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Is This Thy Will, And Must I Be

Author: Susanna Harrison Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Lyrics: 1 Is this Thy will, and must I be A living witness, Lord, for Thee? Must I Thy wondrous love record, And spread Thy praises far abroad? 2 Must I to all Thy saints unfold The things which Thou to me hast told? And shall the eyes of sinners see What Thou hast done for worthless me? 3 Wilt Thou no longer me excuse, And wilt Thou frown if I refuse? O let me have Thy presence still, And I’ll submit to all Thy will! 4 Make Thou my path of duty plain, And let Thine arm my soul sustain; Give me new strength, new courage here, And fill my soul with holy fear. 5 To Thee I dedicate the whole, Thine is my heart, and Thine my soul; Bless what my feeble hand hath wrought, And take the praise of every thought. 6 Wilt Thou, dear Lord, Thine handmaid own? Her offering with acceptance crown? Thy glory is her humble aim: Eternal glory to Thy name! Alternate last stanza: Wilt Thou, dear Lord, Thine servant own? My offering with acceptance crown? Thy glory is my humble aim: Eternal glory to Thy name! Used With Tune: WOODWORTH Text Sources: Songs in the Night (Ipswich, England: Punchard & Jermyn, 1780)

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WOODWORTH

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,053 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Batchelder Bradbury Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Sources: Mendelssohn Collection, or Third Book of Psalmody (New York: 1849) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12335 43234 355 Used With Text: Is This Thy Will, And Must I Be

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Is this thy will and must I be

Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Hymns and Hymn Tunes in the English Metrical Psalters #d294 (1966) Hymnal Title: Hymns and Hymn Tunes in the English Metrical Psalters Languages: English

Is this Thy will, - and must I be

Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #133 (1802) Hymnal Title: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.)

Is This Thy Will, And Must I Be

Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8778 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Lyrics: 1 Is this Thy will, and must I be A living witness, Lord, for Thee? Must I Thy wondrous love record, And spread Thy praises far abroad? 2 Must I to all Thy saints unfold The things which Thou to me hast told? And shall the eyes of sinners see What Thou hast done for worthless me? 3 Wilt Thou no longer me excuse, And wilt Thou frown if I refuse? O let me have Thy presence still, And I’ll submit to all Thy will! 4 Make Thou my path of duty plain, And let Thine arm my soul sustain; Give me new strength, new courage here, And fill my soul with holy fear. 5 To Thee I dedicate the whole, Thine is my heart, and Thine my soul; Bless what my feeble hand hath wrought, And take the praise of every thought. 6 Wilt Thou, dear Lord, Thine handmaid own? Her offering with acceptance crown? Thy glory is her humble aim: Eternal glory to Thy name! Alternate last stanza: Wilt Thou, dear Lord, Thine servant own? My offering with acceptance crown? Thy glory is my humble aim: Eternal glory to Thy name! Languages: English Tune Title: WOODWORTH

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Susannah Harrison

1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Is This Thy Will, And Must I Be" in The Cyber Hymnal Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================================ Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age." In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America. Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: William Batchelder Bradbury Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "WOODWORTH" in The Cyber Hymnal William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry