From Age to Age

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From age to age how grandly rise

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer
Published in 9 hymnals

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1 From age to age how grandly rise
the prophet souls in line;
above the passing centuries
like beacon lights they shine,
like beacon lights they shine.

2 They witness to one heritage,
one spirit’s quick’ning breath,
one widening reign from age to age
of freedom and of faith,
of freedom and of faith.

3 Their kindling power our souls confess; though dead they speak today:
how great the cloud of witnesses
encompassing our way,
encompassing our way.

4 Through every race, in every clime,
one song shall yet be heard:
move onward in thy course sublime,
O everlasting Word,
O everlasting Word.

Source: Singing the Living Tradition #105

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Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Hosmer, Frederick Lucian, B.A., was born at Framingham, Mass., in 1840, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated B.A. in 1869. Entering the Unitarian Ministry in 1872 he has held charges in Quincy, Ill., 1872-77; Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-92; St. Louis, 1894-99; and since 1899, at Berkeley, Cal. His Way of Life, 1877, was a compilation of Prayers and Responsive Services for Sunday Schools. Of Unity Hymns and Carols, 1880, he was joint editor with W. C. Gannett and J. V. Blake. His hymns were published jointly by him and W. C. Gannett (q.v.), as The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.), 1st Series, 1885; 2nd Series, 1894. Of his 56 hymns in this work the following have come into common use, for the most part during… Go to person page >

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First Line:	From age to age how grandly rise
Title:	From Age to Age
Author:	Frederick Lucian Hosmer
Meter:	8.6.8.6 with repeat
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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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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HUMMEL (Zeuner)

BENNINGTON (Benjamin)

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