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We cannot measure how you heal
Author: John L. Bell (b. 1949); Graham Maule (b. 1958) Appears in 28 hymnals Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Wholeness and Healing; Social Concern; Suffering Used With Tune: THE BANKS O' DOON (YE BANKS AND BRAES)
We cannot measure how you heal
My spirit longs for thee
Author: John Byrom (1692-1763) Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 117 hymnals Scripture: Luke 7:6 Lyrics: 1 My spirit longs for thee
within my troubled breast,
though I unworthy be
of so divine a guest.
2 Of so divine a guest
unworthy though I be,
yet has my heart no rest
unless it come from thee.
3 Unless it come from thee,
in vain I look around;
in all that I can see
no rest is to be found.
4 No rest is to be found
but in thy blessed love:
O let my wish be crowned,
and send it from above! Topics: Lent; Longing; Rest Used With Tune: QUAM DILECTA
My spirit longs for thee
O Christ, the Healer
Author: Fred Pratt Green (1903-) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 37 hymnals Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 First Line: O Christ, the healer, we have come Lyrics: 1 O Christ, the healer, we have come
to pray for health, to plead for friends.
How can we fail to be restored,
when reached by love that never ends?
2 From every ailment flesh endures
our bodies clamour to be freed;
yet in our hearts we would confess
that wholeness is our deepest need.
3 How strong, O Lord, are our desires,
how weak our knowledge of ourselves!
Release in us those healing truths
unconscious pride resists or shelves.
4 In conflicts that destroy our health
we diagnose the world's disease;
our common life declares our ills:
is there no cure, O Christ, for these?
5 Grant that we all, made one in faith,
in your community may find
the wholeness that, enriching us,
shall reach the whole of humankind. Topics: Healing Used With Tune: ANGELUS
O Christ, the Healer
THE BANKS O' DOON (YE BANKS AND BRAES)
Appears in 54 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51121 23532 12321 Used With Text: We cannot measure how you heal
THE BANKS O' DOON (YE BANKS AND BRAES)
[Rise up, O men of God]
Appears in 987 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Aaron Williams Scripture: Luke 7:5 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51132 12345 43432 Used With Text: Rise Up, O Men of God
[Rise up, O men of God]
Just As I Am
Author: Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #615 (1998) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 First Line: Just as I am, without one plea Topics: Eucharist; Evangelism; Jesus, the Lamb; Penitence Languages: English Tune Title: WOODWORTH
Just As I Am
Rise Up, O Men of God
Author: William P. Merrill Hymnal: Hymns of Faith #505 (1980) Scripture: Luke 7:5 First Line: Rise up, O men of God! Languages: English Tune Title: [Rise up, O men of God]
Rise Up, O Men of God
Revive Thy Work, O Lord
Author: Albert Midlane (1825-1909) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #454 (1998) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Scripture: Luke 7:1-17 Lyrics: 1 Revive thy work, O Lord,
thy mighty arm make bare;
speak with the voice that wakes the dead,
and make thy people hear.
2 Revive thy work, O Lord,
disturb this sleep of death;
quicken the smouldering embers now
by thine almighty breath.
3 Revive thy work, O Lord,
create soul-thirst for thee;
and hungering for the bread of life
O may our spirits be.
4 Revive thy work, O Lord,
exalt thy precious Name;
and, by the Holy Ghost sent down,
our love for thee inflame.
5 Revive thy work, O Lord,
and give refreshing showers.
The glory shall be all thine own;
the blessing, Lord, be ours. Topics: Call and Vocation; Evangelism; Renewal Languages: English Tune Title: CARLISLE
Revive Thy Work, O Lord
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 Author of "We cannot measure how you heal" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
Graham Maule
1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Scripture: Luke 7:1-10 Author of "We cannot measure how you heal" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)
Graham Maule
John Byrom
1692 - 1763 Person Name: John Byrom (1692-1763) Scripture: Luke 7:6 Author of "My spirit longs for thee" in Ancient and Modern John Byrom was born in 1691, at Manchester, where his father was a linen-draper. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1708; became a Fellow of the College in 1714; took his M.A. in 1716, and then proceeded to Montpelier, where he studied medicine. He afterwards abandoned medicine, settled in London, and obtained his living by teaching a system of shorthand, which he had projected. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1724. He died Sept. 28, 1763. The first edition of Byrom's poems appeared in 1773, in two volumes. A more complete edition was published in 1814. Byrom did not seek publicity as an author, but wrote verses only for recreation.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872
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Byrom, John, M.A., F.R.S., born at Manchester, Feb. 29,1691-2, baptized the same day, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1712 ; M.A. 1715. He was elected a Fellow of his College in 1714. After studying medicine for a time at Montpellier, he returned to London, and earned his livelihood by teaching shorthand. Elected F.R.S. in 1724, and succeeded to the family estates about the same time. He died Sept. 28, 1763. His Poems were first published in 1773, in two volumes. In 1814 a more complete edition was issued by Nichols, of Leeds. From these Poems less than half a dozen hymns have come into common use. One of these, however, has a repu¬tation which has extended to all English-speaking countries. We refer to his "Christians, awake!" (q.v.). His hymn, "My spirit longeth for Thee," is also worthy of attention.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Byrom
