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Author: Michael Joncas, 1951- Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 45 hymnals Topics: God the Nurturer First Line: You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord Refrain First Line: And he will raise you up on eagle's wings Scripture: Exodus 19:4 Used With Tune: ON EAGLE'S WINGS

Brother, sister, let me serve you

Author: Richard Gillard, 1953- Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 53 hymnals Topics: Nurturing God's People Scripture: Galatians 5:13 Used With Tune: SERVANT SONG

Come, come, come, Holy Spirit, come

Author: Howard S. Olson (b. 1922); Wilson Niwagila Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Nurture First Line: Gracious Spirit, hear our pleading Scripture: Galatians 5:16 Used With Tune: NJOO KWETU, ROHO MWEMA

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O STORE GUD

Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 190 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine, 1899-1989 Topics: God the Nurturer Tune Sources: Swedish melody Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art

LAUDATE DOMINUM

Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 85 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Hubert H. Parry, 1848-1918 Topics: Nurturing and Renewing Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 53125 16543 53251 Used With Text: In Water We Grow

REDHEAD NO. 76

Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 483 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Redhead, 1820-1901 Topics: Nurturing and Renewing Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11234 43112 32211 Used With Text: Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me

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Bless All Those Who Nurture Children

Author: John A. Dalles Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #665 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Christian Education and Nurture; Christian nurture Scripture: Matthew 19:13-15 Languages: English Tune Title: HYMN TO JOY

As a Mother Holds Her Baby

Author: John T. Hicks Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #659 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Christian Education and Nurture; Christian nurture Lyrics: 1 As a mother holds her baby, gazing in her child's eyes with a look of deep connection, pond'ring still unbroken ties, so God looks into our faces with a gaze so close and calm, holding us against the body out of which our life has come. 2 As a mother feeds her baby, with the milk from her own breast, giving nourishment and nurture, loving touch and calming rest, so God feeds us through communion, holy presence, blessed food, loving touch of the Eternal; hope and wonder are renewed. 3 As a mother feels the heart-beat of her baby held so near, and is moved to awe and laughter at this infant life so dear, so in Christ God feels our heart-beat, enters in our joy and fear; gives us brad and wine and mem'ry that our vision may be clear. 4 As a mother looks with favor on the new life in her arms, searching ev'ry small expression, sav'ring moments filled with charm, so God smiles on ev'ry person, so God takes such keen delight in the praises that we offer; we are precious in God's sight. Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:21-28 Languages: English Tune Title: BEACH SPRING

Gracious Savior, Gentle Shepherd

Author: Jane E. Leeson, 1807-1882; Jonathon Whittemore, 1802-1860 Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #660 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Christian Education and Nurture; Christian nurture Lyrics: 1 Gracious Savior, gentle Shepherd, children all are dear to you; may your loving arms enfold them in your care their whole life through; fondly tend and safely keep them in your mercy strong and true. 2 Tender Shepherd, never leave them, never let them go astray; by your warming love directed, may they walk the narrow way! Thus direct them and protect them, lest they fall an easy prey. 3 By your holy word instruct them; fill their minds with heav'nly light; by your pow'rful grace onstrain them always to approve what's right; let them know your yoke is easy, let them prove your burden's light. 4 Taught to say your holy praises which on earth your children sing, with their lips and hearts, sincerely, glad thank off'rings may they bring, then with all the saints in glory join to praise their Lord and King. Scripture: Mark 10:13-16 Languages: English Tune Title: SILAS, NEW

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W. Howard Doane

1832 - 1915 Person Name: William H. Doane, 1832-1916 Topics: Christian Nurture / Teaching Composer of "EVANGEL" in The Book of Praise An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman ============ Doane, William Howard, p. 304, he was born Feb. 3, 1832. His first Sunday School hymn-book was Sabbath Gems published in 1861. He has composed about 1000 tunes, songs, anthems, &c. He has written but few hymns. Of these "No one knows but Jesus," "Precious Saviour, dearest Friend," and "Saviour, like a bird to Thee," are noted in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers. 1888, p. 557. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =================== Doane, W. H. (William Howard), born in Preston, Connecticut, 1831, and educated for the musical profession by eminent American and German masters. He has had for years the superintendence of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resides. Although not a hymnwriter, the wonderful success which has attended his musical setting of numerous American hymns, and the number of his musical editions of hymnbooks for Sunday Schools and evangelistic purposes, bring him within the sphere of hymnological literature. Amongst his collections we have:— (1) Silver Spray, 1868; (2) Pure Gold, 1877; (3) Royal Diadem, 1873; (4) Welcome Tidings, 1877; (5) Brightest and Best, 1875; (6) Fountain of Song; (7) Songs of Devotion, 1870; (8) Temple Anthems, &c. His most popular melodies include "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass me Not," "More Love to Thee," "Rescue the Perishing," "Tell me the Old, Old Story," &c. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Johann Crüger

1598 - 1662 Person Name: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662 Topics: Christian Nurture / Teaching Composer of "GRÄFENBERG" in The Book of Praise Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figured bass accompaniment (musical shorthand) with the chorale melody rather than full harmonization written out. It included eighteen of Crüger's tunes. His next publication, Praxis Pietatis Melica (1644), is considered one of the most important collections of German hymnody in the seventeenth century. It was reprinted forty-four times in the following hundred years. Another of his publications, Geistliche Kirchen Melodien (1649), is a collection arranged for four voices, two descanting instruments, and keyboard and bass accompaniment. Crüger also published a complete psalter, Psalmodia sacra (1657), which included the Lobwasser translation set to all the Genevan tunes. Bert Polman =============================== Crüger, Johann, was born April 9, 1598, at Gross-Breese, near Guben, Brandenburg. After passing through the schools at Guben, Sorau and Breslau, the Jesuit College at Olmütz, and the Poets' school at Regensburg, he made a tour in Austria, and, in 1615, settled at Berlin. There, save for a short residence at the University of Wittenberg, in 1620, he employed himself as a private tutor till 1622. In 1622 he was appointed Cantor of St. Nicholas's Church at Berlin, and also one of the masters of the Greyfriars Gymnasium. He died at Berlin Feb. 23, 1662. Crüger wrote no hymns, although in some American hymnals he appears as "Johann Krüger, 1610,” as the author of the supposed original of C. Wesley's "Hearts of stone relent, relent" (q.v.). He was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. Of his hymn tunes, which are generally noble and simple in style, some 20 are still in use, the best known probably being that to "Nun danket alle Gott" (q.v.), which is set to No. 379 in Hymns Ancient & Modern, ed. 1875. His claim to notice in this work is as editor and contributor to several of the most important German hymnological works of the 16th century, and these are most conveniently treated of under his name. (The principal authorities on his works are Dr. J. F. Bachmann's Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gesangbücher 1857; his Vortrag on P. Gerhard, 1863; and his edition of Gerhardt's Geistliche Lieder, 1866. Besides these there are the notices in Bode, and in R. Eitner's Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte, 1873 and 1880). These works are:— 1. Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch, Augspur-gischer Confession, &c, Berlin, 1640 [Library of St. Nicholas's Church, Berlin], with 248 hymns, very few being published for the first time. 2. Praxis pietatis melica. Das ist: Ubung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen. The history of this, the most important work of the century, is still obscure. The 1st edition has been variously dated 1640 and 1644, while Crüger, in the preface to No. 3, says that the 3rd edition appeared in 1648. A considerable correspondence with German collectors and librarians has failed to bring to light any of the editions which Koch, iv. 102, 103, quotes as 1644, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653. The imperfect edition noted below as probably that of 1648 is the earliest Berlin edition we have been able to find. The imperfect edition, probably ix. of 1659, formerly in the hands of Dr. Schneider of Schleswig [see Mützell, 1858, No. 264] was inaccessible. The earliest perfect Berlin edition we have found is 1653. The edition printed at Frankfurt in 1656 by Caspar Röteln was probably a reprint of a Berlin edition, c. 1656. The editions printed at Frankfurt-am-Main by B. C. Wust (of which the 1666 is in the preface described as the 3rd) are in considerable measure independent works. In the forty-five Berlin and over a dozen Frankfurt editions of this work many of the hymns of P. Gerhardt, J. Franck, P. J. Spener, and others, appear for the first time, and therein also appear many of the best melodies of the period. 3. Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, &c, Leipzig, 1649 [Library of St. Katherine's Church, Brandenburg]. This contains the first stanzas only of 161 hymns, with music in four vocal and two instrumental parts. It is the earliest source of the first stanzas of various hymns by Gerhardt, Franck, &c. 4. D. M. Luther's und anderer vornehmen geisU reichen und gelehrten Manner Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, &c, Berlin, 1653 [Hamburg Town Library], with 375 hymns. This was edited by C. Runge, the publisher, and to it Crüger contributed some 37 melodies. It was prepared at the request of Luise Henriette (q.v.), as a book for the joint use of the Lutherans and the Re¬formed, and is the earliest source of the hymns ascribed to her, and of the complete versions of many hymns by Gerhardt and Franck. 5. Psalmodia Sacra, &c, Berlin, 1658 [Royal Library, Berlin]. The first section of this work is in an ed. of A. Lobwasser's German Psalter; the second, with a similar title to No. 4, and the date 1657, is practically a recast of No. 4,146 of those in 1653 being omitted, and the rest of the 319 hymns principally taken from the Praxis of 1656 and the hymn-books of the Bohemian Brethren. New eds. appeared in 1676, 1700, 1704, 1711, and 1736. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Crüger, Johann, p. 271, ii. Dr. J. Zahn, now of Neuendettelsau, in Bavaria, has recently acquired a copy of the 5th ed., Berlin, 1653, of the Praxis. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

John Hughes

1873 - 1932 Person Name: John Hughes, 1873-1932 Topics: Nurturing and Renewing Composer of "CWM RHONDDA" in The Covenant Hymnal John Hughes (b. Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1873; d. Llantwit Fardre, Wales, 1932) received little formal education; at age twelve he was already working as a doorboy at a local mining company in Llantwit Fardre. He eventually became an official in the traffic department of the Great Western Railway. Much of his energy was devoted to the Salem Baptist Church in Pontypridd, where he served as both deacon and precentor. Hughes composed two anthems, a number of Sunday school marches, and a few hymn tunes, of which CWM RHONDDA is universally known, the tune was composed in 1905 Baptist Cymanfa Ganu (song festival) in Capel Rhondda, Pontypridd, Wales. Bert Polman

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