Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim

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Ye servants of God! Your Master proclaim

Author: Norton; Author: Charles Wesley (1744)
Tune: LYONS
Doxology
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	Ye Servants of God

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1 You servants of God, your Master proclaim,
and publish abroad his wonderful name;
the name all-victorious of Jesus extol;
his kingdom is glorious and rules over all.

2 God rules in the height, almighty to save;
though hid from our sight, his presence we have;
the great congregation his triumph shall sing,
ascribing salvation to Jesus our King.

3 "Salvation to God, who sits on the throne!"
let all cry aloud, and honor the Son;
the praises of Jesus the angels proclaim,
fall down on their faces and worship the Lamb.

4 Then let us adore and give him his right:
all glory and power, all wisdom and might,
all honor and blessing with angels above
and thanks never ceasing for infinite love.

Psalter Hymnal, 1987

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Author: Norton

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Ye servants of God! Your Master proclaim
Title:	Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim
Author:	Charles Wesley (1744)
Author:	Norton
Meter:	10.10.11.11
Place of Origin:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain
Liturgical Use:	Doxology

Year A, Advent, Third Sunday
Year A, Easter season, Fourth Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Easter season, Fourth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #582.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Trinity Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Trinity Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #299.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 9 (14)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 9 (14) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #582.
Year A, Ordinary Time, All Saints Day
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, All Saints Day by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #299 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #582.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 29 (34)
Year B, Christmas season, New Year's Day
Year B, Lent, Ash Wednesday
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 12 (17)
This is recommended for Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 12 (17) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #582.
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 24 (29)
This is recommended for Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 24 (29) by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #299.
Year C, Christmas season, New Year's Day
Year C, Christmas Season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day
Year C, Easter season, Fourth Sunday
This is recommended for Year C, Easter season, Fourth Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #299 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #582.
Year C, Easter season, Fourth Sunday
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 12 (17)
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 20 (25)
This is recommended for Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 20 (25) by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #299.
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 20 (25)

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Notes

Scripture References:
st. 1 = Deut. 32:3, Ps.148:13, Ps.145:11-13
st. 3 = Rev. 5:12-14, Rev. 7:10

The year this text was written, 1744, was a year of political and religious turmoil in Britain. The newly formed Methodist societies were suspected of being merely disguised Roman Catholic societies and were accused of attempting to overthrow the Crown. To strengthen and reassure his Methodist followers,
Charles Wesley (PHH 267) anonymously published Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution (1744). This text, in seventeen stanzas, was the first of the "Hymns to be Sung in a Tumult." Of those stanzas, 1 and 4-6 of Wesley's Part I are included; the battle-song stanzas, which the small but heroic Methodist groups sang in the face of violent opposition, are omitted.

The text is a hymn of thankful praise to Christ for his victorious reign and for providing salvation for his people. It reveals the cosmic scope of Christ's kingdom (st. I) and helps us to join our voices with the great doxology to Christ, the Lamb, as foretold in Revelation 5:9-14 (st. 24). In the first stanza "servants" refers to all Christians, not just clergy, to those made "to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God" (Rev. 5:10).

Liturgical Use:
A great doxology for festive services such as Easter; with eschatological preaching during Advent; other services that focus on Christ's work of redemption and his glory.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook

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Ye servants of God, Your Master proclaim. C. Wesley. [Missions.] Published in Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution, 1744, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, as No. 1 of “Hymns to be sung in Tumult" (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. iv. p. 51). It is given in its full, or in an abbreviated form in several of the older collections, and especially those of the Church of England. In 1830 a cento was included in the Supplement of the Wesleyan Hymn Book, No. 557, stanzas i.-v. being from this hymn, and st. vi. from C. Wesley's Funeral Hymns, 1746, No. 6, st. v. In the revised edition of the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875, this last stanza was omitted.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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LYONS

HANOVER (Croft)

William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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The words of this hymn of praise allude frequently to scripture passages. The first stanza reminds one of Philippians 2:10-11, where “at the name of Jesus … every tongue [will] confess that Jesus Christ is Lord …” (ESV). The last two stanzas are especially rich with allusions to scenes of worship in Revelation, including a quotation from Revelation 7:10, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne!” (ESV)

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Charles Wesley is the author of this hymn text. He wrote it in 1744 for Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution in the section titled “Hymns to Be Sung in Tumult.” The occasion for writing was a time of persecution for Methodists in England. They were accused of disloyalty to the British Crown among other things, and were therefore subject to violent persecution.

The text originally had six stanzas, but two of them were quite specific to the Methodist persecution of the time, and are therefore omitted in modern hymnals. Otherwise, the text has been passed down in a very consistent form. The four stanzas elaborate on the theme of God's glory and victorious power. The last two stanzas allude to eschatological passages throughout Revelation.

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HANOVER and LYONS are quite similar tunes which share the same meter and opening five notes. HANOVER is more popular with this text, and was written in 1708. The composer is not known for certain, as it first appeared anonymously. However, William Croft was involved in the collection of psalm tunes in which it was first published, Tate and Brady's The Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms, and he is generally credited with the tune. It has also been credited to George F. Handel, but since he did not come to England until a few years after the tune was published, it is unlikely that he is the composer. However, this association may have led to the name of the tune. Handel became Kapellmeister to George I of England, who was of the House of Hanover.

The composer of LYONS is also unknown. The tune first appeared in William Gardiner's Sacred Melodies in 1815 with the note “Subject Haydn,” which led to the theory that it was originally written by someone with the surname of Haydn. Whether it was the famous Franz Joseph Haydn or his brother Johann Michael Haydn has been a matter of debate. However, some recent research has indicated that any attribution to Haydn may be spurious. For either tune, sing with a sturdy tempo and bright accompaniment to suit the celebratory nature of the text.

When/Why/How:

This hymn can be used as a doxology for a festive occasion, or for a service based on a text from Revelation depicting worship before the throne of God. For such a use, “HANOVER” and “LYONS” are arrangements for brass quartet designed to supplement the organ for congregational singing. Either tune would make a good choice for a glorious prelude or postlude in settings such as are found for HANOVER in “Three Hymns of Praise, Set 4” for organ or “He Leadeth Me” for piano. This hymn could also be used in a medley with other hymn tunes of praise, such as in “Prayludes for Summer,” for piano where LYONS is combined with LOBE DEN HERREN and ITALIAN HYMN.

Tiffany Shomsky,
Hymnary.org

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