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Now Thank We All Our God
Author: Catherine Winkworth; Martin Rinkart Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 694 hymnals Topics: Mother's Day First Line: Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and voices Lyrics: 1 Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom his world rejoices;
who from our mothers' arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
2 O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
to keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
of this world in the next.
3 All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
the Son and Spirit blest,
who reign in highest heaven
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.
Psalter Hymnal (Gray), 1987
Now Thank We All Our God
Faith of Our Mothers
Author: A. B. Patten Appears in 41 hymnals Topics: Mother's Day; Mother's Day First Line: Faith of our mothers, living still Lyrics: 1 Faith of our mothers, living still
In cradle song and bedtime prayer;
In nursery lore and fireside love,
Thy presence still pervades the air:
Faith of our mothers, living faith!
We will be true to thee till death.
2 Faith of our mothers, loving faith,
Fount of our childhood's trust and grace,
Oh, may thy consecration prove
Source of a finer, nobler race:
Faith of our mothers, living faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
3 Faith of our mothers, guiding faith,
For youthful longing, youthful doubt,
How blurred our vision, blind our way,
Thy providential care without:
Faith of our mothers, guiding faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
4 Faith of the mothers, Christian faith,
In truth beyond our stumbling creeds,
Still serve the home and save the Church,
And breathe thy spirit thro' our deeds:
Faith of our mothers, living faith!
We will be true to thee till death. Used With Tune: [Faith of our mothers, living still]
Faith of Our Mothers
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Author: Robert Robinson; Martin Madan Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2,212 hymnals Topics: Worship; liturgical Opening Hymns Lyrics: 1 Come, thou Fount of every blessing;
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love!
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
3 O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart; O take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.
Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal (2003) Used With Tune: [Come, Thou fount of every blessing] (55776)
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
NUN DANKET
Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 560 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Topics: Mothering Sunday Tune Sources: Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647; Lobgesang, 1840 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55566 53432 32155 Used With Text: Now thank we all our God
NUN DANKET
STABAT MATER
Meter: 8.8.7 Appears in 64 hymnals Topics: Saints Days and Holy Days Mary, the Mother of th Lord Tune Sources: Later form of melody from the 'Maintzisch Gesangbuch', Mainz and Frankfurt, 1661 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12323 54332 17676 Used With Text: At the cross her vigil keeping
STABAT MATER
[The virgin Mary had a baby boy]
Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Topics: Mary, Mother of God Tune Sources: West Indian carol Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 51111 21725 54444 Used With Text: The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
[The virgin Mary had a baby boy]
Memories of Mother
Author: Fred P. Morris Hymnal: The Modern Hymnal #223 (1926) Topics: Mothers' Songs First Line: My mother's hand is on my brow Refrain First Line: O mother, when I think of thee Languages: English Tune Title: [My mother's hand is on my brow]
Memories of Mother
Mother’s Praying There
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Alexander's Hymns No. 4 #124 (1921) Topics: Mothers First Line: There's a little cottage nestling underneath the maple trees Refrain First Line: My mother’s praying there for me Lyrics: 1 There’s a little cottage nestling underneath the maple trees,
And the honey-suckle twines around the door;
And the snowy window curtains flutter in the summer breeze;
O the picture haunts my mem’ry evermore.
Refrain:
My mother’s praying there for me,
Loving me wherever I may be;
Praying that her boy may know the christian’s joy,
My mother’s praying there for me.
2 There’s a silver brooklet rippling, making music i the glen,
Blending with the merry songs the robins sing;
But my mother’s voice is sweeter, pleading o’er and o’er again,
That the Lord would to Himself the wand’rer bring. [Refrain]
3 There’ll be gladness in that cottage, happy hallelujahs there,
I will write to mother ere I sleep tonight;
I have found the blessed Saviour, and in answer to her prayer,
God has brought me out of darkness into light. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [There’s a little cottage nestling underneath the maple trees]
Mother’s Praying There
Carry Me Back to Mother’s God
Author: Alfred H. Ackley Hymnal: Alexander's Hymns No. 4 #26 (1921) Topics: Mothers First Line: Carry me back to the love of my mother Refrain First Line: Carry me back, carry me back Lyrics: 1 Carry me back to the love of my mother,
Back to her sheltering arms would I flee;
Rock me to sleep in my own little cradle,
Sing those sweet songs, long forgotten, to me.
Refrain:
Carry me back, carry me back,
For my feet have wandered from the path my mother trod;
Carry me back to the faith of my childhood,
Carry me back to my dear Mother’s God.
2 Carry me back to the faith of my mother,
Faith that no mountains of doubt could remove;
Faith that is strong in the midst of the tempest,
Faith that believed in the goodness of love. [Refrain]
3 Carry me back to my dear mother’s Bible,
Back to the promises tested and true;
Back to the pages so tear-stained and thumb marked,
Back to the Pathway of Peace, once I knew. [Refrain]
4 O how the years have been squandered and wasted,
What can remove all the sorrow and shame!
Will Christ forgive such a poor wretched sinner?
Yes, Jesus will, there is hope in His name. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Carry me back to the love of my mother]
Carry Me Back to Mother’s God
Martin Luther
1483 - 1546 Topics: Biblical Characters Mary, Mother of Jesus Author of "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come" in Voices United Luther, Martin, born at Eisleben, Nov. 10, 1483; entered the University of Erfurt, 1501 (B.A. 1502, M.A.. 1503); became an Augustinian monk, 1505; ordained priest, 1507; appointed Professor at the University of Wittenberg, 1508, and in 1512 D.D.; published his 95 Theses, 1517; and burnt the Papal Bull which had condemned them, 1520; attended the Diet of Worms, 1521; translated the Bible into German, 1521-34; and died at Eisleben, Feb. 18, 1546. The details of his life and of his work as a reformer are accessible to English readers in a great variety of forms. Luther had a huge influence on German hymnody.
i. Hymn Books.
1. Ellich cristlich lider Lobgesang un Psalm. Wittenberg, 1524. [Hamburg Library.] This contains 8 German hymns, of which 4 are by Luther.
2. Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbuchlein. Erfurt, 1524 [Goslar Library], with 25 German hymns, of which 18 are by Luther.
3. Geystliche Gesangk Buchleyn. Wittenberg, 1524 [Munich Library], with 32 German hymns, of which 24 are by Luther.
4. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1529. No copy of this book is now known, but there was one in 1788 in the possession of G. E. Waldau, pastor at Nürnberg, and from his description it is evident that the first part of the Rostock Gesang-Buch, 1531, is a reprint of it. The Rostock Gesang-Buch, 1531, was reprinted by C. M. Wiechmann-Kadow at Schwerin in 1858. The 1529 evidently contained 50 German hymns, of which 29 (including the Litany) were by Luther.
5. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Erfurt. A. Rauscher, 1531 [Helmstädt, now Wolfenbüttel Library], a reprint of No. 4.
6. Geistliche Lieder. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1535 [Munich Library. Titlepage lost], with 52 German hymns, of which 29 are by Luther.
7. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Leipzig. V. Schumann, 1539 [Wernigerode Library], with 68 German hymns, of which 29 are by Luther.
8. Geistliche Lieder. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1543 [Hamburg Library], with 61 German hymns, of which 35 are by Luther.
9. Geystliche Lieder. Leipzig. V. Babst, 1545 [Gottingen Library]. This contains Luther's finally revised text, but adds no new hymns by himself. In pt. i. are 61 German hymns, in pt. ii. 40, of which 35 in all are by Luther.
For these books Luther wrote three prefaces, first published respectively in Nos. 3, 4, 9. A fourth is found in his Christliche Geseng, Lateinisch und Deudsch, zum Begrebnis, Wittenberg, J. Klug, 1542. These four prefaces are reprinted in Wackernagel’s Bibliographie, 1855, pp. 543-583, and in the various editions of Luther's Hymns. Among modern editions of Luther's Geistliche Lieder may be mentioned the following:—
Carl von Winterfeld, 1840; Dr. C. E. P. Wackernagel, 1848; Q. C. H. Stip, 1854; Wilhelm Schircks, 1854; Dr. Danneil, 1883; Dr. Karl Gerok, 1883; Dr. A. F. W. Fischer, 1883; A. Frommel, 1883; Karl Goedeke, 1883, &c. In The Hymns of Martin Luther. Set to their original melodies. With an English version. New York, 1883, ed. by Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon and Nathan H. Allen, there are the four prefaces, and English versions of all Luther's hymns, principally taken more or less altered, from the versions by A. T. Russell, R. Massie and Miss Winkworth [repub. in London, 1884]. Complete translations of Luther's hymns have been published by Dr. John Anderson, 1846 (2nd ed. 1847), Dr. John Hunt, 1853, Richard Massie, 1854, and Dr. G. Macdonald in the Sunday Magazine, 1867, and his Exotics, 1876. The other versions are given in detail in the notes on the individual hymns.
ii. Classified List of Luther's Hymns. Of Luther's hymns no classification can be quite perfect, e.g. No. 3 (see below) takes hardly anything from the Latin, and No. 18 hardly anything from the Psalm. No. 29 is partly based on earlier hymns (see p. 225, i.). No. 30 is partly based on St. Mark i. 9-11, and xvi., 15, 16 (see p. 226, ii.). No. 35 is partly based on St. Luke ii. 10-16. The following arrangement, however, will answer all practical purposes.
A. Translations from the Latin.
i. From Latin Hymns:
1. Christum wir sollen loben schon. A solis ortus cardine
2. Der du bist drei in Einigkeit. O Lux beata Trinitas.
3. Jesus Christus unser Heiland, Der von. Jesus Christus nostra salus
4. Komm Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist. Veni Creator Spiritus, Mentes.
5. Nun komm der Beidenheiland. Veni Redemptor gentium
6. Was flirchst du Feind Herodes sehr. A solis ortus cardine
ii. From Latin Antiphons, &c.:
7. Herr Gott dich loben wir. Te Deum laudamus.
8. Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich. Dapacem, Domine
9. Wir glauben all an einen Gott.
iii. Partly from the Latin, the translated stanzas being adopted from Pre-Reformation Versions:
10. Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott.
11. Mitten wir im Leben sind. Media vita in morte sumus.
B. Hymns revised and enlarged from Pre-Reformation popular hymns.
12. Gelobet seist du Jesus Christ.
13. Gott der Vater wohn uns bei.
14. Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet.
15. Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist.
C. Psalm versions.
16. Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein.
17. Aus tiefer Noth schrei ich zu dir.
18. Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott.
19. Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl.
20. Es wollt uns Gott genädig sein.
21. War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit.
22. Wohl dem, der in Gotten Furcht steht.
D. Paraphrases of other portions of Holy Scripture.
23. Diess sind die heilgen zehn Gebot.
24. Jesaia dem Propheten das geschah.
25. Mensch willt du leben seliglich.
26. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin.
27. Sie ist mir lieb die werthe Magd.
28. Vater unser im Himmelreich.
E. Hymns mainly Original.
29. Christ lag in Todesbanden.
30. Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam.
31. Ein neues Lied wir heben an.
32. Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort.
33. Jesus Christus unser Heiland, Der den,
34. Nun freut euch lieben Christengemein.
35. Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her.
36. Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar.
In addition to these —
37. Fur alien Freuden auf Erden.
38. Kyrie eleison.
In the Blätter fur Hymnologie, 1883, Dr. Daniel arranges Luther's hymns according to what he thinks their adaptation to modern German common use as follows:—
i. Hymns which ought to be included in every good Evangelical hymn-book: Nos. 7-18, 20, 22, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38.
ii. Hymns the reception of which into a hymn-book might be contested: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33.
iii. Hymns not suited for a hymn-book: Nos. 1, 5, 6, 27, 31, 37.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Martin Luther
Erik Routley
1917 - 1982 Person Name: Erik Routley, 1917-1982 Topics: Mothering Sunday Harmonizer of "SLANE" in Common Praise
Erik Routley
William Henry Monk
1823 - 1889 Person Name: William Henry Monk, 1823-1889 Topics: Mother's Day Adaptor of "DIX" in Rejoice Hymns William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851).
Bert Polman
William Henry Monk
