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America the Beautiful

Author: Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 539 hymnals Topics: National Righteousness First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Lyrics: 1 O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain; for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. 2 O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine. 3 O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. United Methodist Hymnal, 1989
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Once to Every Man and Nation

Author: James Russell Lowell Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 210 hymnals Topics: National Righteousness Text Sources: Excerpted from The Present Crisis
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We Gather Together

Author: Anonymous; Theodore Baker Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 227 hymnals Topics: National Righteousness First Line: We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; He hastens and chastens His will to make known (Baker) Text Sources: Netherlands Folk Song; Adrianus Valerius' Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck, 1626
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KREMSER

Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 349 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Kremser Topics: National Righteousness Tune Sources: Nederlandtsch Gedenckelanck, 1626 Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 55653 45432 31556 Used With Text: We Gather Together
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WALTHAM (Doane)

Appears in 569 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. Baptiste Calkin, 1827-1905 Topics: National Righteousness Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13233 43445 17665 Used With Text: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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TON-Y-BOTEL

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 313 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas J. Williams Topics: National Righteousness Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 11232 12234 3215 Used With Text: Once to Every Man and Nation
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Great God of Nations

Author: Alfred A. Woodhuff, 1810-1836 Hymnal: Worship and Service Hymnal #462 (1957) Topics: National Righteousness First Line: Great God of nations, now to Thee Lyrics: 1 Great God of nations, now to Thee Our hymn of gratitude we raise; With humble heart and bending knee We offer Thee our song of praise. 2 Thy Name we bless, Almighty God, For all the kindness Thou hast shown To this fair land the Pilgrims trod, This land we fondly call our own. 3 Here freedom spreads her banner wide And casts her soft and hallowed ray; Here Thou our fathers' steps didst guide In safety thro' their dangerous way. 4 We pray Thee let the gospel light Thro' all our land its radiance shed; Dispel the shades of error's night, And heav'nly blessings round us spread. 5 Great God, preserve us in Thy fear; In danger still our Guardian be; O spread Thy truth's bright precepts here; Let all the people worship Thee. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: MENDON
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Once to Every Man and Nation

Author: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Hymnal: Worship and Service Hymnal #468 (1957) Topics: National Righteousness Lyrics: 1 Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, Offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever 'Twixt that darkness and that light. 2 By the light of burning martyrs, Jesus' bleeding feet I track Toiling up new Calvaries ever With the cross that turns not back' New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. 3 Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet the truth alone is strong: Tho' her portion be the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: EBENEZER (Toy-Y-Botel)
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Once to every man and nation

Author: Dr. James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #403 (1917) Topics: National Righteousness; Righteousness National Lyrics: 1 Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, Offering each the bloom or blight; And the choice goes by for ever 'Twixt that darkness and that light. 2 Then to side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside, Till the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had denied. 3 By the light of burning martyrs Christ's own bleeding feet I track, Toiling up new Calvaries ever With the cross that turns not back. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth: They must upward still and onward Who would keep abreast of truth. 4 Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet 'tis truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong: Yet that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own. Languages: English Tune Title: REX GLORIAE
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James Russell Lowell

1819 - 1891 Person Name: James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Topics: National Righteousness Author of "Once to Every Man and Nation" in Worship and Service Hymnal Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; graduated at Harvard College, 1838, and was called to the Bar in 1840. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature (succeeding the Poet Longfellow) in Harvard, 1855; American Minister to Spain, also to England in 1881. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, from 1857 to 1862; and of the North American Review from 1863 to 1872. Professor Lowell is the most intellectual of American poets, and first of her art critics and humorists. He has written much admirable moral and sacred poetry, but no hymns. One piece, “Men, whose boast it is that ye" (Against Slavery), is part of an Anti-Slavery poem, and in its present form is found in Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Part of this is given in Songs for the Sanctuary, N.Y., 1865, as "They are slaves who will not choose.” [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Thomas John Williams

1869 - 1944 Person Name: Thomas John Williams, 1869-1944 Topics: National Righteousness Composer of "EBENEZER (Toy-Y-Botel)" in Worship and Service Hymnal Although his primary vocation was in the insurance business, Thomas John Williams (b. Ynysmeudwy, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1869; d. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1944) studied with David Evans at Cardiff and later was organist and choirmaster at Zion Chapel (1903­-1913) and Calfaria Chapel (1913-1931), both in Llanelly. He composed a number of hymn tunes and a few anthems. Bert Polman
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Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart, 1813-1879 Topics: National Righteousness; Righteousness National Composer of "REX GLORIAE" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporiza­tions and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for impor­tant places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman
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