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Arise, my soul, to Pisgah's height
Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 39 hymnals Person Name: Sarah F. Adams
Arise, my soul, to Pisgah's height
As near to Calvary I pass
Author: Henry Alline Appears in 47 hymnals Person Name: Henry Alline
As near to Calvary I pass
O what a wretched sinner, Lord
Author: Henry Alline Appears in 13 hymnals Person Name: Henry Alline
O what a wretched sinner, Lord
Arise, my soul, to Pisgah's height
Author: Sarah F. Adams Hymnal: CSH1829 #d8 (1829) Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Languages: English
Arise, my soul, to Pisgah's height
As near to Calvary I pass
Author: Henry Alline Hymnal: CSH1829 #d11 (1829) Person Name: Henry Alline Languages: English
As near to Calvary I pass
O what a wretched sinner, Lord
Author: Henry Alline Hymnal: CSH1829 #d76 (1829) Person Name: Henry Alline Languages: English
O what a wretched sinner, Lord
Sarah Flower Adams
1805 - 1848 Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Hymnal Number: d8 Author of "Arise, my soul, to Pisgah's height" in A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Stereotype ed. Adams, Sarah, nee Flower. born at Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22nd, 1805; died in London, Aug. 14, 1848, and was buried at Harlow, Aug. 21,1848. She was the younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor and proprietor, of The Cambridge Intelligencer; and was married, in 1834, to William B. Adams, a civil engineer. In 1841 she published Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem dealing with the conflict of heathenism and Christianity, in which Vivia Perpetua suffered martyrdom; and in 1845, The Flock at the Fountain; a catechism and hymns for children. As a member of the congregation of the Rev. W. J. Fox, an Unitarian minister in London, she contributed 13 hymns to the Hymns and Anthems, published by C. Fox, Lond., in 1841, for use in his chapel. Of these hymns the most widely known are— "Nearer,my God,to Thee," and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." The remaining eleven, most of which have come into common use, more especially in America, are:—
Creator Spirit! Thou the first. Holy Spirit.
Darkness shrouded Calvary. Good Friday.
Gently fall the dews of eve. Evening.
Go, and watch the Autumn leaves. Autumn.
O hallowed memories of the past. Memories.
O human heart! thou hast a song. Praise.
O I would sing a song of praise. Praise.
O Love! thou makest all things even. Love.
Part in Peace! is day before us? Close of Service.
Sing to the Lord! for His mercies are sure. Praise.
The mourners came at break of day. Easter.
Mrs. Adams also contributed to Novello's musical edition of Songs for the Months, n. d. Nearly all of the above hymns are found in the Unitarian collections of Great Britain, and America. In Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873, No. 389, there is a rendering by her from Fenelon: —" Living or dying, Lord, I would be Thine." It appeared in the Hymns and Anthems, 1841.
-John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Sarah Flower Adams
Henry Alline
1748 - 1784 Hymnal Number: d11 Author of "As near to Calvary I pass" in A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Stereotype ed. Alline, Henry. (Newport, Rhode Island, January 14, 1748--January 28, 1784, Northampton, New Hampshire). Congregationalist/"New Light". In 1760 his family took up land near Hampden, Nova Scotia, far from any school or church; hence the spiritual experience which, in 1775, impelled him to begin preaching found him with the drive and magnetism, but without the solid grounding, of a Wesley or a Whitefield. His stress on the "new light," and the revival meetings which he conducted all over Nova Scotia had no connection with the American Revolution beyond coincidence in time; yet that was enough to alarm the authorities. He had sermons, tracts, and probably sheets of hymns printed at Halifax before the peace treaty of 1783 allowed him to cross the newly-drawn boundary safely; but tuberculosis felled him before he could go far. Rev. David McClure, in whose house he died, extracted verses from his manuscripts and published them (Boston, 1786) as Hymns and Spiritual Songs. These were used by Alline's Nova Scotia converts while, and after, they drifted into the Baptist orbit, as well as by the converts his associates went on to make in the United States, who eventually emerged as the Free-Will Baptists.
See: Bumsted, J.M. (1971). Henry Alline, 1748-1784.
--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
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Alline, Henry [Allen], born at Newport, R. I., June 14, 1748, was some time a minister at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, and died at North Hill, N.S., Feb. 7, 1784. Alline, whose name is sometimes spelt Alten, is said to have founded a sect of “Allenites," who maintained that Adam and Eve before the fall had no corporeal bodies, and denied the resurrection of the body. These peculiar views may have a place in his prose works, but they cannot be traced in his 487 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in five books, of which the 3rd ed., now rare, was published at Dover and Boston, U.S.A., 1797, and another at Stoningtonport, Conn., 1802. Of these hymns 37 are found in Smith and Jones's Hymns for the Use of Christians, 1805, and some in later books of that body. The best of these hymns, "Amazing sight, the Saviour stands," from the first edition of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1790?), is preserved in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, No. 569, where it is given anonymously from Nettleton's Village Hymns, also in the Baptist Praise Book, and others. Alline's hymns are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Henry Alline
George Askins
? - 1816 Person Name: George Atkin Hymnal Number: d15 Author of "Brethren, we have met to worship, and adore the Lord our God" in A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Stereotype ed. George Askins was born in Ireland. He immigrated to the United States as an adult. He was a Methodist and became an itinerant preacher for the Baltimore Conference in 1801. He was appointed to other circuits as well, mostly in Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky. He died in Frederick, Maryland 28 February 1816.
Dianne Shapiro from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel with Richard H. Hulan, University of Illinois Press, 2010
George Askins
