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O God, Our Help in Ages Past
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,293 hymnals Topics: God, Our Help Used With Tune: ST. ANNE
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
Author: Edward Mote Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,155 hymnals Topics: Death Prayer for help in Refrain First Line: On Christ, the solid Rock I stand Lyrics: 1 My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:
No merit of my own I claim,
But wholly lean on Jesus' Name.
Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
2 When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In ev'ry high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]
3 His oath, His covenant and blood,
Support me in the sinking flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]
4 When I shall launch to worlds unseen,
O may I then be found in Him!
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]
Amen. Scripture: Hebrews 6:19 Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
Author: Augustus Montague Toplady Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 3,074 hymnals Topics: Death Prayer for help in Lyrics: 1 Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee:
Let the water and the blood
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save me, Lord, and make me pure.
2 Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfill Thy Law's demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.
3 Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Foul, I to the fountain fly:
Wash me, Saviour, or I die!
4 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyelids close in death,
When I soar to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy judgment throne;
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.
Amen. Scripture: Psalm 61:2 Used With Tune: TOPLADY
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
EIN' FESTE BURG
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 732 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther; Scott Withrow Topics: God Guardian/Help Tune Sources: The New Hymnal for American Youth, 1930 (harm.) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN' FESTE BURG
CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 363 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Melchior Vulpius Topics: God Help Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: God Is My Strong Salvation
CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Help us to help each other, Lord
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #489 (1997) Topics: Help Lyrics: 1 Help us to help each other, Lord,
each other's cross to share;
let each our friendly aid afford
and feel each other's care.
2 Up into thee, our living Head,
let us in all things grow,
and by thy sacrifice be led
the fruits of love to show.
3 Drawn by the magnet of thy love
let all our hearts agree,
and ever to each other move,
and ever nearer thee.
4 This is the bond of perfectness,
thy spotless charity.
Oh let us still, we pray, possess
the mind that was in thee. Scripture: Numbers 21:9 Languages: English Tune Title: DUNFERMLINE
Help us to help each other, Lord
Help
Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #CCCLXXIX (1792) Topics: Help prayed for First Line: Self-destroy'd, for help I pray Lyrics: Self-destroy'd for help I pray:
Help me, Savior from above,
Help me to believe, obey,
Help me to repent and love,
Help to keep the graces given,
Help me quite from hell to heaven. Scripture: Hosea 13:9 Languages: English
Help
Rise Up, Come to Our Help
Hymnal: Christian Worship #44B (2021) Topics: God as Help First Line: In God we make our boast all day long Refrain First Line: Rise up, come to our help! Scripture: Psalm 44 Languages: English Tune Title: [Rise up, come to our help]
Rise Up, Come to Our Help
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809 - 1894 Person Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Topics: God's Help Author of "Ho Patro, dum mallernas ni" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D, LL.D., son of the Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D. of Cambridge, U.S.A., was born at Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1809, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After practising for some time in Boston, he was elected in 1847 to the chair of Anatomy, in Harvard. His writings in prose and verse are well known and widely circulated. They excel in humour and pathos. Although not strictly speaking a hymnwriter, a few of his hymns are in extensive use, and include:—
1. Father of mercies, heavenly Friend. Prayer during war.
2. Lord of all being, throned afar. God's Omnipresence. This is a hymn of great merit. It is dated 1848.
3. 0 Lord of hosts, Almighty King. Soldiers’ Hymn. Dated 1861.
4. 0 Love divine that stoop'st to share. Trust. 1859.
Of these Nos. 2 and 4 are in his Professor at the Breakfast Table, and are in common use in Great Britain, in Martineau's Hymns, 1873, and others. In 1886 the D.C.L. degree was conferred upon Professor Holmes by the University of Oxford. He was a member of the Unitarian body. He died Oct 7, 1894. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Holmes, O. W. , p. 530, i. His Songs in Many Keys was published in 1861, his Poems, 1869, and the Cambridge edition of his Complete Poetical Works, 1895. Additional hymns of his have come into common use of late, including:—
1. Land where the banners wave last in the sun. [American National Hymn.] Appeared in his Songs in Many Keys, 1861 (7th ed. 1864, p. 289) as "Freedom, our Queen."
2. Lord, Thou hast led us as of old. [Promised Unity.] In his Before the Curfew and other Poems, chiefly occasional, Boston, 1888, as "An hymn set forth to bo sung by the Great Assembly at Newtown [Mass.]." In the Complete Poetical Works it is dated 1886. The hymn "Soon shall the slumbering morn awake," in Hymns for Church and Home, Boston, 1895, is composed of stanzas v.-vii.
3. Our Father, while our hearts unlearn The creeds that wrong Thy name. [Fruits of the Spirit.] Written for the 25th Anniversary Reorganization of the Poston Young Men's Christian Union, May 31, 1893. In his Complete Poetical Works, 1895, p. 298, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and other collections.
4. Thou gracious [God] Power Whose mercy lends. [Reunion.] "Written for the annual meeting of the famous class '29, Harvard University, in 1869. ln the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, it begins "Thou gracious God, Whose mercy lends." [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
W. S. Weeden
1847 - 1908 Topics: Helpfulness Composer of "[Somebody did a golden deed] " in Service Songs for Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings Winfield S. Weeden was born in 1847 in Middleport, OH. In his early life he was active in teaching singing schools throughout that area in Ohio. As singer and associate to Judson VandeVenter in his evangelistic campaigns, Weeden assisted in meetings at East Palestine and Sebring. He compiled several collections of hymns among them The Peacemaker, Songs of the Peacemaker, and Songs of Sovereign Grace. Weeden died in 1908. (see 101 More Hymn Stories, Osbeck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1985)
Mary Louise VanDyke
W. S. Weeden
Edward Hopper
1816 - 1888 Topics: Death Prayer for help in Author of "Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Rv Edward Hopper DD USA 1816-1888. Born at New York City, the son of a merchant, he graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He married Margaretta Wheeler. He was an author and poet and wrote several books. He pastored the Greenville Presbyterian Church, Sag Harbor Presbyterian Church on Long Island, and the Church of Sea and Land, NYC, a church for sailors, where he remained the rest of his life (for years the church building was shared with the First Chinese Presbyterian Church). Once he was asked to compose a hymn verse for the anniversary of the Seamen’s Friend’s Society meeting. Instead, he brought the verse for a hymn he had written eight years before (noted below). John Edgar Gould saw Hopper’s poem (6 stanzas) and composed a tune for it. Hopper died of a heart attack while writing a poem about heaven at his desk.
John Perry
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Hopper, Edward, D.D., was born in 1818, and graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1842. He is pastor of the Church of Sea and Land, N. Y. He is the author of
1. Jesus, Saviour, pilot me [us]. Jesus the Pilot.
2. They pray the best who pray and watch. Watching & Prayer.
3. Wrecked and struggling in mid-ocean. Wreck & Rescue.
Of these No. 1 appeared in the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and 2 & 3 in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
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