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Light of those whose dreary dwelling
Appears in 356 hymnals Used With Tune: ZELL
Light of those whose dreary dwelling
Hark! The Church Proclaims Her Honor
Author: Catherine Winkworth; S. Preiswerk Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hark! the Church proclaims her honor,
And her strength is this alone:
God hath laid His choice upon her
And her work will not disown,
And her work will not disown.
2 He His Church has firmly founded,
He will guard what He began;
We, by sin and foes surrounded,
Build her bulwarks as we can,
Build her bulwarks as we can.
3 Onward, then, for naught despairing,
Calm we follow at His Word,
Thus thro' joy and sorrow bearing
Faithful witness to our Lord,
Faithful witness to our Lord.
4 Though we here must strive with weakness,
Though in tears we often bend,
What His might began in meekness
Shall achieve a glorious end,
Shall achieve a glorious end.
Amen. Topics: The Means of Grace The Christian Church; Processionals and Recessionals General; Processionals and Recessionals Trinity Used With Tune: BOST
Hark! The Church Proclaims Her Honor
All Thy works, O Heavenly Father
Appears in 15 hymnals Used With Tune: BOST
All Thy works, O Heavenly Father
All Thy Works, O Heavenly Father
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Hymns of Praise with Tunes #31 (1884) Languages: English Tune Title: [All Thy works, O Heavenly Father]
All Thy Works, O Heavenly Father
All Thy works, O Heavenly Father
Hymnal: The Sunday School Hymnal #158 (1899) Lyrics: 1 All Thy works, O Heavenly Father,
What Thou biddest them, fulfill,
Shall not I, Thy child, much rather
Sing Thy praise and do Thy will?
Hitherto Thy hand hath led me,
And hath brought me on my way;
Thou hast clothed me, Thou hast fed me,
Thou hast blest me every day.
2 Lord, ‘tis of Thy loving kindness
That Thy gospel I have known;
Else I might have sat in blindness,
Bowing down to wood and stone.
To Thy font my parents brought me,
Ere Thy tender love I knew;
And Thy minister has taught me,
What to flee and what to do.
3 Since my time is like an arrow,
Hastening on without delay;
And Thy gate is straight and narrow,
Very narrow is the way.
Thou who gavest Thy Son to save me,
Send Thy Holy Spirit down;
Make me do as Thou wouldst have me,
Make me more and more Thine own! Topics: Baptism Infant; Blindness; God Father; Law; New Year; Obedience; Praise; Providence; Way The Narrow Tune Title: [All Thy works, O Heavenly Father]
All Thy works, O Heavenly Father
All Thy Works, O Heavenly Father
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Our Song Book #181 (1890) Languages: English Tune Title: [All Thy works, O Heavenly Father]
All Thy Works, O Heavenly Father
Catherine Winkworth
1827 - 1878 Translator of "Hark! The Church Proclaims Her Honor" in American Lutheran Hymnal Catherine Winkworth (b. Holborn, London, England, 1827; d. Monnetier, Savoy, France, 1878) is well known for her English translations of German hymns; her translations were polished and yet remained close to the original. Educated initially by her mother, she lived with relatives in Dresden, Germany, in 1845, where she acquired her knowledge of German and interest in German hymnody. After residing near Manchester until 1862, she moved to Clifton, near Bristol. A pioneer in promoting women's rights, Winkworth put much of her energy into the encouragement of higher education for women. She translated a large number of German hymn texts from hymnals owned by a friend, Baron Bunsen. Though often altered, these translations continue to be used in many modern hymnals. Her work was published in two series of Lyra Germanica (1855, 1858) and in The Chorale Book for England (1863), which included the appropriate German tune with each text as provided by Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt. Winkworth also translated biographies of German Christians who promoted ministries to the poor and sick and compiled a handbook of biographies of German hymn authors, Christian Singers of Germany (1869).
Bert Polman
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Winkworth, Catherine, daughter of Henry Winkworth, of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was born in London, Sep. 13, 1829. Most of her early life was spent in the neighbourhood of Manchester. Subsequently she removed with the family to Clifton, near Bristol. She died suddenly of heart disease, at Monnetier, in Savoy, in July, 1878. Miss Winkworth published:—
Translations from the German of the Life of Pastor Fliedner, the Founder of the Sisterhood of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserworth, 1861; and of the Life of Amelia Sieveking, 1863.
Her sympathy with practical efforts for the benefit of women, and with a pure devotional life, as seen in these translations, received from her the most practical illustration possible in the deep and active interest which she took in educational work in connection with the Clifton Association for the Higher Education of Women, and kindred societies there and elsewhere. Our interest, however, is mainly centred in her hymnological work as embodied in her:—
(1) Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855. (2) Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858. (3) The Chorale Book for England (containing translations from the German, together with music), 1863; and (4) her charming biographical work, the Christian Singers of Germany, 1869.
In a sympathetic article on Miss Winkworth in the Inquirer of July 20, 1878, Dr. Martineau says:—
"The translations contained in these volumes are invariably faithful, and for the most part both terse and delicate; and an admirable art is applied to the management of complex and difficult versification. They have not quite the fire of John Wesley's versions of Moravian hymns, or the wonderful fusion and reproduction of thought which may be found in Coleridge. But if less flowing they are more conscientious than either, and attain a result as poetical as severe exactitude admits, being only a little short of ‘native music'"
Dr. Percival, then Principal of Clifton College, also wrote concerning her (in the Bristol Times and Mirror), in July, 1878:—
"She was a person of remarkable intellectual and social gifts, and very unusual attainments; but what specially distinguished her was her combination of rare ability and great knowledge with a certain tender and sympathetic refinement which constitutes the special charm of the true womanly character."
Dr. Martineau (as above) says her religious life afforded "a happy example of the piety which the Church of England discipline may implant.....The fast hold she retained of her discipleship of Christ was no example of ‘feminine simplicity,' carrying on the childish mind into maturer years, but the clear allegiance of a firm mind, familiar with the pretensions of non-Christian schools, well able to test them, and undiverted by them from her first love."
Miss Winkworth, although not the earliest of modern translators from the German into English, is certainly the foremost in rank and popularity. Her translations are the most widely used of any from that language, and have had more to do with the modern revival of the English use of German hymns than the versions of any other writer.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "All Thy Works, O Heavenly Father" in Our Song Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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Ami Bost
1790 - 1874 Person Name: Paul Ami Bost, 1790-1874 Composer of "BOST" in American Lutheran Hymnal Rev. Paul Ami Isaac David Bost, was born on June 10, 1790 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied theology at the Moravian Institute at Neuwied and at the University of Geneva. He was an itinerant preacher in Switzerland, Germany and France. In 1825, he co-founded the Reformed Free Church of Geneva. From 1828-37 he worked as an evangelist in Carouge, After a brief pastorate at Asnires and Bourges in France, he was appointed chaplain of the prison of the Maison Centrale at Melun, where he remained until 1848, then lived in Geneva. He died on December 24, 1874 in Prigonrieux, Aquitaine, France.
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