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O come, ye youths and maidens

Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden Appears in 2 hymnals

[O come, ye youths and maidens]

Appears in 708 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smart Incipit: 55346 53114 56255 Used With Text: O Come, Ye Youths and Maidens

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Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School #3 (1928) Lyrics: 1 O come, ye youths and maidens In ev’ry clime and land, Ye followers of Jesus, The Lord’s own chosen band; Come, lift your cheerful voices To praise your heav’nly King, For He delights in anthems The happy children sing. 2 The Saviour loves the children,— Himself was once a child Who lay on Mary’s bosom, An infant, meek and mild,— And now in heav’n He listens To hymns of joy they bring; He knows no dearer music Than songs the children sing. 3 To seek His straying children He came to earth and died, And now the gentle Shepherd Would draw them to His side. ‘Tis meet that childish voices Should praise their Saviour King; Let all the earth reecho The song the children sing! 4 What tho’ the years may hasten, And youthful joys take wing, To childhood songs of Jesus And childlike faith we’ll cling; Some day with holier voices Our grateful praise we’ll bring, And join the ransomed children In songs the angels sing. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: [O come, ye youths and maidens]

O come, ye youths and maidens

Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden Hymnal: The Junior Hymnal and Suggested Orders of Worship #d174 (1961)

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Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Composer of "[O come, ye youths and maidens]" in The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman

Ernest Edwin Ryden

1886 - 1981 Author of "O Come, Ye Youths and Maidens" in The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School Ernest Edwin Ryden is a distinguished Lutheran clergyman who has been a life-long student of hymns. At present he is pastor of Emanuel Lutheran Church in North Grosvenordale, Connecticut. This is the latest of a long series of services he has rendered in the Lutheran Church. For twenty-seven years he was editor of "The Lutheran Companion," the official organ of the former Augustana Lutheran Church. His contributions to hymnody were many. He was a member of the Committee which created the Augustana Hymnal of 1925 to which he contributed eight original hymns and translations. He was co-editor of the Junior Hymnal for which he wrote a number of hymns. He was secretary of the committee which prepared the Service Book and Hymnal. Here again he has contributed new hymns and translations. He is the author of two volumes, "The Story of Our Hymns," and "The Story of Christian Hymnody." In 1949 he was made a Knight of the Royal Order of the North Star by the King of Sweden for his work in the field of hymnological research. He is the author of one of the Children's Hymns published by the Hymn Society. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission. ============================== In 1948 [Ryden] was one of the official representatives of his Church at the constituting Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam. --Twelve New Hymns for Children, 1965. Used by permission.