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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Author: Martin Luther; Frederick H. Hedge Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 674 hymnals Lyrics: 1 A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing.
Our present help amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing. .
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe
with craft and cunning great,
and armed with cruel hate;
on earth there is no equal.
2 If we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
but there is one who takes our side,
the one of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be:
Christ Jesus, it is he!
The Lord of hosts by name,
from age to age the same.
None else can win the battle.
3 And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we tremble not, for God has willed
that truth will triumph through us.
Though Satan rant and rage
and fiercest war engage,
such wrath we can endure,
for evil’s doom is sure.
One little word shall end it.
4 That Word beyond all earthly pow’rs,
no thanks to them, is sounding.
The Spirit and the gifts are ours,
by God’s good grace abounding.
Lay down all earthly fame,
wealth, fam’ly, life, and name.
The body they may kill;
God’s truth will triumph still.
God’s reign endures forever. Topics: Courage; Evil; Faith; God Images and Names of; God Power of; Protection; Reign of God; Courage; Evil; Faith; God Images and Names of; God Power of; Heritage 16th-Century; Protection; Psalms; Reign of God Scripture: 2 Samuel 22:2-7 Used With Tune: EIN FESTE BURG Text Sources: Based on Psalm 46; “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,” 1529, 1531
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Grief; Joy; Peace and Justice; Suffering; Women of the Bible; Grief; Joy; Peace and Justice; Suffering; Women of the Bible Scripture: Psalm 85:10 Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN
A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus
Author: Fanny J. Crosby Meter: 11.8.11.8 with refrain Appears in 262 hymnals First Line: A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord Refrain First Line: He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock Lyrics: 1 A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,
a wonderful Savior to me.
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,
where rivers of pleasure I see.
Refrain:
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
that shadows a dry, thirsty land.
He hideth my life in the depths of his love,
and covers me there with his hand,
and covers me there with his hand.
2 A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord;
he taketh my burden away.
He holdeth me up, and I shall not be moved;
he giveth me strength as my day. [Refrain]
3 With numberless blessings each moment he crowns,
and filled with his fullness divine,
I sing in my rapture,“Oh, glory to God
for such a Redeemer as mine!” [Refrain]
4 When clothed in his brightness, transported I rise
to meet him in clouds of the sky,
his perfect salvation, his wonderful love,
I’ll shout with the millions on high. [Refrain] Topics: Jesus Christ Images and Names of; Jesus Christ Second Coming of; Reign of Christ; Salvation; Jesus Christ Images and Names of; Jesus Christ Second Coming of; Protection; Reign of Christ; Salvation Scripture: Exodus 33:21-22 Used With Tune: KIRKPATRICK Text Sources: The Finest of the Wheat No. 1, 1890
A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus
EIN FESTE BURG
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 636 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther First Line: A mighty fortress is our God Tune Sources: Geistliche Lieder, 1529, 1531 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN FESTE BURG
LLANGLOFFAN
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 169 hymnals First Line: A voice was heard in Ramah Tune Sources: Welsh traditional, Evans’s Hymnau a Thonau, 1865, as in English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51122 32114 43325 Used With Text: A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
LLANGLOFFAN
KIRKPATRICK
Meter: 11.8.11.8 with refrain Appears in 191 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Kirkpatrick First Line: A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord Tune Sources: The Finest of the Wheat No. 1, 1890 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55433 21666 55543 Used With Text: A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus
KIRKPATRICK
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Author: Martin Luther; Frederick H. Hedge Hymnal: VT2020 #421 (2020) Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Lyrics: 1 A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing.
Our present help amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing. .
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe
with craft and cunning great,
and armed with cruel hate;
on earth there is no equal.
2 If we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
but there is one who takes our side,
the one of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be:
Christ Jesus, it is he!
The Lord of hosts by name,
from age to age the same.
None else can win the battle.
3 And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we tremble not, for God has willed
that truth will triumph through us.
Though Satan rant and rage
and fiercest war engage,
such wrath we can endure,
for evil’s doom is sure.
One little word shall end it.
4 That Word beyond all earthly pow’rs,
no thanks to them, is sounding.
The Spirit and the gifts are ours,
by God’s good grace abounding.
Lay down all earthly fame,
wealth, fam’ly, life, and name.
The body they may kill;
God’s truth will triumph still.
God’s reign endures forever. Topics: Courage; Evil; Faith; God Images and Names of; God Power of; Protection; Reign of God; Courage; Evil; Faith; God Images and Names of; God Power of; Heritage 16th-Century; Protection; Psalms; Reign of God Scripture: 2 Samuel 22:2-7 Tune Title: EIN FESTE BURG
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
A shoot will come up
Hymnal: VT2020 #232 (2020) Topics: Jesus Christ Advent of; Judgment; Justice Economic; Peace and Justice; Prophets; Reign of Christ
A shoot will come up
A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Hymnal: VT2020 #278 (2020) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Grief; Joy; Peace and Justice; Suffering; Women of the Bible; Grief; Joy; Peace and Justice; Suffering; Women of the Bible Scripture: Psalm 85:10 Tune Title: LLANGLOFFAN
A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
Martin Luther
1483 - 1546 First Line: A mighty fortress is our God Hymnal Number: 421 Author of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" in Voices Together Luther, Martin, born at Eisleben, Nov. 10, 1483; entered the University of Erfurt, 1501 (B.A. 1502, M.A.. 1503); became an Augustinian monk, 1505; ordained priest, 1507; appointed Professor at the University of Wittenberg, 1508, and in 1512 D.D.; published his 95 Theses, 1517; and burnt the Papal Bull which had condemned them, 1520; attended the Diet of Worms, 1521; translated the Bible into German, 1521-34; and died at Eisleben, Feb. 18, 1546. The details of his life and of his work as a reformer are accessible to English readers in a great variety of forms. Luther had a huge influence on German hymnody.
i. Hymn Books.
1. Ellich cristlich lider Lobgesang un Psalm. Wittenberg, 1524. [Hamburg Library.] This contains 8 German hymns, of which 4 are by Luther.
2. Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbuchlein. Erfurt, 1524 [Goslar Library], with 25 German hymns, of which 18 are by Luther.
3. Geystliche Gesangk Buchleyn. Wittenberg, 1524 [Munich Library], with 32 German hymns, of which 24 are by Luther.
4. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1529. No copy of this book is now known, but there was one in 1788 in the possession of G. E. Waldau, pastor at Nürnberg, and from his description it is evident that the first part of the Rostock Gesang-Buch, 1531, is a reprint of it. The Rostock Gesang-Buch, 1531, was reprinted by C. M. Wiechmann-Kadow at Schwerin in 1858. The 1529 evidently contained 50 German hymns, of which 29 (including the Litany) were by Luther.
5. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Erfurt. A. Rauscher, 1531 [Helmstädt, now Wolfenbüttel Library], a reprint of No. 4.
6. Geistliche Lieder. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1535 [Munich Library. Titlepage lost], with 52 German hymns, of which 29 are by Luther.
7. Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert. Leipzig. V. Schumann, 1539 [Wernigerode Library], with 68 German hymns, of which 29 are by Luther.
8. Geistliche Lieder. Wittenberg. J. Klug, 1543 [Hamburg Library], with 61 German hymns, of which 35 are by Luther.
9. Geystliche Lieder. Leipzig. V. Babst, 1545 [Gottingen Library]. This contains Luther's finally revised text, but adds no new hymns by himself. In pt. i. are 61 German hymns, in pt. ii. 40, of which 35 in all are by Luther.
For these books Luther wrote three prefaces, first published respectively in Nos. 3, 4, 9. A fourth is found in his Christliche Geseng, Lateinisch und Deudsch, zum Begrebnis, Wittenberg, J. Klug, 1542. These four prefaces are reprinted in Wackernagel’s Bibliographie, 1855, pp. 543-583, and in the various editions of Luther's Hymns. Among modern editions of Luther's Geistliche Lieder may be mentioned the following:—
Carl von Winterfeld, 1840; Dr. C. E. P. Wackernagel, 1848; Q. C. H. Stip, 1854; Wilhelm Schircks, 1854; Dr. Danneil, 1883; Dr. Karl Gerok, 1883; Dr. A. F. W. Fischer, 1883; A. Frommel, 1883; Karl Goedeke, 1883, &c. In The Hymns of Martin Luther. Set to their original melodies. With an English version. New York, 1883, ed. by Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon and Nathan H. Allen, there are the four prefaces, and English versions of all Luther's hymns, principally taken more or less altered, from the versions by A. T. Russell, R. Massie and Miss Winkworth [repub. in London, 1884]. Complete translations of Luther's hymns have been published by Dr. John Anderson, 1846 (2nd ed. 1847), Dr. John Hunt, 1853, Richard Massie, 1854, and Dr. G. Macdonald in the Sunday Magazine, 1867, and his Exotics, 1876. The other versions are given in detail in the notes on the individual hymns.
ii. Classified List of Luther's Hymns. Of Luther's hymns no classification can be quite perfect, e.g. No. 3 (see below) takes hardly anything from the Latin, and No. 18 hardly anything from the Psalm. No. 29 is partly based on earlier hymns (see p. 225, i.). No. 30 is partly based on St. Mark i. 9-11, and xvi., 15, 16 (see p. 226, ii.). No. 35 is partly based on St. Luke ii. 10-16. The following arrangement, however, will answer all practical purposes.
A. Translations from the Latin.
i. From Latin Hymns:
1. Christum wir sollen loben schon. A solis ortus cardine
2. Der du bist drei in Einigkeit. O Lux beata Trinitas.
3. Jesus Christus unser Heiland, Der von. Jesus Christus nostra salus
4. Komm Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist. Veni Creator Spiritus, Mentes.
5. Nun komm der Beidenheiland. Veni Redemptor gentium
6. Was flirchst du Feind Herodes sehr. A solis ortus cardine
ii. From Latin Antiphons, &c.:
7. Herr Gott dich loben wir. Te Deum laudamus.
8. Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich. Dapacem, Domine
9. Wir glauben all an einen Gott.
iii. Partly from the Latin, the translated stanzas being adopted from Pre-Reformation Versions:
10. Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott.
11. Mitten wir im Leben sind. Media vita in morte sumus.
B. Hymns revised and enlarged from Pre-Reformation popular hymns.
12. Gelobet seist du Jesus Christ.
13. Gott der Vater wohn uns bei.
14. Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet.
15. Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist.
C. Psalm versions.
16. Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein.
17. Aus tiefer Noth schrei ich zu dir.
18. Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott.
19. Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl.
20. Es wollt uns Gott genädig sein.
21. War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit.
22. Wohl dem, der in Gotten Furcht steht.
D. Paraphrases of other portions of Holy Scripture.
23. Diess sind die heilgen zehn Gebot.
24. Jesaia dem Propheten das geschah.
25. Mensch willt du leben seliglich.
26. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin.
27. Sie ist mir lieb die werthe Magd.
28. Vater unser im Himmelreich.
E. Hymns mainly Original.
29. Christ lag in Todesbanden.
30. Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam.
31. Ein neues Lied wir heben an.
32. Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort.
33. Jesus Christus unser Heiland, Der den,
34. Nun freut euch lieben Christengemein.
35. Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her.
36. Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar.
In addition to these —
37. Fur alien Freuden auf Erden.
38. Kyrie eleison.
In the Blätter fur Hymnologie, 1883, Dr. Daniel arranges Luther's hymns according to what he thinks their adaptation to modern German common use as follows:—
i. Hymns which ought to be included in every good Evangelical hymn-book: Nos. 7-18, 20, 22, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38.
ii. Hymns the reception of which into a hymn-book might be contested: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33.
iii. Hymns not suited for a hymn-book: Nos. 1, 5, 6, 27, 31, 37.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Martin Luther
Frederic Henry Hedge
1805 - 1890 Person Name: Frederick H. Hedge First Line: A mighty fortress is our God Hymnal Number: 421 Translator of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" in Voices Together Hedge, Frederick Henry, D.D., son of Professor Hedge of Harvard College, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1805, and educated in Germany and at Harvard. In 1829 he became pastor of the Unitarian Church, West Cambridge. In 1835 he removed to Bangor, Maine; in 1850 to Providence, and in 1856 to Brookline, Mass. He was appointed in 1857, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge (U.S.), and in 1872, Professor of German Literature at Harvard. Dr. Hedge is one of the editors of the Christian Examiner, and the author of The Prose Writers of Germany, and other works. In 1853 he edited, with Dr. F. D. Huntington, the Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston Crosby, Nichols & Co. To that collection and the supplement (1853) he contributed the following translations from the German:—
1. A mighty fortress is our God. (Ein feste Burg.)
2. Christ hath arisen! joy to, &c. (Goethe's Faust.)
3. The sun is still for ever sounding. (Goethe's Faust.)
There is also in the Unitarian Hymn [& Tune] Book for The Church & Home, Boston, 1868, a translation from the Latin.
4. Holy Spirit, Fire divine. (“Veni Sancte Spiritus.")
Dr. Hedge's original hymns, given in the Hymns for the Church, 1853, are:—
5. Beneath Thine hammer, Lord, I lie. Resignation.
6. Sovereign and transforming grace. Ordination. Written for the Ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Mass., Dec. 9, 1829. It is given in several collections.
7. 'Twas in the East, the mystic East. Christmas.
8. 'Twas the day when God's anointed. Good Friday. Written originally for a Confirmation at Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843. The hymn "It is finished, Man of Sorrows! From Thy cross, &c," in a few collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873, is composed of st. iv.-vi. of this hymn. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Frederic Henry Hedge
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
b. 1961 First Line: A voice was heard in Ramah Hymnal Number: 278 Author of "A Voice Was Heard in Ramah" in Voices Together Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has been a pastor in rural, small town, suburban, and city churches; she has also served as a hospice chaplain, a hospital chaplain, and a school bus aide helping children with special needs. She and her husband Bruce are pastors of the First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY.
Carolyn is a gifted hymn writer who has written over 400 hymns. These hymns have been sung by congregations throughout the United States and around the world — from the Washington National Cathedral to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland to St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa to small town churches and small household congregations; they have also been sung at national church and international ecumenical meetings.
She has written four books: "I Sing to My Savior: New Hymns from the Stories in Luke's Gospel", "God's World is Changing: New Hymns for Advent and Christmas", "Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship" (Geneva Press) and "Songs of Grace: New Hymns for God and Neighbo"r (Upper Room Books). Her hymns have been published in over 20 books. Two of her hymns have been published by the Choristers Guild as anthems. Carolyn was commissioned to write the lead article for the special issue on "Singing Our Lives" for Baylor University's "Christian Reflectio"n journal. Her hymns have also been in "Call to Worship" journal, "The Chorister" (cover story), "Reformed Worship," "The Presbyterian Outlook" and posted on thousands of web sites. All of her hymns can be found on her website with indices to scriptural references, topics, tunes, and the three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary: http://www.carolynshymns.com
The World Council of Churches, National Council of Churches, Church World Service and Churches Uniting in Christ have asked her to write hymns. Habitat for Humanity International used a hymn by Carolyn for their 30th anniversary celebration. Family Promise (Interfaith Hospitality Network) did a music video of her hymn for their ministry with homeless families. The Humane Society of the United States did a music video contest of her hymn for their Blessing of the Animals service. The Presbyterian Church (USA) 216th General Assembly presented her with the "Ecumenical and Interreligious Service Recognition." Sojourners did a short video about her hymn writing. A Canadian scholar wrote her biography for the "Cambridge Dictionary for Hymnology."
Feature stories about Carolyn's hymns addressing concerns facing the Church, nation and world, were done by The New Yorker, The Christian Century, America, National Public Radio, national PBS-TV, and newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, New Jersey Courier Post, Delaware News Journal, and others).
Carolyn is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Princeton Theological Seminary. She finds joy in parish ministry, hymn writing, and most of all in her family as a wife, mother (and foster mother), grandmother, sister, and human parent to a rescue dog, "Annie."
Carolyn sees her hymn writing as a partnership and is very grateful for prayers for her hymn writing, suggestions for hymns, gifts for hymn use and commissions, and invitations to speak at conferences, workshops, and church gatherings (in person and online). She hopes her hymns nurture people in their discipleship and support churches in their worship and service in the world. Sing to the Lord a new song!
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Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
