For Me To Live Is Jesus

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For me to live is Jesus, For me to die is gain (Brueckner)

Translator: Herman H. Brueckner; Author: Simon Graf (1603)
Published in 2 hymnals

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	Music for a Celebration, Set 2

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1 For me to live is Jesus,
For me to die is gain:
I yield to Him most gladly
And leave this world of pain.

2 In peace this life departing,
To yonder realms I soar,
That I with Christ, my Brother,
May dwell for evermore.

3 My toil and cares are ended,
My troubles all must cease,
For in Thy wounds, O Jesus,
My soul has found its peace.

4 Then let me close mine eyelids
And fall asleep in Thee;
Let Thy good will and counsel
Be thus fulfilled in me.

5 As to the oak the ivy,
So let me cleave to Thee,
And in those heavenly mansions
May I Thy glory see.

6 Amen! this do Thou grant me,
O gracious Savior mine!
Vouchsafe to me Thy Spirit,
Make me forever Thine.

Source: American Lutheran Hymnal #295

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Translator: Herman H. Brueckner

Born: March 11, 1866, Grundy County, Iowa (birth name: Herman Heinrich Moritz Brueckner). Died: January 25, 1942, Hebron, Nebraska (funeral held in Beatrice, Nebraska). Buried: St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Waverly, Iowa. After ordination in 1888, Brueckner pastored in Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. He later moved to Iowa City, Iowa, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Iowa State University in 1917. In 1926, he joined the faculty of Hebron College in Nebraska. In 1938, Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him. He retired as professor emeritus from Hebron College in 1941. Sources: Erickson, p. 254 Findagrave, accessed 14 Nov 2016 Hustad, p. 213 Stulken, p.… Go to person page >

Author: Simon Graf

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First Line:	For me to live is Jesus, For me to die is gain (Brueckner)
Title:	For Me To Live Is Jesus
German Title:	Christus, der ist mein Leben
Author:	Simon Graf (1603)
Translator:	Herman H. Brueckner
Meter:	7.6.7.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (Vulpius)

Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) composed this short chorale tune, published as a setting for the anonymous funeral hymn "Christus, der ist mein Leben" ("For Me to Live Is Jesus") in Vulpius's Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (1609). Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) based his Cantata 95 on this tune and provided two…

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HEIDELBERG (Vulpius)

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