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Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Matching Instances: 56 Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958; Paul G. Bunjes, 1914-98 Tune Sources: English Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 54512 34765 43171 Used With Text: By All Your Saints in Warfare

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O God of earth and altar

Author: G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 75 hymnals Matching Instances: 21 Lyrics: 1 O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die; the walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide, take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride. 2 From all that terror teaches, from lies of tongue and pen, from all the easy speeches that comfort cruel men, from sale and profanation of honour and the sword, from sleep and from damnation, deliver us, good Lord! 3 Tie in a living tether the prince and priest and thrall, bind all our lives together, smite us and save us all; in ire and exultation aflame with faith, and free, lift up a living nation, a single sword to thee. Topics: National; Remembrance Sunday Scripture: 1 Samuel 15:10-11 Used With Tune: KING'S LYNN

From All Thy Saints in Warfare

Author: Horatio, Earl Nelson, 1823-1913 Appears in 96 hymnals Matching Instances: 6 Lyrics: 1 From all thy saints in warfare, For all thy saints at rest, To thee, O blessed Jesus, All praises be addressed. Thou, Lord, didst win the battle That they might conquerors be; Their crowns of living glory Are lit with rays from thee. 2 [Here insert the stanza for the special day.] 3 Then praise we God the Father, And praise we God the Son And God the Holy Spirit, Eternal Three in One, Till all the ransomed number Fall down before the throne And honor, power, and glory Ascribe to God alone. Amen. GENERAL STANZA ( when no specific one is available) Apostles, prophets, martyrs, And all the sacred throng Who wear the spotless raiment, Who raise the ceaseless song-- For these, passed on before us, Savior, we thee adore, And, walking in their footsteps, Would serve Thee more and more. ANDREW Praise, Lord, for thine apostle, The first to welcome thee, The first to lead his brother The very Christ to see. With hearts for thee made ready, May we throughout the year Still watch to lead our brethren To own thine advent near. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL Praise for the light from heaven, Praise for the voice of awe, Praise for the glorious vision The persecutor saw. Thee, Lord, for his conversion We glorify today; Enlighten all our darkness With thy true Spirit's ray. HOLY INNOCENTS: Praise for thine infant martyrs, By thee with tenderest love Called early from their warfare To share the rest above. O Rachel, cease your weeping; Thy rest from pains and cares. Lord, grant us hearts as guileless And crowns as bright as theirs. JAMES THE ELDER For him, O Lord, we praise thee, Who, slain by Herod's sword, Drank of thy cup of suffering, Fulfilling thus thy word. Curb we all vain impatience To read thy veiled decree, And count it joy to suffer If so brought nearer thee. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Praise for the loved disciple, Exile on Patmos' shore; Praise for the faithful record He to thy Godhead bore. Praise for the mystic vision Through him to us revealed; May we, in patience waiting, With thine elect be sealed. BARTHOLOMEW: All praise for thine apostle, The faithful, pure and true, Whom underneath the fig tree Thine eye all-seeing knew; Like him may we be guileless-- True Israelites indeed-- That thine abiding presence Our longing souls may feed. MATTHEW Praise, Lord, for him whose Gospel Thy human life declared, Who, worldly gains forsaking, Thy path of suffering shared. From all unrighteous mammon, O give us hearts set free That we, whate'er our calling, May rise and follow thee. MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE Lord, thine abiding presence Directs the wondrous choice; For one in place of Judas The faithful now rejoice. The Church from false apostles Forevermore defend, And by thy parting promise Be with her to the end. NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST We praise thee for the Baptist, Forerunner of the Word, Our true Elias, making A highway for the Lord. Of prophets last and greatest, He saw thy dawning ray, Make us the rather blessèd, Who love thy glorious day. PETER Praise for thy great apostle, The eager and the bold; Thrice falling, yet repentant, Thrice charged to feed thy fold. Lord, make thy pastors faithful To guard their flocks from ill, And grant them dauntless courage With humble earnest will. LUKE THE EVANGELIST For that beloved physician All praise, whose Gospel shows The Healer of the nations, The Sharer of our woes. Thy wine and oil, O Savior, On bruised hearts deign to pour, And with true balm of Gilead Anoint us evermore. MARK THE EVANGELIST For him, O Lord, we praise thee, The weak by grace made strong, Whose labors and whose Gospel Enrich our triumph song. May we in all our weakness Find strength from thee supplies And all as fruitful branches In thee, the Vine, abide. STEPHEN THE MARTYR Praise for the first of martyrs, Who saw thee ready stand To aid in midst of torment, To plead at God's right hand. Share we with him, if summoned By death our Lord to own, On earth the faithful witness, In heaven the martyr-crown. PHILIP AND JAMES All praise for thine apostle, Blest guide to Greek and Jew, And him surnamed thy brother; Keep us thy brethren true. And grant the grace to know thee, The Way, the Truth,the Life, To wrestle with temptations Till victors in the strife. SIMON AND JUDE Praise, Lord, for thine apostles Who sealed their faith today; One love, one zeal impelled them To tread the sacred way. May we with zeal as earnest The faith of Christ maintain And, bound in love as brethren, At length thy rest attain. THOMAS All praise for thine apostle, Whose short-lived doubtings prove Thy perfect twofold nature, The fullness of thy love. On all who wait thy coming Shed forth thy peace, O Lord, And grant us faith to know thee, True Man, true God, adored. Topics: The Christian Year Minor Festivals Used With Tune: KING'S LYNN

By all your saints still striving

Author: Horatio Bolton Nelson, 1823-1913 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 20 hymnals Matching Instances: 4 Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saints' Days Used With Tune: KING'S LYNN Text Sources: Hymnal 1982 (ver.)

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Psalm 72:1-17

Author: S T Kimbrough, Jr. Hymnal: The United Methodist Hymnal #795b (1989) First Line: Defend the needy and the poor Refrain First Line: Defend the needy and the poor Scripture: Psalm 72:1-17 Languages: English Tune Title: [Defend the needy and the poor]

O God of Earth and Altar

Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874-1936 Hymnal: Worship Supplement #784 (1969) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. 2 From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen, From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men, From sale and profanation Of honor and the sword, From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! 3 Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall,* Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to thee. Amen. *thrall - a person in bondage Topics: The Nation Tune Title: KING'S LYNN

From All Thy Saints in Warfare

Author: Horatio, Earl Nelson, 1823-1913 Hymnal: Worship Supplement #756 (1969) Lyrics: 1 From all thy saints in warfare, For all thy saints at rest, To thee, O blessed Jesus, All praises be addressed. Thou, Lord, didst win the battle That they might conquerors be; Their crowns of living glory Are lit with rays from thee. 2 [Here insert the stanza for the special day.] 3 Then praise we God the Father, And praise we God the Son And God the Holy Spirit, Eternal Three in One, Till all the ransomed number Fall down before the throne And honor, power, and glory Ascribe to God alone. Amen. GENERAL STANZA ( when no specific one is available) Apostles, prophets, martyrs, And all the sacred throng Who wear the spotless raiment, Who raise the ceaseless song-- For these, passed on before us, Savior, we thee adore, And, walking in their footsteps, Would serve Thee more and more. ANDREW Praise, Lord, for thine apostle, The first to welcome thee, The first to lead his brother The very Christ to see. With hearts for thee made ready, May we throughout the year Still watch to lead our brethren To own thine advent near. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL Praise for the light from heaven, Praise for the voice of awe, Praise for the glorious vision The persecutor saw. Thee, Lord, for his conversion We glorify today; Enlighten all our darkness With thy true Spirit's ray. HOLY INNOCENTS: Praise for thine infant martyrs, By thee with tenderest love Called early from their warfare To share the rest above. O Rachel, cease your weeping; Thy rest from pains and cares. Lord, grant us hearts as guileless And crowns as bright as theirs. JAMES THE ELDER For him, O Lord, we praise thee, Who, slain by Herod's sword, Drank of thy cup of suffering, Fulfilling thus thy word. Curb we all vain impatience To read thy veiled decree, And count it joy to suffer If so brought nearer thee. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Praise for the loved disciple, Exile on Patmos' shore; Praise for the faithful record He to thy Godhead bore. Praise for the mystic vision Through him to us revealed; May we, in patience waiting, With thine elect be sealed. BARTHOLOMEW: All praise for thine apostle, The faithful, pure and true, Whom underneath the fig tree Thine eye all-seeing knew; Like him may we be guileless-- True Israelites indeed-- That thine abiding presence Our longing souls may feed. MATTHEW Praise, Lord, for him whose Gospel Thy human life declared, Who, worldly gains forsaking, Thy path of suffering shared. From all unrighteous mammon, O give us hearts set free That we, whate'er our calling, May rise and follow thee. MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE Lord, thine abiding presence Directs the wondrous choice; For one in place of Judas The faithful now rejoice. The Church from false apostles Forevermore defend, And by thy parting promise Be with her to the end. NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST We praise thee for the Baptist, Forerunner of the Word, Our true Elias, making A highway for the Lord. Of prophets last and greatest, He saw thy dawning ray, Make us the rather blessèd, Who love thy glorious day. PETER Praise for thy great apostle, The eager and the bold; Thrice falling, yet repentant, Thrice charged to feed thy fold. Lord, make thy pastors faithful To guard their flocks from ill, And grant them dauntless courage With humble earnest will. LUKE THE EVANGELIST For that beloved physician All praise, whose Gospel shows The Healer of the nations, The Sharer of our woes. Thy wine and oil, O Savior, On bruised hearts deign to pour, And with true balm of Gilead Anoint us evermore. MARK THE EVANGELIST For him, O Lord, we praise thee, The weak by grace made strong, Whose labors and whose Gospel Enrich our triumph song. May we in all our weakness Find strength from thee supplies And all as fruitful branches In thee, the Vine, abide. STEPHEN THE MARTYR Praise for the first of martyrs, Who saw thee ready stand To aid in midst of torment, To plead at God's right hand. Share we with him, if summoned By death our Lord to own, On earth the faithful witness, In heaven the martyr-crown. PHILIP AND JAMES All praise for thine apostle, Blest guide to Greek and Jew, And him surnamed thy brother; Keep us thy brethren true. And grant the grace to know thee, The Way, the Truth,the Life, To wrestle with temptations Till victors in the strife. SIMON AND JUDE Praise, Lord, for thine apostles Who sealed their faith today; One love, one zeal impelled them To tread the sacred way. May we with zeal as earnest The faith of Christ maintain And, bound in love as brethren, At length thy rest attain. THOMAS All praise for thine apostle, Whose short-lived doubtings prove Thy perfect twofold nature, The fullness of thy love. On all who wait thy coming Shed forth thy peace, O Lord, And grant us faith to know thee, True Man, true God, adored. Topics: The Christian Year Minor Festivals Tune Title: KING'S LYNN

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Arranger of "KING'S LYNN" in Lutheran Service Book Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

G. K. Chesterton

1874 - 1936 Author of "O God of earth and altar" in The English Hymnal Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, son of Edward Chesterton, was b. May 29, 1874, at Campden Hill, Kensington. London; and is a well-known journalist and author, now (1906) residing at Battersea Park, London. He contributed to The English Hymnal, 1906, a vigorous lyric beginning, "O God of earth and altar"(Prayer for the Nation). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================= Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 Eugenics and Other Evils attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wisdom of his once "reactionary" views. His poetry runs the gamut from the comic "The Logical Vegetarian" to dark and serious ballads. Though not written for a scholarly audience, his biographies of authors and historical figures like Charles Dickens and St. Francis of Assisi often contain brilliant insights into their subjects. His "Father Brown" mystery stories, written between 1911 and 1936, are still being read and adapted for television. His politics fitted with his deep distrust of concentrated wealth and power of any sort. Along with his friend Hilaire Belloc and in books like the 1910 What's Wrong with the World he advocated a view called "Distributism" that is best summed up by his expression that every man ought to be allowed to own "three acres and a cow." Though not known as a political thinker, his political influence has circled the world. Some see in him the father of the "small is beautiful" movement and a newspaper article by him is credited with provoking Gandhi to seek a "genuine" nationalism for India. Orthodoxy belongs to yet another area of literature at which Chesterton excelled. A fun-loving and gregarious man, he was nevertheless troubled in his adolescence by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found the answers to the dilemmas and paradoxes he saw in life. Other books in that same series include his 1905 Heretics and its sequel Orthodoxy and his 1925 The Everlasting Man. Chesterton died on the 14th of June, 1936 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. During his life he published 69 books and at least another ten have been published after his death. Many of those books are still in print. --www.ccel.org/ccel/

Horatio Nelson

1823 - 1913 Person Name: Horatio, Earl Nelson, 1823-1913 Author of "From All Thy Saints in Warfare" in Worship Supplement Earl Nelson was born in 1823. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a relative of England's greatest naval hero. An active layman, he has been of service to the Church in many of her religious and benevolent enterprises. In hymnology he has taken a prominent position; his own hymns are most creditable, and he has been foremost in compiling the Sarum Hymnal, a work of the best character. This hymnal was compiled in 1857, with the assistance of John Keble, at the request of the Bishop of Salisbury. Its first title was The Salisbury Hymn Book. Its popularity was very great. In 1868 it was revised and is now known as The Sarum Hymnal. Earl Nelson has also published a few other works, mostly of a devotional character. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 Nelson, Horatio, 3rd Earl Nelson, son of Mr. Thomas Bolton, of Burnham, Norfolk (nephew of the celebrated Admiral Viscount Nelson, whose name he assumed on succeeding to the title as 2nd Earl); was born Aug. 7, 1823, and educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the title Nov. 1, 1835. In 1857 he edited the Salisbury Hymn-Book. In this work he was assisted by J. Keble, who re-wrote some of the older hymns and translated others from the Latin. This collection was remodelled and published as the Sarum Hymnal in 1868. In the preparation of this work Earl Nelson was assisted by the Revs. J. R. Woodford (afterwards Bishop of Ely) and E. A. Dayman. In 1864 he published his Hymn for Saint’s Day, and other Hymns. In this appeared the hymn by which he is most widely known, “From all Thy saints in warfare, for all Thy saints at rest" (p. 398, ii.). He has also published A Form of Family Prayer, with Special Offices for the Seasons, 1852; and A Calendar of Lessons for Every Day in the Year, 1857. He was also an active member of the Home Reunion Society, and wrote extensively on the subject. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Small Church Music

Editors: G. K. Chesterton Description: The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) (see http://scm-audacity.weebly.com for more information) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Copyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About