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O God, What Offering Shall I Give?
Author: Joachim Lange (1670-1744); John Wesley (1703-1791); Compiler Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 58 hymnals Matching Instances: 57 First Line: O God, what offering shall I give Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Christian Life Living Sacrifice Scripture: Romans 12:1 Used With Tune: ST. PETERSBURG NEW
O God, What Offering Shall I Give?
PATER OMNIUM
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 82 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Composer and/or Arranger: Henry James Ernest Holmes, 1852-1938 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12354 21234 36511 Used With Text: O God, what offering shall I give
PATER OMNIUM
ST. PETERSBURG NEW
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 349 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Dimitri S. Bortniansky, 1751-1825 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53451 21715 61653 Used With Text: O God, What Offering Shall I Give?
ST. PETERSBURG NEW
O God, What Offering Shall I Give?
Author: Joachim Lange; John Wesley Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8766 First Line: O God, what offering shall I give Lyrics: 1 O God, what offering shall I give
To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies!
My spirit, soul, and flesh receive,
A holy, living sacrifice!
Small as it is, ’tis all my store:
More should’st Thou have, if I had more.
2 Now then, my God, Thou hast my soul:
No longer mine, but Thine I am:
Guard Thou Thine own, possess it whole!
Cheer it with hope, with love inflame!
Thou hast my spirit: there display
Thy glory to the perfect day.
3 Thou hast my flesh, Thy hallowed shrine,
Devoted solely to Thy will;
Here let Thy light forever shine:
This house still let Thy presence fill:
O Source of life, live, dwell and move,
In me, till all my life be love!
4 O never in these vales of shame,
(Sad fruits of sin) my glorying be;
Clothe with salvation, through Thy name,
My soul, and let me put on Thee!
Be living faith my costly dress,
And my best robe, Thy righteousness.
5 Send down Thy likeness from above,
And let this my adorning be;
Clothe me with wisdom, patience, love,
With lowliness and purity;
Than gold and pearls more precious far,
And brighter than the morning star.
6 Lord, arm me with Thy Spirit’s might,
Since I am called by Thy great name!
In Thee let all my Thoughts unite,
Of all my works be Thou the aim:
Thy love attend me all my days,
And my sole business be Thy praise. Languages: English Tune Title: PATER OMNIUM
O God, What Offering Shall I Give?
O God, what offering shall I give
Hymnal: Church Pastorals, hymns and tunes for public and social worship #828 (1864) Topics: The Family Languages: English
O God, what offering shall I give
O God, what offering shall I give
Author: Joachim Lange Hymnal: Hymns and Psalms #801 (1983) Languages: English Tune Title: PATER OMNIUM
O God, what offering shall I give
Joachim Lange
1670 - 1744 Person Name: Joachim Lange (1670-1744) Author of "O God, What Offering Shall I Give?" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Lange, Joachim, D.D., son of Mauritius Lange, senior councillor at Gardelegen in the Altmark, was born at Gardelegen, Oct. 26, 1670. He entered the University of Leipzig in the autumn of 1689, where he shared rooms with A. H. Francke; and in 1690 followed Francke to Erfurt, and in 1692 to Halle. By the recommendation of J. O. Schade he was appointed, in 1693, tutor to the only son of F. R. L. von Canitz, at Berlin. Subsequently he became, in 1696, rector of the school at Coslin in Pomerania; in 1698 rector of the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium at Berlin, and in 1699 pastor of the Friedrichstadt church; and in 1709, professor of theology at Halle (D.D. 1717), where he d. May 7,1744 (Koch, iv. 343; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, xvii. 634, &c). In his day Lange was best known as a commentator on the whole Bible (Biblisches Licht und Recht, &c, 7 folio vols., Halle, 1730-1738); as a defender of Pietism against the “Orthodox” Lutheran controversialists of the early 18th century; and as the author of over 100 theological works. Only two hymns are known by him, one of which is:—
O Jesu, süsses Licht. Morning. First published in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Halle, 1697, p. 4, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines. Repeated in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, No. 608, and recently, as No. 469, in the Unverfälschter Leidersegen, 1851. Translated as:—
Jesu, Thy light again I view. A free translation, in 7 stanzas of 6 lines, by J. Wesley, in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739 (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. i. p. 159) ; repeated as No. 661 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754 (1886, No. 344, abridged). The form most used is that in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, No. 419, where st. i. is omitted; and it begins with st. ii., altered to "O God, what offering shall I give." This form is in Mercer, 1857 and 1864, Kennedy, 1863, and others; and in America, in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849, Evang. Association Hymn Book, 1882, &c. In the American Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, a cento from Wesley's stanzas iii., vi., vii., is given as No. 917, beginning, "Now, O my God, Thou hast my soul."
Other translations are: (1) "O let me always think Thou'rt near," by J. Swertner, of st. vii., as No. 430 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789. In the 1801 and later editions. (1886, No. 567) it is altered, and begins, "O let us always think Thee near." (2) "O Jesu, welcome Light," by H. J. Buckoll, 1842, p. 47. (3) "O Jesu, Light most sweet." In the Family Treasury, 1879, P- 230. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Joachim Lange
John Wesley
1703 - 1791 Person Name: John Wesley (1703-1791) Translator of "O God, What Offering Shall I Give?" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 John Wesley, the son of Samuel, and brother of Charles Wesley, was born at Epworth, June 17, 1703. He was educated at the Charterhouse, London, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated M.A. in 1726. At Oxford, he was one of the small band consisting of George Whitefield, Hames Hervey, Charles Wesley, and a few others, who were even then known for their piety; they were deridingly called "Methodists." After his ordination he went, in 1735, on a mission to Georgia. The mission was not successful, and he returned to England in 1738. From that time, his life was one of great labour, preaching the Gospel, and publishing his commentaries and other theological works. He died in London, in 1791, in his eighty-eighth year. His prose works are very numerous, but he did not write many useful hymns. It is to him, however, and not to his brother Charles, that we are indebted for the translations from the German.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872
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John Wesley, M.A., was born at Epworth Rectory in 1703, and, like the rest of the family, received his early education from his mother. He narrowly escaped perishing in the fire which destroyed the rectory house in 1709, and his deliverance made a life-long impression upon him. In 1714 he was nominated on the foundation of Charterhouse by his father's patron, the Duke of Buckingham, and remained at that school until 1720, when he went up, with a scholarship, from Charterhouse to Christ Church, Oxford. Having taken his degree, he received Holy Orders from the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Potter) in 1725. In 1726 he was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, and remained at Oxford until 1727, when he returned into Lincolnshire to assist his father as curate at Epworth and Wroot. In 1729 he was summoned back to Oxford by his firm friend, Dr. Morley, Rector of Lincoln, to assist in the College tuition. There he found already established the little band of "Oxford Methodists" who immediately placed themselves under his direction. In 1735 he went, as a Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to Georgia, where a new colony had been founded under the governorship of General Oglethorpe. On his voyage out he was deeply impressed with the piety and Christian courage of some German fellow travellers, Moravians. During his short ministry in Georgia he met with many discouragements, and returned home saddened and dissatisfied both with himself and his work; but in London he again fell in with the Moravians, especially with Peter Bohler; and one memorable night (May 24, 1738) he went to a meeting in Aldersgate Street, where some one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. There, "About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me, that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." From that moment his future course was sealed; and for more than half a century he laboured, through evil report and good report, to spread what he believed to be the everlasting Gospel, travelling more miles, preaching more sermons, publishing more books of a practical sort, and making more converts than any man of his day, or perhaps of any day, and dying at last, March 2, 1791, in harness, at the patriarchal age of 88.
The popular conception of the division of labour between the two brothers in the Revival, is that John was the preacher, and Charles the hymnwriter. But this is not strictly accurate. On the one hand Charles was also a great preacher, second only to his brother and George Whitefield in the effects which he produced. On the other hand, John by no means relegated to Charles the exclusive task of supplying the people with their hymns. John Wesley was not the sort of man to depute any part of his work entirely to another: and this part was, in his opinion, one of vital importance. With that wonderful instinct for gauging the popular mind, which was one element in his success, he saw at once that hymns might be utilized, not only for raising the devotion, but also for instructing, and establishing the faith of his disciples. He intended the hymns to be not merely a constituent part of public worship, but also a kind of creed in verse. They were to be "a body of experimental and practical divinity." "In what other publication," he asks in his Preface to the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780 (Preface, Oct. 20,1779), "have you so distinct and full an account of Scriptural Christianity; such a declaration of the heights and depths of religion, speculative and practical; so strong cautions against the most plausible errors, particularly those now most prevalent; and so clear directions for making your calling and election sure; for perfecting holiness in the fear of God?" The part which he actually took in writing the hymns, it is not easy to ascertain; but it is certain that more than thirty translations from the German, French and Spanish (chiefly from the German) were exclusively his; and there are some original hymns, admittedly his composition, which are not unworthy to stand by the side of his brother's. His translations from the German especially have had a wide circulation. Although somewhat free as translations they embody the fire and energy of the originals.
It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works.
The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century.
-- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Henry J. E. Holmes
1852 - 1938 Person Name: H. J. E. Holmes, 1852-1938 Composer of "PATER OMNIUM" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Born: March 5, 1852, Burnley, Lancashire, England.
Died: October 1938, Burnley, Lancashire, England.
Buried: Burnley, Lancashire, England.
Son of Richard and Jane Holmes, Henry’s father and great grandfather were both solicitors; his father had offices in Colne and Burnley. Henry was educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. In 1875, he became an Attorney for Common Law and was admitted a Solicitor of the High Court of Chancery. He was articled to his father in November 1869, and practiced in Burnley for over 60 years, first in partnership with his brother Richard Marmaduke as Holmes and Holmes. He continued to practice on his own as Holmes and Holmes after his brother’s death in 1894, and later as Messrs. Holmes, Butterfield and Hartley. Holmes had moved from the family home on Westgate some time after the death of his sister Susannah in 1878. By 1881, he was living at 12 Palatine Square.
Holmes was intimately associated with church and Sunday school work all his life. At age 17, he became a teacher and later a lay superintendent of Sandygate Sunday school, connected with Holy Trinity Church, a position he held nearly 20 years. From the 1880’s he took a deep interest in "The Home for Little Boys" at Farningham, Kent. His desire to help in this work led to the formation of the Burnley branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Another organization that Holmes took a great interest in was the Burnley Law Society, which he helped found in 1883; he lived to be the last survivor of the eight founders.
Holmes is said to have written over 250 hymn tunes in his life.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Henry J. E. Holmes
