tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242886132024-03-19T00:51:07.445-04:00Conjubilant with SongHymnody. Choral music. What else? Tune in tomorrow...C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.comBlogger857125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-39543608376480245862019-09-29T04:06:00.000-04:002020-02-03T02:38:09.244-05:00Saint Michael and All Angels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O God of all, we give thee praise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanksgivings unto thee we raise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That angel hosts thou didst create</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Around thy glorious throne to wait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They shine with light and heav’nly grace</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And constantly behold thy face;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They heed thy voice, they know it well,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In godly wisdom they excel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They never rest nor sleep as we;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their whole delight is but to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Christ the Shepherd, and to keep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thy little flock, thy lambs and sheep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ancient dragon is their foe;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whose envy and whose wrath they know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It always is his aim and pride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thine earthly people to divide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But watchful is the angel band</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That follows Christ on every hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To guard God's people where they go</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And break the counsel of the foe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this, now and in days to be,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our praise shall rise, O God, to thee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whom all the angel hosts adore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With grateful songs forevermore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Philipp Melancthon, 1534</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tr. Emanuel Cronenwett, 1880; alt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/h/e/a/v/heavenly_flight.mid">HEAVENLY FLIGHT</a> (L.M.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nahum Mitchell, 1816</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">P.S. The window above is from St Michael and All Saints Church in Herefordshire.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>El</b><b>even</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Around the throne of God</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Ten Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Nine Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">They are evermore around us</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Seven Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">O Captain of God's host</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Two Years Ago:</b><span style="color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i> <a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2017/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">Life and strength of all thy servants</a></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-48252775106553210572019-06-09T15:41:00.000-04:002019-06-09T15:48:38.594-04:00The Feast of Pentecost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O heavenly Fount of light and love,<br />Adoring praise to thee we pay;<br />Pour down, blest Spirit, from above<br />Fresh streams of grace this day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Pentecost thou camest down<br />As sound of rushing wind went by,<br />With tongues of heavenly fire to crown<br />That glorious company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thou on each new-born child of grace<br />Dost now in hidden power descend<br />To strengthen for life’s daily race,<br />To comfort and defend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thou in each meek and lowly heart,<br />With streams of living waters bright,<br />Sweet Fount of strength and gladness art,<br />Fresh Spring of life and light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Walsham How, 1871; alt.<br />Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/d/e/r/derry_dykes.mid">DERRY</a> (8.8.8.6.)<br />John Bacchus Dykes, 1875</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eleven (Li</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>turgical) Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Joy! because the circling year</i></a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Ten </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Years Ago: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">O prophet souls of all the years</i></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Nine</b> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Above the starry spheres</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Eight </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/06/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Hail thee, festival day</i></a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Seven </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Hail festal day! through every age</i></a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Six </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Years Ago</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">O God, the Holy Ghost</a></i><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: black;">Five</span> </span>(Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Spirit of grace and health and pow'r</span></a></i><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Four (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Come, O come, thou quick'ning Spirit</span></a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>Three (Liturgical) Years Ago: </strong><em style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed</a></em></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.46px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Two (Liturgical) Years Ago: </strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.46px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">Come, Holy Ghost</a></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>One </b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>(Liturgical) Year Ago:</b><i><b> </b><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html">Come, Holy Ghost, my spirit fill</a></i></span></span><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><br />
<br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-62510806002497369682019-04-21T08:54:00.000-04:002019-04-21T08:54:14.459-04:00All Doubt and Fear Is O'er<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Awake, awake, my heart, and sing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Christ is ris’n today!<br />Behold a gleam of angel wings;<br />The stone is rolled away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Awake, awake, my heart, and sing!<br />The gloom of death is o’er;<br />And Mary hastes, the news to bring,<br />He lives forevermore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Awake, my heart, the morn is bright,<br />All doubt and fear is o’er!<br />For Christ is ris’n in power and might,<br />He lives forevermore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behold the joyous Easter day<br />That brings the news to earth<br />Of Easter morning far away,<br />When life from death had birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alice J. Cleator, 1900; alt.<br />Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/m/a/g/magnify.mid">MAGNIFY</a> (G.M.)<br />Calvin W. Laufer, 20th cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>P.S. The fourteenth-century fresco above is from one of the chapels in the Santa Maria Novella convent in Florence. The artist Andrea da Firenze depicts scenes from the Resurrection, including the women coming to the empty tomb on the left side, and Mary's encounter with Jesus on the right.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Ten (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/rising-up-from-grief-and-tears.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Christ is risen! Alleluia!</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Nine </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>(Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/alleluia-alleluia-alleluia.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">The strife is o'er, the battle done</a></i></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Seven (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/all-earth-shall-be-made-new.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Jesus Christ is risen today</a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Six (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/03/let-your-alleluias-rise.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary</a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Three (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-sun-that-warms-and-lights-us_27.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">Christ Jesus lay in death's strong bands</a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Two (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b><span style="color: #006000;"> <i><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2017/04/easter-sunday.html">Jesus Christ is risen today</a></i> </span><b><span style="color: black;">(but not the one you think!)</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-73848386890249325452019-04-20T00:34:00.000-04:002019-04-20T00:34:12.748-04:00Gleams of Eternity Appear<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As another Holy Week comes to a close...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunset to sunrise changes now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For God has made the world anew;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Redeemer's thorn-crowned brow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wonders of that world we view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E'en though the sun withholds its light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lo! a more heav'nly lamp shines here,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And from the cross, on Calvary's height,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gleams of eternity appear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here in o'erwhelming final strife</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lord of Life has victory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sin is slain, and death brings life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And earth inherits heaven's key.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clement of Alexandria, 3rd cent.;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">para. Howard Chandler Robbins, 20th. cent.; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/k/e/d/kedron_dare.mid">KEDRON</a> (L.M.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attrib. Elkanah Kelsay Dare, 19th cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Saint <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Clement-of-Alexandria.html">Clement of Alexandria</a> (c.150-c.215) was originally Titus Flavius Clemens, a Greek theologian and a convert to Christianity who became the intellectual leader of the Christian community in Alexandria. His sainthood was revoked by the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, but he remains revered in Anglicanism, as well as the Coptic and Ethiopian branches of Christianity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/r/o/b/b/robbins_hc.htm">Howard Chandler Robbins</a> (1876-1952) was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1904 and served parishes in New York and New Jersey before serving as dean of the <a href="https://www.stjohndivine.org/visit/history/">Cathedral of St. John the Divine </a>in Manhattan from 1917-1929. Following that position, he became a professor at the (Episcopal) General Theological Seminary. He was a member and was eventually made a Fellow of the <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/about-us/">Hymn Society of America</a>, as well as a member of the <a href="https://www.themayflowersociety.org/our-society">Society of Mayflower Descendants</a>. He served on the committee that produced the Episcopal <i>Hymnal 1916</i>, and several of his hymns (including today's paraphrase) appear in the subsequent <i>Hymnal 1940</i>. My own particular favorite of his hymns is <i>Put forth, O God, thy Spirit's might</i>, for which he also composed the tune CHELSEA SQUARE, one of the finest tunes of the twentieth-century, in my opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the earliest published American composers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkanah_Kelsey_Dare">Elkanah Kelsay Dare</a> (1782-1826), was also a Presbyterian minister who was pastor of the <a href="http://www.unionpres.com/">Union Presbyterian Church</a> in Colerain Township (now Kirkwood), Pennsylvania (his middle name is sometimes given as <i>Kelsey</i>). His ten hymn tunes appeared in the <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/WyethsRepositoryOfSacredMusic">Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second</a></i> (1813) edited by <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/w/y/e/wyeth_j.htm">John Wyeth</a>. (The most well-known tune that also appeared in that volume is <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/o/m/e/t/comethou.htm">NETTLETON</a>, which everyone here has undoubtedly sung.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>P.S. - While putting this entry together, it occurred to me that the tune <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/s/t/c/st_clement.mid">ST. CLEMENT</a> is also a Long Meter tune, so I tried to match this text with that Anglican tune (suggestive of the original author) but sadly the word stresses don't line up correctly. And anyway, it appears that KEDRON is the only tune used for this text in the <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/sunset_to_sunrise_changes_now">thirteen hymnals where it appears</a>, as documented at Hymnary.org, so, OK.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Eleven (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-eve.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><i>O sorrow deep</i></a></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Ten (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/holy-saturday.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><i>All the sacrifice is ended</i></a></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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</span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-5448278297540655962018-12-25T03:10:00.003-05:002018-12-25T11:12:08.646-05:00Our Confidence and Joy Shall Be<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Break forth, O beauteous heav'nly light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And usher in the morning;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ye shepherds, shrink not with affright,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but hear the angels' warning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This child, now weak in infancy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our confidence and joy shall be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pow'rs of evil breaking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our peace eternal making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johann Rist, 1681;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tr. John Troutbeck, c.1887, alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.kunstderfuge.com/-/midi.asp?file=bach/greentree/chorales_024812b2_(c)greentree.mid">ERMUNTRE DICH</a> (8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johann Schop, 1641;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (?), 1734</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ten Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/12/with-oxen-standing-by.html">Once in royal David's city</a><span id="goog_468353363"></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nine Years Ago:</b><i> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/12/magnitude-of-meekness-day-one.html">Where is this stupendous stranger?</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Six Years Ago:</b><i> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/12/hail-sun-of-righteousness.html">Hark! the herald angels sing</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Four Years Ago:</b><i> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-silent-word-is-pleading.html">What child is this?</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Three Years Ago:</b><i> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/12/one-whose-birth-angels-sing-day-one.html">Angels we have heard on high</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two Years Ago:</b><i> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/12/to-gain-everlasting-hall-day-one.html">Good Christian friends, rejoice!</a></i></span><br />
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C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-73712164652308578392018-10-21T11:56:00.000-04:002018-12-25T02:11:08.642-05:00Samuel Francis Smith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Baptist minister and hymnwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Francis_Smith">Samuel Francis Smith</a> (1808-1895) was born today in Newton, Massachusetts (where <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14799870/samuel-francis-smith">he is also buried</a>). Ordained to the ministry in 1834, he was pastor for several churches in Massachusetts and Maine over his long career.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While still a student at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary">Andover Theological Seminary</a>, he began to write poetry and other literary work to support himself. In 1831, his friend, composer and editor <a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/01/lowell-mason.html">Lowell Mason</a>, gave him a songbook in German and asked him to either translate or rewrite some of the texts so that Mason could include them in his musical publications. Smith was supposedly interested a particular tune in the book, which accompanied a German national song and decided to write an American national song for it. This was to be his most lasting legacy: <i><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/m/c/t/mctisoft.htm">My country, 'tis of thee</a>, </i>first sung at the Park Street Church in Boston for a children's service on July 4, 1831. It's said that he was unaware that the tune had already been used for the English national anthem, <i>God save the King</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smith would go on to write many more hymns, which have not yet all been documented online <a href="https://hymnary.org/person/Smith_SF">at the usual sites</a>. The most complete list probably appears in <i>The Hymn</i>, the journal of the <a href="http://www.thehymnsociety.org/">Hymn Society in the United States and Canada</a>. Baptist hymnologist David W. Music's article <i>The Hymns of Samuel Francis Smith</i> in <i>The Hymn</i> volume 59 number 2 (Spring 2008) includes an extensive list of 193 hymns (and other texts which might have been sung as hymns) as well as a detailed bibliography. He also acknowledges that there may well be other hymns by Smith that have not been discovered yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smith was also one of the editors of <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IGEJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22the+psalmist+with+music%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJxYPn65feAhWL2lMKHZ_mAbEQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20psalmist%20with%20music%22&f=false">The Psalmist</a></i> (1843), a hymnal which quickly became widely used in Baptist churches. At the end of the nineteenth century, the <i>Dictionary of Hymnology</i> by <a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-julian.html">John Julian</a> still described it as<i> "the most creditable and influential of the American Baptist collections to the present day."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today's hymn by Smith is far less known and does not seem to have appeared in any American hymnals. Earlier this year I was working at the First Baptist Church in Needham, MA, and discovered this text in one of their written histories. It was sung there on June 5, 1872 at the dedication service for their new building (which they still occupy). At this time, Smith was the pastor of the Needham church, which was not far from his home in Newton. Somewhat surprisingly, the tune they sang in 1872 was documented, and so the congregation in 2018 sang this hymn on the first Sunday in June to commemorate their building's dedication, as it had been sung in 1872.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, O divine Shekinah, come,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With glory fill this new abode;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, in our waiting souls there's room!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Display thy pow'r, a present God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come to our shrine, a God of love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come as a God of love and pow'r;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Refresh thy people from above</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As dews refresh the drooping flow'rs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come as a spring and fount of grace,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our temple with thy light adorn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As crimson rays thy glory trace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gorgeous rising of the morn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come as a dove, with wings of peace,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sad to cheer, the bruised to heal;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wounds that sin has made, to ease,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The covenant of our life, to seal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dispolay thy pow'r, a present God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, in our waiting souls there's room;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With glory fill this new abode,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come, O divine Shekinah, come!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Samuel Francis Smith, 1865 (?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/h/o/l/holley.mid">HOLLEY</a> (L.M.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Hews, 1835</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.behindthename.com/name/shekinah">Shekinah</a> is not a word many hymn lovers have encountered before. I have seen it in a few contremporary texts, but not those of 150 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the recorded history of the Needham church, they believe that Smith wrote this text specifically for their dedication service in 1872. However, it appears in David Music's list of Smith's hymns as having been used in a similar service in Taunton, MA, on October 10, 1865, because their dedication service was published that same year. Was that then the first time it was sung, or did Smith perhaps write it even earlier, for another dedication that hasn't yet been documented? There are probably hundreds of similar hymns still undiscovered, written by authors both famous and unknown for various local occasions around the country.</span><br />
<br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-24152855032023180572018-07-04T13:55:00.000-04:002018-07-04T14:05:28.709-04:00Thou Land of the Free<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps we can avoid the debate over using patriotic hymns in worship since Independence Day falls on a Wednesday this year and not on a Sunday. Some churches sang one or more of these on Sunday, some did not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The choice of which to sing (if any at all) has narrowed considerably over the last century. I would venture a guess that <i><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/07/god-mend-thine-every-flaw.html">America the beautiful </a></i>may be the most-often sung, though a few others certainly appear as well: <i><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/m/c/t/mctisoft.htm">My country 'tis of thee</a> </i>by Samuel Francis Smith, <i><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/m/c/t/mctisoft.htm">Mine eyes have seen the glory</a></i> by Julia Ward Howe, and of course, the <a href="https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx">national anthem</a>, written by Francis Scott Key, who among his many accomplishments was also a member of the committee that produced the Episcopal hymnal of 1826 (and wrote a few other hymns as well). One other possibility, which was written to <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/07/thy-paths-our-chosen-way.html">mark the 1876 centennial</a>, might not even be recognized as a patriotic hymn as it is probably sung at other times of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like Christmas songs and hymns, there were many other patriotic hymns written that are included in the hymnals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including several specifically for children. Also like those written for Christmas, relatively few have survived to the present day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not surprisingly, among her thousands of song texts, <a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/03/fanny-crosby.html">Fanny Crosby</a> also contributed a patriotic song of her own (and this is probably not the only one).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our country, our beautiful country,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thy rock-girded mountains sublime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look over the wide spreading forests</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That stand like the pillars of time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thy rivers majestic roll onward</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To meet the glad waves of the sea;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Columbia, the home of our forebears,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God bless thee, thou land of the free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thy valleys are smiling with verdure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thy hilltops with plenty are crowned,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And sweetly the songs of thy children</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From ocean to ocean resound;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God grant that our nation forever</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">United and happy may be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Peace, with its white-crested pinions,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abide in the land of the free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fanny Crosby, 1873; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/d/o/w/downey.mid">DOWNEY</a> (9.8.9.8.D.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel B. Towner, 1899</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fanny's text appeared in <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/songsofbiblecoll00ogde">Songs of the Bible for the Sunday School</a></i> (1873) with a different tune by <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/a/b/b/abbey_aj.htm">Alonzo J. Abbey</a>, one of the editors of the collection who was a prolific composer of Sunday School music (only a fraction is listed at his Cyber Hymnal entry - and not the original tune for this text). Since there is no sound file for the original, I have matched it to a later tune by <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/t/o/w/n/towner_db.htm">Daniel B. Towner</a>. The original included one more stanza (even more unlikely to be sung today than the rest), as well as the following refrain:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our country, our country, our beautiful country,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fairest and dearest of earth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God keep the old flag of the Union,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And prosper the land of our birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, the Civil War was less than a decade before Crosby wrote this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reference to "Columbia" as a name for the United States is also rather obscure today. Columbia also referred to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)">female personification of the country</a> (as in the picture above) until the early twentieth century when she came to be replaced by the Statue of Liberty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>P.S. The picture above is from the cover of </i>The Theatre <i>magazine for January 1917</i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (during World War I)</i><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, depicting actress <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/31/obituaries/hazel-dawn-stage-actress-is-dead-at-98.html">Hazel Dawn</a> as Columbia with doves of peace.</i><br />
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<b>Ten Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/07/thy-paths-our-chosen-way.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">God of creation, whose almighty hand</a></div>
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<b>Eight Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/07/thou-star-abiding-one.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Many and great, O God, are thy things</a></div>
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<b>Six Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/07/god-mend-thine-every-flaw.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">O beautiful, for spacious skies</a></div>
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<b style="color: black;">Five Years Ago:</b><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-mercies-shall-new-songs-demand.html">Our helper, God, we bless your name</a></div>
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<br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-84748919741108790702018-05-20T09:36:00.001-04:002018-05-20T09:37:16.782-04:00The Feast of Pentecost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come, Holy Ghost, my spirit fill,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Till every trembling chord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With love’s ecstatic music thrill,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In full and sweet accord!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Open the beautiful windows of heav’n,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best of thy bountiful blessings send down;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come, let the Spirit’s anointing be giv’n,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The faith of thy people crown.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thy will, O God, be done in me;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Attune my will to thine,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That so my life a song may be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of harmony divine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then shall my life make melody,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And testify to thee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Till other hearts enraptured be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And thy salvation see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come, Holy Ghost, come in! come in!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inflame my waiting soul!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forever dwell and reign within,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With love’s supreme control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry B Hartzler, 1891; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/o/p/e/open_the_windows_of_heaven_hartzler.mid">BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS</a> (C.M. with refrain)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ira O. Hoffman, 1891</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Ten </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><i>Joy! because the circling year</i></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Nine </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><i>O prophet souls of all the years</i></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eight (Liturgical) Years Ago:</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Above the starry spheres</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Seven </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/06/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><i>Hail thee, festival day</i></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Five </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;">:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">O God, the Holy Ghost</a></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: black;">Four</span> </span>(Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Spirit of grace and health and pow'r</span></a></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Three (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Come, O come, thou quick'ning Spirit</span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.48px;"><strong>Two (Liturgical) Years Ago: </strong><em style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed</a></em></span><br />
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.46875px;">One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.46875px;"><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-feast-of-pentecost.html">Come, Holy Ghost</a></i></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-39753988434146780242017-09-29T13:20:00.002-04:002019-09-29T04:17:39.359-04:00Saint Michael and All Angels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The (unfortunately) fading feast of <a href="http://satucket.com/lectionary/Michael.htm">Michaelmas</a> is still celebrated in some places, and of course we have hymns for the occasion. Today's text is one translation of the Latin office hymn <i>Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris</i>, which was written by Benedictine scholar and theologian <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/RABANUS.htm">Rabanus Maurus</a> (c.780-856), who later became Archbishop of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz">Mainz</a>. He is also known for his "mathematic and geometric" poetry, built around the Cross, which can be seen <a href="http://designobserver.com/feature/rabanus-maurus-poems-of-the-cross/38575">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life and strength of all thy servants,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brightness of our Maker’s light;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We with angels, earth with heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In thy praise our songs unite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thousand thousand guardian seraphs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In thine angel army stand;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flames the victor cross before them,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grasped in Michael’s dauntless hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angel-ruler, Christ, we pray thee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bid them aid us in our strife,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grant protection from all evil,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Till we reach the land of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Creator, God immortal,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus Christ, for us who died,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the Comforter, the Spirit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evermore be glorified!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rabanus Maurus, 9th cent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tr. <i>Hymns Ancient and Modern</i>, 1889; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/m/e/r/t/merton_monk.mid">MERTON</a> (8.7.8.7.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William H. Monk, 1850</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nine Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">Around the throne of God</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Seven Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">They are evermore around us</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">O Captain of God's host</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Three Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2014/09/saint-michael-and-all-angels.html">High on a hill of dazzling light</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-26948495713489095362017-07-23T13:52:00.000-04:002019-04-21T02:35:17.339-04:00Gushing From the Rock Before Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/03/fanny-crosby.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fanny Crosby</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (1820-1915) is definitely in the running to be the most well-known woman to write texts for congregational singing, even today when the musical style that accompanied most of her songs is somewhat out of fashion in many places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Several contemporary composers around the world have written new tunes for some of her texts, and more than one recording </span><a href="http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/13167277"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been made</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (though </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Assurance-Hymns-Fanny-Crosby/dp/B00ZGJ7ZGW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1500830802&sr=1-1&keywords=blessed+assurance"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is the only one that seems to be readily available). Since most of her songs were written in the contemporaneous gospel song/Sunday School style, including a refrain that helped with memorization, they don't generally match well to existing tunes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are exceptions. I've always thought that this is one of her most accomplished texts (still unused here in the past nine years), and since it does not include the usual refrain, it could be paired with a more conventional hymn tune, and sung in places that might never consider singing one of her songs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the way my Savior leads me;<br />
What have I to ask beside?<br />
Can I doubt his tender mercy,<br />
Who through life has been my guide?<br />
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,<br />
Here by faith in Christ to dwell!<br />
For I know, whate’er befall me,<br />
Jesus doeth all things well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the way my Savior leads me,</span><br />
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Cheers each winding path I tread;<br />
Gives me grace for every trial,<br />
Feeds me with the living bread.<br />
Though my weary steps may falter,<br />
And my soul athirst may be,<br />
Gushing from the rock before me,<br />
Lo! A spring of joy I see.</span><br />
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All the way my Savior leads me<br />
O the fullness of his love!<br />
Perfect rest to me is promised<br />
In my heav'nly home above.<br />
When my spirit, clothed immortal,<br />
Wings its flight to realms of day<br />
This my song through endless ages—<br />
Jesus led me all the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fanny Crosby, 1875; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/w/e/i/weisse_flaggen.mid"><span style="color: #2288bb; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WEISSE FLAGGEN</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (8.7.8.7.D.)<br /><em>Tochter Sion</em>, 1741</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This hardly replaces </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/a/l/l/all_the_way_my_Savior_leads_me.mid"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the original setting</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by </span><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-lowry.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Robert Lowry</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which will continue to be sung. However, this text could also work with HYFRYDOL, IN BABILONE, HOLY MANNA, NETTLETON, and other familiar tunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The gravestone above (erected in 1955 at her burial site) refers to Crosby's "more than 3000 hymns and poems," which is true as far as it goes, but the real number could be more than twice as many, especially when </span><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/03/fanny-crosby.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her unpublished texts</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> are included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, her songs are still usually sung in their original form, not only as the occasional selection in Sunday worship, but also at special events, such as a Fanny Crosby hymn sing recently held in her home town of Southeast, New York, sponsored by the local historical society. Sometimes churches will use one writer's texts for an entire service, and today's service at </span><a href="http://mcccv.net/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">MCC of the Coachella Valley</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in California includes all Crosby songs. Many people would still happily sing the playful refrain:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pastor, Pastor, hear my irate cry --</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you pick the hymns for Sunday,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't pass Fanny by!</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Scroll down </span></em><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/03/fanny-crosby.html"><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at this link</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for the whole text.)</span></em><br />
<em></em><br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-82222365053456925822017-07-22T20:09:00.002-04:002017-07-22T20:17:51.268-04:00Saint Mary Magdalene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Mary_Magdalene.htm">Mary Magdalene</a>, the "apostle to the apostles," is honored today on some calendars of saints. The longest account of her presence in the Resurrection story is in </span><a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=367767378"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John 20:1-18</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which tells how she was the first one to visit Jesus' tomb on Sunday morning and to find it empty. Later, she returns and speaks with two angels who tell her what has happened. In each of the gospel stories she then goes back to share the news with the other disciples. It's only in Luke 24:11 that we hear their response to her report: <em>"But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other information about Mary Magdalene has accrued over the centuries but much of it doesn't come from scripture. I now prefer to move on and not repeat the accusations that have been made (though I've written about them in previous years, which you can see below if you must).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This hymn is translated from a Latin text believed to be from medieval times but no definite origin has been found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weep no more this holy morning,<br />
Mary, put away thy fears;<br />
In this feast there is no scorning,<br />
No repentance for thy tears:<br />
Joy, O joy, a thousand pleasures,<br />
All thy soul’s recovered treasures—<br />
Alleluia!—Christ appears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joy to thee, he soars ascending,<br />
He who all thy sins forgave;<br />
All thy sorrows now are ending,<br />
Magdalene, he comes to save;<br />
Whom thou soughtest lost and dying,<br />
Welcome now with angels crying<br />
Alleluia!—o’er his grave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life in all his life’s resuming,<br />
Mary, all thy light restore,<br />
All thy heart with joy illuming,<br />
Death is driven from the door:<br />
Night has had its night of sorrow,<br />
Joy returneth with the morrow—<br />
Alleluia!—evermore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Latin, date unknown; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">tr. Herbert Kynaston, 1862; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/f/i/d/fides.mid">FIDES</a> (8.7.8.7.8.8.7.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Clement Cotterill Scholefield, 1874</span><br />
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<em>P.S. - The art above is from</em> Mary Magdalene at the Tomb<em> (1622) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiveduto_Grammatica">Anteveduto Gramatica</a>.</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Nine Years Ago: </strong><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html"><em>Mary Magdalene, to whom</em></a> (now on Facebook)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Eight Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-voices-found-emily-es-elliott.html">Emily E. S. Elliott</a></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seven Years Ago:</span> </strong><em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html">When Mary, moved by grateful love</a></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Five Years Ago:</strong> <em><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html">Creator blest, one glance of thine</a></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Four Years Ago:</strong><em> </em><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html"><em>I come to the garden alone</em></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>One Year Ago:</strong> <em><a href="https://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html">Mary to her Savior's tomb</a></em></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-77049645559756243172017-06-28T10:19:00.000-04:002017-06-28T10:19:09.051-04:00Saint Peter and Saint Paul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With golden splendor and with roseate hues of morn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O gracious Savior, Light of light, this day adorn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which brings to faithful servants hopes of that far home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where saints and angels sing the tale of martyrdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Shepherd, Peter, unto whom the charge was given</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To close or open ways of pilgrimage to heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In sin's hard bondage held may we have grace to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The full remission thou was granted to bestow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O noble Teacher, Paul, we trust to learn to thee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both earthly converse and the flight of ecstasy;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Till from the fading truths that now we know in part</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We pass to fullness of delight for mind and heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twin olive branches, pouring oil of gladness forth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your prayers shall aid us, that for all our earthly worth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believing, hoping, loving, we for whom ye plead,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This body dying, may attain to life indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latin, 6th cent.; tr. Thomas Alexander Lacey, 20th cent.?; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/h/a/w/hawarden.mid">HAWARDEN</a> (12.12.12.12.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1872</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Latin text of this </span><a href="https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/office-hymn"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">office hymn</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (<em>Aurea luce et decore roseo</em>) for the <a href="http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Peter&Paul.htm">Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul</a> was once attributed to </span><a href="https://hymnary.org/person/Elpis1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elpis</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, the daughter of Festus, a </span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consul"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">consul</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> of Rome, but more recent scholarship finds no supporting evidence of this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The second half of the second stanza gave me some pause, suggesting that Peter was the one to grant remission of sin, but I decided this refers only to his position as "keeper of the keys" to heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Seven Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/06/saint-peter-and-saint-paul.html">Saint Peter and Saint Paul</a></span><br />
C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-87738221829518609952017-06-18T12:48:00.000-04:002017-06-18T12:51:38.291-04:00Samuel Longfellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/longfellow_s"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Samuel Longfellow</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (1819 - 1892), a Unitarian pastor, hymnwriter, and hymnal editor was born today in Portland, Maine, and lived most of his life in New England. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is probably best known for two Unitarian hymnals he edited with his close friend </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/10/samuel-johnson.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Samuel Johnson</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=O5B8RyaVsmoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22book+of+hymns%22+longfellow+johnson&ei=t-zvSOmCAYXCywTe58juAg&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false">A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion</a></em> (1844) and <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qIXCg5KhWk0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=hymns+samuel+longfellow&hl=en&ei=lKD9TabCCsb40gH5qeDcAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false">Hymns of the Spirit</a></em> (1864). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both of these collections include several texts by Longfellow and Johnson, as well as poets whose verse had not previously been sung (such as </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/12/john-greenleaf-whittier.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John Greenleaf Whittier</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) or had not previously appeared in an American collection (such as <em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/02/sarah-flower-adams.html">Nearer, my God, to thee</a></em>) Most of the material was edited to make it conform to Unitarian belief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Longfellow and Johnson met as students at Harvard Divinity School and remained friends for the rest of their lives, carrying on a long and affectionate correspondence. When Johnson died in 1882. Longfellow spent the next year writing a memoir of his friend. A biographer of Longfellow's would later describe his friendship with Johnson as the most significant relationship of his life. The exact nature of the relationship remains unclear, but it's possible that Longfellow was thinking about it in a rather sad poem called "Love" (1851), which concludes:</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To love, nor ask return,</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To accept our solitude,</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not now for others' love to yearn</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But only for their good;</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To joy if they are crowned,</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though thorns our head entwine,</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And in the thought of blessing them</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All thought of self resign.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is this the lament of a man who has decided that his feelings will never be returned in the way he wants? We will probably never know for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today's hymn was written toward the end of Longfellow's life, just a few years before the photograph above (from 1890), and on the occasion of the dedication of the new Cambridge Hospital, in the Massachusetts town where he was then living, and working on a three-volume biography of his brother, the poet </span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/henry-wadsworth-longfellow"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Lord of life, our saving Health,<br />
Who mak’st thy suffering ones our care;<br />
Our gifts are still our truest wealth,<br />
To serve thee our sincerest prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As on the river’s rising tide<br />
Flow strength and coolness from the sea,<br />
So through the ways our hands provide,<br />
May quickening life flow in from thee;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To heal the wound, to still the pain,<br />
And strength to failing pulses bring,<br />
Till stumbling feet shall leap again,<br />
And silent lips with gladness sing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bless thou the gifts our hands have brought!<br />
Bless thou the work our hearts have planned,<br />
Ours is the hope, the will, the thought;<br />
The rest, O God, is in thy hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Samuel Longfellow, 1886; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/e/l/y/ely.mid"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ELY</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (L.M.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The final stanza here has often been taken out of this hymn and used separately in many hymnals as an offertory response, but that actually changes its meaning. In that usage, the text is consecrating the offerings of the people for the work of the church. However, the complete hymn has a different theme and meaning: that we can be healers through the gifts of God, flowing though us. This idea feels quite modern, even though the language is archaic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Nine Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/06/samuel-longfellow.html">Samuel Longfellow</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Eight Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/06/samuel-longfellow.html">Samuel Longfellow</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Six Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/06/samuel-longfellow.html">Samuel Longfellow</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Four Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/06/samuel-longfellow.html">Samuel Longfellow</a></span></span></div>
C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-10595073173715147012017-06-15T10:24:00.000-04:002017-06-15T10:24:54.990-04:00The Feast of Corpus Christi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The </span><a href="http://www.churchyear.net/corpuschristi.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Feast of Corpus Christi</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, commemorating the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Sacrament"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Blessed Sacrament</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, is observed either on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, or on the following Sunday (generally for convenience).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The feast dates from thirteenth century Belgium, where </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_of_Li%C3%A8ge"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Juliana of Liege</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> had long believed that such a commemoration should be observed outside Maundy Thursday, during Lent. When she became prioress of the religious community where she lived, she was able to spread her idea more widely through her contact with her (male) confessor, and eventually it was adopted by Pope Urban IV in 1261. It is not part of the Protestant tradition because it was suppressed during the Reformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bread of heav'n, on thee we feed,<br />
for thou art our food indeed.<br />
Ever may our souls be fed<br />
with this true and living bread,<br />
day by day with strength supplied<br />
through the life of Christ who died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vine of heav'n, thy love supplies<br />
this blest cup of sacrifice.<br />
'Tis thy wounds our healing give;<br />
to thy cross we look and live.<br />
Thou our life! O let us be<br />
rooted, grafted, built on thee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josiah Conder, 1824; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tune: </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/n/u/t/nutbourne.mid"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NUTBOURNE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (7.7.7.7.7.7.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Said to be the most widely-used of Conder's texts (though we have previously seen others here - click on his tag below), this one first appeared in his collection <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ycwsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=conder+%22star+in+the+east%22&hl=en&ei=VUGUTKyHJ8P98Ab8tvyMDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false">Star of the East</a></em> (1824) and later in his <em>Congregational Hymn Book</em> (1836).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Nine (Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/05/feast-of-corpus-christi.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Here, O my God, I see thee face to face</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Five (Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong> <em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/06/feast-of-corpus-christi.html">Sweet Sacrament divine</a></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Two (Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong> <em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-feast-of-corpus-christi_7.html">Ave verum corpus - Saint-Saens</a> (video)</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-20467840049472197362017-06-04T07:00:00.000-04:002017-06-04T07:00:11.037-04:00The Feast of PentecostThis hymn for Pentecost has been sung since the ninth century in one form or another. <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/come_holy_ghost_our_souls_inspire">The translation here</a> is by Bishop <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/o/s/cosin_j.htm">John Cosin</a> and has been sung at every British royal coronation since that of Charles I in 1625. (my own preferred English translation, and more about the text, <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/10/thrice-holy-fount-thrice-holy-fire.html">is here</a>).<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Nine </b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><i>Joy! because the circling year</i></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Eight </b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">Years Ago: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/feast-of-pentecost.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><i>O prophet souls of all the years</i></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Two (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Come, O come, thou quick'ning Spirit</span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><strong>One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </strong><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-feast-of-pentecost.html"><em>Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed</em></a></span><br />
<br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-7418168012066332202017-05-07T07:30:00.000-04:002017-05-07T07:30:00.550-04:00And Comfort Still<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=361136229">Psalm 23</a> will be read today in many churches, and probably sung as well. Here at the blog, as I always say, we have not yet run out of hymns derived from those well-loved verses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You are my Shepherd, you know all my needs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I am blest;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By quiet streams, in pastures green, you lead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My soul you save, and for your own Name’s sake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You guide my feet the paths of right to take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though in death’s vale and shadow be my way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For you are near, your rod and staff my stay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And comfort still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My table you have spread before my foes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My head you will anoint, my cup o’erflows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The goodness and the mercy that have e'er</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shall surely follow me through all the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Till life is done;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And ever my Creator's house shall be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My dwelling place through all eternity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Psalter</i>, 1912; alt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/s/a/n/sandon.mid">SANDON</a> (10.4.10.4.10.10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nine (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/04/beside-living-stream.html">My Shepherd, you supply my need</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/where-living-waters-flow.html">Since God is my Shepherd</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Seven (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/safe-by-thy-side-i-go.html">Thou art my Shepherd</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Six (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/05/streams-for-thirsting-souls.html">I shall not want: in deserts wild</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-drink-from-their-plenty.html">Beside the still waters</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Four (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-quiet-streams-you-lead-me.html">My Shepherd, you will hold me</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Even more paraphrases and adaptations can be found by clicking the "Psalm 23" tag at the very bottom of this post.</i></span></div>
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C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-61483707459090279582017-05-05T19:29:00.001-04:002017-05-05T19:29:52.263-04:00T. Tertius Noble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://hymnary.org/person/Noble_TT"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thomas Tertius Noble</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, born today in 1867, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath%2C_Somerset"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bath</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, England, would eventually come to be known as the dean of American organists later in life. He showed an early interest in music, and once begged to be removed from a boarding school that did not have a music program. At age 12 he was appointed to be the organist of All Saints Parish in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Colchester</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, where the rector had provided him with some musical instruction. Many years later, in an address at the General Theological Seminary in New York, he described the conditions there:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was almost 13, I could not play the organ very well. It was an awful, old organ. It had four stops, and its mechanism rattled so loudly you could hardly hear the music. For three years I worked there. I got up at 6:30 summer and winter, and I was in the church practicing by 7:00. (...) Learning on this organ was difficult, but very good for me.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1889 he graduated from the <a href="http://www.rcm.ac.uk/about/historyofthercm/">Royal College of Music</a> in London, where his teachers had included <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/09/charles-villiers-stanford.html">Charles Villiers Stanford</a> (for composition) and <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/r/i/bridge_jf.htm">John Frederick Bridge</a> (for harmony). He was then hired there as a teacher himself, and then in 1892 he was appointed organist at <a href="http://www.elycathedral.org/history-heritage">Ely Cathedral</a>. Six years later, he started at <a href="https://yorkminster.org/worship-and-choir.html">York Minster</a>, where he remained for the next thirteen years, until he was recruited to be organist-choirmaster at <a href="http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/history">St. Thomas Episcopal Church</a> in New York in 1913. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">A fair amount about his time in New York has been covered here already (links below). Since unfortunately I have used up the internet sound files of his hymn tunes (only four available at the moment), you can hear one of his settings of the <em><a href="http://enemylove.com/subversive-magnificat-mary-expected-messiah-to-be-like/">Magnificat</a></em> from YouTube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Roman Catholic readers may understand why a <em>Magnificat</em> is always appropriate in May, but Anglicans and Episcopalians like them year-round.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nine Years Ago:</span></strong><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/05/t-tertius-noble.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> T. Tertius Noble</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Eight Years Ago:</strong> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/t-tertius-noble.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T. Tertius Noble</span></a><br />
C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-77603743569858789232017-05-01T08:30:00.000-04:002017-05-01T08:37:21.017-04:00Saint Philip and Saint James<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This anonymous text for today's double feast was first published in <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6tBVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=%22church+hymns%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz5_SR8M3TAhUFeSYKHde8CfoQ6AEISTAH#v=onepage&q=%22church%20hymns%22&f=false">A Book of Church Hymns</a></em> (1865), which was generally known as <em>Bosworth's Church Hymns, </em>and shortly thereafter in <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/yearpraisebeing00jonegoog">The Year of Praise</a></em> (1867) which was compiled by <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/10/henry-alford.html">Henry Alford</a> for Canterbury Cathedral. Like Alford, I've left out the final rather generic <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/doxological">doxological</a> stanza of the original.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Life -- the Crown of all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who here on earth confess your Name;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O hear us when we call!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We bring to mind with grateful joy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your servants, who of old</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now your face behold;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who sought on earth the joys of prayer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that communion knew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which saints and angels share above</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With those who seek it too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vouchsafe us, Lord, we pray, that now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To us it may be giv'n,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like them to live and die in you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And with you, rise to heav'n.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/g/e/r/gerontius.mid"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GERONTIUS</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (C.M.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Bacchus Dykes, 1868</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Eight Years Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/05/saint-philip-and-saint-james.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Saint Philip and Saint James</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Seven Years Ago: </strong><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/05/joseph-addison.html">Joseph Addison</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Fiv</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>e Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/05/saint-philip-and-saint-james.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Saint Philip and Saint James</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>One Year Ago:</strong> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/05/saint-philip-and-saint-james.html">Saint Philip and Saint James</a></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-49021360912150041782017-04-30T03:29:00.001-04:002017-05-01T01:01:40.028-04:00Their Glorious Risen Savior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Easter story of two disciples </span><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/road-to-Emmaus.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the road to Emmaus</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> who met a stranger and asked him to eat with them is a lesson that doesn't come up on Easter Sunday morning, but sometimes later in the season. In </span><a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=360536091"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Luke 24:13-35</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, we hear this further story of the resurrected Jesus, which brings us to today's hymn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hallowed forever be that twilight hour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When those disciples went upon their way,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The deepening shadows o'er their spirits lower,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tender griefs that come with close of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A gentle stranger tarried by their side,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And asked them sweetly why they were so sad?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Did you not hear our Friend was crucified?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They answered, "How can we again be glad?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And when the little village came in view,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They said "Abide with us, for it is late,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So he went in, and sat down with the two,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And took the bread, and blessed it, ere he ate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their watching eyes were fastened on his face;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They caught the look which captured them of old,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only it wore diviner, loftier grace:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their glorious, risen Savior they behold!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They felt reward for all their bitter pain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When, lo! he vanished softly from their sight!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But they could never be so sad again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who had the memory of that blessed night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha Perry Lowe, 19th cent.; alt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ivor Atkins, 1916</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The coming of spring has often been associated with the resurrection of Jesus in Easter hymns, some of which we have </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/earth-awakes-from-winters-gloom.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seen here before</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. This year, the Second Sunday of Easter also coincides with Earth Day celebrations around the world, which makes this text particularly appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Burst at last from winter snows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earth with heav'n above rejoices;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hills and woodlands ring with voices,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the wild birds build and sing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here, while heav'n and earth rejoices,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We our Easter tribute bring - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Work of fingers, chant of voices,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like the birds who build and sing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Kingsley, 19th cent.; alt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The final stanza here, calling for an active response to the resurrection, might also be interpreted in our time as a call to action on environmental issues. Another hymn by Kingsley, perhaps the one that best survives to our time, <em><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/f/t/a/ftalsasf.htm">From thee all skill and science flow</a></em> is also particularly resonant this weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Nine Years Ago:</strong> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/04/earth-day.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earth Day</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Eight Years Ago:</strong> </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/adin-ballou.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adin Ballou</span></a></div>
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C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-22878906640781915852017-04-19T23:00:00.000-04:002017-04-20T00:56:56.376-04:00Anna Laetitia Waring<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Welsh poet </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/w/a/r/waring_al.htm"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anna Laetitia Waring</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> was born today in 1823 (some sources say 1820) in the small town of Plas-y-Felin, near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neath"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Neath</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, where she spent her early life. Her family were Quakers, but in 1842 she joined the Church of England, reportedly due to her interest in the Anglican sacraments. She also learned Hebrew so that she could read those scriptures in the original.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Never married, she and her family moved to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bristol</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> around 1850, where she took an interest in prison reform, visiting prisoners and volunteering with the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She began writing hymns while still in her teens, but her first collection, <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/hymnsandmeditat04warigoog">Hymns and Meditations</a></em>, was not published until 1850 (perhaps thanks to her improved access to publishers), consisting of nineteen texts. Another collection, <em>Additional Hymns</em> (1858) was eventually incorporated into later editions of her first book with some other texts for a final total of thirty-nine hymns. In 1911, the year after Waring's death, <em>Hymns and Meditations</em> was reissued again with a new section written by her friend Mary S. Talbot titled <em>In Remembrance of Anna Laetitia Waring</em> which included some of her secular poetry and brief biographical information, little of which had been available before. Also, like many of the women who wrote hymns over the centuries, we have no portrait or photograph of Waring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today's hymn appeared in her first collection under the heading <em>"I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. (Psalm 23:4)".</em> It's not a paraphrase, but was certainly inspired by that psalm - the Presbyterian <em>Handbook to the Hymnal</em> (1935) calls it<em> "steeped in the spirit of the psalter."</em> A chart at </span><a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/in_heavenly_love_abiding"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hymnary.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> shows that this text became even more popular in the twentieth century, appearing in at least 495 hymnals to date, by their (incomplete) count.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In heavenly love abiding, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No change my heart shall fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And safe in such confiding, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For nothing changes here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The storm may roar around me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My heart may low be laid,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But God is round about me;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How can I be dismayed?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wherever God may guide me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No want shall turn me back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Shepherd is beside me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And nothing can I lack.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With wisdom ever waking, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our path is ever clear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We know the way we’re taking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We walk without a fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Green pastures are before me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which yet I have not seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bright skies will soon be over me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where threat'ning clouds have been.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My hope I cannot measure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My path to life is free.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Savior has my treasure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And ever walks with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anna Laetitia Waring, 1850; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/r/g/irgreign.htm">NYLAND</a> (7.6.7.6.D.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In his <em>Dictionary of Hymnology</em>, </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-julian.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">John Julian</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> writes of Waring's work: <em>"Her hymns are marked by great simplicity, concentration of thought, and elegance of diction."</em></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.hymnary.org/person/Waring_SM1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Samuel Miller Waring</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (1792-1827), an uncle of hers, had followed the same path of Quakerism to Anglicanism and also wrote hymns and poems, some collected in <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/saodiesc00wari">Sacred Melodies</a></em> (1826).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Nine Years Ago</strong>: <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-voices-found-anna-laetitia-waring.html">Anna Laetitia Waring</a></span><br />
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C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-75534201814204895222017-04-16T09:56:00.000-04:002018-12-25T02:18:15.224-05:00Easter Sunday<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy Easter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We usually think of gospel songs as general in theme or subject, but given the great volume of them that were produced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many were also written for particular occasions such as Christmas and Easter. Of course, this is true of hymns in general as well. We've seen several of the Christmas gospel songs over the years here, but not so many of those written for the Easter season (with </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/05/now-you-live-forever.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one main exception</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which is still often sung today).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Naturally, with approximately eight thousand songs to her credit, </span><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/03/fanny-crosby.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fanny Crosby</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> must have written some for Easter, and here's one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus Christ is risen today,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is ris'n indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus Christ is risen today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is ris'n indeed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who, captive led captivity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who robbed the grave of victory,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who broke the bars of death,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who broke the bars of death!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>Refrain:</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah, hallelujah,<br /> Hallelujah, Amen.<br /> Hallelujah, hallelujah,<br /> Hallelujah, Amen.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let every mourning soul rejoice,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And sing with one united voice;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Savior rose today,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Savior rose today.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Refrain</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let all that fill the earth and sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Break forth in tuneful melody,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And swell the mighty song,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And swell the mighty song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fanny Crosby, 1869; alt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/c/h/r/Christ_the_Lord_is_risen_today_crosby.mid">UNITED VOICE</a> (L.M. with refrain)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chester G. Allen, 1869</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/rising-up-from-grief-and-tears.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Christ is risen! Alleluia!</a></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Seven</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/alleluia-alleluia-alleluia.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">The strife is o'er, the battle done</a></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/all-earth-shall-be-made-new.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Jesus Christ is risen today</a></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Four (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/03/let-your-alleluias-rise.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-sun-that-warms-and-lights-us_27.html">Christ Jesus lay in death's strong bands</a></i></span><br />
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C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-88759909060627507172017-04-14T12:29:00.000-04:002017-04-14T12:32:21.544-04:00Good Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the cross of Christ I glory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speechless stand through endless time;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the grandeur of the story</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fills my heart with joy sublime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the cross of Christ my feeling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overflows in boundless praise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the love that is so healing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the bliss of coming days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Near the cross of Christ I never</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lose my faith, or conscience still,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But with greater zeal than ever</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I go forth to do thy will.,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All my hope, my pain, my pleasure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through the cross are glorified,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be of all my only measure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Near to thee I would abide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon N. Patten, 1916</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/r/a/t/rathbun.mid">RATHBUN</a> (8.7.8.7.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ithamar Conkey, 1849</span><br />
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This re-writing of the familiar text <em><a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/in_the_cross_of_christ_i_glory_towering">In the cross of Christ I glory</a></em> is from <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/advrevis00patt">Advent Songs</a></em> (1916), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Patten">Simon Nelson Patten</a> (1852-1922), who was an economist by trade but a hymnwriter by avocation. Subtitled <em>A Revision of Old Hymns to Meet Modern Needs</em>, Patten's collection <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2015/11/thrice-happy-shall-his-welcome-be.html">provides new texts</a>, many of them rewrites or at least suggestive of previous texts, as in this case, the original by <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/10/sir-john-bowring.html">John Bowring</a>.<br />
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From Patten's introduction to <em>Advent Songs</em>, this passage may apply more directly to this particular revision, where he talks about the need for new texts to replace the old:<br />
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<em>In the epoch of suffering, the vision was of another world with its protection, peace, and rest. Today we see the future clearly. We need a Christ more than ever, but (...) to build and not to relieve. Charity is displaced by cooperation, the physician by the architect, the hospital by the park.</em><br />
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Perhaps needless to say, the contemporaneous reviews of <em>Advent Songs</em> that I've seen were not altogether favorable, but Patten had touched on something that would flower into a broader movement in the coming years, and a century later his ideas might still be somewhat relevant to the hymnwriters of today.<br />
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The tune RATHBUN, by <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/o/n/conkey_i.htm">Ithamar Conkey</a> (1815-1867), generally matched with Bowring's <em>In the cross...</em> was not used by Patten but I have restored it here. The tune was named for Mrs. Beriah S. Rathbun, a faithful soprano in the choir of the <a href="http://www.centralbaptistnorwich.com/history.php">Central Baptist Church</a> of Norwich, CT, where Conkey was the organist for some years.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/good-friday.html"><i><span style="color: #2288bb;">There is a green hill far away</span></i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Seven (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/good-friday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended?</span></a></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Six (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-friday.html"><em><span style="color: #2288bb;">When I survey the wondrous cross</span></em></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/good-friday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Were you there when they crucified my Lord?</span></a></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Four (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2013/03/good-friday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">On a hill far away</span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </strong><em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/03/good-friday.html">Beneath the shadow of the cross</a></em></span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em></em></span></span><br />C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-25022838254408917022017-04-13T11:53:00.000-04:002017-04-13T11:54:35.818-04:00Maundy Thursday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When th'apostles with their Friend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One last supper would attend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then his parting word he said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blessed the cup and broke the bread,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This, where'er you do or see,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evermore remember me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years have passed, in every clime,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Changing with the changing time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still the sacred table spread,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flowing cup and broken bread,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With that parting word agree:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Drink and eat, remember me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When, in this thanksgiving feast,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We would give to God our best,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, O Friend of humankind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make us true and firm of mind;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pure of heart, in spirit free,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thus may we remember thee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1878; adapt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tune: <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/a/r/f/arfon.mid">ARFON</a> (7.7.7.7.7.7.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welsh (or French?) melody, 19th cent.?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">arr. Hugh Davies, c.1906</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NIne (Liturgical) Years Ago:</span> </strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/03/maundy-thursday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow</span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Eight (Liturgical) Years Ago:</strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/maundy-thursday.html"><i><span style="color: #2288bb;">"Remember me," the Savior said</span></i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Seven (Liturgical) Years Ago: </strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/maundy-thursday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Thou, who at thy first Eucharist did pray</span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Six (Liturgical) Years Ago: </strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/04/maundy-thursday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><em>Within an upper room they met</em></span></a> (now on Facebook)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five (Liturgical) Years Ago:</b> <a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/maundy-thursday.html"><em><span style="color: #2288bb;">Love consecrates the humblest act</span></em></a></span><br />
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<strong>One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </strong><em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/03/maundy-thursday.html">According to thy gracious word</a></em></span></span></span></span>C.W.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04745714524175357522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24288613.post-12624200418968435802017-04-09T08:26:00.000-04:002017-04-09T09:40:12.926-04:00Palm Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To commemorate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, today we continue a series of social justice hymns with this text by Congregational minister <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/person/Gilkey_JG1">James Gordon Gilkey</a> (1889-1964) that links the story from the Gospels to our lives in the present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outside the Holy City<br /> Unnumbered footsteps throng,<br /> And crowded mart and streets of trade<br /> Fling back a swelling song.<br /> The voices echo nearer,<br /> In flaming hope they sing:</span><br />
<q><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throw down your branches at his feet!<br />To Christ your praises bring!</span></q><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once more outside our cities<br />God's liberation waits,<br /> Once more the people throng to bring<br /> A welcome at the gates.<br /> Within, our hearts are burdened<br />Our feet may go astray;<br /> O Christ of God, come near and walk<br /> Our city streets today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The branches that we offer<br /> Are no unmeaning sign;<br /> Take thou the hands we lift on high<br /> And make them wholly thine.<br /> No songs of shallow welcome<br /> Are these we raise to thee;<br /> O give us faith to face the cross<br /> And set thy city free!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A distant music mingles<br /> With all our songs today,<br />Hosannas from a city fair<br /> Where sin has passed away.<br /> There rides the Christ triumphant<br /> And glorious songs ring clear;<br /> O God, give us the strength to build<br /> With Christ that city here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James G. Gilkey, 1915; alt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tune: </span><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/mid/a/l/f/alford.mid"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALFORD</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (7.6.8.6.D.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Bacchus Dykes, 1875</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nine (Liturgical) Years Ago: </b><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/03/green-palms-and-blossoms-gay.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Green Palms and Blossoms Gay</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Years Ago: </b><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2009/04/palm-sunday.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Hosanna, loud hosanna</span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Seven </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Years Ago:</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-see-approaching-sacrifice.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Ride on, ride on in majesty</span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Six </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Years Ago: </b><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2011/04/hosanna-in-highest.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Come, faithful people, come away</span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Five </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Liturgical) </b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Years Ago: </b><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2012/04/steadfast-toward-jerusalem.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">See what unbounded zeal and love</span></a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>One (Liturgical) Year Ago: </strong><em><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/03/palm-or-passion.html">O Christ, who through this holy week</a></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Seven (Calendar) Years Ago: </strong><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/jane-laurie-borthwick.html">Jane Laurie Borthwick</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>One (Calendar) Year Ago: </strong><a href="http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2016/04/jane-laurie-borthwick.html">Jane Laurie Borthwick</a></span><br />
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