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Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said

Author: Charles W. Everest Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 302 hymnals Topics: Admonition; Christ Cross of; Cross of the believer First Line: Take up thy cross, the Savior said, If thou wouldst my disciple be

Thou art the Way: by thee alone

Author: George Washington Doane, 1799-1859 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 619 hymnals Topics: Proper 20 Year C Lyrics: 1 Thou art the Way: by thee alone from sin and death we flee; and they who would the Father seek, must seek him, Lord, by thee. 2 Thou art the Truth: thy word alone true wisdom can impart; thou only canst inform the mind and purify the heart. 3 Thou art the Life: the rending tomb proclaims thy conquering arm; and those who put their trust in thee nor death nor hell shall harm. 4 Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life: grant us that Way to know, that Truth to keep, that Life to win, whose joys eternal flow. Scripture: Acts 2:24 Used With Tune: ST JAMES

Lead on, O King Eternal

Author: Ernest W. Shurtleff Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 411 hymnals Topics: Warfare, Spiritual; Warfare, Christian First Line: Lead on, O King Eternal, The day of march has come Lyrics: 1 Lead on, O King eternal, the day of march has come; henceforth in fields of conquest your tents will be our home. Through days of preparation your grace has made us strong; and now, O King eternal, we lift our battle song. 2 Lead on, O King eternal, till sin's fierce war shall cease, and holiness shall whisper the sweet amen of peace. For not with swords' loud clashing or roll of stirring drums with deeds of love and mercy the heavenly kingdom comes. 3 Lead on, O King eternal; we follow, not with fears, for gladness breaks like morning where'er your face appears. Your cross is lifted o'er us, we journey in its light; the crown awaits the conquest; lead on, O God of might. Psalter Hymnal, (Gray)

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ST BEES

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 305 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Dykes, 1823-1876 Topics: Proper 20 Year A Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 11176 71223 56272 Used With Text: Take my life, and let it be

SLANE

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 275 hymnals Topics: Proper 20 Year B Tune Sources: Irish traditional melody Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11216 56112 32222 Used With Text: Be Thou My Vision

CWM RHONDDA

Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 342 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hughes, 1873-1932 Topics: Year A Proper 20 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 56511 71232 31643 Used With Text: Guide me, O thou great Redeemer

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

And didst thou travel light, dear Lord

Author: Geoffrey Dearmer, 1893-1996 Hymnal: New English Praise #628 (2006) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: Proper 20 Languages: English Tune Title: LADYWELL

Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above

Author: Johann Jacob Schütz; Frances Elizabeth Cox Hymnal: Voices United #216 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Proper 20 Year A; Proper 20 Year A; Proper 20 Year C Lyrics: 1 Sing praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation, the God of power, the God of love, the God of our salvation; with healing balm my soul is filled, and every faithless murmur stilled: to God all praise and glory! 2 What God's almighty power hath made, God's gracious mercy keepeth: by morning glow or evening shade God's watchful eye ne'er sleepeth; within the shelter of God's might, lo! all is just and all is right: to God all praise and glory! 3 Our God is never far away, but through all grief distressing, an ever-present help and stay, our peace, and joy, and blessing; as with a mother's tender hand, God gently leads the chosen band: to God all praise and glory! 4 Thus all my gladsome way along, I sing aloud thy praises that all may hear the grateful song my voice unwearied raises. Be joyful in your God, my heart! Both soul and body take your part: to God all praise and glory! Languages: English Tune Title: MIT FREUDEN ZART

Now Thank We All Our God

Author: Martin Rinckart; Catherine Winkworth; Flossette du Pasquier Hymnal: Voices United #236 (1996) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Topics: Proper 20 Year B; Proper 20 Year C First Line: Now thank we all our God (Louons le Créateur) Lyrics: 1 Now thank we all our God, with heart, and hands, and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this 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, and keep us strong in grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ills in this world and the next. 3 All praise and thanks to God for all that has been given, the Son, and Spirit blest who dwell in highest heaven, the one eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be, evermore. French: 1 Louons le Créateur, chantons à Dieu louanges! Et joignons notre voix au concert de ses anges! Dès les bras maternels il nous a protégés et, jusqu'au dernier jour, il est notre berger. 2 Loué soit notre Dieu! Que notre vie entière tous nous vivions joyeux sous le regard du Père; qu'il nous tienne en sa grâce et nous guide toujours, nous garde du malheur par son unique amour. 3 De ce Dieu trois fois saint qui règne dans la gloire, chrétiens, empressons-nous de chanter la victoire; c'est lui qui nous unit et nous fait retrouver le chemin de l'amour et de la liberté. Languages: English; French Tune Title: NUN DANKET

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Cyril Taylor

1907 - 1991 Person Name: Cyril Vincent Taylor, 1907-1991 Topics: Year A Proper 20 Composer of "ABBOT'S LEIGH" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Cyril V. Taylor (b. Wigan, Lancashire, England, 1907; d. Petersfield, England, 1991) was a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1932, he served the church as both pastor and musician. His positions included being a producer in the religious broadcasting department of the BBC (1939-1953), chaplain of the Royal School of Church Music (1953-1958), vicar of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (1958-1969), and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral (1969-1975). He contributed twenty hymn tunes to the BBC Hymn Book (1951), which he edited, and other tunes to the Methodist Hymns and Psalms (1983). He also edited 100 Hymns for Today (1969) and More Hymns for Today (1980). Writer of the booklet Hymns for Today Discussed (1984), Taylor was chairman of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1975 to 1980. Bert Polman

David Hurd

b. 1950 Topics: Proper 20 Year C Harmonizer of "BALM IN GILEAD" in Voices United David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010. Bert Polman and Emily Brink

John Goss

1800 - 1880 Person Name: John Goss, 1800-1880 Topics: Year A Proper 20 Composer of "PRAISE, MY SOUL" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New John Goss (b. Fareham, Hampshire, England, 1800; d. London, England, 1880). As a boy Goss was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and later sang in the opera chorus of the Covent Garden Theater. He was a professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music (1827-1874) and organist of St. Paul Cathedral, London (1838-1872); in both positions he exerted significant influence on the reform of British cathedral music. Goss published Parochial Psalmody (1826) and Chants, Ancient and Modern (1841); he edited William Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854). With James Turle he published a two-volume collection of anthems and Anglican service music (1854). Bert Polman

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