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My life, dear Lord, I give to thee

Author: Calvin Weiss Laufer Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW

[My Life, dear Lord, I give to thee]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Calvin W. Laufer Incipit: 12362 55567 11217 Used With Text: My Life, Dear Lord, I Give to Thee

WINCHESTER NEW

Appears in 388 hymnals Incipit: 51566 54334 32554 Used With Text: My life, dear Lord, I give to thee

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My Life, Dear Lord, I Give to Thee

Author: C. W. L. Hymnal: Songs of Life #92 (1921) Tune Title: [My Life, dear Lord, I give to thee]

My Life, Dear Lord, I Give to Thee

Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #4283 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1. My life, dear Lord, I give to Thee In humble faith and loyalty, To be Thine own in what is planned, And heed with joy Thy love’s command. 2. Show me the trails that turn and climb Through lonely deeps to heights sublime, Yet never lose their touch with life, Its endless round of peace and strife. 3. I pray for tasks that ease the load On other hearts along the road; And love forgiving, patient, tried, To quicken faith and hope beside. 4. Gird me with light whose rays and heat Shall blaze a path to Thy blest seat, That halting steps, no more afraid, May reach the goals for which they’ve prayed. 5. O grant me grace to serve with Thee In love unfailing, pure, and free; Guide me in trails which few have trod, Whose winding ways lead home to God. Languages: English Tune Title: LITTLEFIELD

My life, dear Lord, I give to Thee

Author: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal: The School Hymnal #139 (1920) Languages: English Tune Title: LITTLEFIELD

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Calvin Weiss Laufer

1874 - 1938 Author of "My life, dear Lord, I give to thee" in At Worship Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years. Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial. He later began to work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and became its editor of musical publications, producing books such as The Junior Church School Hymnal (1927), The Church School Hymnal for Youth (1928) and When the Little Child Wants to Sing (1935). He was also the associate editor of the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1933, a very popular book which was used in many churches for more than fifty years. In 1932, his book Hymn Lore was published, which contained the stories of fifty hymns from The Church School Hymnal for Youth, with information about their writers and composers (much like this blog). He chose a broad range of hymns, some quite modern and others well-known and loved for centuries. Several of them were by his mentor and friend Louis F. Benson, who had edited the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1895 and its 1911 revision (and also wrote The Best Church Hymns). In the preface to Hymn Lore, Laufer wrote: To live with hymns and to make them one's own is the only sure way of appreciating their literary beauty and spiritual power. (...) That the reading and singing of hymns may become less mechanical, more thoughtful and intelligent, and emotionally more effective, this volume is released to the public. Laufer wrote both hymn texts and tunes himself, most of which first appeared in the books he edited but also had some life outside Presbyterian circles. This tune was written while Laufer was attending a conference in Kansas, though with no particular text in mind. Not long after, he hummed it to a friend, William H. Foulkes, who then wrote the text "Take thou our minds, dear Lord." Laufer's tune was originally called STONY BROOK, but he changed it to honor a friend, William Ralph Hall. Little is known about the writer May Pierpont Hoyt. Her text is generally sung to the tune BREAD OF LIFE by William F. Sherwin, but since that tune is more known with "Break thou the Bread of life," this text could use a different one. --conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/