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I've Found a Friend
Author: James G. Small Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 390 hymnals First Line: I've found a Friend; O such a Friend! Topics: Adoration; Christ Friend
I've Found a Friend
WOOLWICH COMMON
Appears in 189 hymnals Tune Sources: German Air, 1785 Incipit: 55435 43243 16217 Used With Text: I've found a Friend; O such a friend!
WOOLWICH COMMON
I've Found a Friend
Author: Rev. J. G. Small Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #117 (1916) First Line: I've found a Friend, O such a Friend! Refrain First Line: I love to sing of such a Friend Lyrics: 1 I’ve found a Friend, O such a Friend!
He loved me ere I knew Him;
He drew me with the cords of love,
And thus He bound me to Him.
Chorus:
I love to sing of such a Friend,
Whose love no pow'r can sever;
My heart, my strength, my life, my all,
Are His and His forever.
2 I’ve found a Friend, O such a Friend!
He bled, He died to save me;
And not alone the gift of love,
But His own life He gave me. [Chorus]
4 I’ve found a Friend, O such a Friend,
So kind, and true, and tender,
So wise a Counselor and Guide,
So mighty a Defender. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [I've found a Friend, O such a Friend]
I've Found a Friend
I've Found a Friend
Author: Rev. J. G. Small Hymnal: Revival Songs No. 2 #7 (1903) First Line: I've found a Friend, O! such a Friend Refrain First Line: I love to sing of such a Friend Languages: English Tune Title: [I've found a Friend, O! such a Friend]
I've Found a Friend
I've found a Friend
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Joy to the World #8 (1879) First Line: I've found a friend, oh, such a friend! Lyrics: 1 I've found a friend, oh, such a friend!
He loved me ere I knew him;
He drew me with the cords of love,
And thus he bound me to him.
And 'round my heart still closely twine
Those ties which naught can sever,
For I am his and he is mine
Forever and forever.
2 I've found a friend, oh, such a friend!
He bled, he died to save me;
And not alone the gift of life,
But his own self he gave me.
Naught that I have my own I call,
I hold it for the Giver;
My heart, my strength, my life, my all,
Are his, and his forever.
3 I've found a friend, oh, such a friend!
All power to him is given
To guard me in my onward course,
And bring me safe to Heaven.
Th' eternal glories gleam afar
To nerve my faint endeavor;
So now to watch, to work, to war,
And then to rest forever.
4 I've found a friend, oh, such a friend!
So kind, so true, and tender,
So wise a counselor and Guide,
So mighty a defender.
From him who loves me now so well
What power my soul can sever?
Shall life or death, or earth, or hell?
No, I am his forever. Languages: English Tune Title: [I've found a friend, oh, such a friend!]
I've found a Friend
James G. Small
1817 - 1888 Author of "I've Found a Friend, O Such a Friend!" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Small, James Grindly, son of George Small, J.P. of Edinburgh, was born in that city in 1817. He was educated at the High School, and the University of Edinburgh. He studied divinity under Dr. Chalmers, and in 1843 he joined the Free Church of Scotland. In 1847 he became the minister of the Free Church at Bervie, near Montrose. He died at Renfrew, Feb. 11, 1888. His poetical works were (1l) The Highlands and other Poems, 1843, 3rd ed. 1852; (2) Songs of the Vineyard in Days of Gloom and Sadness, 1846 ; (3) Hymns for Youthful Voices, 1859; (4) Psalms and Sacred Songs, 1866. His well-known hymn "I've found a Friend; oh such a Friend" (Jesus, the Friend), appeared in his Psalms & Sacred Songs, 1866. It is found in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, and others.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
James G. Small
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan Composer of "CONSTANCE" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas.
Bert Polman
Arthur Sullivan
Edmund S. Lorenz
1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[I've found a Friend, oh, such a Friend!]" in Men's Gospel Quartets Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund,
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Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900.
Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany.
He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889.
Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934).
For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree.
--Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives
Edmund S. Lorenz
