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Ancient and Modern

Publication Date: 2013 Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd Publication Place: London

When I survey the wondrous cross

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,997 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast save in the cross of Christ my God; all the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down; did e'er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown! 4 His dying crimson, like a robe, spreads o'er his body on the tree: then am I dead to all the globe, and all the globe is dead to me. 5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Church year Passiontide; Church Year Good Friday; Devotion; God Love of; Good Friday; Passiontide; Self-offering; The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-30 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM

Stand up, stand up for Jesus

Author: George Duffield (1818-1888) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 1,789 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross! Lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss. From victory unto victory his army he shall lead, till every foe is vanquished, and Christ is Lord indeed. 2 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the solemn watchword hear; if while ye sleep he suffers, away with shame and fear. Where'er ye meet with evil, within you or without, charge for the God of battles, and put the foe to rout. 3 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, stand in his strength alone; the arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own. Put on the gospel armour, each piece put on with prayer; when duty calls or danger be never wanting there. 4 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the strife will not be long; this day the noise of battle, the next the victor's song. To him that overcometh a crown of life shall be; he with the King of glory shall reign eternally. Topics: Conflict; Courage; Proper 16 Year B; Victory Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:13 Used With Tune: MORNING LIGHT

Thine for ever! God of love

Author: Mary Fawler Maude (1819-1913) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 349 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thine for ever! God of love, hear us from thy throne above; thine for ever may we be here and in eternity. 2 Thine for ever! Lord of life, shield us through our earthly strife; thou the Life, the Truth, the Way, guide us to the realms of day. 3 Thine for ever! O how blest they who find in thee their rest! Saviour, guardian, heavenly friend, O defend us to the end. 4 Thine for ever! Shepherd, keep us thy frail and trembling sheep; safe alone beneath thy care, let us all thy goodness share. 5 Thine for ever! Thou our guide, all our wants by thee supplied, all our sins by thee forgiven, lead us, Lord, from earth to heaven. Topics: God names and images of; Heaven Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: NEWINGTON

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IN DULCI JUBILO

Appears in 201 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer; Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795-1856) Tune Sources: Later form of 14th-century German melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christians all, rejoice

MACCABAEUS

Meter: 10.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 139 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 53451 23454 32345 Used With Text: Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son

LUTHER'S HYMN

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 347 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Henry Monk (1823-1889) Tune Sources: Later form of melody in Geistliche Lieder, 1533 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11321 22313 45321 Used With Text: Sing praise to God who reigns above

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Awake, my soul, and with the sun

Author: Thomas Ken (1637-1711) Hymnal: AM2013 #1 (2013) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily stage of duty run; shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. 2 Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past, and live this day as if thy last; improve thy talent with due care; for the great day thyself prepare. 3 Let all thy converse be sincere, thy conscience as the noon-day clear; think how all-seeing God thy ways and all thy secret thoughts surveys. 4 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, and with the angels bear thy part, who all night long unwearied sing, high praise to the eternal King. 5 Glory to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me whilst I slept; grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless light partake. 6 Lord, I my vows to thee renew; disperse my sins as morning dew; guard my first springs of thought and will, and with thyself my spirit fill. 7 Direct, control, suggest, this day, all I design or do or say; that all my powers, with all their might, in thy sole glory may unite. 8 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, praise him, all creatures here below, praise him above, angelic host, praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Topics: Commitment; Discipleship; Eternal Life; Morning; Proper 6 Year C; Self-offering; Vocation; Work Scripture: Psalm 57:8-9 Languages: English Tune Title: MORNING HYMN

Christ, whose glory fills the skies

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Hymnal: AM2013 #2 (2013) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Lyrics: 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light, Sun of Righteousness, arise, triumph o'er the shades of night; Dayspring from on high, be near; Daystar, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day's return, till thy mercy's beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes, and warm my heart. 3 Visit then this soul of mine, pierce the gloom of sin and grief; fill me, radiancy divine, scatter all my unbelief; more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day. Topics: Church Year Trinity; Jesus Names and images for; Light; Morning; Proper 4 Year B; The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year A; The Second Sunday before Advent Year C; The Sunday next before Lent Years A, B & C Scripture: Psalm 19 Languages: English Tune Title: RATISBON

Father, we praise thee, now the night is over

Author: Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) Hymnal: AM2013 #3 (2013) Meter: 11.11.11.5 Lyrics: 1 Father, we praise thee, now the night is over; active and watchful, stand we all before thee; singing we offer prayer and meditation: thus we adore thee. 2 Monarch of all things, fit us for thy mansions; banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending; bring us to heaven, where thy saints united joy without ending. 3 All-holy Father, Son and equal Spirit, Trinity blessèd, send us thy salvation; thine is the glory, gleaming and resounding through all creation. Topics: Adoration; Church Year Trinity; Heaven; Morning Scripture: 1 Chronicles 23:30-31 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTE SANCTORUM

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People

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Richard Redhead

1820 - 1901 Person Name: Richard Redhead (1820-1901) Hymnal Number: 749b Composer of "METZLER'S REDHEAD NO. 66" in Ancient and Modern Richard Redhead (b. Harrow, Middlesex, England, 1820; d. Hellingley, Sussex, England, 1901) was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford. At age nineteen he was invited to become organist at Margaret Chapel (later All Saints Church), London. Greatly influencing the musical tradition of the church, he remained in that position for twenty-five years as organist and an excellent trainer of the boys' choirs. Redhead and the church's rector, Frederick Oakeley, were strongly committed to the Oxford Movement, which favored the introduction of Roman elements into Anglican worship. Together they produced the first Anglican plainsong psalter, Laudes Diurnae (1843). Redhead spent the latter part of his career as organist at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Paddington (1864-1894). Bert Polman

John Chandler

1806 - 1876 Person Name: John Chandler (1806-1876) Hymnal Number: 11 Translator of "As now the sun's declining rays" in Ancient and Modern John Chandler, one of the most successful translators of hymns, was born at Witley in Surrey, June 16, 1806. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830. Ordained deacon in 1831 and priest in 1832, he succeeded his father as the patron and vicar of Whitley, in 1837. His first volume, entitled The Hymns of the Primitive Church, now first Collected, Translated and Arranged, 1837, contained 100 hymns, for the most part ancient, with a few additions from the Paris Breviary of 1736. Four years later, he republished this volume under the title of hymns of the Church, mostly primitive, collected, translated and arranged for public use, 1841. Other publications include a Life of William of Wykeham, 1842, and Horae sacrae: prayers and meditations from the writings of the divines of the Anglican Church, 1854, as well as numerous sermons and tracts. Chandler died at Putney on July 1, 1876. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion =============== Chandler, John, M.A.,one of the earliest and most successful of modern translators of Latin hymns, son of the Rev. John F. Chandler, was born at Witley, Godalming, Surrey, June 16, 1806, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1827. He took Holy Orders in 1831, and became Vicar of Witley in 1837. He died at Putney, July 1, 1876. Besides numerous Sermons and Tracts, his prose works include Life of William of Wykeham, 1842; and Horae Sacrae; Prayers and Meditations from the writings of the Divines of the Anglican Church, with an Introduction, 1844. His translations, he says, arose out of his desire to see the ancient prayers of the Anglican Liturgy accompanied by hymns of a corresponding date of composition, and his inability to find these hymns until he says, "My attention was a short time ago directed to some translations [by Isaac Williams] which appeared from time to time in the British Magazine, very beautifully executed, of some hymns extracted from the Parisian Breviary,with originals annexed. Some, indeed, of the Sapphic and Alcaic and other Horatian metres, seem to be of little value; but the rest, of the peculiar hymn-metre, Dimeter Iambics, appear ancient, simple, striking, and devotional—in a word in every way likely to answer our purpose. So I got a copy of the Parisian Breviary [1736], and one or two other old books of Latin Hymns, especially one compiled by Georgius Cassander, printed at Cologne, in the year 1556, and regularly applied myself to the work of selection and translation. The result is the collection I now lay before the public." Preface, Hymns of the Primitive Church, viii., ix. This collection is:— (1) The Hymns of the Primitive Church, now first Collected, Translated, and Arranged, by the Rev. J. Chandler. London, John W. Parker, 1837. These translations were accompanied by the Latin texts. The trsanslations rearranged, with additional translations, original hymns by Chandler and a few taken from other sources, were republished as (2) The Hymns of the Church, mostly Primitive, Collected, Translated, and Arranged/or Public Use, by the Rev. J. Chandler, M.A. London, John W. Parker, 1841. From these works from 30 to 40 translations have come gradually into common use, some of which hold a foremost place in modern hymnals, "Alleluia, best and sweetest;" "Christ is our Corner Stone;" "On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry;" "Jesus, our Hope, our hearts' Desire;" "Now, my soul, thy voice upraising;" "Once more the solemn season calls;" and, "O Jesu, Lord of heavenly grace;" being those which are most widely used. Although Chandler's translations are somewhat free, and, in a few instances, doctrinal difficulties are either evaded or softened down, yet their popularity is unquestionably greater than the translations of several others whose renderings are more massive in style and more literal in execution. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edmund H. Sears

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) Hymnal Number: 70 Author of "It came upon the midnight clear" in Ancient and Modern Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire [County], Massachusetts, in 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838; removed to Lancaster in 1840; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry in 1847; since then, residing in Wayland, he devoted himself to literature. He has published several works. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ======================= Sears, Edmund Hamilton, D.D., son of Joseph Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he graduated in 1834; and at the Theological School at Cambridge. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Church (Unitarian) at Wayland, Massachusetts; then at Lancaster in the same State, in 1840; again at Wayland, in 1847; and finally at Weston, Massachusetts, in 1865. He died at Weston, Jan. 14, 1876. He published:— (1) Regeneration, 1854; (2) Pictures of the Olden Time, 1857; (3) Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858, enlarged ed., 1872; (4) The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; (5) Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875, in which his hymns are collected. Also co-editor of the Monthly Religious Magazine. Of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Calm on the listening ear of night. Christmas. This hymn was first published in its original form, in the Boston Observer, 1834; afterwards, in the Christian Register, in 1835; subsequently it was emended by the author, and, as thus emended, was reprinted entire in the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxxv. Its use is extensive. 2. It came upon the midnight clear. Christmas. "Rev. Dr. Morison writes to us, Sears's second Christmas hymn was sent to me as editor of the Christian Register, I think, in December, 1849. I was very much delighted with it, and before it came out in the Register, read it at a Christmas celebration of Dr. Lunt's Sunday School in Quincy. I always feel that, however poor my Christmas sermon may be, the reading and singing of this hymn are enough to make up for all deficiences.'" 3. Ho, ye that rest beneath the rock. Charitable Meetings on behalf of Children. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Dr. Sears's two Christmas hymns rank with the best on that holy season in the English language. Although a member of the Unitarian body, his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute Divinity of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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