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Author: Charles W. Everest Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 297 hymnals First Line: 십 자 가 지 라 하 시 네 ("Take up thy cross," the Savior said) Topics: Christian Life; Commitment; Discipleship and Service; Justice; Kingdom of God; Obedience; 그리스도인의 삶; 헌신; 제자 훈련 와 봉사; 정의; 하나님나라; 순종 Scripture: Matthew 16:24-25 Used With Tune: GERMANY Text Sources: Korean trans. The United Methodist Korean Hymnal Committee

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ST. CRISPIN

Appears in 249 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. J. Elvey Incipit: 33351 22355 51766 Used With Text: Take up thy cross, the Saviour said,

SAMSON

Appears in 72 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frideric Handel Incipit: 13453 67115 65321 Used With Text: Take up thy cross (the Saviour said)

ST. SEPULCHRE

Appears in 36 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. Cooper Incipit: 15651 45351 24443 Used With Text: Take up thy cross, the Saviour said

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십 자 가 지 라 (Take Up Thy Cross)

Author: Charles W. Everest Hymnal: 찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship #145 (2001) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: 십 자 가 지 라 하 시 네 ("Take up thy cross," the Savior said) Topics: Christian Life; Commitment; Discipleship and Service; Justice; Kingdom of God; Obedience; 그리스도인의 삶; 헌신; 제자 훈련 와 봉사; 정의; 하나님나라; 순종 Scripture: Matthew 16:24-25 Languages: English; Korean Tune Title: GERMANY

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John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Author of "Take up thy cross" in Gems of Praise (Choice Collection of Sacred Melodies) John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission

Johann Hermann Schein

1586 - 1630 Person Name: J. H. Schein Simplifier of "[Take up thy cross, the Saviour said]" in The Bach Chorale Book Schein, Johann Hermann, son of Hieronymus Schein, pastor at Griinhain, near Annaberg, in Saxony, was born at Grünhain, Jan. 20,1586. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig in 1607, and studied there for four years. Thereafter he acted for some time as a private tutor, including two years with a family at Weissenfels. On May 21, 1615, he was appointed Capellmeister, at the court of Duke Johann Ernst, of Sachse-Weimar; and in 1616 he became cantor of I3t. Thomas's Church, and music director at Leipzig, in succession to Seth Calvisius (d. Nov. 24, 1615). This post he held till his death, at Leipzig, Nov. 19, 1630. Schein was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time, both as an original composer, and as a harmoniser of the works of others. As a hymnwriter he was not so prolific, or so noteworthy. Most of his hymns were written on the deaths of his children or friends, e.g. on seven of his children, and on his first wife. They appeared mostly in broadsheet form, and were included, along with his original melodies, in his Cantional oder Gesang-Buch Augspurgischer Confession, Leipzig, 1627; 2nd ed., 1645. [Both in Wernigerode Library.] Those of Schein's hymns which have passed into English are:— i. Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt. For the Dying. First published, as a broadsheet, at Leipzig, 1628, as a Trost-Liedlein á 5 (i.e. for 5 voices), &c. [Berlin Library.] The words, the melody, and the five-part setting, are all by Schein. It was written for, and first used at, the funeral, on Dec. 15, 1628, of Margarita, wife of Caspar Werner, a builder and town councillor at Leipzig, and a churchwarden of St. Thomas's. It is in 6 stanzas of 6 lines; the initial letters of 11. 1, 3, in st. i.-iv., forming the name Margarita; and the W of st. v. 1. 1 standing for Werner. In Schein's Cantional, 1645, No. 303 (marked as Trost-Liedlein, Joh. Herm. Scheins, á 5), and later hymn-books, as e.g. the Unverfäschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 830, st. vi. was omitted. It is Schein's finest production, and one of the best German hymns for the sick and dying. Translated as:— Deal with me, God, in mercy now. This is a good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 191, set to Schein's melody of 1628. ii. Mein Gott und Herr, ach sei nicht fern. For the Dying. First published, with his name, in his Cantional, 1627, No. 262, in 9 stanzas of 6 lines. The initial letters of the stanzas give the name Margarita, probably one of the daughters who predeceased him. It is included, in 5 st., in the 164-8, and later eds., of Crüger's Praxis. The translation in common use is:— My Lord and God, go not away. A good tr. of st. i., ii., iv., v., vii., by A. T. Russell, as No. 254, in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)