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O Lord of life, to Thee we lift

Author: Washington Gladden Appears in 8 hymnals Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE

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ELLACOMBE

Appears in 600 hymnals Tune Sources: Mainz Gesangbuch, 1833 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51765 13455 67122 Used With Text: O Lord of life, to Thee we lift
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FOREST GREEN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 250 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. Vaughan Williams Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51112 32345 34312 Used With Text: O Lord of Life, to Thee We Lift
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ALL SAINTS

Appears in 536 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry S. Cutler Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53451 17712 34322 Used With Text: O Lord of life, to Thee we lift

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O Lord of Life, to Thee We Lift

Author: Washington Gladden Hymnal: The Hymnbook #256 (1955) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1 O Lord of life, to Thee we lift Our hearts in praise for those, Thy prophets, who have shown Thy gift Of grace that ever grows, Of truth that spreads from shore to shore, Of wisdom's widening ray, Of light that shineth more and more Unto Thy perfect day. 2 Shine forth, O Light, that we may see, With hearts all unafraid, The meaning and the mystery Of things that Thou hast made: Shine forth, and let the darkling past Beneath Thy beam grow bright; Shine forth, and touch the future vast With Thine untroubled light. 3 Light up Thy Word; the fettered page From killing bondage free: Light up our way; lead forth this age In love's large liberty. O Light of light! within us dwell, Through us Thy radiance pour, That word and life Thy truths may tell, And praise Thee evermore. Amen. Topics: Bible, The; God Light; Heritage; Scriptures, The Holy Scripture: Isaiah 40:8 Tune Title: FOREST GREEN

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Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan, d. 1900 Arranger of "NOEL" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church 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

H. S. Cutler

1825 - 1902 Person Name: Henry S. Cutler Composer of "ALL SAINTS" in Mawl a chân = praise and song Henry Stephen Cutler (b. Boston, MA, 1824; d. Boston, 1902) studied music in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1844. He moved to England, where he listened with interest to the cathedral choirs and came under the influence of the Oxford Movement. Returning to Boston in 1846, Cutler became organist of the Episcopal Church of the Advent and formed a choir of men and boys, to whom he introduced the wearing of liturgical robes. When he took a position at Trinity Church in New York City, he removed women from the choir and used the occasion of a visit by the Prince of Wales to the church to introduce his newly vested men and boys' choir. He also moved the choir from the gallery to the chancel and initiated the chanting of the psalms and the singing of part of the worship service. Cutler compiled The Psalter, with Chants (1858) and published The Trinity Psalter (1864) and Trinity Anthems (1865). Bert Polman

Washington Gladden

1836 - 1918 Author of "O Lord of life, to Thee we lift" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Washington Gladden (1836-1918) was called to the First Congregational Church in Columbus, OH in 1882 and remained there for 32 years. In 1883-84 he was known for his success in fighting the corrupt Tweed Ring, for arbitrating the Telegraphers' Strike and the Hocking Valley Coal Strike. He attacked John D. Rockefeller, Sr. for giving $100,000 of "tainted money" to the Congregational Church's Foreign Missions program. Throughout his ministry he emphasized applying the gospel to life in America. He wrote "O Master, let me walk with thee" in 1879. Mary Louise VanDyke =================== Gladden, Washington, was born at Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, Feb. 11, 1836; was educated at Williams College: and entered the Congregational Ministry. He was for some time editor of the New York Independent, and of the Sunday Afternoon. In the Sunday Afternoon, his hymn, "O Master, let me walk with Thee" (Walking with God), appeared in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, in March 1879. Of these stanzas i. and iii. are in Laudes Domini, 1884, and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================== Gladden, W., p. 1565, ii. Dr. Gladden has been Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, since 1882. His hymn-writing has not been extensive. The most popular of his hymns is "0 Master, let me walk with Thee," noted on p. 1565, ii. It has come into somewhat extensive use during the last ten years. Additional hymns in common use include:— 1. Behold a Sower from afar. [The Kingdom of God.] In the Boston Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, this is dated 1897. 2. Forgive, 0 Lord, the doubts that break Thy promises to me. [Doubting repented of.] Dated 1879, in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)