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Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed.
Publication Date: 1806 Publisher: Warner & Hanna Person Name: Warner & Hanna Publication Place: Baltimore Editors: Warner & Hanna
Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed.
How are thy servants blest, O Lord [God]
Author: Joseph Addison Appears in 321 hymnals Person Name: Joseph Addison
How are thy servants blest, O Lord [God]
Worthy the Lamb
Author: James Allen Appears in 410 hymnals Person Name: James Allen First Line: Glory to God on high, Let earth and skies reply
Worthy the Lamb
Jesus grant us all a blessing
Author: George Atkin Appears in 107 hymnals Person Name: George Atkin
Jesus grant us all a blessing
How are thy servants blest, O Lord [God]
Author: Joseph Addison Hymnal: HSSU1806 #d74 (1806) Person Name: Joseph Addison Languages: English
How are thy servants blest, O Lord [God]
Worthy the Lamb
Author: James Allen Hymnal: HSSU1806 #d59 (1806) Person Name: James Allen First Line: Glory to God on high, Let earth and skies reply Languages: English
Worthy the Lamb
Jesus grant us all a blessing
Author: George Atkin Hymnal: HSSU1806 #d94 (1806) Person Name: George Atkin Languages: English
Jesus grant us all a blessing
Joseph Addison
1672 - 1719 Hymnal Number: d74 Author of "How are thy servants blest, O Lord [God]" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through his contributions to The Spectator, The Toiler, The Guardian, and The Freeholder. To the first of these he contributed his hymns. His Cato, a tragedy, is well known and highly esteemed. Addison's claims to the authorship of the hymns usually ascribed to him, or to certain of them, have been called in question on two occasions. The first was the publication, by Captain Thompson, of certain of those hymns in his edition of the Works of Andrew Marvell, 1776, as the undoubted compositions of Marvell; and the second, a claim in the Athenaeum, July 10th, 1880, on behalf of the Rev. Richard Richmond. Fully to elucidate the subject it will be necessary, therefore, to give a chronological history of the hymns as they appeared in the Spectator from time to time.
i. The History of the Hymns in The Spectator. This, as furnished in successive numbers of the Spectator is :—
1. The first of these hymns appeared in the Spectator of Saturday, July 26, 1712, No. 441, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. The article in which it appeared was on Divine Providence, signed “C." The hymn itself, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," was introduced with these words:—
"David has very beautifully represented this steady reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third psalm, which is a kind of pastoral hymn, and filled with those allusions which are usual in that kind of writing As the poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it." (Orig. Broadsheet, Brit. Mus.)
2. The second hymn appeared in the Spectator on Saturday, Aug. 9, 1712, No. 453, in 13 st. of 4 1., and forms the conclusion of an essay on " Gratitude." It is also signed " C," and is thus introduced:—
“I have already obliged the public with some pieces of divine poetry which have fallen into my hands, and as they have met with the reception which they deserve, I shall, from time to time, communicate any work of the same nature which has not appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum)
Then follows the hymn:—"When all Thy mercies, 0 my God."
3. The number of the Spectator for Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1712, No. 461, is composed of three parts. The first is an introductory paragraph by Addison, the second, an unsigned letter from Isaac Watts, together with a rendering by him of Ps. 114th; and the third, a letter from Steele. It is with the first two we have to deal. The opening paragraph by Addison is:—
“For want of time to substitute something else in the Boom of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters. It is no small Satisfaction, to have given Occasion to ingenious Men to employ their Thoughts upon sacred Subjects from the Approbation of such Pieces of Poetry as they have seen in my Saturday's papers. I shall never publish Verse on that Day but what is written by the same Hand; yet shall I not accompany those Writings with Eulogiums, but leave them to speak for themselves." (Orig. Broadsheet, British Museum
Joseph Addison
James Allen
1734 - 1804 Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "Worthy the Lamb" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. Allen, James, born at Gayle, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, June 24, 1734, and educated with a view to taking Holy Orders, first with two clergymen at different times, and then for one year at St. John's Coll., Cambridge. Leaving the University in 1752 he became a follower of Benjamin Ingham, the founder of the sect of the Inghamites, but subsequently joined himself to the Sandemanians; and finally built a chapel on his estate at Gayle, and ministered therein to the time of his death; died 31st Oct., 1804. He published a small volume, Christian Songs, containing 17 hymns, and was the editor and a principal contributor to the Kendal Hymn Book, 1757, and Appendix to the 2nd edition, 1761.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Allen
George Askins
? - 1816 Person Name: George Atkin Hymnal Number: d94 Author of "Jesus grant us all a blessing" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of Christians. 8th ed. George Askins was born in Ireland. He immigrated to the United States as an adult. He was a Methodist and became an itinerant preacher for the Baltimore Conference in 1801. He was appointed to other circuits as well, mostly in Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky. He died in Frederick, Maryland 28 February 1816.
Dianne Shapiro from The Makers of the Sacred Harp by David Warren Steel with Richard H. Hulan, University of Illinois Press, 2010
George Askins
