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OSTERGAARD

Meter: 9.9.10.10 Appears in 19 hymnals Tune Sources: Danish folk melody Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53217 17255 66432 Used With Text: That Cause Can Never Be Lost Nor Stayed

That Cause Can Neither Be Lost nor Stayed

Author: Kristian Ostergaard; J. C. Aaberg Meter: 9.9.9.9 Appears in 26 hymnals Lyrics: 1 That cause can neither be lost nor stayed Which takes the course of what God has made; And is not trusting in walls and towers, But slowly growing from seeds to flowers. 2 Each noble service that has been wrought Was first conceived as a fruitful thought; Each worthy cause with a future glorious By quietly growing becomes victorious. 3 There by itself like a tree it shows: That high it reaches as deep it grows And when the storms are its branches shaking, It deeper root in the soil is taking. 4 Be then no more by a storm dismayed, For by it the full-grown seeds are laid; And though the tree by its might it shatters, What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters? Topics: Commitment; Service Used With Tune: [That cause can neither be lost nor stayed] Text Sources: Danish

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That Cause Can Never Be Lost Nor Stayed

Author: Kristian Ostergaard, 1855-1931; Jens C. Aaberg, 1877-1970 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6513 Meter: 9.9.10.10 Lyrics: 1. That cause can never be lost nor stayed Which takes the course of what God has made; And is not trusting in walls and towers, But slowly growing from seeds to flowers. 2. Each noble service that men have wrought Was first conceived as a fruitful thought; Each worthy cause with a future glorious By quietly growing becomes victorious. 3. Thereby itself like a tree it shows: That high it reaches, as deep it grows; And when the storms are its branches shaking, It deeper root in the soil is taking. 4. Be then no more by a storm dismayed, For by it the full grown seeds are laid; And though the tree by its might it shatters, What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters? Languages: English Tune Title: OSTERGAARD

That cause can neither be lost nor stayed

Author: J. A. Aaberg Hymnal: New Worship and Song #91 (1942) Languages: English Tune Title: DANISH FOLK TUNE

That cause can neither be lost nor stayed

Author: Christian Ostergaard; J. A. Aaberg Hymnal: Hymns and Songs of Christian Comradeship #93 (1932) Languages: English Tune Title: DANISH FOLK TUNE

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People

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Ellen Jane Lorenz

1907 - 1996 Harmonizer of "GOD'S PLAN" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Ellen Jane Lorenz (Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter) was born in 1907 in Dayton, OH. A descendant of the well known publishing family of Lorenz, she served as editor for the company for 36 years. She earned a Masters of Sacred Music degree from Wittenberg University in 1971. Her PhD thesis was transformed into the book Glory, Hallelujah: the Story of the Campmeeting Spiritual published by Abingdon Press in 1980. She was well known as a composer and received many commissions for anthems, cantatas, vocal and instrumental works. See also the Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter archival collection at Wright State University Special Collections and Archives. Also used pseudonyms: Hadler, Rosemary, 1907-1996 James, Allen, 1907-1996 Mary Louise VanDyke

J. C. Aaberg

1877 - 1970 Person Name: Jens C. Aaberg, 1877-1970 Translator (from Danish) of "That Cause Can Never Be Lost Nor Stayed" in The Cyber Hymnal Jens Christian Aaberg (b. Moberg, Denmark, 1877; d. Minneapolis, MN, 1970) immigrated to the United States in 1901. Educated at Grand View College and Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa, he entered the ministry of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and served congregations in Marinette, Wisconsin; Dwight, Illinois; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aaberg wrote Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark (1945), translated at least eighty hymns from Danish into English, and served on four hymnal committees. In 1947 King Frederick of Denmark awarded him the Knight Cross of Denmark. --Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987