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THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Tune Sources: Traditional English melody collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51232 17152 33217 Used With Text: This is the truth sent from above
THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
Hear me, O Lord, in my distress
Author: David G. Preston (b. 1939) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Hymnal Title: Ancient and Modern Topics: Deliverance; Despair and Trouble; Discipleship; God Will of; Lament; Lent; Longing; Prayer; Sorrow; Suffering; The First Sunday of Lent Year A; The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C; Canticles and Affirmations of Faith; Sorrow and Lament Scripture: Psalm 143 Used With Tune: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
Hear me, O Lord, in my distress
The great forerunner of the morn
Author: The Venerable Bede 673-735; J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 21 hymnals Hymnal Title: Common Praise Lyrics: 1 The great forerunner of the morn,
the herald of the Word, is born;
and faithful hearts shall never fail
with thanks and praise his light to hail.
2 With heavenly message Gabriel came,
that John should be that herald's name,
and with prophetic utterance told
his actions great and manifold.
3 His mighty deeds exalt his fame
to greater than a prophet's name.
Of woman-born shall never be
a greater prophet than was he.
4 To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
praise, honour, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally. Topics: Saints St. John the Baptist Scripture: John 5:38 Used With Tune: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
The great forerunner of the morn
This is the truth sent from above
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Lyrics: 1 This is the truth sent from above,
the truth of God, the God of love;
therefore don't turn me from the door
but hearken all, both rich and poor.
2 The first thing that I will relate,
that God at first did man create;
the next thing which to you I tell -
woman was made with him to dwell.
3 Then after that 'twas God's own choice
to place them both in paradise,
there to remain from evil free
except they ate of such a tree.
4 But they did eat, which was a sin,
and thus their ruin did begin -
ruined themselves, both you and me,
and all of our posterity.
5 Thus we were heirs to endless woes
till God the Lord did interpose;
and so a promise soon did run:
that he'd redeem us by his Son.
6 At at this season of the year
our blest Redeemer did appear,
and here did live, and here did preach,
and many thousands he did teach.
7 Thus he in love to us behaved,
to show us how we must be saved;
and if you want to know the way,
be pleased to hear what he did say:
8 'Go preach the gospel,' now he said,
'to all the nations that are made!
And those that do believe on me,
from all their sins I'll set them free.'
9 O seek! O seek of God above
that saving faith that works by love!
And, if he's pleased to grant thee this,
thou't sure to have eternal bliss.
10 God grant to all within this place
true saving faith, that special grace
which to his people doth belong:
and thus I chose my Christmas song. Topics: Advent; Christmas Scripture: Genesis 1:3 Used With Tune: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE Text Sources: Traditional English
This is the truth sent from above
Hear me, O Lord, in my distress
Author: David G. Preston (b. 1939) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #125 (2013) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Ancient and Modern Topics: Deliverance; Despair and Trouble; Discipleship; God Will of; Lament; Lent; Longing; Prayer; Sorrow; Suffering; The First Sunday of Lent Year A; The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C; Canticles and Affirmations of Faith; Sorrow and Lament Scripture: Psalm 143 Languages: English Tune Title: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
Hear me, O Lord, in my distress
The great forerunner of the morn
Author: The Venerable Bede 673-735; J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 Hymnal: Common Praise #235 (2000) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Common Praise Lyrics: 1 The great forerunner of the morn,
the herald of the Word, is born;
and faithful hearts shall never fail
with thanks and praise his light to hail.
2 With heavenly message Gabriel came,
that John should be that herald's name,
and with prophetic utterance told
his actions great and manifold.
3 His mighty deeds exalt his fame
to greater than a prophet's name.
Of woman-born shall never be
a greater prophet than was he.
4 To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
praise, honour, might, and glory be
from age to age eternally. Topics: Saints St. John the Baptist Scripture: John 5:38 Languages: English Tune Title: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
The great forerunner of the morn
This is the truth sent from above
Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #678 (2000) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Lyrics: 1 This is the truth sent from above,
the truth of God, the God of love;
therefore don't turn me from the door
but hearken all, both rich and poor.
2 The first thing that I will relate,
that God at first did man create;
the next thing which to you I tell -
woman was made with him to dwell.
3 Then after that 'twas God's own choice
to place them both in paradise,
there to remain from evil free
except they ate of such a tree.
4 But they did eat, which was a sin,
and thus their ruin did begin -
ruined themselves, both you and me,
and all of our posterity.
5 Thus we were heirs to endless woes
till God the Lord did interpose;
and so a promise soon did run:
that he'd redeem us by his Son.
6 At at this season of the year
our blest Redeemer did appear,
and here did live, and here did preach,
and many thousands he did teach.
7 Thus he in love to us behaved,
to show us how we must be saved;
and if you want to know the way,
be pleased to hear what he did say:
8 'Go preach the gospel,' now he said,
'to all the nations that are made!
And those that do believe on me,
from all their sins I'll set them free.'
9 O seek! O seek of God above
that saving faith that works by love!
And, if he's pleased to grant thee this,
thou't sure to have eternal bliss.
10 God grant to all within this place
true saving faith, that special grace
which to his people doth belong:
and thus I chose my Christmas song. Topics: Advent; Christmas Scripture: Genesis 1:3 Languages: English Tune Title: THE TRUTH FROM ABOVE
This is the truth sent from above
David G. Preston
b. 1939 Person Name: David G. Preston (b. 1939) Hymnal Title: Ancient and Modern Author of "Hear me, O Lord, in my distress" in Ancient and Modern
David G. Preston
Thomas H. Troeger
1945 - 2022 Person Name: Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 Hymnal Title: Hymnal Supplement 98 Author of "These Things Did Thomas Count as Real" in Hymnal Supplement 98 Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009).
Laura de Jong
Thomas H. Troeger
Henry V. Gerike
Person Name: Henry V. Gerike, b. 1948 Hymnal Title: Hymnal Supplement 98 Arranger of "TRUTH FROM ABOVE" in Hymnal Supplement 98 Henry V. Gerike arranged the tune:
LAND OF REST in Lutheran Service Book, 2006, #937
Henry V. Gerike
Small Church Music
Editors: The Venerable Bede 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.
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