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Abide with Me; Fast Falls the Eventide

Author: Henry F. Lyte Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1,670 hymnals Topics: Death and Life to Come; Christ--Abiding with believers; Christ--Presence of; Death of Believers; Funeral and memorial service; Hope Lyrics: 1 Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. 2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away. Change and decay in all around I see. O Lord who changes not, abide with me. 3 I need your presence every passing hour. What but your grace can foil the tempter's pow'r? Who like yourself my guide and strength can be? Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me. 4 I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless, though ills have weight, and tears their bitterness. Where is death's sting? Where, grave, your victory? I triumph still, if you abide with me. 5 Hold now your cross before my closing eyes. Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies. Heav'n's morning breaks and earth's vain shadows flee; in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me. Scripture: Exodus 33:14-15 Used With Tune: EVENTIDE

Nearer, My God, to Thee

Author: Sarah Flower Adams, 1805-1848 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 2,485 hymnals Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs; Death and Life; God, Goddess, and Spirit; The Living Tradition; Memorials and Funerals; Serenity First Line: Nearer, my God to thee Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me; still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! 2 Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to thee, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee. 3 There let the way appear steps unto heaven; all that thou sendest me in mercy given; angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to thee, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee. 4 Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise, out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; so by my woes to be nearer, my God, to thee, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee. 5 Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky, sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! Used With Tune: BETHANY

Steal Away to Jesus

Meter: 5.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: The Sacraments and Rites of the Church Funeral and Memorial Service; New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Eternal Life; Heaven; Judgment; Service Music Invitation to Prayer First Line: My Lord he calls me Refrain First Line: Steal away, steal away Lyrics: Refrain: Steal away, steal away; steal away to Jesus. Steal away, steal away home. I ain’t got long to stay here. 1 My Lord he calls me, he calls me by the thunder; the trumpet sounds within-a my soul. I ain’t got long to stay here. (Refrain) 2 Green trees a-bending, poor sinners stand a-trembling; the trumpet sounds within-a my soul. I ain’t got long to stay here. (Refrain) 3 My Lord he calls me, he calls me by the lightning; the trumpet sounds within-a my soul. I ain’t got long to stay here. (Refrain) Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Used With Tune: STEAL AWAY Text Sources: Afro-American spiritual

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EVENTIDE

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 971 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Monk Topics: Particular Times of Worship Evening; New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Assurance; Calmness and Serenity; Comfort; Eternal Life; Evening Prayer; Funerals and Memorial Services; Grief; Jesus Christ Cross; Jesus Christ Presence Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33215 65543 34565 Used With Text: Abide with Me

CWM RHONDDA

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 302 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hughes Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Providence; New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Adoration and Praise; Assurance; Funerals and Memorial Services; Guidance; Pilgrimage; Providence Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 56511 71232 31643 Used With Text: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

KINGSFOLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 274 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856-1936) Topics: Assurance; Children and All-Age Worship; Church nature of; Church Year Easter; Death and Bereavement; Easter; Faith; Forgiveness; Future hope; Jesus Names and images for; The Second Sunday of Easter Year C; The Third Sunday before Advent Year C; The Third Sunday of Easter Year B; Funerals and The Departed Tune Sources: Melody from English County Songs 1893 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 32111 73343 45543 Used With Text: If Christ had not been raised from death

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Shrinking from the cold hand of death

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #682 (1846) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Death and Funeral Languages: English

Ich armer Mensch doch gar nichts bin

Author: J. Leon; Ph. Melanchthon Hymnal: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #621 (1872) Topics: Death and Funeral Songs Lyrics: 1 Ich armer Mensch doch gar nichts bin, Gotts Sohn allein ist mein Gewinn; daß er Mensch worden ist mein trost; er hat mich durch sein Blut erlöst. 2 O Gott Vater! regier du mich mit deinem Geist beständiglich; laß deinen Sohn, mein Trost und Leb'n, allzeit in meinem Herzen schweb'n. 3 Wenn mein Stündlein vorbanden ist, nimm mich zu dir, Herr Jesu christ! denn ich bin dein, und du bist mein; wie gern wollt ich bald bei dir sein. 4 Herr Jesu Christe, hilf du mir, das ich ein Zweiglein bleib an dir, und nachmals mit dir ausersteh, zu deiner Herrlichkeit eingeh. Languages: German

In Christi Wunden schlaf ich ein

Author: P. Eber, 1511-1569 Hymnal: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #622 (1872) Topics: Death and Funeral Songs Lyrics: 1 In Christi Wunden schlaf ich ein, die machen mich von Sünden rein: ja Christi Blut und G'rechtigkeit, das ist mein Schmuck und Ehrenkleid: damit will ich vor Gott bestehn, wenn ich zum Himmel werd eingehn. 2 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, ein Gotteskind ich allzeit bin. Dank hab, mein Tod, du führest mich; ins ewge Leben wandre ich mit Christi Blut gereinigt sein. Herr Jesu, stärk den Glauben mein! Languages: German

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Sarah Flower Adams

1805 - 1848 Person Name: Sarah Flower Adams, 1805-1848 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs; Death and Life; God, Goddess, and Spirit; The Living Tradition; Memorials and Funerals; Serenity Author of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" in Singing the Living Tradition Adams, Sarah, nee Flower. born at Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22nd, 1805; died in London, Aug. 14, 1848, and was buried at Harlow, Aug. 21,1848. She was the younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor and proprietor, of The Cambridge Intelligencer; and was married, in 1834, to William B. Adams, a civil engineer. In 1841 she published Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem dealing with the conflict of heathenism and Christianity, in which Vivia Perpetua suffered martyrdom; and in 1845, The Flock at the Fountain; a catechism and hymns for children. As a member of the congregation of the Rev. W. J. Fox, an Unitarian minister in London, she contributed 13 hymns to the Hymns and Anthems, published by C. Fox, Lond., in 1841, for use in his chapel. Of these hymns the most widely known are— "Nearer,my God,to Thee," and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." The remaining eleven, most of which have come into common use, more especially in America, are:— Creator Spirit! Thou the first. Holy Spirit. Darkness shrouded Calvary. Good Friday. Gently fall the dews of eve. Evening. Go, and watch the Autumn leaves. Autumn. O hallowed memories of the past. Memories. O human heart! thou hast a song. Praise. O I would sing a song of praise. Praise. O Love! thou makest all things even. Love. Part in Peace! is day before us? Close of Service. Sing to the Lord! for His mercies are sure. Praise. The mourners came at break of day. Easter. Mrs. Adams also contributed to Novello's musical edition of Songs for the Months, n. d. Nearly all of the above hymns are found in the Unitarian collections of Great Britain, and America. In Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873, No. 389, there is a rendering by her from Fenelon: —" Living or dying, Lord, I would be Thine." It appeared in the Hymns and Anthems, 1841. -John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Person Name: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Meditation and Mystical Songs; Death and Life; God, Goddess, and Spirit; The Living Tradition; Memorials and Funerals; Serenity Composer of "BETHANY" in Singing the Living Tradition Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 19G9. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biographies of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

William Farley Smith

1941 - 1997 Topics: The Sacraments and Rites of the Church Funeral and Memorial Service; New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Eternal Life; Heaven; Judgment; Service Music Invitation to Prayer Adapter and Arranger of "STEAL AWAY" in The United Methodist Hymnal

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