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Author: W. O. Cushing Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 140 hymnals Topics: Sabbath School Faith and Trust First Line: Under His wings I am safely abiding Used With Tune: [Under His wings I am safely abiding]

Sabbath School Meeting

Author: Anon. Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Sabbath-School; Sabbath-School First Line: Saviour King, in hallowed union Lyrics: 1 Saviour King, in hallowed union, At thy sacred feet we bow; Heart with heart, in blest communion, Join to crave thy favor now! Though celestial choirs adore thee, Let our prayer as incense rise; And our praise be set before thee, Sweet as evening sacrifice. 2 When we tell the wondrous story Of thy rich, exhaustless love, Send thy Spirit, Lord of glory, On the youthful heart to move! Oh, that he, the ever-living, May descend, as fruitful rain; Till the wilderness, reviving, Blossoms as the rose again! Used With Tune: BAVARIA

My Sabbath Song

Author: Mrs. Mary A. Kidder Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Hymns for Worship Sabbath School; Hymns for Worship Sabbath School First Line: Strains of music often greet me Refrain First Line: No fear of ill, no fear of wrong Lyrics: 1 Strains of music often greet me, As I join the busy throng, But there's nothing half so pleasant, As the holy Sabbath song. Chorus: No fear of ill, no fear or wrong, While I can sing my Sabbath song: My Sabbath song, my Sabbath song, I love to sing my Sabbath song. 2 'Tis a song of love and mercy, Speaking peace to all mankind, Telling sinners poor and needy, Where the Saviour they may find. [Chorus] 3 While I love, O may I ever Love the holy Sabbath song, And in yonder home eternal, Sing it with the blood bought throng. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Strains of music often greet me]

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WE ARE NEARING HOME!

Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John R. Sweney Topics: Sabbath School Eternal Life Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 34556 53212 31 Used With Text: Just Over the Mountains

[If any little word of mine]

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. S. Hakes Topics: Sabbath School Work and Duty Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53344 12332 21235 Used With Text: If Any Little Word of Mine

WILL THERE BE ANY STARS?

Meter: 12.9.12.9 with refrain Appears in 211 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John R. Sweney Topics: Sabbath School Work and Duty Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 34545 13217 12234 Used With Text: I Am Thinking Today of That Beautiful Land

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My Sabbath Home

Author: Dr. C. R. Blackwell Hymnal: Christ in Song #608 (1908) Topics: Hymns for Worship Sabbath School; Hymns for Worship Sabbath School First Line: Sweet Sabbath School! more dear to me Refrain First Line: Sabbath home! blessed home! Lyrics: 1 Sweet Sabbath School! more dear to me Than fairest palace dome, My heart e'er turns with joy to thee, My own dear Sabbath Home. Chorus: Sabbath home! blessed home! Sabbath home! blessed home! My heart o'er turns with joy to thee, My own dear Sabbath Home. 2 Here first my wilful, wand'ring heart, The way of life was shown, Here first I sought the better part, And gained a Sabbath Home. [Chorus] 3 Here Jesus stood with loving voice, Entreating me to come, And make of Him my only choice, In this dear Sabbath Home. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweet Sabbath School! more dear to me]

The Sabbath of the Lord

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: Sacred Poems and Hymns #351 (1854) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Sabbath schools Lyrics: The Sabbath of the Lord, The Sabbath is our day, For then we read and hear God's word, We learn to praise and pray. Ours is the Sunday school, Its lessons may we prize, And grow by every gospel rule Unto salvation wise. So all our lives below, In Wisdom's pleasant ways, The fruits of Sunday schools shalt show, The bliss of Sabbath days. Lord of the Sabbath, send Prosperity and peace, Till tasks and teaching here shall end, Tongues fail, and knowledge cease. 374 Then heaven itself shall be One Sunday school above; An undisturb'd eternity One Sabbath day of love. Languages: English

Sabbath School Hour

Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Boston Sunday School Hymn Book #14 (1844) Topics: Sabbath School Hour First Line: Hark, the Sabbath bells are ringing Languages: English

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Reginald Heber

1783 - 1826 Topics: Sabbath-School; Sabbath-School Author of "A Christian Child" in Laudes Domini Reginald Heber was born in 1783 into a wealthy, educated family. He was a bright youth, translating a Latin classic into English verse by the time he was seven, entering Oxford at 17, and winning two awards for his poetry during his time there. After his graduation he became rector of his father's church in the village of Hodnet near Shrewsbury in the west of England where he remained for 16 years. He was appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1823 and worked tirelessly for three years until the weather and travel took its toll on his health and he died of a stroke. Most of his 57 hymns, which include "Holy, Holy, Holy," are still in use today. -- Greg Scheer, 1995 ==================== Heber, Reginald, D.D. Born at Malpas, April 21, 1783, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; Vicar of Hodnet, 1807; Bishop of Calcutta, 1823; died at Trichinopoly, India, April 3, 1826. The gift of versification shewed itself in Heber's childhood; and his Newdigate prize poem Palestine, which was read to Scott at breakfast in his rooms at Brazenose, Oxford, and owed one of its most striking passages to Scott's suggestion, is almost the only prize poem that has won a permanent place in poetical literature. His sixteen years at Hodnet, where he held a halfway position between a parson and a squire, were marked not only by his devoted care of his people, as a parish priest, but by literary work. He was the friend of Milman, Gifford, Southey, and others, in the world of letters, endeared to them by his candour, gentleness, "salient playfulness," as well as learning and culture. He was on the original staff of The Quarterly Review; Bampton Lecturer (1815); and Preacher at Lincoln's Inn (1822). His edition of Jeremy Taylor is still the classic edition. During this portion of his life he had often had a lurking fondness for India, had traced on the map Indian journeys, and had been tempted to wish himself Bishop of Calcutta. When he was forty years old the literary life was closed by his call to the Episcopate. No memory of Indian annals is holier than that of the three years of ceaseless travel, splendid administration, and saintly enthusiasm, of his tenure of the see of Calcutta. He ordained the first Christian native—Christian David. His first visitation ranged through Bengal, Bombay, and Ceylon; and at Delhi and Lucknow he was prostrated with fever. His second visitation took him through the scenes of Schwartz's labours in Madras Presidency to Trichinopoly, where on April 3,1826, he confirmed forty-two persons, and he was deeply moved by the impression of the struggling mission, so much so that “he showed no appearance of bodily exhaus¬tion." On his return from the service ”He retired into his own room, and according to his invariable custom, wrote on the back of the address on Confirmation 'Trichinopoly, April 3, 1826.' This was his last act, for immediately on taking off his clothes, he went into a large cold bath, where he had bathed the two preceding mornings, but which was now the destined agent of his removal to Paradise. Half an hour after, his servant, alarmed at his long absence, entered the room and found him a lifeless corpse." Life, &c, 1830, vol. ii. p. 437. Heber's hymns were all written during the Hodnet period. Even the great missionary hymn, "From Greenland's icy mountains," notwithstanding the Indian allusions ("India's coral strand," "Ceylon's isle"), was written before he received the offer of Calcutta. The touching funeral hymn, "Thou art gone to the grave," was written on the loss of his first babe, which was a deep grief to him. Some of the hymns were published (1811-16) in the Christian Observer, the rest were not published till after his death. They formed part of a ms. collection made for Hodnet (but not published), which contained, besides a few hymns from older and special sources, contributions by Milman. The first idea of the collection appears in a letter in 1809 asking for a copy of the Olney Hymns, which he "admired very much." The plan was to compose hymns connected with the Epistles and Gospels, to be sung after the Nicene Creed. He was the first to publish sermons on the Sunday services (1822), and a writer in The Guardian has pointed out that these efforts of Heber were the germs of the now familiar practice, developed through the Christian Year (perhaps following Ken's Hymns on the Festivals), and by Augustus Hare, of welding together sermon, hymnal, and liturgy. Heber tried to obtain from Archbishop Manners Sutton and the Bishop of London (1820) authorization of his ms. collection of hymns by the Church, enlarging on the "powerful engine" which hymns were among Dissenters, and the irregular use of them in the church, which it was impossible to suppress, and better to regulate. The authorization was not granted. The lyric spirit of Scott and Byron passed into our hymns in Heber's verse; imparting a fuller rhythm to the older measures, as illustrated by "Oh, Saviour, is Thy promise fled," or the martial hymn, "The Son of God goes forth to war;" pressing into sacred service the freer rhythms of contemporary poetry (e.g. "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning"; "God that madest earth and heaven"); and aiming at consistent grace of literary expression.. Their beauties and faults spring from this modern spirit. They have not the scriptural strength of our best early hymns, nor the dogmatic force of the best Latin ones. They are too flowing and florid, and the conditions of hymn composition are not sufficiently understood. But as pure and graceful devotional poetry, always true and reverent, they are an unfailing pleasure. The finest of them is that majestic anthem, founded on the rhythm of the English Bible, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty." The greatest evidence of Heber's popularity as a hymnwriter, and his refined taste as a compiler, is found in the fact that the total contents of his ms. collection which were given in his posthumous Hymns written and adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year. London, J. Murray, 1827; which included 57 hymns by Heber, 12 by Milman, and 29 by other writers, are in common in Great Britain and America at the present time. [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] Of Bishop Heber's hymns, about one half are annotated under their respective first lines. Those given below were published in Heber's posthumous Hymns, &c, 1827. Some of them are in extensive use in Great Britain and America; but as they possess no special histories they are grouped together as from the Hymns, &c, 1827:— 1. Beneath our feet, and o'er our head. Burial. 2. Creator of the rolling flood. St. Peter's Day, or, Gospel for 6th Sunday after Trinity. 3. Lo, the lilies of the field. Teachings of Nature: or, Gospel for 15th Sunday after Trinity. 4. 0 God, by Whom the seed is given. Sexagesima. 6. 0 God, my sins are manifold. Forgiveness, or, Gospel for 22nd S. after Trinity. 6. 0 hand of bounty, largely spread. Water into Wine, or, Gospel for 2nd S. after Epiphany. 7. 0 King of earth, and air, and sea. Feeding the Multitude; or, Gospel for 4th S. in Lent. 8. 0 more than merciful, Whose bounty gave. Good Friday. 9. 0 most merciful! 0 most bountiful. Introit Holy Communion. 10. 0 Thou, Whom neither time nor space. God unsearchable, or, Gospel for 5th Sunday in Lent. 11. 0 weep not o'er thy children's tomb. Innocents Day. 12. Room for the proud! Ye sons of clay. Dives and Lazarus, or, Gospel for 1st Sunday after Trinity. 13. Sit thou on my right hand, my Son, saith the Lord. Ascension. 14. Spirit of truth, on this thy day. Whit-Sunday. 15. The feeble pulse, the gasping breath. Burial, or, Gospel for 1st S. after Trinity. 16. The God of glory walks His round. Septuagesima, or, the Labourers in the Marketplace. 17. The sound of war in earth and air. Wrestling against Principalities and Powers, or, Epistle for 2lst Sunday after Trinity. 18. The world is grown old, her pleasures are past. Advent; or, Epistle for 4th Sunday in Advent. 19. There was joy in heaven. The Lost Sheep; or, Gospel for 3rd S. after Trinity. 20. Though sorrows rise and dangers roll. St. James's Day. 21. To conquer and to save, the Son of God. Christ the Conqueror. 22. Virgin-born, we bow before Thee. The Virgin Mary. Blessed amongst women, or, Gospel for 3rd S. in Lent. 23. Wake not, 0 mother, sounds of lamentation. Raising the Widow's Son, or, Gospel for 16th S. after Trinity. 24. When on her Maker's bosom. Holy Matrimony, or, Gospel for 2nd S. after Epiphany. 25. When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming. Stilling the Sea, or, Gospel for 4th Sunday after Epiphany. 26. Who yonder on the desert heath. The Good Samaritan, or, Gospel for 13th Sunday after Trinity. This list is a good index of the subjects treated of in those of Heber's hymns which are given under their first lines, and shows that he used the Gospels far more than the Epistles in his work. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: J. B. Dykes Topics: Hymns for Worship Sabbath School; Hymns for Worship Sabbath School Composer of "PAX DEI" in Christ in Song As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

James Nicholson

1828 - 1896 Topics: Sabbath School Consecration Author of "Lord Jesus, I Long to Be Perfectly Whole" in The Church Hymnal James L Nicholson United Kingdom/USA 1828-1876. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States around age 25. He lived in Philadelphia, PA, worked as a postal clerk, and was a member of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church there for about 20 years, where he taught Sunday school, led singing in church, and assisted in evangelical work. This was also hymn writer, William J Kirkpatrick’s, church. Around 1871 he moved to Washington, DC, and worked as a postal clerk there. In addition to his hymn writing, he also wrote several books, one on birds and their care, one on forensic medicine. He died in Washington, DC, but was buried in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry =============== Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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