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From the Table Now Retiring
Author: John Rowe Appears in 140 hymnals Matching Instances: 140 Used With Tune: [From the table now retiring]
From the Table Now Retiring
From the Table Now Retiring
Author: John Rowe Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1640 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1. From the table now retiring
Which for us the Lord hath spread,
May our souls, refreshment finding,
Grow in all things like our Head.
2. His example while beholding
May our lives His image bear;
Him our Lord and Master calling,
His commands may we revere.
3. Love to God and man displaying,
Walking steadfast in His way,
Joy attend us in believing,
Peace from God, through endless day. Languages: English Tune Title: TALMAR
From the Table Now Retiring
From the table now retiring
Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #1119 (1886) Lyrics: 1 From the table now retiring,
Which for us the Lord hath spread,
May our souls refreshment finding,
Grow in all things like our Head.
His example while beholding,
May our lives his image bear;
Him our Lord and Master calling,
His commands may we revere. Topics: The Church Lord's Supper Tune Title: ILLINOIS
From the table now retiring
Fitly framed together, groweth
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #1100 (1875) First Line: From the table now retiring Topics: Church Ordinances of; Communion of Christians; Lord's Supper; Ordinances; Sacraments
Fitly framed together, groweth
John Rowe
1764 - 1832 Author of "From the Table Now Retiring" in Favorite Hymns Rowe, John, 1764-1833. Minister at Shrewsbury and at Lewin's Mead, Bristol. His hymn on the Anticipation of Old Age, which appeared in the Bristol Collection, 1806, is also in Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, "When in the vale of lengthened years." Another and somewhat popular hymn by Rowe from the same Collection is “From the Table now retiring." After Holy Communion. For fuller details see Duffield's English Hymns, &c, 1886, p. 162.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Rowe
James Rowe
1865 - 1933 Author of "From the table now retiring" in A Selection of Hymns Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
James Rowe
I. B. Woodbury
1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac B. Woodbury Composer of "[From the table now retiring]" in Favorite Hymns Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris.
He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina.
He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
I. B. Woodbury
