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Let saints on earth in concert sing
Author: Rev. Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 175 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Used With Tune: DUNDEE
Let saints on earth in concert sing
A few more years shall roll
Author: Rev. Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 381 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Used With Tune: CHALVEY
A few more years shall roll
O what their joy and their glory be
Author: Rev. J. M. Neale; Peter Abelard Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 137 hymnals Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Used With Tune: REGNATOR ORBIS (O QUANTA QUALIA)
O what their joy and their glory be
THE BLESSED HOME
Appears in 73 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir John Stainer Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 32675 13267 51176 Used With Text: There is a blessed home
THE BLESSED HOME
SINE NOMINE
Meter: 10.10.10.4.4 Appears in 221 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Topics: Funerals; Christ Rock; Christians Triumph of; Heaven Reunion in ; Resurrection and Everlasting Life; The Church The Communion of Saints Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53215 61253 32177 Used With Text: For All the Saints
SINE NOMINE
Let saints on earth in concert sing
Author: Rev. Charles Wesley Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #611 (1939) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Tune Title: DUNDEE
Let saints on earth in concert sing
Palms of glory, raiment bright
Author: James Mongtomery Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #619 (1939) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Tune Title: PALMS OF GLORY
Palms of glory, raiment bright
Jerusalem, my happy home
Author: F. B. P.; Rev. J. Bromehead Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #610 (1939) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Tune Title: SOUTHWELL
Jerusalem, my happy home
H. W. Baker
1821 - 1877 Person Name: Rev. Sir H. W. Baker Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Author of "There is a blessed home" in The Book of Common Praise Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart., eldest son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker, born in London, May 27, 1821, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847. Taking Holy Orders in 1844, he became, in 1851, Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire. This benefice he held to his death, on Monday, Feb. 12, 1877. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1851. Sir Henry's name is intimately associated with hymnody. One of his earliest compositions was the very beautiful hymn, "Oh! what if we are Christ's," which he contributed to Murray's Hymnal for the Use of the English Church, 1852. His hymns, including metrical litanies and translations, number in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, 33 in all. These were contributed at various times to Murray's Hymnal, Hymns Ancient & Modern and the London Mission Hymn Book, 1876-7. The last contains his three latest hymns. These are not included in Hymns Ancient & Modern. Of his hymns four only are in the highest strains of jubilation, another four are bright and cheerful, and the remainder are very tender, but exceedingly plaintive, sometimes even to sadness. Even those which at first seem bright and cheerful have an undertone of plaintiveness, and leave a dreamy sadness upon the spirit of the singer. Poetical figures, far-fetched illustrations, and difficult compound words, he entirely eschewed. In his simplicity of language, smoothness of rhythm, and earnestness of utterance, he reminds one forcibly of the saintly Lyte. In common with Lyte also, if a subject presented itself to his mind with striking contrasts of lights and shadows, he almost invariably sought shelter in the shadows. The last audible words which lingered on his dying lips were the third stanza of his exquisite rendering of the 23rd Psalm, "The King of Love, my Shepherd is:"—
Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,
But yet in love He sought me,
And on His Shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me."
This tender sadness, brightened by a soft calm peace, was an epitome of his poetical life.
Sir Henry's labours as the Editor of Hymns Ancient & Modern were very arduous. The trial copy was distributed amongst a few friends in 1859; first ed. published 1861, and the Appendix, in 1868; the trial copy of the revised ed. was issued in 1874, and the publication followed in 1875. In addition he edited Hymns for the London Mission, 1874, and Hymns for Mission Services, n.d., c. 1876-7. He also published Daily Prayers for those who work hard; a Daily Text Book, &c. In Hymns Ancient & Modern there are also four tunes (33, 211, 254, 472) the melodies of which are by Sir Henry, and the harmonies by Dr. Monk. He died Feb. 12, 1877.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
H. W. Baker
John Stainer
1840 - 1901 Person Name: Sir John Stainer Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Composer of "THE BLESSED HOME" in The Book of Common Praise
John Stainer
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Composer of "REGENT SQUARE" in The Book of Common Praise 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
Henry Thomas Smart
