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The Harmonia Sacra
Publication Date: 1993 Publisher: Good Books Publication Place: Intercourse, PA Editors: Joseph Funk
The Harmonia Sacra
Give to our God immortal praise
Appears in 321 hymnals Used With Tune: STERLING
Give to our God immortal praise
Sweet is the work, my God, my King
Appears in 778 hymnals Used With Tune: ROCKBRIDGE
Sweet is the work, my God, my King
HEALING BALM
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 311 hymnals Incipit: 55171 56555 55123 Used With Text: Healing Balm
HEALING BALM
ROCKBRIDGE
Appears in 20 hymnals Incipit: 15611 32113 53132 Used With Text: Sweet is the work, my God, my King
ROCKBRIDGE
Old Hundred
Hymnal: HSAC1993 #53 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: To God, the Great, the ever bless'd Lyrics: 1. To God, the Great, the ever bless'd,
Let songs of honour be address'd;
His mercy firm for ever stands—
Give him the praise his love commands.
2. Who knows the wonders of thy ways!
Who shall fulfill thy boundless praise!
Bless'd are the souls that fear thee still,
And pay their duty to thy will.
3. Remember what thy mercy did
For Jacob's race, thy chosen seed;
And with the same salvation bless
The meanest suppliant of thy grace.
4. Oh may I see thy tribes rejoice,
And aid their triumphs with my voice!
This is my glory, Lord, to be
Join'd to thy saints, and near to thee. Tune Title: OLD HUNDRED
Old Hundred
Newry
Hymnal: HSAC1993 #54A (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Now let our souls on wings sublime Lyrics: 1. Now let our souls, on wings sublime,
Rise from the vanities of time:
Draw back the parting vail and see
The glories of eternity.
2. Born by a new celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at transitory toys,
So near to heav'n's eternal joys?
3. Shall aught beguile us on the road,
When we are walking back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.
4. Welcome sweet hour of full discharge,
That sets our longing souls at large:
Unbinds our chains, breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.
5. To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heav'n enjoyed above;
And the sweet expectation now,
Is the young dawn of heav'n below.
Tune Title: NEWRY
Newry
Windham
Hymnal: HSAC1993 #54B (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Broad is the road that leads to death Lyrics: 1. Broad is the road that leads to death,
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shows a narrow path,
With here and there a traveler.
2. Deny thyself and take thy cross,
Is the Redeemer's great command:
Nature must count her gold but dross,
If she would gain that heav'nly land.
3. The fearful soul that tires and faints,
And walks the ways of God no more,
Is but esteemed almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction sure.
4. Lord, let not all my hopes be vain,
Create my heart entirely new,
Which hypocrites could ne'er attain,
Which false apostates never knew.
Tune Title: WINDHAM
Windham
Joseph Funk
1778 - 1862 Editor of "" in The Harmonia Sacra Joseph Funk USA 1778-1862. Born at Berks County, PA, grandson of the first Mennonite bishop in America. He lived most of his life in Rockingham County, VA. He was a farmer, a composer, publisher, and traveling singing teacher, covering hundreds of miles on horseback to teaching appointments. He married Elizabeth Rhodes, and they had five children: Jonathan, Henry, Elizabeth, Susan, and Barbara.. After her death, he married Rachel Britton in 1814, and they raised nine children: Mary, Joseph, David, Samuel. Hannah, John, Timothy, Solomon, and Benjamin. His advocacy for the use of musical instruments in church worship was in contention with the Mennonite position that musical instruments were not fit for the church. His sons also taught music and sang with instruments, a very progressive posture at the time. He collected songbooks and revised and updated hymn tunes. He invented a 4-shape-note music system in 1851 for the “Harmonia Sacra”, and later a 7-shape notation tunebook. At age 70 he established the first Mennonite printing business in America. His published works include: “A compilation of genuine church music” (1832) – later changed to “Harmonia Sacra”, “The confession of faith” (1837), “A collection of Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs” (1847), “The reviewer reviewed” (1857), “The southern musical advocate & singer's friend” (a monthly periodical 1859-61). He died at Singers Glen, VA.
John Perry
Joseph Funk
