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O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
Author: John Quincy Adams Appears in 7 hymnals Matching Instances: 7
O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
[O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes]
Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 33333 45511 44432 Used With Text: God's omniscience
[O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes]
[O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes]
Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Harry Rowe Shelley Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33121 2344 Used With Text: O Lord, Thy All Discerning Eyes
[O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes]
JESUS IS GOD
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 38 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: William Charles Poole Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13516 54332 56155 Used With Text: O Lord, Thy All Discerning Eyes
JESUS IS GOD
O Lord, Thy All Discerning Eyes
Author: John Q. Adams, 1767-1848 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5151 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
My inmost purpose see;
My deeds, my words, my thoughts, arise
Alike disclosed to Thee:
My sitting down, my rising up,
Broad noon, and deepest night,
My path, my pillow, and my cup,
Are open to Thy sight.
2. Before, behind, I meet Thine eye,
And feel Thy heavy hand:
Such knowledge is for me too high,
To reach or understand:
What of Thy wonders can I know?
What of Thy purpose see?
Where from Thy Spirit shall I go?
Where from Thy presence flee?
3. If I ascend to Heaven on high,
Or make my bed in hell;
Or take the morning’s wings, and fly
O’er ocean’s bounds to dwell;
Or seek, from Thee, a hiding place
Amid the gloom of night—
Alike to Thee are time and space,
The darkness and the light. Languages: English Tune Title: JESUS IS GOD
O Lord, Thy All Discerning Eyes
O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
Author: John Quincy Adams Hymnal: The Christian Psalter #d414 (1841)
O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
Author: John Quincy Adams Hymnal: The Modern Harp #d179 (1846)
O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes
John Quincy Adams
1767 - 1848 Person Name: John Q. Adams, 1767-1848 Author of "O Lord, Thy All Discerning Eyes" in The Cyber Hymnal Adams, John Quincy. (Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1767-February 21, 1848, Washington, D.C.). Most of Adams' verse, both religious and secular, was written after he had left the Presidency. In his later years he composed a metrical version of the Psalms, best described as a free rendering in fairly good verse of what he felt was the essential idea of each Psalm. When his minister, William P. Lunt, of the First Parish, (Unitarian), Quincy, Mass., undertook the preparation of his hymn book The Christian Psalter, Mrs. Adams put the manuscript of her husband's metrical Psalms into Lunt's hands, and the latter included 17 of them in his book, and five other hymns by his distinguished parishioner.
The effect on Adams is recorded in a moving entry in his Journal which reveals an aspect of his character quite unknown to those who regarded him as an opinionated and uncompromising though sincere and upright politician. He wrote on June 29, 1845:
"Mr. Lunt preached this morning, Eccles. III, 1. For everything there is a season. He had given out as the first hymn to be sung the 138th of the Christian Psalter, his compilation and the hymn-book now used in our church. It was my version of the 65th Psalm; and no words can express the sensations with which I heard it sung. Were it possible to compress into one pulsation of the heart the pleasure which, in the whole period of my life, I have enjoyed in praise from the lips of mortal man, it would not weigh a straw to balance the ecstasy of delight which streamed from my eyes as the organ pealed and the choir of voices sung the praise of Almighty God from the soul of David, adapted to my native tongue by me. There was one drawback. In the printed book, the fifth line of the second stanza reads, "The morning's dawn, the evening's shade," and so it was sung, but the corresponding seventh line of the same stanza reads, "The fields from thee the rains receive," totally destroying the rhyme. I instantly saw that the fifth line should read, "The morning's dawn, the shades of eve," but whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist of the pressman I am left to conjecture."
After Adams' death his verses, both religious and secular, were published in a small volume entitled Poems of Religion and Society, New York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. This collection included the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms printed in the Christian Psalmist, unchanged except that the opening line of each psalm has been substituted for the number of the psalm as its heading. Nor was the misprint which Adams lamented amended.
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
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Adams, John Quincy. Born at Braintree (afterwards called Quincy), Mass., 1767, was a son of President Adams. After graduating at Harvard College he was, from 1794 to 1801, minister to the Netherlands, to England, and to Prussia. In 1806 he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric in Harvard College; in 1809 minister to Russia; 1817 Secretary of State; and, from 1824 to 1829, President of the United States. In 1831 he was elected a Member of the House of Representatives. Died suddenly, Feb. 21, 1848. His high position and principle are well known, as also the incidents of his political life. He was a member of the Unitarian body. His Memoir, by the Hon. Josiah Quincy, was published soon after his death, and also his Poems of Religion and Society, N. Y., 1848 (4th ed., 1854). He wrote, but never printed, an entire Version of the Psalms, seventeen of which, with five hymns, were inserted by his pastor, Dr. Lunt, in the Christian Psalmist, 1841. Of these the following are still in use:—
1. Sure to the mansions of the blest. [Burial.] This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared in the Monthly Anthology and Boston Review, Jan., 1807. It is entitled "Lines addressed to a mother on the death of two infants, 19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decr., 1806."
2. Alas! how swift the moments fly. [Time.] Sometimes given as "How swift, alas, the moments fly," was written for the 200th anniversary of the First Congregational Church, Quincy, Sept. 29, 1839.
3. Hark! 'tis the holy temple bell. [Sunday.] Of these Nos. 2 and 3 are found in Lyra Sacra Americana and 2 in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1875. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Quincy Adams
Harry Rowe Shelley
1858 - 1947 Composer of "[O Lord, Thy all discerning eyes]" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged.
Harry Rowe Shelley
William C. Poole
1875 - 1949 Person Name: William Charles Poole Composer of "JESUS IS GOD" in The Cyber Hymnal William C. Poole was born and raised on a farm in Maryland. His parents belonged to the Methodist church. He graduated from Washington College and became a Methodist minister in Wilmington, Delaware area. He was pastor of McCabe Memorial, Richardson Park and other churches. In 1913 he was superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Delaware. He wrote about five hundred hymns. The writing was done as recreation and a diversion from his pastoral work. His goal in writing as well as in being a minister was to help people.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
William C. Poole
