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[Fairest of all the earth beside]
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Manie Payne Ferguson Tune Sources: The Finest of the Wheat No. 3, by John R. Sweney, et al. (Chicago, Illinois: George D. Elderkin Publishing Company, 1904) Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55555 15566 66654 Used With Text: That Man of Calvary
[Fairest of all the earth beside]
That Man of Calvary
Author: Manie P. Ferguson Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: Fairest of all the earth beside Lyrics: 1. Fairest of all the earth beside,
Chiefest of all unto Thy bride,
Fullness divine in Thee I see,
Beautiful Man of Calvary!
Refrain
That Man of Calvary
Has won my heart from me,
And died to set me free,
Blest Man of Calvary!
2. Granting the sinner life and peace,
Granting the captive sweet release,
Shedding His blood to make us free,
Merciful Man of Calvary! [Refrain]
3. Giving the gifts obtained for men,
Pouring out love beyond our ken,
Giving us spotless purity,
Bountiful Man of Calvary! [Refrain]
4. Comfort of all my earthly way,
Jesus I’ll meet Thee some sweet day;
Center of glory Thee I’ll see,
Wonderful Man of Calvary! [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Fairest of all the earth beside] Text Sources: The Finest of the Wheat No. 3, by John R. Sweney et al. (Chicago, Illinois: George D. Elderkin Publishing Company, 1904)
That Man of Calvary
That Man of Calvary
Author: Manie P. Ferguson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6591 First Line: Fairest of all the earth beside Lyrics: 1. Fairest of all the earth beside,
Chiefest of all unto Thy bride,
Fullness divine in Thee I see,
Beautiful Man of Calvary!
Refrain
That Man of Calvary
Has won my heart from me,
And died to set me free,
Blest Man of Calvary!
2. Granting the sinner life and peace,
Granting the captive sweet release,
Shedding His blood to make us free,
Merciful Man of Calvary! [Refrain]
3. Giving the gifts obtained for men,
Pouring out love beyond our ken,
Giving us spotless purity,
Bountiful Man of Calvary! [Refrain]
4. Comfort of all my earthly way,
Jesus I’ll meet Thee some sweet day;
Center of glory Thee I’ll see,
Wonderful Man of Calvary! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Fairest of all the earth beside]
That Man of Calvary
That Man of Calvary
Author: M. P. Ferguson Hymnal: Redemption Songs #202 (1937) First Line: Fairest of all the earth beside Topics: The Gospel Languages: English Tune Title: [Fairest of all the earth beside]
That Man of Calvary
That Man of Calvary
Author: M. P. F. Hymnal: The Finest of the Wheat No. 3 #55 (1904) First Line: Fairest of all the earth beside Topics: Atonement-Salvation Tune Title: [Fairest of all the earth beside]
That Man of Calvary
M. P. Ferguson
1850 - 1932 Person Name: Manie P. Ferguson Author of "That Man of Calvary" in The Cyber Hymnal Manie Payne Ferguson United Kingdom 1850-1932. Born in Carlow, Ireland, in 1883 she married Theodore Pollock Ferguson, a past Presbyterian minister from Ohio, who had become an itinerant evangelical preacher. They moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1885. He became a pioneer leader in the American Holiness Movement, a Christian evangelist, and social worker, founding, along with her husband, the non-denominational Peniel Mission in 1886. In 1894 they received a significant financial donation from George Studd allowing them to expand the mission. They constructed a 900-seat auditorium and ministry centre there in Los Angeles. They partnered with Studd and Phineas Bresee, each acting as a superintendent of the mission organization. In 1894 Dr. Joseph Widney, President of USC, led the dedication Praise service, and Bresee preached the later service. Widney and Bresee separated from the mission in 1895 to form the Church of the Nazarene, and Manie Fergusion provided primary leadership of the Peniel Mission. The mission provided ministry especially for single women, who lived in rented rooms near the auditorium, where evangelical services were held. The Fergusions managed to live on income from three small houses they owned, and mission rents and donations covered mission expenses. Street-corner meetings were held in the afternoon, evangelical services at night, and a meal was served afterward. Converts were asked to join a local church of their choice. Manie continued the mission work after her husband's death until her own death. In 1947 the mission became part of the World Gospel Mission enterprise. Manie wrote many poems and also authored hymn lyrics. She died in Los Angeles.
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M. P. Ferguson
James Hervey
1714 - 1758 Person Name: J. M. Hervey Author (5th vs.) of "That Man of Calvary" in Choice Hymns of the Faith Hervey, James, M.A., son of the Rector of Weston-Favell and Collingtree, diocese of Peterborough, was born at Hardingstone, near Northampton, Feb. 14, 1714, and educated at the Free Grammar School, Northampton, and Lincoln College, Oxford. At Oxford he had John Wesley, then a Fellow of Lincoln, as his tutor. Ordained in 1736, he assisted his father for a short time, and then became Curate of Dummer. At the end of a year he passed on to Devonshire, first as a guest of Mr. Orchard, at Stoke Abbey, and then as Curate of Bideford. In 1742 he left Bideford and rejoined his father, whom he succeeded as Rector of Weston-Favell and Collingtree in 1752. He died Dec. 25, 1758. His controversial and religious writings were very popular at one time, but have fallen out of use. His Meditations among the Tombs (suggested by a visit paid to Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall), Reflections on a Flower Garden, and a Descant on Creation, were published in one volume in 1746; and his Contemplations on the Night, and The Starry Heavens, with A Winter Piece, were published as a second volume in 1746. A complete edition of his Meditations and Contemplations were published with a Memoir (Lond., W. Tegg) in 1860. From these the following hymns have come into common use:—
1. Make the extended skies your tomb. The True Life. This was given in the Meditations among the Tombs, 1746, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines as the conclusion of a meditation on “The only infallible way of immortalizing our characters":—
"The only infallible way of immortalizing our characters, a way equally open to the meanest and most exalted fortune is, 4 To make our calling and election sure/ to gain some sweet evidence that our names are written in heaven.”.....
"Make the extended skies your tomb;
Let stars record your worth," &c.
Its use in modern hymn-books is limited.
2. Since all the downward tracts of time. Providence. This appeared in the Reflections on a Flower Garden, 1746, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines. It is given as a note to the following sentence: "Be still, then thou uneasy mortal: know that God is unerringly wise; and be Assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, be does not overlook thee.".....
" *Permittas ipsis expendere numinibus, quid
Conveniat nobis, rebusque tit utile nostris.
Nam pro jucundis aptissima quoeque dabunt dii:
Carior est illis homo, quam sibi. —Juv.
"Since all the downward tracts of time
God's watchful eye surveys;
0! Who so wise to choose our lot,
And regulate our ways?
"Since none can doubt His equal love,
Unmeasurably kind;
To His unerring, gracious will
Be ev'ry wish resign'd.
“Good when He gives, supremely good
Nor less, when He denies:
E'en crosses, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise."
In addition to this hymn being in common use in this its original form, it is often found in 5 stanzas and beginning, “Since all the downward tracks of time."
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
James Hervey
