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Away, My Unbelieving Fear!
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 174 hymnals Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Lyrics: 1 Away, my unbelieving fear!
Fear shall in me no more have place;
My Savior doth not yet appear,
He hides the brightness of His face;
But shall I therefore let him go,
And basely to the tempter yield?
No, in the strength of Jesus, no!
I never will give up my shield.
2 Although the vine its fruit deny,
Although the olive yield no oil,
The withering fig-tree droop and die,
The field elude the tiller’s toil,
The empty stall no herd afford,
The flocks be cut off from their place,
Yet will I triumph in the Lord,
The God of my salvation praise.
3 Barren although my soul remain,
And not one bud of grace appear,
No fruit of all my toil and pain,
But desperate wickedness is here;
Although, my gifts and comforts lost,
My blooming hopes cut off I see;
Yet will I in my Savior trust,
And glory that He died for me.
4 In hope, believing against hope,
Jesus my Lord and God I claim;
Jesus my strength shall lift me up,
Salvation is in Jesu’s name;
To me He soon shall bring it nigh;
My soul shall then outstrip the wind,
On wings of love mount up on high,
And leave the world and sin behind. Used With Tune: SWEET HOUR
Away, My Unbelieving Fear!
Away my unbelieving fear
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth #d63 (1844) Hymnal Title: A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Languages: English
Away my unbelieving fear
Away my unbelieving fear
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: A Choice Selection of Evangelical Hymns, from various authors #153 (1806) Hymnal Title: A Choice Selection of Evangelical Hymns, from various authors Languages: English
Away my unbelieving fear
Away my unbelieving fear
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: A Choice Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians #531 (1819) Hymnal Title: A Choice Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of Christians Languages: English
Away my unbelieving fear
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Hymnal Title: General Collection of Hymns, Original and Selected, for Use of Christians Author of "Away my unbelieving fear" in General Collection of Hymns, Original and Selected, for Use of Christians Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
L. C. Everett
1818 - 1867 Hymnal Title: Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) Composer of "BEAUFORT" in Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) L. C. Everett's largest and most popular collection was The Wesleyan Hymn and Tune Book (1859), published by the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The denominational dedication page in that collection says it was "prepared by Mr. L.C. Everett, of Virginia, a gentleman well-known through the South and Southwest, as an author and teacher of sacred vocal music." In his own introductory remarks, Everett's instincts as an educator are clear. He advised churches to offer a weekly congregational singing class "for the purpose of meeting together frequently, say one evening each week, to practice the tunes under the direction of a suitably qualified chorister or leader, and ... that the entire congregation be invited to attend the rehearsals of the class and join in learning the tunes." For Everett, musical worship was not just the duty of a choir, it was the duty of everyone.
Leonard’s brothers were Asa Brooks Everett (1828-1875), N.E. Everett, & Benjamin Holden Everett. Leonard and Asa developed a successful music education system called "The Everett System," and together with R.M. McIntosh they formed the L.C. Everett Company, which employed approximately fifty music teachers throughout the American south and middle Atlantic.
—Chris Fenner
see also J.H. Hall, Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914), pp. 96-100.
L. C. Everett
Jeremiah Ingalls
1764 - 1838 Hymnal Title: Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church Composer of "FILLMORE" in Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church Jeremiah Ingalls USA 1764-1838. Born at Andover, MA, his father died of hardships from the American Revolutionary War when he was thirteen. In VT, he worked as a farmer, Cooper, Taverner, and choirmaster. He mastered the bass viol (similar to a cello) and became a composer. He moved to Newbury, VT, in 1787, and in 1791 he married Mary (Polly) Bigelow of Westminster, MA, and they had eleven children (nine living to adulthood): Smith, Jeremiah, Joshua, Jeremiah, Mary, Moses, Elizabeth, John, Almyra, Isaac, and Hannah. He taught singing and began leading the singing at the First Congregational Church there. The choir became well-known, and people came from miles around to hear them sing. In 1800 he built and operated a tavern. He also worked as a cooper. In 1803 he became a deacon, and in 1805 he published a song book, “Christian Harmony”, that contained folk and popular songs with tunes used in spiritual songs sung in early religious revivals and campmeetings, some becoming hymns in later song books. It was said that at times he would be so immersed in his music that his livelihood suffered as a result. He was removed and excommunicated from his church in 1810, having a falling out with the church due to marriage infidelity that he refused to repent of. He ran his tavern for a number of years, but finally sold it and moved to Rochester, VT, in 1819, where he became the first choirmaster of the Church of Christ. His tenure there was successful, and he was a signer of the document establishing construction of the first church building in Rochester (1812). Later, his son, John, succeeded him as choirmaster there. the family’s last move was to a farm near Hancock, VT. He was described as short, portly, good-humored, and absentminded, and having a high voice, but singing bass well. His family was musical, some noted for their musical abilities. A singing society in VT was named for him and promoted singing events. Some of his music became well-known around the world. He died at Hancock, VT.
Note: It is said that he wrote a letter to the First Congregational Church in Westminster 18 years after departing repenting of his infidelity (allegedly after his illegitimate son, Thomas, was of age, but the letter was lost in church records, although the church said they had received it.
John Perry
Jeremiah Ingalls
