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Angels sing His triumph as you sang His birth
Author: Phillips Brooks Appears in 71 hymnals First Line: God hath sent His angels to the earth again Lyrics:
God hath sent his angels to the earth again,
Bringing joyful tidings to the sons of men;
They who first, at Christmas, thronged the heavenly way,
Now beside the tomb-door, sit on Easter Day.
Angels sing his triumph, as you sang his birth,
"Christ, the Lord, is risen. Peace, goodwill on earth."
In the dreadful desert, where the Lord was tried,
There the faithful angels gathered at his side;
And when in the garden, grief and pain and care
Bowed him down with anguish, they were with him there.
Yet the Christ they honor is the same Christ still,
Who, in light and darkness, did his Father's will;
And the tomb deserted shineth like the sky,
Since he passed out from it into victory.
God has still His angels, helping, at his word,
All his faithful children, like their faithful Lord;
Soothing them in sorrow, arming them in strife,
Opening wide the tomb-doors, leading into life.
Topics: Easter Day; Processional; Carols; Sunday Schools Carols Used With Tune: VEXILLUM
Angels sing His triumph as you sang His birth
Brightly gleams our banner
Appears in 415 hymnals Used With Tune: VEXILLUM
Brightly gleams our banner
Forward! be our watchword
Author: Henry Alford Appears in 344 hymnals Used With Tune: VEXILLUM
Forward! be our watchword
Long the nations waited
Author: Rev. John Julian Hymnal: Sunday-School Book #63 (1896) Languages: English Tune Title: VEXILLUM
Long the nations waited
Brightly gleams our banner
Hymnal: An Evening Service Book #77a (1891) Languages: English Tune Title: VEXILLUM
Brightly gleams our banner
Angels, sing his triumph, as you sang His birth
Author: Phillips Brooks Hymnal: The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #163 (1922) First Line: God hath sent His angels to the earth again Languages: English Tune Title: VEXILLUM
Angels, sing his triumph, as you sang His birth
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: H. Smart Composer of "VEXILLUM" in The Church Hymnal 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).
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Henry Thomas Smart
Henry Alford
1810 - 1871 Author of "Forward! be our watchword" in The Methodist Hymnal Alford, Henry, D.D., son of the Rev. Henry Alford, Rector of Aston Sandford, b. at 25 Alfred Place, Bedford Row, London, Oct. 7, 1810, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in honours, in 1832. In 1833 he was ordained to the Curacy of Ampton. Subsequently he held the Vicarage of Wymeswold, 1835-1853,--the Incumbency of Quebec Chapel, London, 1853-1857; and the Deanery of Canterbury, 1857 to his death, which took. place at Canterbury, Jan. 12, 1871. In addition he held several important appointments, including that of a Fellow of Trinity, and the Hulsean Lectureship, 1841-2. His literary labours extended to every department of literature, but his noblest undertaking was his edition of the Greek Testament, the result of 20 years' labour. His hymnological and poetical works, given below, were numerous, and included the compiling of collections, the composition of original hymns, and translations from other languages. As a hymn-writer he added little to his literary reputation. The rhythm of his hymns is musical, but the poetry is neither striking, nor the thought original. They are evangelical in their teaching, but somewhat cold and conventional. They vary greatly in merit, the most popular being "Come, ye thankful people, come," "In token that thou shalt not fear," and "Forward be our watchword." His collections, the Psalms and Hymns of 1844, and the Year of Praise, 1867, have not achieved a marked success. His poetical and hymnological works include—
(1) Hymns in the Christian Observer and the Christian Guardian, 1830. (2) Poems and Poetical Fragments (no name), Cambridge, J. J. Deighton, 1833. (3) The School of the Heart, and other Poems, Cambridge, Pitt Press, 1835. (4) Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals throughout the Year, &c.,Lond., Longman ft Co., 1836. (5) Psalms and Hymns, adapted for the Sundays and Holidays throughout the year, &c, Lond., Rivington, 1844. (6) Poetical Works, 2 vols., Lond., Rivington, 1845. (7) Select Poetical Works, London, Rivington, 1851. (8) An American ed. of his Poems, Boston, Ticknor, Reed & Field, 1853(9) Passing away, and Life's Answer, poems in Macmillan's Magazine, 1863. (10) Evening Hexameters, in Good Words, 1864. (11) On Church Hymn Books, in the Contemporary Review, 1866. (12) Year of Praise, London, A. Strahan, 1867. (13) Poetical Works, 1868. (14) The Lord's Prayer, 1869. (15) Prose Hymns, 1844. (16) Abbot of Muchelnaye, 1841. (17) Hymns in British Magazine, 1832. (18) A translation of Cantemus cuncti, q.v.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Alford, Henry, p. 39, ii. The following additional hymns by Dean Alford are in common use:—
1. Herald in the wilderness. St. John Baptist. (1867.)
2. Let the Church of God rejoice. SS. Simon and Jude. (1844, but not in his Psalms & Hymns of that year.)
3. Not in anything we do. Sexagesima. (1867.)
4. O Thou at Whose divine command. Sexagesima. (1844.)
5. 0 why on death so bent? Lent. (1867.)
6. Of all the honours man may wear. St. Andrew's Day. (1867.)
7. Our year of grace is wearing to a close. Close of the Year. (1867.)
8. Saviour, Thy Father's promise send. Whit-sunday. (1844.)
9. Since we kept the Saviour's birth. 1st Sunday after Trinity. (1867.)
10. Thou that art the Father's Word. Epiphany. (1844.)
11. Thou who on that wondrous journey. Quinquagesima. (1867.)
12. Through Israel's coasts in times of old. 2nd Sunday after Epiphany. (1867.)
13. Thy blood, O Christ, hath made our peace. Circumcision . (1814.)
14. When in the Lord Jehovah's name. For Sunday Schools. (1844.)
All these hymns are in Dean Alford's Year of Praise, 1867, and the dates are those of their earliest publication, so far as we have been able to trace the same.
--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Henry Alford
John Julian
1839 - 1913 Person Name: Rev. John Julian Author of "Long the nations waited" in Sunday-School Book Born: January 27, 1839, St. Agnes, Cornwall.
Died: January 22, 1913, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England.
Educated privately, Julian graduated from Durham University (MA 1887), Lambeth (DD 1894), and Howard University in Washington, DC (LLD 1894). He took Holy Orders in 1866, and served as Vicar of Wincobank (1876-1905) and Vicar of Topcliff, Yorkshire (1905-). However, he is best known as a hymnologist. The standard reference work in this field is his massive Dictionary of Hymnology: Origin and History of Christian Hymns and Hymnwriters of All Ages and Nations, Together with Biographical and Critical Notices of Their Authors and Translators. This work has been revised and reprinted several times; its publication dates include:
-- London: J. Murray, 1892
-- London: J. Murray, 1908 (this may be the edition revised by James Mearns (1855-1922), Vicar of Rushden, Hertfordshire)
--Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1985
His other works include:
Concerning Hymns, 1874
History of the Use of Hymns in Public Worship, and Their Proper Characteristics, 1894
Carols, Ancient and Modern, 1900
Julian donated his large collection of hymnological books and manuscripts to the Church House, Dean’s Yard, London, where it formed the hymnological department of the library.
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