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Wells of Salvation
Author: R. Campbell Appears in 54 hymnals Hymnal Title: Laudes Domini First Line: Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures Lyrics: 1 Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Sing of those who spread the treasures
In the holy Gospels shrined;
Blessed tidings of salvation,
Peace on earth their proclamation,
Love from God to lost mankind.
2 See the rivers four that gladden
With their streams the better Eden
Planted by our Lord most dear;
Christ the fountain, these the waters;
Drink, O Zion's sons and daughters,
Drink and find salvation.
3 Oh, that we, thy truth confessing,
And thy holy word possessing
Jesus, may thy love adore;
Unto thee our voices raising,
Thee with all thy ransomed praising,
Ever and for evermore. Topics: Bible; Opening of Service Scripture: Isaiah 12:3 Used With Tune: BONAR
Wells of Salvation
PURE HEARTS
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Ned Rorem Hymnal Title: Ecumenical Praise Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 32113 21234 32321 Used With Text: Come, Pure Hearts, in Sweetest Measure
PURE HEARTS
LAUDA SION
Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. F. Cobb Hymnal Title: The Church Hymnal Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12333 43213 45556 Used With Text: Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
LAUDA SION
Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Hymnal: A Church hymnal #360 (1870) Hymnal Title: A Church hymnal
Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Fourth Edition #200 (1960) Meter: 8.8.7 D Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Fourth Edition Languages: English
Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Come, Pure Hearts, in Sweetest Measure
Author: R. Campbell Hymnal: Ecumenical Praise #22 (1977) Hymnal Title: Ecumenical Praise Lyrics: 1 Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures
Sing of those who spread the treasures
In the holy gospels shrined;
Blessed tidings of salvation,
Peace on earth their proclamation,
Love from God to lost mankind.
2 See the rivers four that gladden
With their streams, the better Eden,
Planted by our Lord most dear;
Christ the fountain, these the waters;
Drink, O Sion’s sons and daughters,
Drink and find salvation here.
3 O that we, thy truth confessiong
And thy holy word possessing,
Jesus may thy love adore;
Unto thee our voices raising,
Thee with all thy ransomed praising
Ever and forevermore. Topics: The Church The Saints Languages: English Tune Title: PURE HEARTS
Come, Pure Hearts, in Sweetest Measure
Adam, de Saint-Victor
1100 - 1146 Person Name: Adam of St. Victor, d. 1172 Hymnal Title: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Author of "Christians, Come, in Sweetest Measures" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Adam of St. Victor. Of the life of this, the most prominent and prolific of the Latin hymnists of the Middle Ages, very little is known. It is even uncertain whether he was an Englishman or a Frenchman by birth. He is described by the writers nearest to his own epoch, as Brito, which may indicate a native of either Britain, or Brittany. All that is certainly known concerning him is, that about A.D. 1130, after having been educated at Paris, he became, as quite a young man, a monk in the Abbey of St. Victor, then in the suburbs, but afterwards through the growth of that city, included within the walls of Paris itself. In this abbey, which, especially at that period, was celebrated as a school of theology, he passed the whole of the rest of his life, and in it he died, somewhere between the years 1172 and 1192 A.D. Possessed of "the pen of a ready writer," he seems to have occupied his life in study and authorship. Numerous as are the hymns and sequences satisfactorily proved to have been written by him, which have come down to us, there would seem to be little doubt that many more may have perished altogether, or are extant 'without his name attaching to them; while he was probably the author of several prose works as well. His Sequences remained in MS. in the care and custody of the monks of their author's Abbey, until the dissolution of that religious foundation at the Revolution; but some 37 of them, having found their way by degrees into more general circulation, were pub. by Clichtoveus, a Roman Catholic theologian of the first half of the 16th cent, in his Elucidatorium Ecclesiasticum, which passed through several editions from 1516 to 1556, at Paris, Basel and Geneva. Of the rest of the 106 Hymns and Sequences that we possess of Adam's, the largest part—some 47 remaining unpublished—were removed to the National Library in the Louvre at Paris, on the destruction of the Abbey. There they were discovered by M. Leon Gautier, the editor of the first complete edition of them, Paris, 1858.
The subjects treated of in Adam's Hymns and Sequences may be divided thus :—
Christmas, 7; Circumcision, 1; Easter, 6; Ascension, 1; Pentecost, 5; Trinity, 2; the Dedication of a Church, 4; Blessed Virgin Mary, 17; Festivals of Saints, 53; The Invention of the Cross, 1; The Exaltation of the Cross, 1; On the Apostles, 3; Evangelists, 2; Transfiguration, 2.
Although all Adam of St. Victor's Sequences were evidently written for use in the services of his church, and were, doubtless, so used in his own Abbey, it is quite uncertain how many, if any, of them were used generally in the Latin Church.
To the lover of Latin hymns the works of this author should not be unknown, and probably are not; but they are far less generally known than the writings should be of one whom such an authority as Archbishop Trench describes as " the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the Middle Ages." His principal merits may be described as comprising terseness and felicity of expression; deep and accurate knowledge of Scripture, especially its typology; smoothness of versification; richness of rhyme, accumulating gradually as he nears the conclusion of a Sequence; and a spirit of devotion breathing throughout his work, that assures the reader that his work is "a labour of love." An occasional excess of alliteration, which however at other times he uses with great effect, and a disposition to overmuch "playing upon words," amounting sometimes to "punning," together with a delight in heaping up types one upon another, till, at times, he succeeds in obscuring his meaning, are the chief defects to be set against the many merits of his style. Amongst the most beautiful of his productions may be mentioned, perhaps, his Jucundare plebs fidelis; Verbi vere substantivi; Potestate non natura; Stola regni laureatus; Heri mundus exultavit; LaudeB cruets attollamus (Neale considers this "perhaps, his masterpiece "); Aye, Virgo singularis; Salve, Mater Salvatoris; Animemur ad agonem; and Vox sonora nostri chori. Where almost all are beautiful, it is difficult, and almost invidious, to make a selection.
Of his Hymns and Sequences the following editions, extracts, and translations have been published:—
i. Original with Translations:
(1) (Euvres Poetiques d’ Adam de S.-Victor. Pat L. Gautier, Paris, 1858. It is in two vols. duodecimo, and contains, besides a memoir of Adam of St. Victor, and an exhaustive essay upon his writings, a 15th cent. tr. into French of some 46 of the sequences, and full notes upon the whole series of them.
(2) The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor, from the text of Gautier, with trs. into English in the original metres, and short explanatory notes by Digby S. Wrangham, M.A., St. John's Coll., Oxford, Vicar of Darrington, Yorkshire, 3 vols. Lond., Kegan Paul, 1881.
(3) In addition to these complete eds., numerous specimens from the originals are found in Daniel, Mone, Konigsfeld, Trench, Loftie's Latin Year, Dom. Gueranger's Annee Liturgique, &c.
ii. Translations:—
(1) As stated before, 46 of the Sequences are given by Gautier in a French tr. of the 15th cent.
(2) In English we have translations of the whole series by Digby S. Wrangham in his work as above; 11 by Dr. Neale in Med. Hymns: 15, more freely, by D. T. Morgan in his Hymns and other Poetry of the Latin Church; and one or more by Mrs. Charles, Mrs. Chester, C. S. Calverley, and the Revs. C. B. Pearson, E. A. Dayman, E. Caswall, R. F. Littledale, and Dean Plumptre. Prose translation are also given in the Rev. Dom Laurence Shepherd's translation into English of Dom Gueranger's works.
iii. English Use:—
From the general character of their metrical construction, it has not been possible to any great extent to utilise these very beautiful compositions in the services of the Anglican Church. The following, however, are from Adam of St. Victor, and are fully annotated in this work:—
(1) in Hynms Ancient & Modern, Nos. 64 and 434 (partly) ;
(2) in the Hymnary, Nos. 270, 273, 324, 380, 382, 403, 418;
(3) in the People's Hymnal 215, 277, 304 ; and
(4) in Skinner's Daily Service Hymnal, 236.
-John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Adam of St. Victor. A second and greatly improved edition of his Œuvres Poetiques by L. Gautier was published at Paris in 1881.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Adam, de Saint-Victor
Robert Campbell
1814 - 1868 Person Name: E. Campbell Hymnal Title: Laudes Domini Translator of "Wells of Salvation" in Laudes Domini Robert Campbell was an advocate residing in Edinburgh. He is not much known as an author, but some of his hymns have been adopted in several hymnals. He was Roman Catholic. His death occurred in 1868.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
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Campbell, Robert. Advocate, of Sherrington, Scotland, was born at Trochmig, Ayrshire, Dec. 19, 1814. When quite a boy he attended the University of Glasgow. Though showing from his earliest years a strong predilection for Theological studies, eventually he fixed upon the Scottish law as a profession. To this end he entered the Law Classes of the University of Edinburgh, and in due course entered upon the duties of an advocate. Originally a Presbyterian, at an early age he joined the Episcopal Church of Scotland. He became a zealous and devoted Churchman, directing his special attention to the education of the children of the poor. His classical attainments were good, and his general reading extensive. In 1848 he began a series of translations of Latin hymns. These he submitted to Dr. Neale, Dr. Mills of Ely, and other competent judges. In 1850, a selection therefrom, together with a few of his original hymns, and a limited number from other writers, was published as Hymns and Anthems for Use in the Holy Services of the Church within the United Diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane. Edinburgh, R. Lendrum & Co.
This collection, known as the St. Andrews Hymnal, received the special sanction of Bishop Torry, and was used throughout the Diocese for some years. Two years after its publication he joined the Roman Catholic Church. During the next sixteen years he devoted much time to the young and poor. He died at Edinburgh, Dec. 29, 1868.
From his collection of 1850, four translations were given in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861, "At the Lamb's high feast we sing;" “Come, pure hearts, in sweetest measures;" "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem;" " Ye servants of a martyr'd God" (altered). Attention was thereby directed to his translations. They are smooth, musical, and well sustained. A large number, not included in his 1850 collection, were left by him in manuscript. From these Mr. O.Shipley has printed several in his Annus Sanctus, 1884. (C. MSS.)
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Robert Campbell
