They whose course on earth is o'er

They whose course on earth is o'er

Author: John Mason Neale
Published in 14 hymnals

Author: John Mason Neale

Neale, John Mason, D.D., was born in Conduit Street, London, on Jan. 24, 1818. He inherited intellectual power on both sides: his father, the Rev. Cornelius Neale, having been Senior Wrangler, Second Chancellor's Medallist, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and his mother being the daughter of John Mason Good, a man of considerable learning. Both father and mother are said to have been "very pronounced Evangelicals." The father died in 1823, and the boy's early training was entirely under the direction of his mother, his deep attachment for whom is shown by the fact that, not long before his death, he wrote of her as "a mother to whom I owe more than I can express." He was educated at Sherborne Grammar School, and was afterwards… Go to person page >

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First Line: They whose course on earth is o'er
Author: John Mason Neale

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They whose course on earth is o'er. J. M. Neale. [Communion of Saints.] First published in his Hymns for the Young, 1844, No. xv., in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, and based on the article of the Creed "The Communion of Saints." In 1866, Dr. Neale revised the text on his death-bed, and made alterations in stanzas iv., v. and ix. This text was published in his posthumous Original Sequences, Hymns, and other Ecclesiastical Verses, 1866, p. 64, and given there for All Souls at Vespers. The same text was repeated in the People's Hymnal, 1867; and, with the omission of stanzas ii., in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Instances

Instances (14)TextImageAudioScore
Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #690Image
Carmina Sanctorum: a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #690Image
Church Hymns with Tunes #522
Enlarged Songs of Praise #295
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition #386
Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised #273
Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard Edition #538
Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship #922Image
Songs for the Lord's House #d461
The Book of Common Praise, being the Hymn Book of the Church of England in Canada. Annotated ed. #d679
The Book of Common Praise, being the Hymn Book of The Church of England in Canada (revised 1938) #633b
The Book of Common Praise, being the Hymn Book of The Church of England in Canada (revised 1938) #633a
The English Hymnal #500
The People's Praise Book or Carmina Sanctorum #d628