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Great Revival Hymns No. 2

Publication Date: 1913 Publisher: Rodeheaver Co. Publication Place: Chicago / Philadelphia Editors: H. A. Rodeheaver; B. D. Ackley; Rodeheaver Co.

One Sweetly Solemn Thought

Author: Miss. Phoebe Cary Appears in 699 hymnals First Line: A sweetly solemn tho't Refrain First Line: Nearer my home, nearer my home Used With Tune: [A sweetly solemn tho't ]

When Love Shines In

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Appears in 118 hymnals First Line: Jesus comes with power to gladden Used With Tune: [Jesus comes with power to gladden]

Author: Alexcenah Thomas Appears in 356 hymnals First Line: Hark 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear Refrain First Line: Bring them in, bring them in Used With Tune: [Hark 'tis the Shepherd's voice I hear]

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Tunes

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[There is a gate that stands ajar]

Appears in 112 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. J. Vail Incipit: 55351 16536 53131 Used With Text: The Gate Ajar

[The fight is on, the trumpet sound is ringing out]

Appears in 133 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. C. H. Morris Incipit: 51115 65556 5552 Used With Text: The Fight Is On

[Mid Pleasures and palaces though we may roam]

Appears in 287 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Bishop Incipit: 13455 35434 23134 Used With Text: Home Sweet Home

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Instances

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He Will Not Let Me Fall

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: GRH21913 #1 (1913) First Line: My faith temptation shall not move Lyrics: 1 My faith temptation shall not move, For Jesus knows it all, And holds me with His arm of love— He will not let me fall. Refrain: He will not let me fall, He will not let me fall, He is my Strength, my Hope, my all, He will not let me fall! 2 When grief is more than I can bear— To weak am I to call— If I but lift my heart in pray’r, He will not let me fall. [Refrain] 3 Sometimes I falter filled with fear, I cannot see at all, His voice I never fail to hear— “I will not let thee fall.” [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [My faith temptation shall not move]

O What Joy Will Be Ours

Author: E. G. W. Wesley Hymnal: GRH21913 #2 (1913) First Line: O what joy would be ours, as we watch and pray Refrain First Line: O what joy! O what joy! Lyrics: 1 O what joy would be ours, as we watch and pray,— Did we think, often times, of the coming morn— Of the morn which shall follow this life’s brief day, When all night shall be lost, in one radiant dawn. Refrain: O what joy! O what joy! When our loved ones we shall greet! O what joy! O what joy, When our Savior we shall meet. 2 O what joy would be ours ‘mid the cares of life, Did we think, often times, of that tearless home, Where no sorrow nor pain, where no sin nor strife, Shall be ours when no longer from Christ we roam. [Refrain] 3 O what joy would be ours when our hopes deceive, Did we think, often times, of that Faithful Friend, Who will never forsake but at last receive E’en the weakest and poorest, when life doth end. [Refrain] 4 O what joy would be ours as we mourn and weep, Did we think, often times, of the loved and blest In their mansions above, where they vigil keep, As they wait for our coming to heaven’s rest. [Refrain] 5 O what joy will be ours when our Lord we meet, When we evermore dwell with our Gracious King; O what joy will be ours when our loved we greet, And the praises of Jesus with them we sing. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [O what joy would be ours]

Somebody Cares

Author: Fannie Edna Stafford Hymnal: GRH21913 #3 (1913) First Line: Somebody knows when your heart aches Languages: English Tune Title: [Somebody knows when your heart aches]

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People

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I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac Baker Woodbury Hymnal Number: 318 Composer of "[When I survey the wondrous cross]" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: Wm. H. Monk Hymnal Number: 291 Composer of "[Abide with me]" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman

Edward Perronet

1721 - 1792 Person Name: E. Perronet Hymnal Number: 316 Author of "And crown him Lord of all" in Great Revival Hymns No. 2 Edward Perronet was the son of the Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham, Kent. For some time he was an intimate associate of the Wesleys, at Canterbury and Norwich. He afterwards became pastor of a dissenting congregation. He died in 1792. In 1784, he published a small volume, entitled "Occasional Verses, Moral and Social;" a book now extremely rare. At his death he is said to have left a large sum of money to Shrubsole, who was organist at Spafield's Chapel, London, and who had composed the tune "Miles Lane" for "All hail the power of Jesus' Name!" --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ------ Perronet, Edward. The Perronets of England, grandfather, father, and son, were French emigres. David Perronet came to England about 1680. He was son of the refugee Pasteur Perronet, who had chosen Switzerland as his adopted country, where he ministered to a Protestant congregation at Chateau D'Oex. His son, Vincent Perronet, M.A., was a graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, though his name is not found in either Anthony Woods's Athenae Oxonienses nor his Fasti, nor in Bliss's apparatus of additional notes. He became, in 1728, Vicar of Shoreham, Kent. He is imperishably associated with the Evangelical Revival under the Wesleys and Whitefield. He cordially cooperated with the movement, and many are the notices of him scattered up and down the biographies and Journals of John Wesley and of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. He lived to the venerable age of ninety-one; and pathetic and beautiful is the account of John Wesley's later visits to the white-haired saint (b. 1693, d. May 9, 1785).* His son Edward was born in 1726. He was first educated at home under a tutor, but whether he proceeded to the University (Oxford) is uncertain. Born, baptized, and brought up in the Church of England, he had originally no other thought than to be one of her clergy. But, though strongly evangelical, he had a keen and searching eye for defects. A characteristic note to The Mitre, in referring to a book called The Dissenting Gentleman's answer to the Rev. Mr. White, thus runs:—"I was born, and am like to die, in the tottering communion of the Church of England; but I despise her nonsense; and thank God that I have once read a book that no fool can answer, and that no honest man will". The publication of The Mitre is really the first prominent event in his life. A copy is preserved in the British Museum, with title in the author's holograph, and manuscript notes; and on the fly-leaf this:— "Capt. Boisragon, from his oblig'd and most respectful humble servt. The Author. London, March 29th, 1757." The title is as follows:— The Mitre; a Sacred Poem (1 Samuel ii. 30). London: printed in the year 1757. This strangely overlooked satire is priceless as a reflex of contemporary ecclesiastical opinion and sentiment. It is pungent, salted with wit, gleams with humour, hits off vividly the well-known celebrities in Church and State, and is well wrought in picked and packed words. But it is a curious production to have come from a "true son" of the Church of England. It roused John Wesley's hottest anger. He demanded its instant suppression; and it was suppressed (Atmore's Methodist Memorial, p. 300, and Tyerman, ii. 240-44, 264, 265); and yet it was at this period the author threw himself into the Wesleys' great work. But evidences abound in the letters and journals of John Wesley that he was intermittently rebellious and vehement to even his revered leader's authority. Earlier, Edward Perronet dared all obloquy as a Methodist. In 1749 Wesley enters in his diary: "From Rochdale went to Bolton, and soon found that the Rochdale lions were lambs in comparison with those of Bolton. Edward Perronet was thrown down and rolled in mud and mire. Stones were hurled and windows broken" (Tyerman's Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., 3 vols., 1870 ; vol. ii. 57). In 1750 John Wesley writes: ”Charles and you [Edward Perronet] behave as I want you to do; but you cannot, or will not, preach where I desire. Others can and will preach where I desire, but they do not behave as I want them to do. I have a fine time between the one and the other. I think Charles and you have in the general a right sense of what it is to serve as sons in the gospel; and if all our helpers had had the same, the work of God would have prospered better both in England and Ireland. I have not one preacher with me, and not six in England, whose wills are broken to serve me" (ibid. ii. 85, and Whitehead's Life of Wesley, ii. 259). In 1755 arrangements to meet the emergency created by its own success had to be made for Methodism. As one result, both Edward and Charles Perronet broke loose from John Wesley's law that none of his preachers or "helpers" were to dispense the Sacraments, but were still with their flocks to attend the parish churches. Edward Perronet asserted his right to administer the Sacraments as a divinely-called preacher ibid. ii. 200). At that time he was resident at Canterbury, "in a part of the archbishop's old palace" (ibid. ii. 230. In season and out of season he "evangelized." Onward, he became one of the Countess of Huntingdon's "ministers" in a chapel in Watling Street, Canterbury. Throughout he was passionate, impulsive, strong-willed; but always lived near his divine Master. The student-reader of Lives of the Wesleys will be "taken captive" by those passages that ever and anon introduce him. He bursts in full of fire and enthusiasm, yet ebullient and volatile. In the close of his life he is found as an Independent or Congregational pastor of a small church in Canterbury. He must have been in easy worldly circumstances, as his will shows. He died Jan. 2, 1792, and was buried in the cloisters of the great cathedral, Jan. 8. His Hymns were published anonymously in successive small volumes. First of all came Select Passages of the Old and New Testament versified; London: Printed by H. Cock, mdcclvi. … A second similar volume is entitled A Small Collection of Hymns, &c, Canterbury: printed in the year dcclxxxii. His most important volume was the following:— Occasional Verses, moral and sacred. Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious. London, printed for the Editor: And Sold by J. Buckland in Paternoster Row; and T. Scollick, in the City Road, Moorfields, mdcclxxxv. pp. 216 (12°). [The British Museum copy has the two earlier volumes bound up with this.] The third hymn in this scarce book is headed, “On the Resurrection," and is, ”All hail the power of Jesus' name". But there are others of almost equal power and of more thorough workmanship. In my judgment, "The Lord is King" (Psalm xcvi. 16) is a great and noble hymn. It commences:— “Hail, holy, holy, holy Loud! Let Pow'rs immortal sing; Adore the co-eternal Word, And shout, the Lord is King." Very fine also is "The Master's Yoke—the Scholar's Lesson," Matthew xi. 29, which thus opens:— O Grant me, Lord, that sweet content That sweetens every state; Which no internal fears can rent, Nor outward foes abate." A sacred poem is named "The Wayfaring Man: a Parody"; and another, "The Goldfish: a Parody." The latter has one splendid line on the Cross, "I long to share the glorious shame." "The Tempest" is striking, and ought to be introduced into our hymnals; and also "The Conflict or Conquest over the Conqueror, Genesis xxxii. 24". Still finer is "Thoughts on Hebrews xii.," opening:— "Awake my soul—arise! And run the heavenly race; Look up to Him who holds the prize, And offers thee His grace." "A Prayer for Mercy on Psalm cxix. 94," is very striking. On Isaiah lxv. 19, is strong and unmistakable. "The Sinner's Resolution," and "Thoughts on Matthew viii. 2," and on Mark x. 51, more than worthy of being reclaimed for use. Perronet is a poet as well as a pre-eminently successful hymnwriter. He always sings as well as prays. It may be added that the brief paraphrase after Ovid given below, seems to echo the well-known lines in Gray's immortal elegy:— "How many a gem unseen of human eyes, Entomb'd in earth, a sparkling embryo lies; How many a rose, neglected as the gem, Scatters its sweets and rots upon its stem: So many a mind, that might a meteor shone, Had or its genius or its friend been known; Whose want of aid from some maternal hand, Still haunts the shade, or quits its native land." [Rev. A. B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D.] * Agnew's Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV. confounds Vincent the father with Edward his son. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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