My Starred Hymns
My Hymnals
My Purchased Files
Planning worship?
Check out our sister site, ZeteoSearch.org,
for 20+ additional resources related to your search.
- |
User Links
Search Results
Seek Ye First the Kingdom
Author: Karen Lafferty Meter: Irregular Appears in 74 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 6:33 First Line: Seek ye first the kingdom of God Topics: Comfort & Encouragement; Songs for Children Bible Songs; Comfort & Encouragement; Kingdom; Prayer; Promises; Word of God Used With Tune: LAFFERTY
Seek Ye First the Kingdom
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Author: Cecil F. Alexander Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 330 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 6:28-29 First Line: Each little flower that opens Lyrics: Refrain:
All things bright and beautiful,
all creatures great and small,
all things wise and wonderful
the Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,
each little bird that sings
he made their glowing colors,
he made their tiny wings. Refrain
2 The purple-headed mountain,
the river running by,
the sunset, and the morning
that brightens up the sky. Refrain
3 The cold wind in the winter,
the pleasant summer sun,
the ripe fruits in the garden
he made them every one. Refrain
4 He gave us eyes to see them,
and lips that we might tell
how great is God Almighty,
who has made all things well. Refrain
Topics: Songs for Children Hymns; Creation and Providence; Creation Used With Tune: ROYAL OAK
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Sometimes a Light Surprises
Author: William Cowper Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 407 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 6:28 Lyrics: 1 Sometimes a light surprises
the Christian while he sings;
it is the Lord, who rises
eith healing in his wings;
when comforts are declining,
he grants the soul again
a season of clear shining
to cheer it after rain.
2 In holy contemplation
we sweetly then pursue
the theme of God's salvation,
and find it ever new;
set free from present sorrow
we cheerfully can say,
e'en let the unknown morrow
bring with it what it may.
3 It can bring with it nothing
but he will bear us through;
who gives the lilies clothing
will clothe his people too;
beneath the spreading heavens
no creature but is fed;
Aad he who feeds the ravens
will give his children bread.
4 Though vine nor fig tree neither
their wonted fruit should bear,
though all the field should wither,
nor flocks nor herds be there,
yet God the same abiding,
his praise shall tune my voice,
for while in him confiding
I cannot but rejoice.
Used With Tune: OFFERTORIUM
Sometimes a Light Surprises
[Prepare the way of the Lord]
Appears in 32 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Scripture: Matthew 6 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 33133 22234 45565 Used With Text: Wait for the Lord
[Prepare the way of the Lord]
Set Your Mind on God's Kingdom
Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #791 (1985) Scripture: Matthew 6 First Line: "No servant can be the slave of two masters; Topics: Scripture Readings
Set Your Mind on God's Kingdom
The Lord's Prayer
Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #834 (1985) Scripture: Matthew 6 First Line: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Topics: Canticles and Prayers
The Lord's Prayer
Karen Lafferty
b. 1948 Scripture: Matthew 6:33 Paraphraser of "Seek Ye First the Kingdom" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)
Karen Lafferty
Jacques Berthier
1923 - 1994 Scripture: Matthew 6:33 Alterer of "Wait for the Lord" in Worship and Song Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions.
Bert Polman
Jacques Berthier
Cecil Frances Alexander
1818 - 1895 Person Name: Cecil F. Alexander Scripture: Matthew 6:28-29 Author of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies. She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandments, and prayer, writing in simple language for children. Her more than four hundred hymn texts were published in Verses from the Holy Scripture (1846), Hymns for Little Children (1848), and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional ( 1858).
Bert Polman
==================
Alexander, Cecil Frances, née Humphreys, second daughter of the late Major John Humphreys, Miltown House, co. Tyrone, Ireland, b. 1823, and married in 1850 to the Rt. Rev. W. Alexander, D.D., Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Mrs. Alexander's hymns and poems number nearly 400. They are mostly for children, and were published in her Verses for Holy Seasons, with Preface by Dr. Hook, 1846; Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament, pt. i. 1854, pt. ii. 1857; Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, 1853; Hymns for Little Children, 1848; Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858; The Legend of the Golden Prayers 1859; Moral Songs, N.B.; The Lord of the Forest and his Vassals, an Allegory, &c.; or contributed to the Lyra Anglicana, the S.P.C.K. Psalms and Hymns, Hymns Ancient & Modern, and other collections. Some of the narrative hymns are rather heavy, and not a few of the descriptive are dull, but a large number remain which have won their way to the hearts of the young, and found a home there. Such hymns as "In Nazareth in olden time," "All things bright and beautiful," "Once in Royal David's city," "There is a green hill far away," "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," "The roseate hues of early dawn," and others that might be named, are deservedly popular and are in most extensive use. Mrs. Alexander has also written hymns of a more elaborate character; but it is as a writer for children that she has excelled.
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
===============
Alexander, Cecil F., née Humphreys, p. 38, ii. Additional hymns to those already noted in this Dictionary are in common use:—
1. Christ has ascended up again. (1853.) Ascension.
2. His are the thousand sparkling rills. (1875.) Seven Words on the Cross (Fifth Word).
3. How good is the Almighty God. (1S48.) God, the Father.
4. In [a] the rich man's garden. (1853.) Easter Eve.
5. It was early in the morning. (1853.) Easter Day.
6. So be it, Lord; the prayers are prayed. (1848.) Trust in God.
7. Saw you never in the twilight? (1853.) Epiphany.
8. Still bright and blue doth Jordan flow. (1853.) Baptism of Our Lord.
9. The angels stand around Thy throne. (1848.) Submission to the Will of God.
10. The saints of God are holy men. (1848.) Communion of Saints.
11. There is one Way and only one. (1875.) SS. Philip and James.
12. Up in heaven, up in heaven. (1848.) Ascension.
13. We are little Christian children. (1848.) Holy Trinity.
14. We were washed in holy water. (1848.) Holy Baptism.
15. When of old the Jewish mothers. (1853.) Christ's Invitation to Children.
16. Within the Churchyard side by side. (1848.) Burial.
Of the above hymns those dated 1848 are from Mrs. Alexander's Hymns for Little Children; those dated 1853, from Narrative Hymns, and those dated 1875 from the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern.
Several new hymns by Mrs. Alexander are included in the 1891 Draft Appendix to the Irish Church Hymnal.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
=============
Alexander, Cecil F. , p. 38, ii. Mrs. Alexander died at Londonderry, Oct. 12, 1895. A number of her later hymns are in her Poems, 1896, which were edited by Archbishop Alexander.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
See also in:Hymn Writers of the Church
Cecil Frances Alexander
