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[Come to the cross today]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 55555 61222 31233 Used With Text: Come to the Cross Today
[Come to the cross today]
Come to the Cross Today
Author: Ida L. Reed Appears in 4 hymnals Refrain First Line: Come, come to the cross today Lyrics: 1 Come to the cross today!
Jesus awaits you there;
Come for his pardon pray,
Come and his mercy share.
Chorus:
Come, come to the cross today!
Come! come! come!
Lay your burdens at Jesus’s feet,
He will give you forgiveness sweet;
Come! come! come! come!
Come to the cross today.
2 Come to the cross today!
Blessing awaits you there;
Why should you long delay?
He will your burdens bear. [Chorus]
3 Come to the cross today!
Jesus will freely bless,
Light with his love your way,
Crown you with righteousness. [Chorus]
4 Come to the cross today!
While he awaits you there;
Come for his favor pray,
Freely his love you’ll share. [Chorus]
Topics: Invitation Used With Tune: [Come to the cross today]
Come to the Cross Today
Komm, spricht der Liebe Mund
Author: W. Horn Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Welch holder Friedensruf Refrain First Line: Komm! komm, spricht der Liebe Mund Used With Tune: [Welch holder Friedensruf]
Komm, spricht der Liebe Mund
Come to the Cross Today
Author: Ida L. Reed Hymnal: Songs for Work and Worship #48 (1900) Refrain First Line: Come, come to the cross today Lyrics: 1 Come to the cross today!
Jesus awaits you there;
Come for his pardon pray,
Come and his mercy share.
Chorus:
Come, come to the cross today!
Come! come! come!
Lay your burdens at Jesus’s feet,
He will give you forgiveness sweet;
Come! come! come! come!
Come to the cross today.
2 Come to the cross today!
Blessing awaits you there;
Why should you long delay?
He will your burdens bear. [Chorus]
3 Come to the cross today!
Jesus will freely bless,
Light with his love your way,
Crown you with righteousness. [Chorus]
4 Come to the cross today!
While he awaits you there;
Come for his favor pray,
Freely his love you’ll share. [Chorus]
Topics: Invitation Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to the cross today]
Come to the Cross Today
Come to the Cross Today
Author: Ida L. Reed Hymnal: New Gospel Quartets for Men's Voices #102 (1923) First Line: Come to the cross today! Refrain First Line: Come, come to the cross today! Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to the cross today!]
Come to the Cross Today
Come to the Cross Today
Author: Ida L. Reed Hymnal: Spirit and Life No. 2 #48 (1895) First Line: Come to the cross today! Refrain First Line: Come, come to the cross today! Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to the cross today!]
Come to the Cross Today
Edmund S. Lorenz
1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Come to the cross today]" in Songs for Work and Worship 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
William Horn
1839 - 1917 Person Name: W. Horn Author of "Komm, spricht der Liebe Mund" in Silberklänge Horn, William. (Germany, May 1, 1839--April 27, 1917). Evangelical. Come to United States in 1855, settled in Wisconsin. Licensed in 1861, ordained elder 1866, presiding elder 1871, bishop 1891. Editor of various Evangelical German-language publications, including Das Evangelische Magazin and Christliche Kinderfreund. Editor of German weekly of the Evangelical Association, 1883, Christliche Botschafter.
Editor of Evangelisches Gesangbuch, 1877, for which he supplied a number of hymns. His most famous hymn was "Pure and free from all corruption." He wrote 24 hymns in all, and has been called one of the greatest of the German writers in America. Translated many English hymns into German.
Retired as bishop in 1915.
--Robert S. Wilson, DNAH Archives
--Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives
William Horn was born in Germany May 1, 1839. He died in 1917. He came to U.S. in 1855 and settled in Wisconsin. Licensed in 1861, he rose through the ranks of ordained elder and bishop. He retired as Bishop in 1915 and died April 27, 1917.
He was the editor of various Evangelical German-lanuage publications
including EVANGELISCHES GESANGBUCH of 1877, for which he supplied a number of hymns.
Of his twenty-four hymns the most famous, according to Ellen J. Lorenz, was "Pure and free from all corruption". He also translated many English hymns into German.
—Mary L. VanDyke for Dictionary of American Hymnology, Oberlin College Library (14 December 2003)
William Horn
Ida L. Reed
1865 - 1951 Author of "Come to the Cross Today" in Songs for Work and Worship Ida Lilliard Reed (Smith), 1865-1951
Born: November 30, 1865, near Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia.
Died: July 8, 1951, Arden, West Virginia.
Buried: Ebenezer Methodist Church, Arden, West Virginia.
Reed is said to have written 2,000 hymns in her lifetime. In 1939, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized her "substantial contribution to American music" by awarding her a small "weekly bonus."
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Ida L. Reed
