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To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray
Author: Samuel W. Duffield Appears in 5 hymnals
To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray
To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray
Author: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Hymnal: Light in the Valley #55 (1898) Lyrics: 1 To thee, O Christ, we ever pray,
And blend our prayer with tears:
Thou pure and holy One, alway
Protect our night of years!
2 Our hearts shall be at rest in thee,
In sleep they dream thy praise;
And to thy glory faithfully
They hail the coming days.
3 Give us a life that cannot fail!
Refresh our spirits then;
Let blackest night before thee pale;
And bring thy light to men.
4 Our vows in song we pay thee still,
And, at this evening hour,
May all that we have purposed ill
Be right thro' perfect power. Topics: Devotional Languages: English Tune Title: [To thee, O Christ, we ever pray]
To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray
Evening Song to Christ
Author: S. W. Duffield Hymnal: Laudes Domini #398 (1888) First Line: To thee, O Christ, we ever pray Lyrics: 1 To thee, O Christ, we ever pray,
And blend our prayer with tears:
Thou pure and holy One, alway
Protect our night of years!
2 Our hearts shall be at rest in thee,
In sleep they dream thy praise;
And to thy glory faithfully
They hail the coming days.
3 Give us a life that cannot fail!
Refresh our spirits then;
Let blackest night before thee pale;
And bring thy light to men.
4 Our vows in song we pay thee still,
And, at this evening hour,
May all that we have purposed ill
Be right through perfect power. Topics: Christ Character of; Christians Love for Christ; Communion of Saints With Christ Languages: English Tune Title: BUNYAN
Evening Song to Christ
To thee, O Christ, we ever pray
Author: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Hymnal: Laudes Domini #70 (1888) Languages: English Tune Title: RUNYAN
To thee, O Christ, we ever pray
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: fr. Mendelssohn Arranger of "BUNYAN" in Laudes Domini Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Samuel Willoughby Duffield
1843 - 1887 Person Name: Rev. Samuel W. Duffield Author of "To Thee, O Christ, We Ever Pray" in Light in the Valley Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby, son of G. Duffield, jun., was born at Brooklyn, Sept. 24, 1843, and graduated at Yale College, 1863. In 1866 he was licensed, and in 1867 ordained as a Presbyterian Minister, and is now [1886] Pastor of West¬minster Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey. He published in 1867 a translation of Bernard's Hora novissima (q.v.): Warp and Woof; a Book of Verse, 1868 (copyright, 1870); and The Burial of the Dead (in conjunction with his father), 1882. In the Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, the following translations and an original hymn are by him:—
1. Holy Spirit, come and shine. A translation of "Veni Sancte Spiritus." 1883.
2. O Christ, the Eternal Light. A translation of "Christe lumen perpetuum." 1883.
3. O land, relieved from sorrow. On Heaven, written in 1875.
4. O what shall be, O when shall be. A translation of "O quanta qualia." 1883.
5. To Thee, O Christ, we ever pray. A translation of "Christe precamur annue." 1883.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Duffield, S. A. W. , p. 315, ii. He died May 12, 1887. His English Hymns, Their Authors and History, was published in 1886, and his Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns posthumously, edited by Dr. R. E. Thompson, in 1889. (See p. 1526, i.)
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Samuel Willoughby Duffield
