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How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
Author: J. Addison, 1672-1719 Appears in 323 hymnals Used With Tune: CULROSS
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
My God, I love Thee – not because
Author: Francis Xavier, c. 1506-52; Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 214 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ His Sufferings and Death; The Christian Life Love and Communion Used With Tune: CULROSS
My God, I love Thee – not because
From thee all skill and science flow
Author: Charles Kingsley, 1819-75 Appears in 90 hymnals Used With Tune: CULROSS
From thee all skill and science flow
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #R45 (2004) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
Of God’s long-suff’ring grace?
and whence this madness that insults
th’ Almighty to his face?
2 Is it because his patience waits,
and pitying bowels move,
you multiply transgressions more,
and scorn his offer'd love?
3 Dost thou not know, self-blinded man!
his goodness is design'd
to wake repentance in thy soul,
and melt thy harden'd mind?
4 And wilt thou rather chuse to meet
th’ Almighty as thy foe,
and treasure up his wrath in store
against the day of woe?
5 Soon shall that fatal day approach
that must thy sentence seal,
and righteous judgments, now unknown,
in awful pomp reveal;
6 while they, who full of holy deeds
to glory seek to rise,
continuing patient to the end,
shall gain th’ immortal prize.
Scripture: Romans 2:4-8 Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
Ungrateful sinners! whence this scorn
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
Author: J. Addison, 1672-1719 Hymnal: Hymns and Chorales #34 (1892) Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord
Plead, Lord, with those that plead and fight
Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #P35 (2004) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Plead, Lord, with those that plead; and fight
with those that fight with me.
2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold,
stand up mine help to be.
3 Draw also out the spear, and stop
my persecutors' way,
and in thy mercy, to my soul,
I’m thy salvation, say.
4 Let them confounded be and shamed
that for my soul have sought:
who plot my hurt turned back be they,
and to confusion brought.
5 Let them be like unto the chaff
that flies before the wind;
and let the angel of the Lord
pursue them hard behind.
6 With darkness cover thou their way,
and let it slippery prove;
and let the angel of the Lord
pursue them from above.
7 For without cause have they for me
their secret hid their snare;
and they a pit without a cause
did for my soul prepare.
8 Let ruin seize him unawares;
his net he hid withal
himself let catch; and in the same
destruction let him fall.
9 My soul in God shall joy, and glad
in his salvation be:
10 and all my bones shall say, O Lord,
Who is like unto thee,
Who dost the poor set free from him
that is for him too strong;
the poor and needy from the man
that spoils and does him wrong?
11 False witnesses rose; 'gainst me
things that I not knew not laid:
12 they to the spoiling of my soul
me ill for good repaid.
13 But as for me, when they were sick,
in sackcloth sad I mourned;
my humbled soul did fast, my prayer
into my bosom turned.
14 I bore myself as for a friend,
or brother dear to me;
as one who for a mother mourns,
I bowed down heavily.
15 But in my trouble they rejoiced,
and they together met;
the abjects vile together did
themselves against me set.
I knew it not; they did me tear,
and quiet would not be.
16 with mocking hypocrites at feasts
they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 How long, Lord, look’st thou on? from those
destructions they intend
rescue my soul, from lions young
my darling do defend.
18 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,
within the assembly great;
and where much people gathered are
thy praises forth will set.
19 Let not my wrongful enemies
proudly rejoice o’er me;
nor let them wink with scornful eye,
who hate me causelessly.
20 For peace they do not speak at all:
but crafty plots prepare
against all those within the land
that meek and quiet are.
21 Their mouths they open wide at me,
they say, Ha, ha! we see:
22 Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy peace;
Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself; wake, that thou may’st
judgment to me afford,
even to my cause, O thou that art
my only God and Lord.
24 O Lord my God, do thou me judge
after thy righteousness;
and let them not their joy ‘oer me
triumphantly express:
25 nor let them say within their hearts,
Ah, we would have it thus;
nor suffer them to say, Lo, he
is swallowed up by us.
26 Shamed and confounded be they all
that at my hurt are glad;
let those against me that do boast
with shame and scorn be clad.
27 Let them who love my righteous cause
with gladness shout, nor cease
to say, The Lord be magnified,
who loves his servant’s peace.
28 Thy righteousness shall also be
declared by my tongue;
the praises that belong to thee
speak shall it all day long. Scripture: Psalm 35 Languages: English Tune Title: CULROSS
Plead, Lord, with those that plead and fight
Charles Kingsley
1819 - 1875 Person Name: Charles Kingsley, 1819-75 Author of "From thee all skill and science flow" in The English Hymnal Kingsley, Charles, M.A., son of Charles Kingsley, of Battramsley, in the New Forest, was born June 12. 1819. at Home Vicarage, Devon. In 1838 he entered Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, and graduated as first class in classics, and senior optime. Subsequently Rector of Eversley 1814-1875; Canon of Chester 1869-1873; and Canon of Westminster 1873-1875. He held also other important appointments. He died at Eversley, Jan. 23, 1875. Canon Kingsley's prose works are too well known to be enumerated here, and his poetical productions have little in common with hymnology. Three of his pieces have come into use as hymns:—
1. Accept this building, gracious Lord. [Hospitals.] "Mrs. Kingsley's account of this hymn is:—
"On the 4th of December [1871], Lord Leigh laid the foundation stone of the working men's block of the Queen's Hospital at Birmingham with masonic honours, and the following simple hymn, which Mr. Kingsley had been requested to compose for the occasion, was sung by a choir of 1,000 voices:—
'Accept this building, gracious Lord,
No temple though it be;
We raise it for our suffering kin,
And so, good Lord, to Thee.'"
The hymn in full follows in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. (Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs of his Life. 1876, vol. ii., p. 370.) From this the hymn, well-known in American collections and in a few in Great Britain, “From Thee all skill and science flow," is taken. It is composed of stanzas iii.-vi.
2. My fairest child, I have no song to give you. [Purity and Courage.] Appeared in his Andromeda and Other Poems, 1858, p. 64, in 2 stanzas of 4 lines and entitled "Farewell." In the Life and Works of Kingsley, Poems, vol. 16, 1902, it is given in 3 stanzas of 4 lines, and inscribed to "C. E. G." and the appended date is "February 1, 1856." The addition of the extra stanza, as given in Mrs. Kingsley's Charles Kingsley: His Letters, &c,
1876, vol. ii., p. 236, is thus explained: "The Farewell' to his niece Mrs. Theodore Waldron, then Charlotte Grenfell, was written this year [1856], and as the second verse, by some mistake, was not published, it is given entire here." At the end of the poem the place and date are given as "Ray” Lodge, 1856." The lines so frequently included in hymnals for Girls' High Schools, "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," are from this poem.
3. Who will say the world is dying [The Coming Kingdom.] In his Andromeda and Other Poems, 1858, p. 123, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines and entitled "The World's Age." is dated 1849. In Horder's Worship Song, 1905.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Charles Kingsley
George W. Briggs
1810 - 1895 Author of "God, you have given us power" in A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools
George W. Briggs
Joseph Addison
1672 - 1719 Person Name: J. Addison, 1672-1719 Author of "How are Thy servants blest, O Lord" in Hymns and Chorales Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through his contributions to The Spectator, The Toiler, The Guardian, and The Freeholder. To the first of these he contributed his hymns. His Cato, a tragedy, is well known and highly esteemed. Addison's claims to the authorship of the hymns usually ascribed to him, or to certain of them, have been called in question on two occasions. The first was the publication, by Captain Thompson, of certain of those hymns in his edition of the Works of Andrew Marvell, 1776, as the undoubted compositions of Marvell; and the second, a claim in the Athenaeum, July 10th, 1880, on behalf of the Rev. Richard Richmond. Fully to elucidate the subject it will be necessary, therefore, to give a chronological history of the hymns as they appeared in the Spectator from time to time.
i. The History of the Hymns in The Spectator. This, as furnished in successive numbers of the Spectator is :—
1. The first of these hymns appeared in the Spectator of Saturday, July 26, 1712, No. 441, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. The article in which it appeared was on Divine Providence, signed “C." The hymn itself, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," was introduced with these words:—
"David has very beautifully represented this steady reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third psalm, which is a kind of pastoral hymn, and filled with those allusions which are usual in that kind of writing As the poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it." (Orig. Broadsheet, Brit. Mus.)
2. The second hymn appeared in the Spectator on Saturday, Aug. 9, 1712, No. 453, in 13 st. of 4 1., and forms the conclusion of an essay on " Gratitude." It is also signed " C," and is thus introduced:—
“I have already obliged the public with some pieces of divine poetry which have fallen into my hands, and as they have met with the reception which they deserve, I shall, from time to time, communicate any work of the same nature which has not appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum)
Then follows the hymn:—"When all Thy mercies, 0 my God."
3. The number of the Spectator for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1712, No. 461, is composed of three parts. The first is an introductory paragraph by Addison, the second, an unsigned letter from Isaac Watts, together with a rendering by him of Ps. 114th; and the third, a letter from Steele. It is with the first two we have to deal. The opening paragraph by Addison is:—
“For want of time to substitute something else in the Boom of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters. It is no small Satisfaction, to have given Occasion to ingenious Men to employ their Thoughts upon sacred Subjects from the Approbation of such Pieces of Poetry as they have seen in my Saturday's papers. I shall never publish Verse on that Day but what is written by the same Hand; yet shall I not accompany those Writings with Eulogiums, but leave them to speak for themselves." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum
Joseph Addison
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The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling
to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid
1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of
this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset
of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano
with organ versions.
About the Recordings All recordings are in MP3 format.
Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per
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The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
