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Why should the dread of sinful man
Author: Harrison Appears in 10 hymnals
Why should the dread of sinful man
Why Should The Dread Of Sinful Man
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8695 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Why should the dread of sinful man
Ensnare and vex my soul?
O for that fortitude which can
My every fear control.
2 Shall I offend a holy God,
And sacrifice my peace,
To shun a mortal’s threatening rod;
A friend or two to please?
3 Hard is the task, I must confess,
Where duty thus confines;
Nor can my soul escape distress
Though she to God inclines.
4 Fain would I please both friends and foes,
And follow peace with all,
Nor to one frown myself expose,
But where ’tis duty’s call.
5 I must obey the God I love,
Though all the world contemns;
One smile from Him I prize above
The richest earthly gems.
6 Hark, O my soul, methinks I hear
Jehovah’s awful voice—
“Fear not, thou worm, for I am near,
I will defend thy choice.
7 "While mortal men revile and frown,
I’ll smile upon thy soul;
And thou shalt tread the Tempter down,
While I his rage control.
8 "Trust thou in My almighty name,
Nor let thy faith be weak;
Thy soul shall ne’er be put to shame
Whilst thou My glory seek."
9 Lord, I resign me to Thy will,
Thy wisdom I adore!
I yield to Thee—Thy word fulfill,
And let me doubt no more. Languages: English Tune Title: JERUSALEM
Why Should The Dread Of Sinful Man
Why should the dread of sinful man
Hymnal: The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems #CCCLXXV (1823)
Why should the dread of sinful man
Why should the dread of sinful man
Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #44 (1802)
Why should the dread of sinful man
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "Why Should The Dread Of Sinful Man" in The Cyber Hymnal Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
