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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Author: Robert Robinson, 1735-1790 Appears in 2,203 hymnals Topics: The Life in Christ Gratitude and Love to Christ Used With Tune: NETTLETON
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Author: R. L. Appears in 144 hymnals Topics: Gratitude First Line: My life flows on in endless song Used With Tune: [My life flows on in endless song]
How Can I Keep From Singing?
REDHEAD 76 (AJALON)
Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 455 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Redhead Topics: Gratitude Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11234 43112 32211 Used With Text: When This Passing World Is Done
REDHEAD 76 (AJALON)
THANK YOU, LORD
Meter: 3.3.3.7 Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. Jefferson Cleveland; Verolga Nix Topics: God's Church Life of Discipleship: Love and Gratitude; Gratitude Tune Sources: Traditional African-American melody Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 32143 26713 43211 Used With Text: Thank You, Lord
THANK YOU, LORD
[Give thanks with a grateful heart]
Appears in 39 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smith (b. 1952) Topics: Gratitude Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33212 75217 67537 Used With Text: Give thanks with a grateful heart
[Give thanks with a grateful heart]
Gratitude to God for Redemption
Author: D. Turner Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #LXXIII (1792) Topics: Gratitude to God for redemption First Line: Shall Jesus descend from the skies Lyrics: 1 Shall Jesus descend from the skies,
To atone for our sins by his blood,
And shall we such goodness despise,
And rebels still be to our God?
2 [No brute could be ever so base!
Shall man thus ungrateful then prove?
Forbid it, O God of all grace;
Forbid it, thou spirit of love!
3 The devils would laugh us to scorn,
For folly so shameful as this;
O let us to God then return,
Sure never was goodness like his.]
4 He sav'd us, or we had been lost,
Nor comfort nor hope had e'er known;
Yet he knew this salvation would cost
No less than the blood of his son.
5 Thro' him we forgiveness shall find,
And taste the sweet blessings of peace,
If contrite and humbly resign'd,
We trust in his promised grace,
6 This world then with all its gay joy,
That its thousands has snar'd and undone,
May tempt, but shall never destroy,
Whom Jesus has mark'd for his own.
7 While here thro' the desert we stray,
Our God shall be all our delight,
Our pillar of cloud in the day,
And also of fire in the night:
8 'Till, 'th' Jordan of death safely pass'd,
We land on the heavenly shore,
Where we the hid manna shall taste,
Nor hunger nor thirst any more.
9 And there while his glories we see,
And feast on the joys of his love,
We chang'd to his likeness shall be,
And then shall all gratitude prove.
Scripture: Ephesians 1:7 Languages: English
Gratitude to God for Redemption
Gratitude
Author: Folliett S. Pierpoint Hymnal: Laudes Domini #429 (1890) Topics: Gratitude; Gratitude First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful psalm of praise.
2 For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child;
Friends on earth, and friends above,
Pleasures pure and undefiled;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful psalm of praise.
3 For thy church that evermore
Lifts her holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore
Her pure sacrifice of love;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful psalm of praise. Languages: English Tune Title: HALLE
Gratitude
Joseph Medlicott Scriven
1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph Scriven, 1820-1886 Topics: Gratitude Author of "What a friend we have in Jesus" in The Book of Praise Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident.
Bert Polman
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Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:—
What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Joseph Medlicott Scriven
Kathrina von Schlegel
1697 - 1797 Person Name: Katharina von Schlegel, 1697-18th cent. Topics: Gratitude Author of "Be still, my soul" in The Book of Praise Schlegel, Catharina Amalia Dorothea von. Little is known of this lady. According to Koch, iv., p. 442, she was born Oct. 22, 1697, and was "Stiftsfräulein" in the Evangelical Lutheran Stift (i.e. Protestant nunnery) at Cöthen. On applying to Cöthen, however, her name did not occur in the books of the Stift; and from the correspondence which she carried on, in 1750-52, with Heinrich Ernst, Count Stolberg, it would rather seem that she was a lady attached to the little ducal court at Cöthen. (manuscript from Dr. Eduard Jacobs, Wernigerode, &c.) Further details of her life it has been impossible to obtain.
The only one of her hymns which has passed into English is:—
Stille, mein Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen. Cross and Consolation. A fine hymn on waiting for God. It appeared in 1752, as above, No. 689, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines; and is included in Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837, No. 2249 (1865, No. 2017). The translation in common "Be still my soul!—-the Lord is on thy side." This is a good translation, omitting stanzas iii., by Miss Borthwick, in Hymns from the Land of Luther, 2nd Ser., 1855, p. 37 (1884, p. 100). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Kathrina von Schlegel
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
1839 - 1908 Person Name: Phoebe P. Knapp Topics: Gratitude Composer of "ASSURANCE" in Mil Voces para Celebrar As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today.
Bert Polman
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
