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America the Beautiful

Author: Katharine Lee Bates Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 541 hymnals Topics: National Hymns; Citizenship, Christian; Memorial Day; National Righteousness; Patriotic; Righteousness; Social Betterment; liturgical Scripture Songs First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Lyrics: 1 O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain; for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. 2 O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine. 3 O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. United Methodist Hymnal, 1989

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus

Author: George Duffield Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1,901 hymnals Topics: Warfare, Christian First Line: Stand up, stand up, for Jesus, Ye soldiers of the cross (Duffield) Refrain First Line: Stand up, ye soldiers

Hosanna, Loud Hosanna

Author: Jennette Threlfall Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 168 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Palm Sunday; Angels; Biblical Places Olivet; Children Praising; Christian Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Hosanna; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Redemption; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Palm/Passion Sunday Year A; Palm/Passion Sunday Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday Year C Lyrics: 1 Hosanna, loud hosanna the happy children sang; through pillared court and temple the lovely anthem rang: to Jesus, who had blessed them, close folded to his breast, the children sang their praises, the simplest and the best. 2 From Olivet they followed 'mid an exultant crowd, the victory palm-branch waving, and singing clear and loud; the Lord of earth and heaven rode on in lowly state, content that little children should on his bidding wait. 3 "Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing, for Christ is our Redeemer; earth, let your anthems ring. O may we ever praise him with heart and life and voice, and in his humble presence eternally rejoice! Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE

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IRBY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 313 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry J. Gauntlett Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Children's Choir Selections; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Example Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Once in Royal David's City

JUDAS MACCABAEUS

Appears in 164 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frideric Handel Topics: Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Easter; Courage; Eternal Life; God Glory; Jesus Christ Exaltation; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Joy; Light; Service Music Sending Forth/Commissioning; Victory; Water; Easter 1 Year A; Easter 2 Year A; Ascension Year A; Epiphany 6 Year B; Easter 2 Year B; Easter 3 Year B; Easter 1 Year C; Easter 2 Year C; Easter Evening Year ABC Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 53451 23454 32345 Used With Text: Thine is the Glory (À toi la gloire)

IN DULCI JUBILO

Meter: 6.6.7.7.7.8.5.5 Appears in 242 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Hugh Jones Topics: Christian Year Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Birth Tune Sources: German folk melody, 14th cent. Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

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Crown Him with Many Crowns

Author: Godfrey Thring; Matthew Bridges Hymnal: Voices United #211 (1996) Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Topics: The Christian Year Reign of Christ; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Christian Year Holy Week; Christian Year Ascension; Christian Year Christ the King/Reign of Christ; Eternal Life; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Ascension and Reign; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Creator; Jesus Christ Exaltation; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Lamb of God; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ Praise; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Saviour; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Life; Music and Singing; New Creation; Peace (World); Processionals (Opening of Worship); Recessionals; Redemption; Saints; Salvation; Second Coming; Testimony; Time; Victory; Worship; Easter 1 Year A; Easter 2 Year A; Ascension Year A; Easter 7 Year A; Proper 19 Year A; All Saints Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Easter 6 Year B; Ascension Year B; Easter 7 Year B; Proper 22 Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Easter 4 Year C; Ascension Year C; Reign of Christ Year C Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own! Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity. 2 Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o'er the grave, and rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, who died and rose on high, who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die. 3 Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise. His reign shall know no end; and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of Paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 4 Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, rich wounds yet visible above, in beauty glorified. All hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me: thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Languages: English Tune Title: DIADEMATA

At the Name of Jesus

Author: Caroline Maria Noel Hymnal: Voices United #335 (1996) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Topics: Jesus Christ Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Christian Year Holy Week; Christian Year Triduum; Commitment; Conversion; Faithfulness; Humility; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Creator; Jesus Christ Faithfulness; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ name; Jesus Christ Praise; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Saviour; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Jesus Christ Word; Salvation; Second Coming; Surrender; Temptation; Trust; Truth; Witness; Word of God; Worship; Christmas 1 Year A; Christmas 2 Year A; Baptism of Jesus Year A; Palm/Passion Sunday Year A; Easter 2 Year A; Ascension Year A; Proper 8 Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 14 Year A; Proper 16 Year A; Proper 19 Year A; Proper 21 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Advent 4 Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year B; Lent 3 Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday Year B; Easter 4 Year B; Proper 21 Year B; Proper 27 Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Baptism of Jesus Year C; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year C; Lent 1 Year C; Palm/Passion Sunday Year C; Proper 4 Year C; Proper 9 Year C; Proper 20 Year C; Reign of Christ Year C; Easter Evening Year ABC First Line: At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow Lyrics: 1 At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess him King of glory now; 'tis our God's great pleasure we should call him Lord, who from the beginning was the mighty Word. 2 Humbled for a season to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it, spotless to the last, brought it back victorious when from death he passed. 3 Name him, Christians, name him, with love strong as death, but with awe and wonder, and with bated breath; he is God the Saviour, he is Christ the Lord, ever to be worshipped, trusted, and adored. 4 In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue all that is not holy, all that is not true; crown him as your Captain in temptation's hour; let his will enfold you in its light and power. 5 Christians, this Lord Jesus shall return again, with his Father's glory, with his angel train; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of Glory now. Languages: English Tune Title: KING'S WESTON

Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

Author: John Mason Neale Hymnal: Voices United #35 (1996) Meter: Irregular Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Calling and Response; Christian Year Christmas; Good News, Gospel; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Joy; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Salvation; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Proper 23 Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Christmas 2 Year C; Epiphany 5 Year C Lyrics: 1. Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Give ye heed to what we say: News! News! Jesus Christ is born today. Ox and ass before him bow, and he is in the manger now. Christ is born today! Christ is born today! 2 Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now ye hear of endless bliss: Joy! Joy! Jesus Christ was born for this! He hath opened heaven's door, and we are blest for evermore. Christ was born for this! Christ was born for this! 3 Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Now ye need not fear the grave: Peace! Peace! Jesus Christ was born to save! Calls you one and calls you all to gain his everlasting hall. Christ was born to save! Christ was born to save! Languages: English Tune Title: IN DULCI JUBILO

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Easter and Holy Week; Living the Christian Life Salvation and the Cross Author of "Jesus, Prince and Saviour" in Complete Mission Praise Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Bland Tucker

1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker Topics: Canticles, Metrical Paraphrase of; The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Canticles, Metrical Paraphrase of; Christian Perfection; Christian Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Christian Year Christ the King; Funerals and Memorial Services; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Lordship; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ Name of; Salvation Author of "All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine" in The United Methodist Hymnal Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940

The Venerable Bede

673 - 735 Person Name: The Venerable Bede (ca. 672-735) Topics: Service for the Lord's Day Opening of Worship; Sacraments Lord's Supper; Christian Year Ascension; Other Observances World Communion Author of "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing" in The Worshipbook Bede (b. circa 672-673; d. May 26, 735), also known as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at Northumbrian monastery at Monkwearmouth (now Jarrow). Sent to the monastery at the young age of seven, he became deacon very early on, and then a priest at the age of thirty. An author and scholar, he is particularly known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which gained him the title “Father of English History.” He also wrote many scientific and theological works, as well as poetry and music. Bede is the only native of Great Britain to have ever been made a Doctor of the Church. He died on Ascension Day, May 26, 735, and was buried in Durham Cathedral. Laura de Jong ========================== Bede, Beda, or Baeda, the Venerable. This eminent and early scholar, grammarian, philosopher, poet, biographer, historian, and divine, was born in 673, near the place where, shortly afterwards, Benedict Biscop founded the sister monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, on an estate conferred upon him by Ecgfrith, or Ecgfrid, king of Northumbria, possibly, as the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints (May), p. 399, suggests, "in the parish of Monkton, which appears to have been one of the earliest endowments of the monastery." His education was carried on at one or other of the monasteries under the care of Benedict Biscop until his death, and then of Ceolfrith, Benedict's successor, to such effect that at the early age of nineteen he was deemed worthy, for his learning and piety's sake, to be ordained deacon by St. John of Beverley, who was then bishop of Hexham, in 691 or 692. From the same prelate he received priest's orders ten years afterwards, in or about 702. The whole of his after-life he spent in study, dividing his time between the two monasteries, which were the only home he was ever to know, and in one of which (that of Jarrow) he died on May 26th, 735, and where his remains reposed until the 11th century, when they were removed to Durham, and re-interred in the same coffin as those of St. Cuthbett, where they were discovered in 1104. He was a voluminous author upon almost every subject, and as an historian his contribution to English history in the shape of his Historia Ecclesiastica is invaluable. But it is with him as a hymnist that we have to do here. I. In the list of his works, which Bede gives at the end of his Ecclesiastical History, he enumerates a Liber Hymnorum, containing hymns in “several sorts of metre or rhyme." The extant editions of this work are:— (1) Edited by Cassander, and published at Cologne, 1556; (2) in Wernsdorf's Poetae Latin Min., vol. ii. pp.239-244. II. Bede's contributions to the stores of hymnology were not large, consisting principally of 11 or at most 12 hymns; his authorship of some of these even is questioned by many good authorities. While we cannot look for the refined and mellifluous beauty of later Latin hymnists in the works of one who, like the Venerable Bede, lived in the infancy of ecclesiastical poetry; and while we must acknowledge the loss that such poetry sustains by the absence of rhyme from so many of the hymns, and the presence in some of what Dr. Neale calls such "frigid conceits" as the epanalepsis (as grammarians term it) where the first line of each stanza, as in "Hymnum canentes Martyrum," is repeated as the last; still the hymns with which we are dealing are not without their peculiar attractions. They are full of Scripture, and Bede was very fond of introducing the actual words of Scripture as part of his own composition, and often with great effect. That Bede was not free from the superstition of his time is certain, not only from his prose writings, but from such poems as his elegiac "Hymn on Virginity," written in praise and honour of Queen Etheldrida, the wife of King Ecgfrith, and inserted in his Ecclesiastical History, bk. iv., cap. xx. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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