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Friends, Not Servants
Author: F. G. Burroughs Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: O how blessed is the service We may render to the Lord Refrain First Line: I'm a child and not a servant
Friends, Not Servants
How Blessed Is the Service
Author: I. Baltzell Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O how blessed is the service of the Lord Refrain First Line: O how blessed is the service
How Blessed Is the Service
[Oh, how blessed is the service]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John J. Hood Incipit: 55111 57666 55432 Used With Text: Friends, Not Servants
[Oh, how blessed is the service]
[O how blessed is the service of the lord]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I. Baltzell Incipit: 12333 33234 53556 Used With Text: How Blessed Is the Service
[O how blessed is the service of the lord]
How Blessed Is the Service
Author: I. B. Hymnal: The Master's Praise #32 (1892) First Line: O how blessed is the service of the lord Refrain First Line: O how blessed is the service Languages: English Tune Title: [O how blessed is the service of the lord]
How Blessed Is the Service
Friends, Not Servants
Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Joyful Sound #61 (1889) First Line: Oh, how blessed is the service Refrain First Line: I’m a child, and not a servant Lyrics: 1 Oh, how blessed is the service
We may render to the Lord
When all duty glows with pleasure,
And our wills with his accord.
Refrain:
I’m a child, and not a servant,
Of the God whose grace I sing!
I’m an heir of life eternal,—
I’m the friend of Christ my King!
2 Oh, how blessed to be trusted
With the secret of the Lord,
As the Holy Spirit guides us
Through the pathways of his Word. [Refrain]
3 Oh, how blessed to be able
All his promises to claim,
And to bear the royal likeness
‘Mid our service In His Name. [Refrain]
4 Oh, how blessed to be granted
Fellowship with him we love,
Now to share his night of sorrow,—
Then to reign with him above. [Refrain]
5 Oh, how blessed to be growing
Daily in his grace divine,
Sitting at the King’s own table;
Nourished by his bread and wine. [Refrain] Scripture: John 15:15 Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, how blessed is the service]
Friends, Not Servants
Friends, not Servants
Author: F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Silver Trumpet #78 (1889) First Line: Oh, how blessed is the service Refrain First Line: I'm a child, and not a servant Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, how blessed is the service]
Friends, not Servants
I. Baltzell
1832 - 1893 Author of "How Blessed Is the Service" Baltzell, Isaiah. (near Frederick, Maryland, November 26, 1832--January 16, 1893, Frederick). He was educated in the common schools, and at New Windsor Academy, Carroll County, Maryland. In 1859 he married Cecilia Caroline James at Mountain Jackson, Virginia. Originally a Lutheran, he joined the United Brethren Church in 1847, was licensed to preach by the Virginia Conference in 1854, and ordained in 1856. In 1862 he joined the Pennsylvania Conference. He was presiding elder from 1875 to 1880, and from 1883 to 1889. He was a delegate to three General Conferences, and was a trustee of Otterbein University. In 1873 he was appointed by the General Conference a member of the committee to superintend the publication of Hymns for the Sanctuary. His first compilation was Revival Songster (Baltimore, 1859). He was joint editor, with G.W.M. Rigor, or Choral Gems (1871); joint editor, with E.S. Lorenz, of Heavenly Carols, Songs of Grace, Gates of Praise, Songs of Cheer, Songs of the Kingdom, Holy Voices, Songs of Refreshing, Notes of Triumph, Garnered Sheaves, Songs of the Morning, and The Master's Praise. He was also author of music and services for special occasions, and the editor and publisher of Carols of Praise.
See: Shuey, W.A. (1892). Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House; Historical and Descriptive: 243-244.
Some of his hymns bear the pseudonym Amicus.
--Harry Eskew, DNAH Archives
I. Baltzell
F. G. Burroughs
1856 - 1949 Author of "Friends, Not Servants" in Joyful Sound F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs.
Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921
F. G. Burroughs
John J. Hood
b. 1847 Composer of "[Oh, how blessed is the service]" in Joyful Sound Born: 1847, Scotland.
Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census).
Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913.
--www.hymntime.com/tch
John J. Hood
