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Author: Edwin P. Hood Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 Appears in 14 hymnals First Line: Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint Lyrics: 1. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. If the work is sorrow, if the way is long, If thou dread’st the morrow, tell it Him in song; Though thy heart be aching for the crown and palm, Keep thy spirits waking with a thankful psalm. 2. Jesus, we are lowly, Thou art very high; We are all unholy, Thou art purity; We are frail and fleeting, Thou art still the same; All life’s joys are meeting in Thy blessèd name. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. 3. All His words are music, though they make me weep, Infinitely tender, infinitely deep. Time can never render all in Him I see; Infinitely tender, human deity. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. 4. Jesus, let me love Thee, infinitely sweet, What are the poor odors I bring to Thy feet? Yet I truly love Thee; come into my heart, And ere long remove me to be where Thou art. Thus I sing to Jesus when my heart is faint; So I tell to Jesus comfort or complaint. Used With Tune: AVONDALE (Cawthorne)

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ST. GERTRUDE

Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 Appears in 1,008 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur S. Sullivan Tune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Onward_Christian_Soldiers); Faith Publishing House, Echoes from Heaven, 1976 (21); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (510) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55555 65221 23135 Used With Text: Onward, Christian Soldiers

ST. BONIFACE (Gadsby)

Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Robert Gadsby Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51353 11716 71432 Used With Text: Forward! Be Our Watchword

Instances

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Sing a Hymn to Jesus

Author: Edwin P. Hood Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6108 Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 First Line: Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint Lyrics: 1. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. If the work is sorrow, if the way is long, If thou dread’st the morrow, tell it Him in song; Though thy heart be aching for the crown and palm, Keep thy spirits waking with a thankful psalm. 2. Jesus, we are lowly, Thou art very high; We are all unholy, Thou art purity; We are frail and fleeting, Thou art still the same; All life’s joys are meeting in Thy blessèd name. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. 3. All His words are music, though they make me weep, Infinitely tender, infinitely deep. Time can never render all in Him I see; Infinitely tender, human deity. Sing a hymn to Jesus when the heart is faint, Tell it all to Jesus, comfort or complaint. 4. Jesus, let me love Thee, infinitely sweet, What are the poor odors I bring to Thy feet? Yet I truly love Thee; come into my heart, And ere long remove me to be where Thou art. Thus I sing to Jesus when my heart is faint; So I tell to Jesus comfort or complaint. Languages: English Tune Title: AVONDALE (Cawthorne)

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Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 Composer of "VEXILLUM" Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman

Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan Meter: 11.11.11.11.11.11 Composer of "ST. GERTRUDE" in Timeless Truths Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman