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Hymn. Written. 1872. Meter. 8.6.8.8.6. Melody. "Rest" by Frederick Charles Maker, "Repton" by Hubert Parry. " Dear Lord and Father of Mankind " is a hymn with words taken from a longer poem, "The Brewing of Soma" by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The adaptation was made by Garrett Horder in his 1884 Congregational Hymns.
"God of Our Fathers" is a 19th-century American Christian hymn, written in 1876 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The hymn was written by Daniel C. Roberts, [2] a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church serving, at the time, as rector of St. Thomas & Grace Episcopal churches in Brandon ...
Source [2]. John Henry Hopkins Jr. organized the carol in such a way that three male voices would each sing a solo verse in order to correspond with the three kings. [3] The first and last verses of the carol are sung together by all three as "verses of praise", while the intermediate verses are sung individually with each king describing the gift he was bringing. [4]
Melody. "Thaxted" by Gustav Holst. "Abinger" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. "I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a Britishpatriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holsthad a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Riceset to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named "Thaxted", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 ...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing. " O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing " is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley. [ 1][ 2] The hymn was placed first in John Wesley 's A Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists published in 1780. It was the first hymn in every ( Wesleyan ...
8.6.8.6. Melody. Crimond by Jessie Seymour Irvine. Composed. c.1872. " The Lord's My Shepherd " is a Christian hymn. It is a metrical psalm commonly attributed to the English Puritan Francis Rous and based on the text of Psalm 23 in the Bible. The hymn first appeared in the Scots Metrical Psalter in 1650 traced to a parish in Aberdeenshire.
The words to many more of Charles Wesley's hymns can be found on Wikisource, [23] and in his many publications. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Some 150 of his hymns are in the Methodist hymn book Hymns and Psalms , including "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing", and The Church Hymn Book (In New York and Chicago, US, 1872) where "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" is published.
In the United States "Rock of Ages" is usually sung to the hymn tune Toplady by Thomas Hastings as revised by Lowell Mason. In the United Kingdom the hymn tune Redhead 76 is most common. This tune is also called Petra, after Peter being referred to as the Rock by Christ, by Richard Redhead. Both tunes circulate in the churches of both countries.