till his death, at Weimar, July 18, 1681. [K. Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 74; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. xxiii. 539; Weimarisches Jahrbuch, vol. iii., 1855, p. 176, &c. The dates given by the different authorities vary exceedingly, and are quite irreconcilable. In the registers at Schleusingen Neumark is last mentioned in 1636, and then as in the Third Form. Dr. von Bamberg, director of the Gymnasium at Gotha, informs me that Neumark's name appears in the matriculation book there under January 31, 1641; and as one of the "newly entered" scholars.] A long list of Neumark's poetical works is given by Goedeke. A large proportion of his secular poems are pastorals, or else occasional poems written to order at Weimar; and in all there is little freshness, or happiness in expression, or glow of feeling. As a musician, and as a hymn-writer, he is of more importance. His hymns appeared in his (1) Poetisch-und Musikalisches Lustwäldchen, Hamburg, 1652; the enlarged edition, entitled (2) Fortgepfiantzter Musikalizch-Poetischer Lustwald, Jena, 1657; and (3) Unterschiedliche, so wol gottseliger Andacht; als auch zu christlichen Tugenden aufmuntemde Lieder, Weimar, 1675. Of the 34 hymns in these three works a few are found in the German hymn-books of the 17th century, and three or four still survive. The best of Neumark's hymns are those of Trust in God, and patient waiting for His help under trial and suffering; and one of these may be fairly called classical and imperishable. It is:— Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten. Trust in God. First published in his Fortgepflantzter musikalisch-poetischer Lustwald, Jena, 1657, p. 26, in 7 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled “A hymn of consolation. That God will care for and preserve His own in His own time. After the saying 'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee'“(Ps. lv. 22). This, his finest hymn, was written in 1641, at Kiel, when after unsuccessful attempts to procure employment he became a tutor in the family of the judge Stephan Henning. Of this appointment Neumark, in his Thrünendes Haus-Kreuiz, Weimar, 1681, speaks thus:-— "Which good fortune coming suddenly, and as if fallen from heaven, greatly rejoiced me, and on that very day I composed to the honour of my beloved Lord the here and there well-known hymn 'Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten'; and had certainly cause enough to thank the Divine compassion for such unlooked for grace shown to me," &c. As the date of its composition is thus December, 1641, or at latest Jan. 1642, it is certainly strange that it was not published in his Lustwäldchen, Hamburg, 1652. In that volume he does give, at p. 32, a piece entitled, "a hymn of consolation, when, in 1646, through a dreadful fire I came to my last farthing." The apocryphal story, according to which the hymn was written at Hamburg, about 1653 (see Miller's Singers and Songs, 1869, p. 91), has not been traced earlier than 1744. The hymn speedily became popular, and passed into hymn-books all over Germany (Leipzig Vorrath, 1673, No. 1169), and still holds its place as in the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, No. 73. Lauxmann, in Koch, viii. 386-390, relates that it was the favourite hymn of Magdalena Sibylla (d. 1687), wife of the Elector Johann Georg II. of Saxony; was sung, by his command, at the funeral, in 1740, of King Friedrich Wilhelm I. of Prussia; was sung, or rather played, by the first band of missionaries from Herrmannsburg as they set sail from Brunshausen on the Elbe (near Stade) on Oct. 28, 1853, &c. The beautiful melody by Neumark was probably composed in 1641 along with the hymn, and was published with it in 1657. On it J. S. Bach composed a cantata. It is well known in England through its use by Mendelssohn in his St. Paul ("To Thee, 0 Lord, I yield my spirit"), and from its introduction into Hymns Ancient & Modern (as Bremen), and many other collections. Translations in common use:-- 1. Who leaves th' Almighty God to reign. A full but free translation by Sir John Bowring in his Hymns, 1825, No. 58. His translations of stanzas ii., iv.-vi. beginning "How vain are sighs! how vain regret," are included in Curtis's Union Collection, 1827. 2. Who all his will to God resigneth. A good and full translation by A. T. Kussell, as No. 236 in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851. His translations of st. v.-vii. beginning "Say not, I am of God forsaken," are in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864. 3. Leave God to order all thy ways. A full and good translation by Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser. 1855, p. 152. This is given in full in M. W. Stryker's Christian Chorals, 1885, and, omitting st. vi., in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church and Home, 1873, and the Baptist Hymnal, 1879. Further abridged forms are in the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858; Harrow School Hymn Book, l866; Holy Song, 1869, and others. In the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868; and the American Presbyterian Hymnal, 1874, st. v., vi. are omitted, and the rest altered to 6 stanzas, beginning "My God, I leave to Thee my ways." 4. Him who the blessed God trusts ever. A good and full translation by Dr.John Ker in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine, of the United Presbyterian Church, 1857. It was revised, and st. iii., v., vi. omitted, for the Ibrox Hymnal, 1871, where it begins: "He who,” &c. 5. If thou but suffer God to guide thee. A full and good translation by Miss Winkworth (based on her Lyra Germanica version and set to the original melody), as No. 134 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. Repeated in full in the Baptist Psalmist, 1878, and in America in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. It is found, in various abridged forms, in J. Robinson's Collection, 1869; Horder's Congregational Hymns , 1884; the Evangelical Hymnal, N. Y., 1880, and others. 6. He, who the living God hath chosen. A translation of st. i., ii., vii. by Miss Borthwick, as No. 237 in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864. 7. He who doth glad submission render. A good translation omitting st. vi., by J. M. Sloan, as No. 284 in J. H. Wilson's Service of Praise, 1865, repeated, omitting the translations of st. ii., vii., in Flett's Collection, Paisley, 1871. Other translations are:— (1) "He that confides in his Creator." By J. C. Jacobi, 1720, p. 13 (1722, p. 36; 1732, p. 61). Repeated in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754, and later eds. (1886, No. 183). (2) "0 Christian! let the Lord direct." By Miss Knight in her Trs. from the German in Prose and Verse, 1812, p. 85. (3) "To let God rule who's but contented." By H. W. Dulcken in his Book of German Song, 1856, p. 274. (4) "He who the rule to God hath yielded." By J. D. Burns in the Family Treasury, 1859, p. 309, and his Memoir & Remains, 1869, p. 240. (5) "Who trusts in God's all-wise direction." By R. Massie, in the British Herald, Aug. 1865, p. 120, and Reid's Praise Book, 1872. (6) "Who yields his will to God's good pleasure. In the British Herald, April, 1866, p. 244, and in Reid's Praise Book, 1872. (7) "He who commits his way to God." In the Family Treasury, 1878, p. 49. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Hans Adolf Brorson

1694 - 1764 Person Name: Brorson Topics: Fifth Sunday after Holy Three Kings Day High Mass Author of "Ak Fader lad dit Ord, din Aand" in M. B. Landstads Kirkesalmebog og "Nokre Salmar" ved Professor Dr. E. Blix, samt følgende tillæg

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