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Father of all our mercies, Thou

Author: James Montgomery Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 Father of all our mercies, Thou In whom we move and live, Hear us in heav'n, Thy dwelling, now, And answer and forgive. 2 When harassed by ten thousand foes, Our helplessness we feel, O give the weary soul repose, The wounded spirit heal. 3 When dire temptations gather round, And threaten or allure, By storm or calm, in Thee be found A refuge strong and sure. 4 From day to day, O may we grow In faith, in hope, and love, And walk in holiness below To holiness above. Used With Tune: NAOMI

Thou, whose almighty word

Author: John Marriott Meter: 6.4 Appears in 446 hymnals Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 Thou, whose almighty word Chaos and darkness heard, And took their flight; Hear us, we humbly pray; And where the Gospel day Sheds not its glorious ray, Let there be light! 2 Thou, who didst come to bring, On Thy redeeming wing, Healing and sight, Health to the sick in mind, Sight to the inly blind, O, now to all mankind Let there be light! 3 Spirit of truth and love, Life-giving, holy Dove, Speed forth Thy flight; Move on the waters' face, Bearing the lamp of grace, And in earth's darkest place Let there be light! 4 Holy and blessed Three, Glorious Trinity, Wisdom, Love, Might! Boundless as ocean's tide Rolling in fullest pride, Through the earth, far and wide, Let there be light! Used With Tune: FIAT LUX

Let me be Thine forever

Author: N. Selnecker Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 Let me be Thine forever, My gracious God and Lord, May I forsake Thee never, Nor wander from Thy word: Preserve me from the mazes Of error and distrust, And I shall sing Thy praises Forever with the just. 2 Lord Jesus! bounteous giver Of light and life divine, Thou didst my soul deliver, To Thee I all resign; Thou hast in mercy bought me With blood and bitter pain; Let me, since Thou hast sought me, Eternal life obtain. 3 O Holy Ghost, who pourest Sweet peace into my heart, And all my soul restorest, Let not Thy grace depart. And while His name confessing Whom I in faith have known, Grant me Thy constant blessing; Make me for aye Thine own. Used With Tune: [Let me be Thine forever]

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[Zions Vægter hæver Røsten]

Appears in 325 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. Nicolai Topics: Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday High Mass Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13555 56551 51232 Used With Text: Zions Vægter hæver Røsten

[Let me be Thine forever]

Appears in 518 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Hassler Topics: The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Fifth Sunday after Trinity Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: Let me be Thine forever

GOUDIMEL

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56117 11671 65516 Used With Text: Give to the winds thy fears

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Hvor deilig skal Guds Kirke staa

Author: Kingo Hymnal: Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika #484 (1919) Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday 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, Skjeldsord, daarlig Harm! I bør ei huses 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, Gaa 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

I Jomfruer, I kloge

Author: Laur. Laurenti; Brorson Hymnal: Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika #641 (1919) Topics: Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Lyrics: 1 I Jomfruer, I kloge, O tænder Lamper, ser, Hvor det i Verdens Kroge Nu mørknes mer og mer! Vor Brudgom op er standen Og kommer med en Fart, Op, vaager med hinanden, Nu erdet Midnat snart! 2 Hver gjøre Lampen færdig, At I kan rede staa Og vorde agtet værdig, Med Brudgommen at gaa; Thi Zions Vægtre raabe: Vor Brudgom nu er nær, O, møder ham tilhobe I Troens Frydefærd! 3 I Jomfruer, saa mange, Som ere ved Forstand, O kommer, ud at gange Imod vor Frelsermand! Ser Himlens aabne Porte Og Brylluppet bered! Han ikke langt er borte, Som hedder Zions Fred! 4 Ser op, gaar ham imøde, Han er, nu er han her! Ser Træets Topper gløde, Saa er vor sommer nær! Ser, hvor saa klart frembryder Den røde Aftensky, Som os den Dag betyder, Naar al vor Nat maa fly! 5 Bort derfor, Søvnens Taage! Hvo vaager, han er vis. Enhver, som ei vil vaage, Skal føle Vredens Ris, Fordærvelse og Plage; Thi alle Vredens kar For evig da skal smage Den Helvedpine svar. 6 Men møder ham, I Fromme, Med Fryd og Glædes Lyd! Vor Sorrigs Tid er omme, Til Klagen Afsked byd! O, ser dog Frydestunden, Som bærer Kronen from, Nu er den snart oprunden, Nu hentes Bruden hjem! 7 I, som med Jesus lider I denne Grædedal, Skal efter Sorgens Tider Faa Fryd i Himlens Sal, Med ham I skal regjere,– Hvo kan vel det forstaa?– Og evig triumfere Med Ærens Krone paa. 8 O Jesus, lad det komme Dog snart dertil engang, At alle dine Fromme Maa mode dig med Sang! Gjør, Jesus, snart en Ende Paa dines haarde Strid, Og lad min Lampe brænde Til min Forløsningstid! Languages: Norwegian

Zions Vægter hæver Røsten

Author: Filip Nicolai; Landstad Hymnal: Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika #571 (1919) Topics: Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Lyrics: 1 Zions Vægter hæver Røsten: Vaagn op, der blinker Lyn i Østen, Vaagn op, Guds Stad, Jerusalem! Midnats Mulm dig ruger over, Men Herrens Time slaar,– hvo sover? I klage Jomfruer, herfrem! Se, Herren kommer ned, Stat op, tag Lampen med! Lad den brænde! Paa Jesu Bud Stat op, gak ud! Han fører dig hjem til din Gud. 2 Zion Vægter-Raabet hører, En himmelsk Glæde Hjertet rører, Hun vaagner og staar freidig op. Herren kommer stor og prægtig, Af Naade stærk, af Sandhed mægtig; Nu rinder hendes Stjerne op! Ak, kom, du Krone skjøn, Min Jesus, du Guds Søn! Hosianna! Vi følge med! Du har bered En Bolig os i Evighed! 3 Ære være dig, du Høie! Ak Gud, hvad ser, hvad ser mit Øie! Rundt om din Throne Engle-Rad! Lyset er saa klart derinde, Og hver din Ven vi der gjenfinde Saa engleren og engleglad! Hvad intet Øie saa, Hvad aldrig Tanker naa, Der vi skue! Nu, Jord Farvel! Stig høit, min Sjæl, Følg Jesus ind til Glædens Væld! Languages: Norwegian

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Hans G. Nägeli

1773 - 1836 Person Name: Johann Georg Nägeli Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Composer of "NAOMI" in Evangelical Lutheran hymnal Johann G. Nageli (b. Wetzikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, 1773; d. Wetzikon, 1836) was an influential music educator who lectured throughout Germany and France. Influenced by Johann Pestalozzi, he published his theories of music education in Gangbildungslehre (1810), a book that made a strong impact on Lowell Mason. Nageli composed mainly" choral works, including settings of Goethe's poetry. He received his early instruction from his father, then in Zurich, where he concentrated on the music of. S. Bach. In Zurich, he also established a lending library and a publishing house, which published first editions of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and music by Bach, Handel, and Frescobaldi. Bert Polman

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Topics: The Church Year Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity Author of "Jesus Christ, my sure defense" in The Lutheran Hymnary In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Person Name: Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. Topics: Fifth Sunday after Trinity Arranger of "NAOMI" in Evangelical Lutheran hymnal Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

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