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Author: James Montgomery Appears in 631 hymnals Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 Forever with the Lord! Amen! so let it be; Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him, I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high, Home of my soul! how near At times to faith's far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear! 4 Ah, then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above! 5 For ever with the Lord! Father, if 'tis Thy will, The promise of that faithful word E'en here to me fulfill. 6 Be Thou at my right hand, Then can I never fail; Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand, Fight, and I must prevail. 7 So when my dying breath Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death To life eternal gain. 8 Knowing as I am known, How shall I love that word, And oft repeat before the throne, "Forever with the Lord!" Amen. Used With Tune: NEARER HOME

For all the saints who from their labors rest

Author: Bishop William Walsham How Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: The Life Everlasting Lyrics: 1 For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blest. Alleluia! Alleluia! 2 Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress, and their Might; Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight; Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light. Alleluia! Alleluia! 3 O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, And win with them the victor's crown of gold. Alleluia! Alleluia! 4 O blest communion, fellowship divine! We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. Alleluia! Alleluia! 5 And when the fight is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph song, And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia! Alleluia! 6 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen. Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE

Jerusalem the golden

Author: Bernard of Cluny, 12th century; Rev. John M. Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 911 hymnals Topics: The Life Everlasting Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blest! Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not, O I know not, What joys await us there; What radiancy of glory, What bliss beyond compare. Refrain: Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blest! Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. 2 They stand, those halls of Zion, All jubilant with song, And bright with many an angel, And all the martyr throng. The Prince is ever in them, The daylight is serene; The pastures of the blessed Are decked in glorious sheen. [Refrain] 3 There is the throne of David; And there, from care released, The song of them that triumph, The shout of them that feast; And they who with their Leader Have conquered in the fight, Forever and forever Are clad in robes of white. [Refrain] 4 O sweet and blessed country, The home of God's elect! O sweet and blessed country That eager hearts expect! Jesus, in mercy bring us To that dear land of rest; Who art, with God the Father And Spirit, ever blest. [Refrain] Amen. Used With Tune: URBS BEATA

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DUKE STREET

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,443 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hatton Topics: The Life Everlasting Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13456 71765 55565 Used With Text: I Know That My Redeemer Lives

UNCHANGING HAND

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 47 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. L. Eiland; Stephen Key Topics: Everlasting Life Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11156 56133 31235 Used With Text: Hold to God's Unchanging Hand

FINLANDIA

Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 283 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jean Sibelius Topics: Life Everlasting Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 32343 23122 33234 Used With Text: Be Still, My Soul

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Brief life is here our portion

Author: Bernard of Cluny; John Mason Neale Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #527 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion; Brief sorrow, short-lived care; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. 2 O happy retribution! Short toil, eternal rest, For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest. 3 That we should look, poor wanderers To have or home on high! That we should seek for dwellings beyond the starry sky! 4 And now we fight the battle, But then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting And passionless renown. 5 For Thee, O dear, dear Country! Mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep; 6 The mention of thy glory In unction to the breast. And medicine in sickness And love, and life, and rest. 7 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean! thou hast no time, bright ay! Dear fountain of refreshment To pilgrims far away! 8 Upon the Rock of Ages They raise thy holy tower; Thine is the victor's laurel, And thine the golden dower. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE

Blessed be the everlasting God

Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: The Presbyterian Book of Praise #338 (1897) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Christian Life The Life Everlasting Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. STEPHEN

God of the living, in Whose eyes

Author: John Ellerton Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #508 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Death Lyrics: 1 God of the living, in Whose eyes Unveiled Thy whole creation lies, All souls are Thine; we must not say That those are dead who pass away, From this our world of flesh set free; We know them living unto Thee. 2 Released from earthly toil and strife, With Thee is hidden still their life; Thine are their thoughts, their works, their powers, All thine, and yet most truly ours; For well we know, where'er they be, Our dead are living unto Thee. 3 Not spilt like water on the ground, Not wrapped in dreamless sleep profound, Not wandering in unknown despair Beyond Thy voice, Thine arm, Thy care; Not left to lie like fallen tree; Not dead, but living unto Thee. 4 Thy Word is true, Thy will is just; To Thee we leave them, Lord, in trust, And bless Thee for the love which gave Thy Son to fill a human grave, That none might fear that world to see Where all are living unto Thee. 5 O Breather into man of breath, O Holder of the keys of death, O Giver of the life within, Save us from death, the death of sin; That body, soul, and spirit be For ever living unto Thee! Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: DAVID'S HARP

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: R. Vaughan Williams Topics: The Life Everlasting Composer of "SINE NOMINE" in The Hymnal Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven Topics: The Christian Life The Life Everlasting Composer of "EMMANUEL" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period. Bert Polman

Samuel Medley

1738 - 1799 Topics: The Life Everlasting Author of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" in Christian Youth Hymnal Medley, Samuel, born June 23, 1738, at Cheshunt, Herts, where his father kept a school. He received a good education; but not liking the business to which he was apprenticed, he entered the Royal Navy. Having been severely wounded in a battle with the French fleet off Port Lagos, in 1759, he was obliged to retire from active service. A sermon by Dr. Watts, read to him about this time, led to his conversion. He joined the Baptist Church in Eagle Street, London, then under the care of Dr. Gifford, and shortly afterwards opened a school, which for several years he conducted with great success. Having begun to preach, he received, in 1767, a call to become pastor of the Baptist church at Watford. Thence, in 1772, he removed to Byrom Street, Liverpool, where he gathered a large congregation, and for 27 years was remarkably popular and useful. After a long and painful illness he died July 17, 1799. Most of Medley's hymns were first printed on leaflets or in magazines (the Gospel Magazine being one). They appeared in book form as:— (1) Hymns, &c. Bradford, 1785. This contains 42 hymns. (2) Hymns on Select Portions of Scripture by the Rev. Mr. Medley. 2nd ed. Bristol. W. Pine. 1785. This contains 34 hymns, and differs much from the Bradford edition both in the text and in the order of the hymns. (3) An enlargement of the same in 1787. (4) A small collection of new Hymns, London, 1794. This contains 23 hymns. (5) Hymns. The Public Worship and Private Devotion of True Christians Assisted in some thoughts in Verse; principally drawn from Select Passages of the Word of God. By Samuel Medley. London. Printed for J. Johnson. 1800. A few of his hymns are also found in a Collection for the use of All Denominations, published in London in 1782. Medley's hymns have been very popular in his own denomination, particularly among the more Calvinistic churches. In Denham's Selections there are 48, and in J. Stevens's Selections, 30. Their charm consists less in their poetry than in the warmth and occasional pathos with which they give expression to Christian experience. In most of them also there is a refrain in the last line of each verse which is often effective. Those in common use include:— 1. Come, join ye saints, with heart and voice. (1800). Complete in Christ. 2. Death is no more among our foes. Easter. 3. Eternal Sovereign Lord of all. (1789). Praise for Providential Care. 4. Far, far beyond these lower skies. (1789). Jesus, the Forerunner. 5. Father of mercies, God of love, whose kind, &c. (1789.) New Year. 6. Great God, today Thy grace impart. Sermon. 7. Hear, gracious God! a sinner's cry. (1789). Lent. 8. In heaven the rapturous song began. Christmas. 9. Jesus, engrave it on my heart. (1789). Jesus, Needful to all. 10. Mortals, awake, with angels join. (1782). Christmas. 11. My soul, arise in joyful lays. (1789). Joy in God. 12. Now, in a song of grateful praise. Praise to Jesus. In the Gospel Magazine, June, 1776. 13. O could I speak the matchless worth. (1789.) Praise of Jesus. 14. O for a bright celestial ray. Lent. 15. O God, Thy mercy, vast and free. (1800). Dedication of Self to God. 16. O let us tell the matchless love. Praise to Jesus. 17. O what amazing words of grace. (1789). Foutain of Living Waters. 18. Saints die, and we should gently weep. (1800). Death and Burial. From his "Dearest of Names, Our Lord and King." 19. See a poor sinner, dearest Lord. Lent. 20. Sing the dear Saviour's glorious fame. (1789). Jesus the Breaker of bonds. In 1800 a Memoir of Medley was published by his son, which is regarded by members of the family now living as authoritative. But in 1833 appeared another Memoir by Medley's daughter Sarah, to which are appended 52 hymns for use on Sacramental occasions. These she gives as her father's. But 8 of them are undoubtedly by Thos. Kelly, published by him in 1815, and reprinted in subsequent editions of his Hymns. The remainder are by Medley. Nearly all of these 52 hymns (both Medley's and Kelly's) have been altered in order to adapt them to Sacramental use. In Sarah Medley's volume, Kelly's hymns all follow one another, and three of them are in a metre which Medley apparently never used. What could have been Sarah Medley's motive in all this it is hard to divine. She is said to have been a clever, though unamiable woman, and was herself the author of a small volume of Poems published in 1807. In the Memoir she does not conceal her hatred of her brother. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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