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Come to the house of prayer
Appears in 131 hymnals Used With Tune: BEALOTH
Come to the house of prayer
Come to the house of prayer, O thou afflicted
Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #23 (1827) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Invitation to the House of God; Invitation to worship; Public worship Introduction of Languages: English
Come to the house of prayer, O thou afflicted
Come to the house of prayer! Oh, thou afflicted, come
Author: E. Taylor Hymnal: The Voice of Praise #296 (1873) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Come to the house of prayer!
Oh, thou afflicted, come;
The God of peace shall meet thee there;
He makes that house his home.
2 Come to the house of praise!
Ye who are happy now,
In sweet accord your voices raise,
In kindred homage bow.
3 Ye aged, hither come!
For ye have felt his love;
So shall your trembling tongues be dumb,
Your lips forget to move.
4 Ye young, before his throne,
Come, bow; your voices raise;
Let not your hearts his praise disown,
Who gives the power to praise.
5 Thou, whose benignant eye
In mercy looks on all,
Who seest the tear of misery,
And hear'st the mourner's call,
6 Up to thy dwelling-place,
Bear our frail spirits on,
Till they outstrip time's tardy pace,
And heaven on earth be won. Topics: Prayer; Invitations to Prayer
Come to the house of prayer! Oh, thou afflicted, come
Come to the house of prayer, O thou afflicted
Author: Emily Taylor Hymnal: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S261 (1865)
Come to the house of prayer, O thou afflicted
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Composer of "BEALOTH" in Words of Truth In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Emily Taylor
1795 - 1872 Person Name: E. Taylor Author of "Come to the house of pray'r!" in The Brethren Hymnal Taylor, Emily, born 1795, was the daughter of Samuel Taylor, of New Buckenham, Norfolk, niece of John Taylor, of Norwich, the hymnwriter, and great grand-daughter of Dr. John Taylor, the Hebraist. Miss Taylor was the writer of numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, and of various books of instruction, and of descriptive natural history. Amongst her publications are:—
(1) Letters to a Child on Maritime Discovery, 1820; (2) Vision of Las Casas, and other Poems, 1825; (3) Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826 ; (4) Tales of the Saxons, 1832; (5) Tales of the English, 1833; (6) Memoir of Sir T. More, 1834; (7) The Boy and the Birds, 1835. She also edited Sabbath Recreations, 1826; and Flowers and Fruit in Old English Gardens, 1836; and contributed to the Magnet Stories, 1860, &c.; and the Rainbow Stories, 1870, &c.
Miss Taylor wrote several hymns, which appeared as follows:—To the Unitarian Collection of Psalms & Hymns, printed for the Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool, 1818, she contributed anonymously:—
1. Come to the house of prayer. Invitation to Public Worship. Sometimes given as "O come to the house of Prayer."
2. God of the changing year Whose arm of power. Lessons of the Changing Year.
3. O Father, though the anxious fear. Sunday.
4. O here, if ever, God of love. Holy Communion.
These, and the following 6 hymns, were given anonymously in the 2nd ed. of the Norwich Unitarian Hymn Book, 1826:—
5. Here, Lord, when at Thy Table met. Holy Communion.
6. O not for these alone I pray. Holy Communion. Sometimes, "No, not for these alone I pray."
7. The Gospel is the light. Worth and Power of the Gospel. Sometimes “It is the one true light."
8. Thus shalt thou love the Almighty God [Lord] . Self-consecration to God.
9. Who shall behold the King of kings? Purity.
10. Who that o'er many a barren part. Missions. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "Thy kingdom come! The heathen lands."
Of the above No. 6 is part of a longer poem which was given in her Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826. This work also contains:—
11. O Source of good! around me spread. Seek, and ye shall find.
12. Truly the light of morn is sweet. Early Piety.
13. When summer suns their radiance fling. Resignation with Praise.
In the Rev. J. R. Beard's Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship, 1837, several of the above are repeated, and also:—
14. If love, the noblest, purest, best. Communion with Jesus.
Of these 14 hymns 10 are in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1840, and 9 in his Hymns, &c, 1873. Several are also found in other collections, as Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1881, and some American and other hymn-books. Although for the greater part of her life Miss Taylor was a Unitarian, latterly, under the influence of F. D. Maurice, she joined the Church of England She died in 1872. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Emily Taylor
