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90 Hymn Stories of Love

 

By Donald M. White

 

The LDS Hymn Book carries a qualified copyright with rights reserved

by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others including

Intellectual Reserve Inc. and the author of this book has quoted many of these pieces.

The words and pictures of the various song writers and composers (shown where possible)

are published here with qualified permission allowed under the “Intellectual

Reserve” and fair comment exception to U.S. copyright laws.

 

 

No part of this book can be copied or used without express written consent of the Author.

Copright by Donald M. White @Windermere, FL 2011, and all rights are reserved.

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS

Introduction

Now Let Us Rejoice

Redeemer of Israel

Come Rejoice

Sweet Is The Peace The Gospel Brings

God of Power, God of Right

We Listen To A Prophet’s Voice

We Ever Pray To Thee

Joseph Smith’s First Prayer

A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

The Wintery Day, Descending To Its Close

Let Zion In Her Beauty Rise

Beautiful Zion Built Above

Lead Me Into Life Eternal

Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken

Glorious Things Are Sung Of Zion

The Day Dawn Is Breaking

We’re Not Ashamed To Own Our Lord

Come Ye Children of The Lord

Come All You Saints Who Dwell On Earth

Rejoice The Lord Is King

Glory To God On High

All Glory, Laud And Honor

Sing Praise To Him

With Songs of Praise

In Hymns of Praise

Great Is The Lord

God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand

Press Forward Saints

Faith of Our Fathers

How Firm A Foundation

God Is Love

Father, Thy Children To Thee Now Raise

For The Beauty of The Earth

Now Thank We All Our God

Lead Kindly Light

Nearer, Dear Savior, To Thee

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer

Savior, Redeemer of My Soul

Our Savior’s Love

 

 

 

Love Quotes From The LDS Hymn Book

The following Listings Are From Wikipedia

List of LDS Hymnals published, 1835–1985

The Great Migration From Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

                     

 

 

 

 

Love Quotes From The LDS Hymn Book

 

Don White’s Forward Page

 

“They do not die who leave their thoughts
Imprinted on some deathless page.
Themselves may pass, the spell they wrought
Endures on earth from age to age.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

 

I love to sing the songs of the Saints, the Latter-day Saints (Mormons). They never fail to uplift and bring the spirit into my life. We sing them at church on Sunday and also in our home on Sunday and on Monday during our family home evening. There is nothing sweeter than the melding of male and female voices, whether they are completely on key or not.

I decided to read the entire songbook. Not just read, but study—for quotes which included the word “love.” The LDS hymn book has 341 songs, and I found 90 love quotes that I’m going to publish here. Did I miss any? Of course I must have, I thought as I read through my notes. Then that Sunday, Brother Jeff Belnap chose one I didn’t have: Thomas Kelly’s moving rendition “As the Dew From Heaven Distilling.” The quotation: “Blest by thee prove efficacious to fulfill thy work of love.”

You see, songwriters are really some of the world’s finest poets. Some might not know that, but they are. They have to hone their thoughts into narrow stanzas that not only have pithy meaning, but often rhyme. It was a most inspiring time for me, reading and digesting the LDS songbook. I love every one of those hymns. They bring me great joy to not only sing, but especially to contemplate their ageless meanings.

Where I discovered the addition to my list was at Sacrament Meeting. The meeting began with the congregation singing it and a light clicked on in my mind. “I don’t have that one.” I quickly scribbled the song title and reference. Thomas Kelly had placed those precious “love” words in the second verse.

The definition of many gospel words includes an element of love. For example, when you define the word “reverence” you find the definition is a combination of love and devotion. Respect for Heavenly Father that is impossible to define without “love of God and his only begotten son Jesus Christ.”

God’s love for humankind is indescribably beautiful and full. In order to develop true love, which is eternal love, we must be grateful for all that God and his Son Jesus Christ have done for us and all that they have given us. Without that love, one becomes an infidel. In these latter days there are many imposters calling themselves Christ. There are many churches using the name Christ, which is a generic name like “The Christ.” But there is only one Jesus Christ.

We show love and respect for Jesus Christ and God in many ways. One is to serve our fellow man, his children. Another is to pray sincerely to him—and all due respects to Catholics and others—not to Mother Mary for she is not a god or to anyone else. Pray always. A third way of respecting God is to wear our best clothing when we enter the House of the Lord. A fourth way is to prepare one’s mind and heart before attending church or going to the temple. If we are to feel his spirit, we must love him enough to prepare.

Before we can love God and our neighbors, we must learn to love and respect ourselves. That might sound easy, but for millions of people who are depressed or downtrodden, it is not easy to always be in a good mood about ourselves. God makes it easy to love ourselves because of the principle of repentance and the atonement of Jesus Christ. Each time we partake of the sacrament with clean hands and hearts we remember him and renew our baptismal covenant to keep his commandments. It’s a refreshing concept and it keeps me, particularly, fresh and able to face each day with a renewed spirit, knowing that when I have completely repented I am forgiven, completely forgiven so that that sin or transgression no longer exists in my memory or in reality.

Love is man’s overriding principle of success. Some call it the law of attraction. It feeds off love. If we exhibit love to others in our good deeds and demeanor, we will be loved and all of our fondest desires will be made manifest and complete.

Love is everywhere. Nature testifies of God and we become more loving when we reverence and respect everything God has given us: our parents and families, the knowledge that families are eternal—forever—this glorious earth and other planets and stars too numerable to count, the cloud cover, the air we breath, the heavens including the moon and the sun and the order thereof, the space in the middle of the earth, the oceans, sky, mountains, deserts, plains, valleys, vegetation including trees, grasses, and bushes, the lakes, streams and great rivers, the country in which we live and its natural and man-made resources, the tundra of the north and south poles, and the isles of the sea, the rains and the storms that provide water for existence, the fish in the oceans and streams, and animals everywhere.

But most of all we should be grateful for our bodies into which God placed our spirits and gave us instruction regarding his plan of happiness, the plan of salvation. These teachings, if followed, will lead us to eternal joy and greater knowledge than we ever supposed we could look forward to. At the heart of all of this is love. Remember the saying, “I love God because he first loved us.”

I started my study of the LDS songbook with a grateful heart. Each time I thought of our many, many blessings I always came back to God’s love for us. In fact, if you asked me what is the chief principle of the gospel I would say love. Like the roots of a tree, it is capable of growing deep and wide into our very beings—to nourish our hungry spirits and to give relief to our thirsty souls.

“God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.”

 

 

 

The following Listings Are From Wikipedia

List of LDS Hymnals published, 1835–1985

Below is a list of all known LDS hymnals published since 1835, both “official” and unofficial.

Title	Edition	Date	Location	Compiler	Number of Hymns
A Collection of Sacred Hymns		1835	Kirtland, USA	Emma Smith, WW Phelps	90
		1838	NYC?, USA	David W. Rogers	90
		1839	East? USA	Benjamin C Ellsworth	114
Manchester Hymnal	1	1840	Manchester, England	Parley P. Pratt, BY, JT	271
Manchester Hymnal	2	1841	Manchester, England	Parley P. Pratt, BY, JT	271
A Collection of Sacred Hymns		1841	Nauvoo, USA	Emma Smith	304
		1841	East?, Canada	Christ. Merkley	19
		1843	Boston, USA	John Hardy (Unofficial)	155
Manchester Hymnal	3	1843	Manchester, England	Hiram Clark, Thos Ward	271
A Collection of Sacred Hymns		1844	Bellow Falls, VT, USA	J.C. Little, G.B. Gardner	47
Manchester Hymnal	4	1844	Liverpool, England	Reuben Hedlock, T. Ward	272
		1845	Pittsburg, USA	Sidney Rigdon	182
		1845	Bellow Falls, VT, USA	Charles A. Adams	106
Manchester Hymnal	5	1846	Liverpool, England	F.D. Richards, O. Spencer	?
Manchester Hymnal	6	1847/8	Liverpool, England	Orson Spencer	283
Manchester Hymnal	7	1848	Liverpool, England	Orson Pratt	?
Manchester Hymnal	8	1849	Liverpool, England	Orson Pratt	283
Manchester Hymnal	9	1851	Liverpool, England	Franklin D. Richards	296
		1853	England	John Lyon (Unofficial)	8
Manchester Hymnal	10	1854	Liverpool, England	Orson Pratt	296
Manchester Hymnal	11	1856	Liverpool, England	Franklin D. Richards	322
		1857	Liverpool, England	John E Tullidge	38
Manchester Hymnal	12	1863	Liverpool, England	George Q. Cannon	331
Manchester Hymnal	13	1869	Liverpool, England	Albert Carrington	330
Manchester Hymnal	14	1871	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	George Q. Cannon	345
Manchester Hymnal	15	1871	Liverpool, England	Albert Carrington	344
Manchester Hymnal	16	1877 (1887)	Liverpool, England (USA)	Franklin D. Richards	344
Manchester Hymnal	17	1883	Salt Lake City, UT, England		345
Manchester Hymnal	18	1884	Liverpool, England	John Henry Smith	345
Manchester Hymnal	19	1889	Liverpool, England	George Teasdale	352
Manchester Hymnal	20	1890	Liverpool, England	George Teasdale	356
Manchester Hymnal	20	1891	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		369
Manchester Hymnal	21	1894	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		370
Manchester Hymnal	22	1897	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		370
Manchester Hymnal	23	1899	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		370
Manchester Hymnal	24	1905	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		383
Manchester Hymnal	25	1912	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		385
The Songs of Zion		1918	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	Joseph F Smith	269
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	1	1889	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	Careless, Beesley, Daynes, Stephens, Griggs	330
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	2	1896	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		354
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	3	1906	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		367
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	4	1908	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		367
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	5	1912	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		367
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	6	1915	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		367
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody	7	1920	Salt Lake City, UT, USA		367
Latter-day Saint Hymns		1927	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	General Church Music Committee	421
Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ		1948	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	General Church Music Committee	387
Hymns, Church of Jesus Christ		1950	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	General Church Music Committee	389
Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ		1985	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	General Church Music Committee	341

 

 

 

 

Below is a sampling of some of the LDS hymns that are no longer included in the 1985 hymn book.

§                     ”All Hail the Glorious Day”

§                     ”Arise, My Soul, Arise”

§                     ”As Swiftly My days Go Out On the Wing”

§                     ”Author of Faith, Eternal Word”

§                     ”Awake! O Ye People, the Savior is Coming;” words by W.W. Phelps

§                     ”Beautiful Zion for Me” by Charles W. Penrose

§                     ”Blessed Are They That Have the Faith”

§                     ”Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light”

§                     ”Bring, Heavy Heart, Your Grief to Me”

§                     ”Captain of Israel’s Host”

§                     ”Come All Ye Saints and Sing His Praise” by Lorin F. Wheelwright

§                     ”Come, Dearest Lord”

§                     ”Come, Go With Me, Beyond the Sea”

§                     ”Come, Hail the Cause of Zion’s Youth”

§                     ”Come, Lay His Books and Papers By” (a song written to the memory of Karl G. Maeser)

§                     ”Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

§                     ”Down by the River’s Verdant Side”

§                     ”Each Cooing Dove”

§                     ”Farewell, All Earthly Honors”

§                     ”For Our Devotions, Father”

§                     ”Give Us Room That We May Dwell”

§                     ”Glory Be to God in the Highest”

§                     ”Hark! Listen to the Trumpeters”

§                     ”Hark, Ten Thousand Thousand Voices”

§                     ”Hushed Was the Evening Hymn”

§                     ”I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath” by Isaac Watts

§                     ”Land of the Mountains High” by Evan Stephens (this song is also known as Utah, We Love Thee; it was the official state song of the State of Utah for many years, until it was replaced as such by Utah, This is the Place, at which time it was redesignated as the official state hymn)

§                     ”Let Each Man Learn to Know Himself”

§                     ”Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains”

§                     ”Lo! On the Water’s Brink We Stand”

§                     ”Lord of All Being, Throned Afar” by Oliver Wendell Holmes

§                     ”Lord, Thou Wilt Hear Me” by Isaac Watts

§                     ”M.I.A., We Hail Thee”

§                     ”‘Mid Pleasures and Palaces”

§                     ”Not Now, But in the Coming Years”

§                     ”O Awake! My Slumbering Minstrel” words by Eliza R. Snow

§                     ”O Happy Homes Among the Hills”

§                     ”O Happy Home! O Blest Abode”

§                     ”O’er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness”

§                     ”Oh Give Me Back My Prophet Dear” (this song laments the deaths of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum), written by John Taylorwith music by George Careless

§                     ”On the Mountain’s Top Appearing”

§                     ”One Sweetly Solemn Thought”

§                     ”Rest, Rest for the Weary Soul”

§                     ”Sacred the Place of Prayer and Song” by Evan Stephens

§                     ”Shall We Meet Beyond the River”

§                     ”Sister, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” words by Samuel F. Smith

§                     ”Stars of Morning, Shout for Joy”

§                     ”Sweet Is the Hour When Thus We Meet” by Evan Stephens

§                     ”Take Courage, Saints, and Faint Not by the Way”

§                     ”There is a Land Whose Sunny Vales” (a song about Utah)

§                     ”The Seer, Joseph, The Seer” words by John Taylor

§                     ”Think Not, When You Gather to Zion” words by Eliza R. Snow

§                     ”The Lord Imparted from Above” (this song is about the Word of Wisdom; words by Eliza R. Snow and music by George Careless)

§                     ”Thou Dost Not Weep Alone” words by Eliza R. Snow

§                     ”Though in the Outward Church Below”

§                     ”Unanswered Yet? The Prayer”

§                     ”Up! Arouse Thee, O Beautiful Zion”

§                     ”When Christ Was Born in Bethlehem” words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

§                     ”When Dark and Drear the Skies Appear”

§                     ”When First the Glorious Light of Truth” words by William Clayton

§                     ”We’ll Sing the Songs of Zion”

§                     ”What Voice Salutes the Startled Ear?”

§                     ”With All The Power of Heart and Tongue” by Isaac Watts

§                     ”Ye Children of Our God” words by Parley P. Pratt

§                     ”Ye Chosen Twelve, To You are Given” words by Parley P. Pratt

Many Latter-day Saint hymns are well known traditional Christian hymns; others deal with items of doctrine unique to the doctrine of the Church such as the pre-mortal existence, the Latter-day prophets, and the Book of Mormon. Others draw their subject matter from the history of the Church, including themes such as the Restoration and the pioneer experience. Some of the unique Latter-day Saint hymns such as “Come, Come, Ye Saints” are gaining popularity in the repertoires of other Christian choirs.

The Primary has its own songs, included in the Children’s Songbook. Some of these songs are gaining popularity with adults as well.

Some other songs which are occasionally sung by choirs, (though usually not by the whole congregation in a meeting) include “O Divine Redeemer”, the Christmas carol “O Holy Night” and “Faith in Every Footstep”, a song specifically written for the 150th anniversary of the Mormon pioneers‘ journey.

Congregations also sing patriotic hymns of their respective countries, as they may or may not be included in the language-specific edition of the hymn book.

1.                              ^ Doctrine and Covenants 25:11-12

2.                              ^ History of the Church Vol. II p. 273

3.                              ^ http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650212769,00.html

4.                              ^ http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660205541,00.html

5.                              ^ http://fiddle-sticks.com/Liner_Nauvoo.htm

6.                              ^ http://www.hoffmanhouse.com/parley.html

§                     Category:Latter Day Saint hymnals

§                     Ensign at LDS.org—An article in the official Church magazine verifying the historical facts above.

§                     Hymns at LDS.org (includes index, text, music, and free audio downloads for most hymns in 1985 LDS hymnal; some excluded for copyright reasons)

§                     Early Latter-day Saint Hymns

§                     LDS Psalmody (PDF): Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.

§                     Deseret Sunday School Songs (PDF): Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.

§                     Google Books A full view of The Songs of Zion 1908 hymnal of the Church

“History of Music in the Church” with Daniel Henderson, on Mormon Channel‘s Legacy series

Indeed, love is the overriding principle taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I studied each song, it was interesting. I could actually feel some portion of the spirit of the author. What great men and women write these songs. They surely have the spirit with them and it rubs off on us each time we read and sing their verses.

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS

Introduction

Now Let Us Rejoice

Redeemer of Israel

Come Rejoice

Sweet Is The Peace The Gospel Brings

God of Power, God of Right

We Listen To A Prophet’s Voice

We Ever Pray To Thee

Joseph Smith’s First Prayer

A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

The Wintery Day, Descending To Its Close

Let Zion In Her Beauty Rise

Beautiful Zion Built Above

Lead Me Into Life Eternal

Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken

Glorious Things Are Sung Of Zion

The Day Dawn Is Breaking

We’re Not Ashamed To Own Our Lord

Come Ye Children of The Lord

Come All You Saints Who Dwell On Earth

Rejoice The Lord Is King

Glory To God On High

All Glory, Laud And Honor

Sing Praise To Him

With Songs of Praise

In Hymns of Praise

Great Is The Lord

God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand

Press Forward Saints

Faith of Our Fathers

How Firm A Foundation

God Is Love

Father, Thy Children To Thee Now Raise

For The Beauty of The Earth

Now Thank We All Our God

Lead Kindly Light

Nearer, Dear Savior, To Thee

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer

Savior, Redeemer of My Soul

Our Savior’s Love

 

Love Quotes From The LDS Hymn Book

The following Listings Are From Wikipedia

List of LDS Hymnals published, 1835–1985

The Great Migration From Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

 

Love is the overriding principle taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I studied each song, I could feel some portion of the spirit of the author. What great men and women write these songs! They surely have the spirit with them and it rubs off on us each time we read and sing their verses.

I’m not a songwriter per se. But years ago I wrote a church hymn called Come to the Temple. I was optimistic. I talked to Brother Curt Metzger, our local song leader in Plymouth, Minnesota, and he turned me down. Since the music to my song was taken from Beethoven, he refused to help. His songs, words and tunes were originals written by him.

Then I called our family’s old friend and neighbor, Bonny Goodliffe, once a member of the Monument Park 12^th Ward in Salt Lake City. Currently, she is one of five organists performing for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I can remember when she started playing at the Tabernacle. She had been the ward organist, and how wonderfully she played. Then something happened—they replaced her. I was executive secretary and got to the ward early. Bonny would arrive before me to practice for an hour or so, then off to the Tabernacle she would go, gone most of the day—or so it seemed—practicing and performing on the Tabernacle organ.

Bonnie Goodliffe has performed with the Choir on the Tabernacle Organ for more than thirty years, making her the current dean of all five organists playing at the Tabernacle. I had been scoutmaster for her son Jay, an Eagle Scout with children of his own. She was most sympathetic and concerned, but said she was not a writer of songs and had no talent in that area. Soon I became discouraged. That song remains in the bottom of some drawer somewhere, probably lost. But occasionally I sing some of the lyrics.

I’m a writer of articles and books, I told myself, not a songwriter.

Early this year, with the help and encouragement of a friend Tim Schroader who lives across the street and my three sons and daughter, Michael, Patrick, Jennifer, and Marcus—in addition to my wife, Carolyn—I created a web site and called it Love Quotes. The link is http://LoveQuotes2.com

I proceeded to place on that site as many quotes about love as I could. It is a work in process and not anywhere near complete. But sandwiched between my fiction and non-fiction writing, I decided to do a lot of research and write a book about love quotes from the LDS songbook. I was first going to merely put these quotes on the site. But one thing led to another and soon I was writing a book, complete with histories, pictures, and as much background about those 90 or so hymns that met my criteria—they all had to say something about the word “love.”

I can’t guarantee the words you will read contain all of the love quotes in the hymnbook. But I made a conscious effort and am happy with my work product. My fondest wish is that when I publish these things that people will absorb the spirit of these hymns and then quote them in letters, cards, and notes to friends and family. If you will do that, you will have made me very happy. More importantly, it will strengthen and enrich your testimony of Jesus Christ and your communication skills.

In 1935 when Emma Smith was living out her prophetic calling to create a songbook for the newly formed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she enlisted the aid of a fine man, William W. Phelps, whose music is found many times and places in the 1985 version of the hymnbook. She told him that her goal was that some day all of the songs found in the LDS hymnbook would be of Mormon origin, or would be written by members of the LDS Church.

That wish certainly did not come about, as many of the great songs we sing in Sacrament meeting, Sunday School, Relief Society and priesthood meetings today were written my non-members who had the spirit of the Lord with them when they conceived words and music.

Here is a quotation from www.ldsorganists.info/trivia.htm

“Out of curiosity, I decided to go through the LDS hymnbook to see how many hymns are actually LDS hymns and which have been borrowed. After checking the authors and composers list on page 387 of the LDS Hymnbook to see which are LDS and which are not, I found that there are 153 hymns written by LDS authors and composers (42 or so are new to this edition of the hymnal). Then, I found that there are 104 written by non-LDS authors and composers and 70 are written by either an LDS author and non-LDS composer, or vice versa. Of the 341 hymns, 14 are duplicates–found in the Women’s and Men’s Choirs section. It is inspiring to see that people of all Christian faiths have similar beliefs and ideals that they have expressed through verse and song.

” The love of Jesus Christ is the overriding principle taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I studied each song, I could feel some portion of the spirit of the author. What great men and women write these songs, I thought. They surely have the spirit with them and we absorb some of that each time we read and sing their verses.

 

 

When I called our old friend and neighbor, Bonny Goodliffe I felt of her spirit. Our families met and mingled in activities as members of the Monument Park 12^th Ward in Salt Lake City. Bonnie is currently one of five organists performing for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She was most sympathetic when she said she was not a composer of songs (for others), but because I didn’t have another resource to turn to soon my song writing days were over and discouragement set in. Had I persisted, as I should, who knows? I may have a dozen songs to my credit. That first song—which became my last—remains in the bottom of some drawer, probably lost. But occasionally I do hum or sing some of the lyrics.

 

 

 

MormonTabernacleChoir.Org had this to say about Bonnie Goodliffe:

 

Bonnie Goodliffe has an extensive background in organ performance, music theory and composition. She has served as a Tabernacle Organist for one-third of a century and in key positions with the American Guild of Organists.

As one of five Tabernacle organists, Sister Goodliffe performs with both the Tabernacle Choir and the Temple Square Chorale. She also joins with her fellow organists in presenting daily 30-minute organ recitals in the Tabernacle. In addition, Goodliffe teaches music theory in the three- month Choir training school conducted twice each year for new entrants to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and as in- service for current Choir members.

She has been a Tabernacle organist since 1979. She studied piano and organ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Bonnie received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Brigham Young University.

Goodliffe is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). She was an AGO Regional Education Coordinator from 1993 to 1999 and is currently a member of the AGO National Certification Committee. She has presented workshops at AGO conventions and has written several articles published in the AGO’s official magazine, The American Organist.

She was a member of the executive committee responsible for the current edition of the hymnal for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. She is a published composer with credits including the hymn “We Meet Again as Sisters,” a musical setting of “Take My Life and Let It Be” and an arrangement of “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee.”

Bonnie Goodliffe and her husband, Glade, a CPA and business consultant, are the parents of seven children.

The official site of the Tabernacle Choir contains a wonderful video about it’s history, conductors, and organists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_5GpRNMXE

 

 

 

 

 

 

The author thanks and acknowledges The LDS Church for background information about various songwriters and composers. This is found in the article “History of  Hymns, The Evolution of Hymns.”

 http://mormonchannel.org/programs/history-of-hymns?lang=eng

One resource for my investigation about the composer Henry Tucker “Now Let Us Rejoice” was Claudia Manning-Floyd Music.       http://www.mfm.coyotemoon-productions.com/index.html

She said Lyrics by William W. Phelps were written using various folk songs from America and the British Isles. Adam-ondi-Ahman, for example, was “published in the LDS Church’s first hymnal in 1835, as was Now Let Us Rejoice.  The group of hymns was called A Collection of Sacred Hymns. He wrote the words and co-edited them with Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Adam-ondi-Ahman’s music came from an anonymous “Southern harmony.” Numerous southern harmonies originated from Scottish immigrants who peopled the Appalachian Mountain regions after leaving their homeland in search of relief from poverty and oppression in the 1700s. This arrangement attempts to bring a “Scottish Aire” to this beautiful hymn with undertones reminiscent of bagpipes and Celtic harp.

I was unable to find a photograph of Henry Tucker, composer of Now let Us Rejoice. The Web has references to one Henry Tucker who was a prolific nineteenth century songwriter, born in New York in 1826. He was not our Henry Tucker because he would have only been nine years old at the time this song was placed in the Church hymn book in 1835. I doubt the Church listing about “Now Let Us Rejoice” is completely correct. If one Henry Tucker—possibly of Great Britain—was the composer, I was unable to verify it or obtain his picture.  However, one thing is true—it isn’t the Tucker born in 1826. Please comment about this at www.LoveQuotes2.com  I would like to be wrong. I would like to be set straight about this from someone who knows or has fresh research or insight.

1)   Now Let Us Rejoice

by William W. Phelps, music: Henry Tucker, song 284

We’ll love one another and never dissemble, but cease to do evil and ever be one…

Moses 7:21-67 and Tenth Article of Faith

 

 

 

William Wines Phelps, Assistant

President of the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints in

Missouri.

 

Henry Tucker was a songwriter who was also a composer and arranger of music during the 1850s and 1860s—mostly of popular music, occasionally hymns. He arranged the following:

Weeping Sad And Lonely w. Charles Carroll Sawyer m. Henry Tucker

Columbia Springs Schottisch for piano

Ever of Thee, strophic (using the same music for successive stanzas) with voice, piano and chorus

My Emma Louise, piano and voice

My Emma Louise, Song and Chorus (Charles Sawyer, composer)

Our Country’s Songs, America, My Country ‘Tis Of Thee

Our Village Home Ballads, 1855, Augustus Rogers, Composer, Henry Tucker arrnanger

Sentimental Songs, courtship and love, G. B. Allen composer, Henry Tucker, arranger

Star of The Evening, Song and Chorus, love and courtship, Allen composer, Tucker arranger

 

 

2)  Redeemer of Israel  by William W. Phelps, Music: Freeman Lewis, song 6

We know he is coming, to gather his sheep, and lead them to Zion in love.

Exodus 13:21-22 and 1 Nephi 22:12

In October of 1831 W.W. Phelps was instructed to purchase a printing press and begin printing a monthly paper in Independence, Missouri. The paper was called the Evening Star and Morning Star. In the first edition, Phelps published his adaptation of a poem entitled “O Thou in Whose Presence My Soul Takes Delight. He called it “Redeemer of Israel.” The original author was Joseph Swain, a pastor of a church in Wainworth, England. His “delicate” health often frustrated his desires to work without ceasing for the benefit of his congregation. His health eventually filed and he died at age 35, leaving a wife and four small children who were supported partially by the posthumous publication of many of his poems and hymns.

“Redeemer of Israel” is also known as Dutchman, Beloved and Meditation. The tune is attributed to Freeman Lewis due to the changes he made to Swain’s original piece. Lewis lived in Uniontown, Pennsylvania between 1780 and 1859 when he died. He is not known to have composed any other hymns. This information comes from the History of Hymns, The Evolution of LDS Hymns and is necessary because it appears that in this case both Phelps and Lewis were not the originators but merely adapted both the music and the text to one another. Today we would say the music was arranged by Freeman Lewis for whom, sadly, the author could not find a photograph or any indication that he ever became a member of the LDS Church. We would also say Phelps was not the original author but merely adapted the text to his use. As you consider this fact, it isn’t any different than today. Despite their claims, many so-called modern composers write words and tunes that are not original at all. Who was it who said there isn’t anything new under the sun?

 

 

 

 

 Come Rejoice

3)    Come Rejoice, Text and Music by Tracy Y. Cannon, song 9

Sing, rejoice, the king of love speaks to earth from heaven above

Doctrine & Covenants 29:4 and 128:19-21

 

 

 

 

Sweet Is The Peace The Gospel Brings

4)     Sweet is the Peace The Gospel Brings by Mary Ann Morton, Music: Alfred M. Durham

song 14

Its laws and precepts are divine and show a father’s care

Transcendent love and mercy shine, in each injunction there

Psalm 119:165

Psalm 119: 97-104

Alfred M. Durham was a great nineteenth century composer who wrote the some of the music for Spirit of America.

http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-America-Alfred-M-Durham/dp/B0000A4G6H

 

 

• The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2003 performed and cut this album that contained the combined talents of the following, along with Alfred M. Durham, music from other world famous composers including Antonin Dvorak, Woody Guthrie, Charles Osgood (narration), Stephen Harrison Paulus, et al.

 

God of Power, God of Right

5)    God of Power, God of Right, by Wallace F. Bennett, Music: Tracy Y. Cannon song 20

God of mercy, God of love

Let thy spirit like the dove,

Touch and humble, teach and bless

As we serve in holiness

Alma 26:35

Mosiah 5:15

 

 

 

 

 

Senator Wallace F. Bennett with President Ronald Reagan,

speaking to some excited girl scouts.

 

Wallace Bennett was elected in 1950 to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 1974, retiring to let his chosen successor, Jake Garn, take office a few weeks early. Robert Bennett, 60, was elected to the seat in 1992.

The elder Bennett was known as a reserved statesman with a strong work ethic that he developed while running the family paint business, Bennett Enterprises, for 30 years before going to Washington. We were his neighbors and he lived several miles away from an office he maintained both at the University of Utah and downtown Salt Lake City in the federal post office named after him. Even when in his late seventies and eighties he could be seen with briefcase under his arm walking to work each morning for exercise. Perhaps that was key to the fact that he lived be 95 years of age.

Wallace Bennett parlayed his interest in business to positions on the Senate Finance and Banking and Currency committees. He was also a senior member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and vice-chairman of the special Senate ethics committee. Down-the-Line Conservative. The above is the official bio on Senator Bennett.

I knew Wallace personally. He was my neighbor, living in the 900 Donner Way high rise a half block from my home and garden. He walked by one day and I chatted him about the Panama Canal, which the U.S. under President Jimmy Carter, ceded without charge to Panama. I debated that issue with the good senator, who had been a member of the Sunday School Union in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, taught gospel doctrine classes in Sunday School, and held a variety of positions including General Sunday School Board member for many years. He was married to the former Francis Grant, daughter of Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 

We Listen To A Prophet’s Voice

6)                We Listen To A Prophet’s Voice, by Marylou Cunningham Leavitt, Music: Darwin K. Wolford, song 22

We listen to the prophet’s voice

And hear the savior, too,

With love he bids us do the work,

The Lord would have us do

Doctrine & Covenants 1:38; 68:4; 112:30-32

 

Marylou C. Leavitt

 

 

We Ever Pray To Thee

7)                We Ever Pray To Thee, by Evan Stephens, Music: H. A. Tuckett , song 23

We ever pray to thee, with fervent love

Doctrine & Covenants 107:22

The author was unable to find a photograph or picture of  H.A. Tuckett, AKA Henry Tuckett, 1852 to 1918. Stephens was born at Pencader, Wales. He came to Utah with his parents at age twelve. When he was a very small child his mother would take him with her to work in the fields as she raised money to help pay to build the Salt Lake Temple. Stephens never married but was sealed by proxy to one Sarah Daniels after his death. He had anticipated that she would convert to the LDS Church and come to Utah but this did not happen. . He had an attachment to a girl in Willard, Utah when he was in his early twenties, but she died in a freak accident while in a stage performance. Later Stephens was engaged to a lady who made a deathbed request at the end of her brief illness that he love her through his music.

Stephens had studied for a time a the University of Deseret. From 1885 to 1900 he directed the teaching of music at the University of Utah and also was the first public school music supervisor in Utah.

§                     #11 “What Was Witnessed in the Heavens” (music), #17 “Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake!” (music),

§                     #18 “The Voice of God Again is Heard” (words and music),

§                     #23 & #312 (Women) “We Ever Pray for Thee” (text and adaptation of music by H. A. Tuckett),

§                     #33 “Our Mountain Home So Dear” (music),

§                     #35 “For the Strength of the Hills” (music),

§                     #55 “Lo, the Mighty God Appearing!” (music),

§                     #61 “Raise Your Voices to the Lord’” (words and music),

§                     #74 “Praise Ye the Lord” (music),

§                     #91 “Father thy Children to Thee Now Raise” (words and music),

§                     #118 “Ye Simple Souls who Stray” (music),

§                     #120 “Lean on My Ample Arm” (music),

§                     #183 “In Remembrance of Thy Suffering” (words and music),

§                     #229 “Today, While the Sun Shines (music),

§                     #243 “Let Us All Press On” (words and music),

§                     #254 “True to the Faith” (words and music),

§                     #312 “We Ever Pray for Thee” (words and music),

§                     #330 “See The Mighty Angel Flying” (music), and

§                     #337 “O Home Beloved” (words).

Stephens wrote several other LDS hymns that do not appear in the 1985 edition of the hymnal. Included among his works is “Utah, We Love Thee” (also sometimes referred to as “Land of the Mountains High”) which became Utah’s official State Song in 1937. In 2003 it was designated the official State Hymn, and a new state song was named. Stephens’ was director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and caused it to increase from one hundred twenty-five members to more than three hundred. Under Stephens direction, the choir began performing concerts for all occasions, rather than strictly for religious celebrations. Stephens held the title of choir president. In 1895 he became the first conductor/director employed by the Church full time.

 

 

 

 

In the book Stories of our Mormon Hymns, Spencer Cornwall does outline some interesting things about H.R. Tuckett who apparently wrote the music for the hymns “We Ever Pray For Thee, We Are Sowing, Choose The Right, and We Ever Pray For Thee.”

 

Joseph Smith’s First Prayer

8)                Joseph Smith’s First Prayer, George Manwaring, Music: Sylvanus Billings Pond, p. 26

When within the shady woodland, Joseph sought the God of Love

Joseph Smith History 1:14-15,    The history behind  this song is this: George Manwaring was a music teacher and poet of rare ability, according to The History of Hymns—The Evolution of LDS Hymns blog. But here’s the ironic thing. He never had a music lesson in his life, “yet he was able to play piano and organ and teach—all of which he did by ear.” The song, “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer,” was inspired by a painting he saw of the First vision. Manwaring merely put this story to music and words. The arrangement for the hymn was done by the trained musician A.C. Smith, who adapted it from Sylvanus Billings Pond’s melody. There were no pictures available either for Smith or Pond, but then Manwaring is the story here, not Pond and Smith.

 

 

 

 

A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

9)                A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, by James Montgomery, Music: George Coles, song 29

There was something in his eye,

That won my love, I knew not why

Matthew 25:31-40

Mosiah 2:17

 

James Montgomery

Originally, this song was a James Montgomery poem entitled “The Stranger.” The hymn seems to answer the question in Matthew 25:37-39. “Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? Or thirsty, and gave the drink?” Montgomery had an advantage: At age 7, he was sent to Fulneck Seminary in Yorkshire, England. Then the sky fell—a few years later his parents left him in the care of the seminary and set off as missionaries to the West Indies. A short time later, his parents met with tragedy and died. No longer was Montgomery a great student. His grades fell and he had to leave the school, so he took on a series of apprenticeships. Then he met a Mr. Gates, a printer of the Sheffield Register. Eventually, Montgomery took over the Sheffield Register, changing its name to the Sheffield Iris which he ran for the next 32 years as an editor. During this time he wrote 400 hymns, but his best-known hymn was “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief,” which also became a poem. James Montgomery never married and he died quietly in his sleep at age 83.

 

 

 

George Coles

The melody to this important song was written by George Coles. It was also known as Duane Street. It was simple—Coles merely acquired a copy of Montgomery’s poem and set it to music. Everyone knows the story: When Joseph Smith realized that things didn’t look good as he and others including John Taylor were in an upstairs jail room when Joseph, in a melancholy mood, asked the baritone Taylor to sing the song. Shortly thereafter, Joseph was assassinated by a mob of gunmen who broke into the jail.

 

 

The Wintery Day, Descending To Its Close

10)           The Wintery Day, Descending To Its Close, by Orson F. Whitney, Music: Edward P. Kimball, song 38

And wouldn’t thou ask me, where my fancy roves

To reproduce the happy scenes it loves,

Where hope and memory together dwell

And paint the pictured beauties that I tell

Isaiah 51;3 and 2::2-3

 

Orson F. Whitney

 

 

 

 

Edward P. Kimball

 

 

 

Beauty

Let Zion In Her Beauty Rise

Let Zion In Her Beauty Rise, by Edward Partridge, Music: anon., song 41

Let Zion in her beauty rise, her beauty begins to shine

Ere long the king will send the skies, majestic and divine.

Doctrine & Covenants 82:14; Moses 7:62-65

 

D&C 41:6 . How Should Members of the Church Esteem the Sacred Commandments and Covenants Revealed to Them?

President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: “The things of the kingdom are not for the unworthy, whether they are in or out of the Church. It is the duty of the members to hold in the most solemn and sacred manner every commandment, every covenant, every principle of truth which the Lord has revealed for their salvation. He has given to the members, if they will humbly receive them, covenants and obligations which are not for the world. Things that are most holy and sacred, which are revealed to those who have made covenant to be ‘just and true,’ and who have ‘overcome by faith,’ things which are imparted to them as a means of bringing to pass their exaltation, should not be lightly treated, ridiculed, or spoken of before the world. ‘For it is not meet that the things which belong to the children of the kingdom should be given to them that are not worthy, or to dogs, or the pearls to be cast before swine.’ Yet how often do we see the foolish, the ignorant and those who fail to comprehend the vastness of these sacred principles and covenants, treating them lightly and unworthily even before the world!” ( Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:179–80.)

D&C 41:6–8 . What Is the Meaning of the Word Meet in These Verses?

“Earlier definitions of the word meet, which are now listed as archaic in some modern dictionaries, include the idea of being proper, fit, acceptable, permissible, right, necessary, or desirable. Thus, the statement it is ‘not meet that I should command in all things’ ( D&C 58:26 ) essentially means that it is not necessary or desirable for the Lord to tell us everything we should know.” (Ludlow, Companion, 2:175.)

D&C 41:9–11 . The Calling of Edward Partridge As the First Bishop of the Church

In the law of consecration, the bishop was the spiritual and temporal agent who directed the program, assigned inheritances, received properties, and so on (see D&C 42:33 ; 72:9–15 ). The law was to be revealed shortly, so it was appropriate that Edward Partridge should be called as the first bishop in the Church.

 

Beautiful Zion Built Above

11)           Beautiful Zion Built Above, by George Gill, Music: Joseph G. Fones, song 44

Beautiful Zion built above,

Beautiful city that I love,

Beautiful gates of pearly white,

Beautiful temple, God is light,

He who was slain on Calvary,

Open those pearly gates to me.

Revelation 7:9-17

Revelation 21:2, 21-23

This is a hymn focusing on an eternal city where the glory of God emanates as extreme light. The words were those of George Gill, born in 1820. The website Hymn Studies conjectures that he was probably born at Totnes in Devon, England. He had three brothers and all four brothers became ministers. Both William and George Gill were sent by the London Missionary Society to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific as missionaries where they labored until 1860. The above hymn was penned by George Gill on the Island of Mangala in April, 1850. It was first published in 1852 in the Juvenile Missionary Magazine.  Hymn Studies reported that the hymn was very popular at one time, appearing even in Mormon and Seventh-Day Adventist hymnbooks.

Thomas J. Cook composed the music for a version used in their songbooks; however, Joseph G. Fones.composed music for the version used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a Presbyterian minister from England reportedly brought to the U.S. by Mormons to write music. “Beautiful Zion Built Above” is his only hymn included in the Church’s 1985 hymnbook. So if the Church “brought” him to America to write songs, it didn’t get its money’s worth, did it? He married a woman named Elizabeth. That’s all we know of him, except his descendants have done some genealogy for him and aren’t happy about cooperating with me on this book. I counted 43 descendants from Elizabeth Fones in Genealogy.com, but there is no trace of Joseph G. Fones. Maybe he is the one mentioned that went to South America or South Africa.

 

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Love

Lead Me Into Life Eternal

Lead Me Into Life Eternal, by John A. Widstoe, Music: Alexander Schreiner, song 45

Guide me as I search in weakness,

Let thy loving light be mine.

Psalm 143:10

Doctrine & Covenants 42:61

 

 

 

From 1901 through 1987 Alexander Schreiner ) was one of the most noted organists of the Salt Lake Tabernacle. He also wrote the music to several LDS hymns, several of which are in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook.Alexander Ferdinand Schreiner  was born on July 31, 1901 in Nuremberg, Germany. His parents were Johann Christian Schreiner and Margarethe Schwemmer who joined the LDS church in 1903, and the local congregation held meetings in the family’s home. Schreiner performed in public first at age five, and after he was baptized at age eight was almost immediately appointed as a Sunday School organist. In 1912 Schreiner moved with his family to Salt Lake City. Among his early instructors on the organ was John J. McClellan. Early in his career he played at various local theaters such as American Theater of Salt Lake City, Rialto Theater in Butte, Montana, and various venues in California.

 

 

 

Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken

12) Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken, by John Newton, Music: Franz Joseph Haydn, song 46

See! The streams of living waters,

Springing from celestial love

Well supply they sons and daughters

And all fear of drought remove.

Doctrine & Covenants 76: 56-57, 66 (50-70)

 

John Newton in his later years

 

In 1767 Poet William Cowper moved to Olney. He worshipped in the church and collaborated with Newton on a volume of hymns, which was eventually published asOlney Hymns in 1779. This work had a great influence on English hymnology. The volume included Newton’s well-known hymns “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken”, “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds!”, “Let Us Love, and Sing, and Wonder”, “Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare”, “Approach, My Soul, the Mercy-seat”, and “Faith’s Review and Expectation”, which has come to be known by its opening phrase, “Amazing Grace.”

Many of Newton’s (as well as Cowper’s) hymns are preserved in the Sacred Harp singing.a tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the Southern region of the United States. It is part of the larger tradition of shape note music. The name of the tradition comes from the title of the shape note book from which the music is sung, The Sacred Harp. This book exists today in various editions “Shape note” music means that the notes are printed in special shapes that help the reader fluently identify them on the music scale.

 

 

As can be seen, the shape for fa is a triangle, sol an oval, la a rectangle, and mi a diamond.

In Sacred Harp singing, pitch is not absolute. The shapes and notes designate degrees of the scale, not particular pitches. Thus for a song in the key of C, fa designates C and F; for a song in G, fa designates G and C, and so on; hence it is called a moveable “do”system.

When Sacred Harp singers begin a song, they normally start by singing it with the appropriate syllable for each pitch, using the shapes to guide them. For those in the group not yet familiar with the song, the shapes help with the task of sight reading. The process of reading through the song with the shapes also helps fix the notes in memory. Once the shapes have been sung, the group then sings the verses of the song with their printed words.

 

 

Glorious Things Are Sung Of Zion

 

13)  Glorious Things Are Sung Of Zion, by William W. Phelps, Music: Dutch Melody (ca. 1710). Song 48

Love and virtue, faith and wisdom,

Grace and gifts were all combined,

As himself each loved his neighbor,

All were one in heart and mind.

Moses 7:13, 16-21, 62-69

Isaiah 52:8

 

 

 

          Beauty   The Day Dawn Is Breaking

14)            The Day Dawn Is Breaking, by Joseph L. Townsend, Music: William Clayson, song 52

The worldwide commotion, from ocean to ocean

Now heralds the time of the beautiful day

Beautiful day, of peace and rest,

Bright Be thy dawn from east to west,

Hail to thine earliest welcome ray,

Beautiful bright, millennial day.

Doctrine & Covenants 29:11

Doctrine & covenants 45:59

Joseph L. Townsend  was born August 9, 1849 in Canton, Pennsylvania  and died at age 92 on April 1, 1942.in Payson, Utah. He was a writer of many Latter-day Saint hymns.  His hymns found in the 1985 Latter-day Saint hymnal are #52 The Day Dawn is Breaking, #99 Nearer, Dear Savior, to Thee, #185Reverently and Meekly Now, #232 Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words To Each Other, #239 Choose the Right, #258 O Thou Rock Of Our Salvation, #259 Hope of Israel, #271 Oh, Holy Words of Truth and Love, #274 The Iron Rod and #286 Oh What Songs of The Heart.

William Clayson (1840-1887) was a Latter-day Saint hymn writer who wrote the music of The Day Dawn is Breaking; Nearer, Dear Savior, to Thee; O Thou Rock of Our Salvation; The Iron Rod and Oh, What Songs of the Heart.

Clayson was born in England. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855. In 1859 he served as branch president in Irchester. In 1861 he immigrated to Utah, settling in Payson, Utah. He married Susan Moulton in Utah who he had become engaged to before leaving England. He was associated with the LDS Sunday School in Payson, and all his hymn tunes were written as accompaniments to words by Joseph L. Townsend, who was also associated with the Sunday School in Payson.

 

 

We’re Not Ashamed To Own Our Lord

 

15)            We’re Not Ashamed To Own Our Lord, by William W. Phelps, Music: John Longhurst, song 57

We are not ashamed to own our Lord,

And worship him on earth.

We love to learn his holy word,

And know what souls are worth.

Mark 8:34-38; JST Mark 8:40

Doctrine & Covenants 109:73-76

 

John Longhurst was tabernacle organist for 30 years. He also was responsible for building the organ that resides in the LDS Church Conference Center near Temple Square. He retired on March 1, 2008 and was heard to say that “It is a lot more fun listening to someone else play your compositions than to play them yourself.”

 

Come Ye Children of The Lord

 

16)            Come Ye Children of The Lord, by James H. Wallis, Music: Spanish melody, arr. Benjamin Carr, song 58

When all men from sin will cease,

And will live in love and peace.

Doctrine & Covenants 133:25, 33, 56

Revelation:7:9-17

Doctrine & Covenants 133:25, 33, 56

Revelation 7:9-17

 

Benjamin Carr (1768-1831) was the composer of two federal symphonies; for example the 18^th Century American Overture in 1831. Musical life in the late eighteenth century in America has been depicted as every bit as vibrant as that in Europe. Composers are said to have flourished in the wake of the War of Independence. Collaborating to write this music were English-born Benjamin Carr and James Hewitt and Scottish-born Alexander Reinagle. Their work contributed entertaining orchestral works to a growing “New World” repertoire. They also wrote overtures containing medleys of famous classical and popular music. In the above hymn he collaborated with James H. Wallis.

 

 

        

      James H. Wallis (1861–1940) was a Latter-day Saint hymn writer, editor and Patriarch. He was the author of the above hymn “Come Ye Children of The Lord”. Wallis was born in April, 1861 in London, England. His parents were James Wallis and the former Jane Sarah Booth. Wallis joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1877 and immigrated to the United States in 1881, settling in Utah Territory. He was involved in printing and publishing and got his taining while working on the Millennial Star under William L. Davies. In Vol. 95, no. 20 of the Star Wallis published an article on the history of the magazine entitled “The Star and Its Prophesied Headquarters”. At that point he was serving as the associate editor of the magazine.

In 1917 Wallis became the editor of the Vernal Express in Vernal, Utah, a paper he bought in 1921. His son William B. Wallis, his grandson Jack R. Wallis and his great-grandson Steven R. Wallis continued running the paper until Steven’s death in 2007. Prior to coming to Vernal, Wallis had served as editor of the paper that by 1914 was entitled the Paris Post being published in Paris, Idaho. In total, Wallis was editor or publisher of 22 different papers at various locations in Utah and Idaho. Wallis wrote several poems, many of which were published in 1883.

 

Come All You Saints Who Dwell On Earth

19) Come All You Saints Who Dwell On Earth, by William W. Phelps, Music: William B. Bradbury, song 65

His love is great, He died for us

Shall we ungrateful be,

While endless ages roll around,

Perfected by his love

Luke 9:23,

2 Nephi 31:19-21

 

William Batchelder Bradbury

William B. Bradbury lived from 1816 to 1868 in Lincolnshire, England. Most churchgoing people of today have sung his songs as a juvenile or in Sunday school, the type of song he was well known for. Bradbury was born in York, Maine where his father was the leader of a choir. By age fourteen he had mastered every musical instrument available, but never saw an organ or a piano until 1830, when his parents moved to Boston. There he met Dr. Lowell Mason and by 1834 he was known as an organist. In 1840, he began teaching in Brooklyn, New York where he gained popularity by his free singing-schools, and by his concerts, at which the performers, sometimes numbering 1,000, were children. In 1847 he went to Germany to study harmony, composition, and vocal and instrumental music with the best masters.

In 1854, he started the Bradbury Piano Company, with his brother, Edward G. Bradbury in New York City. William Bradbury is best known as a composer and publisher of a series of musical collections for choirs and schools. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books. His first book was published in 1841

 

 

Rejoice The Lord Is King

 

20) Rejoice The Lord Is King by Charles Wesley, Music: Horatio Parker, song 66

The Lord, the Savior reigns

The God of truth and love.

Philippians 4:4

Psalm 32:11

 

Charles Wesley

In his early years, Charles Wesley wrote a hymn a day. In all, he wrote 6,500 hymns, more hymns than any other person, He was born December 18, 1707 and died eighty years later in 1788. Wesley is known as “the sweet singer of  Methodism. In his early years he wrote hymns daily. He was unique. He wrote on foot, on horseback, on a stagecoach, or on a boat. When the inspiration caught him, he had a good habit of writing it down. His hymns were expressions of the heart, and he had a strong belief in God.

 

Glory To God On High

21)  Glory To God On High, by James Allen, Music: Felice de Giardini,  , song 67

Let all the hosts above

Join in one song of love,

Praise ye his name,

His love and grace adore,

Who all our sorrows bore,

Sing aloud evermore, worthy the Lamb.

Revelation 5:9-13

The writer of hymn “Glory to God On High” was James Allen who was born on June 24, 1734 at Gayle, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. Desiring a religious education, Allen studied with two clergymen at different times, then at St. John’s College, Cambridge, for a year. Thereafter, he became a follower of Benjamin Ingham in 1752, founder of the sect of the Inghamites according to Hymnary.org. Later, he joined the Sandemanians and finally built a chapel on his estate at Gayle and ministered therein to the time of his death on October 31, 1804. He published a book, Christian Songs, containing seventeen hymns. He was the editor and principal contributor to the Kendal Hymn Book published in 1757 together with John Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology.

 

All Glory, Laud And Honor

22)  All Glory, Laud and Honor, by Theodulph of Orleans, ca. 760-821, Music: Melchoir Teschner, 1584-1635, translated from Latin to English by John Mason Neale, song 69

Thou did accept their praises,

Accept the love we bring,

Who in all good delightest,

Thou great and generous king.

Psalm 148

John 12:12-13

 

 

Refrain
All glory, laud and honor,
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To Whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.

Thou art the King of Israel,
Thou David’s royal Son,
Who in the Lord’s Name comest,
The King and Bless’d One.
Refrain

The company of angels
Are praising Thee on High,
And we, with all creation,
In chorus make reply.
Refrain

The people of the Hebrews
With palms before Thee went;
Our prayer and praise and anthems
Before Thee we present.
Refrain

To Thee, before Thy passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To Thee, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise.
Refrain

Thou didst accept their praises;
Accept the prayers we bring,
Who in all good delightest,
Thou good and gracious King.

 

 

Theodulph was born in 760 in Italy and died in 821 in Angiers, France. While he was born into the Ital­i­an no­bil­i­ty, but de­cid­ed on a life of re­li­gious ser­vice. His first po­si­tion was as ab­bot of a mon­as­te­ry in Fi­ren­ze(Flor­ence), Ita­ly. In 781, Char­le­magne ap­point­ed him Bi­shop of Or­leans, France. According to CyberHymnal.org, this flour­ish­ing ca­reer came to an abrupt end with Char­le­magne’s death. Lou­is the Pi­ous sus­pect­ed

The­o­dulph of se­cret loy­al­ty to po­li­ti­cal lead­ers in It­a­ly. These sus­pi­cions led to The­o­dulph’s im­pris­on­ment in An­giers in 818. His pre­di­ca­ment is re­mi­nis­cent of Paul’s in­car­cer­a­tion in Rome. Like Paul, The­o­dulph’s faith sus­tained him in­side cold stone walls. It was there he wrote All Glory, Laud and Honor, and there that he died.

 

 

 

 

 

The translation of this Latin hymn by John      Mason Neale has become popular in Catholic, Mormon, and Protestant English-speaking churches around the world. Neale was born in London, England on January 24, 1818—nearly a thousand years after Theodulph died. The son of an Anglican priest, Neale studied at Trinity College, where he as recognized as one of the greatest writers in the distinguished school’s history. After his graduation, Neale continued his education at Downing College, then entered the clergy.   Church leaders felt the young man was indeed brilliant, but they feared his theology was far too Catholic for him to be trusted with a parish, so Neale was appointed warden of a home for old men in East Grinstead. Though he worked tirelessly to fulfill his mission duties, Neale also found time each day to study medieval Church history and liturgy. Much of what Neale uncovered had been lost for hundreds of years. When he found writings that spoke to the modern Church, he translated the documents into English. In this seemingly dead-end position, Neale established dynamic missions for orphans and prostitutes, made vast contributions to church music, and published works that greatly influenced worship in the Anglican Church. John Neale’s humble conviction regarding his hymns is worthy of note. He wrote, “A hymn, whether original or translated, ought, the moment it is published, to become the common property of Christendom, the author retaining no private right in it whatsoever.” Neale died in 1866 almost unnoticed in his own country, yet long-remembered as a loyal churchman and a noted literary scholar.     Conductor-Composer Mac Wilburg This powerful old song, All Glory, Laud, and Honor has been sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as arranged by Conductor Mac Wilburg. The song is the oldest in this collection of religious hymns.

 

Sing Praise To Him

23)   Sing Praise To Him, by Johann J. Schutz, Music: Trans. By Francis Elizabeth Cox, song 70

From Bohemian Brethren’s Songbook, 1566, alt.

Sing praises to him who reigns above,

The Lord of all creation,

The Source of Power, The Mount of Love

Psalm 104:33,

Psalm 121:2-4

Johann J. Schutz was born Sept. 7, 1640, at Frankfurt, Germany. After studying at Tübingen, he became a licentiate in civil and canon law. He practiced as an advocate in Frankfurt, and in later years with the title of Rath. He was a man of considerable legal learning as well as of deep piety. He was an intimate friend of P. J. Spener; it at his suggestion that Spener began his famous Collegia Pietatis. After Spener left Frankfurt, in 1686, Schütz came under the influence of J. W. Petersen; and carrying out Petersen’s principles to their logical conclusion, he became a Separatist, and ceased to attend the Lutheran services or to communicate. He died at Frankfurt, May 22, 1690. (Koch, iv. 220; Blätter fur Hymnologie, Feb. 1883). . He was a German jurist, pietas, and evangelical hymn writer. 1675 Schütz wrote the edification Christian Memorial booklet for carriage of a new beginning of the life in which enlightenment of the inner man and the union takes place with God in the greatest possible brevity and simplicity. In the appendix to this work, he published the song “Be Praise and Honor The Highest Good, The Father of All Goodness” ( EC 326).

From 1676 there were within the Frankfurt community religious reform movements. He concluded that a lawyer could hardly keep away from sins, but his inherited fortune allowed him a waiver of professional activities.

Francis Elizabeth Cox was married to James Madison Kilgore and they had nine children, two daughters and seven boys.  She was among the important English translators of the nineteenth century and a member of the Anglican Church. Together with Catherine Winkworth, she was among the first to rediscover and translate German hymns into English. Her 1841 publication, Sacred HymnsFrom The German, contained 49 translations, together with the original German lyrics and notes on the German authors. It received favorable reviews from both Protestant and Catholic publications. This volume also included the well-known Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above. The translation was also published simultaneously in Lyra Eucharistica and Sacred Hymns from the German, 1864. It was introduced in the U.S. in the Lutheran Church Book, 1868.

Sacred Hymns FromTthe German (1864) contained 56 translations including 27 from the first edition (22 being omitted), plus 29 new translations. According to Julian, a few other translations and original hymns composed by Cox were published in magazines, but had not been gathered together in a single volume.

She died September 23, 1897, at Headington, England.

 

With Songs of Praise

 

24)     With Songs of Praise, by Penelope Moody Allen, Music: Newel K. Brown, song 71

In words and music give our thanks,

For his redeeming love.

Psalm 30:4

Doctrine & Covenants 25:12

Pelelope Moody Allen was born in 1939 and is often referred to as Penny Allen. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of :Ltter-day Saints and is a poet and hymn writer. She has produced two novels, the text of a cantata, myriad poems, and two hymns appearing in the 1985 hymnal.She was born in Castro Valley, California and received her bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University and her master’s degree from Brigham Young University. Her husband is Gary L. Allen. She has served as a member of the BYU faculty. They allens have four children. Many of her writings have been made into hymns set for children, with some being published by The Friend. In addition to the above “With Songs of Praise, Allen wrote “Let the Holy Spirit Guide,” a well-known song found in the 1985 LDS hymnal.

 

 

Works by Penny Allen  Sort by title	Year	Genre
Let the Holy Spirit Guide	1985	Music Lyricshttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
With Songs of Praise	1985	Music Lyricshttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
The Word Was Unperfected Till Made Flesh	1990	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Drought	1989	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Tefnut	1989	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
The Coyote	1987	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Blackberry	1986	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
What’s Left	1983	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Where I Lived Before	1982	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Post Partum Blues	1980	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
I Will One Day Be a Widow, Love	1979	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Costly Harvest	1978	Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
Cataclysm		Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
That Which Has Been Done		Poetryhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=
The Orchid in the Jungle		Unassignedhttp://mormonlit.byu.edu/lit_genre.php?genre=

 

 

 

The song’s composer was Newel K. Brown of Salt Lake City. Brown is a native of Salt Lake City, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Utah. Prior to serving a mission in West Germany, he attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a doctorate degree from Eastman School of Music and accepted positions in New Jersey, Arkansas and Texas before retiring from the University of North Texas.

Brown was teaching at a college in Arkansas in 1969 when he received a letter from the LDS Church’s general music committee requesting his talents for a project to create a new Primary songbook. He learned several other composers, also members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were contacted and assigned a gospel topic, such as faith, scriptures and baptism. That’s the history behind “I Hope They Send Me On A Mission.”

“Mine happened to be missionary work,” Brown said. That’s a prelude to his writing “I Hope They Send Me On A Mission,” one of the most popular church songs in the world for children. If anyone knows the story behind Newell Brown writing “With Songs of Praise,” please let me know.dusanotes@yahoo.com Don White and we will include it in this writeup.

 

In Hymns of Praise

 

25)  In Hymns of Praise, by Ada Blenkhorn, Music: Alfred Beirly, song 75

To all below they daily show

His wisdom and His love

1 Chronicles 16:29

Matthew 10:29-31

 

      Ada Blenkhorn

Sources

 

• Loyer, pp. 29-30

Lyrics

1. All the Way Along
2. Bear Them the News
3. Better Far­ther On
4. Christ Who Died for Me, The
5. Christ Is Mine
6. He Hid­eth Me
7. He Saves Me, Hal­le­lu­jah!
8. He That Be­liev­eth in Me
9. I Do Not Know the Way
10. I Shall See His Face
11. I Want to See Je­sus, Don’t You?
12. It Is My Lord
13. Jordan Ri­ver Is Flow­ing By
14. Keep on the Sun­ny Side of Life
15. Let the Light Shine Out
16. Let the Sun­shine In
17. Life, Light and Love in Je­sus
18. Light of the Ho­ly Ci­ty, The
19. Light That Is Shin­ing for You, A
20. Living in the Sun­shine
21. My Sav­ior Is with Me
22. Now He Lives
23. Singing, Speak­ing, Pray­ing
24. Soldiers of King Je­sus
25. Sunny-Faced Christ­ian, A
26. Sweetly Sing
27. Tell the Sweet Sto­ry of Love
28. Throw Open Ev­ery Door
29. Thy Light Is Come
30. To Je­sus Draw Nigh
31. When We Get Home
32. Will You Give All to Je­sus?

 

 

 

 

Great Is The Lord

 

26)  Great Is The Lord, by Eliza R. Snow, Music: Ebenezer Beesley, song 77

Well may the Saints in latter days

His wondrous love proclaim

Psalm 147:1-5

Doctrine & Covenants 128:19

 

 

Eliza Roxcy Snow Young (January 21, 1804 – December 5, 1887) was one of the most celebrated Latter-day Saint women of the nineteenth century. A renowned poet, she chronicled history, celebrated nature and relationships, and expounded scripture and doctrine. She was a plural wife of Joseph Smith, Jr., was married openly for many years to Brigham Young. Eliza Snow Young was the second general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and served as this organization’s president from 1866 until her death in 1887.

Born in Becket, Massachusetts on 21 January 1804, Snow was the second daughter of Oliver and Rosetta Snow. When she was two years old, her family left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Western Reserve valley, in Mantua, Ohio. The Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Eliza worked as secretary for her father in his office as justice of the peace. She gained renown for her poetry in her early twenties, publishing in local newspapers, and winning awards for her work.

Eliza Snow served as president of the Relief Society until her death in 1887. By 1888, the Relief Society had more than 22,000 members in 400 local wards and branches. Today, it is the largest women’s organization of its kind in the world.

Snow died on December 5, 1887, in Salt Lake City, and was buried in Brigham Young’s family cemetery.

 

 

 

 

Ebenezer Beesley, director of the Tabernacle choir from 1880 to 1889, was born Dec. 14, 1840, at Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, eldest son of Wm. S. Beesley and Susannah Edwards. As a child Brother Beeseley was naturally endowed with musical talent, which showed itself as early as the age of two years.

At that time the Wesleyan Methodist choir of his native town met for practice at the home of his parents. The child was found to be joining in the singing and was soon able to take his part with the rest; in fact, Brother Beesley does not remember the time when he could not sing. When he was six years old some prominent ladies offered to have him trained as a choir boy at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, but his parents could not consent to part with him, as he was then the only child, his younger brother having recently died.

He is now thankful that he remained with his parents, for they soon afterwards joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and thus he became acquainted with the gospel as revealed by God in these days. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 1, p.739-740
Pictures courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society.

 

 

God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand

 

27)  God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand, by Daniel C. Roberts, Music: George W. Warren, song 78

Thy love divine has led us in the past,

In this free land, by thee our lot is cast.

Psalm 33:12

Ether 2:12

Daniel C. Roberts was a 35-year-old rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, a small rural church in Brandon, Vermont. America would soon celebrate its centennial of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and Roberts wanted to compose a new hymn for his congregation that would be sung to the music of a tune called “Russian Hymn.” Many hymns were written to commemorate this event, but only this one has survived.

In 1892 he anonymously sent the hymn he had composed to the General Convention for consideration of a commission engaged in revising the Episcopal hymnal. If approved, he promised to send his name. The commission approved it, printing it anonymously in the commission’s report. The Rev. Dr. Tucker, editor of the hymnal, and organist George Warren in New York were to select a hymn for the celebration of the centennial of the United States Constitution. They chose this hymn and Warren wrote the music for it, “National Hymn,” including the trumpet fanfare at the beginning of the hymn.

It was first published in Tucker’s Hymnal in 1892, with this tune. But in 1894 in Tucker and Rosseau’s Hymnal Revised and Enlarged, these lyrics were also set to the hymn tune “Pro Patria” in Charles Hutchins The Church Hymnal.  But “National Hymn” prevailed and it is the tune to which “God of Our Fathers” is always sung today.

 

 

Press Forward Saints

 

28)  Press Forward Saints, by Marvin K. Gardner, Music: Vanja Y Watkins, song 81

Press forward saints, with steadfast faith in Christ,

With hope’s bright flame a-light in heart and mind,

With love of God, and love of all mankind.

2 Nephi 31:20

Helaman 3:28-30

 

Marvin Gardner

Marvin Gardner was born in 1952. He is a Latter-day Saint hymn writer, editor, and educator.

Gardner served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Columbia. He studied at Brigham Young University (BYU). After that he served as an editor of the Ensign. Gardner also was an editor of the New Era and the Friend and Liahona. He served as assistant or managing editor at one or more of these publications from 1978 to 2005.

Among the hymns written by Gardner is “Press Forward, Saints”.

Gardner is currently a member of the BYU faculty where he is an associate teaching professor of English language and linguistics. Gardner has also taught religion classes at BYU.

The following is from an article ”The Book of Mormon in the First Hymnbook” From the Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Marvin Gardner’s text is very much his own, yet within the framework of rhyme and meter he closely reflects Nephi’s message and language, even using Nephi’s words when they fit the poetic syntax and structure. His source is 2 Nephi 31:20: “Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.”

The words he chose are a strongly worded admonition. It is one that leads to a glorious concluding promise; it also offers an intriguing metaphor (“feasting upon the word of Christ”).

Marvin Gardner’s hymn is a fairly close paraphrase of scripture. More frequently, a poet will use a scriptural metaphor or phrase as a point of departure for an original devotional text.

 

 

Faith of Our Fathers

 

29)    Faith of Our Fathers, by Frederick W. Faber, Music: Henri F. Hemy, song 84

Faith of our fathers, we will love,

Both friend and foe in all our strife,

And preach thee too, as love knows how.

1 Timothy 6:12

Jude 1:3

 

Frederick William Faber (28 June 1814 — 26 September 1863) was a British hymn writer and theologian. He was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, where his grandfather, Thomas Faber, was vicar.

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In January 1837, he was elected fellow of National Scholars Foundation. Meanwhile, he had given up the Calvinistic views of his youth, and had become an enthusiastic follower of John Henry Newman. In 1841, a travelling tutorship took him to the continent; on his return, he published a book called Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and among Foreign Peoples (London, 1842), with a dedication to his friend the poet Wordsworth.

In 1843, Faber accepted the rectory of Elton in Huntingdonshire. However, there was a strong Methodist presence in the parish and the Dissidents packed his church each Sunday in an attempt to ridicule his Catholic leanings. Many of his parishioners were reputed to be living in sin and the village was notorious for its double standards. Few people were surprised when, after a long, drawn out mental struggle, he left Elton to follow his hero Newman and join the Roman Catholic Church in November 1845. He translated Saint Louis de Montfort‘s classic Marian book True Devotion to Mary into English and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847.

He founded a religious community at Cotton Hall, also known as St Wilfrid’s, in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, called Wilfridians which ultimately merged in the Oratory of St Philip Neri, with John Henry Newman as Superior). In 1849, a branch of the oratory—subsequently independent—was established in London, first in King William Street, and afterwards at Brompton (Brompton Oratory), over which Faber presided until his death. In spite of his weak health, an almost incredible amount of work was crowded into those years. He published a number of theological works, and edited the Oratorian Lives of the Saints.

Even as a Roman Catholic, Faber was a firm supporter of using the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. He wrote: “It lives on in the ear like music that can never be forgotton, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows he can forget.”

He is the great-uncle of Geoffrey Faber, co-founder of the publishing house “Faber and Gwyer” which later became “Faber and Faber“.

Among his best-known hymns are:

§                     Faith of Our Fathers (hymn)

§                     Father of Mercies, Day by Day (1849)

§                     I was wandering and weary

§                     Jesus is God, the glorious bands (n. 298, The Church Hymn Book (1872)), written in 1862

§                     My God, how wonderful thou art (n. 195 in Hymn Book), written in 1849

§                     O Jesus, Jesus, dearest Lord (n. 754, Hymn Book), written in 1848

§                     O paradise! O paradise (n. 1443, Hymn Book), written in 1849

§                     Oh, come and mourn with me awhile (n. 464, Hymn Book), written in 1849

§                     Oh, gift of gifts (n. 676, Hymn Book), written in 1848

§                     Sweet Saviour, bless us were we go

§                     There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy (translated into Swedish in 1970 by Britt G. Hallqvist)

§                     The Greatness of God

§                     The Will of God

§                     The Eternal Father

§                     The God of my Childhood

§                     The Pilgrims of the Night

§                     The Land beyond the Sea

§                     The Shadow of the Rock

Those hymns are also used in Protestant collections as well. Faber was a supporter of congregational singing and wrote his hymns in an age when English Catholics did not necessarily feel comfortable singing the hymns of their Protestant neighbors. So Faber, as a Catholic, expanded their hymns suitable for congregational singing and encouraged the practice.^[7]

In addition to many pamphlets and translations, Faber published the following works:

§                     The Cherwell Water-Lily and Other Poems (1840)

§                     Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and among Foreign People (1842)

§                     Sir Lancelot: A Legend of the Middle Ages (book-length poem, 1842; revised edition, 1857)

§                     The Styrian Lake and Other Poems (1842)

§                     The Rosary and Other Poems (1845)

§                     An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Congregation of Rites (1848)

§                     All for Jesus, or The Easy Ways of Divine Love (1853)

§                     Growth in Holiness, or The Progress of the Spiritual Life (1854)

§                     The Blessed Sacrament, or The Works and Ways of God (1855)

§                     Poems (1856)

§                     The Creator and the Creature, or The Wonders of Divine Love (1857)

§                     The Foot of the Cross, or The Sorrows of Mary (1858)

§                     Spiritual Conferences (1859)

§                     The Precious Blood, or The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

§                     Bethlehem (1860)

§                     Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects (2 volumes, 1866)

§                     J. E. Bowden, Life and Letters, (London, 1869),

§                     F. A. Faber, A Brief Sketch of the Early Life of the late F. W. Faber, D.D., (London, 1869), by his brother

§                      This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). 

Henri Frederick Hemi (1818-1888) played the or­gan at St. An­drew’s Ro­man Ca­tho­lic Church in New­cas­tle, England and lat­er taught mu­sic at Tyne­mouth and at St. Cuth­bert’s Coll­ege, Ushaw, Dur­ham. His works in­clude:

• Royal Tutor for the Pi­a­no­for­te, 1858
• Crown of Je­sus Mu­sic, 1864

Born: November 12, 1818, New­cas­tle-up­on-Tyne, Eng­land.

Died: June 10, 1888, Har­tle­pool, Cleve­land, Eng­land.

Buried: St. Andrew’s, New­cas­tle-up­on-Tyne, Eng­land.

 

Sources

• McCutchan, pp. 293-4
• Hustad, p. 257
• Nutter, p. 458
• Reynolds, p. 316

Music

1.                  DAILY, DAILY

2.                  SABBATA

3.                  ST. CATHERINE

4.                  STELLA

 

How Firm A Foundation

 

30)  How Firm A Foundation, by Robert Keen, Music: J. Ellis, song 85

E’en down to old age, all my people shall prove,

My sov’reign eternal unchangeable love;

Isaiah 41:10; 43: 2-5

Helaman 5:12

According for SongsForToday.com, no one is sure about the original author of this song. But we were given a hint that it could be Richard Keen.  It was accompanied in the original manuscript by just the letter ‘K’.  It appeared in ‘A Selection of

Hymns from the Best Authors’, by John Rippon (1787).

The above website conjectured it could be Robert Keen, John Keene, John Kirkham, or John Keith. 

John Rippon was pastor of Carter’s Lane Baptist Church in London for more than half a century.  Rippon loved hymns, and his hymnal, A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, became a best-seller among Baptist churches in England and America.

Scholars think that the author was Robert Keene, the music director for Rippon’s congregation –– but even that is not certain. In most hymnals, quotation marks enclose all the words except verse, but not in the LDS hymnal. Many of the words are from the Bible –– a line from here and another from there.  The hymn relates a series of Godly assurances.  “Fear not, I am with thee,” it says –– and then promises, “When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie, my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply.”

This was and is a popular hymn among Mormons. It was chosen by Robert E. Lee and was sung at his funeral.  It was also one of Theodore Roosevelt’s favorites, and was sung at his funeral.

 

 

God Is Love

 

31)                God Is Love, by Thomas R. Taylor, Music: Thomas C. Griggs, song 87

Earth with her ten thousand flowers,

Air, with all its beams and showers.

Heaven’s infinite expanse,

Seas resplendent countenance.

All around and all above,

Bear this record that God is love.

1 John 4:7-8

Moses 6:63

 

Thomas R. Taylor

Thomas R. (Rawson) Taylor was born at Ossett, England near Wakefield, May 9, 1807, and educated at the Free School, Bradford, and the Leaf Square Academy, Manchester. From the age of 15 to 18 he was engaged, first in a merchant’s office; then he worked for a printer. His father was Thomas Taylor, a reverend. Influenced by strong religious desires, he entered the Airedale Independent College at 18, to prepare for the Congregational ministry. His first and only charge was Howard Street Chapel, Sheffield. For a short time he acted as classical tutor at Airedale College, but the failure of health compelled him to leave Sheffield. He died March 7, 1835 at age 28. A volume of his Memoirs and Select Remains, by W. S. Matthews, in which were several poems and a few hymns, was published in 1836. In the Protestant world his best known hymn was “I’m but a stranger here.” In the Mormon Church his favorite remains “God Is Love

1, God Is Love, AKA The Love of God

2. Savior and Lord of all. Hymn to the Savior. Altered as “Jesu, Immanuel” in the LeedsHymn Book, 1853.
3. There was a tims when children sang. Sunday School Anniversary.
4. Yes, it is good to worship Thee. Divine Worship. From this “‘Tis sweet, 0 God, to sing Thy praise,” beginning with st. ii.
5. Yes, there are little ones in heaven. Sunday School Anniversary.

n      John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

 

 

 

Thomas C. Griggs

Thomas Cott Griggs (June 19, 1845 – August 12, 1903) was an English-born Latter-day Saint director and hymn writer. He is probably most notable for being the composer of the music to “Gently Raise the Sacred Strain”, which has been used by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for over three-quarters of a century as the opening number in the “Music and the Spoken Word” broadcasts.

Griggs was born in Dover, Kent, England. His mother joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) when Griggs was young and he was baptized at age 11. That same year he and his mother (his father had passed away) traveled with a group of Latter-day Saints to Boston. They stayed there for five years. During this time, Griggs belonged to a band formed by the LDS Church’s Boston congregation. It was as a member of this band that he studied music. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Griggs heeded the counsel of LDS Church leaders to move to Utah Territory. The Griggs crossed the plains in Joseph Horne‘s Mormon pioneer company in 1861.

Griggs first joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1866 when Charles John Thomas was the director. Griggs would continue as a member of the choir until his death in 1903. Griggs served as the assistant conductor under Conductor Robert Sands. About 1880, Griggs left the choir for a short time to serve a mission inBritain. While away, he was appointed director of the choir, but on returning to Utah and realizing that Ebenezer Beesley was directing the choir well, he convinced church leaders to appoint Beesley director and leave him as the assistant director.

Besides his work with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Griggs also assisted in the compilation of the Latter-day Saint Psalmody and the first songbook published by the Deseret Sunday School Union. From 1874 to 1891 he was superintendent of the Sunday School located in the 15th Ward in Salt Lake City. From 1891 to 1901 he was superintendent of the Sunday school for the Salt Lake Stake, thus being in charge of all Sunday Schools teaching Latter-day Saints in all of Salt Lake County. Griggs had also been made a member of the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union in 1889, and served in that position until his death in 1903. He was the Deseret Sunday School Union business manager from 1900 until his death.

 

Father, Thy Children To Thee Now Raise

 

32)                Father, Thy Children To Thee Now Raise, text and music: Evan Stephens, song 91

Oh, may our songs to thy courts ascend;

Pleasing to thee may our love and grace,

For thy protecting and watchful care.

Psalm 13:6

Doctrine & Covenants 136:28

 

Evan Stephens (1854-1930) directing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Stephens was born at Pencader, Wales. He moved with his family to Utah Territory when he was twelve. His parents had converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) before his birth. When he was a very small child his mother would take him with her to work in the fields as she raised money to help pay to build the Salt Lake Temple

From 1885 to 1900 Stephens directed the teaching of music at the University of Utah. Stephens also served as the first public school music supervisor in Utah.

 

 

In 1899 the Missionary Song Book edited by Stephens was distributed in the Southern States Mission.^[5]

In the 1927 English LDS Hymnbook there were 84 hymns written by Evan Stephens.^[2]

His 19 works in the 1985 English language edition of the Latter-day Saint hymnal are:

§                     #11 “What Was Witnessed in the Heavens” (music),

§                     #17 “Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake!” (music),

§                     #18 “The Voice of God Again is Heard” (words and music),

§                     #23 & #312 (Women) “We Ever Pray for Thee” (text and adaptation of music by H. A. Tuckett),

§                     #33 “Our Mountain Home So Dear” (music),

§                #35 “For the Strength of the Hills” (music),

§                #55 “Lo, the Mighty God Appearing!” (music),

§                #61 “Raise Your Voices to the Lord’” (words and music),

§                #74 “Praise Ye the Lord” (music),

§                #91 “Father thy Children to Thee Now Raise” (words and music),

§                #118 “Ye Simple Souls who Stray” (music),

§                #120 “Lean on My Ample Arm” (music),

§                #183 “In Remembrance of Thy Suffering” (words and music),

§                #229 “Today, While the Sun Shines (music),

§                #243 “Let Us All Press On” (words and music),

§                #254 “True to the Faith” (words and music),

§                #312 “We Ever Pray for Thee” (words and music),

§                #330 “See The Mighty Angel Flying” (music), and

§                #337 “O Home Beloved” (words).

He wrote several other LDS hymns that do not appear in the 1985 edition of the hymnal.

Included among his works is “Utah, We Love Thee” (also sometimes referred to as “Land of the Mountains High”) which became the official State Song of Utah in 1937. In 2003 it was designated the official State Hymn, and a new state song was named.

 

For The Beauty of The Earth

 

33)                For The Beauty of The Earth, by Folliott S. Pierpoint, Music: Conrad Kocher, song 92

For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies,

For the love which from our birth,

Over and around us lies,

Lord of all to thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise,

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Psalm 95:1-3

Psalm 33:1-6

 

Folliott S. Pierpoint

Plantation, Monmouth

 

Folliott Sandford Pierpoint 7 October 1835 – 1917 was a hymnist and poet.

Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the southwest.

He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc.

His most famous hymn is For the Beauty of the Earth.

Conrad Kocher (1776-1872)

Conrad Kocher was born in Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany December 16, 1786 and died in Stuttgart March 12, 1872. He wrote the hymn tune DIX, to which we sing “For the Beauty of the Earth.” He studied piano and composition in St. Petersburg, Russia, then went to Rome, Italy for further study. Returning to Germany, he served as organist and choirmaster in the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart. He was interested in reformation of church music in Germany and founded the School of Sacred Music in 1821. It popularized four-part singing in churches. He received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Tubingen in 1852. Kocher’s works include an oratorio as well as some operas and sonatas. He contributed to and edited several chorale books and wrote a treatise on church music, Die Tonkunst in der Kirche in 1823.

 

Now Thank We All Our God

 

34)                Now Thank We All Our God, by Martin Rinkhart, Music: Catherine Winkworth, song 95

And keep us in his love,

And guide us day and night.

1 Chronicles 16:8-14

Alma 26:8

 

Martin Rinkart, or Rinckart (23 April 1586 – 8 December 1649) was a German clergyman and hymnist. He is best known for the text to “Now Thank We All Our God” (Nun danket alle Gott), which was written ca. 1636. It was set to music by Johann Crüger about 1647, and translated into English in the 19th century by Catherine Winkworth.

Rinkart was a deacon at Eisleben and archdeacon at Eilenburg, where he was born and also died. He served there during the Thirty Years’ War and a severe plague in 1637.

German pastor Martin Rinkart served in the walled town of Eilenburg during the horrors of the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. Eilenburg became an overcrowded refuge for the surrounding area. The fugitives suffered from epidemic and famine. At the beginning of 1637, the year of the Great Pestilence, there were four ministers in Eilenburg. But one abandoned his post for healthier areas and could not be persuaded to return. Pastor Rinkhart officiated at the funerals of the other two. As the only pastor left, he often conducted services for as many as 40 to 50 persons a day—some 4,480 in all. In May of that year, his own wife died. By the end of the year, the refugees had to be buried in trenches without services.

Yet living in a world dominated by death, Pastor Rinkart wrote the following prayer for his children to offer to the Lord:

Now Thank We All Our God

Now thank we all our God

With hearts and hands and voices;

Who wondrous things hath done,

In whom this world rejoices.

Who, from our mother’s arms,

Hath led us on our way,

With countless gifts of love,

And still is ours today.

 

 

Catherine Winkworth

Catherine Winkworth was born in London at 20 Ely Place, Holborn. She was the fourth daughter of Henry Winkworth, a silk merchant. Winkworth lived most of her life in Manchester. She studied also under the Unitarian minister, Rev. William Gaskell and with the English philosopher Dr. James Martineau. Her sister Susanna Winkworth (1820–1884) was also a translator, mainly of German devotional works.

She spent a year in Dresden where she took an interest in German hymnody. About 1854, she published her book Lyra Germanica, a collection of German hymns which she had chosen and translated into English. A further collection followed in 1858. During 1863, she published The Chorale Book for England which was co-edited by the composers William Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt, and in 1869 she followed this with Christian Singers of Germany. According to The Harvard University Hymn Book, Winkworth “did more than any other single individual to make the rich heritage of German hymnody available to the English-speaking world. Four examples of translations by her hand are published in The Church Hymn Book 1872 (Nos 344, 431, 664 and 807).^[2]

In addition to translating hymns, Winkworth was deeply involved in promoting women’s rights, and was the secretary of the Clifton Association for Higher Education for Women, a supporter of the Clifton High School for Girls, where a house is named after her,^[3] and a member of the Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She was likewise governor of the Red Maids’ School in Westbury-on-Trym in the city of Bristol, England.

 

Lead Kindly Light

 

35)       Lead Kindly Light, by John Henry Newman, Music: John B. Dykes, song 97

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,

Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years.

Psalm 43:3

Psalm 119:133-35

 

John Henry Newman

 

 

John Henry Newman (1801-1890) at­tend­ed Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Ox­ford, orig­in­al­ly in­tend­ing to stu­dy law. How­ev­er, he de­cid­ed to en­ter the min­is­try in­stead, and was or­dained in 1824. His first post was as cu­rate of St. Cle­ment’s, Ox­ford. New­man was a lead­er of the Ox­ford Move­ment, and a gift­ed writ­er. Among his best known writ­ings are his Apol­o­gia, and “Dream of Ge­ron­ti­us.” Though raised a Cal­vin­ist, New­man mi­grat­ed to Ro­man Ca­thol­i­cism, and even­tu­al­ly be­came Car­din­al-Dea­con of St. George in Ve­lab­ro, in 1879. The Ca­tho­lic En­cy­clo­pe­dia car­ries a lengthy ar­ti­cle on him.

Sources

• Brown, pp. 223-4
• Frost, p. 564
• Julian, pp. 802, 1581
• Robinson, p. 15

Hymns

1.                  Firm­ly I Be­lieve and Tru­ly

2.                  Lead, Kind­ly Light

3.                  Praise to the Hol­i­est in the Height

4.         Two Brothers Freely Cast Their Lot

 

 

 

 

John Dykes was born March 10, 1823 at Kingston-upon-Hull, England and died January 22, 1876 at Ticehurst, Sussex, England. At age twelve, John Bacchus Dykes served s assistant organist at St. John’s Church in Hull. It was at Wakefield and St. Catherine’s Hall in Cambridge where he studied and received honors. In 1848 he became curate at Malton, Yorkshire, and later served as both canon and then precantor of Durham Cathedral. In 1862 he became vicar of St. Oswald’s, Durham.

The tenor of his sermons, religious articles, and music was less dogmatic than many of his contemporaries and he often created music for non-Anglican hymns. He wrote more than three hundred hymn tunes during his career, and most of them are still in use today. This is a testament to the high quality of his work.

 

 

Nearer, Dear Savior, To Thee

36)  Nearer, Dear Savior, To Thee, by Joseph L. Townsend, Music: William Clayson, song 99

Loveing thee ever I pray

And me thy will to obey.

Psalm 145: 18-30

Doctrine & Covenants 88:63

 

 

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

 

37)            Jesus, Lover Of My Soul, by Charles Wesley, Music: Joseph P. Holbrook, song 102

Jesus lover of my soul

Let me to thy bosom fly,

While the nearer waters roll

While the tempest still is high

Isaiah 25:4

Psalm 62:1-2, 7-8

 

Charles Wesley

 

Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer

 

38)            Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer, Text and Music, H. R. Palmer, song 103

Keep thy loving arms around us,

Keep us in thy narrow way.

Isaiah 26: 3-4

Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21

 

H. R. Palmer

Horatio Richmond Palmer was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and five of which are in I. D. Sankey’s Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymn writer he is known by his Yield Not To Temptation, which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers’ Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love.

Mormon audiences love and appreciate him most for this song, Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer.

Please refer to the website Hymnary.org for a list of 41 of his compositions: http://www.hymnary.org/person/Palmer_HR

 

Savior, Redeemer of My Soul

 

39)  Savior, Redeemer Of My Soul, by Orson F.Whitney, Music: Harry A. Dean, song 112

Never can I repay thee, Lord,

But I can love thee

In perfect harmony with thee.

Make me more worthy of thy love

And fit me for the life above

2 Nephi 1:15

Doctrine & Covenants 95:1

 

 

Our Savior’s Love

 

40)  Our Savior’s Love, by Edward L. Hart, Music: Crawford Gates, song 113

Our Savior’s love shines like the sun with perfect light.

As from above, it breaks from clouds of strife.

John 15:12-14

Doctrine & Covenants 34:1-4

Edward LeRoy Hart (December 28, 1916 – March 9, 2008) was a Latter-day Saint writer of many poems who penned the words to Our Savior’s Love.Born in Bloomington, Idaho, Hart was an English professor at Brigham Young University. He graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelors degree in English and was on the school’s track team.

Besides his long career at BYU, Hart also taught for a time at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he retired in 1982, Hart continued to teach one honors class a year at BYU until 1995.

Hart’s earliest poem A Lesson In Praise dates to 1954. He published a collection of poems on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the LDS Church. Hart edited Minor Lives: A Collection of Biographies that was published in 1971 by Harvard University Press. He also wrote a hymn entitled “The Fullness of Times” on that occasion. He also edited the journals and published them along with a biography of James H. Hart and published works in BYU Studies and the Mormon Letters Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters.

Among Hart’s callings in the LDS Church he served from 1980-1988 as a bishop of a student ward at BYU.

The Composer of this hymn, Crawford Gates, is a native of San Francisco, Calif., and was reared in Palo Alto.  By the time he was 15, he had learned to play the piano, violin, viola, clarinet, trumpet and harp, and had composed some 100 works. At age 25, having received an undergraduate degree and served a Church mission to the eastern states, he got the job to compose the score for a new musical, Promised Valley, commissioned by the State of Utah to celebrate its centennial. Later  he was selected to write an original score for the Hill Cumorah Pageant. He spent the early part of his career on the music faculty at Brigham Young University and was frequently a guest conductor of the Utah Symphony.

 

Crawford Gates