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HEAVENLY HOSTS

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Noel H. Tredinnick, b. 1949 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55162 17533 41543 Used With Text: Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship

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Praise the Lord! You Heavens, Adore Him

Author: Edward Osler, 1798-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 793 hymnals First Line: Praise the Lord! you heav'ns, adore him Lyrics: 1 Praise the Lord! you heav'ns, adore him; Praise him, angels, in the height; Sun and moon, rejoice before him; Praise him, all you stars and light. Praise the Lord! for he has spoken; Worlds his mighty voice obeyed; Laws which never shall be broken For their guidance he has made. 2 Praise the Lord! for he is glorious; Never shall his promise fail; God has made his saints victorious; Sin and death shall not prevail. Praise the God of our salvation! Hosts on high, his pow'r proclaim; Heav'n and earth, and all creation Praise and glorify his name. 3 Worship, honor, glory, blessing, Lord, we offer as our gift. Young and old, your praise expressing, Our glad songs to you we lift. All the saints in heav'n adore you, We would join their glad acclaim; As your angels serve before you, So on earth we praise your name. Topics: Angels; Creation; God the Father (Creator); Holy Name; Majesty and Power; Praise; Providence; Saints Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: HEAVENLY HOSTS Text Sources: St. 1-2: Foundling Hospital Collection, 1796

Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Heav'nly hosts in ceaseless worship, "Holy, holy, holy" cry; "He who is, who was and will be, God, Almighty, Lord most high." Praise and honor, pow'r and glory, Be to Him who reigns alone; We, with all his hands have fashioned, Fall before the Father's throne. 2 All creation, all redemption, Join to sing the Savior's worth; Lamb of God whose blood has bought us, Kings and priests, to reign on earth. Wealth and wisdom, pow'r and glory, Honor, might, dominion, praise, Now be his from all his creatures And to everlasting days. Topics: Angels; Creation; Gathering; God the Father (Creator); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Lamb; Majesty and Power; Praise; Praise; Redemption; Saints; Salvation Scripture: Revelation 4 Used With Tune: HEAVENLY HOSTS

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Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Worship (3rd ed.) #522 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Angels; Creation; Gathering; God the Father (Creator); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Lamb; Majesty and Power; Praise; Saints Scripture: Revelation 4, 5 Languages: English Tune Title: HEAVENLY HOSTS

Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: RitualSong #661 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Heav'nly hosts in ceaseless worship, "Holy, holy, holy" cry; "He who is, who was and will be, God, Almighty, Lord most high." Praise and honor, pow'r and glory, Be to Him who reigns alone; We, with all his hands have fashioned, Fall before the Father's throne. 2 All creation, all redemption, Join to sing the Savior's worth; Lamb of God whose blood has bought us, Kings and priests, to reign on earth. Wealth and wisdom, pow'r and glory, Honor, might, dominion, praise, Now be his from all his creatures And to everlasting days. Topics: Angels; Creation; Gathering; God the Father (Creator); Heaven; Jesus Christ; Lamb; Majesty and Power; Praise; Praise; Redemption; Saints; Salvation Scripture: Revelation 4 Languages: English Tune Title: HEAVENLY HOSTS

Praise the Lord! You Heavens, Adore Him

Author: Edward Osler, 1798-1863 Hymnal: Worship (3rd ed.) #529 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Praise the Lord! you heav'ns, adore him Lyrics: 1 Praise the Lord! you heav'ns, adore him; Praise him, angels, in the height; Sun and moon, rejoice before him; Praise him, all you stars and light. Praise the Lord! for he has spoken; Worlds his mighty voice obeyed; Laws which never shall be broken For their guidance he has made. 2 Praise the Lord! for he is glorious; Never shall his promise fail; God has made his saints victorious; Sin and death shall not prevail. Praise the God of our salvation! Hosts on high, his pow'r proclaim; Heav'n and earth, and all creation Praise and glorify his name. 3 Worship, honor, glory, blessing, Lord, we offer as our gift. Young and old, your praise expressing, Our glad songs to you we lift. All the saints in heav'n adore you, We would join their glad acclaim; As your angels serve before you, So on earth we praise your name. Topics: Angels; Creation; God the Father (Creator); Holy Name; Majesty and Power; Praise; Providence; Saints Scripture: Psalm 148 Languages: English Tune Title: HEAVENLY HOSTS

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship" in Worship (3rd ed.) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Edward Osler

1798 - 1863 Person Name: Edward Osler, 1798-1863 Author (st. 3) of "Praise the Lord! You Heavens, Adore Him" in Worship (3rd ed.) Osler, Edward, was born at Falmouth in January, 1798, and was educated for the medical profession, first by Dr. Carvosso, at Falmouth, and then at Guy's Hospital, London. From 1819 to 1836 he was house surgeon at the Swansea Infirmary. He then removed to London, and devoted himself to literary pursuits. For some time he was associated with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, both in London and at Bath. In 1841 he became the Editor of the Royal Cornwall Gazette, and took up his residence at Truro. He retained that appointment till his death, at Truro, March 7, 1863. For the Linnaean Society he wrote Burrowing and Boring Marine Animals. He also published Church and Bible; The Voyage: a Poem written at Sea, and in the West Indies, and Illustrated by papers on Natural History, 1830; The Life of Lord Exmouth, 1837, &c. His hymnological work is mainly connected with the Mitre Hymn Book. During 1835-36 he was associated with Prebendary W. J. Hall, the editor, in producing that collection, which was published in 1836 as Psalms and Hymns adapted to The Services of the Church of England. He resided in Mr. Hall's house during the time. From the "hall manuscript" we gather that he contributed 15 versions of the Psalms (5 being rewritten from others), and 50 hymns (a few rewritten). Most of these hymns and Psalm versions, together with others not in the Mitre Hymn Book, were afterwards given in the monthly numbers of his Church and King, from Nov. 1836 to Aug. 1837. The best known of these hymns are, “O God, unseen, yet ever near," and “Worship, honour, glory, blessing." Several of his hymns in common use are:— 1. Father, Whose love and truth fulfil. Holy Baptism. 2. Glory to God! with joyful adoration. Praise to the Father. 3. Great God, o'er earth and heaven supreme. Men the Stewards of God's Bounties. 4. Great God of hosts, our ears have heard. Ps. xliv. Based on the N. Version. 5. Great God, Whose awful mystery. Holy Trinity. 6. I hold the sacred book of God. Martyrs. 7. Jehovah hath spoken, the nations shall hear. Second Advent. 8. Lord, may the inward grace abound. Holy Baptism. 9. May we Thy precepts, Lord, fulfil. Love. 10. Mighty Saviour, gracious King. Advent. 11. 0 God, the help of all Thy Saints. Ps. x. 12. O Thou, the Lord and Life of those. Christ the Life of Men. 13. O Saviour, Who didst come. Easter. 14. Saviour, Whose love could stoop to death. Easter. 15. See, Lord, before Thy mercy seat. For Schools. 16. Set in a high and favoured place. Advent. 17. Wake frem the dead, new life begin. Lent. 18. With trembling awe we come. Lent. Several of these hymns are not in Osier's Church and King. We have ascribed them and others to him on the authority of the "hall MSS." It must be noted also that the text in the Church and King often differs from that in the Mitre. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) Though not mentioned by Julian, perhaps his most enduring contribution to hymnody is the third stanza of "Praise the Lord! Ye Heavens, Adore Him", whose first two stanzas are of anonymous authorship. --Leland Bryant Ross (2019)