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Breathe on me, Breath of God
Author: Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 338 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 2:7 Lyrics: 1 Breathe on me, Breath of God;
fill me with life anew,
that I may love the way you love,
and do what you would do.
2 Breathe on me, Breath of God,
until my heart is pure,
until with you I will one will,
to do and to endure.
3 Breathe on me, Breath of God,
direct my heart's desire,
till every earthly part of me
glows with your holy fire.
4 Breathe on me, Breath of God;
so shall I never die,
but live with you the perfect life
of your eternity. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Coming of the Spirit; Eternal Life; God Will of; Purity Of Heart Used With Tune: VENI SPIRITUS
Breathe on me, Breath of God
Morning has broken
Author: Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 93 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 2:4-9 Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in the morning and evening; God In Creation Used With Tune: BUNESSAN
Morning has broken
Touch the earth lightly
Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 23 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 2:15 Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly,
use the earth gently,
nourish the life of the world in our care:
gift of great wonder,
ours to surrender,
trust for the children tomorrow will bear.
2 We who endanger,
who create hunger,
agents of death for all creatures that live,
we who would foster
clouds of disaster,
God of our planet, forestall and forgive!
3 Let there be greening,
birth from the burning,
water that blesses and air that is sweet,
health in God's garden,
hope in God's children,
regeneration that peace will complete.
4 God of all living,
God of all loving,
God of the seedling, the snow and the sun,
teach us, deflect us,
Christ reconnect us,
using us gently and making us one. Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in the stewardship of the earth; Our Response to God in the stewardship of the earth; Care of Creation; Children; Renewal Used With Tune: TENDERNESS
Touch the earth lightly
O PERFECT LOVE
Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 196 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 Scripture: Genesis 2:24 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13555 55177 62345 Used With Text: O Perfect Love
O PERFECT LOVE
The Sabbath--1
Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #769 (1985) Scripture: Genesis 2 First Line: Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
The Sabbath--1
Our Daily Work
Hymnal: Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #822 (1985) Scripture: Genesis 2, 3 First Line: The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden Topics: Scripture Readings
Our Daily Work
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 - 1958 Scripture: Genesis 2:4 Adapter and Harmonizer of "KINGSFOLD" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Edwin Hatch
1835 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) Scripture: Genesis 2:7 Author of "Breathe on me, Breath of God" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Hatch, Edwin, D.D., was born at Derby, Sep. 4, 1835, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A., in honours, in 1857. After holding important appointments in Canada, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1867; and Rector of Purleigh, 1883. (See also Crockford). He died Nov. 10, 1889. His hymn-writing was limited. One, and that a very spirited lyric, is in Allon's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886 "Breathe on me, Breath of God." (Whitsuntide.) Dr. Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous Towards Fields of Light, London 1890.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Edwin Hatch
Shirley Erena Murray
1931 - 2020 Scripture: Genesis 2:1-9 Author of "On This Good Earth" in New Hymns of Hope Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing.
I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago
Shirley Erena Murray
