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More love to Thee, O Christ

Author: Elizabeth P. Prentiss Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 863 hymnals Topics: Christian Experience Aspiration; Love To Christ; Sancification Used With Tune: HORBURY

Author: Rev. Edwin P. Parker Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 122 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Master, no offering Costly and sweet, May we, like Magdalene, Lay at Thy feet; Yet may love's incense rise, Sweeter than sacrifice, Dear Lord, to Thee, Dear Lord, to Thee. 2 Daily our lives would show Weakness made strong, Toilsome and gloomy ways Brightened with song; Some deeds of kindness done, Some souls by patience won, Dear Lord, to Thee, Dear Lord, to Thee. 3 Some word of hope for hearts Burdened with fears, Some balm of peace for eyes Blinded with tears, Some dews of mercy shed, Some wayward footsteps led, Dear Lord, to Thee, Dear Lord, to Thee. 4 Thus, in Thy service, Lord, Till eventide Closes the day of life, May we abide! And when earth's labors cease, Bid us depart in peace, Dear Lord, to Thee, Dear Lord, to Thee. Amen. Topics: The Kingdom of God on Earth Brotherhood; Offertory; Stewardship Used With Tune: LOVE'S OFFERING

Närmare, Gud, till dig

Author: Sarah F. Adams Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Närmar, Gud, till dig Närmare dig! Om än det blir ett kors, Som lyfter mig, Likväl min sång skall bli: Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 2 Gömme för vandraren Solen sitt sken, Får jag till hufvudgärd Endast en sten, För dock i drømmen mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 3 O, låt mig se den stig, Som till dig bär Hän från de sorger, som Mig trycka här. Låt Unaglar vinka mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 4 Då skall i morgonväkt Nöjd jag uppstå Och från mitt Betel här Lof till dig gå. Nöd kan ock föra mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 5 Och när till sist det b¨r Uppåt en gång Genom den ljusa rymd, Klingar min sång: Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! Topics: Hemlängton - Hemmet; Longing for Home; Kors och Pröfning; Cross and Testing Used With Tune: BETHANY

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NEARER TO THEE

Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 40 hymnals Tune Sources: American Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55117 75232 13555 Used With Text: Nearer, my God, to Thee

HORBURY

Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 61 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Bacchus Dykes, 1823-1876 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12354 33234 33665 Used With Text: Nearer, my God, to thee

PROPIOR DEO

Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Appears in 65 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur Sullivan Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 32315 65723 32315 Used With Text: Nearer, my God, to Thee

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Framåt i Jesu namn

Author: Lina Sandell Hymnal: Lutherförbundets Sångbok #S174 (1913) Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Lyrics: 1 Framåt i Jesu namn, Tiden är kort! Ljuflig är hvilans hamn, Tiden är kort. Härligt är resans mål, jesu vet hvad jag tål, Han är min längtans mål; Tiden är kort. 2 Hur det må växla här, Tiden är kort; Hemmet mig väntar där, Tiden är kort, Kort, om än het, min strid, Jesus mig vinkar blid: "Jag är ju själf din frid; Tiden är kort. 3 O, håll i tron blott ut, Tiden är kort! Allt blir ju väl till slut, Tiden är kort; Jag, jag dig älskar ju, Hvi då betröfvas du? Hur jag dig sköter nu, Tiden är kort. 4 Verka i tron mitt verk, Tiden är kort; Blott på min vilja märk, Tiden är kort; Löp på mitt budords stig, Gläds att få tjäna mig, Gläds att få offra dig: Tiden är kort." Topics: Helgelse Och Bevarande; Holiness Languages: Swedish Tune Title: BETHANY

Närmare, Gud, till dig

Author: Sarah F. Adams Hymnal: Lutherförbundets Sångbok #S175 (1913) Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Lyrics: 1 Närmar, Gud, till dig Närmare dig! Om än det blir ett kors, Som lyfter mig, Likväl min sång skall bli: Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 2 Gömme för vandraren Solen sitt sken, Får jag till hufvudgärd Endast en sten, För dock i drømmen mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 3 O, låt mig se den stig, Som till dig bär Hän från de sorger, som Mig trycka här. Låt Unaglar vinka mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 4 Då skall i morgonväkt Nöjd jag uppstå Och från mitt Betel här Lof till dig gå. Nöd kan ock föra mig Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! 5 Och när till sist det b¨r Uppåt en gång Genom den ljusa rymd, Klingar min sång: Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare Gud, till dig, Närmare dig! Topics: Hemlängton - Hemmet; Longing for Home; Kors och Pröfning; Cross and Testing Languages: Swedish Tune Title: BETHANY

Nearer, My God, to Thee

Author: Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams Hymnal: Lutherförbundets Sångbok #E117 (1913) Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! 2 Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone, Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! 3 There let my way appear Steps unto heav'n; All that Thou sendest me In mercy giv'n; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! 4 Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! 5 Or if on joyful wing Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upwards I fly; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! Topics: Care and Guidance; Confession and Consecration Languages: English Tune Title: BETHANY

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E. Prentiss

1818 - 1878 Person Name: Elizabeth P. Prentiss Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Author of "More Love to Thee" in The Celebration Hymnal Elizabeth Payson Prentiss USA 1818-1878. Born at Portland, ME, 5th child of Congregationalist minister, Edward Payson. He died of tuberculosis in 1827, and the family moved to New York City in 1831. That year she professed faith in Christ and joined the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church. She possessed keen abilities, including sympathy and perceptiveness. She began writing stories and poems, and contributed her works to “The youth’s companion”, a New England religious periodical. In 1838 she opened a small girls’ school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she moved to Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls’ boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss, a brother of her close friend, Anna Prentiss Stearns. The Prentisses settled in New Bedford, MA, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. In 1851 George became pastor of Mercer St Presbyterian Church in New York City. After a happy period in life, by 1852 she had lost two of her three children, one as a newborn, one at age four. However, she went on to have three more healthy children, despite her poor health. She wrote her first book of stories, published in 1853. In 1856 she penned her famous hymn lyrics (noted below) after she nearly lost her daughter, Minnie, to an illness. After George resigned from his church due to failing health, the family went abroad for a couple of years. In 1860 they returned to NY, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. She published her most popular book, “Stepping heavenward” in 1869, furnishing it in installments to ‘Chicago Advance’. The family evenually settled in Dorset, VT, where she died. After her death, her husband published “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss” in 1882. The family children were: Annie, Eddy, Bessie, Minnie, George, and Henry. John Perry ================ Prentiss, Elizabeth, née Payson, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Payson, was born at Portland, Maine, Oct. 26, 1818; married to George Lewis Prentiss, D.D., then at Bedford, Massachusetts, April, 1845; and died at Dorset, Vermont, Aug. 13, 1878. Her Life and Letters by her husband appeared some time after. Dr. Prentiss removed from Bedford to New York in 1851, and was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1873. Mrs. Prentiss's works include The Flower of the Family; Stepping Heavenward, 1869; and Religious Poems, 1873. Of her hymns the two following are most widely known:— 1. As on a vast eternal shore Thanksgiving. Contributed to Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869. 2. More love to Thee, 0 Christ. More Love to Christ desired. Written in 1869, and first printed on a fly-sheet; then in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Sarah Flower Adams

1805 - 1848 Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Author of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" in The Hymnal Adams, Sarah, nee Flower. born at Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22nd, 1805; died in London, Aug. 14, 1848, and was buried at Harlow, Aug. 21,1848. She was the younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor and proprietor, of The Cambridge Intelligencer; and was married, in 1834, to William B. Adams, a civil engineer. In 1841 she published Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem dealing with the conflict of heathenism and Christianity, in which Vivia Perpetua suffered martyrdom; and in 1845, The Flock at the Fountain; a catechism and hymns for children. As a member of the congregation of the Rev. W. J. Fox, an Unitarian minister in London, she contributed 13 hymns to the Hymns and Anthems, published by C. Fox, Lond., in 1841, for use in his chapel. Of these hymns the most widely known are— "Nearer,my God,to Thee," and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." The remaining eleven, most of which have come into common use, more especially in America, are:— Creator Spirit! Thou the first. Holy Spirit. Darkness shrouded Calvary. Good Friday. Gently fall the dews of eve. Evening. Go, and watch the Autumn leaves. Autumn. O hallowed memories of the past. Memories. O human heart! thou hast a song. Praise. O I would sing a song of praise. Praise. O Love! thou makest all things even. Love. Part in Peace! is day before us? Close of Service. Sing to the Lord! for His mercies are sure. Praise. The mourners came at break of day. Easter. Mrs. Adams also contributed to Novello's musical edition of Songs for the Months, n. d. Nearly all of the above hymns are found in the Unitarian collections of Great Britain, and America. In Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873, No. 389, there is a rendering by her from Fenelon: —" Living or dying, Lord, I would be Thine." It appeared in the Hymns and Anthems, 1841. -John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Arranger of "BETHANY" in The Hymnal Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

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Small Church Music

Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4 Editors: Sarah Flower Adams Description: History The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. About the Recordings All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Mobile App We have partnered with the developer of the popular NetTracks mobile app to offer the Small Church Music collection as a convenient mobile app. Experience the beloved Small Church Music collection through this iOS app featuring nearly 10,000 high-quality hymn recordings that can be organized into custom setlists and downloaded for offline use—ideal for worship services without musicians, congregational practice, and personal devotion. The app requires a small fee to cover maintenance costs. Please note: While Hymnary.org hosts this music collection, technical support for the app is provided exclusively by the app developer, not by Hymnary.org staff. LicensingCopyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4

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More love to Thee, O Christ

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NEARER TO THEE

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Framåt i Jesu namn

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