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Our Father, by whose servants
Author: George Wallace Briggs Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Old Age; Anniversaries; God Unchangeable; Harvest; God's House; Eternal Life; Mercy; Praise; Unity; Witnessing; Special Subjects and Occasions Anniversaries and Dedication Scripture: John 4:38 Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE
Our Father, by whose servants
LANCASHIRE
Appears in 617 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smart, 1813-1879 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: Our Father, by whose servants
LANCASHIRE
GOSTERWOOD
Appears in 30 hymnals Tune Sources: English Traditional Melody Incipit: 11671 23154 32121 Used With Text: Our Father by whose servants
GOSTERWOOD
DANK SEI GOTT IN DER HOHE
Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Bartholomaeus Gesius, c.1555 - 1613 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 53565 43323 22153 Used With Text: Our Father, by whose servants
DANK SEI GOTT IN DER HOHE
O Father, by Whose Servants
Author: George W. Briggs Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4798 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D First Line: Our Father, by whose servants Lyrics: 1. Our Father, by whose servants
Our house was built of old,
Whose hand hath crowned her children
With blessing manifold,
For Thine unfailing mercies
Far-strewn along our way,
With all who passed before us,
We praise Thy name today.
2. The changeful years unresting
Their silent course have sped,
New comrades ever bringing
In comrades’ steps to tread;
And some are long forgotten,
Long spent their hopes and fears;
Safe rest they in Thy keeping,
Who changest not with years.
3. They reap not where they labored;
We reap what they have sown;
Our harvest may be garnered
By ages yet unknown.
The days of old have dowered us
With gifts beyond all praise;
Our Father, make us faithful
To serve the coming days.
4. Before us and beside us,
Still holden in Thine hand
A cloud unseen of witness,
Our elder comrades stand:
One family unbroken,
We join, with one acclaim,
One heart, one voice uplifting
To glorify Thy name. Languages: English Tune Title: COMMEMORATION
O Father, by Whose Servants
Our Father, by whose servants
Author: George Wallace Briggs, b.1875 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #248 (1958) Topics: The Church The House of God Languages: English Tune Title: DANK SEI GOTT IN DER HOHE
Our Father, by whose servants
Our Father, by whose servants
Author: George Wallace Briggs, 1875-1959 Hymnal: The Hymnal 1982 #289 (1985) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions On the Anniversary of the Dedication of a Church Languages: English Tune Title: WOLVERCOTE
Our Father, by whose servants
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart, 1813-1879 Composer of "LANCASHIRE" in The Hymnal 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
Henry Thomas Smart
G. W. Briggs
1875 - 1959 Person Name: George Wallace Briggs Author of "Our Father, by whose servants" in The Hymnal George Wallace Briggs is a Canon of Worcester Cathedral and one of the most distinguished British hymn writers and hymnologists of today. Six of his hymns appear in the Episcopal Hymnal of 1940 (American). Another hymn on the Bible entitled "Word of the living God" was written for the 25th Anniversary of the British Bible Reading Fellowship and was sung in Westminster Abbey on June 5, 1947. It has been widely used since that time. Canon Briggs is a leading member of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also the composer of several hymn times, six of which have appeared in British hymnals. In addition to his work as a clergy man of the Church of England and an hymnologist, he has interest himself actively in the field of religious education, being largely responsible for two books with wide circulation in Britain, "Prayers and Hymns for used in Schools" and "The Daily Service." These books have had great influence on the worship practices of British schools, public and private. It is of historic interest that he is the author of one of the prayers used at the time of the famous meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt on H.M.S. Prince of Wales in 1941 when the Atlantic Charter was framed.
--Ten New Hymns on the Bible, 1952. Used by permission.
G. W. Briggs
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Arranger of "COMMEMORATION" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
