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[Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands] (Ackley)
Appears in 21 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 53431 23114 43233 Used With Text: Transformed
[Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands] (Ackley)
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Author: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs, 20th Century Appears in 38 hymnals First Line: Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands, Refrain First Line: Transformed by grace divine, Topics: Invitation and Response Used With Tune: [Dear Lord, take up our tangled strands]
Transformed
Transformed
Author: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6891 First Line: Dear Lord, take up our tangled strands Refrain First Line: Transformed by grace divine Lyrics: 1. Dear Lord, take up our tangled strands,
Where we have wrought in vain,
That by the skill of Thy dear hands
Some beauty may remain.
Refrain
Transformed by grace divine,
The glory shall be Thine;
To Thy most holy will, O Lord,
We now our all resign.
2. Touch Thou the sad, discordant keys
Of every troubled breast,
And change to peaceful harmonies
The sighings of unrest. [Refrain]
3. Where broken vows in fragments lie—
The toil of wasted years—
Do Thou make whole again, we cry,
And give a song for tears. [Refrain]
4. Take all the failures, each mistake
Of our poor human ways,
Then, Savior, for Thine own dear sake,
Make them show forth Thy praise. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Dear Lord, take up our tangled strands]
Transformed
Transformed.
Author: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Victory Songs #123 (1920) First Line: Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands Refrain First Line: Transformed by grace divine Lyrics: 1 Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands,
Where we have wrought in vain,
That by the skill of Thy dear hands
Some beauty may remain.
Chorus:
Transformed by grace divine,
The glory shall be Thine;
To Thy most holy will, O Lord,
We now our all resign.
2. Touch Thou the sad, discordant keys
Of ev'ry troubled breast,
And change to peaceful harmonies
The sighings of unrest. [Chorus]
3. Where broken vows in fragments lie—
The toil of wasted years,—
Do Thou make whole again, we cry,
And give a song for tears. [Chorus]
4. Take all the failures, each mistake
Of our poor, human ways,
Then, Savior, for Thine own dear sake,
Make them show forth Thy praise. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Dear Lord, take up the tangled strands]
Transformed.
Transformed
Author: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs Hymnal: Reformed Press Hymnal #253 (1934) First Line: Dear Lord, take up my tangled strands Refrain First Line: Transformed by grace divine Lyrics: 1 Dear Lord, take up my tangled strands,
Where we have wrought in vain,
That by the skill of Thy dear hands
Some beauty may remain.
Chorus:
Transformed by grace divine,
The glory shall be Thine;
To Thy most holy will, O Lord,
We now our all resign.
2 Touch Thou the sad, discordant keys
Of ev'ry troubled breast,
And change to peaceful harmonies
The sighings of unrest. [Chorus]
3 Where broken vows in fragments lie—
The toil of wasted years,—
Do Thou make whole again, we cry,
And give a song for tears. [Chorus]
4 Take all the failures, each mistake
Of our poor, human ways,
Then, Savior, for Thine own dear sake,
Make them show forth Thy praise. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Dear Lord, take up my tangled strands]
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B. D. Ackley
1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley D. Ackley, 1872-1958 Composer of "[Dear Lord, take up our tangled strands]" in Hymnal of the Church of God Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver.
Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
B. D. Ackley
F. G. Burroughs
1856 - 1949 Person Name: Mrs. F. G. Burroughs, 20th Century Author of "Transformed" in Hymnal of the Church of God F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs.
Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921
F. G. Burroughs
