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God of the earth, the sky, the sea

Author: Samuel Longfellow Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 109 hymnals Topics: Worship and Praise Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

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WINCHESTER NEW

Appears in 388 hymnals Incipit: 51566 54334 32554 Used With Text: God of the earth, the sky, the sea
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OLD 113th

Appears in 102 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mattäus Greiter, c. 1500-1552; V. Earle Copes, 1921 - Tune Sources: Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11231 34554 32134 Used With Text: God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea
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ST. CATHERINE (Walton)

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 701 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henri F. Hemy; James George Walton Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 32117 12671 17651 Used With Text: God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea!

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God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea

Author: Samuel Longfellow Hymnal: Songs for Juniors #178 (1953) Languages: English Tune Title: [God of the earth, the sky, the sea]
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God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea

Author: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #25 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 God of the earth, the sky, the sea, maker of all above, below, creation lives and moves in you; your present life through all does flow. 2 Your love is in the sunshine’s glow, your life is in the quick’ning air; when lightnings flash and storm-winds blow, there is your power, your law is there. 3 We feel your calm at evening’s hour, your grandeur in the march of night; and when the morning breaks in power, we hear your word, “Let there be light.” 4 But higher far, and far more clear, you in our spirit we behold; your image and yourself are there — indwelling God, proclaimed of old. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; The Elements; God, Goddess, and Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: DUKE STREET
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God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea

Author: Samuel Longfellow, b. 1819 Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #97 (1986) Lyrics: 1 God of the earth, the sky, the sea, Maker of all above, below, Creation lives and moves in Thee, Thy present life through all doth flow. 2 Thy love is in the sunshine’s glow, Thy life is in the quickening air; When lightnings flash and storm-winds blow, There is Thy power; Thy law is there. 3 We feel Thy calm at evening’s hour, Thy grandeur in the march of night; And when Thy morning breaks in power, We hear Thy Word, "Let there be light!" 4 But higher far, and far more clear, Thee in man’s spirit we behold; Thine image and Thyself are there. Indwelling God, proclaimed of old. Amen. Topics: Creation; God; Praise Scripture: Acts 17:28 Languages: English Tune Title: HERR JESU CHRIST, MEIN'S LEBENS LICHT

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Samuel Longfellow

1819 - 1892 Author of "God of the earth, the sky, the sea" in The Beacon Song and Service book Longfellow, Samuel, B. A., brother of the Poet, was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in Arts in 1839, and in Theology in 1846. On receiving ordination as an Unitarian Minister, he became Pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848; at Brooklyn, 1853; and at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1860. In 1846 he edited, with the Rev. S. Johnson (q. v.), A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1848. In 1859 his Vespers was published, and in 1864 the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit , under the joint editorship of the Rev. S. Johnson and himself. His Life of his brother, the Poet Longfellow, was published in 1886. To the works named he contributed the following hymns:— i. To A Book of Hymns , revised ed., 1848. 1. Beneath the shadow of the Cross. Love. 2. 0 God, thy children gathered here. Ordination. ii. To the Vespers 1859. 3. Again as evening's shadow falls. Evening. 4. Now on land and sea descending. Evening. iii. To the Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. 5. A voice by Jordan's shore. Advent. 6. Father, give Thy benediction. Ordination. 7. Go forth to life, 0 child of earth. Life's Mission. 8. God of ages and of nations. Holy Scriptures. 9. Holy Spirit, Truth divine. The Holy Spirit desired. 10. I look to Thee in every need. Trust in God. 11. In the beginning was the Word. The Word. 12. Love for all, and can it be? Lent. The Prodigal Son. 13. 0 God, in Whom we live and move. God's Law and Love. 14. 0 God, Thou Giver of all good. Prayer for Food. 15. O still in accents sweet and strong. Missions. 16. 0 Thou, Whose liberal sun and rain. Anniversary of Church dedication. 17. One holy Church of God appears. The Church Universal. 18. Out of the dark, the circling sphere. The Outlook. 19. Peace, peace on earth! the heart of man for ever. Peace on Earth. 20. The loving Friend to all who bowed. Jesus of Nazareth. 21. ’Tis winter now, the fallen snow. Winter. Of these, hymn No. 2 was written for the Ordination of E. E. Hale (q. v.), at Worcester, 1846. Several are included in Martineau's Hymns, 1873. Died Oct. 3, 1892. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 685 =============== Longfellow, S., p. 685, i. Since Mr. Longfellow's death on Oct. 3, 1892, his hymns have been collected by his niece, Miss Alice Longfellow, as Hymns and Verses(Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904.) From this work we find many of the hymns signed Anon, in the Index to Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, were his; several of these, including E. Osier's "O God unseen, yet ever near," were popular English hymns which he rewrote from his own theological standpoint. These re¬written hymns are very widely used by Unitarians and others. During the last ten years the following additional hymns by S. Long¬fellow have come into common use:— 1. Eternal One, Thou living God. Faith in God. 2. God of the earth, the sky, the sea. God in Nature. 3. God's trumpet wakes the slumbering world. Call to duty. 4. Light of ages and of nations. God in and through all time. 5. Lo, the earth is risen again. Spring. (1876.) 6. Now while we sing our closing psalm. Close of Worship. 7. O Life that maketh all things new. Unity. (1874.) 8. O Thou in Whom we live and move. The Divine Law. 9. The summer days are come again. Summer. From his hymn,"The sweet[bright] June days are come again." 10. Thou Lord of lite, our saving health. In Sickness. (1886.) Of these hymns Nos. 2, 3 appeared in the Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and all with the dates appended in Hymns and Verses, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Longfellow

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Harmonizer of "HERR JESU CHRIST, MEIN'S LEBENS LICHT" in Pilgrim 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)

John Warrington Hatton

1710 - 1793 Person Name: John Hatton Composer of "DUKE STREET" in The Beacon Song and Service book John Warrington Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) was christened in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He supposedly lived on Duke Street in Lancashire, from where his famous tune name comes. Very little is known about Hatton, but he was most likely a Presbyterian, and the story goes that he was killed in a stagecoach accident. Bert Polman