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[When Christ beheld, in sinful night]
Appears in 1 hymnal Hymnal Title: Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement Incipit: 33212 51233 34321 Used With Text: His Bride
[When Christ beheld, in sinful night]
His Bride
Hymnal: Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement #442 (1902) Hymnal Title: Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement First Line: When Christ beheld, in sinful night Lyrics: 1 When Christ beheld, in sinful night,
His bride, deceived, enslaved and lost;
Compassion brought a saving light,
And paid the ransom's awful cost.
Oh, bride, he gave his life for thee,
His blood thy cleansing hath secured.
Let holiness thy garments be;
Thy pure heart never be allured.
2 Thy plighted faith to him, thy Lord,
Thy bridal veil doth ever show.
Thy husband, he; thy law his word;
None other law or service know.
Thy modest ways are his delight;
By humble graces art thou known.
An heir of glory, this thy right,
To share with Christ a royal throne.
3 Exalted by such heav'nly grace,
The church in patience doth abide,
And waits to see his glorious face
When Christ shall come to own his bride.
O wondrous love! yet all for me.
My love in him will I confide.
My heart is longing, Christ, for thee;
Where thou art, there would I abide. Languages: English Tune Title: [When Christ beheld, in sinful night]
His Bride
When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night
Author: S. F. Coffman Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Mennonite #330 (1927) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Mennonite First Line: When Christ beheld, in sin's dark night Topics: Devotional Vail Scripture: Revelation 19:7 Languages: English Tune Title: BARTHOLDI
When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night
When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night
Author: S. F. Coffman Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Mennonite #330 (2017) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Mennonite First Line: When Christ beheld, in sin's dark night Topics: Devotional Vail Scripture: Revelation 19:7 Languages: English Tune Title: BARTHOLDI
When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night
Samuel F. Coffman
1872 - 1954 Person Name: S. F. Coffman Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Mennonite Author of "When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Born: June 11, 1872, Dale Enterprise, Rockingham County, Virginia.
Died: June 28, 1954, Vineland, Ontario, Canada.
Buried: First Mennonite Church, Vineland, Ontario, Canada.
Coffman spent most of his school years in Elkhart County, Indiana, where his family had moved in 1879. He graduated from the Elkhart High School in 1890, and attended the Moody Bible Institute (1894-95 and for six months in 1897-98). From 1890-94, he worked for the Mennonite Publishing Company in Elkhart. He was converted at meetings held in Elkhart by his father, and was baptized on May 26, 1888. He was elected superintendent of the Elkhart Mennonite Sunday school on December 28, 1893. In 1894-95 he served in the Mennonite Home Mission in Chicago, Illinois. There he was ordained to the ministry in 1895; he became bishop in Vineland, Ontario, in 1903.
Coffman served widely in his denomination beyond the borders of his own congregation and conference. He was moderator of the Ontario Conference in 1931-34, and moderator of the General Conference in 1911 and 1933. He also served as secretary of the General Conference for a time. He was a member of the following General Conference committees: Music Committee from its beginning in 1911 until 1947; Peace Problems Committee 1925-49; Historical Committee from its inception in 1911, and its chairperson from 1911 until 1947; General Sunday School Committee from its beginning in 1915 until it was incorporated into the Commission for Christian Education and Young People’s Work in 1937. He served for a time on the Missions Committee of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities. He served on the Mennonite Board of Education from its inception in 1905 until about 1944, serving as secretary for about 20 years. He also served on the Publication Board and its Publishing Committee. He was the founder and served as principal of the Ontario Mennonite Bible School in Kitchener, 1907-47. He was editor of the Bible study department of the Christian Monitor from the beginning of its publication in 1909 until 1953.
He served as pastor of the Moyer congregation in Vineland from 1902 until he died in 1954, and as bishop of the Niagara District from 1903. He was a charter member of the Nonresistant Relief Organization in Ontario, organized in 1918, and its secretary 1920-54. In 1918 he was appointed the special correspondent with the Canadian government regarding military service and the immigration of the Russian Mennonites. He was associated with the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (1922-44), and actively aided the immigration from Russia to Ontario (1922-25). In his earlier ministry, he was widely used in Bible conference and evangelistic work. In 1901 on a commission from the Ontario Conference, he organized a number of congregations and ordained ministers and deacons in Alberta.
During Coffman’s time as hymn editor of the Music Committee, the following books appeared at Scottdale, Pennsylvania:
Church and Sunday School Hymnal Supplement, 1911
Life Songs, 1916 (co-editor)
Church Hymnal, 1927
Songs of Cheer for Children, 1928
Life Songs No. 2, 1938 (editor)
Photo & biography courtesy of the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada
Samuel F. Coffman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Medelssohn Bartholdy Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Mennonite Composer of "BARTHOLDI" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
John J. Overholt
1918 - 2000 Hymnal Title: The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Author (stanza 3) of "When Christ Beheld in Sin's Dark Night" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 John J. Overholt was born to an Amish family of limited means in the state of Ohio in 1918. As a child he was soon introduced to his father's personal collection of gospel songs and hymns, which was to have a marked influence on his later life. With his twin brother Joe, he early was exposed to the Amish-Mennonite tradition hymn-singing and praising worship.
An early career in Christian service led to a two-year period of relief work in the country of Poland following World War II. During that interim he began to gather many European songs and hymns as a personal hobby, not realizing that these selections would become invaluable to The Christian Hymnary which was begun in 1960 and completed twelve years later in 1972, with a compilation of 1000 songs, hymns and chorales. (The largest Menn. hymnal).
A second hymnal was begun simultaneously in the German language entitled Erweckungs Lieder Nr.1 which was brought to completion in 1986. This hymnal has a total of 200 selections with a small addendum of English hymns.
Mr. Overholt married in 1965 to an accomplished soprano Vera Marie Sommers, who was not to be outdone by her husband's creativity and compiled a hymnal of 156 selections entitled Be Glad and Sing, directed to children and youth and first printed in 1986.
During this later career of hymn publishing, Mr. Overholt also found time for Gospel team work throughout Europe. At this writing he is preparing for a 5th consecutive tour which he arranges and guides. The countries visited will be Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland, USSR and Romania.
Mr. Overholt was called to the Christian ministry in 1957 and resides at Sarasota, Florida where he is co-minister of a Beachy Amish-Mennonite Church.
Five children were born to this family and all enjoy worship in song.
--Letter from Hannah Joanna Overholt to Mary Louise VanDyke, 10 October 1990, DNAH Archives. Photo enclosed.
John J. Overholt
