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Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
Author: George Askins Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 247 hymnals Matching Instances: 247 Lyrics: 1 Brethren, we have met to worship
And adore the Lord our God;
Will you pray with all your power,
While we try to preach the Word?
All is vain unless the Spirit
Of the Holy One comes down;
Brethren, pray, and holy manna
Will be showered all around.
2 Brethren, see poor sinners round you
Slumb'ring on the brink of woe;
Death is coming, hell is moving,
Can you bear to let them go?
See our fathers and our mothers,
And our children sinking down;
Brethren, pray and holy manna
Will be showered all around.
3 Sisters, will you join and help us?
Moses' sister aided him;
Will you help the trembling mourners
Who are struggling hard with sin?
Tell them all about the Savior,
Tell them that He will be found;
Sisters, pray, and holy manna
Will be showered all around.
4 Let us love our God supremely,
Let us love each other, too;
Let us love and pray for sinners,
Till our God makes all things new.
Then He'll call us home to heaven,
At His table we'll sit down;
Christ will gird Himself, and serve us
With sweet manna all around.
Baptist Hymnal, 1991 Topics: Worship; liturgical Opening Hymns
Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
HOLY MANNA
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 216 hymnals Matching Instances: 69 Composer and/or Arranger: William Moore Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 55611 22132 11656 Used With Text: Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
HOLY MANNA
GREENVILLE
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 435 hymnals Matching Instances: 2 Composer and/or Arranger: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 33211 22321 55433 Used With Text: Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
GREENVILLE
Opening worship
Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #1030 (1877) Meter: 8.7 First Line: Brethren, we have met to worship Topics: Revivals Languages: English
Opening worship
Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
Author: George Atkins Hymnal: Timeless Truths #1027 Meter: 15.15.15.15 First Line: Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God Lyrics: Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God;Will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word?All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down;Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.Brethren, see poor sinners round you slumb’ring on the brink of woe;Death is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go?See our fathers and our mothers, and our children sinking down;Brethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.Sisters, will you join and help us? Moses’ sister aided him;Will you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin?Tell them all about the Savior, tell them that He will be found;Sisters, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.Is there here a trembling jailer, seeking grace, and filled with tears?Is there here a weeping Mary, pouring forth a flood of tears?Brethren, join your cries to help them; sisters, let your prayers abound;Pray, oh, pray that holy manna may be scattered all around.Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too;Let us love and pray for sinners, till our God makes all things new.Then He’ll call us home to Heaven, at His table we’ll sit down;Christ will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around. Topics: Worship Scripture: Psalm 95:6 Tune Title: HOLY MANNA
Brethren, We Have Met to Worship
Holy Manna
Author: George Atkins, 1793-1827 Hymnal: RitualSong (2nd ed.) #938 (2016) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Brethren, we have met to worship Lyrics: 1 Brethren, we have met to worship
And adore the Lord our God.
Will you pray with all your power
While we try to preach the word?
All is vain unless the Spirit
Of the holy One comes down.
Brethren, pray, and holy manna
Will be showered all around.
2 Sisters, will you come and help us?
Moses' sisters aided him.
Will you help the trembling mourners
Who are struggling hard with sin?
Tell them all about the Savior.
Tell them that he will be found.
Sisters, pray, and holy manna
Will be showered all around.
3 Is there here a trembling jailer,
Seeking grace and filled with tears?
Is there here a weeping Mary
Pouring forth a flood of tears?
Brethren, join your cries to help them,
Sisters, let your prayers abound!
Pray, oh, pray, that holy manna
Will be scattered all around.
4 Let us love our God supremely,
Let us love each other, too.
Let us love and pray for sinners
Till our God makes all things new.
Christ will call us home to heaven,
At his table we'll sit down.
Christ will gird himself and serve us
With sweet manna all around. Topics: Gathering Languages: English Tune Title: HOLY MANNA
Holy Manna
George Askins
? - 1816 Person Name: George Atkins, 19th cent Attributed to of "Brethren, We Have Met to Worship" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. 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
William Moore
1790 - 1850 Attributed to of "HOLY MANNA" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) William B Moore USA 1790-1850. He was born, possibly in TN. He was a composer, having contributed tunes to” Wyeth’s Repository” (1810) and known for his tunebook “Columbian Harmony” (1825) in TN. He also composed and arranged several tunes in William Walker’s “Southern Harmony” (1835).
John Perry
William Moore
A. J. Showalter
1858 - 1924 Person Name: A. J. S. Arranger of "[Brethren, we have met to worship]" in Sweetest Melodies Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did.
John Perry
A. J. Showalter
