God the All-terrible! King, who ordainest

Author: Henry F. Chorley

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God the all-terrible! King, Who ordainest. H. F.Chorley. [In Time of War.] Written for a Russian air, and printed, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, in Hullah's Part Music, 1842. It is given in several collections either in its original or in a slightly altered form, as in Thring's Collection, 1882, &c. In the Universal Hymn Book, 1885, No. 392, stanzas i.—iii. of this text, somewhat altered, are given as, "God, Lord of Sabaoth! King Who ordainest." In Stryker's Christian Chorals, New York, 1885, it begins, "O God, all terrible," and in the American Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, No. 262, stanzas ii.-iv. are given in an altered form as, "God, the Omnipotent I Mighty Avenger."
During the Franco-German war, on the 28th Aug., 1870, the Rev. J. Ellerton wrote an imitation of this hymn, beginning, "God the Almighty One, wisely ordaining." It was published in the Rev. B. Brown-Borthwick's Select Hymns for Church & Home, 1871, No. 84, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. In 1871 a cento from these two hymns was given in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, No. 262, of which stanzas i.-iii. are from Chorley's hymn, and stanzas iv.-vi. are stanzas ii.-iv. from that by Mr. Ellerton.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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God the all-merciful, earth hath forsaken. This, in the American Protestant Episcopal Church Hymnal, 1889, is a cento from "God the all-terrible," p. 440, i., sts. i. and iv. being by H. F. Chorley and ii., iii. by J. Ellerton as in Church Hymns, 1871.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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